How The Last Few Weeks Of The Thesis Got Me Feeling Rn

How The Last Few Weeks Of The Thesis Got Me Feeling Rn

How the last few weeks of the thesis got me feeling rn

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2 years ago

The thing about lotr is that it spends so much time on describing trees because it’s actually about trees. And it’s also about languages and stories and songs and that’s why the songs are in there

It doesn’t make sense to say that Tolkien should have cut back on describing these things because all of them are part of the fundamental core of what lotr is and what it’s trying to do. It’s—fundamentally—just a poem about trees

2 years ago

Scribe to those assembled: SEd EGO QUi sCrIpsI hANc hiSTORIAm aUt UERiuS fabUlAM quIbUsdam FIDEM iN hac hiSTORia AUt FaBUlA NOn AcCoMModo. QUaeDam enIm ibi SUNt PrAEstRigia dEmOnuM, qUaeDaM AuTem figmEntA poETiCA, quaEdam SimILIA uErO, quaEdAM nOn, QUAEDAm aD dElECTaTiOnem sTULTorUm

everyone else (read: me) just here for a good time:

Scribe To Those Assembled: SEd EGO QUi SCrIpsI HANc HiSTORIAm AUt UERiuS FabUlAM QuIbUsdam FIDEM IN Hac

I just know the Book of Leinster/Recension II scribe was the Jenny Joyce of the twelfth century


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8 months ago
“September Came In With Golden Days And Silver Nights,”
“September Came In With Golden Days And Silver Nights,”

“September came in with golden days and silver nights,”

- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

1 year ago
Loved Having The Opportunity To Speak About Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Influence On Katharine Tynan's Work
Loved Having The Opportunity To Speak About Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Influence On Katharine Tynan's Work

Loved having the opportunity to speak about Dante Gabriel Rossetti's influence on Katharine Tynan's work at the Rossettis: In Relation conference held at the Tate Britain last week! Go check out the fantastic exhibition 'The Rossettis: Radical Romantics' which runs until the 24th of September 2023.


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9 months ago

Last summer, I had the absolute privilege of discussing the elixir of feminism, Irish mythology, and Rossettian aesthetics that make up Katharine Tynan's poetic retelling of Tóraíocht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne at the Tate Britain. A highlight of 2023!


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1 year ago

Being a speaker of modern Irish who engages with earlier literature is just shouting 'leathan le leathan is caol le caol' at the dead and boy do they not hear


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2 years ago
Away with the Fairies: Irish Folklore and Fin-De-Siècle Motherhood in Katharine Tynan’s Ballads and Lyrics (1891) - Irish Women's Writing (1
Irish Women's Writing (1880-1920) Network
Sadbh Kellett, University of St. Andrews  The Irish writer Katharine Tynan was remarkable in her personal and literary embodiment of the ‘Ne

A blogpost I wrote last year on such an underrated Irish writer!


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2 years ago
The 2022 Discoveries shortlist! - Women's Prize for Fiction
Women's Prize for Fiction
We are delighted to introduce you to the writers on the Discoveries 2022 shortlist. The Discoveries programme, run by the...

So shocked and unbelievably delighted to be shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction's Discoveries 2022 Award!!!


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Sadbh Kellett

Irish writer and academic. Sí/í. Literary agent ~ Sabhbh Curran, Curtis Brown Books 

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