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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

10 months

Delighted to spot my book in the wild in the "General Irish History" section @Hodges_Figgis Dublin

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Mary Burke

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2 years

@lostinhist0ry the saddest part is when the books disappear

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Mary Burke

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1 year

@BudrykZack lord, but actress Olwen Fouéré really looks like Gibson in her recent film on that event

Violet Gibson, the Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini (2020) ⭐ 7.5 | Documentary, Drama

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

7 months

US public radio has called Shane McGowan "Anglo-Irish" today. @NPR : That doesn't mean what you think it does

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

11 months

context : At the Pope's massive Youth Mass in Ireland, he was introduced by bishop Eamonn Casey. The high-profile Casey resigned suddenly in May 1992 after it was revealed that he'd fathered a son. Sinéad's SNL event was only 5 months later. It perplexed America, but not Ireland

Not the RTÉ News

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RIP Sinead O'Connor x

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Mary Burke

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TODAY is US release of "Race, Politics & Irish America: A Gothic History" Shelf shows its central figures. Thanks @Jack_McNichol @OUPAcademic & esp. @JacNorton for her crucial EARLY support! Also for support & scholarship of...

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

1 year

W.B. Yeats born OTD in 1865. Still inspiring Korean sunscreen manufacturers

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Mary Burke

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"Critical Inquiries Into Irish Studies" (Seton Hall University) seeks submissions on Irish Diaspora, Immigration & Emigration. 350-word abstracts by 8/10/23 and 3000-5000-word finished essays by 10/1/23. Email: elizabeth.redwine @shu .edu #IrishStudies #Immigration

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

10 months

Sybil Connolly did bring cloaks back in the 1950s!

beebsymca.bsky.social

@BeebsyMcA

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Bring these back. Would totally wear.

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Mary Burke

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@rebeccalehmann That’s a great story. I once taught Dubliners to a mostly STEM class of mostly first gen immigrant kids of color and they responded so strongly to Joyce and reveled in the chance to read for pleasure

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

2 years

Jack-O-Lantern carved from a turnip at Mayo's National Museum of Ireland - Country Life. From 1903, when Hallowe'en was genuinely scary

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

4 months

Recycled Yeats: there are poets I could name..

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

2 years

Dublin street sign. 'Caorach' means 'sheep' in Irish, but the English rendering gives 'ship.' Anyone know if pronunciation is at play here or if there's another story?

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

2 years

My neighbor filled an ornament with minis of my new book 'Race & Irish America' & its topics: Frank Yerby, Fitzgerald, Grace Kelly, Kennedys, Margaret Mitchell & O'Neill. Magic!

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

3 months

Nothing is tougher than a New England daffodil

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

3 months

Famous Irish cricketer Samuel Beckett, born OTD. (It's a little-known fact that he also wrote plays.) @cricketireland

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

5 months

The Consul General gives terrific support to Irish Studies and Irish writers in the northeast. It was an honor to have her in attendance

Irish Consulate NYC

@IrelandinNY

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Consul General Helena Nolan joined the James Joyce Society for their annual Joyce birthday event in a captivating evening and lecture run by Professor Mary M. Burke, delving into her book 'Race, Politics & Irish America; A Gothic History' at The Morgan Library. 📚

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

1 year

This is TOTALLY about my new book, right Ireland?

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

6 months

"Posh Dunnes"? God, I've been out of Ireland a long time

Cork Beo

@corkbeo

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Crowds are great in the city centre for the last minute shopping but we are hearing the Posh Dunnes in Bishopstown is 'mental' so be prepared - and stay safe out there!

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

6 months

first snow

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

1 year

Extract from my book in today's Irish Times! Thank you @MartinDoyleIT "How Grace Kelly became an unlikely icon of Irish-American assimilation"

How Grace Kelly became an unlikely icon of Irish-American assimilation

The ascension of a Catholic Irish-American to princess paved the way for the Irish to be accepted as American ‘royalty’

www.irishtimes.com

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

2 years

about time

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

2 years

@drreznicek plus, you know, women being able to vote now and all that

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

11 months

@RareIrishStuff old school breathalyzer for the lads before they all piled into the one Ford Cortina

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

1 year

Thanks to @MylesDungan1 for his erudite keynote on Ireland's "Last Land War" & his gracious launch of my @OUPAcademic "Race, Politics & Irish America" at @CianTMcMahon & @spanglerSF 's fab #ACIS2023 Matt's wine choices for the launch was a cut above too!

