Danielle Clarke
@rhetorician.bsky.social
early modernist at UCD; Dublin, London. Beer, bikes, books. Queer is my DNA. All views my own
This is an important and interesting piece (and I disagree profoundly with BoB on many things) Amid the tricolours of Dublin’s inner city, 50 faith communities are doing vital work
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Breda O'Brien: Not far from the tricolours of Dublin’s inner city, 50 faith communities are doing vital work
Irish people should understand their importance – from Kilburn to Canberra, our diaspora for generations sought out Catholic churches as bridges to their new lives
www.irishtimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This is an important and interesting piece (and I disagree profoundly with BoB on many things) Amid the tricolours of Dublin’s inner city, 50 faith communities are doing vital work
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Interesting piece - worth taking the time to read The Cops have failed: it’s time for a big dose of climate realism
www.thetimes.com/article/ceee...
www.thetimes.com/article/ceee...
The Cops have failed: it’s time for a big dose of climate realism
Ed Miliband is the latest energy secretary to focus on a net zero policy that doesn’t add up. Leaders gathering in Brazil must start asking the right questions
www.thetimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Interesting piece - worth taking the time to read The Cops have failed: it’s time for a big dose of climate realism
www.thetimes.com/article/ceee...
www.thetimes.com/article/ceee...
This last week I’ve heard of two friends my age dead from cancer. A sobering reminder to live life to the full - as they both did x
November 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This last week I’ve heard of two friends my age dead from cancer. A sobering reminder to live life to the full - as they both did x
I have written quite lot of a longish book but about a chapter or so away from a first full draft I seem to have lost motivation. Help!
November 2, 2025 at 9:04 AM
I have written quite lot of a longish book but about a chapter or so away from a first full draft I seem to have lost motivation. Help!
I wonder how long it will take my university (which was founded by Newman) to out this up on the website in preference to the latest spin out or industry collaboration? Pope Leo’s remarks are a welcome reminder of the mission of universities www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
Pope Leo XIV: Newman, Doctor of the Church - A light for the new generations - Vatican News
During the Mass on the Solemnity of All Saints, also the culmination of the Jubilee of the World of Education, Pope Leo XIV proclaims Saint John Henry ...
www.vaticannews.va
November 2, 2025 at 8:51 AM
I wonder how long it will take my university (which was founded by Newman) to out this up on the website in preference to the latest spin out or industry collaboration? Pope Leo’s remarks are a welcome reminder of the mission of universities www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
Can we stop with the Andrew is “one of us” language? He is not our moral equal, far from it.
October 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Can we stop with the Andrew is “one of us” language? He is not our moral equal, far from it.
Recipe books are just wild
October 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Recipe books are just wild
Ok I’ve just discovered @tropy.bsky.social for organising archive photos. Wow
October 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Ok I’ve just discovered @tropy.bsky.social for organising archive photos. Wow
It’s really striking to me that Catherine Connolly clearly has loads of friends and Heather Humphreys appears not to (I accept that friends may well be a part of her private life and I totally respect that). But it’s interesting
October 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
It’s really striking to me that Catherine Connolly clearly has loads of friends and Heather Humphreys appears not to (I accept that friends may well be a part of her private life and I totally respect that). But it’s interesting
Looking good for Catherine Connolly Presidential election count: Early tallies show Connolly on course for emphatic victory
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Presidential election count: Early tallies show Connolly on course for emphatic victory
Tallies show Connolly is polling extremely strongly and significantly ahead of Humphreys
www.irishtimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Looking good for Catherine Connolly Presidential election count: Early tallies show Connolly on course for emphatic victory
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
In town browsing the early modern Irish history shelves as you do and reminded again of Bríd McGrath’s tangible and intangible impact of all of us who work on this stuff. I’d love to have heard her views on today’s election
October 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
In town browsing the early modern Irish history shelves as you do and reminded again of Bríd McGrath’s tangible and intangible impact of all of us who work on this stuff. I’d love to have heard her views on today’s election
@huntingrebels.bsky.social fab to see you on the telly tonight! Hope all well
October 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
@huntingrebels.bsky.social fab to see you on the telly tonight! Hope all well
100% not that our overlords recognise this form of permanent knowledge creation - editions are never properly acknowledged in research exercises or promotions
Couldn’t agree more. Same for literary texts. 👇
David Hayton once told me that the best thing a historian can do to be immortally relevant is to produce a scholarly edition of a primary source. Our monographs will be superseded, a good primary edition is permanent. Anyway, here's mine, just out.
