If you can help, please do make contact with Elliot.

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O Canada!

I put the bins out. Today’s achievement

Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Please disseminate: www.stuarthallfoundation.org/foundation/s...

Nanoplastics contributing to rise in Alzheimer’s, TCD research finds www.irishtimes.com/science/2025... Alarming and fascinating - and it’s good to see the student who originated this research acknowledged here

New Slow Horses series starts September 24th. Perfect

It’s starting to look like a book!

Calling #earlymodern and historians of religion! I'm looking for work on food, eating and fasting among religious radicals around 1700. I've found some work on Jansenists and Pietists, but would love to know more about all the other groups out there. Very grateful for any ideas! #foodhistory

Ah south east London; where 2 blokes have a casual chat about murder charges

College tech tips: Laptop or tablet? Plus, power packs, headphones and AI advice www.irishtimes.com/technology/2... The AI “advice” has no critique at all only the rider “if your course allows it”.

Well just pressed send on the @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social draft Athena Swan Bronze application. My thanks to the best team ever and to all my colleagues for their questions and support

This was absolutely brilliant - loved every minute podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/c...

New year, new notebook

As many of you know I am x % through a big book on #earlymodern women’s writing. It aims to link what we might call quotidian or everyday writing with poetic and literary forms. The former is heavily dependent on ms material, mostly unedited so quoted semi diplomatically. Grand. 1/3

All eyes on The Global Sumud Flotilla sailing to break the Israeli occupation's illegal siege on Gaza. Sign & share to show your support. my.uplift.ie/petitions/i-... @uplift.ie

One of my most hated phrases in academic writing (including my one) is “of course” - if it’s that fucking obvious why tell us? And if it’s not then why make the reader feel bad because your train of thought is not their train of thought

Sometimes it’s easy to overlook just how good a poet Katherine Philips is: “O swift vicissitude of human joy”

I am pissed off with everything today so I am going to cook things

Really fabulous lunch in Note in Dublin; girolles and poached egg yolk; monkfish, coco beans, tomato and oregano; coffee, chocolate, buckwheat <swoon> and a delicious Sicilian white.

Now that terms and semesters are in full swing, giving this cfp a boost. Speaking as one of the editors, we'd love to consider your work on the topic of "Early Modern Women and Migrancy." Our Forum feature is a great way to try out ideas in a shorter-length format. #earlymodern

Well for the first time in my entire career I have no students signed up for my 3rd year module on 17th century women’s writing. Am officially a 🦕

Beef or salmon? A disappearing menu choice as restaurateurs battle rising prices www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

Is there anyone in Ireland who objects to parity for school secretaries and caretakers?

amp.rte.ie/amp/1530598/ very proud of my colleagues across the HE sector and Ireland and the various NGOs who worked so hard to get these students here. May they thrive and heal and grow

Suggestions for #earlymodern poems - elegies - that use a financial language of debt and obligation? I’ve several examples by female authors but need to contextualise them more broadly.

I am unable to understand why @ucddublin.bsky.social starts teaching term on sept 8 when CAO round 2 offers come out on that day. Why not push back by at least a week? It just creates extra work for everyone and difficulty for students and their families

From personalised tutoring to improved accessibility, why AI can democratise higher education www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025... “Transitional worries about cheating.” I can’t see anything convincing here. Re inequality AI is hugely resource hungry & seems likely to level anything except the planet

I mean, just why? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I spent some time yesterday talking about numbers and accounting as a key discourse of colonial oppression in 17c Ireland but cannot escape the numerical definitions of famine and genocide in Gaza: arm circumference of toddlers, number of deaths in a day. Read Jennifer Morgan Reckoning with Slavery

Does the Leaving Cert prepare you for life? A school principal and well-known singer debate www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

New (to me) beach in east cork, Ballycroneen

Today I am going to pick blackberries

@earlymodlancs.bsky.social have you read Endling? On the Booker longlist? I think you’d love it

Taking great pleasure tonight in some good news for a truly excellent person

I am so sorry to hear of the death of my friend Bríd McGrath whose intellect, extensive knowledge and generosity I will miss. Along with her love of red wine and puncturing sloppy thinking and pomposity rip.ie/death-notice...

Teenagers can be challenging but I’ve just spent 10 minutes texting back and forth with my 16 year old about a pair of buzzards she saw from the train and I can’t think of anything better

Gideon Levy is one of the most important voices - he’s been on @rte.ie for months and the uk media have just discovered him afaik

Many excellent points from @simonlewis.ie in the Irish times on school holidays. One small peeve - 3rd level lecturers spend most of the summer doing cpd and scrabbling to get the other 40% of their job done eg research.

Most enjoyable!

'Diasporic documents from the Gaelic Atlantic' - a one-day, in-person workshop at the University of Edinburgh on 5 September. Tuilleadh fiosrachaidh | More information 👇

So searching around for the name of something this morning (as you do) I found myself saying “you know, the yokeamujig”. Truly I am a hybrid now.

New: 'The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)' bit.ly/4mtRQgS The Society's latest Camden volume of primary sources presents the 115 holograph letters of Margaret Tudor. This new edition, by Helen Newsome-Chandler, is an unprecedented epistolary archive 1/2 #Skystorians

We're recruiting for a new role in the Early Modern team at TNA to help us integrate the Parliamentary Archives. I'm looking for someone with an expertise in pre-modern Westminster Parliament so we can join the executive, legislative and judicial collections www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...

I didn’t bring much from my mother’s house but this bookcase, made by my grandfather, has seamlessly integrated into my working life. It gives me much pleasure.

In the death registers of early modern Venice, marginalia often marks the cause of death: drawings of daggers for murders, for instance. In 1696, Giovanni Battista Rinaldi was killed by a dog. This is the drawing by his entry.

Great to see this blog on Anne Waller’s (Harcourt) sermon notes in the BL blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/...

Interesting that something I do for free in Ireland (reviewing EU funding applications, mock interview) is paid work at institutions in Europe.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... beyond disgusting - I can’t find words for this

One month being off is whatever, I figure after 3 in a row and a downward trend I should say something! I’d like Little Deer to be here next summer. If you would also like that consider shopping with us! And bringing others to shop with us! Tell friends and strangers about littledeercomics.ie