William Sheehan
@willsheehan.bsky.social
Historian of Empire, War, and Crime. Passing interest in public policy and politics. A few books!
Captain Bonespurs speaks...
Trump: "If we die, we must die and we as men we die without complaining."
November 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Captain Bonespurs speaks...
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Opening conversation on maritime security this evening @ucddublin.bsky.social in collaboration with French Embassy. Irish and French interests, Irish and French collaboration bilaterally and as EU partners to defend our shared waters.
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Opening conversation on maritime security this evening @ucddublin.bsky.social in collaboration with French Embassy. Irish and French interests, Irish and French collaboration bilaterally and as EU partners to defend our shared waters.
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The facts may be wrong but the animosity is real. www.linkedin.com/posts/dan-o-...
Another Ireland-hostile opinion piece in the The Wall Street Journal, the paper of record of corporate America.
Free-riding needs to end. Leadership in Dublin is needed urgently. | Dan O'Brien | ...
Another Ireland-hostile opinion piece in the The Wall Street Journal, the paper of record of corporate America.
Free-riding needs to end. Leadership in Dublin is needed urgently. | 62 comments on Li...
www.linkedin.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The facts may be wrong but the animosity is real. www.linkedin.com/posts/dan-o-...
Sign the Petition
Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!
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November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Please sign to protest the closure of Modern Languages programmes at Nottingham.
Solidarity with affected colleagues and students in Modern Languages and other departments.
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Solidarity with affected colleagues and students in Modern Languages and other departments.
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c.org/xYPmDLcXBn
c.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Please sign to protest the closure of Modern Languages programmes at Nottingham.
Solidarity with affected colleagues and students in Modern Languages and other departments.
👇👇👇
c.org/xYPmDLcXBn
Solidarity with affected colleagues and students in Modern Languages and other departments.
👇👇👇
c.org/xYPmDLcXBn
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‘Do the Humanities Actually Matter? Public Policy and the Humanities’ - @tlrhub.bsky.social launching a new seminar series - Bridging the Gap between Policy and Research - 19 Nov at 6.30pm
www.irishhumanities.ie/news-events/...
www.irishhumanities.ie/news-events/...
Irish Humanities Alliance | Bridging the Gap between Policy and Research Seminar Series
The Trinity Long Room Hub is delighted to launch a new seminar series - Bridging the Gap between Policy and Research - exploring how scholarship in the Arts and Humanities can…
www.irishhumanities.ie
November 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
‘Do the Humanities Actually Matter? Public Policy and the Humanities’ - @tlrhub.bsky.social launching a new seminar series - Bridging the Gap between Policy and Research - 19 Nov at 6.30pm
www.irishhumanities.ie/news-events/...
www.irishhumanities.ie/news-events/...
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Canadian professors: Do you have grad students who need a conference under their belt? Grad students: want to share your work in a friendly and collegial environment? Submit an abstract and join us in February!
Are you a graduate student? Check out the 2026 McGill-Queen’s Graduate Conference Call for Papers! Abstracts are due November 28!
November 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Canadian professors: Do you have grad students who need a conference under their belt? Grad students: want to share your work in a friendly and collegial environment? Submit an abstract and join us in February!
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More than any time since the 1980s, perhaps ever, the BBC needs a journalistic warrior to lead it. Someone who can see the shape of a fight coming and work out how to win it and have the will to do so. Davie was never that guy. It can't be a hack from the queue. Maybe it should be a refugee from CBS
November 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
More than any time since the 1980s, perhaps ever, the BBC needs a journalistic warrior to lead it. Someone who can see the shape of a fight coming and work out how to win it and have the will to do so. Davie was never that guy. It can't be a hack from the queue. Maybe it should be a refugee from CBS
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This is absolutely nuts
Trump did incite the January 6 riot. Splicing a video to make that point is shoddy editorial but hardly a resignation event
When BBC is needed more than ever, Telegraph/Boris Johnson running the show
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
Trump did incite the January 6 riot. Splicing a video to make that point is shoddy editorial but hardly a resignation event
When BBC is needed more than ever, Telegraph/Boris Johnson running the show
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resign over Trump documentary edit
Davie says
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This is absolutely nuts
Trump did incite the January 6 riot. Splicing a video to make that point is shoddy editorial but hardly a resignation event
When BBC is needed more than ever, Telegraph/Boris Johnson running the show
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
Trump did incite the January 6 riot. Splicing a video to make that point is shoddy editorial but hardly a resignation event
When BBC is needed more than ever, Telegraph/Boris Johnson running the show
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
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This was brilliant.
A fun visit to the excellent John le Carré exhibition at the Bodleian library with fellow le Carré nut and old Oxford pal @philtinline.bsky.social. Nostalgia and espionage: the perfect combination
November 8, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This was brilliant.
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Nearly here: Childhood and the Irish, ed. Salvador Ryan. I have articles on the parish children of Youghal, and a grandmother's keen on a little Waterford girl c. 1870s. wordwellbooks.com/index.php?ro...
Childhood and the Irish: a miscellany
Childhood and the Irish: a miscellany
wordwellbooks.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Nearly here: Childhood and the Irish, ed. Salvador Ryan. I have articles on the parish children of Youghal, and a grandmother's keen on a little Waterford girl c. 1870s. wordwellbooks.com/index.php?ro...
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Can someone point me to a site that gives turnout figures in the recent US elections? I keep reading that turnout was high, but cannot find actual numbers.
November 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Can someone point me to a site that gives turnout figures in the recent US elections? I keep reading that turnout was high, but cannot find actual numbers.
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The Scott Opler Fellowship in Architectural History for the Period 2026-2028
University of Oxford - Worcester College HR - Research Fellows www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH476/t... #skystorians 🗃️
University of Oxford - Worcester College HR - Research Fellows www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH476/t... #skystorians 🗃️
The Scott Opler Fellowship in Architectural History for the Period 2026-2028 at University of Oxford
Discover an exciting academic career path as a The Scott Opler Fellowship in Architectural History for the Period 2026-2028 at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 6:47 AM
The Scott Opler Fellowship in Architectural History for the Period 2026-2028
University of Oxford - Worcester College HR - Research Fellows www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH476/t... #skystorians 🗃️
University of Oxford - Worcester College HR - Research Fellows www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH476/t... #skystorians 🗃️
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More excellent research on Republican internees in NI in the early 1920s by Patrick Mulroe
theborderkitchen.blog/letters-of-p...
theborderkitchen.blog/letters-of-p...
Letters of Pain
Recent Post: Is a Border Poll imminent? In the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), there is a remarkable set of letters from 1922. Hundreds were interned north of the border in the e…
theborderkitchen.blog
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
More excellent research on Republican internees in NI in the early 1920s by Patrick Mulroe
theborderkitchen.blog/letters-of-p...
theborderkitchen.blog/letters-of-p...
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👀 Extremely excited to see Aleksander Pluskowski has a new history of the Baltic Crusades coming soon with @yalepress.bsky.social ⚔️✝️ yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
The Black Cross - Yale University Press London
A wide-ranging new history of the Baltic Crusades and their legacy Between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, crusading armies unleashed a relentles...
yalebooks.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
👀 Extremely excited to see Aleksander Pluskowski has a new history of the Baltic Crusades coming soon with @yalepress.bsky.social ⚔️✝️ yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
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OK, as promised, here's my thread about the links between tear gas/pepper spray and the arms trade and gun industry.
November 5, 2025 at 10:39 AM
OK, as promised, here's my thread about the links between tear gas/pepper spray and the arms trade and gun industry.
This is how stock market bubbles end...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
Tesla shareholders approve $878 billion pay plan for Elon Musk
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
reut.rs
November 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
This is how stock market bubbles end...
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Thanks for the repost @trendingworld.bsky.social
The conference is online, and free!
