Terry Dunne
@peelersandsheep.bsky.social
New documentary short ‘Land and Revolution’ out now - https://youtu.be/9KUqvXjlHts?si=Dhn-BXZTHQHbF51v
New edited volume ‘Spirit of Revolution’ - https://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2022/spirit-of-revolution
New edited volume ‘Spirit of Revolution’ - https://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2022/spirit-of-revolution
This morning’s reading, just got to the 1920 Iraqi revolt. The 1741 famine, subject of the other book, is fascinating in that it has such a small presence in social memory compared to that of the 1840s.
December 12, 2024 at 7:40 AM
This morning’s reading, just got to the 1920 Iraqi revolt. The 1741 famine, subject of the other book, is fascinating in that it has such a small presence in social memory compared to that of the 1840s.
Gave a talk on Thursday the 28th of November about the Great Famine in Ballyfin in the western part of Laois. Part of a project supported by the Laois Heritage Office and Creative Ireland wherein I am seeing what documentary evidence there is relating to stories passed down in local social memory.
November 30, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Gave a talk on Thursday the 28th of November about the Great Famine in Ballyfin in the western part of Laois. Part of a project supported by the Laois Heritage Office and Creative Ireland wherein I am seeing what documentary evidence there is relating to stories passed down in local social memory.
New followers-so introduction, of late I have been in the realm of public history re: Irish revolution (c.1911-1923) & presenting an alternative view, attentive to socially radical aspects & labour & agrarian movements. Pictured edited vol. came out in May '24 www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2022/s...
November 24, 2024 at 9:16 AM
New followers-so introduction, of late I have been in the realm of public history re: Irish revolution (c.1911-1923) & presenting an alternative view, attentive to socially radical aspects & labour & agrarian movements. Pictured edited vol. came out in May '24 www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2022/s...
Reading this at the moment, microscopic focus of Matthew Stout chapter on Smith estate in west Wicklow, farm consolidation & improvement, Famine as opportunity for the same, is really good.
November 14, 2024 at 7:33 AM
Reading this at the moment, microscopic focus of Matthew Stout chapter on Smith estate in west Wicklow, farm consolidation & improvement, Famine as opportunity for the same, is really good.
‘against the rapacity of landlord avarice’-grave of John Molony, killed by Royal Irish Constabulary in 1881 Land War. Kilnoe cemetery, east Clare. Area became famous a few years later for ‘Bodyke evictions’, landlord’s son became a farmers’ leader, as I talk about in doc - youtu.be/9KUqvXjlHts?...
November 14, 2024 at 7:10 AM
‘against the rapacity of landlord avarice’-grave of John Molony, killed by Royal Irish Constabulary in 1881 Land War. Kilnoe cemetery, east Clare. Area became famous a few years later for ‘Bodyke evictions’, landlord’s son became a farmers’ leader, as I talk about in doc - youtu.be/9KUqvXjlHts?...
Will be reading about the Congested Districts Board today, a state body which, amongst other things, built about 4,000 public housing houses in the West of Ireland in the years before 1914. I am looking at a townland where I think there were two of them, need to confirm. #OnePlaceWednesday
November 13, 2024 at 7:45 AM
Will be reading about the Congested Districts Board today, a state body which, amongst other things, built about 4,000 public housing houses in the West of Ireland in the years before 1914. I am looking at a townland where I think there were two of them, need to confirm. #OnePlaceWednesday
Grave of John Ryan, an Irish Republican Army Volunteer killed in Co. Clare by the Royal Irish Constabulary in February 1918 during a protest against “the ranch system”, one of a wave of such mobilisations early in 1918, tied in with concerns over food supply in the context of the Great War.
November 12, 2024 at 9:43 PM
Grave of John Ryan, an Irish Republican Army Volunteer killed in Co. Clare by the Royal Irish Constabulary in February 1918 during a protest against “the ranch system”, one of a wave of such mobilisations early in 1918, tied in with concerns over food supply in the context of the Great War.
Grave of General Gore, led Inniskilling Dragoons in South Africa in the early 1880s, according to regt. history - "In December [1882] two troops were detached to Zululand to take part in the ceremony of the restoration of Cetewavo." Dunno if he was there but his probate lists a portrait of a Zulu.
