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Claire Connolly

@claireconnolly.bsky.social
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Professor of Modern English @ucc.ie | Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Secretary @ria.ie | Irish Romanticism: a Literary History @universitypress.cambridge.org research.ucc.ie/en/persons/claire-c…

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Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
TODAY 🥳
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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Bodleian, I shall be in you, kindling your 🔥. visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/2026/o... (and thanks to @richove.bsky.social for the very kind invitation).
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Textpocalypse Now: The Political Economy of Writing in the Age of AI
Matthew Kirschenbaum considers the status of writing in an era when what we read online is increasingly written by machines
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Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Some fascinating Collaborative Doctoral Awards on offer here at the BL, including a great history of sexuality/book history/library history project relating to the Rund Collection of 19th/20thC erotic books and ephemera www.bl.uk/services/res...
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Collaborative Doctoral Landscape Awards
Fully-funded and jointly supervised studentships across four developing research areas.
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Lauren Arrington @laurenarrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
⭐starred review in Publishers Weekly for BOHEMIANS ON THE BREADLINE: "an exceptional survey....an invigorating window into a too-brief time when the U.S. government promoted art as a civic good." available to preorder now & in stores December 8th @stmartinspress.bsky.social www.laurenarrington.com
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Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
For International Translation Day, here's a dataset that me and Michaela Králová have put together on the publication of translated literature in Ireland over the past decade or so: zenodo.org/records/2304...
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Translated Literature Published in Ireland, 2016-2025
The Dataset This dataset collects titles of translated literature published by Irish publishers between the year 2016 and 2025. It includes any print edition of a literary title published by a publish...
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James O’Sullivan @jamesosullivan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Marian Keyes' writing is a powerful force for social change Women's commercial fiction — or chick lit as it is dismissively called — helps to shape society in subtle ways, writes @mariabbutler.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Marian Keyes' writing is a powerful force for social change
Women's commercial fiction — or chick lit as it is dismissively called — helps to shape society in subtle ways, writes Dr Maria Butler
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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Evening swims AND evening vegetables #autumn #speirgorm
Honesty shed selling vegetables Interior of shed with vegetablesSea, sky and headland
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BC_Gemma @bcgemma.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Glossy Ibises, West Cork - exotic visitors. #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2026
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NHM Library and Archives @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thomas Pennant's (1726-1798) body of work spanned natural history, antiquities and travel. To celebrate his tercentenary, we've added his correspondence and catalogues to our Digital Special Collections: buff.ly/ZFULOe0. #Manuscripts #18thCentury #HistoryOfScience #HistoryOfNaturalHistory
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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Evening swims are still a thing #speirgorm
Sea with small boats and sun setting over a headland Causeway with water and birds
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Robbie Richardson @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm very excited to be giving the 2026-27 W.J. Alexander Lecture in English Literature on October 15th at University College, University of Toronto! It will be called "Joseph Brant's Unwritten History: Towards an Indigenous Antiquarianism."
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Joseph Brant’s Unwritten History: Towards an Indigenous Antiquarianism | University College U of T
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Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman @drcleoocy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Looking forward to teaching Austen’s Teenage Writings for the first time this afternoon - and delighted to have a piece on Austen’s Scottish female contemporaries published in @uk.theconversation.com this morning! theconversation.com/the-two-scot... @uccresearch.bsky.social
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The two Scottish female novelists who outsold and inspired Jane Austen
They are practically unknown today ,but Susan Ferrier and Mary Brunton gave Jane Austen a run for her money.
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The @radhumslab.bsky.social are pleased to announce 'Against Automation: Resisting AI Futures in Teaching and Research,' November 20th, @ucc.ie. With Dan McQuillan, Patrick Brodie, Masoumeh Mansouri, and Jennie Stephens. Tickets at: www.eventbrite.com/e/against-au...
 A poster announcing Against Automation: Resisting AI Futures in Teaching and Research, November 20th, @ucc.ie. With Dan McQuillan, Patrick Brodie, Masoumeh Mansouri, and Jennie Stephens. Cacsss seminar room, 10am - 3pm
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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What a treat to come and what a cover! Killjoy Comedy by @rabarr.bsky.social from @uvapress.bsky.social
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
After a short hiatus, we are now accepting applications to our visiting scholar program. More info to be found on this page: www.sprachlit.lmu.de/carsoncenter... #envhum #envhist #researchstay #RCC
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It's cooooooooooooooming (credit @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com)
A poster that says "radical humanities laboratory: against automation."
