Patrick Duffy
@pduffy1.bsky.social
Historian interested in O'Connellite politics and the emergence of a north-south frontier, 1824-44. Former @researchireland.ie Scholar, @historytcd.bsky.social. pduffy1@tcd.ie
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The schedule for the Donegal County Museum and County Donegal Historical Society 'Borders and boundaries' conference has been announced! @cormacmoorehist.bsky.social @lynseyblack.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The schedule for the Donegal County Museum and County Donegal Historical Society 'Borders and boundaries' conference has been announced! @cormacmoorehist.bsky.social @lynseyblack.bsky.social
I'm looking forward to speaking at two conferences this weekend on the Free State's approach to the Irish Boundary Commission, 1923-25. The conference in Lifford can be booked via the contact below, while the @1925ibc100.bsky.social can be booked here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-1925-i...
November 3, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I'm looking forward to speaking at two conferences this weekend on the Free State's approach to the Irish Boundary Commission, 1923-25. The conference in Lifford can be booked via the contact below, while the @1925ibc100.bsky.social can be booked here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-1925-i...
I was at mass for All Saints' Day at Meath Street in Dublin. The priest's homily mentioned the various saints depicted in artwork throughout the church, but didn't mention Saint Kevin Barry, who was hanged on 1 November 1920 and whose bust was carved by a church sculptor with republican sympathies!
November 1, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I was at mass for All Saints' Day at Meath Street in Dublin. The priest's homily mentioned the various saints depicted in artwork throughout the church, but didn't mention Saint Kevin Barry, who was hanged on 1 November 1920 and whose bust was carved by a church sculptor with republican sympathies!
I'm looking forward to speaking on the activities of the North-Eastern Boundary Bureau, 1923-25 at this conference in Lifford on 8 November. Booking details are below. The talk will expand on my research, which was published #OpenAcess with @ria.ie last year: muse.jhu.edu/article/956691
October 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
I'm looking forward to speaking on the activities of the North-Eastern Boundary Bureau, 1923-25 at this conference in Lifford on 8 November. Booking details are below. The talk will expand on my research, which was published #OpenAcess with @ria.ie last year: muse.jhu.edu/article/956691
An empty seat is reserved every night at the castle for an unexpected guest. According to tradition, Lord Howth's grandson was taken hostage by Grace O'Malley when she was denied entry to the castle around 1575. He was released on the condition that any unexpected guest would be welcomed.
October 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
An empty seat is reserved every night at the castle for an unexpected guest. According to tradition, Lord Howth's grandson was taken hostage by Grace O'Malley when she was denied entry to the castle around 1575. He was released on the condition that any unexpected guest would be welcomed.
I was delighted to have been given a fascinating tour of the twelfth-century Howth Castle, home of the St. Lawrence family from Daniel Eglington-Carey, in association with Dublin Decoded Tours
October 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I was delighted to have been given a fascinating tour of the twelfth-century Howth Castle, home of the St. Lawrence family from Daniel Eglington-Carey, in association with Dublin Decoded Tours
Great to hear @willdalrymple.bsky.social give the @tlrhub.bsky.social Edmund Burke lecture on the history of the East India Company in the Edmund Burke Theatre at @tcddublin.bsky.social this evening.
October 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Great to hear @willdalrymple.bsky.social give the @tlrhub.bsky.social Edmund Burke lecture on the history of the East India Company in the Edmund Burke Theatre at @tcddublin.bsky.social this evening.
I was delighted to attend the launch of the exhibition on Project Children at Monaghan County Museum last night, which heard from the project founder Denis Mulcahy and the Garda and NYPD bands
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October 9, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I was delighted to attend the launch of the exhibition on Project Children at Monaghan County Museum last night, which heard from the project founder Denis Mulcahy and the Garda and NYPD bands
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Celebrating my 27th birthday (I feel old)at one of my favourite Dublin restaurants - Tenters Gastropub on Mill St. Mill Street was the homeplace of John Lawless, about whom I've been reading and writing a lot recently. See his @ria.ie @historydib.bsky.social entry here: www.dib.ie/biography/la...
August 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Celebrating my 27th birthday (I feel old)at one of my favourite Dublin restaurants - Tenters Gastropub on Mill St. Mill Street was the homeplace of John Lawless, about whom I've been reading and writing a lot recently. See his @ria.ie @historydib.bsky.social entry here: www.dib.ie/biography/la...
Looking forward to this symposium marking the 250th anniversary of Daniel O'Connell's birth here at the Edmund Burke Theatre @tcddublin.bsky.social, organised by @tlrhub.bsky.social
July 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Looking forward to this symposium marking the 250th anniversary of Daniel O'Connell's birth here at the Edmund Burke Theatre @tcddublin.bsky.social, organised by @tlrhub.bsky.social
Thanks to Francis from Dublinia (www.dublinia.ie) for a walking tour of medieval Dublin for the @thelibertiescp.bsky.social Festival. We visited Dublin Castle, Christ Church, the of the Viking sit at @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social on Wood Quay, the city walls on Cooke St and St Audeon's Gate and church
July 26, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Thanks to Francis from Dublinia (www.dublinia.ie) for a walking tour of medieval Dublin for the @thelibertiescp.bsky.social Festival. We visited Dublin Castle, Christ Church, the of the Viking sit at @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social on Wood Quay, the city walls on Cooke St and St Audeon's Gate and church
1/ Thank you to Arran from Dublin Decoded Tours (dublindecoded.com) for his tour around the Francis St area for @thelibertiescp.bsky.social Festival. We visited the two St Audeon's Churches, the Iveagh Markets, Francis St, John's Lane and Meath St Catholic churches but my favourite was Tailors' Hall
July 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
1/ Thank you to Arran from Dublin Decoded Tours (dublindecoded.com) for his tour around the Francis St area for @thelibertiescp.bsky.social Festival. We visited the two St Audeon's Churches, the Iveagh Markets, Francis St, John's Lane and Meath St Catholic churches but my favourite was Tailors' Hall
1/ I attended two great 'Talking Shop' events for the @thelibertiescp.bsky.social Festival on Meath St this evening - Noel's, my local shop, which is much more like a rural shop than an inner-city one, with the memorial cards of locals on the wall, and Little Flower Penny Dinners which
July 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
1/ I attended two great 'Talking Shop' events for the @thelibertiescp.bsky.social Festival on Meath St this evening - Noel's, my local shop, which is much more like a rural shop than an inner-city one, with the memorial cards of locals on the wall, and Little Flower Penny Dinners which
I marched through Dublin city centre today in solidarity with Palestine. Speeches followed from two Palestinians and Mary Manning, who began the Dunnes Store strike against apartheid South Africa on this day in 1984.
July 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I marched through Dublin city centre today in solidarity with Palestine. Speeches followed from two Palestinians and Mary Manning, who began the Dunnes Store strike against apartheid South Africa on this day in 1984.
Preaching on the parable of the Good Samaritian, the priest saying mass at John's Lane Augustinian church in Dublin this morning referenced some of the actions of ICE in the United States and this Eleventh Night bonfire in Tyrone as examples of failing to love one's neighbour
July 13, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Preaching on the parable of the Good Samaritian, the priest saying mass at John's Lane Augustinian church in Dublin this morning referenced some of the actions of ICE in the United States and this Eleventh Night bonfire in Tyrone as examples of failing to love one's neighbour
I was telling a colleague at @tlrhub.bsky.social today that we had speakers from India and Canada at @frontiers2025.bsky.social conference and my phone beeped and this was on my screen
July 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I was telling a colleague at @tlrhub.bsky.social today that we had speakers from India and Canada at @frontiers2025.bsky.social conference and my phone beeped and this was on my screen
3/ My favourite piece was this wine cooler, made from Irish bog oak, that was presented to Morpeth from his constituents after he lost his West Riding of Yorkshire seat in the 1841 general election.
June 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
3/ My favourite piece was this wine cooler, made from Irish bog oak, that was presented to Morpeth from his constituents after he lost his West Riding of Yorkshire seat in the 1841 general election.
2/ There were many art pieces associated with my friend Morpeth, such as this bust and a portrait of him, then the 7th earl of Carlisle, at the Viceral Lodge in the Pheonix Park when he served a lord lieutenant of Ireland between 1855 and 1858 and again from 1859 to 1864.
June 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
2/ There were many art pieces associated with my friend Morpeth, such as this bust and a portrait of him, then the 7th earl of Carlisle, at the Viceral Lodge in the Pheonix Park when he served a lord lieutenant of Ireland between 1855 and 1858 and again from 1859 to 1864.
1/ Finished my week's research at @castlehowardestate.bsky.social today with a tour of the stunning early eighteenth-century house. A big thank you to Chris, Eleanor and Matthew for all their help over the past week.
June 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
1/ Finished my week's research at @castlehowardestate.bsky.social today with a tour of the stunning early eighteenth-century house. A big thank you to Chris, Eleanor and Matthew for all their help over the past week.
Finished my first day here at the magnificent @castlehowardestate.bsky.social in beautiful Yorkshire. I'm here this week researching the papers of George Howard, Viscount Morpeth (later the 7th earl of Carlisle) who was chief secretary for Ireland from 1835 to 1841
June 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Finished my first day here at the magnificent @castlehowardestate.bsky.social in beautiful Yorkshire. I'm here this week researching the papers of George Howard, Viscount Morpeth (later the 7th earl of Carlisle) who was chief secretary for Ireland from 1835 to 1841
1/ As I have more money than sense, I bought a floor tile from the @ukparliament.parliament.uk Palace of Westminster, which arrived in the post today. The tile, designed by Pugin, was taken from the Royal Gallery, situated between the @houseoflords.parliament.uk chamber and the royal robing room.
June 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
1/ As I have more money than sense, I bought a floor tile from the @ukparliament.parliament.uk Palace of Westminster, which arrived in the post today. The tile, designed by Pugin, was taken from the Royal Gallery, situated between the @houseoflords.parliament.uk chamber and the royal robing room.
My keffiyeh arrived in the post today. Solidarity with Palestine.
May 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
My keffiyeh arrived in the post today. Solidarity with Palestine.
Thank you and best wishes to @evepatt.bsky.social and @ciaranon.bsky.social as they finish their five-year term as director and deputy director respectively of @tlrhub.bsky.social today. Congrats and good luck to my supervisor, Patrick Geoghegan @historytcd.bsky.social as he takes over as director
May 28, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Thank you and best wishes to @evepatt.bsky.social and @ciaranon.bsky.social as they finish their five-year term as director and deputy director respectively of @tlrhub.bsky.social today. Congrats and good luck to my supervisor, Patrick Geoghegan @historytcd.bsky.social as he takes over as director
Even the real-time at the Stadium of Light Station on the Tyne and Wear metro is celebrating!
May 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Even the real-time at the Stadium of Light Station on the Tyne and Wear metro is celebrating!
I don't follow English association football, but what an experience it was watching Sunderland come from behind to be promoted to the Premier League in a pub across the road from the Stadium of Light.
May 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I don't follow English association football, but what an experience it was watching Sunderland come from behind to be promoted to the Premier League in a pub across the road from the Stadium of Light.