‘Brian Friel: A Playwright of Ideas’

Archive-based postdoctoral research project by Dr. Zosia Kuczyńska. Mentor: @emiliepine Institution: @UCDHumanities Funding: @IrishResearch (Views: @goshtastic)

[(Dr) Zosia Kuczyńska @zosiasamosia.bsky.social @goshtastic]

Can confirm that, barring any proofreading disasters, my monograph, 'Brian Friel's Models of Influence', will be published by @Palgrave 🥳THIS NOVEMBER🥳! Featuring a cover image I created for 'Don't Anticipate the Ending' at @MoLI_Museum. Isn't she a beaut? #LoveIrishResearch

[(Dr) Zosia Kuczyńska @zosiasamosia.bsky.social @goshtastic]

It's true! The manuscript for 'Brian Friel's Models of Influence' has been cleared for publication, the minor reviewer niggles are getting addressed at the close of marking season, and then my book goes out into the world! Aaaaah! (Also my S.O. is very cute when she's proud ❤️.)

[(Dr) Zosia Kuczyńska @zosiasamosia.bsky.social @goshtastic]

IT'S ACTUALLY HAPPENING! Our digital exhibition, #DontAnticipateTheEnding, is being launched at @MoLI_Museum on Friday 2nd September, with screenings of two contemporary dance films by @JessieK_dance and @rpblake. Please come help us celebrate!

[(Dr) Zosia Kuczyńska @zosiasamosia.bsky.social @goshtastic]

#AmWriting #AcademicChatter

To be filed under 'I just want to see if this gets edited out tbh':

[(Dr) Zosia Kuczyńska @zosiasamosia.bsky.social @goshtastic]

HUGE thanks to the archive & security staff at the @NLIreland for being so kind & accommodating when I showed up frazzled, straight off the aeroplane, ten minutes after the ticket office closed with an expired pass & a mountain of material to get through. True research angels.

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I just have to finish this chapter on Brian Friel's #Performances before I create an army of Uruk-hai to destroy the world of men. #Janáček #JusticeForZdenka #VeryNicheTweets

[(Dr) Zosia Kuczyńska @zosiasamosia.bsky.social @goshtastic]

Me reading a biography of #Janáček:

[The National Archives @UkNatArchives]

We can breathe a collective sigh of relief: jumper and cardigan weather has returned.

Researchers and archivists are, once again, fashionistas!

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When you write a whole paper on Friel & the painter Francis Bacon & assume that when FB crops up again in t'archive it's the same guy except it's the other one. The morals of this story are 1) always, ALWAYS check & 2) don't give your kid the exact same name as someone famous.

[(Dr) Zosia Kuczyńska @zosiasamosia.bsky.social @goshtastic]

I have created the mind map from hell.

[(Dr) Zosia Kuczyńska @zosiasamosia.bsky.social @goshtastic]

Actual footage of Yours Truly trying to map out a digital exhibition for @MoLI_Museum using paper and blu tack.

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Am becoming increasingly convinced that #LOTR is actually a cautionary tale about what happens when you don��t bother preserving or engaging with #archives.

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Looking forward to a morning of exhibition-related filming in @MoLI_Museum today. It’s an early start but I plan to consume a LOT of pastry when I get to Dublin.

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Side hustle alert:

[The Emma Press @TheEmmaPress]

Cover release! 🦋 @goshtastic's #poems WITH OTHERS IN YOUR ABSENCE explores a return to the living, travelling out of the acuteness of grief into new ways of being towards others. Imagery and titles draw from the ‘classic’ series of #DoctorWho.
Preorder: https://t.co/ESGdqjZZgY

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#LoveIrishResearch

[(Dr) Zosia Kuczyńska @zosiasamosia.bsky.social @goshtastic]

Pleased as punch that #DontAnticipateTheEnding has legit generated some new ways of working for @JessieK_dance! Watch her in action at 7.30pm at #DancerFromTheDanceFest tonight!

[(Dr) Zosia Kuczyńska @zosiasamosia.bsky.social @goshtastic]

Some excellent photobombing by @JessieK_dance this afternoon whilst shooting @rpblake’s film portrait in the gardens at @MoLI_Museum for our upcoming exhibition. (Feat. @mrsteveoconnor on camera duty.)

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@JessieK_dance and film-maker Steve O'Connor commune with the fire extinguishers at @MoLI_Museum. #DontAnticipateTheEnding

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Make them pink/make them blue: @rpblake takes a highly aesthetic break from filming #DontAnticipateTheEnding at @MoLI.

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Open up the picture for @luciakickham being very in sync with a statue at @MoLI_Museum whilst fimling @JessieK_dance's #SoWhatIsSurfacing. #DontAnticipateTheEnding

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#DontAnticipateTheEnding
@MoLI_Museum

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#DontAnticipateTheEnding

@MoLI_Museum