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

5 months

Priest supply catalogue came in the mail. Irish Studies scholar marketing drive?

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

1 year

Sent a friend pics of my repainted dining room & now she tells me I must host a #StPatricksDay party there

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

1 year

Second print run now in stock @OUPAcademic "AAFLYG6" for 30% off

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

2 years

£17.40 / $24.50 code AAFLYG6 at

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

1 year

Hono(u)red to speak on my book @princetonarts April 21. Thanks to FIS @fotoole @OWC_Oxford

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

9 months

Belfast humo(u)r - note the lettuce

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

1 year

For James Joyce's birthday, here's Fitzgerald's conflicted take on_Ulysses: “there is something about middle-class Ireland that...gives me a sort of hollow, cheerless pain. Half of my ancestors came from just such an Irish strata...It makes me feel appallingly naked.”

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

1 year

$21 until Jan 19 w code EXMLA23 @ ; £15 /€ 17 @ w same code. Free ship from @OUPAcademic to US, UK, IE. Hard copies in image are @Hodges_Figgis

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

2 years

Opened what seemed merely a blue bottle last night. It was BLUE sparkling wine & tasted like Skittles. A disconcerting end to 2022

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

5 months

Charles Lamb, Northern Irish/Galway illustrator of Cré na Cille (1949). His "Lough Neagh Fisherman" (1920)

Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

5 months

Feb 5 (Mon): I'll speak at @MorganLibrary (NYC) on "Race & Language in Ireland from Joyce to Ó Cadhain" 6:00pm. RSVP:

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

1 year

Race, Politics & Irish America' CONTENTS 1 Towards Scots-Irish Gothic 2 Closeted Irish: Henry James 3 How the Irish Became Red: O'Neill & Fitzgerald 4 Complicit Irishness: Yerby, Mitchell, & Faulkner 5 White Wedding: Grace Kelly Epilogue: Kennedy Gothic

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

8 months

So happy to be in "Christmas & the Irish"!

Salvador Ryan

@SalvadorRyan

8 months

The official launch of “Christmas and the Irish: a Miscellany” will take place in the Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, on Thursday 30 November at 6:30pm. Please RSVP Wordwell Press (details on the invite) if you would like to attend. And do spread the word! 🎄 🎅

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

11 months

If Mimi isn't parked on my keyboard, she's parked on what I need to read

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

2 years

@djbduncan amateurs

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

1 year

Looking forward to speaking at #ACIS2023 @SJSU on @TrampPress panel with Tara Harney, @JFennellAuthor @_cheafey @sistermmm & on "Race, Politics & Irish America" on new work on Irish America panel w. Beth Anish @TedSmyth @AneliseHShrout & Matt O'Brien

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

1 year

For #Bloomsday share something from your bookshelf. "Our Friend James Joyce" (Doubleday, 1958)

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

6 months

Gift from Ireland. Perfect for serving tea to the New England neighbors

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

3 months

Swapped out the Irish wool for the Irish linen now that the sun is finally out

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

5 months

Hmmm...

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

1 year

A nice find in Princeton's @labyrinth_books ahead of my talk today

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

10 months

Frank Yerby, a best-selling Black Irish-American author who wrote back to Margaret Mitchell- -was planning a San Patricios novel in his final years

A Black Irish-American rejoinder to Gone With The Wind: Frank Yerby’s The Foxes of Harrow

"The Foxes of Harrow" (1946), a Southern historical romance by Black Irish-American author Frank Yerby (1916–1991), writes back to Margaret Mitchell’s bestselling novel, "Gone with the Wind" (1936)....

