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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I retract every self-hating joke I have ever made about the impossibility of being sexy in Yiddish:

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Doing my part to ensure the 'what did you get up to over the summer' conversation stays fresh

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I got into sport to deal with academic job-market stress and it's rather telling that I now hold a European record and am competing internationally for two different countries in two different sports 💀 Catch me in Kyrgyzstan 6 Sep racing horses at the Nomad Games worldnomadgames.org

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

June 6, 1922, from a British military advisor. 'In the opinion of a great many people well qualified to judge the Cumann-na-mBan is the most dangerous organisation with which we have to deal.'

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

‘internment was carried out to a very large extent in Ireland and especially outside Ulster in 1920-21.There were in all some 4000 internees. No woman was however interned. It was considered that the supply of fanatical women was practically inexhaustible.'

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Just described Cyclops by saying ‘bro is just sheepmaxing’ and i am very pleased with this synopsis

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Reading the medieval law text Críth Gablach, as one does on a Sunday morning, and came across this interesting bit on women's weapons.

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Michael Collins seems to have been one to trash talk during sports, commenting 'ah, you wh*re, you can't run' during a 100 meter dash in Frongoch internment camp, 1916. [Source: _Frongoch: University of Revolution_]

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Does this precedent mean I can do crimes? Y/N

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Just read a book which evidences British wastefulness/bad intel in the War of Independence by noting the many Irish detainees who were disabled/chronically ill/over 40. There are points to be made here--but also, my guy, have you SEEN who the revolutionaries were?

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

During the Irish Civil War, the C-wing of Mountjoy Prison produced a prison paper called 'The Book of Cells' and I am in awe of how people in prison retained such top-tier wit.

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I hate when dead animal are given a different name (eg. sheep/mutton) as though their lives and suffering are erased, their bodies reimagined as a simple product for human pleasure--But I think 'mairteoil' ('beef') gets a pass--It may come from latin mortuus ('dead'). dil.ie/search?searc...

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eDIL - Irish Language Dictionary

The electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language (eDIL) is a digital dictionary of medieval Irish. It is based on the ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY’S Dictionary of the Irish Language based mainly on Old and Midd...

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Put these pictures side to side for an article pitch and the family resemblance between myself and Daniel Mendoza (in 1788) is actually *uncanny* .

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

If you could introduce any historical figures to one another and either join the conversation or just watch them interact, who would you pick?

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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · 20/04/2026

I have GONE WILD on the 1926 Irish census and have made some fun discoveries: Trinidadian medical students, a Baháʼí couple in Donegal, the Irish widow of an emigré Cossack, and Egyptian sailors in Cork city - among many others.

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Teaching a history course that covers British involvement in the slave trade and this is an interesting infographic of compensation payouts when Britain abolishes slavery throughout the empire in 1833. [Heblich, Redding and Voth, 'Slavery and the British industrial Revolution']

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I do like how obvious it is that academics say "the ____ Turn" to avoid saying "the ____ trend"

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Circa 1800, David Ochterlony of Boston MA used to promenade around Delhi each evening with his mistresses. Each mistress rode her very own elephant. So, babe, if he wanted to—he would. [source: Shashi Tharoor, Inglorious Empire]

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

The proliferation of this quote is so interesting to me. It's often posted by right wing chuds who use it to defend conventional aesthetic ideas — such as the importance of having a lean, athletic body — but they don't really understand Owens's work. Let's talk about it. 🧵

A quote by Rick Owens. It reads: "Working out is modern couture. No outfit is going to make you look or feel as good as having a fit body. Buy less clothing and go to the gym instead."

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

If you’re texting after 1am you’d best be providing me with niche history facts

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I have become aware of the 2025 Eurovision sing called 'Serving Kant'. Whilst the concept is undeniably clever, I was dismayed to discover this song is not, in fact, about Kantian dialectics :-(

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Me: Of course I'll cut down on my footnotes. Also me: It is vital that I tell you about this salmon

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Someone on this train just described a friend as ‘naturally avant garde’, which manages to be simultaneously damning and the highest praise

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Chaucer famously asserts that what women want is sovereignty. However, I believe that what women want is to be asked *whether they have sufficient ponies* (and, when the answer is a woebegone negative, offered more ponies). In this essay, I will--

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

If you send me a photo of your pet, I will be unable to resist replying with what I infer to be your pet’s political opinions

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

How did it take 5 years of teaching medieval lit for me to finally receive an essay titled ‘Slay, Queen’ 😂

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

19th century pearl-clutching about terrorists become less classy is the funniest thing I’ve read today

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Sadly unsuccessful in convincing any children that Santa Claus is short for ‘Santa Von Clausewitz’ and that he is not merely judging one’s naughtiness/niceness but one’s grand strategy for the year.

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

My dad just approvingly commented, 'Sometimes cvilisation advances at a jump, rather than a crawl'.

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Christmas has me thinking about trends in the use of gold in Christian iconography

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Well that’s the ‘whose historical dinner party’ question answered. Despite years of fangirling, I had no idea the famous bellydancer Tahiyya Carioca was so politically active!

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

I’ve been lifting to deal with the stress of the academic job market and now I’m fairly likely to represent GB in 2026 so I think that tells you all you need to know

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

This is just to say— I have fucked up some fadhas that were in the book manuscript and which Reviewer 2 was exasperated to see Forgive me they were coimpléasc so duaisiúil and so aimrhéateach

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Note-to-self to use this Irish recolutionary handbill as an article title.

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I think this is the same royal visit to Ireland in 1903 in which Maud Gonne hung half a black petticoat from a broomstick as a flag outside her home. When the police removed it, she replaced it with a new black flag made from the petticoat's other half.

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

I’m in rural Wales on a journey to a portal to the Otherworld (as you do). My friend has used half his luggage to bring a rice cooker because, even if we end up at an Otherworldly banquet, this man isn’t convinced there will be correctly-made rice.

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

'Late 20th c. machines have made thoroughly ambiguous the difference between natural and artifical...self-developing and externally designed...Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert.' -Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Absolute burn from Richard the Lionheart [source is Hilary Rhodes, ‘Richard the Lionheart, Contested Queerness, and Crusading Memory’]

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

There's no way to quite get it across in English but I love the saint Colum Cille's description of a young warrior as 'eólach cech ernmaiss'. It's like, 'learned in all forms of death-by-iron'

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

One phrase in the English language stands out as for its exceptional versatility. In this essay I will--

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

It’s Walter Benjamin’s yahrzeit. He was a philosopher who chose to die whilst fleeing the Nazis in 1940. He is the only historical figure I *miss*, irrationally, as though he was a friend I suddenly lost.

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Re: the Charlie Kirk murder in the USA: If you're not familiar with Horst Wessel, now would be a great time to look it up.

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

The documents are Napoleonic era, but I nonetheless hear this in Picard's voice and expect tha next word to be 'stardate'

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Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz @caitlynbbs.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Unexpected delight at the names for different classifications of gunship

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