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Delighted to spot my book in the wild in the "General Irish History" section
@Hodges_Figgis
Dublin
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@BudrykZack
lord, but actress Olwen Fouéré really looks like Gibson in her recent film on that event
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Spotted my Edna O’Brien vintage paperbacks today & felt wistful
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US public radio has called Shane McGowan "Anglo-Irish" today.
@NPR
: That doesn't mean what you think it does
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context : At the Pope's massive Youth Mass in Ireland, he was introduced by bishop Eamonn Casey. The high-profile Casey resigned suddenly in May 1992 after it was revealed that he'd fathered a son. Sinéad's SNL event was only 5 months later. It perplexed America, but not Ireland
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TODAY is US release of "Race, Politics & Irish America: A Gothic History" Shelf shows its central figures. Thanks
@Jack_McNichol
@OUPAcademic
& esp.
@JacNorton
for her crucial EARLY support! Also for support & scholarship of...
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W.B. Yeats born OTD in 1865. Still inspiring Korean sunscreen manufacturers
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"Critical Inquiries Into Irish Studies" (Seton Hall University) seeks submissions on Irish Diaspora, Immigration & Emigration. 350-word abstracts by 8/10/23 and 3000-5000-word finished essays by 10/1/23. Email: elizabeth.redwine
@shu
.edu
#IrishStudies
#Immigration
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Sybil Connolly did bring cloaks back in the 1950s!
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Jack-O-Lantern carved from a turnip at Mayo's National Museum of Ireland - Country Life. From 1903, when Hallowe'en was genuinely scary
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@rebeccalehmann
That’s a great story. I once taught Dubliners to a mostly STEM class of mostly first gen immigrant kids of color and they responded so strongly to Joyce and reveled in the chance to read for pleasure
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Dublin street sign. 'Caorach' means 'sheep' in Irish, but the English rendering gives 'ship.' Anyone know if pronunciation is at play here or if there's another story?
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My neighbor filled an ornament with minis of my new book 'Race & Irish America' & its topics: Frank Yerby, Fitzgerald, Grace Kelly, Kennedys, Margaret Mitchell & O'Neill. Magic!
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Famous Irish cricketer Samuel Beckett, born OTD. (It's a little-known fact that he also wrote plays.)
@cricketireland
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The Consul General gives terrific support to Irish Studies and Irish writers in the northeast. It was an honor to have her in attendance
Consul General Helena Nolan joined the James Joyce Society for their annual Joyce birthday event in a captivating evening and lecture run by Professor Mary M. Burke, delving into her book 'Race, Politics & Irish America; A Gothic History' at The Morgan Library. 📚
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"Posh Dunnes"? God, I've been out of Ireland a long time
Crowds are great in the city centre for the last minute shopping but we are hearing the Posh Dunnes in Bishopstown is 'mental' so be prepared - and stay safe out there!
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Extract from my book in today's Irish Times! Thank you
@MartinDoyleIT
"How Grace Kelly became an unlikely icon of Irish-American assimilation"
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Priest supply catalogue came in the mail. Irish Studies scholar marketing drive?
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@RareIrishStuff
old school breathalyzer for the lads before they all piled into the one Ford Cortina
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Thanks to
@MylesDungan1
for his erudite keynote on Ireland's "Last Land War" & his gracious launch of my
@OUPAcademic
"Race, Politics & Irish America" at
@CianTMcMahon
&
@spanglerSF
's fab
#ACIS2023
Matt's wine choices for the launch was a cut above too!
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Sent a friend pics of my repainted dining room & now she tells me I must host a
#StPatricksDay
party there
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For James Joyce's birthday, here's Fitzgerald's conflicted take on_Ulysses: “there is something about middle-class Ireland that...gives me a sort of hollow, cheerless pain. Half of my ancestors came from just such an Irish strata...It makes me feel appallingly naked.”
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Opened what seemed merely a blue bottle last night. It was BLUE sparkling wine & tasted like Skittles. A disconcerting end to 2022
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$21 until Jan 19 w code EXMLA23 @ ; £15 /€ 17 @ w same code. Free ship from
@OUPAcademic
to US, UK, IE. Hard copies in image are
@Hodges_Figgis
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Charles Lamb, Northern Irish/Galway illustrator of Cré na Cille (1949). His "Lough Neagh Fisherman" (1920)
Feb 5 (Mon): I'll speak at
@MorganLibrary
(NYC) on "Race & Language in Ireland from Joyce to Ó Cadhain" 6:00pm. RSVP:
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So happy to be in "Christmas & the Irish"!
The official launch of “Christmas and the Irish: a Miscellany” will take place in the Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, on Thursday 30 November at 6:30pm. Please RSVP Wordwell Press (details on the invite) if you would like to attend. And do spread the word! 🎄 🎅
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If Mimi isn't parked on my keyboard, she's parked on what I need to read
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Race, Politics & Irish America'
CONTENTS
1 Towards Scots-Irish Gothic
2 Closeted Irish: Henry James
3 How the Irish Became Red: O'Neill & Fitzgerald
4 Complicit Irishness: Yerby, Mitchell, & Faulkner
5 White Wedding: Grace Kelly
Epilogue: Kennedy Gothic
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Looking forward to speaking at
#ACIS2023
@SJSU
on
@TrampPress
panel with Tara Harney,
@JFennellAuthor
@_cheafey
@sistermmm
& on "Race, Politics & Irish America" on new work on Irish America panel w. Beth Anish
@TedSmyth
@AneliseHShrout
& Matt O'Brien
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Gift from Ireland. Perfect for serving tea to the New England neighbors
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Swapped out the Irish wool for the Irish linen now that the sun is finally out
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For
#Bloomsday
share something from your bookshelf. "Our Friend James Joyce" (Doubleday, 1958)
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Frank Yerby, a best-selling Black Irish-American author who wrote back to Margaret Mitchell- -was planning a San Patricios novel in his final years
#OnThisDay
1847 Thirty Irish men from the San Patricios Battalion were hanged by the US Army following the Battle of Chapultepec, in view of their allies. These men had deserted the US Army for various reasons to aid Mexico in their struggle.
#Ireland
#History
@IrishEmbMexico
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My
@Columbia
Irish Seminar @ 7:45pm Fri Feb 3 @ Faculty House, 400 W. 117 is on movie studios' packaging of Grace Kelly as WASP & her family's ethnic roots, as explored in the drama of George Kelly, her uncle. From ‘Race, Politics & Irish America’
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One of the many haunting details in Molly Hennigan's extract on an institutionalized great-grandmother is the family resemblance
My great-grandmother Sissy is a figment of my imagination but I know she existed - “There’s nothing left of her, only the history of her context and us, now. Becoming acquainted with her through a reading of the psychiatric history of Ireland is jarring”
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Back in the day, photographers used to just grab any random passing Irish dad for Aran (Aranish) sweater models.
#StPatricksDay
attire
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IMO Elizabeth Bowen (b. Feb 22) & George Moore (b Feb 24):
"It seemed to huddle its trees close in fright and amazement at the wide light lovely unloving country, the unwilling bosom whereon it was set."
Words: The Last September; image: Moore Hall
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Our Festivus-ish tree. Orange glass baubles pass as fruit if you squint hard enough
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Fitzgerald died OTD. 2021 photo shared by Eileen McGuckian, Rockville historian & cemetery guide. I explore his probable & critically unexamined Irish paternal ancestry in colonial America in 'Race & Irish America':
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Title: "Lamb of Godot." FunArtPortrait card sent by a former student who loves
#SamuelBeckett
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Making trifle today for eating Dec 25. One day's marinating (boozy fruit+custard+cream+sponge) seems too little...Thoughts?
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William Carleton died in Dublin OTD. His Preface and subtitle for "The Black Prophet" (1847), a novel with an 1817 famine backdrop, is explicit about its objectives:
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J.S. Le Fanu (of “Carmilla” fame) died in Dublin OTD. He'd have enjoyed the insinuation of “active” here.
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"James Joyce Quarterly"'s
@seanplatham
allowed a dedication on the article I was finalizing when my father died as dad's love of lore inspired it. Lovely to have our names together in print.