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Irish Studies at Boston College @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Introducing the Irish Play Series, a trio of new plays by Irish writers being held in the Boston area in 2026/27 With a focus on contemporary Irish culture & women writers & directors, the series facilitates the exchange of ideas & opportunities for the next generation of artists
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Ros Ballaster @ballasterros.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSX678/t... We are looking for a special scholar to lead our remarkable team in 18th century literature @engfac.bsky.social
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Thomas Warton Professorship of English Literature at University of Oxford
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Thomas Warton Professorship of English Literature at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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Kelly E. Sullivan @real-immirage.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Launching my novel The Moose Lottery from @stanchion.bsky.social at @gihnyu.bsky.social Thursday evening, 6pm! NYC folks, please join for a reading and conversation with the brilliant Abby Bender! Register at Glucksman Ireland House NYU
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Frank O'Connor @frankoconnor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is far more than a walking tour This is real Cork A side of city the 'status quo brigade' don't want you to know The spectacle has emerged from 8 years of immersive research, foundation of #DerelictIreland movement Next one is this Saturday 11am Hope to see you there Book ffud.art #speirghorm
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Walking Tours | Street Art | TShirts | Photos | Chalk
See a different side to Cork City: Walking Tours with a Dereliction Twist. Join Frank + Jude for an urban exploration that’s much more than just another walking tour. Discover hidden heritage, abandon...
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Godwin_lives @pamelaclemit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Final proof (let’s hope) has arrived for indexing (620 pages). Thanks to all those waiting & watching. #AmIndexing #TheLongestJourney
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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
As Chris Evans's excellent book 'Slave Wales' (2010) points out, "capital-poor upland Wales was an unlikely point of origin for major slave merchants" and investors of the kind recorded in this database, but major industries like Welsh copper and slate were heavily enmeshed in the slave economy
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Evelien Geerts @egeertsphd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Delighted that @gemakloppe.bsky.social, Yasmine Ahmed & I were awarded a large UCC SATLE grant for our critical pedagogical memes project! www.ucc.ie/en/collectiv... Expect more memes project news in the weeks to come @uccresearch.bsky.social @uccphilosophy.bsky.social @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social
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SATLE grant awarded for the interdisciplinary "Thinking-with Memes" project | University College Cork
Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.
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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
@oneillsb.bsky.social will be talking about his fabulous new book ‘Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955’. Can’t wait! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
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Irish Culture and Partition, 1920–1955 | Home
Stephen O’Neill is Teaching Fellow in Twentieth Century Literature at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin.
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 13/09/2026
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The five-decade love story of a forgotten Irish literary power couple
Padraic Colum’s death made front-page news in the New York Times in 1972, while F Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway feared his wife Mary’s rapier wit
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John Borgonovo @drjohnborgonovo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Prof David Dickson gave a tour de force in his plenary address to close out Day 1 of ‘Cork Histories’. Day 2 starting now
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Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
For those who missed it, here’s the two pages of the @bsecs.bsky.social conference programme for 1988: no parallel sessions and a field trip to Kenwood House. This and four boxes of other documents I am transferring from my shed to a new BSECS archive at the @voltaire.ox.ac.uk Foundation in Oxford.
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deven parker @devenparker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
ROMANTIC MEDIA AND WARTIME NETWORKS, my first monograph, is out today with @stanfordpress.bsky.social. It tells the story of how the state revolutionized its wartime communication networks in the Romantic period and how writers responded to - and resisted - this media revolution.
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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Congratulations to my colleague @edelsemple.bsky.social - surely no previous Pericles has had such a cool cover! #Shakespeare
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Dr Jennie Orr @drjenniferorr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Looking forward to speaking this coming Thursday (10th) on Cosmopolitan United Irishman David Bailie Warden at the North Down Museum, Bangor. This is part of a 2 day conference on the 1798 Rising held in Bangor (10th) and Downpatrick (11th). Tickets here: www.newrymournedown.org/conference-e...
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Conference Exploring the Untold Stories of 1798 Taking Place in Down
Newry, Mourne and Down District Council has partnered with Ards and North Down Borough Council for a special two-day conference dealing with new perspectives on the people and events that shaped the 1
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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
What a very distracting item to find in my mailbox in the first week of the semester! 🤩 Thanks @cormackinsella.bsky.social 😎👌 #booksky
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Francesca Brooks @francescabrooks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I'm really looking forward to the #GMS2026 Gender & Creativity conference next week! It will in fact be registration week here at UCC, so it feels like I will be claiming an extra week for research before the semester begins. I'll hope to bring news of fascinating new research back to my students!
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Kerri Andrews @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I’m really looking forward to this: the first event of several in the next few weeks for Women, Walking. First up I’m with Josie Giles whose gorgeous essay opens up the collection. Come join us at Lighthouse Books in Edinburgh next week: lighthousebookshop.com/events/women...
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Lighthouse | Women, Walking: A Radical anthology of writing on nature and belonging
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Monday #speirgorm
An Orange sunrise over Dublin bay with the tide out, and the yellow purple orange sky framed by the silhouette of a big oak tree branches and leaves
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RTÉ Brainstorm @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What happened when the flapper reached Ireland in the 1920s? A new book finds that the flapper was very much a real presence on the streets and boreens of Jazz Age Ireland. By @eileenhoganucc.bsky.social @ucc.ie @researchireland.ie & Louise Ryan @londonmetuni.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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What happened when the flapper reached Ireland in the 1920s?
While she featured in the nightmares of bishops and fantasies of advertisers, the flapper was also very much a real presence in Jazz Age Ireland
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𝕰𝔦𝖑𝔢𝖊𝔫 𝔐. 𝕳𝔲𝖓𝔱 @eileenmhunt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
That feeling when you complete a 377,254 word book manuscript and send it in! And to top it off, it's Wollstonecraft's Selected Writings for the C21. Oxford Authors series! A dream come true!
