Maebh Long

Playing the Game: Brian O’Nolan’s Broadcast Media Positions This essay seeks to enrich and complicate the evermore detailed picture which we have of O'Nolan as a cross-media writer. In particular, this essay attends to the conversation between O’Nolan’s effort...

Elliott Mill's just-published article presents the complex experience of being a writer in the changing landscape of mass communication and entertainment in postwar Dublin. Check out his open-access work on O'Brien's multiple, contrasting perspectives on the radio here!

Lecturer - English Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandThe University of Auckland is New Zealand’s pre-eminent University, with a turnover of $1.1bn, including research revenue of over $...

Auckland university is hiring a Lecturer (that’s Assistant Prof for all you Americans) in English, specialising in the long nineteenth century, to a permanent position commencing before Semester 1, 2026 (or by negotiation). Focus is nineteenth century fiction - details below!

Thanks Sean!

Thanks Paul! We’re really looking forward to hanging out in November!

Thank you Susan!

Thank you!

Review of Sam Dolbear and Esther Leslie, <em>Dissonant Waves: Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the Twentieth Century</em> (Goldsmiths Press, 2023) Dissonant Waves tells the life story of Ernst Schoen, a pioneer of early radio and the Leader of the Programming Department at Südwestdeutsche Rundfunkdienst AG (SWZ), the Frankfurt regional radio sta...

Einat Adar reviews 'Dissonant Waves', Sam Dolbear and Esther Leslie’s monograph on Ernst Schoen, pioneer of early radio. Available open access now in the Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies 9.1!

We are hugely honoured to have won the 2025 MSA Book Prize for The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses and Modernism. Thank you to everyone involved. It was a huge joy to work on such a wonderful period in Pacific writing.

I do like the fact it has Irish subtitles, though. Reading those distract from how bad it is!

CFP: ISAANZ 27 | Health, Wellness and Care 31 July 2025. Submissions are invited for ISAANZ 27 Health, Wellness and Care. As the emergency measures of the pandemic fade into memory, but the virus transitions into an endemic part of our medi…

Registration for the Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand conference is now live! Join us in Dunedin in November for excellent papers and discussion.

A quick reminder that The Parish Review is open to all, saor in aisce.

The Cover for 9.1 Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies features a cartoon by Micheal O Nuallain. It shows a man under a tree about to smash a radio with an axe.

The first article in the Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies 9.1 is out! Zan Cammack’s work is great start to the issue on Flann and the Radio, which features a truly excellent cover. A+ work guest editors @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social and Joseph LaBine!

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Sonic Materiality in Brian O’Nolan’s Fiction This article argues that Brian O’Nolan’s fiction consistently stages sound as a material force, one that becomes most tangible at the moment of its mediation. Drawing on theories of sonic materiality ...

Zan Cammack’s article on Flann O’Brien’s comic engagements with the acoustic environment of early twentieth-century Ireland is OUT NOW! in the Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies. On air twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, do not adjust your dials! 📻

CFP: ISAANZ 27 | Health, Wellness and Care 31 July 2025. Submissions are invited for ISAANZ 27 Health, Wellness and Care. As the emergency measures of the pandemic fade into memory, but the virus transitions into an endemic part of our medi…

Registration for the Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand conference is now live! Join us in Dunedin in November for excellent papers and discussion.

So wonderful to be in conversation with our 2025 Writing Fellow at the Centre of Irish and Scottish Studies. Nicole Flattery shared excellent insights into her works and we got an advance peak into her forthcoming novel! Thanks as always to Dunedin City Library and UNESCO Dunedin City of Literature

Ooh, amazing news, Wendy! Well done you!

Thank you, Liam! Great energy from the crowd too. Glad you got a copy of the books - they sold out!

Write Spot with Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature - Otago Access Radio Write Spot takes a look at how our city is embracing its City of Literature status with Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature director Nicky Page and Special Guests.

I so enjoyed chatting with the wonderful Nicole Flattery on Write Spot. Thanks to the great team at OAR and Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature!

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It’s always a good time to have your books professionally handled. Beware amateurs or biblioquacks who can leave your books stressed and their plots in array.

Thank you so much, Liam! We’re honoured to be shortlisted!

Robert Sullivan confirmed as new Poet Laureate The National Library - Te Puna Maa-tauranga O Aotearoa - has just announced Robert Sullivan will take over as Poet Laureate.

I'm so delighted to hear that Robert Sullivan (Ngāpuhi, Kāi Tahu) has been confirmed as the new Poet Laureate. Robert is a brilliant poet and we're lucky to have him as one of the keynote speakers at our Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand conference. Comhghairdeas Robert, ka pai!

Holding the book "The Rise of Pacific Literature" by Maebh Long and Matthew Hayward in front of a tree with green apples

. @maebhlong.bsky.social & Matthew Hayward trace the rise of #PacificLiterature in the 1960s & 1970s in anti-colonial teaching at the University of Papua New Guinea & the University of the South Pacific, taking inspirations from a variety of influences, esp global #Modernism s

#IndigenousPeoplesDay

I had wet calves for about a decade…

A Conversation with Nicole Flattery: CISS Irish Writers Fellow — NB: August '25 Ali catches up with Nicole Flattery, the University of Otago’s Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies Irish Writers Fellow, ahead of her fellowship in August.

Lovely conversation between Nicole Flattery, the 2025 Irish Writing Fellow at the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, Uni of Otago, and Ali Boyne, of Dunedin Public Libraries. There will be a public event at the Library later in August - watch this space!

Death Notice of Breandán Ó Conaire (Portmarnock, Dublin) | rip.ie The death has occurred of Breandán Ó Conaire of Portmarnock, Dublin Ireland, on 21/07/2025. You can view the full death notice and add your condolences here.

The International Flann O’Brien Society is sad to hear of the death of Breandán Ó Conaire. In addition to research on Flann O’Brien, Breandán conducted important work on Tomás Ó Criomhthain, Seán Ó Ríordáin, Máirtín Ó Cadhain and Douglas Hyde. We mourn him and the loss to his family and community.

MARS | Galway International Arts Festival Four astronauts and an AI software interface are cooped up in the cabin of a space-craft for nine months on a mission to Mars.

If you’re at the Galway Arts Festival make sure you go to Mars, a stunning opera about colonisation, tech bros, natalist movements and tradwives. I’ve never seen anything quite like it - it’s brilliant and funny and visually arresting. #speirgorm

newsprint photo. 8 young women are kneeling down and hold up signs that spell out "The Potato Eight", each is in a matching gymanstic outfit. Behind them is an art deco swimming pavilion.

"The Potato Eight". 🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔
These "glamour girls" of the Potato Marketing Board toured British seaside resorts in summer 1939 to promote eating potatoes as a route to health and efficiency and "overturn old fashioned notions about the potato being taboo for the woman who wants to keep her figure" 🤸

CFP: ISAANZ 27 | Health, Wellness and Care 31 July 2025. Submissions are invited for ISAANZ 27 Health, Wellness and Care. As the emergency measures of the pandemic fade into memory, but the virus transitions into an endemic part of our medi…

Get your abstracts in! Join the amazing abstracts already submitted, the fantastic keynotes lined up from Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social, Ida Milne @idamilne.bsky.social and Robert Sullivan and an author talk from the great Emma Donoghue @emmadonoghue.bsky.social

I used to love Weezer, but even in the mid 90s this was too much:

‘I want a girl who will laugh for no one else
When I'm away, she puts her make-up on the shelf
When I'm away, she never leaves the house…’

I remember some of my male friends at the time thinking the lyrics were wholly relatable…

Yes, that is a real oversight