November 12, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Grave of General Gore, led Inniskilling Dragoons in South Africa in the early 1880s, according to regt. history - "In December [1882] two troops were detached to Zululand to take part in the ceremony of the restoration of Cetewavo." Dunno if he was there but his probate lists a portrait of a Zulu.
Cultivation ridges aka 'lazy beds' from the early 1800s when subsistence crop growing was pushed into the uplands, with a late 1800s stone wall superimposed on top of them from when the area was reverted to pasture. This is in the Cooley peninsula, north-east Ireland.
November 12, 2024 at 1:55 PM
Cultivation ridges aka 'lazy beds' from the early 1800s when subsistence crop growing was pushed into the uplands, with a late 1800s stone wall superimposed on top of them from when the area was reverted to pasture. This is in the Cooley peninsula, north-east Ireland.
‘Strips’ characteristic field pattern in the West of Ireland where rundale, a form of communal land holding, had been broken-up, point was to distribute equal amounts of land of different qualities. Upland beyond was common grazing. Wooded now probably due to less intensive modern land use.
November 8, 2024 at 8:44 PM
‘Strips’ characteristic field pattern in the West of Ireland where rundale, a form of communal land holding, had been broken-up, point was to distribute equal amounts of land of different qualities. Upland beyond was common grazing. Wooded now probably due to less intensive modern land use.
This morning’s read on the commute.
October 31, 2024 at 8:25 AM
This morning’s read on the commute.
Ennistymon house, the demesne of Macnamaras, I talk a bit about this estate in the 'Land and Revolution' film - youtu.be/9KUqvXjlHts and more on it out soon. Its 'untenanted land' was taken over during the course of the Irish revolution. Police were mobilised to take it back in 1924 & 1926.
October 30, 2024 at 8:33 AM
Ennistymon house, the demesne of Macnamaras, I talk a bit about this estate in the 'Land and Revolution' film - youtu.be/9KUqvXjlHts and more on it out soon. Its 'untenanted land' was taken over during the course of the Irish revolution. Police were mobilised to take it back in 1924 & 1926.
Ing, in south Clare, the regular field pattern in the foreground from c.1919 land re-distribution, relicts of an earlier regular pattern here too, of pre-1840 land reclamation, more on the latter in Kieran Hickey's talk for Clare Libraries History Week clarelibraries.ie/projects/his...
October 23, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Ing, in south Clare, the regular field pattern in the foreground from c.1919 land re-distribution, relicts of an earlier regular pattern here too, of pre-1840 land reclamation, more on the latter in Kieran Hickey's talk for Clare Libraries History Week clarelibraries.ie/projects/his...
Memorial to Albert O'Brien, shot dead in Clare in Feb 1923 by the Special Infantry, a unit of the Free State Army set up to combat labour and agrarian unrest. This seems to have been a case of troops being trigger-happy, but they had arrested his brother that morn. More -https://youtu.be/9KUqvXjlHts
October 23, 2024 at 10:25 AM
Memorial to Albert O'Brien, shot dead in Clare in Feb 1923 by the Special Infantry, a unit of the Free State Army set up to combat labour and agrarian unrest. This seems to have been a case of troops being trigger-happy, but they had arrested his brother that morn. More -https://youtu.be/9KUqvXjlHts
This is Ballyerra House, Kilrush, one of whose residents I was talking about in Kilrush last week, one of a succession of talks in Kilrush, Scariff and Ennistimon, partly as part of Clare Libraries History Week t.co/8g6fHMbOgA - all of which have been very useful for the research.
October 22, 2024 at 12:19 PM
This is Ballyerra House, Kilrush, one of whose residents I was talking about in Kilrush last week, one of a succession of talks in Kilrush, Scariff and Ennistimon, partly as part of Clare Libraries History Week t.co/8g6fHMbOgA - all of which have been very useful for the research.
Released this morning was a great online talk given by Susan Arthure on a mining community in South Australia that recreated Irish vernacular architecture and settlement traditions in their new environs, watch it here - youtu.be/PefTkJYqUcI
October 17, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Released this morning was a great online talk given by Susan Arthure on a mining community in South Australia that recreated Irish vernacular architecture and settlement traditions in their new environs, watch it here - youtu.be/PefTkJYqUcI
New documentary film out now, 'Land and Revolution', supported by the Royal Irish Academy under the Decade of Centenaries programme and released as part of
Clare Libraries History Week, to view it go to - youtu.be/9KUqvXjlHts
Clare Libraries History Week, to view it go to - youtu.be/9KUqvXjlHts
October 15, 2024 at 7:56 AM
New documentary film out now, 'Land and Revolution', supported by the Royal Irish Academy under the Decade of Centenaries programme and released as part of
Clare Libraries History Week, to view it go to - youtu.be/9KUqvXjlHts
Clare Libraries History Week, to view it go to - youtu.be/9KUqvXjlHts
Just finished recording my talk on mapping Clare's changing landscape which goes out on Monday October 14 as part of Clare Libraries History Week clarelibraries.ie/projects/his... - all on a particular townland that saw a dissolution of a clachan c.1840, land re-distribution c.1914 etc...
October 11, 2024 at 11:40 AM
Just finished recording my talk on mapping Clare's changing landscape which goes out on Monday October 14 as part of Clare Libraries History Week clarelibraries.ie/projects/his... - all on a particular townland that saw a dissolution of a clachan c.1840, land re-distribution c.1914 etc...
Out on Monday October 14 is a new short documentary ‘Land and Revolution’ released as part of Clare Libraries History Week. Thanks to Scamp Media and the Royal Irish Academy.
October 10, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Out on Monday October 14 is a new short documentary ‘Land and Revolution’ released as part of Clare Libraries History Week. Thanks to Scamp Media and the Royal Irish Academy.
Clare Libraries History Week is taking place in the middle of this month and I am very happy to have taken part in putting the programme together. There is lots of online content accessible to far-flung folk. Check out what is happening here - clarelibraries.ie/projects/his...
October 2, 2024 at 8:36 AM
Clare Libraries History Week is taking place in the middle of this month and I am very happy to have taken part in putting the programme together. There is lots of online content accessible to far-flung folk. Check out what is happening here - clarelibraries.ie/projects/his...
Next Wednesday Spirit of Revolution will be launched in Dublin - in Books Upstairs, Wednesday, May 29, 6.pm. All welcome. The latest Irish Left Archive podcast features a discussion with the editors - cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2024/05/24/i...
May 25, 2024 at 1:15 PM
Next Wednesday Spirit of Revolution will be launched in Dublin - in Books Upstairs, Wednesday, May 29, 6.pm. All welcome. The latest Irish Left Archive podcast features a discussion with the editors - cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2024/05/24/i...
The Connaught Tribune reports on the forthcoming Galway launch of 'Spirit of Revolution' (Charlie Byrnes, 1 May, 6pm)-with an article including a nice picture of James Alcorn's house-Alcorn was a frequent target of agrarian agitations and was Sherriff of County Galway.
April 26, 2024 at 9:42 AM
The Connaught Tribune reports on the forthcoming Galway launch of 'Spirit of Revolution' (Charlie Byrnes, 1 May, 6pm)-with an article including a nice picture of James Alcorn's house-Alcorn was a frequent target of agrarian agitations and was Sherriff of County Galway.
Launch of Spirit of Revolution this Mayday in Galway, Sligo and Dublin launches to follow.
April 19, 2024 at 11:35 AM
Launch of Spirit of Revolution this Mayday in Galway, Sligo and Dublin launches to follow.
A good week is seeing your new edited volume in the shops on Tuesday and a new calf bounding around the fields on Friday.
April 5, 2024 at 9:18 AM
A good week is seeing your new edited volume in the shops on Tuesday and a new calf bounding around the fields on Friday.
Very happy to finally have this book in my hands. Thanks to all the contributors & Four Courts Press
Contents here 👉https://fourcourtspress.ie/books/2022/spirit-of-revolution/contents Available in all good bookshops right now. Launch details to follow.
Contents here 👉https://fourcourtspress.ie/books/2022/spirit-of-revolution/contents Available in all good bookshops right now. Launch details to follow.
March 29, 2024 at 2:26 PM
Very happy to finally have this book in my hands. Thanks to all the contributors & Four Courts Press
Contents here 👉https://fourcourtspress.ie/books/2022/spirit-of-revolution/contents Available in all good bookshops right now. Launch details to follow.
Contents here 👉https://fourcourtspress.ie/books/2022/spirit-of-revolution/contents Available in all good bookshops right now. Launch details to follow.