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Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Enjoying Oswyn Murray (no relation)'s historiography

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Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Product of team collage activity at today's Teaching and Learning conference

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Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If you want a PhD just send me some AI slop and I'll lob a scholarship your way. That's how it works, right?

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Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Really have to look up a lot of words when I read John Banville

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Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Colum McCann's #Twist - a sea adventure with shades of Verne, Conrad, and Fitzgerald - is the book for our latest episode tinyurl.com/irishbookspod

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Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

For the (Blooms)day that's in it. My Ulysses group meets on a Tuesday and is discussing Oxen of the Sun today

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Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Kevin Barry's The Heart in Winter is like Irish folklore, the Wild West, and a Nick Cave ballad all at once tinyurl.com/irishbookspod

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Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Mary Shelley has us view her novel The Last Man through a classical aperture: it's framed as sybilline prophecy. A key source is Gibbon’s Decline and Fall. Yet Shelley draws on tragedy too to suggest her characters inherit a curse on Constantine the Great. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56924

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Project MUSE - Classical World-Volume 119, Number 1, Fall 2025

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Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

My other life: interviewed in Xinhua as "Bajiquan bronze medalist" h.xinhuaxmt.com/vh512/share/...

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Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

James Chandler of U. Chicago joins me to discuss Milkman tinyurl.com/irishbookspod

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Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Sebastian Barry's Old God's Time is a belter. Hear me discuss the novel with Kevin Foster tinyurl.com/irishbookspo...

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Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Taking Sally Rooney as broad millennial spokesperson risks neglecting her engagement with modern Ireland. A discussion of Intermezzo tinyurl.com/irishbookspo...

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Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Sally Rooney's Intermezzo is the topic of my discussion with my great ally Maddy Callaghan tinyurl.com/irishbookspod Great to see some coverage for the show in the Irish Times recently too www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

@lcollins232.bsky.social joins me to discuss The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth, Adrian Duncan's latest novel from @serpents-tail.bsky.social - episode at tinyurl.com/irishbookspod

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Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Did Colm Tóibín's Brooklyn need a sequel? tinyurl.com/irishbookspod

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Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Entire 2-hour seminar spent on Yeats's "Easter, 1916." That'll learn 'em

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Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Being away from Ireland on 17 March tends to make me feel like I'm missing something - but glad to have my Ulysses group today (we're talking about Stephen in the classroom, lots of Blake references). Meanwhile for discussion of Eimear McBride's Joycean exile (of sorts) tinyurl.com/irishbookspod

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The Irish Books Podcast

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Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Grime, passion and addiction in 90s London, with experimental writing - a discussion of Eimear McBride's The City Changes its Face tinyurl.com/irishbookspod

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Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Religion in Irish Literature and Culture has been published! Glad to meet this one in the flesh. www.cambridge.org/by/universit...

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Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Irish Books Podcast E2 tackles Paul Lynch's Prophet Song with guest Chris Morash of Trinity College Dublin @langslitscultures.bsky.social Full discussion tinyurl.com/irishbookspod

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Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Historian Dianne Hall and I discuss Emma Donoghue's "textual nuances" and historical evidence of diverse sexualities and ethnicities in the 1890s, realities that far predate our own moment. Full discussion at www.monash.edu/arts/languag...

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Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Irish Books Podcast debuts with a discussion of Emma Donoghue's Paris Express featuring guest historian Dianne Hall @dihall.bsky.social Available on all platforms www.monash.edu/arts/languag...

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The Irish Books Podcast

This series offers in-depth discussion of recent Irish writing, with expert guests based around the world.

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Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

“What struck me most flying over the Otways during the fires—seeing scorched forest, blackened and dead trees with fires still smouldering nearby, followed by ... gas drilling equipment emerging from the ocean—was the price we are all paying for the bottomless greed of fossil fuel corporations.”

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Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The Irish Books Podcast begins in January. If you’re interested, you can subscribe on the major platforms via the link. www.monash.edu/arts/languag...

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The Irish Books Podcast

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Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Re-reading #Milkman by Anna Burns ahead of a podcast. Hard to express how much I admire this novel. If you haven't read it you must put down your phone right now and find a copy

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Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Beckford's Tower, recently reopened. With Ant Howell

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Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Just one Romanticism in-joke amid the assorted Australiana I've brought a colleague: Byron Bay was named for the poet's uncle, "Foul Weather Jack" Byron (not to be confused with "Mad Jack" Byron)

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Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Getting to our Manchester hotel was an odyssey, but now relaxing, and enjoying Holmes on Tennyson hugely

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Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Enjoying time in Oxford as Carr-Thomas-Ovenden Fellow in Romantic Literature. It's an ever-evolving institution, as I see at the beautiful and brand-new Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities

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Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Sad to learn of the death of Simon James, Professor of Victorian literature at Durham University. I have lost a friend

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