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George Moore, Confessions of a Young Man - Edited by Matthew Creasy Modern Humanities Research Association - George Moore, Confessions of a Young Man - Edited by Matthew Creasy

For the new edition, edited by @matthewcreasy.bsky.social, see here:
www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

‘I am feminine, morbid, perverse’ Virginia Woolf judged that the Irish novelist George Moore (1852–1933) was a more engaging memoirist than a writer of fiction. But although he produced several volumes of autobiography over the course...

'The youthful confessions of an Irish Decadent'
A nice piece in the TLS on George Moore's Confessions, inspired by the recent edition in our Jewelled Tortoise series 📗
www.the-tls.com/lives/autobi...

We’re delighted to shared details of this free, 1-day symposium, organised by our friends and colleagues @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social and Dr Lois Burke, on 12 Dec 2025.

Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/investigat....

More info here: www.swinc.englit.ed.ac.uk/investigatin....

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What's that, the four of cats, you say? ..

It's like we made our card game just for you!

So sorry to miss this medieval Ireland-themed event at @uofglasgow.bsky.social; a beautiful film, a brilliant talk by @dimitrafimi.bsky.social & an excellent new Book of Kells-inspired card-game from @matthewcreasy.bsky.social ... surely no better way to spend the evening on Thursday 9 October!

Join us this Thursday, 9 October, at @uofglasgow.bsky.social ARC to watch the beautifully animated film The Secret of Kells, with a talk on things Celtic and children’s fantasy by me, and a new card game devised by @matthewcreasy.bsky.social!
Book your free ticket👇
www.eventbrite.com/e/cinemarc-t...

This is what you’re listening to whilst you count down to the new Taylor Swift album, then?

Joint doctoral studentship as part of the DECADOCS project ‘Decadence in Translations: Translating for, and in French and British Periodicals, 1880-1914. Corpora, Translators, and Translational Aesthetics’ 🇫🇷 &🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Exciting opportunity to work on a PhD with me in Glasgow & Bénédicte Coste in France, on Decadence and Translation in Periodicals. Become part of 'Decadocs' - a Marie-Curie Joint Doctoral group. (Feel free to share with anyone you think would be interested).

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/375577

Oh that’s *your* pigeonloft on top of University Gardens

Just wanted to say thanks for a wonderful event yesterday. (Sorry I had to leave early). The people I met, talked to and played with were lovely and a lot of that is linked to the amazing work you do in building a fantastic sense of community - thank you!

This is just click-beeth

Nope - universities just can’t afford to keep the lights on at the moment.

@drdouglassmall.bsky.social you may like this, then…

**Deadline tomorrow!** A reminder of this opportunity at @uofglasgow.bsky.social for a Research & Teaching post in #CelticStudies, lasting almost 3 years.

Judge a book by its cover? Blanched Moore

I've caved and created a substack where I'll post bloggish things in relation to my critical edition of George Moore's 'Confessions of a Young Man' every Monday for the next few weeks.
open.substack.com/pub/matthewc...

Oh no - this is horrible news. Such a lovely and kind man.

Left side of image shows writer's old profile picture; right side of image shows writer's current profile - an aging man, strangely reminiscent of a figure from the Lord of the Rings movies

Went to get my photograph taken - my current profile picture dates from 18 years ago. Don't think I've changed much.

George Moore, Confessions of a Young Man - Edited by Matthew Creasy Modern Humanities Research Association - George Moore, Confessions of a Young Man - Edited by Matthew Creasy

The funny thing for me now is I didn't use half of the thoughts I put together in the blog for the introduction (you can get hold of the published book here: www.mhra.org.uk/publications...). So the posts are a window back into that weird period during COVID where I was trying to formulate my ideas

Perverse I've been putting off writing this post for a bit now. When I started this blog, I explained that I hoped to use the exercise of writing abo...

My edition of George Moore's Confessions of a Young Man is out with @themhra.bsky.social‬ and I've been posting links to some blogging I did back in 2021, as I drafted the introduction, including this long-ish ramble about the word 'perverse'

mooreconfessions.blogspot.com/2021/10/perv...

Who was George Moore? Previous posts discussed the plot (such as it is) and the autobiographical origins of  Confessions of a Young Man. So I'm hoping it is obvio...

Along the same lines - here's a blog post asking 'Who was George Moore' (in case you don't know who he is - or indeed why you should read my critical edition of his novel 'Confessions of a Young Man'):

mooreconfessions.blogspot.com/2021/06/who-...

What is 'Confessions of a Young Man'? In this post, I'll provide some basic information about Confessions of a Young Man - what it contains and what it is about. In my next post,...

During lockdown, I started assembling material for the introduction to my critical edition of George Moore's Confessions of a Young Man on a blog. I'll post a few links here, in case anyone is interested or wants a preview:

mooreconfessions.blogspot.com/2021/06/what...

I think I went to school with the one on the left in the first picture ...

George Moore, Confessions of a Young Man - Edited by Matthew Creasy Modern Humanities Research Association - George Moore, Confessions of a Young Man - Edited by Matthew Creasy

My edition of George Moore's "Confessions of a Young Man" is out! If you're interested in the findesiècle, Decadence, Symbolism, impressionism, artwriting, literary criticism, French culture, autobiography, auto fiction or smocks, you might like it ... or hate it...

www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Saturday afternoon game of #forbiddenpsalm and it is *not* going well for my warband (‘The Meaty Fights’). Emma the Demon and Red the Question have been downed. Daughter’s warband (‘The Guardians of Steve’) are doing better round the other side of the house, tho

📣 The latest book in our Jewelled Tortoise series is out!

'George Moore, "Confessions of a Young Man"', edited by Matthew Creasy (@matthewcreasy.bsky.social).

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Last Venetian lions (for now).

Still more Venetian lions

Still more Venetian lions