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Winter Solstice tomorrow morning at Newgrange. It's worth watching Stephen Mandal's talk about the site at Brú na Bóinne.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=alGb...
Newgrange: the Palace on the River Boyne - Stephen Mandal
YouTube video by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA
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December 20, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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So many fun initials in the @rialibrary.bsky.social manuscript of the week! MS 23 P 10 (iii) is a 15th-century medical treatise, containing an Irish translation of Oxford physician John of Gaddesden‘s Rosa Anglica and other works 📜🎉
December 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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If you missed Patrick Walsh's talk yesterday on 'A colonial sinew of power? Rethinking the 18th-century Irish state', a recording is available at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=haJr...
Irish Studies Seminar: Patrick Walsh
YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies
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December 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Irish words of Norse origin: "Fuinneoig" (window) from the Norse "Vindauga", literally "wind eye".
#Gaeilge #Irish
December 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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I'm obsessed with @patrickwyman.bsky.social's new podcast Past Lives, which looks at the lives of ordinary people in history, but this one on Neaira - a 4th century BCE sex worker and the culture of Corinth and Athens - is particularly brilliant. www.podbean.com/ea/dir-7fxps...
Neaira (Prostitute, Corinth and Athens, 4th Century BC)
Sex work is work, and it has a long history. In ancient Athens, prostitution was everywhere, but what do we know about the people who chose or were more often forced to engage in it? Neaira is one of ...
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December 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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It's so funny when people idolize Roman aristocrats like Cicero, Caesar, and Sulla, because reading the primary sources about them makes it clear they were catty bitches who insulted each other by gossiping about the shame of a rival's grandpa owning a rope-making business and a bakery
December 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society has a new website that is well-worth checking out for details of the annual conference, journal, and news of the inaugural ECR bursary, which was awarded to @mzukovs.bsky.social. The next bursary will be announced shortly.

www.ecis.ie/news-events/
News and Events
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December 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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On Thursday 12 Feb. we will be sponsoring a conference on THE ULSTER PLANTATION, linked to the 'People of Plantation Ulster' database project (QUB/Maynooth). This is a free event open to all, held at PRONI (11-4). Registration and programme is at: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/conference...
December 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak
October 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Programme and registration is now available for the 35th Irish Conference of Historians - Inner Lives and Outer Realities.
@maynoothuniversity.ie, 12-13 September.

Please share widely.
August 20, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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The podcast of David Olusoga and I discussing Empire & the rewriting of history:

howtoacademy.com/podcasts/dav...
HOW TO PODCAST | David Olusoga & Alan Lester - The Truth About the British Empire
David Olusoga and Alan Lester reveal the dark realities of the British Empire, and reflect on the importance of historians amid the resurgence of nationalism and misinformation.
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April 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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‘Michael Davitt’ from The Worker (New York). Vol. 16 No. 12. June 23, 1906.

An appreciation of the full life of Irish Fenian, Land War veteran, and agrarian socialist Michael Davitt on his death at sixty.
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‘Michael Davitt’ from The Worker (New York). Vol. 16 No. 12. June 23, 1906.
An appreciation of the full life of Irish Fenian, Land War veteran, and agrarian socialist Michael Davitt on his death at sixty. ‘Michael Davitt’ from The Worker (New York). Vol. 16 No. 12. June 23…
revolutionsnewsstand.com
May 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Michael Davitt - from Fenian prisoner to Land League founder. He unlocked the iron grip of absentee landlords in Ireland, and his quest for justice inspires to this day.

Davitt passed 119 years ago #OnThisDay

#SpéirGhorm #IrishHistory #IrishBiography

www.irishstewpodcast.com/blog/michael...
Michael Davitt - Radical Nationalist (1846 - 1906)
Michael Davitt, refugee, physically disadvantaged, revolutionary, agrarian agitator, parliamentarian, journalist, author and servant of his people was born on the 2…
www.irishstewpodcast.com
May 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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@ssnci.bsky.social New Perspectives on Conflict and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century is out on 28 July 2025! Order a copy for yourself, your class or your library via www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... #SSNCI #IrishStudies #conflict
April 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM