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Today’s research mystery: why would an eighteenth century lease mandate the drinking of a barrel of ale at a particular spot ‘and not elsewhere’ in Co Down. Registry of Deeds collection on @virtualtreasury.bsky.social keeps giving. Also bring back this tradition

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Todays find in @virtualtreasury.bsky.social deeds collection: a memorial of a deed made by a ship’s mate of a private ship of war (privateer),The Boyne demanding his share of the captured loot in 1758 virtualtreasury.ie/item/ROD-PR-...

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This article reads basically as a sort of infomercial for AI. Ie students aren’t going to stop using it so you need to start teaching with it (whatever that means). All this phrasing around inevitability ‘it’s not going to go away’ which is actually intended to drive up usage

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CFP: Public History in an Age of Anxiety, QUB, 9-11 Sept. 2025

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Copyediting forthcoming Entangled Alliances @cornellupress.bsky.social & revisited Cato's Letters no. 60 (1721). 📚 It hits differently: "Societies lay Restraints upon publick Servants, and put Checks upon those who would otherwise put Chains upon them."

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Calling all eighteenth-century Ireland scholars! You still have time to submit proposals for the annual ECIS conference to @speakerconolly.bsky.social & myself before our deadline tomorrow. Postgrad bursaries also available!

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I wrote this short piece about fascism, far right politics and normalisation a few years ago. Depressing to cone across it again and find it’s even more relevant now

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Northern Ireland Museum to return more human remains to Hawai’i www.bbc.com/news/article...

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“We are not asking for favors. We are seeking justice for the people whose suffering built Harvard into what it is today... Our ancestors worked for centuries without pay, and their labor fueled Harvard’s early development.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Just received a certificate of achievement for acting as a peer reviewer for a Wiley journal. Weird way to acknowledge unpaid reviewer labour. Like a grown up lolipop!

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This is going to be really good!

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CFP: 'Ireland and the American Revolution'. The organisers invite submissions for papers to be presented at a conference held in the Trinity Long Room Hub at Trinity College Dublin on the 9-10 October 2025. If you are interested submit an abstract of 250 words and a brief bio by the 1 May 2025.

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Looking for some case studies in the Registry of Deeds for something I am writing and found a Patrick Walsh as the beneficiary of a will in 1709! virtualtreasury.ie/item/ROD-PR-... @virtualtreasury.bsky.social

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Great PhD opportunity here on a fascinating topic.

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Submissions are now open for the Irish Historical Studies First Book Prize 2024 - for an academic book on an Irish / Irish Diasporic historical subject published by an Irish resident in 2024 as their first scholarly book #IrishHistory. Closes 1 March. usihs36.com/2025/02/03/i...

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Great to see a review of my @historytcd.bsky.social colleague @ciaranon.bsky.social’s brilliant new book on today’s Irish Times. Power and Powerlessness in Union Ireland: illuminating Ireland pre-independence www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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Come join us at @historytcd.bsky.social

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Exciting to see this very stylish new book arrive in the post today, with my chapter on ‘love in families’. Looking forward to reading the rest of it now!

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Northern Ireland’s historic houses have a complex and contested past. But can they become spaces today for exploring understandings of identity and belonging and building social cohesion? That’s what our new public history project is exploring. Read more here treatiedspaces.com/historic-hou...

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virtualtreasury.ie/vt102-release

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Legacy work needs to have a secure foundation for the future and should help shape future policies. This news from Harvard is depressing but sadly not surprising in current political climate.

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Looking forward to the annual conference of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society, which is taking place in the @tlrhub.bsky.social at Trinity College Dublin on the 5-6 June this year. See the CFP below and there are postgraduate bursaries.

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Delighted to announce the call for papers for this year’s Eighteenth Century Ireland Conference @tlrhub.bsky.social co-organised by Aileen Douglas, @amyprendergast.bsky.social snd myself. www.ecis.ie/annual-confe...

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Excellent piece by my colleague @historytcd.bsky.social Prof Dan Geary in settler colonial language of yesterday’s inaugural speech. It also made my class on settler colonial narratives with @ciaranon.bsky.social and our brilliant final year students today: www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

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This is glorious from Ken Early: Denis Law one of the very best in the days when players were the only ones who mattered www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer...

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I'm delighted to share the advert for a collaborative PhD which I'll be co-supervising with Dr Paddy Fitzgerald of the Mellon Centre for Migration Studies (Omagh). This project, 'Finding "home" in a cultural landscape of migration & belonging' has a deadline of 10 March www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...

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Talking about The State, willful subjects and Irish historiography with @ciaranon.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/power-and-po...

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‘The Tree Hunters’ Glasnevin focus is gratifying but it barely glances at the calamities created by colonialist adventurers’

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Finished reading David Peace’s excellent Munichs last night. Really immersive and a book that will stick with me for a while.

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For the sake of Dublin-centric balance, here are a bunch of UCD students dressed up as the KKK in 1923. Your guess is as good as mine 🤷🏻‍♀️ www.britishpathe.com/asset/50447/

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Every now and then somebody sends us something for the Trinity colonial legacies project that genuinely stops us in our tracks. Exhibit A: (courtesy of Pathé reels) Trinity students dressed up in blackface and many other racial stereotypes (1926). www.britishpathe.com/asset/48367/

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The Reappraisals in Irish History series I edit for LUP (with Enda Delaney and Maria Luddy) has now produced 21 brilliant volumes on modern Irish history and culture since 2012. We offer ECR authors a little extra in the way of review and support and hope that it pays dividends for them in the end.

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Lovely light by Lagan as Christmas holidays end

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Ending the year at the Giant’s Ring in Belfast.

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Out and about looking up at splendid trees in Glen of the Downs- stunning place for a post Christmas forest walk

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The trade in opium and the wars for which those profiting by it lobbied, are one the the most significant and yet least acknowledged or understood foundations of the C19 British Empire. Everyone interested in that Empire’s history should read the brilliant @amitav.bsky.social

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The sun comes down on another year! Christmas holidays begin

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