‘In one of the more unintentionally hilarious sequences, Ms Guinness visits a village in “Connacht, Co Mayo” and is shocked to discover that a famine took place several years earlier and that everyone speaks Irish. These and other scenes left me crying out for a nice cold, creamy pint of Beamish.’

Cannot stress enough how it is already possible to report potholes www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Welcome back, old friend

Shein goes without saying, of course.

“The paracetamol theory is only the latest chapter in a long history of misogyny and blame dressed up as science. Before this it was vaccines. Before that it was the poisonous 'refrigerator mother' theory” www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Anyone who buys clothes from Tesco, M&S, Dunnes or Penneys/Primark (Dunnes in particular) should watch @rte.ie Primetime's meticulously researched expose of forced labour in cotton production in China and how it gets into Irish and UK shops. You'll find it on RTE player.

Iona members always look like the villains who spend the entirety of a kid's movie trying to demolish an orphanage to make room for their casino only to be foiled by a ragtag group of children and their talking dog

A ‘well-orchestrated campaign to keep out Independent candidates’, or as we in Ireland like to call it, a ‘democratic election’. #SpeirGorm

Throughout the 20th Century, unmarried mothers endured shame and institutionalisation. In Single Mothers in Twentieth-century Ireland and Britain, @lorrainegrimes.bsky.social examines the journeys made by hundreds of pregnant Irish women to Britain. Out now: https://bit.ly/4lAg9cf

'Even when women were mentioned, the report found they were more often victims than protagonists, with the women murdered by Jack the Ripper more likely to be taught in lessons than the female code breakers at Bletchley Park during the second world war 1/2

Iona Institute leaflet

I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Incredible stuff

Charlemont Grants scheme is open to applications until 23 October. This scheme is a travel grant awarded to outstanding early career researchers working in the humanities, social sciences, or sciences. Learn more here: https://www.ria.ie/grants/charlemont-grants/ @lswalescddcymru.bsky.social

To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

It was a beautiful day for welcoming the new cohort of MA Folklore Studies students to campus at the University of Hertfordshire AND for publishing a folklore book with @manchesterup.bsky.social - which you can buy now! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180377/

RAPTCHA

AN #EARLYMODERN POST!! They still exist! And a lovely one at that, for five years and with the brilliant people at KCL who have turned that place in quite the hub of exciting early modern research. Run, don’t walk.

And of course it’s not just pain! Even if you think ppl should just suck it up and deal with the pain of like, a broken rib or dislocated joint or whatever- it’s a fever reducer. You know what can actually be harmful to a foetus? Uncontrolled fever. This is cruel but also dangerous.

"Fight the pain" Pay close attention to this kind of language because normalising and/or belittling women's pain is rank misogyny

Delighted to share that my first book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England (co-written with the fantastic @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, and Hannah Robb) has been published and is available free and Open Access! doi.org/10.1017/9781... #earlymodern #economic #history

Look at our lovely autumn/winter @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar schedule, including talks from @bamcshane.bsky.social @jeroenputtevils.bsky.social @rubenros.bsky.social @thomassmits.bsky.social @melvinwevers.bsky.social and more! #dhist

All this talk of the Rapture reminded me of this 1956 social psychology classic: When Prophecy Fails by Festinger, Riecken and Schachter. Their 5 conditions /reasons why people hold onto beliefs also seem helpful for our current times .... 1/2

The irony of a show full of people wanting to win a house deposit being murdered one by one by an estate agent #TraitorsIRL

You have no idea how much I despite these anti-science dipshits for making pregnant women terrified of taking (safe, mild, proven) pain relief.

#TraitorsIRL predictions - Nick and Ben are criticized for building a tree house on the grounds of Slane castle and hanging a "No girlz aloud" sign outside it. - Wilkin walks in on them planning a murder but they are able to convince him they were rehearsing a play.

It's disgusting that a man can he prevented from running for President just because nobody has heard of him and he's never done anything or filed the required paperwork

Democracy, baby.

“What fascisms old and new have in common is they tend to look to women to fill in the gaps that the state misses." And, I'd add, they get women to fill these gaps by making patriarchy's coattails the only way means by which women can achieve security or esteem. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

#DigitalHumanities @ucc.ie has a two-year postdoc suited to researchers from broad range of disciplines. my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru... Key tasks include coordinating a national survey of digital heritage practices & assisting with prototype development for communit archives. Deadline: Oct 3rd.

Ní bheidh do leithéid arís ann - agus is leor sin.

everything changed, everything destroyed, everything gone

Has anyone got ideas on these distinctive tombstones? Does this style appear anywhere else?

Can’t help but feel that we are living in an era of overwhelming anti-intellectualism on every front, with AI being the corporate vanguard of this cultural emptiness.

Always love a couple of Irish mammies in a long queue commenting loudly on the lovely hairstyle of someone else in the queue, and various updates on people on Facebook. 'She's gotten very old looking'; 'And she got home and there he was, dead' (cat, not husband).

Absolutely wild. Israel targeted and massacred 31 journalists and media staff in Yemen. The second-deadliest attack on journalists ever recorded. The Israeli regime is built on war crimes.

In this one a doctor talks about doing an emergency c-section on a beheaded woman to deliver her baby.

""Palestinian doctor Moatasem Mustafa Abdelhamid Ayad has died from severe burns after the Israeli army targeted his home in Tel al-Hawa, west of Gaza City."

I opened up substack to write a rant about astrology, but someone had already done it. Thank fuck, because it is on my very last nerve. adamgrant.substack.com/p/we-need-to...

The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) has published new tutorial videos focusing on searching BBIH and using BBIH to research the histories of race and ethnicity, gender, LGBTQ+, emotions, social class, and health.

Delighted to receive copies of my very first publication hot off the press. Thanks to Michael Potterton @maynoothuniversity.ie and Anthony @fourcourtspress. Without @clodaghtait.bsky.social this work would not have been completed. @ulhistory.bsky.social #miclimerick

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

Today, at long last, is publication day for @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social's Cultural History of Magic. I contributed a chapter to the volume on the Enlightenment, which features a case study on the prosecution and decriminalisation of magical acts in Lithuania www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...

Very much enjoying the culture of trust and respect implicit in the installation of room usage monitoring devices on academics' office doors today. Imagine my shock on discovering that managers' doors remain unsullied…

Blingtastic!

For some inexplicable reason, this brilliant 1938 anti-Appeasement cartoon by the great David Low came to mind when I looked at the list of the Mega-Powerful / Hyper-Rich at yesterday’s Windsor Castle nosh up for our superhuman masters.

A great lineup for this semester's Department of History Research Seminar in Maynooth. This is open to all so do join us and please share widely.