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Catherine Barry, Hume Scholar, working on a PhD at Maynooth University on religious toleration in 18th century Ireland.

#EarlyModern, with a broad interest in Irish intellectual thought.

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A first attempt at a list of philosophy departments and those working on philosophy in the island of Ireland.

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Suggestions for addition and requests for removal gratefully received.

#SpéirGorm
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Profs, Grammarly is NOT the benign writing assistant you may have thought it is, but a powerful cheating machine that includes tools explicitly designed to help students hide the cheating done with it...
Grammarly Is a Cheating Machine - Daily Nous
Grammarly is sometimes thought by instructors to be a relatively benign writing tool app, akin to a sophisticated spelling and grammar checker. That may have once been true, but as Kieran Barker, an e...
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February 17, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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If you missed Robin Usher’s talk on Sir Arthur Chichester and Dublin’s architecture c.1605-15, a recording is available at: m.youtube.com/watch?v=-5nX...
Irish Studies Seminar: Robin Usher 2026/02/16
YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies
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February 18, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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Here is a cool call for the #bookhistory communities: “Women Printing for Institutions in Early Modern Europe”, at the HAB Wolfenbüttel (and organized by Saskia Limbach) in November 2026.

CFP: www.hab.de/wp-content/u...
www.hab.de
February 18, 2026 at 8:17 AM
A fantastic project for someone.

Hibernicus Exul is sometimes identified with Dúngal. Here's a post on Dúngal's work on cosmology.
www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/06/26/d...
February 17, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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I am very excited to see this outstanding opportunity for someone to do a funded PhD in Melbourne, Toronto, and France, supervised by the fantastic @corrigans.bsky.social on the Hibernicus Exul, one of the huge but often overlooked group of Irish scholars and poets at the court of Charlemagne. (1/3)
#MEDIEVAL #LATIN #PHD OPPORTUNITY:
Co-supervised by myself and Cillian O'Hogan, University of Toronto

Project start: September 2027, with time in #Toronto, France, & @unimelb.edu.au. #Scholarship includes tuition fees, living allowance, health insurance, and relocation support.

Get in touch!
Research-Creation in the early Middle Ages: the example of Hibernicus Exul : Find an Expert : The University of Melbourne
<p> The pivotal role played by Irish scholars in preserving and transmitting ancient learning during the early Middle Ages is well known even beyond the academy, thanks to popularising works such as ‘How the Irish Saved Civilization’. Yet a great deal of work remains to be done on individual Irish figures working in continental Europe during the eighth to tenth centuries in order to establish more rigorously the Irish contribution. The shadowy figure known as ‘Hibernicus Exul’ (‘the Irish exile’) provides an ideal test-case for this work: the author of thirty-eight Latin poems, on scholarly, political, and comic topics, his works appear in a single manuscript, Vatican Reg. Lat. 2078. This is an important and influential poetic anthology from the heart of the Carolingian Renaissance, a period of intense cultural and intellectual activity in eight- and ninth-century Europe during which the literature and learning of the ancient Graeco-Roman world was rediscovered and concerted efforts were made to standardise and widen access to educational systems, with significant consequences for the intellectual history of western Europe. The PhD student recruited will write the first monograph-length study of Hibernicus Exul, setting his work in the context of the manuscript, addressing the controversial question of his possible identification with the better- known Carolingian scholar Dúngal, and demonstrate how the poet exemplifies the nature of medieval Irish literature, which simultaneously aims to educate and to entertain, and can in many ways be seen as a predecessor of today’s Research-Creation. </p> <p> <strong>Please note below additional requirements when submitting your Expressions of Interest:</strong> </p> <ul> <li>Additional requirements: <ul> <li> <strong>Statement of research interest [max. 1000 words]</strong> </li> <li> <strong>MA in a related field, or equivalent, to be completed by the programme start date.</strong> </li> <li> <strong>Evidence of at least six semesters of Latin, or equivalent, with grades of B+ or higher, or equivalent</strong> </li> </ul> </li> </ul>
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February 17, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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The School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies has launched a year of celebrations to mark 250 years of modern languages in Trinity (1776-2026).

Read now: www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...
February 17, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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Happy #pubday to "The Global Age of Revolutions: A History from 1650 to Today," edited @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social and @cindyermus.bsky.social!

Redrawing the map and resetting the clock of the Age of Revolutions

www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10176/

@ageofrevolutions.bsky.social #skystorians
February 17, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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For all the Carolingianists.
Thégan - La Bonté de l'empereur Louis

Texte introduit, traduit et commenté par Philippe Depreux

À paraître en mars aux Belles Lettres
February 17, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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Our next seminar on Monday 23 Feb. will be Dr Paddy Gleeson (QUB) speaking on 'Landscapes of kingship: governance, rule and territory in early medieval Ireland'. All welcome in-person / online www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
February 17, 2026 at 9:02 AM
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Happy Shrove Tuesday!