#FathersDay2023
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"Swate" Irish "beauty" 19th-century US comic valentine (it was a genre). Reproduced in
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So happy to see the names of other contributors this week! My chapter is on
#JamesJoyce
& Women's Christmas/ Nollaig na mBan
It’s never too early to think of the perfect
#Christmas
gift. Here’s one possibility for all who love
#Irish
history & culture. “Christmas and the Irish”. Coming in October 2023. Ho, ho, ho! 🎅
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Jan 6
#womenschristmas
#NollaignamBan
-when housewives rested after the season & partied together-is the setting of Joyce’s “The Dead,” which audits the busyness & abstemiousness of women on what should’ve been a day of rest/fun. See my JJQ article:
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Trail of long-ago Thoreau-Emerson walk. Imagine Irish equivalents: a Yeats-Gregory Coole Park Stroll, a Bowen-Welty Ramble in the Demesne, a Behan-Donleavy Stagger Home at Dawn
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My Irish granny reserved this word for granddaughters in miniskirts
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@elizabhinton
@AmHistReview
wonderful. In a similar vein, NYT has also begun to publish - for the first time - the obituaries of long-dead women who made massive contributions (incl Ida B. Wells) but whose passing was not formally marked when they died.
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Tomorrow I'll speak
@AmLit_ALA
on the Caribbean as the primal site of African-Irish history in O'Neill. Drawn from
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I've just pitched
@jenoconnell
/
@IrishTimesOped
on J.D. Vance & Irish America...Here's hoping!
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Lovely surprise in
@Banshees_Movie
/ Banshees of Inisherin to see an old friend, Lasairfhíona Ní Chonaola
@Aransinger
, play the pub singer. More of her wonderful voice here:
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Among those covering the 1953 coronation were Elizabeth Bowen (for July Vogue) & a less experienced journalist with Washington Times-Herald called Jacqueline Bouvier. Details in
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Registration link:
We are delighted to announce that Prof. Mary Burke
@DrMaryBurke
will give our annual lecture on ‘Gothic: Undead Irish-American histories’!! 7pm (Irish time) 13 March 2024. Book a (free) ticket here
For more see
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When I put the Robovac on at night in a closed room, I turn on the light. On some level I obviously think he's sentient, probably because we call him "Dusty" and he has pronouns
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one of the most under-appreciated 20thc Irish poets?
The Irish poet Richard Murphy (1927-2018), whose archive is at
@utulsa
, where he taught in the ’90s, stopped me cold with this lyric of exploitation and cooptation. Notice how its polished iambic pentameter lines rest on beds of trimeter that look to have been gutted for parts.
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@fitzfromdublin
that weird Dublin thing whereby imported businesses considered pedestrian on their home turf are considered desirable
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Virginia Woolf BOTD. The dead are unfinished business in Joyce's story of that name, but in _Lighthouse_they're irrelevant to Lily: “But the dead,…oh, the dead! she murmured, one pitied them, one brushed them aside, one had even a little contempt for them.”
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"For those of us who struggle with the contradictions of being Irish-American...Mary Burke’s book is essential reading." Thank you, Princeton, NJ reviewer!
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CFP "Ireland at Risk":
@ACIrishStudies
Mid Atlantic/New England, Baruch College CUNY Oct 4-5, 2024. Conference image: Seán Hillen (whose work will feature) Posted for
@sistermmm
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Have the uncanny feeling there's something behind the curtains
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Feb 5 (Mon): I'll speak at
@MorganLibrary
(NYC) on "Race & Language in Ireland from Joyce to Ó Cadhain" 6:00pm. RSVP:
Join us Feb. 5 at the
@MorganLibrary
for Mary Burke's talk ""Mixed: Race and Language in Ireland from Joyce to Ó Cadhain." RSVP link coming soon.
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@Katiadower
Anyone else remember Nell's late night weekend RTE 'Dear Susters' segment..'Nighthawks' maybe? I was young and green but immediately felt spoken to directly for the first time ever
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The absence of women and girls in public space in such old footage never fails to astound
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