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BS Geography (@UOregon '11). MA Theology (@ProvidenceCol '13). MA Celtic (@UCC '14). MA History (PC '18). PhD Classics/Hardiman Scholar (@UniofGalway '27). tinyurl.com/NUI-Galway-Profile

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James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Another two sermons of St Augustine discovered: on the Witch of Endor
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Another two sermons of St Augustine discovered: on the Witch of Endor
Excellent news from the University of Würzburg, where a researcher has discovered two unknown sermons by St Augustine in a Latin manuscript in Poland!   The reporting (by Martin Brandstätter) is unusually...
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
After a week working at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, on my way to Egypt, but first, Casablanca, my first time in Africa! 🤩🇩🇪✈️🇲🇦✈️🇪🇬
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Just had a paper accepted for a conference in Egypt this summer! 🤩🇪🇬
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I’m honoured to be one of this year’s recipients to help subsidize my upcoming trip to examine multiple manuscripts at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich! 🤩📜
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Harley MS 495 or Cotton MS Claudius B.II 🤩📜
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
An illustrated line from the Prayer Of St. Brendan The Navigator, who is said to have travelled from County Kerry in Ireland to America a thousand years before Columbus made his journey. Trust in the darkness. 🌌 Prints available here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
My "I Will Trust In The Darkness" print against a starry photograph background - the print shows a painting of small wooden sail boat with a red Celtic cross on a white sail travelling into the horizon on a starry night.

#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #BlueskyArt #Art #Ireland #TraditionalArt #HandDrawn
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Concluding Session 1715, we have Jack Roskilly (@Sorbonne-Universite.fr) virtually talking about ‘Knowing the Enemy: Bishops and the Circulation of Knowledge on Heresy between Constantinople and the Provinces’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Secondly, in Session 1715, we have Sophio Guliashvili (University of Georgia (Tbilisi 🇬🇪)) describing ‘Two Georgian Monks from Mount Athos and Their Remarkable Intellectual Legacy in Georgia and Byzantium’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
First, in Session 1715 (Programme page 397), we have Márton Rózsa (@UniVie.ac.at) elucidating ‘Spatial Movement and Knowledge Transfer in 11th-Century Hungary’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Concluding Session 1602 is Jianchang Liu (NENU, Changchun) presenting on ‘Between Openness and Closeness: The Spatial Narrative of the ‘Lives of St Ioannikios’ and the Making of Holiness’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Secondly, in Session 1602, we have Aleksandar Savić (University of Belgrade), ‘Even unto Bonds: Spaces of Confinement in South Slavic Hagiography, 13th-16th Centuries’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
First, in Session 1602 (Programme page 368), we have Sirun Grigoryan (@uahes.bsky.social) describing ‘Faith in Darkness: The Prison as a Space of Sanctification in the Life of St Shushanik’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Finally, in wrapping Session 1320, we have Adrian Doyle (@andubhghailleach.bsky.social / @GalwayClassics.bsky.social) talking on the concept of ‘Using Data Science to Explore the Relationships between Glossed Manuscripts’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Secondly, in Session 1320, we have my colleague Chiara Corongiu (@GalwayClassics.bsky.social) delivering ‘A Survey of Glossing in Early Medieval Irish Manuscripts’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
First, in Session 1320 (Programme page 321), we have my colleague Pádraic Moran (@GalwayClassics.bsky.social) elucidating ‘The Origins and Uses of Three Greek-Latin Bilingual Biblical Manuscripts’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Finally, in Session 1220, we have Joseph Flahive (@RIA.ie) speaking on ‘The Origins of the St Gall Gospels, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 51: A New Investigation’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Secondly, in Session 1220, we have Nicole Volmering (@TCDDublin.bsky.social) elucidating ‘Evidence for an Irish Scriptorium?: A Codicological and Palaeographical Assessment of St. Gallen, MS 904’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