The Sigrid Nunez and Karen McCarthy Woolf talks will be hosted by OU writers @emmaclairesweeney.bsky.social and @janeyeh3.bsky.social
#literature
#freeonline
The conference is online, and free!
The Sigrid Nunez and Karen McCarthy Woolf talks will be hosted by OU writers @emmaclairesweeney.bsky.social and @janeyeh3.bsky.social
#literature
#freeonline
November 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Thanks for the repost @trendingworld.bsky.social
The conference is online, and free!
The Sigrid Nunez and Karen McCarthy Woolf talks will be hosted by OU writers @emmaclairesweeney.bsky.social and @janeyeh3.bsky.social
#literature
#freeonline
The conference is online, and free!
The Sigrid Nunez and Karen McCarthy Woolf talks will be hosted by OU writers @emmaclairesweeney.bsky.social and @janeyeh3.bsky.social
#literature
#freeonline
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Two Hurst titles have been chosen as @thespectator1828.bsky.social Books of the Year! 🥳
www.spectator.co.uk/article/book...
www.spectator.co.uk/article/book...
Books of the Year II
Peter Parker The New Zealand novelist Catherine Chidgey ought to be much more celebrated in this country than she is. Do not be put off by the fact that The Axeman’s Carnival (Europa, £14.99) is narra...
www.spectator.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Two Hurst titles have been chosen as @thespectator1828.bsky.social Books of the Year! 🥳
www.spectator.co.uk/article/book...
www.spectator.co.uk/article/book...
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‘Compelling… a far-reaching, powerful and personal account... poses fundamental questions about the nature of justice and the effectiveness of international courts.’
@philippesands.bsky.social’s review of Olivera Simić’s Madam War Criminal in @observeruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
@philippesands.bsky.social’s review of Olivera Simić’s Madam War Criminal in @observeruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Inside the mind of Serbia’s ‘Madam War Criminal’ | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
‘Compelling… a far-reaching, powerful and personal account... poses fundamental questions about the nature of justice and the effectiveness of international courts.’
@philippesands.bsky.social’s review of Olivera Simić’s Madam War Criminal in @observeruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
@philippesands.bsky.social’s review of Olivera Simić’s Madam War Criminal in @observeruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
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‘Fascinating and informative, drawing on the authors’ extensive fieldwork in the region.’
Transformed by the People by Patrick Haenni & @jeromed.bsky.social reviewed in @wsj.com 👏
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
Transformed by the People by Patrick Haenni & @jeromed.bsky.social reviewed in @wsj.com 👏
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
‘Transformed by the People’ Review: Revolution and Realignment
The Islamist movement Hayat Tahrir al-Sham entered Damascus and toppled the Assad regime last year. What comes next for Syria?
www.wsj.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
‘Fascinating and informative, drawing on the authors’ extensive fieldwork in the region.’
Transformed by the People by Patrick Haenni & @jeromed.bsky.social reviewed in @wsj.com 👏
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
Transformed by the People by Patrick Haenni & @jeromed.bsky.social reviewed in @wsj.com 👏
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
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Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday.
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday.
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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If you are an Alumni of UL this would make a great Christmas present to yourself! It tells the history of UL as told by the people who studied & worked at the university over the past 50years. @ulhistory.bsky.social @ulalumniul.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social
www.omahonys.ie/university-o...
www.omahonys.ie/university-o...
University of Limerick An Oral History - Martin Walsh - 9781399960946
A handsome hardcover book, illustrated throughout with a wide range of period and recent photographs. A must for anyone who has attended the college in the half century since it was established on Sha...
www.omahonys.ie
November 5, 2025 at 10:14 AM
If you are an Alumni of UL this would make a great Christmas present to yourself! It tells the history of UL as told by the people who studied & worked at the university over the past 50years. @ulhistory.bsky.social @ulalumniul.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social
www.omahonys.ie/university-o...
www.omahonys.ie/university-o...