Mikelyn Rochford

Sinners more like Winners

One Award After Another

ECR double header with Mikelyn Rochford (University of York) and Paddy Brennan (University of Liverpool)

So very excited to present at Senate House on Thursday along with @paddy-brennan.bsky.social - come around if you're in London! I'll be talking about Pádraic Ó Conaire's amazingly bizarre & fun novella Exile and metafictionality. @ies-sas.bsky.social

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Fellow Irish Studies postgrads!! Do this!!!

If you’re in London on 19 Feb!

I'm excited to be presenting on the late, great Edna O'Brien in her adopted home city later this month.
Also looking forward to hearing from @mikelyn.bsky.social on Pádraic Ó Conaire

“I took the left turn for eternity”: otherworlds, afterlives, and discursive storytelling traditions in Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman and Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Graveyard Clay This essay explores Flann O’Brien’s posthumously published The Third Policeman (1967) and Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s 1949 Irish language novel Cré na Cille (Graveyard Clay) through their use of literary o...

The 2025 BAIS Essay Prize winner, written by Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social is now available to read on Irish Studies Review!
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Happy 40th birthday to one of my favorite albums of all-time, Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love 💜

Now that it’s in print, if you’re feeling like reading about two of my favorites (O’Brien & Ó Cadhain) and their wild wild stories, check out my little article in Irish Studies Review 🚲🪦

Thanks a ton!! 🙏

Thank you all!!! ✨✨✨

Fantastic to see Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social win the British Association for Irish Studies @bairishstudies.bsky.social essay prize for her challenge to the ways 'narrative theory has conceived of afterlife stories as unnatural, oppositional, or dependent on a privileged realist norm'

Belated, but what a good time the @flannobriensoc.bsky.social conference in Strabane was 🚲

‘Our own good Editor’: Brian O’Nolan, Niall Montgomery and the Drafts of the Cruiskeen Lawn Although the Niall Montgomery papers housed at the National Library of Ireland shows that Montgomery contributed to the Cruiskeen Lawn, researchers without access to Dublin have been unable to identif...

💥New publication alert!💥 "‘Our own good Editor’: Brian O’Nolan, Niall Montgomery and the Drafts of the Cruiskeen Lawn" by @maebhlong.bsky.social, @jessiepb.bsky.social & Marie Theunisz out now! Check their article out for new insights into the co-authorship of Cruiskeen Lawn.

It makes me feel better about the state of the world to know that at this moment people are gathering to talk about Flann O’Brien. (No doubt as truly true Gaelic Gaels who speak in true Gaelic Gaelic about the truly Gaelic language.)

Strabane has been putting up with an influx of Flanneurs with exceptional patience and hospitality

Read the superb programme for the 8th International Flann O’Brien Conference, this week in Strabane!
With talks on diverse aspects of "Home, Heritage & Origins" in O'Brien's writing; screenings; exhibitions & tours of O'Brien's home town
Registration & schedule👉 www.alley-theatre.com/whats-on/25-...

Hello to Strabane and hello to the one and only Brian O’Nolan 👋

Dolly Parton

Fiancé decided to join me on my upcoming Ryanair flight to Belfast and got dropkicked from the seat next to me at the very last minute due to a tech glitch. Got on social media and this is the first thing I saw 🤣

Footage of Bloomsday - June 16, 1954 (50 years after the events of Ulysses). Celebrated by Brian O’Nolan (Flann O’Brien), Patrick Kavanagh, Anthony Cronin, John Ryan, Tom Joyce, & Con Leventhal. Started at the Martello tower and didn’t get far. Happy Bloomsday!!

Love when the pals win together 🤝

big fan of BAIS ✨✨✨

Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez visited my home (red) state of Montana on their Fighting Oligarchy tour today. They filled the stadium with a crowd of 7,500 and an overflow of 1,500. Nearing 1% of Montana’s population.

And by this I mean a UFO, not rural Montana.

Ah cool - would love to know what you think of it!

Cosmic Mind at Play by The Paisleys (1970). Psychedelic garage rock from the Midwest.

PJ Harvey’s White Chalk (2007). I love all the PJ eras (she never misses for me) but this one had a sound I particularly really love.