First, in Session 1220, we have Peter Fraundorfer (@TCDDublin.bsky.social) delivering a detailed discussion on ‘A Private Library of One Irish Scholar?: A Collective Handwriting Comparison of a Group of 9th-Century Insular Manuscripts with Reichenau Provenance’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Finally, in Session 1120, we have Immo Warntjes (@TCDDublin.bsky.social) talking on ‘Móengal and Fáelán: Two Irish Schoolmasters and Their Influence at Early Medieval St Gall’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Secondly, in Session 1120, we have Mathew Clear (@TCDDublin.bsky.social) discussing ‘The Assimilation of Unusual Aspects of Irish Time Reckoning into Carolingian Paschal Tables’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
First, in Session 1120 (Programme page 273), we have my own supervisor, Jacopo Bisagni (@GalwayClassics.bsky.social), with Lise Carrel-Bisagni, virtually elucidating ‘Early Irish Learning in Brittany: How Did It Get There?’ (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Concluding Session 1020, we have Jiachun Xu (@TCDDublin.bsky.social) covering ‘The Insular Influence on Carolingian Understandings of Creation’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Secondly, in Session 1020, we have myself elucidating one manuscript of the ‘Irish Reference Bible’ in “‘Today, you will be with me in paradise’: Notes on Lyon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 447 (376) and the Textual Transmission of ‘Pauca problesmata’”. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
First, in Session 1020 (Programme page 252), we have my own colleague Christian Schweizer (@CAMPSGalway.bsky.social) discussing ‘Dicuil’s Grammatical Texts’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
The conclusive talk for Session 515 is Janine Su (@theBIAAnkara.bsky.social), ‘Hanutçu, Then and Now: Navigating Place and Memory on a World Stage’. #IMC2025
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Second, in Session 515, we have Samuel England (@UWMadison.bsky.social), ‘An Arabic Anatolia in Egypt: Literature, Politics, and Religion’. #IMC2025
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
First, in Session 515 (Programme page 144), we have Sergio La Porta (@Fresno_State) discussing Armenian translators of Middle Byzantine Greek in texts in ‘Translating Byzantium: Collaborative Translators in Constantinople’ #IMC2025
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Second, in Session 101 (Programme page 57), we have Christina Antenhofer (Fachbereich Geschichte, Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg) elucidating a 16th-century talking horsehide ( ! ) in ‘The Potential of Object Biographies for the Economic History of the Middle Ages’. #IMC2025
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
First, in Session 101 (Programme page 57), we have Elisabeth Gruber (Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg), ‘Building Bridges: Object Biographies as an Invitation for Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue in Economic History’. #IMC2025
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Yesterday, before speaking at the Medieval Congress at Leeds (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) this week, I fulfilled a childhood dream in visiting the amazing National Rail Museum (@RailwayMuseum.bsky.social) in York! 🤩🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
🍀 2️⃣ 🐳 The long-promised surprise that is the culmination of both the abruptly terminated Advent Calendar from last Christmas and my post for this feast-day of Saint Brendan, which has been under wraps since last autumn, finally beckons. 🧵 [1/11]
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
🍀 1⃣ 🐳 Today (16 May) represents one of my favourite days of the year, as it is the feast-day of Saint Brendan, who I have written about in this space on a few occasions. 🧵 [1/10]
The opening of the copy of the ’Nauigatio sancti Brendani’ as found in Saint Bonaventure, NY, Saint Bonaventure University, Holy Name MS 79 [olim Washington, DC, Holy Name College 79], fols 14r-31v, at 14r; 15th cen., orig. Germania: tinyurl.com/SBU-NSB [My own photo: 21/05/2018.]The opening of the copy of the ‘Nauigatio sancti Brendani’ as found in Chicago, Newberry Library, f 6 [olim 5 Ry 3], fols 203r-219v, at 203r [composite]; U.C. II – early 12th cen.; orig. Austria or South Germania: tinyurl.com/NSB-Newberry [My own photo: 14/08/2018.]
