🔔Upcoming Public Talk 🔔 Enniskillen & the Fermanagh Campaign, 1689: A re-appraisal 10 March 7.30-9pm in the Minor Hall, Magee Campus @ulsteruni.bsky.social I am very proud of my fellow PhD, Dr Darren Graham 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Book your tickets for this great event👇🏻

'The Irish food for Irish babies'. Made in Dungarvan, Co Waterford. 1950s?

Countdown to the 260th anniversary of Ireland's first census. 🕰️ 7️⃣ 5 March 1766 the Irish House of Lords orders a census of all householders noting 'which are protestants and which are Papists' (Catholics). They gave only 61 days to cover the whole country! virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-PRI... 👀 ALT

Sentimental? "several of them were composed in a very disordered state of society, if not in open rebellion. They are the melancholy ravings of the disappointed rebel, or his ill-educated offspring" - the Anti-Jacobin review of Moore's "Irish melodies" (1808).

Register to join us next week, either in person or online on 25 February to hear Warwick final year PhD @brendantam.bsky.social present his paper titled: ‘A Christ Church Set’: Exploring the Discourse of Political Friendship in Late Hanoverian Britain, 1780s-1830s www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

I would say Bishop Moylan would forgive the annotator’s lusting after Miss Bourke as they (rightly) recorded the succession of his brother bishops of Cloyne as a supplement to Cork! #ProperOrder

A History of Ireland in Quotations about Rain. (Part 1) www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

Myth, monsters and making sense of a disenchanted world: why everyone is reading fantasy

Today is the anniversaries of Irish artist James Barry (1741-1806) & Anglo-Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973). Bowen's portrait is currently loaned to Doneraile Court as part of our Touring & Sharing program. #CrawfordArtGallery #JamesBarry #ElizabethBowern #IrishArt #CrawfordTouringSharing

This week on Fabulous Folklore, we're exploring the 'Beliefs' category of children’s folklore. See if you recognise the beliefs people heard and spread in their childhood, including supernatural beings like witches, love divination, and superstitions! pod.co/fabulous-fol...

OUP have published the first chapter of my Runes book (on the earliest period of runic writing) open access until 19 Feb. Do have a look if you're interested! academic.oup.com/book/61598/c...

Thanks to @martindoyle.bsky.social and Mary Miniham @irishtimes.com for taking my piece on heavy coats and ragged people for today’s paper - with a shoutout for new @universitypress.cambridge.org book on #IrishRomanticism #speirgorm

One week until I’ll be chatting with Mark Norman about my forthcoming book on the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas at QUAD in Derby. And it’s just one event amongst a plethora of eldritch endeavours at this year’s UK Ghost Story Festival

If you missed Patrick Walsh's talk yesterday on 'A colonial sinew of power? Rethinking the 18th-century Irish state', a recording is available at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=haJr...

Censuses of Ireland, 1766-1891. At end Nov. our total for names in VRTI CEN from 1766 religious census, 1798 census of Dublin City and censuses of Ireland 1813-1891 hit 98,000. On Tuesday we'll give the end Dec. total. Will we hit 100k? Tune in Tuesday for update. Any guesses?

In city after city, by the time the [British] army withdrew, most residents, even many of who had supported the Crown at the onset of the conflict, no longer saw restored royal rule as a viable option."--Donald F. Johnson 🗃️ www.pennpress.org/978081225254...

New from @imems.bsky.social in the @catholicismsem.bsky.social series, this book uncovers the hidden networks behind Catholic publishing in Restoration London, where politics, religion, and print intersected in unexpected ways under. Learn more 👉 buff.ly/JlXm0RY #skystorians #catholicism

Radical MP John Wilkes was expelled from Parliament on charges of seditious libel after publishing controversial articles in his North Briton newspaper. Dr Robin Eagles explores how Parliament built the case against him.

1) My contribution to #America250: an analysis of the multiple, competing narratives of American history we have today, and why we are so divided over our past. @revolution250.bsky.social @historians.org @oah.org

Our spring 2026 seminar series programme is here! We'll be adding eventbrite links soon so you can join us online or in person - all are welcome! First up we have Neil Murphy on 19 February at 6pm. Neil will speak on 'Violence, colonialism and the mid-Tudor monarchy: Ireland in context'.

CFP: Conference, 'Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750', University of Oxford, 18-19 June 2026 Deadline: 28 February 2026 Paper proposals are invited for this conference on the overlooked role of early modern women as writers of history. See clioreframed.hcommons.org.

I’ve written a new piece for @liberalcurrents.com in response to an open letter from the economist Donald Boudreaux. I address ways in which criticisms of egalitarianism err. It’s not enough to accuse them of envy or economic illiteracy. There are serious moral, social, and political concerns.

📣Bookings now open! 👉Celebrating 50 years of the Social History Society with our 'Festival of Social History' @ihr.bsky.social Panels, zine-making stall, tours, lunch, a roundtable, & keynote by Naomi Tadmor 📅 24 Apr 2026 💷 from £10 for members All welcome! socialhistory.org.uk/events/festi...

