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The XXX International James Joyce Symposium will be held in beautiful Kraków next June. See you there?! Here's the call for papers: conference.pais.edu.pl

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YouTube video by I'm Probably Wrong About Everything InnerViews#698 Richard Alan Barlow

Really enjoyed chatting about Joyce - and all sorts of other subjects - with Gerry Fialka on the ‘I’m Probably Wrong About Everything’ podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bytL...

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The XXX International James Joyce Symposium will be held in beautiful Kraków next June. See you there?! Here's the call for papers: conference.pais.edu.pl

Five smiling students in St Salvator's Quad at the University of St Andrews.

St Andrews top in Scotland and second in the UK in the @theguardian.com University Guide 2026 🎉

Maths, History, and International Relations take the top spot in the new rankings with a further 16 subjects ranking in the top 10 🎉

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Book Review: Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories 9th September 2025 Christopher Wogan, University of York Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories, ed. Richard Barlow and Paul Fagan (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) Published in 2024, the t…

✨"Fizzing with ideas, 'Finnegans Wake: Human and Nonhuman Histories' offers a revitalizing contribution to Wake studies"✨

Grateful to @woganchris.bsky.social + @modernistudies.bsky.social for this attentive & generous review of our 2024 collection!

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Looks great! Looking forward to reading it.

Read Scott Lyall's review of "Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms" by Richard Alan Barlow

It's free to read, #S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE in the new issue of @mfsjournal.bsky.social

The Quad and St Salvator's Chapel, University of St Andrews.

The Quad, University of St Andrews

St Andrews Castle

St Andrews Cathedral

Enjoying the summer break but I'm looking forward to next semester @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. Beautiful campus and town, brilliant students, and fantastic colleagues. @standrewsenglish.bsky.social

Finnegans Wake: untangling its histories of humans, the animal world and the environment In a time when our relationship with the natural world is an increasingly pressing issue, Finnegans Wake is as relevant now as it was a century ago

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Late Celticism in Irish and Scottish literature: binding ties This extract from Modern Irish and Scottish Literature explores two distinct eras of Celtic literary connections

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Thanks, Scott! Glad you liked it.

My review of Modern Irish and Scottish Literature by @richardalanbarlow.bsky.social is now published by @mfsjournal.bsky.social.

Richard's book is definitely worth a read if you are interested in modern Scottish and/or Irish literature, revivalism, and modernism.

muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

“extremely wide-ranging” and “rich and generative”
Tara Stubbs, Irish Studies Review: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epub/10....

May as well link some other reviews here!

“enquiries, analyses, elucidations and elaborations are always sharply focused, attentive, consistently revealing and sometimes startling” Alan Riach, Scottish Literary Review: muse.jhu.edu/pub/243/arti...

“literary analysis is always astute”
“valuable to researchers in the fields of modern Irish and Scottish literature, as well as to academic modernists”

Thanks to @scottlyall.bsky.social‬ for his review of Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Happy birthday! Have a good one.

Thanks, Kate! Think I've read enough writing in the style of Macleod...

Q&A with the editors of Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories - Edinburgh University Press Blog A Q&A with the editors of Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories, a new essay collection on the work of Irish author James Joyce.

✨Q&A with the editors of "Finnegans Wake: Human & Nonhuman Histories"✨

Richard Barlow and I answer your questions about our new volume of essays on non/human bodies & histories in James Joyce's enigmatic final work – available now from @edinburghup.bsky.social!
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I got that blog in me

Q&A with the editors of Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories - Edinburgh University Press Blog A Q&A with the editors of Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories, a new essay collection on the work of Irish author James Joyce.

@pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social and I did a Q and A on our new book for the @edinburghup.bsky.social blog: euppublishingblog.com/2025/04/11/q... @standrewsenglish.bsky.social

Description of Shadow Ticket, the new novel by Thomas Pynchon

New Pynchon in October!

Finnegans Wake: Human and Non-Human Histories This edited collection kindles anew a sense of awe at the extraordinary, totalising energies of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake and the multitude of worlds the novel evokes within, as well as keen admira...

“effervescent”, “sparkling”, “electric”, “a major achievement”!

I'm so grateful for @sharaerua.bsky.social's very positive and beautifully written review of "Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories" in Estudios Irlandeses!
📗@edinburghup.bsky.social

www.estudiosirlandeses.org/reviews/finn...

Finnegans Wake: Human and Non-Human Histories This edited collection kindles anew a sense of awe at the extraordinary, totalising energies of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake and the multitude of worlds the novel evokes within, as well as keen admira...

Many thanks to @sharaerua.bsky.social for her generous and perceptive review of Finnegans Wake - Human and Nonhuman Histories in Estudios Irlandeses: www.estudiosirlandeses.org/reviews/finn... @edinburghup.bsky.social @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social

Yes! Over in Limerick this week - think it's a couple of degrees warmer than St Andrews.

Congratulations! Looking forward to reading it. Hope you're well.

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Congratulations! Looking forward to reading it.

Poulnabrone dolmen, the Burren, County Clare, Ireland.

The Burren, County Clare, Ireland.

School of English, Castle House, University of St Andrews

St Andrews Castle

V and A Museum, Dundee

Thomond Park, Limerick

Hi everyone! This year I’m starting a new job @standrewsenglish.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social and a new role as a Trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation. I’ll be dividing my time between St Andrews, Dundee, and Limerick. Hope to see some of you around!