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Mary M. Burke

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"Race Politics & Irish America" (Oxford UP bit.ly/3XKj0nn) Winner: 2025 Sharon Harris Book Award. Excerpt: bit.ly/3FuH1sa Podcast: bit.ly/3ZT7pnW Juanita Casey "Horse of Selene" Afterword: bit.ly/3QTOlSo Page: https://english.uconn.edu/person/mary-burk .. more

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · May 1

Thanks to @uconnhumanities.bsky.social & the Sharon Harris Award committee for this honor!

University of Connecticut Humanities Institute @uconnhumanities.bsky.social · May 1

We are honored to announce the Sharon Harris Book Award winners for 2025. The award committee has chosen Mary Burke’s *Race, Politics, and Irish America* (@oxunipress.bsky.social) and Frank Costigliola’s *Kennan: A Life Between Worlds* (@princetonupress.bsky.social). Congrats!!

The 2025 Sharon Harris Book Award | Humanities Institute

The award committee has named Mary Burke’s Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History and Frank Costigliola’s Kennan: A Life Between Worlds co-reci ...

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 18h

I present the UK’s one and only TV show about books. We feature readers & writers from across Scotland, around the UK and all over the world. It’s commissioned by BBC Scotland & made by IWC. Public broadcasting is a shared space for sharing stories & building bridges.

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BBC Scotland - The Big Scottish Book Club - Available now

Available episodes of The Big Scottish Book Club

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 20h

Just look at those eyes... (Colin Davidson's Edna O'Brien)

Colin Davidson's portrait of Edna O'Brien

Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 20h

similar image on cover of this recent book

Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 22h

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Irish Creole: Intertwined history of Ireland and New Orleans, Louisiana, 1768-1968

A lecture by Dr Charles D. Chamberlain (University of New Orleans) for the International and Environmental History Research Seminar Series.

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ISTR @irishtheatreres.bsky.social · 23h

We are delighted to announce that ISTR 2026 takes place at TU Dublin, Grangegorman (@tudublin.bsky.social) on 4-5 June, under the theme Stages of Knowledge: Site, Struggle, and Transformation.

Welcoming presentations, workshops, performances & practice-based engagements:
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ISTR Conference 2026 - Irish Society for Theatre Research

ISTR 2026 Conference | Stages of Knowledge: Site, Struggle, and Transformation | 4-5 June in TU Dublin's Grangegorman Campus

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 23h

As the tale goes, the Huntsman finds Little Red Riding Hood fighting off the wolf. Furrowing his brow, he pulls them apart as LRRH bleeds profusely. He says "Let's see if we can talk about this." Many days of lost blood later, the Huntsman sighs & exits, leaving the Wolf to feast on LRRH.

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 23h

Ferdia Lennon wins 2025 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for Glorious Exploits

The €10,000 prize, awarded annually since 1976, celebrates an outstanding body of work by an emerging Irish writer under 40

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Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social · 1d

We're hiring a sales and marketing executive. Deadline: 26 November. Details here: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/2025/11/job-...

Job Vacancy: Sales & Marketing Executive | Fitzcarraldo Editions

Fitzcarraldo Editions is looking for a sales and marketing executive to join our small team in Peckham, south-east London. Reporting to the operations director and working closely with the publicity d...

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 1d

May we do the "black page" beyond Tristram Shandy thread again please? It's so interesting.
I love Róisin's example (wow!) & I wanted in this connection, too, to share this amazing page spread in Kate Beaton's graphic memoir Ducks. It evokes the moment of the protagonist Katie's sexual assault.

Panels on the left showing a young woman gradually crumbling with emotion--three panels showing this figure surround a remembered seaside scene from her home in the Maritimes. On the right a black page.

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 1d

The other day somebody posted about the black page in Tristram Shandy which I had forgotten about but i became so excited thinking of this page in Lynch’s Grace and our discussion about the famine/famine writing and the advent of modernism in Ireland …

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 1d

I think this counts as successful research impact. Turning your archive work into a bestselling trade book, which is then optioned as a feature film. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Bad Bridgets podcast about crime among Irish women in US inspires film

Margot Robbie’s company to make movie based on Northern Ireland academics’ stories of poverty and prison

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Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social · 1d

Hot off the press release. My second book is a collection of interviews with Irish writers from Alice Taylor in 1991 to Sebastian Barry, Wendy Erskine, Colum McCann, Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín, John Banville, Emma Donoghue and Anna Burns in 2025. Out April from the Lilliput Press