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Felix M Larkin

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Historian & retired public servant

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History Ireland Magazine @historyireland.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
📚 The September/October 2026 issue of History Ireland is on its way to subscribers! From the American Revolution and Gilded Age America to Dublin Civic Weeks, Wexford Festival Opera at 75 and Roger Casement and the Congo today. Available 1 September. 🌐 historyireland.com
cover of the september/october issue of History Ireland
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Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Murdered for being too moderate. An inspiring Irish figure of whom, I suspect, most of us are at best only vaguely aware. One of the founders of #Canada' s tradition of #multiculturalism. #speirgorm
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Felix M Larkin @felixmlarkin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
“This is a collection of essays about a most important subject….” Thus begins this review of the latest book from the NPHFI, published today in the Irish Catholic. Thanks to my fellow editors and contributors, and to Peter Lang (publisher of the book) for a lovely production.
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Felix M Larkin @felixmlarkin.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Well done on that purchase! We showed the film at the Parnell Summer School a few years ago. It wasn’t as bad as I had been led to believe.
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Felix M Larkin @felixmlarkin.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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Felix M Larkin @felixmlarkin.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
From today’s Irish Times: Next stop, Antarctica: ‘Van Diemen’s Land’ and its many historical Irish connections www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...
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Next stop, Antarctica: ‘Van Diemen’s Land’ and its many historical Irish connections
It is the smallest of the Australian states, with a population of just under 600,000
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Felix M Larkin @felixmlarkin.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Just published: www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2023/c...
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Four Courts Press | Confluences of Law and History
Irish Legal History Society Discourses, 2011-2021 by Niamh Howlin and Felix M. Larkin
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Irish Committee of Historical Sciences - ICHS @irishhistorians.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
We are sorry to hear of the death of Tom Dunne, professor emeritus of history at UCC and formerly a director of Cork University Press. Details of funeral arrangements are at rip.ie/death-notice...
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Death Notice of Tom Dunne (Greystones, Wicklow) | rip.ie
The death has occurred of Tom Dunne of Greystones, Wicklow Ireland, on 15/04/2025. You can view the full death notice and add your condolences here.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
250 years ago today America began its march toward independence at the Battles of Lexington and Concord. The battles marked “No Kings Day, Part I.” Today millions of Americans will take part in “No Kings Day, Part II.”
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Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
On the 125th anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord, the Town of Concord invited BC President William Devlin, SJ to “The Concord Fight” in commemoration of the beginning of the American Revolution. We’re sending our best to our friends in Concord on the 250th Anniversary of the Battle!
Invitation to  "Mr. William Devlin" to the "Concord Fight" on April 19th, 1925, with a program for the day attached
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Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
"Rory McIlroy’s wish to be identified as Northern Irish is typical of his generation" by Stephen Collins in @irishtimes.com, incl mention of research by our director Prof Shirlow showing that support for a united Ireland is not growing despite demographic changes: www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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Rory McIlroy’s wish to be identified as Northern Irish is typical of his generation
Support for Sinn Féin is growing in the North, but support for a united Ireland isn’t. This is not as strange as it might seem
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Irish Committee of Historical Sciences - ICHS @irishhistorians.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Last day for abstracts!
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Gerard Shannon @gerardshannon.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
My thanks to Cormac O'Hanrahan and all involved with 'Cut & Paste', an annual historical journal on Arthur Griffith. An enjoyable launch in the James Joyce Center. My own article is about Griffith and Michael Collins' turbulent dealings with each other in early 1922 as civil war loomed.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
‘What we are witnessing are not the collapse of the institutions of American democracy, it is the collapse of the culture of democracy… and it can be seen on this side of the Atlantic too’ Lord Sumpton - hardly a bleeding heart liberal- incredibly worrying on state of democracy
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Crown Imperial fritillary attended by a court of bright tulips, Merrion Square, Dublin
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Ryoa Chung @ryoa.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
My friend Dr. Joanne Liu, former international president of Doctors Without Borders, was cancelled at NYU. The vice-president in education asked to see her powerpoint, prior to her lecture. One slide showed the number of humanitarian workers who died in Gaza. NYU cancelled the event.
