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Ellen McWilliams

@ellenmcwilliams.bsky.social

Writer and Academic West Cork to Blame for Any Views New Book: RESTING PLACES: ON WOUNDS, WAR AND THE IRISH REVOLUTION (Beyond the Pale Books) https://www.ellenmcwilliams.com/ Lecturer in English, University of Exeter https://english.exeter.ac.uk/staff/

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Exploring my IRA lineage was a challenge … then cancer hit me Ellen McWilliams enjoyed one of the biggest moments of her life when her book on revolutionary Ireland was published, before a devastating diagnosis

In yesterday's Sunday Times...

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Florence Lake, Manitoba
Mitchell Fenton
2016

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Hari Kunzru Reflects on Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism Thirty Years After Publication When Edward Said’s book, Orientalism, was published in 1978, it became an instant landmark of scholarship about the European imagination of β€œthe East.” The construction of an alternate world of pas…
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Thank you, Steve ❀️

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Breathe In
Erin Elizabeth Ross
2021

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And thank you β€ͺ@rabarr.bsky.social‬ ❀️

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A small enough worry from the cancer trenches, but cancelling book events planned for summer is a sorry thing.
Thank you, John Milton: 'Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...'.

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Thank you, Charles.

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When the Primary Cancer Diagnosis landed, writing about it seemed a ghoulish prospect, but after the Secondary Diagnosis β€” now I know this will be with me until the end of days β€” I plan to write a book: β€˜Battle Cry: On Cancer, Conflict, and the Writing Cure’.

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Just As You Said It Was
Kyle Sorensen
2025

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Happy Samuel Beckett’s birthday to all who celebrate ❀️

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Resting Places: On Wounds, War and the Irish Revolution (November 2023)

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The Land Sketch
Takao Tanabe
1973

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Attending this tonight, so I am! Looking forward to hearing both authors - @clairemitchell.bsky.social and @ellenmcwilliams.bsky.social - discuss their fantastic work.

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We will have more people to name, of course but lately these are the works that caught our attention.

@chrissyknightoc.bsky.social
@ellenmcwilliams.bsky.social
@annleydon.bsky.social
@marg50.bsky.social

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The MSPA is evidence of the birth of a new State and of the attitude of successive governments towards veterans. It also contains countless local stories. Each file contains more material to explore gender, local dynamics, histories of family and emotions, emigration...and so much more

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Whether research yields academic or public history work, we couldn't be happier that our archive @msp-archive.bsky.social enables names to be known and voices to be heard: women, dependants and whole families. A collection that can deliver so extensively on macro-history AND micro-histories is rare

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