Danielle Clarke
@rhetorician.bsky.social
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early modernist at UCD; Dublin, London. Beer, bikes, books. Queer is my DNA. All views my own
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Brian Gormley D7
2 days ago
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
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@sarahcomyn.bsky.social
long before your period but you might find some of these articles interesting
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2 days ago
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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 BrĂd McGrath for her wisdom, generosity and dedication to all the things that matter.
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Out for a bit of shopping and a sneaky afternoon pint with my missus
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Photo story: Futureproofing a 700-year-old manuscript
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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Photo story: Futureproofing a 700-year-old manuscript
A replica of the ancient text forms part of an exhibition exploring Medieval Kilkenny through the lens of Bishop Richard Ledrede
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2025/12/27/photo-story-futureproofing-a-700-year-old-manuscript/
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Ada Lovelace Day
9 days ago
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...
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Prof Marie Maynard Daly, Biochemist
Marie Maynard Daly was a biochemist who co-discovered the link between high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and the clogged arteries that can cause heart disease and strokes.
https://adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/prof-marie-maynard-daly-biochemist
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I do love that on 23rd December hodges figgis in Dublin is absolutely mobbed
#dublin
#booklovers
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#heritageireland
watching the livestream from Newgrange on the winter solstice is absolutely part of Christmas now
www.gov.ie/en/office-of...
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Experience the Winter Solstice live from Newgrange
This rare phenomenon, which has captivated visitors for generations, marks the shortest day of the year
https://www.gov.ie/en/office-of-public-works/press-releases/experience-the-winter-solstice-live-from-newgrange-livestream-link-now-available/
15 days ago
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Phil McDuff
17 days ago
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.
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Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026)
18 days ago
Greetings check this out: Amplifying voices is a new Cambridge grant to help under-represented scholars publish. Apply!!!
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
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Amplifying voices
New Cambridge grant to help under-represented scholars publish
https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/about-us/news-and-blogs/amplifying-voices?utm_date=20251217&utm_id=1765990262&utm_campaign=&utm_source=bluesky,facebook,linkedin,threads,twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
People are disgusting. We are so awful
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âMagicalâ galaxy frogs disappear after reports of photographers destroying their habitats
Researcher in Kerala rainforest sounds alarm after being told frogs had died after being handled by humans
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/17/galaxy-frogs-disappear-photographers-habitat-kerala?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
19 days ago
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Itâs not a sine qua non but I particularly enjoy it when a novel sends me to the dictionary- so hats off to Sarah Hallâs incredible Helm. An absolute epic of a novel - so inventive and poetic.
23 days ago
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Whatever else you might say about it, at least my book ms contains the word âboustrophedonicallyâ in an actual sentence. What a word!
25 days ago
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#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 isnât covered by current options?
26 days ago
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Proofs! An error in first paragraph đ
26 days ago
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This is very enjoyable- to be added to the pantheon of editing projects gone rogue.
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Natalya D
about 1 month ago
Don't cross the picket line at the British Library, their staff are on strike and need our support.
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So Iâm 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?
about 1 month ago
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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
about 1 month ago
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Clodagh Tait
about 1 month ago
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...
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4th Winter School in Archival Research Skills & Book History, 2-3 December 2025
Centre for Early Modern Studies, Limerick 4th Winter School in Archival Research Skills & Book History, 2â3 December 2025 Special Collections & Archives Training Room, Glucksman Library (GLâŠ
https://emslimerick.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/4th-winter-school-in-archival-research-skills-book-histour-2-3-december-2025/
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Itâs still mad to me that a sandwich costs âŹ9.50!
about 1 month ago
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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/
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Centre for Early Modern Studies | The University of Aberdeen
The Centre for Early Modern Studies brings together the Universityâs early modern scholars, both established and emergent, and fosters collaborative research.
