Róisín Ní Giolla Bhríde
@hogarthsheroes.bsky.social
Tá mé i mo chónaí in Albain, agus tá Gaeilge agam.
Academic & Museum Person. Public History &Heritage Education (DPhil). Folklore, language & landscape.
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Happy 423 years of us! 🎉 📚
The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602...
This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅
The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602...
This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Happy 423 years of us! 🎉 📚
The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602...
This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅
The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602...
This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅
My reader’s card remains one of my most treasured possessions…
The most incredible library in the world, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk opened to OTD 1602, through the energy, money & commitment of Sir Thomas Bodley. It began with 5k books, & now more than 22m, with 2m+reader visits a year, & multi-million online users across the globe. Privilged to be its 25th librarian!
November 8, 2025 at 10:57 AM
My reader’s card remains one of my most treasured possessions…
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#OnThisDay in 1602, the Bodleian Library welcomed its first scholars 📖
Wishing a very happy birthday to @bodleian.ox.ac.uk! 🎉
Wishing a very happy birthday to @bodleian.ox.ac.uk! 🎉
November 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
#OnThisDay in 1602, the Bodleian Library welcomed its first scholars 📖
Wishing a very happy birthday to @bodleian.ox.ac.uk! 🎉
Wishing a very happy birthday to @bodleian.ox.ac.uk! 🎉
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This. See also objections to the term “settler colonialism”.
These words describe facts. Yes, we then make value judgements about them but that doesn’t change the facts.
These words describe facts. Yes, we then make value judgements about them but that doesn’t change the facts.
I mean I know what the problem is, and it’s actually quite interesting. The Telegraph thinks Woke Historians hate the empire. So it thinks that “colonial” is a pejorative term. So it ends up in this mad bind where it has to make a fuss whenever anything is described as “colonial”, even factually.
April 27, 2025 at 7:47 AM
This. See also objections to the term “settler colonialism”.
These words describe facts. Yes, we then make value judgements about them but that doesn’t change the facts.
These words describe facts. Yes, we then make value judgements about them but that doesn’t change the facts.
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An eagle with a laurel sprig in its beak (a symbol of the Abbot’s victory in a dispute with Bishop Oldham) in the late 15th/early 16th century porch tower of Tavistock Abbey Chapel, formerly the monks refectory.
#sundaystonework #tavistock
#sundaystonework #tavistock
April 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM
An eagle with a laurel sprig in its beak (a symbol of the Abbot’s victory in a dispute with Bishop Oldham) in the late 15th/early 16th century porch tower of Tavistock Abbey Chapel, formerly the monks refectory.
#sundaystonework #tavistock
#sundaystonework #tavistock
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Ravens are my favorite bird.
April 19, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Ravens are my favorite bird.
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From Dean’s Mother Goose Book of Rhymes, illustrated by Janet Grahame Johnstone and Ann Grahame Johnstone. This book was published in 1977 but it was a compilation of several volumes from throughout the 70s.
April 19, 2025 at 1:31 AM
From Dean’s Mother Goose Book of Rhymes, illustrated by Janet Grahame Johnstone and Ann Grahame Johnstone. This book was published in 1977 but it was a compilation of several volumes from throughout the 70s.
#introduction Dia duit! I’m Róisín, I’m new here. I’m a privileged Free Stater, with family in the Occupied 6. I live in the Scottish Highlands, via 19 years in Oxford, with my partner, kids and cat. I’m an academic historian, maker and grower of things. Also perpetually tired.
December 22, 2024 at 8:57 PM
#introduction Dia duit! I’m Róisín, I’m new here. I’m a privileged Free Stater, with family in the Occupied 6. I live in the Scottish Highlands, via 19 years in Oxford, with my partner, kids and cat. I’m an academic historian, maker and grower of things. Also perpetually tired.