"Israel🇮🇱 creates conditions of life that are sufficiently unsuitable to life so that it will force the 2 million Palestinians🇵🇸 in Gaza to flee to Egypt." Dr. Kenneth Roth, the former long-time executive director of Human Rights Watch.

Irish nature is in crisis. We know what needs to be done & we know we can succeed. We only need the political leadership to deliver an ambitious Nature Restoration Plan and the funding to make it happen. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Some tweets on the relationship between Irish peasants and their landlords, from here: shorturl.at/7n4ge

Some tweets on the relationship between Irish peasants and their landlords, from here: shorturl.at/7n4ge

This line, at the end of the chapter on the famine: "The popular sentiment that a terrible and unforgiveable crime had been committed by landlordism and the British Government against the peasantry of Ireland was not a delusion born of post-traumatic survivor guilt. It was a fact"

Just finished this, and buzzing with questions and insights. Attempts to do for the irish peasantry what Thompson did for the English working class - rescue it from the condescension of history - and generally succeeds.

Tweets from my book on the 'coherence' of the Irish peasantry.

I picked up a Percy French collection second hand. He'sorgotten now, but used to virtually define gently comic Irishness. Has an insert of his daughter.

"In the 1650s a captain in General Ireton's regiment told how, when an Irish garrison was slaughtered at Cashel in 1647, they found among the bodies of the dead 'divers [many] that had tails near a quarter of a yard long'; and when the story was challenged, ...

Some tweets on the pre-Famine structure of the Irish peasantry. The academic consensus of a massive landless proletariat at social war with tenant farmers is, I think, unsupportable.

Some tweets on the pre-Famine structure of the Irish peasantry. The academic consensus of a massive landless proletariat at social war with tenant farmers is, I think, unsupportable.

Just found my contact information being sold on some AI platform that automates the process of applying for PhDs and postdocs. Against my will obviously. And if you're reading this there's a good chance you're on there too: www.applykite.com/professors/s...

Interestingly, Stephen King in his Maine-set stories sometimes refers to contemporary small-town mutual aid labour exchange as 'neighbouring'. Ulster Scots legacy perhaps?

Cool new tool to check if your references contain retraction risks. www.retractionrisk.com

There's still a stock of my book at Kenny's (Amazon keeps running out - I don't think they've sufficiently crammed their warehouses). Anyway, follows a key section tweeted: on the peasant mode of production, Irish-style. www.kennys.ie/shop/at-the-...

That link, alas, leads to a “404 - Not Found” — looks like a stray digit ‘1’ got tacked on to the end? For folks wanting to follow up, here’s a corrected link: www.kennys.ie/shop/at-the-...

The Irish peasantry and sex relations; tweets from my book.

#CfP Call for Papers Organised by Global History and Culture Centre, University of Warwick: Between Thompson and the Global: Reflections on Labour History Today Workshop: 26-27 June 2026, University of Warwick Deadline for abstracts: 30 January 2026 Submit to [email protected]

This talk on the “frayed edges of the state” in early C18th Ireland is very interesting. Magistrate Fontaine holding off rapparees and tóraí from his sod fort. The west of Ireland was a rather insecure frontier, leading to securocrat plaints reminiscent of our own “shillers for NATO”. Have a listen.

The Irish peasantry and sex relations; tweets from my book.

That old stick about the Roman Empire, and how the actual sign of the collapse was a bridge falling down and nobody coming to fix it.

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...

The 'Irish wake' is a long lasting survival of Irish peasant custom, though much changed. Here's a thread.

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...

The 'Irish wake' is a long lasting survival of Irish peasant custom, though much changed. Here's a thread.

The Irish peasantry and superstition. Some tweets from my book, 'At the Rising of the Moon'.

New research! Austerity and the labour market in the UK. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Headline result: austerity reduced wages, increased employment rates, and contributed to weak productivity. 1/n

The Irish peasantry and superstition. Some tweets from my book, 'At the Rising of the Moon'.

Peasantry, literacy and language -- some tweets. www.rte.ie/news/munster...

So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified

I know this is said time and again but the right ignore that we do in fact have a society and pretend that different people of different cultures do integrate actually. Their message is really "I don't want you to integrate, I want you gone" and it's our friends and neighbours they're talking about.

The religion of the Irish peasantry (mostly pre-Famine, mostly Catholicism):

There's still time to get this book for Xmas. Some tweets follow. www.kennys.ie/shop/at-the-...

There's still time to get this book for Xmas. Some tweets follow. www.kennys.ie/shop/at-the-...

Far too much of the Kenova reporting has utterly ignored the recommendations. There seems to be endless capacity in UK media to generate headlines about lawfare and no recognition of the dangers resulting from the UK Govt restricting conflict legacy information release: share.google/Ehn7pxKpsDwR...

It you're looking for some Christmas murder mystery (and revolution, barricade street-fighting, the last duel in England, and Marx), here's my book about the amazing life of Emmanuel Barthélemy. shorturl.at/XUbXk

The Orange Order has just elected its 21st Grand Master. Here's a book I've edited and introduced on and from its early history. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

On Friday 16 January we will be hosting a one-day conference on LABOUR POLITICS IN WEST BELFAST, 1918-83. Free event - all welcome (in-person and online). www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...

After her diagnosis, she wrote a novella, “What Does It Feel Like,” about a woman with five children who has brain cancer. “I thought people might be curious to know what it’s like to go through this,” Kinsella told Roberts. “I hope it’s full of optimism and love most of all.” She had 5 children.

On the curious economics of modern capitalism: shipping to the UK is cheapest from the US, most expensive within the UK.

Yes, again, none of “democracy or freedom and equality” are compatible with systematically destroying a subject populace of non-people who have no rights, that you have conquered and now rule over and murder with total impunity.

I'd be more than usually grateful to those who share this because of the personal importance to me of the event commemorated macdonnchada.substack.com/p/raul-alfon...

Our last seminar for this year, on 15 Dec. will be Patrick Walsh (TCD) speaking on 'A colonial sinew of power? Rethinking the 18th-century Irish state' (joint event with CECS). All welcome in-person and online. www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...

"The report accuses MI5 of trying to "restrict the investigation, run down the clock, avoid any prosecutions relating to Stakeknife and conceal the truth."

A great example here of how it simply does not matter what happens, and how the public come to be so disastrously misinformed on more or less everything. When all our media outlets feed the public much the same shit day in, day out, then it’s no wonder Yer Da has developed Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.

The 'social origins of the Land War' has notoriously been seen as the disappearing labourer and rising strong farmer ('mean-faced mean who did well out of the Famine'). I think this is a denigratory myth. Actually, the basic social structure of the peasantry changed very little.

We are delighted to announce that we'll be hosting the SSNCI conference in Maynooth next June. Call for papers attached. Please spread far and wide!

Finally getting the chance to begin reading @marcmulholland.bsky.social's Rising of the moon

Apropos of the CFP announcement for the 2026 @ssnci.bsky.social conference, I have been making my way (slowly) through @marcmulholland.bsky.social new book and it is excellent and very thought provoking. Will be great to hear from him, @leannecalvert.bsky.social & Fionnuala Dillane. 🗃️