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Mikelyn Rochford

@mikelyn.bsky.social
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Host of a moderately cool radio show. Record collector. Illustrator. PhD student in Irish literature + narrative theory @ Uni of York

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EFACIS @efacis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Last week, we enjoyed a wonderful PhD seminar in Irish Studies organised by the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies at the Irish College in Leuven. Thank you to all the students, organisers, workshop leaders and plenary speakers for making it such an interesting week!
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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Footage of Bloomsday - June 16, 1954 (50 years after the events of Ulysses). Celebrated by Brian O’Nolan (Flann O’Brien), Patrick Kavanagh, Anthony Cronin, John Ryan, Tom Joyce, & Con Leventhal. Started at the Martello tower and didn’t get far. Happy Bloomsday!!
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EFACIS @efacis.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
We will be electing new EFACIS PhD representatives at the end of August 2026. If you are interested and want to know more, you can join the current PhD representatives for an info and Q&A session on 5 June at 10 am, during the PhD writing session. Register at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Congratulations to the BAIS 2026 winners ✨
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The easy answer here for western Montana is Yellowstone National Park, but my favorite teacher in the 6th grade also took each of her classes to her ex-husband’s basement where he kept hundreds of taxidermied animals he had shot over the decades. Our personal Museum of Natural History.
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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
So very excited to present at Senate House on Thursday along with @paddy-brennan.bsky.social - come around if you're in London! I'll be talking about Pádraic Ó Conaire's amazingly bizarre & fun novella Exile and metafictionality. @ies-sas.bsky.social ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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ECR double header with Mikelyn Rochford (University of York) and Paddy Brennan (University of Liverpool)
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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Fellow Irish Studies postgrads!! Do this!!!
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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
If you’re in London on 19 Feb!
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Paddy Brennan @paddy-brennan.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I'm excited to be presenting on the late, great Edna O'Brien in her adopted home city later this month. Also looking forward to hearing from @mikelyn.bsky.social on Pádraic Ó Conaire
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British Association for Irish Studies (BAIS) @bairishstudies.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
The 2025 BAIS Essay Prize winner, written by Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social is now available to read on Irish Studies Review! doi.org/10.1080/0967...
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“I took the left turn for eternity”: otherworlds, afterlives, and discursive storytelling traditions in Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman and Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Graveyard Clay
This essay explores Flann O’Brien’s posthumously published The Third Policeman (1967) and Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s 1949 Irish language novel Cré na Cille (Graveyard Clay) through their use of literary o...
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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Happy 40th birthday to one of my favorite albums of all-time, Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love 💜
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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Now that it’s in print, if you’re feeling like reading about two of my favorites (O’Brien & Ó Cadhain) and their wild wild stories, check out my little article in Irish Studies Review 🚲🪦
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The International Flann O’Brien Society @flannobriensoc.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Fantastic to see Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social win the British Association for Irish Studies @bairishstudies.bsky.social essay prize for her challenge to the ways 'narrative theory has conceived of afterlife stories as unnatural, oppositional, or dependent on a privileged realist norm'
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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Belated, but what a good time the @flannobriensoc.bsky.social conference in Strabane was 🚲
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The International Flann O’Brien Society @flannobriensoc.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
💥New publication alert!💥 "‘Our own good Editor’: Brian O’Nolan, Niall Montgomery and the Drafts of the Cruiskeen Lawn" by @maebhlong.bsky.social, @jessiepb.bsky.social & Marie Theunisz out now! Check their article out for new insights into the co-authorship of Cruiskeen Lawn.
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‘Our own good Editor’: Brian O’Nolan, Niall Montgomery and the Drafts of the Cruiskeen Lawn
Although the Niall Montgomery papers housed at the National Library of Ireland shows that Montgomery contributed to the Cruiskeen Lawn, researchers without access to Dublin have been unable to identif...
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Tony Mastrogiorgio @tonymastro.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
It makes me feel better about the state of the world to know that at this moment people are gathering to talk about Flann O’Brien. (No doubt as truly true Gaelic Gaels who speak in true Gaelic Gaelic about the truly Gaelic language.)
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The International Flann O’Brien Society @flannobriensoc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Strabane has been putting up with an influx of Flanneurs with exceptional patience and hospitality
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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Read the superb programme for the 8th International Flann O’Brien Conference, this week in Strabane! With talks on diverse aspects of "Home, Heritage & Origins" in O'Brien's writing; screenings; exhibitions & tours of O'Brien's home town Registration & schedule👉 www.alley-theatre.com/whats-on/25-...
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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Hello to Strabane and hello to the one and only Brian O’Nolan 👋
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Dolly Parton
Dolly on stage c. early 1970s. Huge hair and a pink jumpsuit. I think the man right behind her in a Nudie suit is Porter Wagoner.
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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Fiancé decided to join me on my upcoming Ryanair flight to Belfast and got dropkicked from the seat next to me at the very last minute due to a tech glitch. Got on social media and this is the first thing I saw 🤣
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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Footage of Bloomsday - June 16, 1954 (50 years after the events of Ulysses). Celebrated by Brian O’Nolan (Flann O’Brien), Patrick Kavanagh, Anthony Cronin, John Ryan, Tom Joyce, & Con Leventhal. Started at the Martello tower and didn’t get far. Happy Bloomsday!!
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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Love when the pals win together 🤝
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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
big fan of BAIS ✨✨✨
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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez visited my home (red) state of Montana on their Fighting Oligarchy tour today. They filled the stadium with a crowd of 7,500 and an overflow of 1,500. Nearing 1% of Montana’s population.
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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
And by this I mean a UFO, not rural Montana.
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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Cosmic Mind at Play by The Paisleys (1970). Psychedelic garage rock from the Midwest.
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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
PJ Harvey’s White Chalk (2007). I love all the PJ eras (she never misses for me) but this one had a sound I particularly really love.
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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Happy 60th birthday to Begin Here by The Zombies (1965)!! One of my comfort bands.
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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Jackpot reissue of Silver Apples - Contact (1969). I need so much more music from Silver Apples, absolutely obsessed with these beats.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
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Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH
The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...
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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
This morning listening to Roy Harper’s Stormcock (1971). I came to start listening to him in a favorite artist’s favorite artist kind of way.
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Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
It's April 1st! #OBrien25 #TheThirdPoliceman starts today! readinganactofsharedsolitude.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/i...
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It’s April 1st! #OBrien25 #TheThirdPoliceman starts today!
Is it about a bicycle?Flann O’Brien, The Third Policeman If a man stands before a mirror and sees in it his reflection, what he sees is not a true reproduction of himself but a picture of him…
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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Snockman, Doc Snock, Elwood Snock, Michael Hurley. Musician, storyteller, cartoonist, and an artist in every way. Rest in peace. Thanks for the imaginative, funny, beautiful music. You’ll always be one of my favorites.
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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
A day late: Brian O’Nolan (Flann O’Brien/Myles na Gopaleen/etc.) died April 1, 1966 and I guess it’s a nice thing he wrote some good books because I don’t know what else I’d be doing right now if he hadn’t. Probably nothing much. [photos at the end from Anthony Cronin’s O’Brien biography]
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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I missed it by a bit, but happy ten year anniversary of the release of Sufjan Steven’s Carrie & Lowell. I remember not paying any attention in any of my courses all day and then quietly retreating to the privacy of my dorm room to listen to it all the way through 🥲
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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
FOUND ALIVE and running a chain of laundromats in Miami. Death was all a hoax.
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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
On the Shore (1971) by Trees. A group I wish recorded so much more than the two (stellar) albums that we’ve got.
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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Tonight: The Astrud Gilberto Album (1965). Gorgeous, gorgeous voice from Brazil.
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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
A US questionnaire seeks to establish whether funded Irish research aligns with the Trump administration’s interests. Trinity College Dublin warns staff >not< to answer US government request for diversity and equality information. More:
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Trinity warns staff not to answer US government request for diversity and equality information
A questionnaire seeks to establish whether funded research aligns with the Trump administration’s interests.
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University of York Library @uoylibrary.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
... An account of the alarming and destructive fire in York Minster on February 2, 1829: containing the particulars ... of the conflagration: with, a sketch of the life of Jonathan Martin; likewise, his letters; his apprehension, examination, confession, and committal to the city jail, &c. &c.
title page, with 'An account of the alarming and destructive fire in York Minster' and the rest of the title, arranged a few words per line down the page
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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Current read: Room to Dream by David Lynch and Kristine McKenna. Have audibly laughed more than a few times.
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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Björk’s Biophilia (2011). One of my absolute favorite of her albums (after Vespertine ofc). Mega concept album about environmental issues that sticks to its ideas down to the composition. Also uses a Tesla coil, gravity harp, pendulums, and a “gameleste” in its instrumentation. Genius. Underrated.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/03/2025
Sitting in the Montana state legislature today watching them debate anti-trans sports bans again. They have had more anti-trans sports bans bills here than there are trans athletes in the state of Montana.
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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
The first record I ever bought! Strawberry Alarm Clock’s Incense and Peppermints (1967). I got a record player for my 14th birthday when I was deeply obsessed with The Beatles and my mom took me to my first record shop - which was Cactus Records in Bozeman, MT 🥰 picked up this one.
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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I’d take the substance if I could alternate weeks on and off of being Willem Dafoe (a better version of me)
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Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
working
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