A provocative new #history of America’s #constitution & an urgent call to action for a nation confronted by challenges its founders could never have imagined. Mark Peterson's The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution arrives March 10. Preorder yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

The Cambridge Companion to the Declaration of Independence by Mark A. Graber and Michael Zuckert A wide-ranging anthology covering the significance and history of the most important statement of American political commitments. 📚 https://cup.org/4abBuF5

James Mill claimed that the interest of almost all women was involved in the interest of their father or husband, so they lost nothing in not having a vote. Two Irish philosophers refuted this: www.irishphilosophy.com/2013/06/04/v...

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Today is the 200th anniversary of the death of the Edinburgh caricaturist John Kay. This is his self portrait from 1786, with cat and bust of Homer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ka...

Give @catherine-healy.bsky.social a follow and check out her new book while you're at it: Irish Domestic Servants in Transatlantic Culture, c. 1870-1945 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

*Conference announcement* Modern Enquiries into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations: International Prosperity and Development 250 Years After Adam Smith. King's College, Cambridge. 5-6 MARCH 2026. Further information & to register via Eventbrite: www.econsoc.hist.cam.ac.uk/docs/Camb_WO...

Playing the grinch at the 250th. washingtonmonthly.com/2026/02/05/p...

"In France, they say, the revolution was so revolutionary that it revolutionised the very concept of revolution." buttondown.com/cutterham/ar...

The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue”

CFP! Check it out! ageofrevolutions.com/2026/02/15/r...

Our latest "Document of the Week" was chosen by our Academic Liaison Manager, Dr Catherine Bateson. It explores how the title page of one British pamphlet about growing tensions amongst colonial Americans foreshadowed the coming American Revolution in 1776. Read the full post here: buff.ly/OXJgOAA

A reminder that our Postgraduate Essay and Bursary prizes are now open for applications! Deadline for submissions 17 March 2026 See the BAIS website for details on how to enter and eligibility: irishstudies.co.uk/prizes-and-f...

CFP - After 1776: Settlers, Slavery, and Citizenship in the Atlantic Republics Papers are invited that engage with any aspect of settler republicanism, revolutionary change, or political belonging in the Atlantic world. Deadline: 28th February

My co-editor Jennifer Keene and I are very excited for our volume to come out this summer! Click through the link to see the amazing roster of contributors.

Call for Contributors! Writing the Industrial Revolution brings together short illustrated essays on industrial change and its cultural consequences in Britain, circa 1770–1830. We'd love to hear from other researchers who'd like to contribute an essay. Please see ⤵️ www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6341

Was a Corkman first to use the phrase the 'United States of America'? Delighted with my new RTÉ Brainstorm piece on Stephen Moylan. Read on to find out why a Cork person is always in the thick of it👇🏻 My thank to Jim Carroll and all at @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social

Was a Corkman first to use the phrase the 'United States of America'? @vapearsonduffy.bsky.social @ulsteruni.bsky.social profiles the Cork-born Stephen Moylan, whose American War of Independence letter is the earliest known document to refer to 'The United States' www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Éigse na Cholmcille will take place in #Derry on Friday, 16 January 2026. This year’s event is a gathering of colleagues from @ulsteruni.bsky.social @ucc.ie & University of Galway and is graciously hosted by both the RC & CofI Derry Dioceses All Welcome! 🕊️

Did you catch the mention of #CrawfordArtGallery in this year’s #HollyBough? The article Cork’s ‘Yella’ Horse details the history of an ill-fated statue that used to stand on Grand Parade, lost to the ages but immortalised in two works in our collection. #ChristmasinCork

Absolutely delighted to see that my article on Catholic chapels in Ireland from the 1790s to the 1820s is now available in Architectural History, the journal of the SAHGB - a real career dream come true to have an article in this journal, I must say! #skystorians www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Derry (Halloween) Girls- bone cracker! 💀 Halloween in Derry has started at The Sacred Tree in the Craft Village 🎃

On 20 November, I'm giving a lunchtime lecture at the V&A about my book Shoes and the Georgian Man. It's free, do come along! #skystorians @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social www.vam.ac.uk/event/xd9XBD...

It was a fantastic closing roundtable and a fitting end to a wonderful two days. Many thanks to my co-organisers, @virtualtreasury.bsky.social, @tlrhub.bsky.social, and all the speakers, participants, and attendees! The start of a generative conversation that I hope we will continue.

Traveling this morning to👇🏻 My thanks to the organising committee @tlrhub.bsky.social especially @joelherman.bsky.social for the invite and his kind consideration. I will be speaking about the Moylan brothers, in Cork & Philadelphia, & the American Revolution. @ulsteruni.bsky.social

My exhibition on the afterlives of Cork revolutionary women who did not marry is in the final stages. I want to thank so much @sostudiodesign.bsky.social for all their work - brilliant design and attention to detail - a truly positive experience. Thank you the @ria.ie for funding this.