Victoria Anne Pearson
@vapearsonduffy.bsky.social
PhD candidate, Ulster University
researching the life & work of Dr Francis Moylan, RC Bishop of Kerry & Cork, 1735-1815
researching the life & work of Dr Francis Moylan, RC Bishop of Kerry & Cork, 1735-1815
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Just joined to show off passions for vintage book buying & the History of Belief. So, posts range from Saints to Sinners, Rites to Rights, and all things my hometown: Cork City!
Derry (Halloween) Girls- bone cracker! 💀
Halloween in Derry has started at The Sacred Tree in the Craft Village 🎃
Halloween in Derry has started at The Sacred Tree in the Craft Village 🎃
October 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Derry (Halloween) Girls- bone cracker! 💀
Halloween in Derry has started at The Sacred Tree in the Craft Village 🎃
Halloween in Derry has started at The Sacred Tree in the Craft Village 🎃
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On 20 November, I'm giving a lunchtime lecture at the V&A about my book Shoes and the Georgian Man. It's free, do come along!
#skystorians @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
www.vam.ac.uk/event/xd9XBD...
#skystorians @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
www.vam.ac.uk/event/xd9XBD...
Lunchtime Lectures: Shoes and the Georgian Man - V&A Academy Talk at
V&A South Kensington · V&A
This talk is part of the free Lunchtime Lecture programme. No booking is required.
www.vam.ac.uk
October 15, 2025 at 11:19 AM
On 20 November, I'm giving a lunchtime lecture at the V&A about my book Shoes and the Georgian Man. It's free, do come along!
#skystorians @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
www.vam.ac.uk/event/xd9XBD...
#skystorians @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
www.vam.ac.uk/event/xd9XBD...
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It was a fantastic closing roundtable and a fitting end to a wonderful two days. Many thanks to my co-organisers, @virtualtreasury.bsky.social, @tlrhub.bsky.social, and all the speakers, participants, and attendees! The start of a generative conversation that I hope we will continue.
October 11, 2025 at 6:27 AM
It was a fantastic closing roundtable and a fitting end to a wonderful two days. Many thanks to my co-organisers, @virtualtreasury.bsky.social, @tlrhub.bsky.social, and all the speakers, participants, and attendees! The start of a generative conversation that I hope we will continue.
Traveling this morning to👇🏻
My thanks to the organising committee @tlrhub.bsky.social especially @joelherman.bsky.social for the invite and his kind consideration.
I will be speaking about the Moylan brothers, in Cork & Philadelphia, & the American Revolution.
@ulsteruni.bsky.social
My thanks to the organising committee @tlrhub.bsky.social especially @joelherman.bsky.social for the invite and his kind consideration.
I will be speaking about the Moylan brothers, in Cork & Philadelphia, & the American Revolution.
@ulsteruni.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Traveling this morning to👇🏻
My thanks to the organising committee @tlrhub.bsky.social especially @joelherman.bsky.social for the invite and his kind consideration.
I will be speaking about the Moylan brothers, in Cork & Philadelphia, & the American Revolution.
@ulsteruni.bsky.social
My thanks to the organising committee @tlrhub.bsky.social especially @joelherman.bsky.social for the invite and his kind consideration.
I will be speaking about the Moylan brothers, in Cork & Philadelphia, & the American Revolution.
@ulsteruni.bsky.social
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My exhibition on the afterlives of Cork revolutionary women who did not marry is in the final stages.
I want to thank so much @sostudiodesign.bsky.social for all their work - brilliant design and attention to detail - a truly positive experience. Thank you the @ria.ie for funding this.
I want to thank so much @sostudiodesign.bsky.social for all their work - brilliant design and attention to detail - a truly positive experience. Thank you the @ria.ie for funding this.
September 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
My exhibition on the afterlives of Cork revolutionary women who did not marry is in the final stages.
I want to thank so much @sostudiodesign.bsky.social for all their work - brilliant design and attention to detail - a truly positive experience. Thank you the @ria.ie for funding this.
I want to thank so much @sostudiodesign.bsky.social for all their work - brilliant design and attention to detail - a truly positive experience. Thank you the @ria.ie for funding this.
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Friends with a love of Cork - late 19th c photographs show St Anne’s Church in Shandon as being unrendered, with the rough-coursed masonry visible. Do we know if it was ever rendered? Any ideas? #speirgorm Pic from @nlireland.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Friends with a love of Cork - late 19th c photographs show St Anne’s Church in Shandon as being unrendered, with the rough-coursed masonry visible. Do we know if it was ever rendered? Any ideas? #speirgorm Pic from @nlireland.bsky.social
Another one from Dad’s vault.
I believe this is from the PAYE Strikes in 1979/80.
@electionlit.bsky.social
I believe this is from the PAYE Strikes in 1979/80.
@electionlit.bsky.social
August 25, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Another one from Dad’s vault.
I believe this is from the PAYE Strikes in 1979/80.
@electionlit.bsky.social
I believe this is from the PAYE Strikes in 1979/80.
@electionlit.bsky.social
From my father’s archive
A rare Mary Robinson poster issued by the Trade Unions affiliated to The Labour Party during the 1990 presidential election campaign 🌹
@electionlit.bsky.social @labourpartyireland.bsky.social @siptu.bsky.social
A rare Mary Robinson poster issued by the Trade Unions affiliated to The Labour Party during the 1990 presidential election campaign 🌹
@electionlit.bsky.social @labourpartyireland.bsky.social @siptu.bsky.social
August 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
From my father’s archive
A rare Mary Robinson poster issued by the Trade Unions affiliated to The Labour Party during the 1990 presidential election campaign 🌹
@electionlit.bsky.social @labourpartyireland.bsky.social @siptu.bsky.social
A rare Mary Robinson poster issued by the Trade Unions affiliated to The Labour Party during the 1990 presidential election campaign 🌹
@electionlit.bsky.social @labourpartyireland.bsky.social @siptu.bsky.social
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Celebrate 100 years of Cork University Press, Ireland’s oldest university press
Join us Thu 11 Sept in UCC’s Dora Allman Room for a symposium on landmark works, from Dánta Grádha to the award-winning Atlas Series, (plus an evening reception.)
Free & open to all
www.eventbrite.com/e/cork-unive...
Join us Thu 11 Sept in UCC’s Dora Allman Room for a symposium on landmark works, from Dánta Grádha to the award-winning Atlas Series, (plus an evening reception.)
Free & open to all
www.eventbrite.com/e/cork-unive...
August 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Celebrate 100 years of Cork University Press, Ireland’s oldest university press
Join us Thu 11 Sept in UCC’s Dora Allman Room for a symposium on landmark works, from Dánta Grádha to the award-winning Atlas Series, (plus an evening reception.)
Free & open to all
www.eventbrite.com/e/cork-unive...
Join us Thu 11 Sept in UCC’s Dora Allman Room for a symposium on landmark works, from Dánta Grádha to the award-winning Atlas Series, (plus an evening reception.)
Free & open to all
www.eventbrite.com/e/cork-unive...
A powerful and moving event for Féile 2025 at the Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin in Derry tonight.
Peter Taylor in conversation with Raymond McCartney was a complex and often uncomfortable confrontation with the past and its many truths.
Míle Buíochas to all.
Peter Taylor in conversation with Raymond McCartney was a complex and often uncomfortable confrontation with the past and its many truths.
Míle Buíochas to all.
August 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
A powerful and moving event for Féile 2025 at the Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin in Derry tonight.
Peter Taylor in conversation with Raymond McCartney was a complex and often uncomfortable confrontation with the past and its many truths.
Míle Buíochas to all.
Peter Taylor in conversation with Raymond McCartney was a complex and often uncomfortable confrontation with the past and its many truths.
Míle Buíochas to all.
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Last weeks column was on Feargus O'Connor, the Chartists and their relationship with Daniel O'Connell. I'm a great admirer of O'Connell on some fronts, but certainly not all.
"History has recast Daniel O’Connell as a liberal icon, but he was no revolutionary."
www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...
"History has recast Daniel O’Connell as a liberal icon, but he was no revolutionary."
www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...
August 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Last weeks column was on Feargus O'Connor, the Chartists and their relationship with Daniel O'Connell. I'm a great admirer of O'Connell on some fronts, but certainly not all.
"History has recast Daniel O’Connell as a liberal icon, but he was no revolutionary."
www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...
"History has recast Daniel O’Connell as a liberal icon, but he was no revolutionary."
www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...
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Radical Poverty: The Capuchins and Catholicism in Britain, 1850-2022' by the CCS' @liamtemple.bsky.social is now available to pre-order through @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social! Details here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/radical-p... #skystorians #CathHist #history #Catholicism
Radical Poverty
This incisive work offers the first comprehensive analysis of the history of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin in Britain. Drawing on previously closed archive…
www.bloomsbury.com
August 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Radical Poverty: The Capuchins and Catholicism in Britain, 1850-2022' by the CCS' @liamtemple.bsky.social is now available to pre-order through @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social! Details here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/radical-p... #skystorians #CathHist #history #Catholicism
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Daniel O’Connell "lived at numerous London addresses throughout his life...but it was at 14 Albermarle Street in Mayfair that he saw the Abolition of Slavery Act passed in August 1833, an Act for which he was a crucial campaigner." #IrishLondonHistory ☘️
www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-p...
www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-p...
![Photograph [taken 2024] of 14 Albemarle Street, Mayfair, London W1S 4HL, showing an English Heritage blue plaque on the wall above the Moncler shopftont](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fobkxbtgv73d5a3jmvl77bkl/bafkreidi4dkqu7hs4s4hpmtqcseofspg2jgqndjayngctgo7da3opxxh54@jpeg)
August 6, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Daniel O’Connell "lived at numerous London addresses throughout his life...but it was at 14 Albermarle Street in Mayfair that he saw the Abolition of Slavery Act passed in August 1833, an Act for which he was a crucial campaigner." #IrishLondonHistory ☘️
www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-p...
www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-p...