shorturl.at/xJXNU
shorturl.at/xJXNU
October 19, 2025 at 9:57 AM
100% not that our overlords recognise this form of permanent knowledge creation - editions are never properly acknowledged in research exercises or promotions
The Lord’s Prayer written on a scrap of paper pinned to a page at the start of a recipe book (Joanna Sudell 1688, Clark Library UCLA)
October 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The Lord’s Prayer written on a scrap of paper pinned to a page at the start of a recipe book (Joanna Sudell 1688, Clark Library UCLA)
Yum (Elizabeth Maynard, 1698, digitized ms Lilly Library Indiana University)
October 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Yum (Elizabeth Maynard, 1698, digitized ms Lilly Library Indiana University)
My favourite cat (he follows me up the road even if I’m in the car) though he doesn’t like the young ones and gives them (and our house) a wide berth other than coming by for food
October 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
My favourite cat (he follows me up the road even if I’m in the car) though he doesn’t like the young ones and gives them (and our house) a wide berth other than coming by for food
The silver hands holding this ms are a bit spooky
October 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The silver hands holding this ms are a bit spooky
Any early modernists in Princeton who could look at a ms for me?
October 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Any early modernists in Princeton who could look at a ms for me?
In full flight (and full academic dress) at Anna-Rose Shack’s PhD defence. A wonderful occasion and an excellent thesis!
October 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM
In full flight (and full academic dress) at Anna-Rose Shack’s PhD defence. A wonderful occasion and an excellent thesis!
It’s a shame Bluesky doesn’t have polls. My book links quotidian forms of early modern women’s writing to literary forms. I have 6 chapters and only one involves prose - life writing which is important for the overall argument but book too long: should I dump the prose?
October 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
It’s a shame Bluesky doesn’t have polls. My book links quotidian forms of early modern women’s writing to literary forms. I have 6 chapters and only one involves prose - life writing which is important for the overall argument but book too long: should I dump the prose?
No, you don’t need a cortisol detox. Why are we so addicted to the new language of therapy?
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
This is very interesting and insightful- I notice this discourse used by my teenagers and it is a generational chasm
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
This is very interesting and insightful- I notice this discourse used by my teenagers and it is a generational chasm
Mark O'Connell: No, you don’t need a cortisol detox. Why are we so addicted to the new language of therapy?
People buy into a chemical understanding of human psychology when really what they’re describing is our deeply complex, irreducibly mysterious inner life
www.irishtimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
No, you don’t need a cortisol detox. Why are we so addicted to the new language of therapy?
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
This is very interesting and insightful- I notice this discourse used by my teenagers and it is a generational chasm
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
This is very interesting and insightful- I notice this discourse used by my teenagers and it is a generational chasm
Hebrew almanacs from mid 18c Amsterdam @pjsalzman.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Hebrew almanacs from mid 18c Amsterdam @pjsalzman.bsky.social
My UK passport expires today; I won’t be renewing it and am profoundly grateful for my Irish citizenship and EU passport. But it pains me all the same to draw this line and the many reasons for that decision.
October 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
My UK passport expires today; I won’t be renewing it and am profoundly grateful for my Irish citizenship and EU passport. But it pains me all the same to draw this line and the many reasons for that decision.
It somehow never occurred to me that sermon goers might sit on the floor
October 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
It somehow never occurred to me that sermon goers might sit on the floor