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/cems/
about 1 month ago
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Do you feel lucky? Why acknowledging our own good fortune would make the world a better place | Julian Richer
I have been fortunate, and I know it. Now Iâd like more successful people to admit that meritocracy is a myth, says Julian Richer, founder of Richer Sounds
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/17/luck-good-fortune-world-success-people?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
about 1 month ago
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Excellent content here
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about 1 month ago
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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
about 2 months ago
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Keep getting this when trying to access Folger website: any ideas?
about 2 months ago
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Lovely manicules in Wellcome Ms 373, recipe book of Jane Jackson
about 2 months ago
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This almond butter sounds delicious (Jane Parker, Wellcome 3769, 1651)
about 2 months ago
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Irish historians! Has anyone worked on the OâHara papers (Annaghmore)in NLI? (This is the kind of query that BrĂd McGrath would have been able to answer RIP
about 2 months ago
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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
about 2 months ago
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This is an important and interesting piece (and I disagree profoundly with BoB on many things) Amid the tricolours of Dublinâs inner city, 50 faith communities are doing vital work
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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Breda O'Brien: Not far from the tricolours of Dublinâs inner city, 50 faith communities are doing vital work
Irish people should understand their importance â from Kilburn to Canberra, our diaspora for generations sought out Catholic churches as bridges to their new lives
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/11/09/breda-obrien-not-far-from-the-tricolours-of-dublins-inner-city-50-faith-communities-are-doing-vital-work/
about 2 months ago
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Interesting piece - worth taking the time to read The Cops have failed: itâs time for a big dose of climate realism
www.thetimes.com/article/ceee...
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The Cops have failed: itâs time for a big dose of climate realism
Ed Miliband is the latest energy secretary to focus on a net zero policy that doesnât add up. Leaders gathering in Brazil must start asking the right questions
https://www.thetimes.com/article/ceee0ab6-20c6-40e6-8291-fcae03d0a7e6?shareToken=46aa42f59b2568e02f2eb2206ef7a876
about 2 months ago
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This last week Iâve heard of two friends my age dead from cancer. A sobering reminder to live life to the full - as they both did x
2 months ago
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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!
2 months ago
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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 Leoâs remarks are a welcome reminder of the mission of universities
www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
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Pope Leo XIV: Newman, Doctor of the Church - A light for the new generations - Vatican News
During the Mass on the Solemnity of All Saints, also the culmination of the Jubilee of the World of Education, Pope Leo XIV proclaims Saint John Henry ...
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-11/pope-leo-newman-doctor-church-light-new-generations.html
2 months ago
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Can we stop with the Andrew is âone of usâ language? He is not our moral equal, far from it.
2 months ago
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Recipe books are just wild
2 months ago
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Ok Iâve just discovered
@tropy.bsky.social
for organising archive photos. Wow
2 months ago
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Itâs 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 itâs interesting
2 months ago
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Looking good for Catherine Connolly Presidential election count: Early tallies show Connolly on course for emphatic victory
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
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Presidential election count: Early tallies show Connolly on course for emphatic victory
Tallies show Connolly is polling extremely strongly and significantly ahead of Humphreys
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/10/25/irish-presidential-election-count-results-catherine-connolly-heather-humphreys/
2 months ago
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I feel seen
2 months ago
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In town browsing the early modern Irish history shelves as you do and reminded again of BrĂd McGrathâs tangible and intangible impact of all of us who work on this stuff. Iâd love to have heard her views on todayâs election
2 months ago
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@huntingrebels.bsky.social
fab to see you on the telly tonight! Hope all well
3 months ago
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100% not that our overlords recognise this form of permanent knowledge creation - editions are never properly acknowledged in research exercises or promotions
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3 months ago
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The Lordâs Prayer written on a scrap of paper pinned to a page at the start of a recipe book (Joanna Sudell 1688, Clark Library UCLA)
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Yum (Elizabeth Maynard, 1698, digitized ms Lilly Library Indiana University)
3 months ago
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My favourite cat (he follows me up the road even if Iâm in the car) though he doesnât like the young ones and gives them (and our house) a wide berth other than coming by for food
3 months ago
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The silver hands holding this ms are a bit spooky
3 months ago
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Any early modernists in Princeton who could look at a ms for me?
3 months ago
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In full flight (and full academic dress) at Anna-Rose Shackâs PhD defence. A wonderful occasion and an excellent thesis!
3 months ago
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