A Catholic university based in Florida, in the US, has claimed it is setting up a new campus in Co Waterford

Oscar-winning actress Brenda Fricker is set to receive the Freedom of Dublin city, following on from previous honourees such as Nelson Mandela, John F Kennedy, George Bernard Shaw, U2 and Brian O'Driscoll

A huge thank you to Jay Roszman (UCC), who delivered the keynote at this year's #Comhfhios, titled "The Problem of Meaning: 'Outrages' & Violence in Pre-Famine Ireland" An amazing lecture to end a captivating day of research on violence and its legacies in Ireland! @jayroszman.bsky.social @ucc.ie

"If McSweeney has a genuine talent, it's as a con man."

"Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Austria, Germany, France, England, Wales and across Ireland."

I'm seeing some recurrence on here of the 'agonistic histories' idea as it relates to NI and Ireland, i.e. that seeking a unitary sense about the past is wrong because to do so is insensitive to one side or other (or both). It's *really* not a road we should take, as I try to argue in my book.

I very much look forward to welcoming Dr. Peter Hession to @unioflimerick.bsky.social as our inaugural O'Malley Fellow! www.ul.ie/news/inaugur...

This is a very interesting piece on the Fine Gaelisation of Labour via Morgan McSweeney and the limitations of centrist managerialism. "At the last poll, both UK Labour and Fine Gael were on 18% support. It appears that Morgan McSweeney's political project has reached its successful conclusion."

I hope they survive. Back to the Hedge Schools, rural education has been the bedrock.

The lads diplomatically explain that if McSweeney goes, Starmer has to go too. I’ll explain why, more bluntly: this project minus Mandelson and McSweeney is like The Scooby Doo Show, without Shaggy and Scooby. Nobody thinks Scrappy Doo is the star.

Issuance of a formal list of Core British Values, Peripheral British Values and Optional British Values would be very useful, just so we know. They're not allowed to overlap with any other country's C/P/O Values.

6 FEB: @msp-archive.bsky.social will be releasing over 2,580 new files in the public domain. The files relate to 1,089 individuals/veterans who served during the Irish Revolution (1916-1923). This release brings the total nominal entries on our database to 22,032. share.google/fodhyupD9nE7...

One of several scholarships for Palestinian students available at the University of Liverpool. This one is for the MRes in Irish Studies. Please share to relevant circles. www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

This is the court case used to justify proscribing them as a terrorist group on par with Isis and Al Qaeda.

The only route to accepting Mandelson or Andrew's "silly me!" version of events, is to believe that they only ever exhanged sensitive information or access in exhange for cash or favours or sex to one man, and by sheer dint of bad luck it was the one man on Earth whose emails everyone gets to read.

If you missed this week's seminar by Ciara McAllister on 'A class apart: Representing the ‘Troubles’ and the working class', a recording is now available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o1J...

It's likely that Peter Mandelson has been the *actual* PM until very recently, Starmer an obvious cipher, McSweeney a mere factotum. Mandelson's loyalty to transnational capital over over the petty pirouettes of UK ministers has always been assumed and admired as an example of New Realism.

Three scholarships for PhD in Arthur Scargill Archive - quite the opportunity. Believe me when I say that I am sure that some of the stuff in here will be quite the eye-opener! (if the good stuff hasn't been already shredded or slapped with an embargo)

The emerging line appears to be "Another error of judgement by Starmer" (Blair notable by his absence). This is supported by a focus on virtue/vice rather than the imperatives that made New Labour the political arm of the global rich. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Our next seminar is on Mon. 9 Feb. - Niall Whelehan will speak about ‘Radicalism, colonialism and the life of an Irish doctor in Argentina at the fin de siècle’. All welcome www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

Second lecture now available online - www.history.ox.ac.uk/james-ford-l... - on how people learned the language of social science and how we historians learn what they learned. (1/2)

I mean, what’s the vaguely plausible left wing equivalent here? Seumas Milne passing security briefings to Belarus or some shit? It seems far fetched to me.