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The Irish at War

@irelandbattles

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#OnThisDay 1847 Thirty Irish men from the San Patricios Battalion were hanged by the US Army following the Battle of Chapultepec, in view of their allies. These men had deserted the US Army for various reasons to aid Mexico in their struggle. #Ireland #History @IrishEmbMexico

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

1 year

IMO Elizabeth Bowen (b. Feb 22) & George Moore (b Feb 24): "It seemed to huddle its trees close in fright and amazement at the wide light lovely unloving country, the unwilling bosom whereon it was set." Words: The Last September; image: Moore Hall

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

1 year

My @Columbia Irish Seminar @ 7:45pm Fri Feb 3 @ Faculty House, 400 W. 117 is on movie studios' packaging of Grace Kelly as WASP & her family's ethnic roots, as explored in the drama of George Kelly, her uncle. From ‘Race, Politics & Irish America’

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

10 months

One of the many haunting details in Molly Hennigan's extract on an institutionalized great-grandmother is the family resemblance

Martin Doyle

@MartinDoyleIT

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My great-grandmother Sissy is a figment of my imagination but I know she existed - “There’s nothing left of her, only the history of her context and us, now. Becoming acquainted with her through a reading of the psychiatric history of Ireland is jarring”

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

1 year

Back in the day, photographers used to just grab any random passing Irish dad for Aran (Aranish) sweater models. #StPatricksDay attire

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

1 year

disturb the nap or forget about opening the laptop today?

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

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start of semester vibe

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

10 months

Title: "Lamb of Godot." FunArtPortrait card sent by a former student who loves #SamuelBeckett

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

2 years

Fitzgerald died OTD. 2021 photo shared by Eileen McGuckian, Rockville historian & cemetery guide. I explore his probable & critically unexamined Irish paternal ancestry in colonial America in 'Race & Irish America':

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

2 years

Our Festivus-ish tree. Orange glass baubles pass as fruit if you squint hard enough

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

1 year

"James Joyce Quarterly"'s @seanplatham allowed a dedication on the article I was finalizing when my father died as dad's love of lore inspired it. Lovely to have our names together in print. #FathersDay2023

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

4 months

mad google search prompt re: a 5th-century saint

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

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Wee nephew is in @HodgesFiggis Dublin & has just texted proof of facing out my book ()!

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

1 year

So happy to see the names of other contributors this week! My chapter is on #JamesJoyce & Women's Christmas/ Nollaig na mBan

Salvador Ryan

@SalvadorRyan

1 year

It’s never too early to think of the perfect #Christmas gift. Here’s one possibility for all who love #Irish history & culture. “Christmas and the Irish”. Coming in October 2023. Ho, ho, ho! 🎅

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@DrMaryBurke

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William Carleton died in Dublin OTD. His Preface and subtitle for "The Black Prophet" (1847), a novel with an 1817 famine backdrop, is explicit about its objectives:

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

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Making trifle today for eating Dec 25. One day's marinating (boozy fruit+custard+cream+sponge) seems too little...Thoughts?

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

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J.S. Le Fanu (of “Carmilla” fame) died in Dublin OTD. He'd have enjoyed the insinuation of “active” here.

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@DrMaryBurke

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"Swate" Irish "beauty" 19th-century US comic valentine (it was a genre). Reproduced in

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

1 year

Trail of long-ago Thoreau-Emerson walk. Imagine Irish equivalents: a Yeats-Gregory Coole Park Stroll, a Bowen-Welty Ramble in the Demesne, a Behan-Donleavy Stagger Home at Dawn

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

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Jan 6 #womenschristmas #NollaignamBan -when housewives rested after the season & partied together-is the setting of Joyce’s “The Dead,” which audits the busyness & abstemiousness of women on what should’ve been a day of rest/fun. See my JJQ article:

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

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Lovely surprise in @Banshees_Movie / Banshees of Inisherin to see an old friend, Lasairfhíona Ní Chonaola @Aransinger , play the pub singer. More of her wonderful voice here:

Bean Phaidin, Lasairfhiona Ni Chonaola

As said in the title.

www.youtube.com

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

4 months

Poe stares in the hotel bathroom #NEMLA24 @northeastMLA . Unsettling

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

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Best package in the new semester mail pile, @miriam9grey !

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

1 year

@elizabhinton @AmHistReview wonderful. In a similar vein, NYT has also begun to publish - for the first time - the obituaries of long-dead women who made massive contributions (incl Ida B. Wells) but whose passing was not formally marked when they died.

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

1 year

Tomorrow I'll speak @AmLit_ALA on the Caribbean as the primal site of African-Irish history in O'Neill. Drawn from

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

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@SmoothDunk @SeanBurkeShow he has two teen sons he must not talk to at all

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

1 year

Because laptops are famously comfortable to snooze upon

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

2 years

The first snow of the season is the prettiest

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

8 months

Look what's out!

