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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Cover reveal for "Flann O'Brien: Palimpsests, Translations, Intertexts", ed. Anne Fogarty, Erika Mihálycsa & Scott Eric Hamilton! My chapter considers representations of animal skins in "At Swim-Two-Birds" & "Two in One" Pre-Order from @corkup.bsky.social: www.corkuniversitypress.com/978178205105...

Cover for "Flann O'Brien: Palimpsests, Translations, Intertexts", edited by Anne Fogarty, Erika Mihálycsa & Scott Eric Hamilton.

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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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Clíona Ó Gallchoir @clionaog.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This article was very much a labour of love, and it took even longer than usual to be published, so I really mean it when I say I am DELIGHTED to see it in print. I have free prints if anyone needs one! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VXW3P...

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Growing up as a Girl in Edgeworthstown House, c.1782–1807: the Experiences of Elizabeth and Charlotte Edgeworth

Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth are hailed as educational pioneers whose jointly-authored work, Practical Education (1798), outlines methods that are grounded in and illustrated by accounts of t...

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Author Maria Stepanova and translator Sasha Dugdale discuss THE DISAPPEARING ACT, longlisted for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature. Read the next interview in our 2026 National Book Awards series at the link: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

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The National Book Award Interviews: Maria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale - Words Without Borders

Author Maria Stepanova and translator Sasha Dugdale discuss The Disappearing Act, longlisted for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature.

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Francesca Brooks @francescabrooks.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Wonderful to see this collection - 'Beyond Medieval Archives: rethinking the medieval archive through creative & critical practice' - which I've edited with Carl Kears, up on the @uclpress.bsky.social website & with a pub. date! You can learn more about the chapters: uclpress.co.uk/book/beyond-...

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Beyond Medieval Archives

Beyond Medieval Archives hopes to open the field of medieval studies to more diverse, dynamic and innovative forms of creativity, criticism, publication and collective action in response to the resona...

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Georgina Nugent @georginanugent.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Tomorrow night! @leeannequinn.bsky.social's Landscape with Question @carcanet.bsky.social launched by @sashadugdale.bsky.social. Aka, two divas coming together to maximise their joint slay x

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

This week's Substack is by Leeanne Quinn, whose collection Landscape with Question comes out this June:⬇️ tinyurl.com/y5tpy6ju

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Leeanne Quinn @leeannequinn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Landscape with Question is published tomorrow. Here is a piece I wrote on the book for the Carcanet blog. 🌱❤️

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Leeanne Quinn @leeannequinn.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I am so grateful to Tom Reid and the Reid Estate for permission to use a portion of Nano Reid's monotype "Landscape" on the cover of Landscape with Question, available to pre-order soon from @carcanet.bsky.social

Cover image for Leeanne Quinn, Landscape with Question, which features a close up of a monotype by Nano Reid. It is largely cream and black, with a tiny dot of blue in the center.

A monotype by Nano Reid (1905-1981) titled "Landscape"

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Georgina Nugent @georginanugent.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

That's our Mary "Did Emily Bronte die for this?" O'Connell @mary1010.bsky.social

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Mary O'Connell @mary1010.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Had a lovely chat with Marjorie Brennan from @irishexaminer.bsky.social about the travesty that is "Wuthering Heights" and delighted to see she quoted my initial reaction to it which was and still is, did Emily Bronte die for this 😅

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Georgina Nugent @georginanugent.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Okay no present will EVER top this, made over Christmas by the wonderful Heidi of @uniregensburg.bsky.social library, and presented to me at the end of our German Room conference, which marked the conclusion of the academic programme for this remarkable exhibition. 🥹

An edition of Beckett's trilogy with his face delicately carved into the page edges

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Georgina Nugent @georginanugent.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

‪ Back en route to Regensburg, for "Samuel Beckett: The German Room", a one-day conference with some absolute mega legends in attendance: thee Megan Girdwood on Beckett & Dance, maestro Feargal Whelan on Beckett’s Landscapes, and Legend of all Legends Sarah Jane Scaife on Beckett, Women & Inis Oirr.

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Today’s reminder not to miss these glorious gorgeous people in Toronto tomorrow, representing the Samuel Beckett Society in style! #mla2026 #samuelbeckett

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

@modernistudies.bsky.social @modernlanguage.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social Modernists ahoy! A really special panel you will enjoy (I guarantee) at #mla2026 "Rewriting the Modernist Wife: Beckett, Stein, Dumesnil, Toklas". Friday 10.15 MTCC - 205D.

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Returning to URGE you if you're at MLA in Toronto to attend this superb panel from Samuel Beckett Society superstars @georginanugent.bsky.social, Julie Bates and Dunlaith Bird (Friday 9th Jan 10.15-11.30am): some of the best and most important work I've encountered in Beckett and modernist studies.

