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Mary O'Connell
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Lecturer in English at UCC. Mama to Dylan. Loves Victorian lit, the Romantics, crime fiction, football. Not necessarily in that order.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
When I taught The Last Man I used to tell my students it really picks up in the final third 🙈
November 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Hmm. Austen for consistency Shelley for Frankenstein. So both.
November 11, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I would see him taking the words Bat of erudition...
November 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Louise Penny's latest, The Black Wolf.
November 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Byron was right, Pope is the boss.
November 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
When I was taught the book our lecturer went to a lot of effort to ensure we knew that the film 'Mary Shelley's Frankenstein' was really Kenneth Branagh's Frankenstein. I did like this one but I think similar efforts will have to be made with the students due to study it in semester 2 😅
November 10, 2025 at 7:05 AM
www.instagram.com/reel/DQxmKFd... This interview bothers me where he says that Victor doesn't think it goes well- in the book he leaves *because* it worked!!
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November 10, 2025 at 6:53 AM
I agree with you completely. I thought it was beautiful to look at and I enjoyed lots of it but my eye starts to twitch when I see people describing it as 'definitive'. I was very disappointed with the choice to give Victor the awful father.
November 10, 2025 at 6:39 AM
The second section from The Tin Roof Blow down, it said (in bold font) it was real and verified and authentic. Reader...it was not.
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I show them in real time how bad it is.
November 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I said you are telling me this. The Academic Integrity Director. Who is marking your essay. And who has banned use of AI for assessments. I have absolutely no time for it. None.
November 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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AI "has given the American ruling class the final impetus to more or less abolish education."
November 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Agree completely. Always knew the hysterical side of our fans would lose it at the first goal conceded first points dropped.
November 9, 2025 at 9:06 AM