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
you need to make a short story of this!!
November 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
you need to make a short story of this!!
Also, there is a lots of lore in this longer piece I published. I can email it if you can't access James Joyce Quarterly through a library muse.jhu.edu/pub/80/artic...
Project MUSE - Forgotten Remembrances: The 6 January "Women's Christmas" (<i>Nollaig na mBan</i>) and the 6 January 1839 "Night of the Big Wind" (<i>Oíche na Gaoithe Móire</i>) in "The Dead"
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November 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Also, there is a lots of lore in this longer piece I published. I can email it if you can't access James Joyce Quarterly through a library muse.jhu.edu/pub/80/artic...
Beatrice Coogan wrote a sprawling 19th-c romance of that title in about the 1960s set on that very night. I read a dog-eared copy that my granny had as a kid and loved it! The start of an obsession. And no history teacher ever mentioned it to me. It took a romance novelist!
November 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Beatrice Coogan wrote a sprawling 19th-c romance of that title in about the 1960s set on that very night. I read a dog-eared copy that my granny had as a kid and loved it! The start of an obsession. And no history teacher ever mentioned it to me. It took a romance novelist!
lovely! Cannot wait to read it!
November 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
lovely! Cannot wait to read it!
had a similar experience when I spoke with French Canadians in a US airport once....my school French had not prepared me
November 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
had a similar experience when I spoke with French Canadians in a US airport once....my school French had not prepared me
*This* Big Wind, I hope?!
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...
An Irishwoman’s Diary on the ‘Night of the Big Wind’ – January 6th, 1839
The worst storm in Irish recorded history
www.irishtimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
*This* Big Wind, I hope?!
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...
similar image on cover of this recent book
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
similar image on cover of this recent book
Let me guess...you knew him well?
November 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Let me guess...you knew him well?