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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Very exciting to see "Nightreadings: Essays on Finnegans Wake II.2" go live online. I'm thrilled to be among such an excellent group of scholars with a contribution that reads Issy's footnotes in the "Nightlessons" episode from new materialist and ecofeminist perspectives 🔗 brill.com/display/titl...

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I've been excited to get my hands on Brian Ó Conchubhair's monumental Flann O'Brien biography for years, so it was the best possible "Flann's birthday" present to receive "An Saol Bocht" in the post today. Congratulations Brian on this phenomenal achievement & gift to all of us working on O'Brien!👏🎉

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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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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lovely celebration last night of the Poetry off the Page Project with PI Julia Lajta-Novak and team (and performances by Kat François!) Its many outputs (podcasts, web resources, monographs, special issues) will be integral to poetry performance studies for decades to come. Congrats to all involved👏

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Very cool CFP for a Journal of Beckett Studies special issue on Beckett & Entropy. Specifically seeking submissions on how materiality, colour, climate, desire, language and affect tend toward concinnity, unpredictability, irreversibility in Becketts writing. samuelbeckettsociety.org/2026/09/25/c...

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Call for Papers: Special Issue of Journal of Beckett Studies

The Editorial Board of the Journal of Beckett Studies has published a call for papers for a forthcoming special issue. Titled ‘The Colours of Entropy in Beckett’s Work’, the numbe…

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My article "Unveiling the Sky: Ecofeminist Revelations in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own" is now available to read and download on ProQuest, here: www.proquest.com/docview/3378... If you're not able to login via your library and are interested in reading it, just drop me a DM.

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Maeve Binchy’s @irishtimes.com review at the time praised the performances of John Quinn (in three roles), Seamus Crowe (Pooka) and Treasa Ní Fhatharta (Sheila Lamont), who also appeared "heavily disguised in space gear" as the Good Fairy.

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sorry to read that the London Gate Theatre is closing. A few years ago, I wrote a little (in "Flann O'Brien: Acting Out") about its inaugural April 1979 production of "At Swim-Two-Birds", directed by founder Lou Stein, & its importance to Flann O'Brien's theatrical revival on the 1980s London stage.

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The International Flann O’Brien Society @flannobriensoc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Out now! The Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies is packed with great work on the connections between O'Brien and Huxley, including a valuable introduction by guest editors @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social, Emily Reed and Claudia Olk. Thanks to the @openlibhums.org it is wholly free & open access.

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The International Flann O’Brien Society @flannobriensoc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Check out Brian Ó Conchubhair's award-winning biography of Flann O'Brien/Brian O'Nolan. In all good bookshops!

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Very cool to receive the physical copy of "Joyce & Us", a special issue of Joyce Studies in Italy that features my article on "The Nonhuman Abject in Finnegans Wake" It considers representations of more-than-human life in Shem the Penman & Issy's Footnotes through Julia Kristeva's work on abjection

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🚨OUT NOW🚨 "Splintered Selves: Writing Singleness and Widowhood in the Fiction of Mary Lavin and Janet McNeill" by Anne Fogarty Article #11 in our open-access special issue "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing"! Read it here: www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/15...

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Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It was such a pleasure to work on this special issue. Do check out all the great humanities and social science contributions to immunology!

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Tobias W. Harris @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Pleased to announce a new issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies dedicated to interlocking threads in the work of Flann O'Brien and Aldous Huxley. This is the editorial introduction by Claudia Olk, Emily Louise and I: parishreview.openlibhums.org/article/id/3...

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Editors’ Introduction: Brian O’Nolan and Aldous Huxley

Drawing on the evidence that Aldous Huxley was an important context for Brian O'Nolan, this guest editorial introduces the present special issue and sets out a model for comparative scholarship using ...

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I was writing about Joyce's story "An Encounter" and wanted to find out what "a jerry hat with a high crown" (which the "queer old josser" is described as wearing) looks like. After some light Googling, I choose to believe this is what Joyce wants his reader to picture here.

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Thanks to everyone who came out on a blazing hot Friday for the dual launch of the open-access special issue "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" and the accompanying podcast series "Unmarried Sisters" at The James Joyce Centre on Friday! @jamesjoycecentre.bsky.social

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

🚨OUT NOW: Article #9 in "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing"! "The Marriage Bar in Irish Life" by Deirdre Foley Combining oral history, manuscript sources and personal history, this article considers the impact of the Irish Marriage Bar across generations. Read it here: www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/15...

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

To mark the second anniversary of Edna O'Brien's passing, read Maureen O'Connor's wonderful article on "Edna O’Brien’s Neglected Widows and Spinsters", published as part of our Humanities open-access Special Issue "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" 🔗 www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/15...

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

"a tremendously exciting book...a real intellectual breakthrough that reinstates work on Joyce at the forefront of critical studies of modernism" I'm so thrilled by Enda Duffy's wonderful review of "Finnegans Wake: Human & Nonhuman Histories" in @mmodernity.bsky.social! muse.jhu.edu/verify?url=%...