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An inscribed stone from Kilnasaggart, Co. Louth, Republic of Ireland, by R Welch, 1898
August 6, 2025 at 6:37 AM
An inscribed stone from Kilnasaggart, Co. Louth, Republic of Ireland, by R Welch, 1898
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🧵(5) While an authoritative and influential parliamentarian, much of O'Connell's strength was as a 'popular' politician among the masses, presenting himself as a 'people's champion' and embracing an early form of celebrity culture, as Dr Simon Morgan explores: buff.ly/YgsMFr4
From ‘People’s Champions’ to ‘Tribunes of the People’: popular politicians in Parliament, c. 1810 to 1867 - The History of Parliament
To find out more, Simon’s full-length paper ‘From ‘People’s Champions’ to ‘Tribunes of the People’: popular politicians in Parliament, c. 1810 to 1867’ is
thehistoryofparliament.wordpress.com
August 6, 2025 at 7:30 AM
🧵(5) While an authoritative and influential parliamentarian, much of O'Connell's strength was as a 'popular' politician among the masses, presenting himself as a 'people's champion' and embracing an early form of celebrity culture, as Dr Simon Morgan explores: buff.ly/YgsMFr4
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The 1970s Quarto editions of McGahern books are a case study in themselves in book cover design that literally don't relate to the actual book at all!
August 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The 1970s Quarto editions of McGahern books are a case study in themselves in book cover design that literally don't relate to the actual book at all!
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Alice Thornton project getting coverage in the press:
Woman’s memoirs give fascinating insight into life in 17th-century northern England
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Project site: thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
Bsky: @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social
#History 🗃️
Woman’s memoirs give fascinating insight into life in 17th-century northern England
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Project site: thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
Bsky: @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social
#History 🗃️
Woman’s memoirs give fascinating insight into life in 17th-century northern England
Newly reunited manuscripts by Alice Thornton show how she navigated personal crises during tumultuous events such as the civil war
www.theguardian.com
August 4, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Alice Thornton project getting coverage in the press:
Woman’s memoirs give fascinating insight into life in 17th-century northern England
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Project site: thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
Bsky: @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social
#History 🗃️
Woman’s memoirs give fascinating insight into life in 17th-century northern England
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Project site: thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
Bsky: @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social
#History 🗃️
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Four decades on, Tariq Goddard returns to The Pogues' second studio LP, a record of unguarded sentiment and open hearted revelry, strange and dark surrealism, empathic univocity and plain-speaking insight
An Angel at Your Head: #ThePogues’ Rum, Sodomy & The Lash at 40
buff.ly/upBbY6F
An Angel at Your Head: #ThePogues’ Rum, Sodomy & The Lash at 40
buff.ly/upBbY6F
August 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Four decades on, Tariq Goddard returns to The Pogues' second studio LP, a record of unguarded sentiment and open hearted revelry, strange and dark surrealism, empathic univocity and plain-speaking insight
An Angel at Your Head: #ThePogues’ Rum, Sodomy & The Lash at 40
buff.ly/upBbY6F
An Angel at Your Head: #ThePogues’ Rum, Sodomy & The Lash at 40
buff.ly/upBbY6F
Beautiful editions of a collection from my childhood.
Marita Conlon McKenna had such an influence on my young mind. I love her work.
Marita Conlon McKenna had such an influence on my young mind. I love her work.
August 5, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Beautiful editions of a collection from my childhood.
Marita Conlon McKenna had such an influence on my young mind. I love her work.
Marita Conlon McKenna had such an influence on my young mind. I love her work.
I came across this beautiful gem recently in the Mother Jones Flea Market
A comprehensive history of Order in city, the ads included are a snapshot of Cork’s social history.
It was produced to mark the opening of the ‘new’ St Francis Church, Liberty St in 1953
A comprehensive history of Order in city, the ads included are a snapshot of Cork’s social history.
It was produced to mark the opening of the ‘new’ St Francis Church, Liberty St in 1953
August 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I came across this beautiful gem recently in the Mother Jones Flea Market
A comprehensive history of Order in city, the ads included are a snapshot of Cork’s social history.
It was produced to mark the opening of the ‘new’ St Francis Church, Liberty St in 1953
A comprehensive history of Order in city, the ads included are a snapshot of Cork’s social history.
It was produced to mark the opening of the ‘new’ St Francis Church, Liberty St in 1953
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Poem of the Week: My Mother at the Window
Poem of the Week: My Mother at the Window
A new poem by Gerry Murphy
www.irishtimes.com
August 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Poem of the Week: My Mother at the Window
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Kathy Barry one of Corks famous women of the Coal Quay this is her standing at the door of her shop on Daltons avenue behind the shop was her little pub which she kept open all through the night it was famous for it's menu of pigs feet and a home made brew known by some as jungle juice.
August 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Kathy Barry one of Corks famous women of the Coal Quay this is her standing at the door of her shop on Daltons avenue behind the shop was her little pub which she kept open all through the night it was famous for it's menu of pigs feet and a home made brew known by some as jungle juice.