Just be careful if you decide to join the traditional bawdy house riots, because it might be construed as high treason.

#EarlyModern problems. 🗃️
www.jstor.org/stable/2639047
February 17, 2026 at 1:24 PM
"An Account of Denmark as it was in the year 1692" describes how the state church convinced the commons in Denmark to rebel against the nobles & give absolute power to the king and his heirs, creating "as absolute a Monarchy as any is at present in the World".

#Molesworth #mera
Trump and Bondi and others in the administration want the public to believe that Christians (but only their approved kind) are persecuted in America for their beliefs (anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ+). But they just censored James Talarico, a Christian whose Christian beliefs challenge theirs.
February 17, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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Meet the Bart Simpson of 16th century Ireland. Brianán Ní Bhuachalla @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie tells the story of An Ceithearnach Caoilriabhach, a rule-breaking trickster in Early Irish Modern culture who caused chaos wherever he went www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Meet the Bart Simpson of 16th century Ireland
An Ceithearnach Caoilriabhach was a rule-breaking trickster in Early Irish Modern culture, a figure who caused chaos wherever he went
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February 17, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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An insight into Michael Davitt and The Irish National Land League from our latest exibition ‘Character is better than wealth: the enduring legacy of Michael Davitt’.

#MichaelDavitt #irishhistory
The Irish National Land League
YouTube video by The Library of Trinity College Dublin
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February 17, 2026 at 10:02 AM
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We are excited to launch Call for Papers for the IHA annual conference 2026 - Un/Silencing Healthcare: Voices, Power and Imagination, hosted by South East Technological University (SETU) on 3rd & 4th Sept. Further details and link for abstract submissions 👇
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Irish Humanities Alliance | Call for Papers - IHA annual conference
IRISH HUMANITIES ALLIANCE CONFERENCE 2026<br /> CALL FOR ABSTRACTS<br /> <br /> We invite submissions for a two-day interdisciplinary conference on the theme of Un/Silencing Healthcare: Voices…
www.irishhumanities.ie
February 17, 2026 at 10:07 AM
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My column in today's paper: on banning the under-16s from social media, the trade-offs and assumptions that the ban makes:
Perhaps we should all be banned from social media
Focusing only on under-16s obscures the lack of internet safeguards for everyone else
www.ft.com
February 17, 2026 at 10:21 AM
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Reminder: Call for applications for RIA Multidisciplinary Committees closes this Friday, 13 February at 5:00pm.

You can read more about the call for members here: www.ria.ie/work/multidi...

You can also see a snapshot of recent committee events and activities here: www.ria.ie/news/?cat%5B...
February 11, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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Amazing read... Some real poetic injustice in here, all the same.
February 17, 2026 at 10:22 AM
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My new book on fairies (out next month) deals with homunculi as a kind of fairy - or, at least, as fairy-adjacent beings. I'm just a bit worried that the popularity of 'Small Prophets' could lead to a spate of people trying to make them, without the proper skills or preparation
February 17, 2026 at 8:56 AM
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The MS of the Week is RIA MS 23 P 10 (ii), The Book of O'Lees. Its distinctive layout comes from the 12th century Arabic source text.

Visit @rialibrary.bsky.social to read more about this MS and explore highlights from the RIA Library’s collections.
The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 P 10 (ii), the Book of O’Lees. It is named after the hereditary medical family who would have valued the diagnostic tables contained within. It is also known as the Book of Hy-Brasil due to a 17th century a member of the family telling a ‘wild story’...
February 16, 2026 at 10:06 AM
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#DIBLives In 1920 the King's Inns benchers resolved "that women shall be admitted on precisely the same terms as men". Averill Deverell (b. #OTD 1893) and Frances Kyle were the first women admitted & on 2 November 1921 Deverell was called to the Irish bar. www.dib.ie/index.php/bi...
February 17, 2026 at 9:43 AM
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A beautiful morning at @stpatsmaynooth.bsky.social
February 17, 2026 at 7:45 AM
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The roof timbers in Saint Mary’s Collegiate Church Youghal which have been carbon dated to 1170. Likely built by shipwrights so essentially an upside down boat. www.patrickcomerford.com/2021/08/sain... #speirgorm
February 16, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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The work some people will do to pretend 250 years of Hispanic dominance of the New World just never happened is amazing.

www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4...
“Bad Bunny is western culture” pisses off the worst people on both sides of the horseshoe.

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Bad Bunny performs in a Romance language and grew up Catholic. He’s as “western civilization” as it gets.
February 16, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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So many layers in Daisy Hay’s essay about the friendship between Edmund Burke and Charles Fox. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
February 16, 2026 at 1:18 AM