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Paddy Brennan

@paddy-brennan.bsky.social

PhD student at the University of Liverpool's Institute of Irish Studies. Researching food consumption and self-starvation in 20th-21st century Irish fiction 🥔

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Had a lovely time talking to @scaredofcustard.bsky.social about my research last year.
(Nb. my Sally Rooney hot takes are now slightly out of date post-Intermezzo)

15.06.2025 13:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Had a great time at the AEDEI conference, 'The Uses and Abuses of Irishness,' presenting on starvation and cannibalism as metaphors in Irish fiction (whilst also receiving some wonderful Andalusian food and hospitality 💃)

01.06.2025 13:05 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Excited to be here for the opening of the AEDEI conference, 'The Uses and Abuses of Irishness,' at @unihuelva.bsky.social

28.05.2025 10:28 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Thoughtful Faces and Sleek Bodies | 14 | Thinness and the Politics of In a 2019 Irish Times article, Finn McRedmond criticises the work of Sally Rooney, arguing that her “wildly popular and accessible novels seem to glorify

Very pleased to say I have a chapter on thinness and the politics of consumption in The Routledge Companion to Sally Rooney - available today from (some) good retailers!
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

26.05.2025 09:28 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Delighted to have been awarded a BAIS bursary and highly commended in their essay prize. Congratulations to all the winners! 🥂

16.05.2025 07:46 — 👍 14    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

I'd love a copy of Gastro-Modernism, edited by Derek Gladwin. It's a really useful resource for my PhD on consumption and self-starvation in Irish fiction, so it'd be great to have a print copy

06.03.2025 15:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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