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Georgina Nugent @georginanugent.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Just a few days left to send us your abstracts for "James Joyce in Relation: Gender, Labour, Legacy". Deadline is Jan 1st.

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Georgina Nugent @georginanugent.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Congratulations Kevin, you absolute legend!!! Proud to know you ❤️❤️🥰

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Leeanne Quinn @leeannequinn.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

My third collection, Landscape with Question, will be published in June 2026 with @carcanet.bsky.social. It started out as a biography in verse of Nano Reid, then became something else entirely. 🌔🌊🏙️🌱 www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017561...

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Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

This is one of next year’s poetry highlights:

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Georgina Nugent @georginanugent.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I've organised a one day conference on Jan 19th in Regensburg as part of their ongoing exhibition "Samuel Beckett: The German Room". Some real coolos speaking: Oliver Lubrich, Megan Girdwood, Feargal Whelan & the legendary Sarah Jane Scaife. Info here: samuelbeckettsociety.org/2025/12/12/s...

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Samuel Beckett: The German Room. A one-day conference in Regensburg, Germany

As part of the Samuel Beckett: The German Room exhibition currently ongoing at the University of Regensburg in Germany, a one-day conference will take place on January 19 2026 featuring contributio…

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Georgina Nugent @georginanugent.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Just me and the legendary Comrades Bates and Bird ranting about "Rewriting the Modernist Wife: Beckett, Stein, Toklas, Dumesnil" at the MLA 2026 in Toronto. I am so grateful to @lizbaz.bsky.social for the invitation to be part of such a progressive panel. beckettreview.org/2025/12/06/b...

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Beckett Society Panel, MLA 2026, Toronto

The annual convention of the Modern Language Association will take place in January 2026 in Toronto. As ever, the Samuel Beckett Society will be represented at a guaranteed panel. This year’s…

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Swati Joshi @swatijoshi.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

@moderniststudies.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social @beckettletters.bsky.social @beckettreading.bsky.social 29th November 2025 is scheduled for the online Samuel Beckett seminar, “Decoding Colding in Beckett.” Please share the details (below)with your colleagues, students, and friends.

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Georgina Nugent @georginanugent.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Two months to the deadline for abstracts for ‘James Joyce in Relation: Gender, Labour, Legacy’. We invite feminist, queer, intersectional & transnational work that rethinks Joyce’s relations with his women contemporaries & interrogates reception, networks & the gendered infrastructures of modernism.

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Georgina Nugent @georginanugent.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Last month I took part in a plenary session on Early Career Research & Career Building with James Little & Ondřej Pilný at the International Postgraduates Conference in Irish Studies, CU Prague. I start talking about my experiences as an ECR at the 1hr 13 minute mark. youtu.be/eZIbC-uKDaA?...

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Panel Session for Early Career Researchers in Irish Studies

YouTube video by Centre for Irish Studies Prague

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Georgina Nugent @georginanugent.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Yesterday I was in Regensburg for the opening of Samuel Beckett: The German Room. It was mad cool to organise the academic programme for this exhibition, and there's more to come in January :) @ubregensburg.bsky.social @ucc.ie www.uni-regensburg.de/bibliothek/v...

A close up of a placard from Samuel Beckett: The German Room which reads:

The exhibition, organised in cooperation with the Tophoven Archive (Straelen) and the Beckett Archive (Reading), is accompanied by an academic programme organised by Dr Georgina Nugent (University College Cork) and a cultural programme.

A photograph of a portion of the exhibition Samuel Beckett: The German Room. The room is predominantly grey, with boxes of text in white.

A close up of a placard for Samuel Beckett: The German Room, an exhibition at the University of Regensburg.

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Georgina Nugent @georginanugent.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I was precarious for a long time & in three different countries. I have a lot to say on the topic, so it's nice to start saying some of this tomorrow at the International Postgraduate Conference in Irish Studies, Centre for Irish Studies, CU Prague. irishpostgradprague.ff.cuni.cz/programme/ke...

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Keynote Event: ECR & Career Building Panel – The International Postgraduate Conference in Irish Studies

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Liz Quirke @lizquirke.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

The poet Ellen Dillon read at O’Bhéal go Béal tonight to a packed house. What an artist. Master of craft and scholar of poetry. Proof that good writing takes time and effort. Excited for her next book. Properly achieved poetry tonight. No short cuts.

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Georgina Nugent @georginanugent.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Feel extremely lucky to work with the class act, poetic genius, and all round legend that is @lizquirke.bsky.social. Read her new essay in @stingingfly.bsky.social, it's amazing!! stingingfly.org/2025/09/09/t...

