4 Nov 1641: Sir Phelim O'Neill publishes a forged commission from Charles I #otd 'authorising' him and his allies to take arms in defence of the King. Read eyewitness accounts of this violent time in the 1641 Depositions series from @irishmanuscripts.bsky.social

Born #OnThisDay 1650 King William III. He celebrated his 38th birthday (1688) by invading England and driving his father-in-law, James II, from the throne. 100 years on, politicians were convinced the event should be marked but couldn't agree how: for which, see our new blog this Thursday! #HistParl

The schedule for the Donegal County Museum and County Donegal Historical Society 'Borders and boundaries' conference has been announced! @cormacmoorehist.bsky.social @lynseyblack.bsky.social

Looking forward to speaking at this Dublin County Council event 'Borders & Boundaries', although mostly looking forward to hearing these people speak: @cormacmoorehist.bsky.social @pduffy1.bsky.social, Kieran Rankin, Niamh Brennan, Liam Campbell and Jim McBride: www.donegalcoco.ie/en/news/2025...

I'm looking forward to speaking at two conferences this weekend on the Free State's approach to the Irish Boundary Commission, 1923-25. The conference in Lifford can be booked via the contact below, while the @1925ibc100.bsky.social can be booked here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-1925-i...

I was at mass for All Saints' Day at Meath Street in Dublin. The priest's homily mentioned the various saints depicted in artwork throughout the church, but didn't mention Saint Kevin Barry, who was hanged on 1 November 1920 and whose bust was carved by a church sculptor with republican sympathies!

In 1948 Seán Ó Faoláin wrote about the partition of Ireland.

I'm looking forward to speaking on the activities of the North-Eastern Boundary Bureau, 1923-25 at this conference in Lifford on 8 November. Booking details are below. The talk will expand on my research, which was published #OpenAcess with @ria.ie last year: muse.jhu.edu/article/956691

On 10 November we will be joined by Hiram Morgan (UCC), who will talk about '"Anatomies of death": forced famine in the Tudor conquest of Ireland'. All welcome, in-person or online: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

5am? It's like what Pat Rabbitte said about @oireachtasnews.bsky.social Report on @rte.ie - only drunks and insomniacs watched it! Thankfully, on-demand services and podcasts make these programmes much more accessible!

We're going to be raising a glass to John Wilkes on his 300th birthday at 17:57. Do join us, and share a toast to Wilkes and Liberty! #HistParl

An empty seat is reserved every night at the castle for an unexpected guest. According to tradition, Lord Howth's grandson was taken hostage by Grace O'Malley when she was denied entry to the castle around 1575. He was released on the condition that any unexpected guest would be welcomed.

I was delighted to have been given a fascinating tour of the twelfth-century Howth Castle, home of the St. Lawrence family from Daniel Eglington-Carey, in association with Dublin Decoded Tours

Great to hear @willdalrymple.bsky.social give the @tlrhub.bsky.social Edmund Burke lecture on the history of the East India Company in the Edmund Burke Theatre at @tcddublin.bsky.social this evening.

I was delighted to attend the launch of the exhibition on Project Children at Monaghan County Museum last night, which heard from the project founder Denis Mulcahy and the Garda and NYPD bands www.rte.ie/news/ulster/...

As the History Representative for ACIS, I have the distinct privilege to chair the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book. If you, or someone you know, has a book copyrighted in 2025 in Irish Studies please do consider submitting! Details here. 🗃️ #speirgorm

Listen in to a discussion about Ireland and the American Revolution on @newstalkfm.bsky.social featuring Patrick Geoghegan, Finola O’Kane, Eliga Gould, and Patrick Griffin. The episode airs this Sunday at 7PM, ahead of our conference next week. It was a privilege to take part in the conversation.

For anyone around Co. Monaghan next Friday, 10 Ocotber, I will be giving a talk on the Ballybay Orangeman Sam Gray at Cahans Meeting House at 8pm. Adm. by donation. Refreshments served. Eircode H18 E7N1. An intro to Gray can be found in @ria.ie @historydib.bsky.social: www.dib.ie/biography/gr...

Continuing with P in our #1832AtoZ we are looking at Prorogation – the ending of a parliamentary session – and how this power was used during the 19th century. Find out more here: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2019/09/04/p...

We Roman Catholics won't even allow women to be ordained as deacons, yet a woman is chosen as the most senior cleric of @churchofengland.org and the worldwide spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0...

I spoke to Newstalk Breakfast earlier about a Shared Island, Heather Humphreys' campaign for president and coverage of her husband's past membership of the Orange Order. www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...

It is ironic that Charles III today became the first British monarch to attend a Catholic mass in the UK in modern times, probably since the reign of James II himself. www.thetablet.co.uk/news/king-ch...

I agree with Ed. Having someone from the Ulster Protestant tradition as president of Ireland would be a significant contribution towards reconciliation on this island.

1/ Our editor Richard Gaunt has written a chapter on the 1828 County Clare by-election for @iaindale.bsky.social's new book. Daniel O'Connell, a Catholic, was elected to the House of Commons in a major development in the Catholic emancipation campaign. We will have a special issue in 2029

Irish printed fan from the British Museum collection - catalogue suggests it relates to Act of Union, but much more likely to be a celebration of the Irish Volunteers, c.1779-84

There’s still plenty of time to submit an entry to the Parliamentary History Essay Prize!

