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Coming June 2026!

Pre-order Sally Rooney: Perspectives and Approaches and rally behind Bucknell University Press, a press with a long history of supporting criticism on Irish women's writing.

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We launched Body Politics and The Dark at Glucksman Ireland House last week!
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Postgraduate scholarship applications for IASIL in Budapest are now open. Scholarship deadline is March 1, 2026. Conference is July 6-10, 2026.

Please encourage all PhD students to apply!

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Body Politics in Contemporary Irish Women's Fiction will launch at Glucksman Ireland House NYU November 13, 7pm.

Anna Teekell and I will also launch The Dark that same evening.

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Body Politics: www.bloomsbury.com/us/body-poli...

The Dark:
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Obituary for Sarah "Sally" Estelle Scheible at Brinsfield Funeral Home, P.A. Sarah Sally Estelle Scheible, 82, of Ridge, Maryland passed away peacefully, but not without a fight, on August 17, 2025. Her loving family was by her side, holding her hand. Born April 30, 1943, in L...

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We launched The Dark: A Critical Edition at the IASIL - the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures conference in Galway today. Nine years start to finish! We missed you, Anna❤️ @syracuseup.bsky.social

You can order a copy here:
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Amazing way to start a conference. Excellent new work on Sally Rooney by fabulous graduate students. Honored to be cited! #IASIL #universityofgalway

Lunchtime Book Launch: Barry Devine and Ellen Scheible: "Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century" — James Joyce Society Please join the James Joyce Society for our latest installment in our Lunchtime Launch Series : Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century , edited by Barry Devine and Ellen Scheible This ...

Barry Devine and I will be launching Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century on Friday, December 12 from 12:30-2pm online via Zoom. Thanks to the James Joyce Society, New York for sponsoring the event. Please join us! #jamesjoyce

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New Books in Irish Studies Podcast · New Books Network · Interviews with Scholars of Ireland about their New Books

Anna and I were interviewed by Helen Penet for New Books Network to discuss The Dark: A Critical Edition!

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You can order the new US edition here:
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Coming soon for folks outside of the US! #johnmcgahern @syracuseup.bsky.social

LGBT National Help Center has been around for 30 years and isn’t going anywhere. They were the first LGBT hotline in the US. They are not federally funded and are not mandated reporters so they don’t report to authorities.

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If you are interested in purchasing a copy of our critical edition of McGahern's The Dark, the discount code 05SUN25 will get you 40% off and is good until July 15.
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@syracuseup.bsky.social Anna Teekell and I have a teaching guide for The Dark coming out soon! This will make the essays in our critical edition available to international scholars and students.

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@seveneccles.bsky.social @floridapress.bsky.social Barry Devine and I are pleased to announce that Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century is available for preorder from the University Press of Florida! #jamesjoyce #teachingjamesjoyce #modernism

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Amazon is an albatross and I respect anyone's boycott. That said, if you feel up to it, please follow me as an Amazon author. You can search my name and click on one of my books to get to my author profile. Ironically, it helps share knowledge of academic work. Thank you♥️♥️ #irishstudies #feminist

I co-lead a reading group on Joyce's Ulysses at the @worcesterartmuseum.bsky.social To celebrate the museum is hosting a Bloomsday event on Sunday, June 15. The schedule is exciting and has many events for children. Please bring your families! #ulysses #jamesjoyce

Body Politics in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction Exploring twentieth- and twenty-first century texts that wrestle with the Irish domestic interior as a sexualized and commodified space, this book provides read…

Thank you so much for keeping Body Politics on the Amazon top-100 best seller list for twentieth-century literary criticism! (Amazon is looking for reviews if anyone is interested.) The book is discounted on the Bloomsbury website. @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social #sallyrooney #tanafrench #emmadonoghue

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Irish Cultural Heritage Day Irish Cultural Heritage Day! On\nThursday, April 3, from 4:30-7pm in the Heritage Room of the Maxwell Library,\njoin the Irish Studies Program for the official unveiling of the Dr. Charles\nFanning Irish Studies and Poetry Collection, followed by Royalty: Grace\nKelly, the Kennedys, and Irish-American Assimilation with Professor Mary M.\nBurke, University of Connecticut, and Irish music with the Lindsays. \n\nThe event will begin with the official unveiling of the Dr.\nCharles Fanning Irish Studies and Poetry Collection. Dr. Fanning was a\nmember of the English faculty at BSU before becoming the Director of Irish\nStudies at Southern Illinois University. One of the country's leading scholars\non Irish-American Studies, he has written extensively on the Irish-American\nexperience in literature and history. His well-received book, The Irish\nVoice in America, has been a foundational resource of other Irish-American\nStudies scholars, including our guest speaker, Professor Mary Burke.\n\nMary\nBurke is a Professor of English and the Irish Literature Concentration\nCoordinator at the University of Connecticut. Her work has been placed with\nNPR, the Irish Times, RTÉ, and Faber. Professor Burke is a Former University\nof Notre Dame Irish Institute NEH Fellow, MLA Irish Literature Committee chair,\nand a 2022 Trinity College Dublin LHR Fellow. She is a graduate of TCD and\nQueen’s University Belfast. Her book,\n Race,\nPolitics, and Irish America: A Gothic History, will be\navailable to purchase.\n\nAfter Professor Burke’s talk, the Lindsays will\nperform Irish music. The\nLindsays blend instruments, rhythms, and textures. Susan plays sax, Irish\nflute, and whistle, and Stephen, a native of Dublin, Ireland, plays guitar and\nsings. They add upright bass, fiddle, accordion, and a variety of world\npercussion instruments.\n\nOpen to the BSU community and the public.

Hono(u)red to speak at unveiling of eminent scholar of Irish America Prof. Charles Fanning’s Bridgewater State U archive. Thanks @ellenscheible.bsky.social & Orson Kingsley for invite
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Ellen Scheible, "Body Politics in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction: The Literary Legacy of 'Mother Ireland'" (Bloomsbury, 2025) by New Books in Irish Studies An interview with Ellen Scheible

@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interviewed me!

There’s nothing elitist about college or university. We should reject that idea | Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti Higher education institutions continue to function as powerful engines of social mobility. They need more, not less, support

There’s nothing elitist about college or university. We should reject that idea | Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti

I'm putting together a list of attorneys who might be willing to help folks detained at airports on the east coast, but predominantly Logan since we live in Massachusetts. If you have a name to add to the list, please message me. #immigrationlaw #defenseattorney

Just finished an interview with Helen Penet from @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about my book, Body Politics in Contemporary Women's Fiction! Look for it soon!

Book launches at the American Conference for Irish Studies! @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social @syracuseup.bsky.social

Save the date for spring Irish Cultural Heritage Day at BSU: April 3, 4:30 pm, Maxwell Library Heritage Room.

Highlights include an unveiling of our new Charles Fanning collection and a talk by @maryburke.bsky.social on Grace Kelly and the Kennedys. I hope to see you there!

Judge Halts DOGE Access to Treasury Payment Systems The order came in response to a lawsuit filed by 19 attorneys general accusing the president of failing to faithfully execute the nation’s laws when he let DOGE comb through federal computer systems.

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