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The fear of stepping into focus – The Stinging Fly

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Leeanne Quinn @leeannequinn.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

‘I don’t believe in the unspeakable or untranslatable. That’s imperial logic and privilege – empire bombs incessantly, and then says the deaths are unspeakable? No, we need to speak about every bomb, every destroyed body, every hour that these bombs landed’–Don Mee Choi, Chicago Review of Books 68.1

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Georgina Nugent @georginanugent.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

"Leeanne Quinn. Read her" ❤️❤️❤️

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Ellen Dillon @drnollid.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Born in 1900 "She was forty-four when she gained the right to vote. In 1961, when she married Beckett...French matrimonial law still forbade married women from looking after their own interests: they could not open a bank account or exercise a profession without their husbands’ permission" 🤯

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Ellen Dillon @drnollid.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Read this book and be mad as hell!! But read it! There is something so haunted about trying to catch a glimpse of her through the veil of paraphrase the copywrite situation has thrown over her work.

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Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Downloaded and reading

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I want to briefly talk about one thing people don't really talk about too much with precarity and one thing that most senior staff gloss over, offering a platitude instead of engaging with what is fundamentally wrong with the precarity situation in the UK. 1/

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Georgina Nugent @georginanugent.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Anyone with even a passing interest in Beckett needs to read Emilie Morin's biography of Suzanne Dumesnil: it's free to download for the next two weeks. This is feminist restorative history in action: read this book!!!

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Georgina Nugent @georginanugent.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

CFP: James Joyce in Relation: Gender, Labour, Legacy, a special issue of Feminist Modernist Studies, guest edited by Ronan Crowley & myself. Please take a look at the CFP and send your proposals our way. Proposals from non-Joyceans are ESPECIALLY welcome: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

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James Joyce in relation: Gender, labour, legacy

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Dr Leeann Lane @lloislanel.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Thank you to Professor Lauren Arrington for launching my book at the Frankfurt Modernist conference organised so wonderfully by @georginanugent.bsky.social and Ronan Crowley and hosted by the Irish Consulate, Frankfurt. I was honoured to be in the company of the amazing Zackary Leader.

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Georgina Nugent @georginanugent.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Very happy to share the speaker list for "Modernist Life Righting: Corrective Self-Portraiture in the 20th and 21st Century", a two day conference I've co-organized with Ronan Crowley. Taking place later this month at @goetheuni.bsky.social. Look at this amazing lineup of speakers!!

Modernist Life Righting

Corrective Self-Portraiture in the 20th and 21st century

Institute of English and American Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt

22-23 May 2025

Lauren Arrington (University of South Florida)

Scarlett Baron (University College London)

Julie Bates (Trinity College Dublin)

Dúnlaith Bird (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord)

Laura Cernat (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

Ronan Crowley (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)

Julia Dallaway (University of Oxford)

Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin)

Megan Girdwood (University of Edinburgh)

Leeann Lane (Dublin City University)

Zachary Leader (University of Roehampton)

Lianna Mark (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Emilie Morin (University of York)

Georgina Nugent (University College Cork)

Leeanne Quinn (poet-creative)

Sam Thompson (Queen's University Belfast)

Feargal Whelan (Trinity College Dublin)

For more information about the conference or to register, please contact Georgina Nugent georginanugent@ucc.ie or Ronan Crowley crowley@em.uni-frankfurt.de.

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And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

A sorrowful reflection on the ways in which a place can hold a ‘magnetic field of memory’, Don Mee Choi explores South Korea’s violent recent history in a poetry of grief that is both personal and collective Mirror Nation is out now in the UK and Europe 💫 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/mirr...

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Ellen Dillon @drnollid.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Every May Bank Holiday since 2018 I think of the tiny Together for Yes stall at the mart in Kilmallock, where 5 of us faced off the pink-jacket crew for over 5 hours. Someday I'll be able to write about it properly but I made a start here ellendillon.com/2021/06/07/u...

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Munster Literature Centre https://munsterlit.ie/ @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Looking forward to welcoming to Leanne Quinn and John McAuliffe to our Poetry Festival this year. For all details on the festival go to www.poetryfest.ie #poetryfest #corkevents

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Georgina Nugent @georginanugent.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Hello! On Saturday 17 May 4pm I will be chatting to Zachary Leader about his new book, Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and its Maker" at Cork City Library. This is a free event, do come ☀️ @ucc.ie @harvardpress.bsky.social

You're invited to the BOOK LAUNCH of Zachary Leader’s new book, Ellmann’s Joyce, Cork City Library, Saturday 17 May 4pm where Zachary Leader will be joined in-conversation with Georgina Nugent.

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