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Evan Bourke
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Early modernist. GOI Postdoc at Maynooth University. Women's writing, epistolary culture, DH, network visualisation, reception studies. Formerly RECIRC and MACMORRIS.
Pinned
Our Element on Macmorris’s Deep Map has just been published and is open-access until the end of the month. Really enjoyed the collaborative process involved in both the building of the map and the writing of this book!
Decolonial Deep Mapping
Cambridge Core - English Literature after 1945 - Decolonial Deep Mapping
www.cambridge.org
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Podcasts from this year's Tudor and Stuart Ireland conference @ucddublin.bsky.social are now available. Thanks to Mike Liffey @historyhub.bsky.social for making us all sounds so crisp historyhub.ie/tudor-and-st...
Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference Podcasts
Since 2011, more than 200 speakers from a range of disciplines including History, English, Archaeology and Art History, have presented papers at Tudor and Stuart Ireland conferences. Download podcasts...
historyhub.ie
October 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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It's very sad to have the news of Bríd McGrath's death. She was an indefatigable editor for @irishmanuscripts.bsky.social

See our tribute to her here:

www.irishmanuscripts.ie/brid-mcgrath/
Bríd McGrath - Irish Manuscripts
Bríd at the launch of her edition in Clonmel in June 2006. It is with great sadness that we have learned of the death of Dr Bríd McGrath, editor of four IMC editions. On behalf of the Chair and member...
www.irishmanuscripts.ie
August 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Our Element on Macmorris’s Deep Map has just been published and is open-access until the end of the month. Really enjoyed the collaborative process involved in both the building of the map and the writing of this book!
Decolonial Deep Mapping
Cambridge Core - English Literature after 1945 - Decolonial Deep Mapping
www.cambridge.org
July 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Anois ar fáil ar léamh.org, sliocht ó dhán polaitiúil ón 17ú Aois a cumadh do Maol Muire Mac Suibhne. Ár mbuíochas le @ciaranimhurchu.bsky.social as an obair iontach ar fad lena chur in eagar. Caith súil air anseo xn--lamh-bpa.org/texts/cuid-r...
July 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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The CFP for the 2025 Tudor & Stuart Ireland conference is now open. TSIXIII will take place at University College Dublin on 21-22 August, so please join us. All details are in the link, but get please get in touch if you have any questions. tudorstuartireland.com
Tudor and Stuart Ireland
Post by @TudorStuartIre.
tudorstuartireland.com
April 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
From the Tudor part of the Christmas festival to the Tractor part.
December 14, 2024 at 7:57 PM
Macmorris roadshow in Ormond Castle today. Not often can I just point to the walls to supplement slides.
December 14, 2024 at 3:16 PM
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Heading in on this blustery day for a great line up of speakers at the Irish Renaissance Seminar. A day to be indoors #earlymodern #womenswriting #woeisshe
November 23, 2024 at 8:33 AM
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Big news: after years of organizing workshops, archaeologists and historians are joining forces to offer a summer school in network analysis!
www.pastnetworks.net
25-29.06.2024, Barcelona
with Marten Düring, Tom Brughmans, Cindarella Petz, Albert Diaz-Guilera, Luce Prignano, Matteo Mazzamurro and me
November 9, 2023 at 10:48 AM
This year's Tudor and Stuart Ireland podcasts are now live! They include a conversation with Pat Palmer on Macmorris and the first panel fully in Irish - have a listen here: soundcloud.com/history-hub/...
2023 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference
The first Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference took place in UCD in 2011 and Tudor & Stuart Ireland organises a major two-day interdisciplinary conference in August each year, which provides opportunit
soundcloud.com
October 20, 2023 at 11:56 AM
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Mini-thread! It’s publication day for Tudor Networks of Power, which I co-wrote with Sebastian Ahnert. We are really proud of this book, which brings methods from network science to the study of 130k early modern letters But it’s not just a book! global.oup.com/academic/pro... 1/8
October 12, 2023 at 12:56 PM
New blog post I wrote for the DIB about Macmorris’s use of their data and networks of early modern Ireland. macmorris.maynoothuniversity.ie #earlymodern
MACMORRIS and the DIB: constructing an interactive network graph of early modern Ireland | Dictionar...
www.dib.ie
October 9, 2023 at 9:06 AM
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Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online emco.swansea.ac.uk/home/ 🗃#c18th
Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online
A digital edition of the complete letters of Elizabeth Montagu 1718-1800 - ISSN 2753-9091
emco.swansea.ac.uk
October 4, 2023 at 4:48 AM
Galway bound for a few days - do love going back!
September 28, 2023 at 12:32 PM
Fun time earlier at the great greyhound walk - she is zoned out on the couch now.
September 24, 2023 at 7:12 PM
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We're hiring up to four postdoc researchers to work on Written Worlds in 17th-century England at Birkbeck, led by Sue Wiseman (PI) and me (CI), focusing on #EarlyModern non-elite writers.

£42K pro rata; 0.5FTE for 25 months, starting mid-Nov. Apply by 22 Oct: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...
September 22, 2023 at 9:13 AM
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Introducing our big new Humanities project at Stanford—SILICON—to join the efforts for language inclusion in old and new media: silicon.stanford.edu
SILICON project
silicon.stanford.edu
September 20, 2023 at 8:43 PM
Getting used to how this place differs from the other place. Do quite like how you can pin the different ‘feeds’ - hopefully they will build as more people come over.
September 20, 2023 at 6:06 PM