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Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman
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Associate Professor, Dept of History, University of Limerick. Currently writing about the development of Catholic architecture in Ireland, 1780s-1950s. #CeaseFireInGaza https://pure.ul.ie/en/persons/niamh-nicghabhann-coleman
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This @irishhistsoc.bsky.social article examines the building of grand chapel buildings by Catholics in Ireland after the first Relief Acts, but 30 years before Emancipation. It looks at architectural patronage as civic participation, focusing on Cashel & Waterford www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
‘New and elegant chapels, either built or in the act of building’: St John the Baptist, Cashel, and Catholic architecture in an era of relief and reform | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core
‘New and elegant chapels, either built or in the act of building’: St John the Baptist, Cashel, and Catholic architecture in an era of relief and reform - Volume 48 Issue 174
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Michael D Higgins, with his wife Sabina, has left Áras an Úachtaráin for the final time as president.

He was given a guard of honour by members of the Sanctuary Runners, a charity of which he is patron.

The President’s term of office ends at midnight.

⁦‪@VirginMediaNews.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Loved seeing these fab pictures of Michael D Higgins outside Galway Museum recently. What an amazing life, how lucky we have been to have him as a leader! GRMMA, Michael D! #speirgorm #speirghorm
November 11, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Crazy beautiful moon in Dublin tonight!
November 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Fabulous book - so well deserved!
November 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Great to see David Hendriks included as a new entry in the Dictionary of Irish Biography! @ria.ie such an important part of 20th c Irish art history - www.dib.ie/biography/he...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Found faces on the Dublin quays #dublin #speirgorm
November 10, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I kept finding cló gaelach everywhere this weekend - a typewriter @nmireland.bsky.social , font on school signage, and blocks of type at the National Print Museum #gaeilge #clógaelach
November 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Rory Gallagher’s guitar 🎸 ❤️ @nmireland.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Wishing only continued excellent health to inspirational 94 year old artist Bridget Riley on.ft.com/43ZrQTM
Bridget Riley: ‘I want my paintings to make people feel alive’
[FREE TO READ] The 94-year-old doyenne of British abstract art on influences from Seurat to Mondrian, her wartime childhood in Cornwall — and ‘the healing power of looking’
on.ft.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
“A late contender for album of the year” - what an amazing Hotpress review for the new Altered Hours album - out today! #ProudSister #IrishMusic #Speirgorm #Speirghorm www.hotpress.com/music/album-...
Album Review: The Altered Hours, <i>The Altered Hours</i> | Hotpress
Gloom merchants make their masterpiece. 9/10
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November 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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This story comes out the same day the architect of this monstrous policy gets approval for a near-trillion-dollar payout from his government-subsidized company.

Utterly despicable.
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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A marvellous series of online lectures organised by Dr Carolin Gluchowski of our Prayticipate Action - details and links here: prayticipate.eu/activities/o... #prayticipate
November 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
London Lives
www.londonlives.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Do share! The Catholic Historical Society of Ireland’s annual conference is on Daniel O’Connell and his Legacies - 22 Nov in @dculibrary.bsky.social - all welcome! (Small fee on the day) @nmireland.bsky.social @nlireland.bsky.social @jdmccafferty.bsky.social www.eventbrite.ie/e/oconnell-a...
O’CONNELL AND HIS LEGACY
Join us to celebrate the life and enduring impact of O'Connell and his legacy at our upcoming event!
www.eventbrite.ie
November 6, 2025 at 10:22 AM
This is on today at 6pm in Maynooth! Looking forward to it! #skystorians #speirgorm #speirghorm
November 6, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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The Autumn 2025 issue of The Recipes Project is live! This issue, GLOBALIZING EARLY MODERN RECIPES, was co-edited by Lavinia Gambini, Lucy Havard, & Amanda Herbert.

recipes.hypotheses.org
Autumn 2025
GLOBALIZING EARLY MODERN RECIPES INTRODUCTION By Lavinia Gambini, Lucy Havard, and Amanda E. Herbert, Editors The early modern globalization of food and medicine was also a globalization of recipes. A...
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October 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Apart from all the bells and whistles on the site itself, some users may like to know that the London Lives bibliography has been Zoterified (so it's searchable etc): www.zotero.org/groups/45875...
November 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...
November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Since the new mayor of New York City is in the news… (🎉) - the first Roman Catholic mayor of New York City was an Irish immigrant from Co Cork, William Russell Grace. Here’s a record of his donation to the O’Connell Memorial Church in Cahirsiveen, Co Kerry in 1884 #skystorians #newyork
November 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Just a poster for an extremely great gig coming up on 10th Dec in Dublin (my brother & sister in law are in the band!)
November 5, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Now online: A review symposium on The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge (@CambridgeUP) @HEIjournal.

Featuring essays by Jessica Patterson, Nandini Chatterjee, Simon Mills, Jessica Ratcliff, and Sujit Sivasundaram.

Links to follow...

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SNWVF...
Towards Histories of Ideas of Knowledge: A Reply
Published in History of European Ideas (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Looking forward to being back in Leuven and at KADOC for this seminar on the Catholic Church and the city at the turn of the 20th century. My paper is looking at the parishes constituted in the Dublin diocese between 1890-1910, and the identity of the ‘workers’ parish’. @ulhistory.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM