Call for participants
If you speak Scottish Gaelic, Scots, and/or Shaetlan, you are invited to share your experiences, knowledge, and perspectives. This research will contribute to reversing language decline and strengthening linguistic diversity across Europe
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That explains why there were so many Hibs supporters on my flight from Shannon to Edinburgh the other day...
Out now in Paperback!
"Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories"
Edited by Paul Fagan & Richard Barlow
Available from Edinburgh University Press
(📸 by my mum!)
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A paperback copy of Finnegans Wake - Human and Nonhuman Histories, edited by Richard Barlow and Paul Fagan (Edinburgh University Press, 2024, 2026).
Now available in paperback: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-finnega...
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@standrewsenglish.bsky.social #JamesJoyce
More (practical) info on this event here: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/peter...
Yes. The Wild Irish Girl is very funny
Hi all, my contract at LMU ends this month and I don't have any options lined up. I know that many of us are in the same situation, but if you hear of any opportunities or projects you think I might be suited to (doesn't have to be in academia) please send me a message or comment below. Thanks!
Here is the link to the standalone page of Jinan Ashraf's review of "Finnegans Wake – Human and Non-Human Histories", a collection of essays that @richardalanbarlow.bsky.social and I edited for @edinburghup.bsky.social
Read it here: www.estudiosirlandeses.org/reviews/finn...
"ground-breaking ... comprehensive and wide-ranging ... invites readers and scholars to reconsider the untapped potential of Wake studies.."
Grateful to Jinan Ashraf for reviewing "Finnegans Wake - Human and Nonhuman Histories" for Estudios Irlandeses!
🔗👉 www.estudiosirlandeses.org/wp-content/u...
“Joyce considered how the ‘sister’ nations Ireland & Scotland might be linked… MacDiarmid saw modern Irish cultural & political developments as a source of inspiration… & Heaney turned to the Buile Suibhne story as a way of stressing cultural commonalities”
🇮🇪 & 🏴
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And you can't have weird modernisms without Weird Joyce, of course!
![My abstract for 'Weird Modernisms', the MSA 2026 Annual Conference:
While Joyce’s first major texts are largely in the realist mode [i.e. Dubliners (1914), and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)], sections of Ulysses (1922) and the whole of Finnegans Wake (1939) might classed as texts of weird modernist literature, interested in altered states (hallucination, druggy visions, dreams), in reworking or parodying aspects of ‘alternative’ spiritual culture (esotericism, hermeticism, magic, myth, the occult, and Theosophy), and in creating techniques of literary and linguistic defamiliarization. In turn, Joyce’s texts have attracted members of what Erik Davis has termed the culture of ‘high weirdness’, especially in 1970s California, namely Terence McKenna, Philip K. Dick, and Robert Anton Wilson.[1] Terence Mckenna (philosopher, ethnobotanist and advocate of psychedelic drugs), gave lectures on Joyce and took a copy of Finnegans Wake to the jungles of La Chorrera in Colombia in 1971 to read while researching and experimenting with psilocybe mushrooms. Philp K. Dick refers to Joyce’s work on a number of occasions in his gnostic science fiction VALIS trilogy (1978-82). And the countercultural figure Wilson discusses Joyce, synchronicities, and coincidences in Coincidance: A Head Test (1988) and in a number of lectures. This talk will assess Joyce’s engagement with a variety of ‘weird’ sources and examine his influence on twentieth century American weird cultures. This paper will also attempt to answer the following questions: Was Joyce serious or dismissive regarding weird experiences, sources, and cultures? What was it about Joyce’s work that attracted figures of 1970s American counter culture/weird culture? Can ‘high weirdness’ help us to understand Joyce? Can Joyce help us understand to ‘high weirdness’?
