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Patrick walsh
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Associate Professor of eighteenth century Irish History, co- director Trinity Colonial Legacies Project. Procrastinator

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · Sep 16
Another plug for my piece on Trinity’s forgotten tenants in Kerry, Armagh and Donegal and many places in between. Connecting colonial legacies, family history and institutional selective remembering. drb.ie/tcds-forgott...
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TCD’s Forgotten Tenantry - DRB
Patrick Walsh writes: 1923 was a significant year in the life of Thomas Horgan of Ballynaskreena, Co Kerry. His youngest surviving daughter, Bridget (known as Bridie), was born, and he became the firs...
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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 11h
‘and they called it Macaroni…’

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 11h
Estate agents outbidding morality once again. If perhaps a logical outcome to over zealous unthinking and uncritical remembrance
remembrancewatch.bsky.social RemembranceWatch @remembrancewatch.bsky.social · 1d
We will respect them but also, have you taken the two minute silence to really think about the value of your property? It's what the fallen would have wanted. They gave their tomorrow so we can tout for your business today.

Even by estate agent standards. That's low.

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 13h
Not only is Trump making war on the past, but now he is making war on the pasta.
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves
The Trump administration is set to impose duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports, among most punitive of the tariffs it has levied.
www.wsj.com

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RemembranceWatch @remembrancewatch.bsky.social · 1d
We will respect them but also, have you taken the two minute silence to really think about the value of your property? It's what the fallen would have wanted. They gave their tomorrow so we can tout for your business today.

Even by estate agent standards. That's low.

Reposted by Patrick Walsh, Keith Lilley, Anna McMullan

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History at Queen's University Belfast @qubhistory.bsky.social · 3d
AHRC Awards for PhD study in Arts and Humanities at QUB (starting Sept. 2026) are now advertised at www.qub.ac.uk/Study/postgr...
Photo of Lanyon Building at Queen's University Belfast

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 3d
’It can provide tutoring that supports personalised learning at scale, meaning future students could receive individualised, tailored mentoring that no overstretched academic could hope to supply’ Like that’s literally our job! There has been some excellent pushback from colleagues…

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 3d
We were told AI can help with personal tutoring and pastoral care! so dangerous. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Opinion: From personalised tutoring to improved accessibility, why AI can democratise higher education
Artificial intelligence is to be embraced rather than feared, but educators and students cannot ignore its dark side
www.irishtimes.com

Reposted by Patrick Walsh, Keith Lilley, Graeme Warren

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Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) @dri.ie · 4d
The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is hiring!

Applications are invited for the position of Research and Engagement, Senior Programme Manager as part of the DRI team headquartered at the Royal Irish Academy.
Apply by 27.11.2025 at 3pm.
www.ria.ie/about/career...

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 4d
@cwallacedublin.bsky.social one got your MPhil class!
bucksarchives.bsky.social Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 5d
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
A meme of 'Is this an archive?' showing a grid with various classifications of things that might be archives based on their content and structure.

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Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland @virtualtreasury.bsky.social · 4d
#WomenInRebellion Grief & defiance: Mary Ann McCracken’s letter after her brother’s execution is searing: a sister’s grief, a patriot’s outrage, and a refusal to forget.

Read her unflinching words here: virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-CSO...
NAI CSO/REB/620/16/3/8 — Mary Ann McCracken to Thomas Russell, describing trial and execution of her brother Henry Joy McCracken [Wednesday, 18 July 1798]

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 4d
Fantastic to see this coming out. Great to see a number of new books appearing challenging received wisdoms on 18thC Ireland. See also @marcmulholland.bsky.social’s fantastic new book (and threads here) as well as Caitriona Kennedy’s superb new book on women and the public sphere.
ucdpress.bsky.social UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 4d
Bloody Summer is a fresh and comprehensive exploration of the rebellion that seeks to answer the question of not just what happened in 1798, but why it happened, and demonstrates a new, compelling account of this seismic event in Irish history.

🔗 Preorder: www.ucdpress.ie/page/detail/...
Bloody Summer
The 1798 Rebellion was one of the bloodiest events in Irish history. Thousands of people were slaughtered in a single summer in a massive popular uprising against British rule. Thousands more were ser...
www.ucdpress.ie

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 4d
Bloody Summer is a fresh and comprehensive exploration of the rebellion that seeks to answer the question of not just what happened in 1798, but why it happened, and demonstrates a new, compelling account of this seismic event in Irish history.

🔗 Preorder: www.ucdpress.ie/page/detail/...
Bloody Summer
The 1798 Rebellion was one of the bloodiest events in Irish history. Thousands of people were slaughtered in a single summer in a massive popular uprising against British rule. Thousands more were ser...
www.ucdpress.ie

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 5d
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
A meme of 'Is this an archive?' showing a grid with various classifications of things that might be archives based on their content and structure.

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 7d
It was! Rather looking forward to Wiles Lectures now too.