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

4 months

Registration link:

SSNCI: C19th Ireland

@SSNCI_tweets

5 months

We are delighted to announce that Prof. Mary Burke @DrMaryBurke will give our annual lecture on ‘Gothic: Undead Irish-American histories’!! 7pm (Irish time) 13 March 2024. Book a (free) ticket here For more see

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

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Among those covering the 1953 coronation were Elizabeth Bowen (for July Vogue) & a less experienced journalist with Washington Times-Herald called Jacqueline Bouvier. Details in

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

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When I put the Robovac on at night in a closed room, I turn on the light. On some level I obviously think he's sentient, probably because we call him "Dusty" and he has pronouns

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

2 years

@fitzfromdublin that weird Dublin thing whereby imported businesses considered pedestrian on their home turf are considered desirable

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

5 months

one of the most under-appreciated 20thc Irish poets?

Boris Dralyuk

@BorisDralyuk

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The Irish poet Richard Murphy (1927-2018), whose archive is at @utulsa , where he taught in the ’90s, stopped me cold with this lyric of exploitation and cooptation. Notice how its polished iambic pentameter lines rest on beds of trimeter that look to have been gutted for parts.

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

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Virginia Woolf BOTD. The dead are unfinished business in Joyce's story of that name, but in _Lighthouse_they're irrelevant to Lily: “But the dead,…oh, the dead! she murmured, one pitied them, one brushed them aside, one had even a little contempt for them.”

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

1 year

Mimi so knows that she improves the composition of any photo

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

2 years

Deepest thanks to @AidanJBeatty @LeabhairNua @NewBooksNetwork for the great conversation about

New Books in Irish Studies

@LeabhairNua

2 years

Talking about race, the Scots-Irish and Gothic literature with @DrMaryBurke

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

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Found out where Bill-Bill was napping when I looked for a pan

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

2 years

@Katiadower Anyone else remember Nell's late night weekend RTE 'Dear Susters' segment..'Nighthawks' maybe? I was young and green but immediately felt spoken to directly for the first time ever

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

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@SeanBurkeShow make it in pink and double the price and, hey presto, its a laydeez razor

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Mary Burke

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"For those of us who struggle with the contradictions of being Irish-American...Mary Burke’s book is essential reading." Thank you, Princeton, NJ reviewer!

Race, Politics, and Irish America — Princeton Public Library

Race, Politics, and Irish America — Burke, Mary (Mary M.), — Considers three centuries of writers and creatives of mostly Scots-Irish and post-Famine Irish descent whose work examines moments of...

princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

2 years

The absence of women and girls in public space in such old footage never fails to astound

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

2 years

@philistella That's me decided - I am doing all my zoom calls by candlelight from now on

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

2 years

"Spine tower bookshelf" is the search phrase. 12 shelves, free-standing & holds 65 books

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

5 months

Feb 5 (Mon): I'll speak at @MorganLibrary (NYC) on "Race & Language in Ireland from Joyce to Ó Cadhain" 6:00pm. RSVP:

James Joyce Society (New York)

@JoyceSocietyNY

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Join us Feb. 5 at the @MorganLibrary for Mary Burke's talk ""Mixed: Race and Language in Ireland from Joyce to Ó Cadhain." RSVP link coming soon.

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The bestselling card among the "bookish teen set," according to the bookstore staff member

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

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American grocery store find

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@DrMaryBurke

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The best books about Irish-American identity

Mary M. Burke shares the 5 best books on Irish American identity. Have you read The Great Gatsby?

shepherd.com

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

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Have the uncanny feeling there's something behind the curtains

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

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why choosing paint colo(u)rs is maddening

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Mary Burke

@DrMaryBurke

1 year

UK tweeps: 'Race, Politics & Irish America: A Gothic History' is £15 w. code below!

Jack McNichol

@Jack_McNichol

1 year

If you haven't found us yet at #MLA23 , the @OUPAcademic stand is in the far corner of the exhibition space, so don't give up! And if you're here or not, use code EXMLA23 online for 40% off and free shipping @OWC_Oxford