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Deirdre Flynn
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Lecturer in 21st Literature - Secretary of IASIL - Member of Young Academy of Ireland
#IrishStudies #HarukiMurakami 🍉🇵🇸
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Whoop #HiddenBooksGame
The image displayed when you complete the hidden books game - an illustrated scene of a woman in a sitting room in her pajamas with a christmas tree, dog, cat, laptop and bookcase!
November 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Beautiful morning in Dublin
Autumnal scene in Dublin at the grand canal - lots of fallen leaves, dabbled sunshine and lock gates
October 17, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Saturday reading
A picture of the cover of Cho Nam-Joo's book Kim Jiyoung, born 1982 - which has faceless identical women on blue, red, and yellow backgrounds
September 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Colleague wondering if it's clocking off time
My dog (a mainly black collie lab cross) lying on the rug beside my office staring up at me with those eyes
July 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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I feel like my computer is trolling me
Black screen on the computer for updates. It reads you're 100% there. Please keep your computer on.
July 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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When you log in to the meeting

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Screenshot of a zoom meetings notification It says the meeting is scheduled for 5pm and underneath The meeting is scheduled for Yesterday
July 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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About to dive into this book and wondered - what's your favourite Irish crime/mystery/detective novel?

#IrishStudies #IrishCrimeFiction #SpeirGorm
#IrishLit
Picture of the cover of Eilís Dillon's Death in the Quadrangle - a white cover with a grey skull wearing a graduation morter board - with some orange and green lines from the 1968 American edition
June 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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What a wonderful few days in Huelva at the AEDEI conference - enriched by the papers, conversations and keynotes! Delighted to present my own project on the Citizenship Referendum

#IrishStudies
Sunset in Huelva The wonderful opening reception night entertainment- a Spanish dancer in front of a guitarist and singer Catherine O Donnell's on the stage about to begin her excellent keynote Marisol interviewing author Claire Kilroy
June 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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What an atmosphere in McHale Park today for #ConvMUN
View from the half way line onto the pitch at McHale Park where Munster played Connaught
March 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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She still has that look 12 years later

#dogsOfBlueSky
A picture of my black and white collie lab mix as a puppy with her head to the side in a quizzical manner
March 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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A really great day at the @ukyoungacademy.bsky.social Skills and Development Workshop at the @royalsociety.org - delighted to be there on behalf of @yai.ie
The Royal Society Building- a pale yellow grade 1 listed building with black railings
February 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Come along and hear Colum McCann & myself in conversation on March 8 in the @limetreetheatre.bsky.social

Tickets on sale here: limetreebelltable.ie/events/an-ev...
The poster for the event- with all the details for booking in yellow and white text. The poster is a head shot of author Colum McCann with images of the cover of his new book.
February 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Do you think she'd like to give a paper at #IASIL2025
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#IrishStudies
Dua lipa holding a copy of Paul Murray's The Bee Sting as part of an instagram post advertising her upcoming book club/podcast
February 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Seoul has my heart - but I have it's soju

geonbae!

Happy new year!
A bottle of soju, with a small glass on a pine coloured table
December 31, 2024 at 11:04 PM
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Aptly named
Screen shot of TV with the TV program title in grey box and white text - the show is called Pointless Celebrities
December 28, 2024 at 5:54 PM
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Great homecoming for Kevin Barry in the record room - interviewed by Steve Ryan
Steve Ryan and Kevin Barry sitting on the stage of the record room with a red velvet curtain behind them
December 14, 2024 at 9:11 AM
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Limerick edition
An advert for viabiotics WellKid multivitamin
November 24, 2024 at 3:02 PM
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Loving the leaves
My black and white collie mix sitting among the frosty crispy leaves
November 20, 2024 at 11:03 AM
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The best post from @kennysbookshop.bsky.social #WinterPapers
A picture of the Winter Papers 10 book - green cloth cover with gold lettering - lying on the cardboard packaging
November 19, 2024 at 10:47 AM
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A real honour to speak about my own research on citizenship in Irish contemporary literature - Okorie, Frawley, Chaila - and speak alongside Lucy Caldwell & Paul Delaney
Some organising committee, speakers, Irish ambassador and consul general & deputy at UFSC Writer Lucy Caldwell reading
November 17, 2024 at 10:16 AM
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Already a week since my amazing trip to Brazil and the VIII Jornada do NEI at Florinopolis and the trip to Brasilia
Beatriz Kopschitz Xavier Bastos with the latest irish studies translation publications Prof Alinne welcoming us all to the artistic programme at UFSC Down town Florinopolis- street art, colonial buildings - beside the cathedral (not pictured) The inside of Dom Bosco church in Brasilia- blue stained glass windows floor to ceiling
November 17, 2024 at 9:58 AM
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#AmReading
The front cover of Paul Lynch's book Prophet Song - Black, ivory and red
December 28, 2023 at 11:39 PM
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#amReading
Picture of the front cover of The Rainbow by Yasunari Kawabata - an image of the back of the woman's neck
December 26, 2023 at 11:31 PM
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Now it's Christmas
Black and white collie lab mix sitting down with red tinsel around her neck
December 9, 2023 at 4:45 PM
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December walks with the dog
Fog falling over a green area where all the tree trunks have been decorated with Christmas lights
December 2, 2023 at 9:53 PM