Celebrating my 27th birthday (I feel old)at one of my favourite Dublin restaurants - Tenters Gastropub on Mill St. Mill Street was the homeplace of John Lawless, about whom I've been reading and writing a lot recently. See his @ria.ie @historydib.bsky.social entry here: www.dib.ie/biography/la...

Born #OnThisDay 1762, King George IV. As Prince of Wales he became closely attached to the Foxite Whig opposition. From 1811 he acted as Prince Regent during George III's long period of ill health. His spending habits were always a problem. #skystorians

#OnThisDay 1831 Lord Melbourne asked Thomas Drummond to establish a boundary commission to undertake the process of redrawing constituency boundaries as part of the major electoral reforms of 1832. Our research fellow Dr Martin Spychal explains more: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2021/06/28/s...

This 'lift the flap' satire is of Dublin Tory provenance (usual suspects) but we should also discuss O'Connell's marginalisation of socially radical critics - not just Young Ireland, but figures such as John Lawless, Thaddeus O'Malley, Sharman Crawford, and of course Feargus O'Connor & the Chartists

🧵(1) Born #OTD 1775, Daniel O'Connell. Known by supporters as 'The Liberator', O'Connell was considered the leader of Ireland's Catholic majority in the first half of the 19th century, and 'by far the most prominent Irishman in the Commons' from 1830. buff.ly/eBmk09B

@petergray47.bsky.social's biography of William Sharman Crawford has encouraged debate on O'Connell's relationship with liberal Protestants in Ulster. I hope also to contribute to once I finalise and submit my thesis on O'Connellite politics and its Protestant opponents in south Ulster.

Daniel O’Connell would have enjoyed his life being celebrated 250 years on, says historian

Who was the real Daniel O'Connell? An assessment of the Emancipator's strengths and flaws on his 250th birthday www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Before Daniel O'Connell's body was repatriated to Dublin for burial in Glasnevin Cemetery, his heart was removed, embalmed and donated to the Irish College in Rome - however, his heart later vanished without trace.

Today marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Daniel O'Connell, the man known as 'The Liberator’.

@cnbc.com has listed the long room of the @tcdlibrary.bsky.social as the most beautiful library in the world. It's a pity that us students can't study in it! www.cnbc.com/2025/07/31/t...

The Parliamentary History Essay Prize 2025 is open! The prize is worth £500 and winners will have their essay published in our journal! The submission deadline is 30 Nov 2025! For details 👇 🧵1/4 @histparl.bsky.social @georgianlords.bsky.social @victoriancommons.bsky.social

Looking forward to this symposium marking the 250th anniversary of Daniel O'Connell's birth here at the Edmund Burke Theatre @tcddublin.bsky.social, organised by @tlrhub.bsky.social

Thanks to Francis from Dublinia (www.dublinia.ie) for a walking tour of medieval Dublin for the @thelibertiescp.bsky.social Festival. We visited Dublin Castle, Christ Church, the of the Viking sit at @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social on Wood Quay, the city walls on Cooke St and St Audeon's Gate and church

1/ Thank you to Arran from Dublin Decoded Tours (dublindecoded.com) for his tour around the Francis St area for @thelibertiescp.bsky.social Festival. We visited the two St Audeon's Churches, the Iveagh Markets, Francis St, John's Lane and Meath St Catholic churches but my favourite was Tailors' Hall

1/ I attended two great 'Talking Shop' events for the @thelibertiescp.bsky.social Festival on Meath St this evening - Noel's, my local shop, which is much more like a rural shop than an inner-city one, with the memorial cards of locals on the wall, and Little Flower Penny Dinners which

I marched through Dublin city centre today in solidarity with Palestine. Speeches followed from two Palestinians and Mary Manning, who began the Dunnes Store strike against apartheid South Africa on this day in 1984.

@histparl.bsky.social @parlhistjournal.bsky.social Is it true that this tradition comes from pre-reformation times when the @houseofcommons.parliament.uk met in Saint Stephen's Chapel in the Palace of Westminster and that MPs were actually bowing to the tabernacle behind the speaker's chair?

Preaching on the parable of the Good Samaritian, the priest saying mass at John's Lane Augustinian church in Dublin this morning referenced some of the actions of ICE in the United States and this Eleventh Night bonfire in Tyrone as examples of failing to love one's neighbour

I was telling a colleague at @tlrhub.bsky.social today that we had speakers from India and Canada at @frontiers2025.bsky.social conference and my phone beeped and this was on my screen

Finished! A big thank you the speakers, chairs, Rob Shields @ualberta.bsky.social for his keynote, Prof Joseph Clarke and @historytcd.bsky.social for their support, Rike and the team @tlrhub.bsky.social for their help and @researchireland.ie for their support of @pduffy1.bsky.social's research.

Organising this conference has been very stressful but we had some great papers yesterday. I'm looking forward to today!

Anyone attending the conference in person @tlrhub.bsky.social should purchase their tickets before 10am tomorrow, Irish time. We need to finalise numbers for catering. There are plenty of free online tickets available which can be booked until the conference ends! fixr.co/event/fronti...

Make sure to book your tickets before Friday! fixr.co/event/fronti... #frontiers #boundaries #borders #history #geography #anthropology #sociology #literature @tlrhub.bsky.social @historytcd.bsky.social @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social @langslitscultures.bsky.social @tcdsociology.bsky.social