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Habemus papam! 🇻🇦
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
On behalf of CAMPS (@CAMPSGalway.bsky.social), I am thrilled to announce our next event: ‘’De Quolibet’: Research from the MA Medieval and Antiquity: A CAMPS Symposium’, on Friday 16/05 12p in THB G010. Refreshments will be provided. All are welcome! (@uniofgalway.bsky.social)
The official promotional poster for ‘’De Quolibet’: Research from the MA Medieval and Antiquity: A CAMPS Symposium’, on Friday 16/05 12p in THB G010. The poster features elements from the Cloisters Apocalypse (MS 68.174 (ca. 1330), fols. 3r (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/471869) and 20v (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/471869)).
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Learning about the development of the calendar and the role of the almanac in early modern Ireland through the latest CAMPS Lab (@CAMPSGalway.bsky.social): Ian Wong (@ianleewong.bsky.social), ‘Revisiting the Almanac in Early Modern Ireland: Astrology, Power, and the Meaning of the Mundane’!
A slide on making the calendar from Ian Wong, ‘Revisiting the Almanac in Early Modern Ireland: Astrology, Power, and the Meaning of the Mundane’.A slide on Ireland’s first(?) almanac (1587) from Ian Wong, ‘Revisiting the Almanac in Early Modern Ireland: Astrology, Power, and the Meaning of the Mundane’.Having a look at ‘A Bloody Irish Almanack’ by John Booker (1646) – harshly reviewed by one contemporaneous critic as a “lying, malicious pamphlet” ( ! ) – from Ian Wong, ‘Revisiting the Almanac in Early Modern Ireland: Astrology, Power, and the Meaning of the Mundane’.
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
On behalf of CAMPS (@CAMPSGalway.bsky.social), I am thrilled to announce our next event: Ian Wong (@ianleewong.bsky.social), ‘Revisiting the Almanac in Early Modern Ireland: Astrology, Power, and the Meaning of the Mundane’, on Friday 25/04 12p in THB 1001. Lunch will be provided. All are welcome!
Official promotional poster for CAMPS Lab: Ian Wong, ‘Revisiting the Almanac in Early Modern Ireland: Astrology, Power, and the Meaning of the Mundane’. It features an image from a preserved copy of John Bourk’s ‘Almanack’ (1683).
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
On behalf of CAMPS (@CAMPSGalway.bsky.social), we are thrilled to host Jasmim Drigo (@JasmimDrigo.bsky.social) in her event today, ‘Lost in Transcription? The [IPA] for Language Learning and Research: A CAMPS Workshop’!
Jasmim Drigo, ‘Lost in Transcription? The [IPA] for Language Learning and Research: A CAMPS Workshop’.Jasmim Drigo, ‘Lost in Transcription? The [IPA] for Language Learning and Research: A CAMPS Workshop’.Promotional poster for Jasmim Drigo, ‘Lost in Transcription? The [IPA] for Language Learning and Research: A CAMPS Workshop’.
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CAMPS Galway @campsgalway.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
We are looking forward to tomorrow's round table on ‘Future Days of Researching the Past’ with @erinannmcc.bsky.social (English; @stemma.bsky.social ), @padraicmoran.bsky.social (@galwayclassics.bsky.social), and @sarahannebuckley.bsky.social (@historyatgalway.bsky.social)!
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
On behalf of CAMPS (@CAMPSGalway.bsky.social), I am thrilled to announce our upcoming event: Jasmim Drigo (@jasmimdrigo.bsky.social), ‘Lost in Transcription? The [IPA] for Language Learning and Research: A CAMPS Workshop’, on Friday 04/04 12p in THB G010. Lunch will be provided. All are welcome!
Promotional poster for the 2025 CAMPS Workshop: Jasmim Drigo, ‘Lost in Transcription? The International Phonetic Alphabet for Language Learning and Research: A CAMPS Workshop’. The poster features a graphic of the 1912 edition of the IPA chart and letters and illustrations lifted from 📜 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 1156B (15th cen.), fol. 135r (https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52502614h/f279.item.zoom).
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
On behalf of CAMPS (@CAMPSGalway.bsky.social), I am very proud to announce our next special event, ‘Future Days of Researching the Past: A CAMPS Roundtable’, to take place next Friday (28/03) at 1p in the Bridge Room (THB 1001). Lunch will be provided following the event. All are welcome!