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The word of the summer is "unfortunately.." I recently applied for 8 positions: 7 desk rejections, 1 interview. Difficult to see a way forward for me in this field as of now. I'm interested to hear from anyone who successfully transitioned from academia who'd like to share their experiences & tips❤️🙏

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Delighted to be speaking at this event - on the life & legacy of Eva Gore Booth, Lissadel, this comimg friday and saturday - all welcome. A suffragette, Labour actvist, poet, writer & sister of Countess Markievicz, it is fantastic that Gore Booth is remembered. www.independent.ie/county/sligo...

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Eva Gore-Booth’s legacy as suffragist, trade union organiser and poet to be honoured at Lissadell House event

Conference will be held on Friday and Saturday July 24 and 25

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

🔥OUT NOW🔥 "Sexual 'Non-Occurrence': Celibacy in Elizabeth Bowen’s Interwar Fiction" by Iva Dimovska Article #10 in "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing"! Read it here: www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/15...

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Read the full open-access special issue "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" here: www.mdpi.com/journal/huma...

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I'm especially grateful to the wonderful speakers Katherine Ebury, Deirdre Foley, Maureen O'Connor, Anne Fogarty, and Fae McNamara - as well as all the contributors to the special issue and series ❤️ @kebury.bsky.social @ecomaureen.bsky.social

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Boasting new research from leading experts in Irish women’s writing, the essays explore representations of unmarried and widowed women in writing in order to better understand the historical trajectories of the ‘female celibate’ as a political and cultural figure in Ireland.

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Edited by Dr Paul Fagan, Celibacy in Irish Women’s Writing is an open-access Humanities special issue dedicated to less familiar feminist, queer, and activist versions of celibacy in Irish women’s movements and literature.

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It was a lovely and sunny Friday evening for the launch of Celibacy in Irish Women’s Writing in The James Joyce Centre ☀️ Two UCD Press authors, Leeann Lane (Mary MacSwiney, Dorothy Macardle, Rosamond Jacob) and Anne Fogarty (co-editor of Voices on Joyce) are contributors to the special collection 👏

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Looking forward to today's launch of "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing"! Where? The James Joyce Centre Dublin When? 5pm Who? Speakers Katherine Ebury, Paul Fagan, Anne Fogarty, Deirdre Foley, Fae McNamara & Maureen O'Connor Cost? Free event (but booking is essential) Refreshments? Will be provided!

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

💥OUT NOW!💥 "‘I Hope Now You Will Do Something for Her, as She Is a Great Burden to Me’: The Impact of Economic Dependency on the Afterlives of Cork Single Women Active in the Irish Revolutionary Period" by Leeann Lane Article #8 in "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing"! 🔗 www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/15...

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

One week until the launch of "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" at The James Joyce Centre Dublin! Speakers include Katherine Ebury, Anne Fogarty, Maureen O'Connor, Deirdre Foley and Fae Mc Namara! Book your free ticket now: www.eventbrite.ie/e/launch-of-...

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The James Joyce Centre @jamesjoycecentre.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Please join us for the launch of "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing," a new special issue dedicated to the untold history of Ireland's unmarried women edited by @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social, on Friday, 10 July at 5pm. The event is free but booking is essential. www.eventbrite.ie/e/launch-of-...

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

To mark the centenary of radical poet, feminist & trade unionist Eva Gore-Booth, read @sonjatiernan.bsky.social's "Sex Is an Accident: Heterosexual Celibacy in the Political Writings of Eva Gore-Booth"; published in our special issue Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing! 🔗👉 www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/15...

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Gabriel Hankins @gabrielh.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Big Woolf news, critical edition of Flush-- this will be a great source for nonhuman relational thought in Woolf and modernism more generally. cup.org/4w8HjMS

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Flush | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Very cool to receive the physical copy of this year's Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature "Nonhuman Perspectives", including my chapter "Unveiling the Sky: Ecofeminist Revelations in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own"! 🌺

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Please join us for the launch of "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing", a new special issue dedicated to the untold history of Ireland's unmarried women James Joyce Centre Dublin, Fri 10 July 5pm Refreshments will be provided The event is free but booking is essential www.eventbrite.ie/e/launch-of-...

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Launch of Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing

Please join us for the launch of a new special issue and podcast series dedicated to the untold history of Ireland's unmarried women.

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

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Launch of Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing

Please join us for the launch of a new special issue and podcast series dedicated to the untold history of Ireland's unmarried women.

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The special collection & podcast will be launched by Prof. Katherine Ebury (incoming UCD James Joyce Chair) with additional remarks by the editor Paul Fagan (University of Vienna) and contributors Anne Fogarty (UCD), Maureen O'Connor (UCC), Deirdre Foley (TCD) and Fae McNamara (Teesside University)!

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Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Excited to receive✨️proofs✨️for my chapter on exploitations of nonhuman skins in At Swim, An Béal Bocht & Two in One via book production, clothing, taxidermy In "Flann O'Brien: Palimpsests, Translations, Intertexts", ed Anne Fogarty, Scott Hamilton, Erika Mihálycsa: out soon from @corkup.bsky.social!

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