Reposted by Mikelyn RochfordEFACIS @efacis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Last 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! 031
Reposted by Mikelyn RochfordMikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Footage 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!! 0105
Reposted by Mikelyn RochfordEFACIS @efacis.bsky.social · 27/05/2026We 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... 025
Reposted by Mikelyn RochfordMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York. 1008389559564
Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 16/03/2026The 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. 140
Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 18/02/2026So 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/...ies.sas.ac.ukECR double header with Mikelyn Rochford (University of York) and Paddy Brennan (University of Liverpool) 074
Reposted by Mikelyn RochfordPaddy Brennan @paddy-brennan.bsky.social · 06/02/2026I'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 063
Reposted by Mikelyn RochfordBritish Association for Irish Studies (BAIS) @bairishstudies.bsky.social · 29/09/2025The 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...doi.org“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 ClayThis 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... 084
Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Happy 40th birthday to one of my favorite albums of all-time, Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love 💜 0112
Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Now 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 🚲🪦 040
Reposted by Mikelyn RochfordThe International Flann O’Brien Society @flannobriensoc.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Fantastic 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' 1144
Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Belated, but what a good time the @flannobriensoc.bsky.social conference in Strabane was 🚲 093
Reposted by Mikelyn RochfordThe 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.parishreview.openlibhums.org‘Our own good Editor’: Brian O’Nolan, Niall Montgomery and the Drafts of the Cruiskeen LawnAlthough 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... 0126
Reposted by Mikelyn RochfordTony Mastrogiorgio @tonymastro.bsky.social · 25/06/2025It 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.) 072
Reposted by Mikelyn RochfordThe International Flann O’Brien Society @flannobriensoc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Strabane has been putting up with an influx of Flanneurs with exceptional patience and hospitality 0124
Reposted by Mikelyn RochfordPaul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Read 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-... 0204
Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Hello to Strabane and hello to the one and only Brian O’Nolan 👋 0101
Reposted by Mikelyn RochfordNothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Dolly Parton 1344
Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Fiancé 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 🤣 010
Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Footage 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!! 0105
Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Senator 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. 0151
Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Cosmic Mind at Play by The Paisleys (1970). Psychedelic garage rock from the Midwest. 150
Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 10/04/2025PJ 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. 020
Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Happy 60th birthday to Begin Here by The Zombies (1965)!! One of my comfort bands. 040
Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Jackpot reissue of Silver Apples - Contact (1969). I need so much more music from Silver Apples, absolutely obsessed with these beats. 050
Reposted by Mikelyn RochfordIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Can 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.latimes.comJapanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEHThe 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 ... 278285277270
Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 06/04/2025This 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. 020
Reposted by Mikelyn RochfordPaperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 01/04/2025It's April 1st! #OBrien25 #TheThirdPoliceman starts today! readinganactofsharedsolitude.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/i...readinganactofsharedsolitude.wordpress.comIt’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… 192
Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Snockman, 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. 070
Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025A 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] 072
Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025I 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 🥲 010
Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 01/04/2025FOUND ALIVE and running a chain of laundromats in Miami. Death was all a hoax. 010
Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 01/04/2025On the Shore (1971) by Trees. A group I wish recorded so much more than the two (stellar) albums that we’ve got. 040
Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Tonight: The Astrud Gilberto Album (1965). Gorgeous, gorgeous voice from Brazil. 090
Reposted by Mikelyn RochfordDr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 31/03/2025A 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:thejournal.ieTrinity warns staff not to answer US government request for diversity and equality informationA questionnaire seeks to establish whether funded research aligns with the Trump administration’s interests. 713940
Reposted by Mikelyn RochfordUniversity 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. 171
Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Current read: Room to Dream by David Lynch and Kristine McKenna. Have audibly laughed more than a few times. 020
Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Björk’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. 150
Reposted by Mikelyn RochfordErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/03/2025Sitting 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. 402406360
Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 29/03/2025The 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. 160
Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social · 28/03/2025I’d take the substance if I could alternate weeks on and off of being Willem Dafoe (a better version of me) 010