Promotional poster for the 2025 CAMPS Roundtable, ‘Future Days of Researching the Past: A CAMPS Roundtable’, featuring Raphael’s ‘The School of Athens’ (1509-1511, Vatican City). The roundtable will feature the University of Galway’s own Erin McCarthy (English), Pádraic Moran (Classics), and Sarah-Anne Buckley (History) discussing pressing issues pertaining to the future of researching the humanities at the university level, such as funding bodies and artificial intelligence.
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Pusheen @pusheen.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Happy St. Patrick's Day! ☘️
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Beannachtaí na Féile Phádraig! ☘️🇮🇪📜
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I love seeing the reception of Irish saints and literature in the Byzantine sphere, especially before the Great Schism! 🤩🍀📜
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
On behalf of CAMPS (@campsgalway.bsky.social), we’re most pleased to welcome Simone Marcenaro (University of Molise) on ‘Poetry in Music: Medieval Troubadour Songs, from Manuscripts to Performance’, feat. live performances by Jacopo Bisagni w/ medieval recorders & bagpipes!
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CAMPS Galway @campsgalway.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
You are most welcome to our next lab: Prof Simone Marcenaro (University of Molise) ‘Poetry in Music: Medieval Troubadour Songs, From Manuscripts to Performance’, with live performances by Jacopo Bisagni @galwayclassics.bsky.social on medieval recorders and bagpipes! Friday, 7 March 12pm THB G010
A poster for the Research seminar, with a large image of a manuscript with musical annotation, text, and an illumination of a blue knight with a giolden helmet on his horse. (Paris, BnF, FR 844, f. 5R, source Gallica)
‘Poetry in Music: Medieval Troubadour Songs, From Manuscripts to Performance’
Prof Simone Marcenaro (University of Molise)
with live performances by Dr Jacopo Bisagni - medieval recorders and bagpipes.

Friday, 7 March 
12pm
Hardiman Research Building G010

Folled by the logos of the University of Galway and CAMPS  (Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies)
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
For our latest CAMPS Lab (@CAMPSGalway.bsky.social), we are proud to host Tony Candon on ‘Women in the Irish Annals in the Early Middle Ages’!
Tony Candon, ‘Women in the Irish Annals in the Early Middle Ages’ [University of Galway CAMPS Lab].A slide on names of women featured in early medieval Irish annals, from Tony Candon, ‘Women in the Irish Annals in the Early Middle Ages’ [University of Galway CAMPS Lab].A slide of a map of prominent locales featured in early medieval Irish annals, from Tony Candon, ‘Women in the Irish Annals in the Early Middle Ages’ [University of Galway CAMPS Lab].
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
You are most welcome to join us (@UniofGalway.bsky.social) this Friday 28/03 at 12p for the next CAMPS Lab (@CAMPSGalway.bsky.social) by Anthony Candon on ‘Women in the Irish Annals in the Early Middle Ages’!
Promotional poster for Galway CAMPS Lab featuring Anthony Candon on ‘Women in the Irish Annals in the Early Middle Ages’ on Friday 28/03 12p (Hardiman Research Building G-011).
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
One of my new favourite decorated initials! 🤩🌊📜
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
For the first CAMPS Lab (@campsgalway.bsky.social) of the term at the University of Galway (@universityofgalway.bsky.social), we are pleased to welcome Millie Randall discussing ‘Flirting and Predicting the Future in Late Seventeenth-Century Miscellanies’! 📜
Millie Randall, ‘Flirting and Predicting the Future in Late Seventeenth-Century Miscellanies’.Millie Randall, ‘Flirting and Predicting the Future in Late Seventeenth-Century Miscellanies’.
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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Meanwhile, I’m barely back in Galway, and we’re on the precipice of a Category 2/3 hurricane sweeping across all of Ireland… Entire island is under a Red Alert, with a ‘Finnegan’s Wake’ allusion at that! 😬☔️
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