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Jay Roszman

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Historian of 19th-c Ireland, Britain, & Empire at UCC. An 🇺🇸in 🇮🇪. Writing about Irishmen, education, and empire.

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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 8h
This really is an incredible exchange. Hilarious, pathetic, depressing in equal measure.
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 9h
My favourite bourbon. Tap, tapping away ⌨️ trying to make it to this deadline.
A bottle of Michter’s Bourbon and a laptop and two screens with text on them.
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 14h
I'm all for fair fare discourse. [Seriously, these covers are incredible!]
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 14h
Man, the Container Conference looks so dope.
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Rachel Cole @rmartincole.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Cover of "I drive the turnpikes ... and survive" by Paul W. Kearney. Black & white image of a traffic crash and ambulance and colorful radiating panels.
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 14h
Ah, go on – do yourself a favor, especially if it's raining (like it is here in Cork).
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Little Girl Blue (2013 - Remaster)
YouTube video by Nina Simone - Topic
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you are a first-time author of a book published in 2026 in Irish Studies (broadly conceived) do consider submitting it to the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Books. acisweb.org/murphy-prize/ Happy to answer any questions. #IrishStudies 🗃️
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Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book | American Conference for Irish Studies – An Chomhdháil Mheiriceánach do Léann na hÉireann
Don Murphy, husband of ACIS Past President Maureen Murphy, was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, and died in New York on March 2, 1986. He received his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and Bachelor of...
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lol, fair play to whoever follows me on here that sent a physical copy of the IT from last Thursday! It confirms McRedmond’s howler made it in print for posterity. It raises the question of whether she just made a serious historical error OR whether she uses an LLM to phone-in her opinion pieces.
A picture showing a torn envelope with my university address and a newspaper. Confirmation of McRedmond’s (LLM infused?) flub: “Anne Boleyn and Mary Antoinette - by today’s standards perhaps not as “hot” as Sweeney - scrambled Henry VIII’s faculties.”
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Never in doubt 😉🙃
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
James Cook, you beauty.
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
...phew
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Going for it on 4th and 7??
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wooohoooooo
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
OH cooolll, coool 5 turnovers.
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
They keep dodging bullets...
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BUFALLLOOOO you are killing me. 4 turnovers today 🤬
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Exciting stuff. Phew
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dodged a bullet there, Buffalo.
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I hate all these alternate jersey games. We always lose and they look like garbage.
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Triple coverage?!?? What the helll
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Garbage call in this Bills game.
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I have poor grammar and am bad at spotting errors in my own writing, so glass houses and such - but this is the second OUP book I’ve been reading recently with numerous errors.
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Finally working through this (slowly).
Cover of Enda Delaney’s “Making Ireland Modern”.
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Also, apparently, lecturing Young Men in Dublin suburbs about the Mormons.
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Go looking for imperialist, first Commissioner of British Burma, Sir Arthur Phayre in the newspapers, and find a women's suffrage supporter in the 1870s. 🗃️ Also, lol at the newspaper disclaimer: "We do not identify ourselves with the Women's Suffrage Movement"
A very thick text of names under the headline "Women's Suffrage" which includes the President of the Royal Irish Academy Lord Talbot de Malahide, Lady Wilde, and Sir Arthur Phayre, amongst many others.
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
...woof, what kind of a bad take did I just read??
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sunday afternoon writing tunes. Deadline is rapidly approaching.
Cover of Charles Mingus's "Mingus Ah Um".
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Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
it is striking, once again, that a united Ireland is contingent on the 'good' behaviour of nationalists in the face of sectarian triumphalism - in this specific case a community that has been terrorised by the Orange Order and its defenders
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As frustrating as some of the opinion articles have been of late, it meant a lot to Rachel and I to get to share a bit of our citizenship story and I’m grateful to the IT for the opportunity. (Not grateful for the headline)
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 27/09/2026
Becoming an Irish citizen: ‘We have kind of escaped the dumpster fire’
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Becoming an Irish citizen: ‘We have kind of escaped the dumpster fire’
Of the 5,600 people who became naturalised Irish citizens last week, the biggest cohort were Indians, although at least one couple ‘escaped’ from the US
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A great family day to Gougane Barre.
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Man, this is another gross opinion piece coming from IT writers in recent weeks, which boils down to suggesting that immigrants only are valuable to society if they “pay their way”.
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 26/09/2026
Letters from America: ‘I would not advise anyone to come here that can live comfortable at home’
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Letters from America: ‘I would not advise anyone to come here that can live comfortable at home’
From tenements to wagon trains, a book comprised of letters sent from the US between 1818 and 1972 illuminates the history of Irish emigration in an intensely personal way
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Goodness, what a weight on the players. What a sense of clashing responsibilities it must be. How unfair it falls to the group of young men after their institutional supports chose to send them there.
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Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Courage to the players, who should not be in this position 🇵🇸 🇮🇪
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It amuses me greatly that the Irish humanitarian, anti-slavery activist, and lifelong vegetarian, James Haughton, was known by the nickname 'Vegetable Haughton.'
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Will you look at the size of yer man’s head in that photo” “…I am that man”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Once again, the Supreme Court prioritizes imaginary harms done to Trump by not allowing him to indulge in his conspiracy theories, as opposed to the very real harm done to citizens who may lose the ability to vote in this case.
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The more I look at it, the more this graph at the end of my most recent Gist explains the behaviour of so many of Ireland's political parties. SF, for example, simply can't deal with 50% of its supporters looking to strengthen institutions while the other 50% want to blow them up.
Stacked bar chart from More in Common, June 2026. Question: "Which comes closest to your view? Please use a scale of 1–4 where 1 means you agree with the first statement and 4 means you agree with the second." Statement 1: "Our political and social institutions are worth preserving and improving, not destroying." Statement 4: "When I think about our political and social institutions, I cannot help thinking 'just let them all burn.'" Results in percent, listed as 1 (preserve), 2, 3, 4 (burn):