Pleased to do honours at launch of ‘Booleying in Ireland’ by Theresa McDonald. Anything you will ever wish to know re. #booleying #transhumance in Achill & beyond is here. Fruits of years of interdisciplinary research @universityofgalway.bsky.social @globalgalway.bsky.social @nmireland.bsky.social

New article! Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social on 'An O’Connellite Empire? Irish Nationalism, British Imperial Trouble, and the Limits of Anti-Imperialism in the Age of Reform' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Here are some more tweets from my introductory essay to 'Letters from an Old Orangeman'. www.amazon.co.uk/Letters-Oran...

Plonked in the middle of a general discussion, it strikes me that this might be the key 'theoretical' claim I'm staking in my book:

Why don’t they just return the hostages

Like, this is Trevor Phillips talking about the largest fascist mobilisation in Britain since before World War II. And this dickhead was the head of the national equality body! Does this not tell us our problems are somewhat deeper than what arse goes in which chair, in front of whichever TV camera.

“Nothing is more erroneous than to believe that the search for what is new is inborn in the human spirit. It is always called forth by new phenomena in the environment, never by an inner craving of the mind for what is new”. Karl Kautsky.

"Xi has set a deadline of 2027 for the army to be capable of seizing the island militarily, according to US intelligence assessments. One theory on Mr Zhang’s demise is that he did not think the PLA would be ready to invade Taiwan by the deadline and that displeased the chairman."

I've recently published a scholarly edition of a primary text: 'Letters from an Old Orangeman' by 'Montanus'. Here's a twitter thread from my introductory essay. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Last call! Colby Book Prize nominations are due TOMORROW, 31 January. This prize is awarded to a book published during the preceding year that most advances our understanding of the #19thC British press. If you recently read a book that fits that description, we want to know!

So here we are, finally got to the conclusion of the book. Here we go. shorturl.at/pDPug

"The department has forecast modified domestic demand (MDD), a more accurate measure of the domestic economy, to expand by 3 per cent in 2025."

We have a great lineup for our Semester 2 seminar series at Maynooth University History Department. All are welcome to join.

If you missed it or would like to know more, the Forms of Labour monograph is available open access - download it for free here: #EarlyModern 🗃️ www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

So here we are, finally got to the conclusion of the book. Here we go. shorturl.at/pDPug

Some tweets on the 'Kilmainham Treaty' of 1882 and the results of the Land War:

If you missed Connal Parr's talk this week on 'No borders: The Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement and its legacies', a recording is now available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OLY...

Some tweets on the 'Kilmainham Treaty' of 1882 and the results of the Land War:

An excellent new resource from @uoscollections.bsky.social! We're looking forward to exploring the catalogue and developing links between the Arthur Scargill Archive and the archives of the National Union of Mineworkers archives (full NUM catalogue available in the next couple of months!)

Also worth noting that this is another example of the revolving door between GB News and Parliament. It's taken a while for the lesson to be learnt, but a political party these days needs it own TV channel. Not for broadcast per se but for social media clips.

A tweet thread on the significance of the Land Act of 1881, climactic of the Irish Land War. From my book: shorturl.at/pDPug

Irish historian W. E. H. Lecky on the Jews, from his 'History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe' (1865)

Don't forget! Less than a week to submit your abstract for what promises to be a brilliant conference!

A tweet thread on the significance of the Land Act of 1881, climactic of the Irish Land War. From my book: shorturl.at/pDPug

US President Donald Trump has said he was "on a similar wavelength" with the Democratic governor of Minnesota, in a sharp reversal following the fatal shooting of a second US citizen by immigration agents

Some tweets on the 'moonlighters': the covert secret society of the Land League in Ireland.

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'.

But it is the book that was necessary, as one more consequence of that Brexit episode was my realization that reading Heaney like this from my own time and place is generational, and so passing. So the book is a kind of testament to becoming a reader in the Troubles, and what that meant and means.