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Irish Committee of Historical Sciences - ICHS @irishhistorians.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Call for papers for the 35th Conference of Irish Historians, 'Inner lives and outer realities' closes 31 March. Open to historians of any geographic area and period. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...
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Call for Papers: 35th Irish Conference of Historians
CALL FOR PAPERS Irish Conference of Historians Hosted by the Irish Committee for Historical Sciences and Maynooth University Department of History Maynooth University, 12–13 September 2025 --- Inner
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Mark Hennessy @markhennessy.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
George Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck: The Broadway audience gasps at Musk’s ‘Nazi salute’ www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
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George Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck: The Broadway audience gasps at Musk’s ‘Nazi salute’
New York Letter: The actor was called a traitor 20 years ago for condemning George W Bush. Today, the problem is worse
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thetablet.bsky.social @thetablet.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Dublin parish unveils sculpture of atonement for Jesuits’ abuse www.thetablet.co.uk/news/dublin-...
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Dublin parish unveils sculpture of atonement for Jesuits’ abuse - The Tablet
A new sculpture has been unveiled at a parish in Dublin as a public gesture of atonement towards those who suffered abuse at Jesuit schools in Ireland.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
A fantastically important postscript to this piece: David Graham asks Jeffrey Goldberg about possible retaliation, and Goldberg gives a perfect answer — with perfect swipes. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
David: Are you concerned about retaliation from the Trump administration because of this story?

Jeffrey: It’s not my role to care about the possibility of threats or retaliation. We just have to come to work and do our jobs to the best of our ability. Unfortunately, in our society today—we see this across corporate journalism and law firms and other industries—there’s too much preemptive obeying for my taste. All we can do is just go do our jobs.
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Reminder - get your abstracts in by March 31st #speirgorm #skystorians #history #irishhistory
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Felix M Larkin @felixmlarkin.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Very pleased to be associated again this year with CUT&PASTE. The 2025 issue will be launched by: Paschal Donohue TD, Minister for Finance 10am on MONDAY 31st MARCH 2025 at the JAMES JOYCE CENTRE NORTH GREAT GEORGE'S STREET DUBLIN 1 Copies on sale at the event €7 each
 Cover of CUT & PASTE 2025, featuring a little-known portrait of Arthur Griffith.
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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Excellent letter in the Irish Times reminding us that Irish builders did not build the White House as indicated by the Taoiseach this week. It was build by slaves including those owned by the Irish architect James Hoban.
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Cécile Archives @cecilearchives.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Permanent position for the right professional archivist. 😎
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Felix M Larkin @felixmlarkin.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Delighted to have this photo, Nicholas. I’ve just published a piece about Savannah and refer to Forsyth Park fountain going green. www.irishcatholic.com/st-patrick-a...
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St Patrick and the Irish in Savannah, Georgia
Letter from AmericaOn the last Sunday in February, I attended Mass at the Cathedral of St John the Baptist in Savannah, Georgia. I was visiting that city to attend the 2025 national meeting of the Am
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Felix M Larkin @felixmlarkin.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Here’s the print version of the article.
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Felix M Larkin @felixmlarkin.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
A report on my recent visit to Savannah GA in the special St Patrick’s Day issue of the Irish Catholic newspaper published today. Felix www.irishcatholic.com/st-patrick-a...
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St Patrick and the Irish in Savannah, Georgia
Letter from AmericaOn the last Sunday in February, I attended Mass at the Cathedral of St John the Baptist in Savannah, Georgia. I was visiting that city to attend the 2025 national meeting of the Am
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Emily Mark-FitzGerald @emilymfg.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
apparently my attempts at housework are feckin hilarious #Mabel #catsky
A tortoiseshell cat sits in a white laundry basket next to an iron, atop unironed bed linens. Her mouth is open and eyes are closed, mocking the viewer with a cat laugh
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Fionnuala Walsh @fionnualawalsh.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
My books finally arrived! Very grateful to the team at @cambridgeup.bsky.social for the superb production and supporting the project. Thinking today of the late David Fitzpatrick who began this project and to whom it is dedicated, and also of my mother who would have loved to see it in print.