All respondents: 28, 30, 22, 20.
Fianna Fáil: 46, 29, 13, 11.
Sinn Féin: 25, 25, 25, 25.
Fine Gael: 47, 31, 13, 9.
Green Party: 46, 22, 21, 12.
Labour: 36, 36, 20, 8.
Social Democrats: 23, 49, 22, 7.
Independent Ireland / Aontú: 15, 28, 27, 29.
Other: 28, 26, 21, 26.
Non-voters: 20, 32, 25, 23.
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Working through some material of a 19th-c. amateur archaeologist/orientalist comparing stone formations to European 'Druidical temples' and he produced quite impressive drawings of both. Would love to see them in person.
Two sketches of rock formations in Shorapoor district of India from a 19th-century journal article.
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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Call me old fashioned but I don't think the mission of Irish universities is to educate Chinese students in China or American students in America. We are not budding multinational businesses- we are a public service for students in Ireland, wherever they come from. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
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Irish colleges should focus on teaching abroad, not attracting foreign students – Minister
State already has insufficient accommodation for those in higher education, James Lawless says
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026
lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
'I regret I have none of the skulls, or portions of them, to present to the Museum of the Academy'. Yeah, I bet the Academy is very glad in retrospect that they don't have some random skulls robbed from an Indian tomb, though I can imagine Sir William Wilde feeling a bit disappointed at the time.
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Woah 👀
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’m coming around to accept that insomnia, though frustratingly disruptive to the functioning of day-to-day life, is my brain’s way of working through various cognitive loads when deadlines are impending. At least, that’s what I’ve been telling myself for the last three hours.
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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
June Issue: 'An O’Connellite Empire? Irish Nationalism, British Imperial Trouble, and the Limits of Anti-Imperialism in the Age of Reform' by Jay R. Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/article/...
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An O’Connellite Empire? Irish Nationalism, British Imperial Trouble, and the Limits of Anti-Imperialism in the Age of Reform *
Abstract. This article explores the way Irish nationalists in the 1830s and 1840s understood and condemned British imperial policy in times of trouble, whi
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Why did I wait so long in life to start really listening to the jazz greats?
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