[1] See Davis, Erik. High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies. Strange Attractor Press and the MIT Press, 2019.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ik3jam6cfmgvqrv5vpt6zulp/bafkreig5n523muba35v4ups5cgjaktkf444ynobla4k2bfeppclqa2ae5q)
My abstract for 'Weird Modernisms', the MSA 2026 Annual Conference: While Joyce’s first major texts are largely in the realist mode [i.e. Dubliners (1914), and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)], sections of Ulysses (1922) and the whole of Finnegans Wake (1939) might classed as texts of weird modernist literature, interested in altered states (hallucination, druggy visions, dreams), in reworking or parodying aspects of ‘alternative’ spiritual culture (esotericism, hermeticism, magic, myth, the occult, and Theosophy), and in creating techniques of literary and linguistic defamiliarization. In turn, Joyce’s texts have attracted members of what Erik Davis has termed the culture of ‘high weirdness’, especially in 1970s California, namely Terence McKenna, Philip K. Dick, and Robert Anton Wilson.[1] Terence Mckenna (philosopher, ethnobotanist and advocate of psychedelic drugs), gave lectures on Joyce and took a copy of Finnegans Wake to the jungles of La Chorrera in Colombia in 1971 to read while researching and experimenting with psilocybe mushrooms. Philp K. Dick refers to Joyce’s work on a number of occasions in his gnostic science fiction VALIS trilogy (1978-82). And the countercultural figure Wilson discusses Joyce, synchronicities, and coincidences in Coincidance: A Head Test (1988) and in a number of lectures. This talk will assess Joyce’s engagement with a variety of ‘weird’ sources and examine his influence on twentieth century American weird cultures. This paper will also attempt to answer the following questions: Was Joyce serious or dismissive regarding weird experiences, sources, and cultures? What was it about Joyce’s work that attracted figures of 1970s American counter culture/weird culture? Can ‘high weirdness’ help us to understand Joyce? Can Joyce help us understand to ‘high weirdness’? [1] See Davis, Erik. High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies. Strange Attractor Press and the MIT Press, 2019.
Really looking forward to discussing ‘Weird Joyce’ at 'Weird Modernisms', the @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 Annual Conference, being held with @modernistudies.bsky.social.
www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
#JamesJoyce #WeirdModernisms #BAMS2026 #MSA2026
@standrewsenglish.bsky.social
Join us Wed 11 March for two brilliant English events - Connie Scozzaro (Brown University)
“Speaking to Nobody in Late Shakespeare” 5:00–6:30pm, Kennedy Hall (Garden Room)
Dr Tom Hubbard - “Making light of the great dark?” 5:30–7:00pm, School III, St Salvator’s Quad
All welcome!
Nicholas Allen at the University of St Andrews
A copy of Late Heaney by Nicholas Allen (Oxford University Press, 2026)
It was great to welcome @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social to @standrewsenglish.bsky.social to launch his excellent new book, Late Heaney. Thanks to everyone who came along! Get your copy here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Today's the day! Dr Richard Barlow and Dr Rosa Campbell on their research into failure and the nonhuman in poetry and the work of James Joyce. Open to all staff and students. 2-4pm in the Garden Seminar Room.
Join Nicholas Allen's Book Launch & Talk on Late Heaney's final poetry collections 📅 Thu 26 Feb 2026 🕕 6–8pm 📍 Kennedy Hall 🎟 Limited space, book now!
The Scottish Highlands: Epic Mode
23 March, online, from £3.35
Prof Dòmhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart @sabhalmorostaig.bsky.social investigates the ancient heroic tales of the Fèinn & Fionn mac Cumhail/Finn Mac Cool – part of the common heritage of #Scotland & #Ireland
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I’ll be discussing Joyce, failure, and the nonhuman as part of the next English ModCon Research Symposium
@standrewsenglish.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
Wednesday 25 February 2026, 2:00pm to 5:00pm
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McSweeney Astray
"Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories", a 2024 essay collection I edited w/ Richard Barlow, is now available to pre-order in a much more affordable paperback edition from @edinburghup.bsky.social! (use code PAPER30 for a further 30%-off discount)
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Pleased to see that Finnegans Wake - Human and Nonhuman Histories is now available in paperback
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@edinburghup.bsky.social
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@bairishstudies.bsky.social
Programme for the XVIII James Joyce Italian Foundation Conference in Rome.
The Flaminio Obelisk at Piazza del Popolo in Rome.
The Crucifixion of Saint Peter by Caravaggio and The Assumption of the Virgin by Carracci in the Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome.
A picture of a glass of wine and a plate of bruschette
Had a great few days at the XVIII James Joyce Italian Foundation Conference in Rome.
The cover of Late Heaney by Nicholas Allen
Really looking forward to welcoming @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social to St Andrews for the launch of his new book, Late Heaney.
6:00pm on Thursday, February 26
Garden Room, Kennedy Hall
@standrewsenglish.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/late-...
One of several scholarships for Palestinian students available at the University of Liverpool. This one is for the MRes in Irish Studies. Please share to relevant circles.
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The cover of Late Heaney by Nicholas Allen
Really looking forward to welcoming @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social to St Andrews for the launch of his new book, Late Heaney.
6:00pm on Thursday, February 26
Garden Room, Kennedy Hall
@standrewsenglish.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/late-...
Our next seminar is on Mon. 9 Feb. - Niall Whelehan will speak about ‘Radicalism, colonialism and the life of an Irish doctor in Argentina at the fin de siècle’. All welcome www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
Happy Birthday, Joyce! Here’s a new Finnegans Wake website I've developed with Research Computing at St Andrews: research.st-andrews.ac.uk/elucidationo...
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