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This #19thc painting, "Hecklers," my #caturday contribution, is evidently about the trials of apartment living & about a singing lesson that no one else--not even the cat--enjoys. I've had reason to consider it today, as I look forward to the season when I can at last leave my study windows CLOSED.
A wall in which three windows are cut. In the largest a pair of young women are conducting a singing lesson (one woman has sheet music in her hand). In another window above theirs, a man points at them with the end of a broom; he has a pitcher in his hand. Below him an old man in his night cap peers from his window. There's also a ginger cat atop a drain pipe arching its back.
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Listen, if we're going to censure everyone who keeps PhD students on his personal farm and gradually feeds them into the maw of a transatlantic death cult we might as well just shut down the humanities altogether.
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Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I spoke to Sebastian Barry for A Hosting and again about his new book to update it for today’s Irish Times. He felt out of place growing up and had difficult relationships with his parents. The Newer World continues his exploration of identity and belonging www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Sebastian Barry: ‘My mother was interesting, extravagant. It was difficult to be a child of such a person’
The author on his latest novel, The Newer World, his difficult relationship with his parents, and feeling out of place growing up as a Dublin Protestant
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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Great news! Congratulations @michaelgamer33.bsky.social Richly deserved!
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I'm really looking forward to the @irishhumanities.bsky.social annual conference today and tomorrow. We're meeting at the site of the former Good Shepherd magdalene laundry in Waterford city, and beginning with an intervention from the Waterford Memories project.
A forbidding three story redbrick Victorian institution.
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The new issue of the TLS, out tomorrow @thetls.bsky.social
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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 03/09/2026
This year the RIA is pleased to announce that in addition to the annual funding for archaeological research which is made possible by the support of the @nationalmons.bsky.social focused funding is also available for research into Norman Ireland www.ria.ie/grants/
A stylized sun featuring a red and black design, radiating vibrant energy and artistic flair.
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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Please join us for our next 1819 Social Event: "How to Shape, Revise, & Submit Articles for Publication" with Dr. Lucy Morrison and Dr. Amelia Worsley! The event will be held on Zoom on Tuesday, September 8th at 5:00pm EDT. Register using the link below! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
"1819 Social Upcoming Event! "How to Shape, Revise, & Submit Articles for Publication" with Dr. Lucy Morrison and Dr. Amelia Worsley on Tuesday, September 8th at 5:00pm EDT on Zoom.
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I made it into today’s Irish Times with an essay about the Queen’s Colleges and Empire. Always exciting to see one’s name in print.
A picture of the Irish Times Weekend section with a picture of the UCC quad.
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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The 2026 Curran Symposium is coming soon! This year's theme explores Mary Shelley’s genre-defining post-apocalyptic pandemic novel & its legacies. Register 2 weeks in advance in order to attend events. 📆 September 24th and 25th 📍University of Notre Dame #Curran2026 www.k-saa.org/blog/curran2...
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2026 Curran Symposium: THE LAST MAN AT 200–Imagining the Future After Environmental Disaster — K-SAA
Consider joining us for our next Curran Symposium on the topic of Mary Shelley’s  The Last Man (1826)!  The event will take place on September 24th and 25th 2026 at the University ...
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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Still need to register for #Curran2026? See the event page to register by September 10th. Some events will be available by Zoom. www.k-saa.org/events/curra...
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2026 Curran Symposium: THE LAST MAN AT 200–Imagining the Future After Environmental Disaster — K-SAA
We are looking forward to our next Curran Symposium on the topic of Mary Shelley’s  The Last Man . The event will take place on September 24th and 25th 2026 at the University of Notr...
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Deirdre Flynn @deirdreflynn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
IASIL 2027 CFP now live! Children of the Nation 28 June – 2 July 2027 University of Otago, Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka Aotearoa New Zealand #IrishStudies #AcademicSky #SpeirGorm Share widely! www.iasil.org/conference-2...
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CONFERENCE 2027: University of Otago, Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka 28 June – 2 July 2027 – International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures
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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Feminist Miscarriage Project conference explores the multiple ways that people think & feel about pregnancy endings & calls for full-spectrum approach @miscarriageproject.bsky.social @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @maritahennessy.bsky.social @niamhhj.bsky.social www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy...
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Feminist Miscarriage Project conference explores the multiple ways that people think and feel about pregnancy endings and calls for full-spectrum approach | University College Cork
Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.
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Francesca Brooks @francescabrooks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Had a chance to visit Plas Newydd, the home of the Ladies of Llangollen, on our most recent visit to the UK. I was struck by what a glorious collage it is of wood panelling and fragments of medieval stained glass. An incredible place!
collaged or patchworked woodpanelling in the entrance to Plas Newydd, where the black hats of the Ladies of Llangollen also hang.Collaged fragments of stained glass in an upstairs windowclose-up of some fragments of stained glass, showing an upside down gooseDetail of patchwork wood panelling with a naked woman at the centre
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