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

Doing a WSC talk for ‘Reclaim the Enlightenment’ Belfast on Wednesday evening at 6pm if anyone’s interested reclaimtheenlightenment.net

In case you missed it: our latest report explores a growing crisis in universities. In many regions, students risk losing access to vital humanities, social science and arts subjects. Swipe to see our key findings and recommendations.

This week, the Society's President Lucy Noakes wrote in response to Bridget Phillipson's Labour conference speech - and its implications for history and the humanities in UK higher education bit.ly/3KBX7Fw #Skystorians

Just bought this and am really looking forward to reading it. A vital and much-neglected subject bsky.app/profile/marc...

"O then, tell me Sean O'Farrell, tell me why you hurry so?" "Why to buy that book on the peasantry, it's got me all aglow!

This might be my favourite historical ad

^a rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings" From the Clydeside to you... Hailed by the NYT as the finest speech since the Gettysburg Address. speakola.com/political/ji...

The top 1% in the US have now a record $52 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% have about $4 trillion.

If you need a pick me up this rainy afternoon, here's some colourful stories of sex & C18th Ulster Presbyterians to whet your appetite! #HistSex #HistFam @unioflimerick.bsky.social @ria.ie @theconversation.com theconversation.com/the-sex-live...

The kids are alright

Raise your hand if you think the parlement in 1788 calling for the forms of 1614 for the Estates General was about a genuine political belief in an interpretation of the constitution: 0 Raise your hand if you belief it was about securing the class interests and dominance of the aristocracy: all

Many thanks to the editors at the @historicaljnl.bsky.social blog for publishing this short piece, and to @ellasbaraini.bsky.social for her help with it. My recent article, and one of the central ideas of the book manuscript I’m currently working on, in a nutshell. www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

Imagine importing the concept of spice bags from Ireland but not pastie suppers 😭😭😭😭

Sometimes, I still can't believe that my Marxist-Leninist and Political Science and Philosophy professor grandfather, made me read Hegel at 17 years old. And get this, it was like, maybe, six years later that I started to understand some (not even all) of what I read. Like, wtf?! Damn!!

Published this month: 'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940', by Gareth Roddy bit.ly/48Hkjfu The next in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' book series, available from 30 October: Open Access and paperback print @uolpress.bsky.social #Skystorians

1950s Ireland, when capital was the key to matrimony.

Teaching fellow role for six months in Department of History MIC Limerick www.mic.ul.ie/about-mic/va...

I wrote a blog post on my recent @historicaljnl.bsky.social article. The concept of an imperial public sphere can help to explain the imperial crisis, but does it have utility beyond the 18C.? Can it increase our understanding of the Commonwealth and decolonization? www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

The newspaper vs. the pamphlet - from a letter to William Blackstone by Junius, 1769

Yesterday I heard a radio presenter say that Sarkozy's sentence was the most severe sanction ever imposed on a French head of state ...

'Counting the Stakes: A Reassessment of Vlad III Dracula': new in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/46iJfIU In this new article, Dénes Harai reconsiders the victims of 'Vlad the Impaler' (c.1431-76), the historical inspiration for Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula #Skystorians 1/2

A spectre is haunting Eurostar.

On a train to Paris in carriage 18, seat 71.

Later Dr Robert Vaughn for "The Influence of the House Committee on Un-American Activities on the American Theater 1938–58"

Increase in productivity since 1979: 87% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

Louis Cullen is a Retired Professor of Modern Irish History, @tcddublin.bsky.social Learn more about his research here: https://www.ria.ie/blog/louis-cullen-mria-historian/ #RoyalIrishAcademy #RIAGoldMedal

As we head into Rosh Hashanah, a very important point of order from Canadian Senate Hansard (1984) :p

putting all my old pdfs in a box outside my office door, for the grad students

My mother went to Talcott Parsons' lectures c. 1950 and with a friend actually made a little money by typing up comprehensible summaries and selling them to fellow grad students.

My latest article now out in Eighteenth-Century Ireland my first and probably last foray into Swift Studies liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/10.3828/...

Excited to release the conference programme for 'Ireland and the American Revolution: 250th Anniversary Perspectives'. There are only a few tickets left, so if you would like to attend I would suggest getting one as soon as possible. Attendance is free but booking is essential.

this is pretty amazing. my Nonna (b. 1921) remembered being told about the 1848 uprisings by an elderly woman who'd walked past the barricades in the streets of Milan as a girl

A reminder of the really revolutionary part of late C19th/early C20th Irish history. Also a reminder that if the United Irishmen had succeeded, TCD probably wouldn't have kept its land

Appetite whetted gizmodo.com/colman-domin...

Why is is so hard for people to say these words?: Lough Neagh, the UK's biggest lake, is being killed by *livestock farms*.

Contemporary version of Rousseau’s point that others should have pulled up the fence posts when the first person claimed land as their own.

Obviously no self-proclaimed leftwing British historians - for whom it is all Britain - were present

For amusement, whenever you see interviewers and interviewees on a programme, look them up on Wikipedia and see just how closely connected they are.

Does no-one read What is to be Done any nore?

In order to improve impression of Queen's Colleges with the Catholic Church, Sir Robert Kane (UCC's first President) had his inaugural address translated into Italian by the TCD Professor, Signor Basilio Angeli. But the translation was so bad that TCD fired Angeli for being incompetent.

Taking his next holiday in Belfast then

Get your tickets for 'Ireland and the American Revolution: 250th Anniversary Perspectives'. Prof. Eliga Gould and Prof. Nicholas Canny will be giving keynotes. Full conference programme coming soon. Link 👇 www.eventbrite.ie/e/ireland-an...

Plus ca change ... (Irish print from c.1777, British Museum) a.k.a. 'notions'

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

A more unambiguous pro-Volunteer print from 1782, 'The rescue. A volunteer delivering Hibernia from the claws of the lion' (also BM)

AI-assisted design hits another one out of the park

Totally missed the Great Fear stuff. Thankfully. Though when talking abiut Fake News to students, been known to start with Virgil's description of Fama from the Aeneid. Beats mathematical moddelling anytine