Knowledge Commons | Emily Dollery | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/emilydollery/activity/ Activity feed for Emily Dollery. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:04:46 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 7f6c2ca380d1f56eba8687cf0e5aa220 Emily Dollery wrote a new post, Literature Review, on the site Where the Sun Hits: A Research Blog by Emily Dollery https://itwasadarkandstormynight.hcommons.org/?p=118 Sun, 16 Apr 2023 20:39:00 -0400 For my thesis, I intend to examine the treatment of disability in fin de siècle British and Irish Gothic literature. I aim to take an interdisciplinary approach, factoring in research in the fields of the […]

]]> 90c50cb8e66196e38d3083ff592a5dad Emily Dollery wrote a new post, Portfolio, on the site Where the Sun Hits: A Research Blog by Emily Dollery https://itwasadarkandstormynight.hcommons.org/?p=110 Sat, 15 Apr 2023 22:59:12 -0400 As my classes end and the last few deadlines draw ever closer, I am tasked with confronting the intimidating task of compiling a portfolio of excerpts from my scholarly blog. Creating this blog and keeping it […]

]]> 0ab8e9ebb097304019eddb60c529fe49 Emily Dollery wrote a new post, Dr Tina O'Toole on Avant Garde Feminism in Early Twentieth Century Ireland, on the site Where the Sun Hits: A Research Blog by Emily Dollery https://itwasadarkandstormynight.hcommons.org/?p=101 Sat, 15 Apr 2023 20:02:54 -0400 In February I attended a talk given by Tina O'Toole of the University of Limerick on Avant Garde Feminism in a selection of early twentieth century texts. I was interested in attending as twentieth century […]

]]> 7295298ce6a9051412c455021755d6c0 Emily Dollery wrote a new post, Robotic Hounds, Othered Women and Sexy Ears... A Reflection on the Textualities Conference, on the site Where the Sun Hits: A Research Blog by Emily Dollery https://itwasadarkandstormynight.hcommons.org/?p=98 Mon, 10 Apr 2023 09:52:22 -0400 My rants have been heard, the dust has settled and I have organised my thoughts enough to be able to reflect on last week’s Textualities Conference. I was lucky enough to witness a truly eclectic mix of pr […]

]]> 78fb76ab24dd952a396879f5b47c54eb Emily Dollery wrote a new post, Wikipedia Editathon: A Spot of Spring Cleaning, on the site Where the Sun Hits: A Research Blog by Emily Dollery https://itwasadarkandstormynight.hcommons.org/?p=93 Fri, 24 Mar 2023 20:41:27 -0400 A few weeks ago, I was required to come together with my fellow MA English students, as we were to edit a Wikipedia page of our choosing. The requirements were broad, so long as our chosen pages were tangentially […]

]]> 78c0df40eb175dd45a6fe4c9df9b1080 Emily Dollery wrote a new post, The Other Side: Pessimistic Transhumanism in Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, on the site Where the Sun Hits: A Research Blog by Emily Dollery https://itwasadarkandstormynight.hcommons.org/?p=75 Wed, 01 Feb 2023 17:19:14 -0500 Winter is ending, and I am slowly but surely making my way through the pile of books I have bought and been gifted over the Christmas period. This month, outside of my studies, I have managed to read Annihilation […]

]]> 697939ac9b7670c000589c4e84d677d9 Emily Dollery wrote a new post, I'll Be Okay, I Just Need to Be Weird and Hide for a Bit: Modern Post Punk and Dada, on the site Where the Sun Hits: A Research Blog by Emily Dollery https://itwasadarkandstormynight.hcommons.org/?p=53 Wed, 18 Jan 2023 21:13:13 -0500 In recent years, post punk (especially in the UK and Ireland) has seen a revival of sorts. Notable releases including Gilla Band's "Holding Hands with Jamie" (2015), Black Midi's "Schlagenheim" (2019) and Dry […]

]]> 736e293695356e0f001175aa15e44ad2 Emily Dollery's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1826952/ Sun, 18 Dec 2022 15:08:08 -0500 0 cb7a2b42ace8ecae9a3f727fd756f17a Emily Dollery wrote a new post, 16th November 2022: Hopeful and Homoerotic Spaces in Irish Writing, on the site Where the Sun Hits: A Research Blog by Emily Dollery https://itwasadarkandstormynight.hcommons.org/?p=38 Thu, 17 Nov 2022 09:59:47 -0500 Dr Michael G. Cronin is a lecturer at Maynooth University whose research centres around twentieth century and contemporary Irish writing along with sexuality studies. Yesterday, I attended a talk he gave on […]

]]> e6db4bd1cc7e8f0f689afb472df6b1ec Emily Dollery wrote a new post, Climate, Class, Contrasts, Complacency - 19th Century Representations of the Environment in Mary Robinson's 'The Wintry Day' and Now, on the site Where the Sun Hits: A Research Blog by Emily Dollery https://itwasadarkandstormynight.hcommons.org/?p=35 Thu, 10 Nov 2022 12:30:44 -0500 Last night, I watched a viral clip of Phoebe Plummer, the climate activist who received international attention for throwing soup over Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers', confronting an interviewer for neglecting to […]

]]> 965712e4699d21414019e56c95d5fcfc Emily Dollery wrote a new post, Some Thoughts on the Public, Private and Pandemic in Pearl (2022), on the site It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: An MA Blog by Emily Dollery https://itwasadarkandstormynight.hcommons.org/?p=28 Thu, 03 Nov 2022 10:45:08 -0400 October has come and gone, and it's safe to say that I have consumed my fair share of horror films over the last week or so. I would like to say that I have developed a fairly strong stomach when it comes to […]

]]> b79d0d841a2e1281c3668130a6dc9100 Emily Dollery wrote a new post, Wednesday 2nd November 2022: Degrees, Deadlines and Disturbing Plotlines!, on the site It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: An MA Blog by Emily Dollery https://itwasadarkandstormynight.hcommons.org/?p=17 Wed, 02 Nov 2022 18:22:44 -0400 The first half of the semester has passed, and to say it has been a busy time would be an understatement. Over the course of the last few weeks, I attended my conferring for my BA in Music & English and have […]

]]> fb7925e810d7d6a2663ac96515c18014 Emily Dollery wrote a new post, First post!, on the site It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: An MA Blog by Emily Dollery https://itwasadarkandstormynight.hcommons.org/?p=1 Fri, 07 Oct 2022 18:02:40 -0400 Hi all! My name is Emily Dollery and I have started this scholarly blog as part of my MA English - Modernities programme at UCC. My main research interests would be Gothic, Modernist & Naturalist literature. […]

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