Very disappointed to see that my local TDs (Gary Gannon, Marie Sherlock, Mary Lou McDonald). are still supporting Twitter by posting there. At what point does the need for followers outweigh the misinformation, abuse and facilitation of child sex abuse material? #SpeirGorm @fertha.bsky.social

@sarahcomyn.bsky.social long before your period but you might find some of these articles interesting

Out now! Open access in current issue of Renaissance Quarterly thanks to @ucdlibrary.bsky.social my thanks to everyone who helped me with this - but a special mention of the late Bríd McGrath for her wisdom, generosity and dedication to all the things that matter.

Out for a bit of shopping and a sneaky afternoon pint with my missus

Photo story: Futureproofing a 700-year-old manuscript www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Marie Maynard Daly co-discovered the link between high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and the clogged arteries that can cause heart disease and strokes. She also studied the damage that cigarettes have on the heart & lungs. adalovelaceday.subst...

I do love that on 23rd December hodges figgis in Dublin is absolutely mobbed #dublin #booklovers

#heritageireland watching the livestream from Newgrange on the winter solstice is absolutely part of Christmas now www.gov.ie/en/office-of...

I do wonder, if the British state lets hunger strikers die again, in order to preserve its right to supply weapons and military support to an ongoing genocide, who will even notice? To paraphrase Kwame Ture, Britain has no conscience.

Greetings check this out: Amplifying voices is a new Cambridge grant to help under-represented scholars publish. Apply!!! www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

www.theguardian.com/environment/... People are disgusting. We are so awful

It’s not a sine qua non but I particularly enjoy it when a novel sends me to the dictionary- so hats off to Sarah Hall’s incredible Helm. An absolute epic of a novel - so inventive and poetic.

Whatever else you might say about it, at least my book ms contains the word “boustrophedonically” in an actual sentence. What a word!

#earlymodern if I were to (note the conditionals) edit an anthology of verse by early modern women, what would you want to see in it? And what would you want it to do that isn’t covered by current options?

Proofs! An error in first paragraph 😂

This is very enjoyable- to be added to the pantheon of editing projects gone rogue.

Don't cross the picket line at the British Library, their staff are on strike and need our support.

So I’m getting stream of emails from students asking me to tell then whether various secondary sources are reputable. This is new to me; anyone else getting this?

Amazing to me that this book which I edited 25 years ago is still in print (and has never been out of print) - I am grateful to everyone who has read it and used it @penguinclassicsusa.bsky.social would love to propose an updated edition if I could find anyone to contact directly

Join us for the @cemslimerick.bsky.social 4th Winter School in Archival Research Skills and Book History on 2-3 December in the University of Limerick. Programme and registration here: emslimerick.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/4...

It’s still mad to me that a sandwich costs €9.50!

Very sorry to hear this news: Andy was a good friend to me (and to many) and a fine scholar. The best early modernist to come out of SE London (a joke he would appreciate). www.abdn.ac.uk/cems/

Excellent content here

I would love to see a project that mapped the contents of recipe books to locations to see if collections are curated specifically to manage particular environments

Keep getting this when trying to access Folger website: any ideas?

Lovely manicules in Wellcome Ms 373, recipe book of Jane Jackson

This almond butter sounds delicious (Jane Parker, Wellcome 3769, 1651)

Irish historians! Has anyone worked on the O’Hara papers (Annaghmore)in NLI? (This is the kind of query that Bríd McGrath would have been able to answer RIP

In more exciting Anne Southwell news, @luckyj1.bsky.social Vicki Burke and I are delighted to be publishing a volume of essays on this most interesting poet - with a stellar cast of contributors

This is an important and interesting piece (and I disagree profoundly with BoB on many things) Amid the tricolours of Dublin’s inner city, 50 faith communities are doing vital work www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Interesting piece - worth taking the time to read The Cops have failed: it’s time for a big dose of climate realism www.thetimes.com/article/ceee...

This last week I’ve heard of two friends my age dead from cancer. A sobering reminder to live life to the full - as they both did x

I have written quite lot of a longish book but about a chapter or so away from a first full draft I seem to have lost motivation. Help!

I wonder how long it will take my university (which was founded by Newman) to out this up on the website in preference to the latest spin out or industry collaboration? Pope Leo’s remarks are a welcome reminder of the mission of universities www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Can we stop with the Andrew is “one of us” language? He is not our moral equal, far from it.

Recipe books are just wild

Ok I’ve just discovered @tropy.bsky.social for organising archive photos. Wow

It’s really striking to me that Catherine Connolly clearly has loads of friends and Heather Humphreys appears not to (I accept that friends may well be a part of her private life and I totally respect that). But it’s interesting

Looking good for Catherine Connolly Presidential election count: Early tallies show Connolly on course for emphatic victory www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

I feel seen

In town browsing the early modern Irish history shelves as you do and reminded again of Bríd McGrath’s tangible and intangible impact of all of us who work on this stuff. I’d love to have heard her views on today’s election

@huntingrebels.bsky.social fab to see you on the telly tonight! Hope all well

100% not that our overlords recognise this form of permanent knowledge creation - editions are never properly acknowledged in research exercises or promotions

The Lord’s Prayer written on a scrap of paper pinned to a page at the start of a recipe book (Joanna Sudell 1688, Clark Library UCLA)

Yum (Elizabeth Maynard, 1698, digitized ms Lilly Library Indiana University)

My favourite cat (he follows me up the road even if I’m in the car) though he doesn’t like the young ones and gives them (and our house) a wide berth other than coming by for food

The silver hands holding this ms are a bit spooky

Any early modernists in Princeton who could look at a ms for me?

In full flight (and full academic dress) at Anna-Rose Shack’s PhD defence. A wonderful occasion and an excellent thesis!