Book titled America in Ireland: Culture and Society 1841-1925, published by Cambridge University Press.
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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
If you missed today's #IrishStudies seminar by @felixmlarkin.bsky.social on 'Cartoons and the Irish - two centuries of humour', a recording is now available at youtu.be/CW_Ow4Crdss
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Irish Studies Seminar: Felix Larkin
YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies
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Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 06/03/2025
“You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.” —Kurt Vonnegut
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Rebecca Graff-McRae @poliscirish.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Your friendly reminder that WB Yeats was an ardent supporter of Blue, Black, and Brown Shirts, saw equality as mob rule, hierarchy as natural & espoused deeply eugenicist beliefs. The line is catchy as hell, but it means the very opposite of how it is being deployed here.
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Felix M Larkin @felixmlarkin.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
My letter in today’s Irish Times.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Steve Levitsky gives the canonical answer about whether defending democracy is the right answer electorally for Democrats - that can't be the question. *Society* has to defend democracy and the Constitution, or they could cease to exist. nymag.com/intelligence...
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Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Ewenny Priory 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 as painted by Turner in 1795, & my photo from 2024. In his time it was used as a farmyard (chickens!). Upon exhibition in 1797 one reviewer commented “‘In point of colour and effect this is one of the grandest drawings we have ever seen, and equal to the best pictures of Rembrandt.”
A watercolours of the interior of Ewenny Priory. A path of golden light from a door on the right sends illumination over half of the interior, falling on a carved wooden screen and deeply recessed archways beyond. whilst the rest is in dim shadows. There are chickens and farming implements on the floor, a figure advances in from the door, perhaps to feed them. A photo of Ewenny Priory from (almost) the same angle as Turner’s painting. The deep archway to the left is barried off with blue plastic sheeting. The space appears far smaller and less cavernous than Turner’s painting. The wall behind an archway has been turned into a lapidarium, mounted with carved stone fragments.
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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Our next #IrishStudies seminar is on Mon 10 March at 4.30pm. Felix Larkin @felixmlarkin.bsky.social will speak on 'Cartoons and the Irish: Two Centuries of Humour'. All welcome (in-person and online) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/irish-stud... #IrishHistory
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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
En route from Knock Airport to Sligo, well worth stopping in Charlestown to see some exquisite Harry Clarke stained glass windows 💚
Stained glass windows created by Harry Clarke Studios, in St James' Catholic Church, Charlestown, Co.Mayo, Ireland
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Liberté. Égalité. Incrédulité.
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Felix M Larkin @felixmlarkin.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
My upcoming seminar on Irish historical cartoons in Queen’s University Belfast (March 10th). www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
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Irish Studies Seminar: Felix Larkin, ‘Cartoons and the Irish: two centuries of humour’
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 11/02/2025
From 21 February @royalhistsoc.bsky.social will be closing and archiving its X account. From this date all updates from the Society - and its promotion of work by fellow organisations for #history and the humanities - will be via BlueSky. Please encourage colleagues to join us here #skystorians
Photograph of the Royal Historical Society's BlueSky homepage.
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Felix M Larkin @felixmlarkin.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
My friend, Mark Holan, has kindly posted my lecture on the Sick & Indigent Roomkeepers Society on his Irish American blog. www.markholan.org/archives/161...
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Guest post: ‘Serving the poor of Dublin since 1790’
Historian Felix M. Larkin, a trustee of the Sick and Indigent Roomkeepers Society, has given the opening Dublin charities & homelessness lecture at Christ Church Cathedral in the Irish capital.…
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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
We've reached the chapter in Gibbon where the mad emperor is appointing magicians, acrobats, and paid agents of the Persians to the highest offices of state.
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