Mary M. Burke
@maryburke.bsky.social
"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
contributor copy!! My chapter on "Dubliners" & @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social was seeded by @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social review of Philyaw's stories in @irishtimes.com! Congrats, eds. Barry Devine & @ellenscheible.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
contributor copy!! My chapter on "Dubliners" & @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social was seeded by @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social review of Philyaw's stories in @irishtimes.com! Congrats, eds. Barry Devine & @ellenscheible.bsky.social
was curious, but clicking from the US leads to this all-too-common message
November 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
was curious, but clicking from the US leads to this all-too-common message
Swaying branch heavy with fruit and chonky squirrel snapped right after I took this. He was fine.
November 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Swaying branch heavy with fruit and chonky squirrel snapped right after I took this. He was fine.
just finished the final layer of the trifle started yesterday for #Thanksgiving (ingreds in ALT)
November 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
just finished the final layer of the trifle started yesterday for #Thanksgiving (ingreds in ALT)
antique item found at the back of a drawer
November 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
antique item found at the back of a drawer
The pedant's dream job
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The pedant's dream job
1988 adaptation of Bram Stoker's peculiar novel...starring a blue Hugh Grant
November 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
1988 adaptation of Bram Stoker's peculiar novel...starring a blue Hugh Grant
Contributors to a collection on @tramppress.bsky.social I’m editing w/ Tara Harney-Mahajan discuss Tramp's fiction & Recovered Voices series @ #IrishStudies Seminar CUNY, NYC, Dec 5. Registration / full info: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Contributors to a collection on @tramppress.bsky.social I’m editing w/ Tara Harney-Mahajan discuss Tramp's fiction & Recovered Voices series @ #IrishStudies Seminar CUNY, NYC, Dec 5. Registration / full info: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Lining up the winter break reading
November 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Lining up the winter break reading
Just look at those eyes... (Colin Davidson's Edna O'Brien)
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Just look at those eyes... (Colin Davidson's Edna O'Brien)
The black square page (marking a character's death) in "Tristram Shandy" (1759)
November 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The black square page (marking a character's death) in "Tristram Shandy" (1759)
why would I want to do that?
November 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
why would I want to do that?
Pretty sure that's Henry James on that chair..
November 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Pretty sure that's Henry James on that chair..
Pumpkins are for wusses
c.1900 turnip lantern at Museum of Country Life, Mayo www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zs7...
c.1900 turnip lantern at Museum of Country Life, Mayo www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zs7...
October 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Pumpkins are for wusses
c.1900 turnip lantern at Museum of Country Life, Mayo www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zs7...
c.1900 turnip lantern at Museum of Country Life, Mayo www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zs7...
The consolations of autumn
October 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The consolations of autumn
I'll speak on dramatist George Kelly (Princess Grace's uncle), critic Mary McCarthy, & Irish America @moderniststudies.bsky.social on Friday
October 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I'll speak on dramatist George Kelly (Princess Grace's uncle), critic Mary McCarthy, & Irish America @moderniststudies.bsky.social on Friday
FINALLY Rod Stewart gets his Nobel
October 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
FINALLY Rod Stewart gets his Nobel
"aspire to..." This is why close reading matters
September 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
"aspire to..." This is why close reading matters
My new article uncovers Fitzgerald's overlooked colonial-era Irish immigrant ancestor
September 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
My new article uncovers Fitzgerald's overlooked colonial-era Irish immigrant ancestor
Contributors to a collection on @tramppress.bsky.social I’m editing with Tara Harney-Mahajan discuss contemporary Irish fiction & publishing & Tramp's Recovered Voices series @ #IrishStudies Seminar CUNY, Dec 5.
Registration / full info: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Registration / full info: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
September 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Contributors to a collection on @tramppress.bsky.social I’m editing with Tara Harney-Mahajan discuss contemporary Irish fiction & publishing & Tramp's Recovered Voices series @ #IrishStudies Seminar CUNY, Dec 5.
Registration / full info: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Registration / full info: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Has the "there's nothing new you can say to me" cut of a barman in a rural Irish pub
August 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Has the "there's nothing new you can say to me" cut of a barman in a rural Irish pub
Red hydrangeas, Ireland. Have never seen red in US
(looked red in person, I promise!)
(looked red in person, I promise!)
August 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Red hydrangeas, Ireland. Have never seen red in US
(looked red in person, I promise!)
(looked red in person, I promise!)
“Gothic Architecture,” Daniel O’Connell’s library, Derrynane House, Kerry
July 31, 2025 at 9:54 AM
“Gothic Architecture,” Daniel O’Connell’s library, Derrynane House, Kerry
fall syllabi planning approaches, so a reminder for Irish Studies folks of the Irish Traveller lit out there...
![Covers of 3 Irish Traveller lit texts: Juanita Casey's The Horse of Selene [@tramppress.bsky.social]; Rosaleen McDonagh's Unsettled; Oein DeBhairduin's Why the Moon Travels](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:72vwrdsx6zskcc5lmitzwuwv/bafkreiexwmle4zeovd4wbpwsub6vt2vv7mlnwr7yvrutag5vmrfhv6smom@jpeg)
July 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
fall syllabi planning approaches, so a reminder for Irish Studies folks of the Irish Traveller lit out there...
I'll have that $40* little bowl of blueberries any day now
(*plant + fertilizer + soil + water)
(*plant + fertilizer + soil + water)
July 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I'll have that $40* little bowl of blueberries any day now
(*plant + fertilizer + soil + water)
(*plant + fertilizer + soil + water)