University Of St Andrews - Blog Posts

sadbhkellett

5 months ago

Don't tell Twitter, but this week I graduated from St. Andrews and am now officially a Doctor of Philosophy! My thesis looked at Gaelic mythology and its relationship with national identity in modern Irish and Scottish literature (including Irish language texts). Humanities ftw!

Comhghairdeas mór to my superhero of a supervisor Pàdraig MacAoidh (Peter Mackay) who was also appointed as the Makar of Scotland this week! So very deserved.

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sadbhkellett

2 years ago

Irish Women's Writing (1880-1920) Network

Away with the Fairies: Irish Folklore and Fin-De-Siècle Motherhood in Katharine Tynan’s Ballads and Lyrics (1891) - Irish Women's Writing (1

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!