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 7d
Read this excellent book by Sunil Amrith over reading week along with Annie Proulx’s fascinating Bog, Fen and Mountain and slowly working through Amitav Ghosh’s superb new collection of essays. All part of trying to teach myself more environmental history.

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 8d
Age of Fracture? picks up on his last book and captures the long 2016pretty well I think

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Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland @virtualtreasury.bsky.social · 10d
👻 🧙‍♀️🎃 Molyneux Papers (TCD MS 883): Examinations & depositions taken in Co. Antrim in 1710 respecting witches and witchcraft — including testimony from Mary Dunbar, who has been "in a most grievous and violent manner / tormented and afflicted with Witches".

www.virtualtreasury.ie/item/TCD-MS-...

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 12d
Great to see @kbruisch.bsky.social’s superb essay on AI and Academic publishing and its extractive dimensions up on the DRB. @historytcd.bsky.social drb.ie/move-over-fo...
Move over for AI - DRB
Katja Bruisch writes: I recently completed a scholarly monograph – an environmental, economic and energy history of peat in imperial and Soviet Russia. After years of thinking and writing, I approache...
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Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland @virtualtreasury.bsky.social · 18d
#WomeninRebellion Bella Martin started as a Belfast barmaid. By 1798, she was a Crown agent inside a rebel leader’s home, reporting on arms hidden under a chapel altar. Her world was dangerous — and morally murky.

Read more here: virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-CSO...
Detail from Coffee House in Salisbury Market Place, Thomas Rowlandson, 1891 (Royal Museums Greenwich ID: PAF4936) Detail from NAI CSO/REB/620/38/222 -- Examination of Bella Martin (Co. Meath) as to activities of William Aylmer [Saturday, 23 June 1798]

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 19d
I thought these were extraordinary when I first saw them in your book. I think they be new to historians. where did you find the pamphlet?

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 21d
“When we realised these jewels were only stolen to inflate the share price of a company whose entire value relies on the wholesale theft of other people’s art, we had no choice but grant immunity,”

Genius from @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social

waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/l...
Louvre Thieves Given Immunity After Confirming Jewels Stolen For Purpose Of Training AI Software
FRENCH POLICE have immediately ended all efforts to recover priceless Napoleon-era jewellery from the Louvre taken in a daring heist after it emerged the jewels were merely stolen for the purposes of ...
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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 22d
Another great thread from what is a fascinating book.

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marcmulholland.bsky.social @marcmulholland.bsky.social · 22d
Here's another thread from me book, 'At the Rising of the Moon': www.kennys.ie/shop/at-the-...
At the Rising of the Moon: The Peasantry and Ireland from the Tudor Conquest to the fall of Landlordism
paperback.
www.kennys.ie

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 23d
“I can’t think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people’s understanding of what’s going on in the world.”

Seamus Heaney

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 25d
It’s really striking how much the language of plantation and settlement is used in anti Rapparee legislation in the 1690s and how sectarian demographic engineering is just routinely deployed to meet all sorts of objectives. Must keep reading now!

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 25d
I have been greatly enjoying the book (and these threads). I have already found your argument about the continuing nature of colonisation and plantation into the 18c very helpful in clarifying an argument I am trying to make about ‘barbarous’ frontier areas in southwest.

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James Smith @sobukwescozia.bsky.social · 26d
A really interesting research opportunity and a chance to contribute to broader work on Scotland, Empire and the slave trade www.scotland.anglican.org/vacancy-lega...
Vacancy: Legacy of Slavery Research Project Officer - The Scottish Episcopal Church
Salary: £36,799 (Grade 5: Development Worker grade)Contract: Fixed term for 12 months Hours: Fulltime, 35 hours a week (.8 FTE or 28 hours will also be considered). Some occasional evening or weekend ...
www.scotland.anglican.org

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Ciaran O'Neill @ciaranon.bsky.social · 28d
4x4-year, fully-funded PhD opportunities to work with an interdisciplinary group at Trinity College Dublin 2026-2030.

One of these is to work with me on a public history and cultural heritage PhD, in collaboration with one of Dublins most interesting neighbourhoods.

www.tcd.ie/graduatestud...
PhD Opportunity - Trinity East - Graduate Studies | Trinity College Dublin
Professor Timothy Stott and his team are inviting applications to doctoral research on the heritage of Trinity East in Grand Canal Dock, Dublin.
www.tcd.ie

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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 29d
This PhD on a reparatory history of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, exploring the legacies of empire is open for applications. It features a great supervisory team (moi, Kerry Pimblott, and Sadia Habib) and fabulous public history opportunities. Please share.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
[HUMS Bicentenary PhD] A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - [HUMS Bicentenary PhD] A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 29d
The recording of my recent Dublin City Council Oak Room talk ‘Cultivating Virtue:Trinity’s Colonial Legacies‘ is now available here youtu.be/exe-Us9tgQo?... @historytcd.bsky.social
Cultivating Virtue? Trinity College Dublin's Colonial Legacies | Oak Room Talks 2025
YouTube video by Dublin City Heritage
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