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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Wild here: China has been growing steadily for years and is laying a zillion miles of railways, with a huge green energy infrastructure that will support them for decades and here’s this guy talking to us like we’re idiots because he thinks the world’s nastiest Nazi zillionaires are, what, wizards?

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Marc Mulholland @marcmulholland.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Looking forward to this. I'll be yakking about "‘Comhar, meitheal, and neighbouring: The 'emotional economy' of the Irish Peasantry'." Will horror maestro Stephen King feature? Yes he will!

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David Timoney @fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

This is what passes for a Labour-friendly assessment in the Guardian. It is basically soft-left delusion. Starmer & co won't change course because the aim all along has been to marginalise the left and the Greens make a perfectly serviceable vehicle for doing that.

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David Timoney @fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Sociology regularly reveals this paradox: that people will vote for rightwing disruptors not because they share their politics but because they are fed up with the system. It's almost as if the system generates its own opposition in a guise that ensures no actual disruption.

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Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

This week in 1882 Sylvia Pankhurst was born in Old Trafford. Arrested demanding Votes for Women, she went on hunger strike and was force-fed. Rejecting arson tactics of her mother Emmeline’s WSPU, she formed East London Federation of Suffragettes, focused on rights for working class women.

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Marc Mulholland @marcmulholland.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

"One thing that has really spooked European leaders in recent months is the International Criminal Court judges who were sanctioned by the US because they issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netenyahu."

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I'm *wildly* excited to announce that my new book, 'Setting the Land Free – Visions of a Rewilded Ireland', will be published by Hachette on 27 August. We have a stark choice re our collapsing nature: the usual timid, token gestures, or real, gutsy ambition. This book makes the case for the latter.

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 02/05/2026

Lebanon's health ministry has said 13 people have been killed in Israeli strikes in the south, including in a town where Israel's army had issued an evacuation order despite a ceasefire.

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Lebanon says 13 killed in Israeli strikes on south

Lebanon's health ministry has said 13 people have been killed in Israeli strikes in the south, including in a town where Israel's army had issued an evacuation order despite a ceasefire.

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Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland @ssnci.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

We are delighted to announce that registration for our Annual Conference 2026 is now open. 'Intimacies in nineteenth-century Ireland' takes place @maynoothuniversity.ie 18-19 June 2026. See shop.maynoothuniversity.ie/index.php?ap... More information to follow soon!

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Society for the Study of Nineteenth-century Ireland conference 2026

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

www.ft.com/content/3c05... THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR SACKING THE RACISTS WHO HAVE JUST BEEN SACKED, HAVE BEEN RACIST AND SACKED.

After Reform UK seized control of Staffordshire county council last May, new leader Ian Cooper made a promise.
His mission was to "keep under the radar" by demonstrating "professionalism and
competence".
By December, Cooper had quit as leader and been expelled from the party following allegations of racism. His replacement was also accused of racism and quit within days of being chosen.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I see the idea of pre-election purdah period that should be relatively shenanigans-free has collapsed so thoroughly, that the police are now publicising a sternly worded ticking off to a party leader, a week before elections

Metropolitan Police @metpoliceuk
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"Apprehending violent and dangerous criminals is a full contact and messy task which may appear shocking to observers with little experience of policing in the real world."
Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley writes to Zack Polanski.
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Every now and again I’m reminded that a lot of people see following back anyone who follows you and a point of good online etiquette and, like, no wonder people think social media is unbearable. You do not have to do this.

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This goes big on the new Oxford Humanities hub being an accessible merging of town and gown unlike those stuffy quads, but it's actually made it much more difficult to attend research seminars as a non uni member. All the lifts, escalators, and internal doors above ground require keycard access

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Oxford’s new £185m humanities hub is polished, refined … and funded by a Trump ally

Billionaire Stephen Schwarzman’s portrait hangs discreetly in a building that promises cultural clout and architectural poise – yet can seem rather bland and bloodless

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

8. The stuff that Stock complains was silenced was actually on the reading list. You couldn’t make this up:

314. In respect of those five paragraphs the University in its Representations raised a number of factual inaccuracies in respect of what Professor Stock had said. The most relevant of these points was that where Professor Stock had said she had omitted certain work from her teaching because of the Policy Statement, in fact that work had been included in her reading lists for students. This has some relevance because (a) it showed that there were issues of fact which the University appropriately needed to respond to; and (b) those errors undermined the only evidence of "harm" that the Of had relied upon in th
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Marc Mulholland @marcmulholland.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The starving of Famine Ireland would at last enter the Workhouse so that they would be provided with a coffin when they died.

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 28/04/2026

Israeli authorities are systematically depriving people in Gaza of the water they need to live, Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) warned, decrying a campaign of "collective punishment" against Palestinians

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Israel using water access as 'weapon' in Gaza - MSF

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Marc Mulholland @marcmulholland.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Edward Senior, Poor-Law Inspector for north-east Ireland, telling a Famine-era Select Committee (1849) that, really, if you think about it, a starving peasant is no more tragic than a landlord losing status.

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Marc Mulholland @marcmulholland.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Here's something I produced for a lecture on the socialism of the Second International period.

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The changing of the seasons is marked by ancient rituals: I’m searching for freelance/consultancy/ research work. I’m a social historian by profession, a very experienced researcher and oral history interviewer. I’m also a published writer and a public history journalist. Surely, I am employable…

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Marc Mulholland @marcmulholland.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

This -- a report on Relief Works from County May in February 1847, the very depths of the Famine -- deserves notice.

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History at Queen's University Belfast @qubhistory.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

USIHS talk this Thursday at 6pm - Prof David Dickson (TCD) ‘The Foyle, the Chesapeake, and a fifty-year transatlantic conversation: Getting the measure of the Moore family archive, 1798-1847′. In-person at QUB or online via the link at usihs36.com/2026/03/23/u... All welcome!

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USIHS Lecture: Prof David Dickson (TCD)

‘The Foyle, the Chesapeake, and a fifty-year transatlantic conversation: Getting the measure of the Moore family archive, 1798-1847′ Thursday 23 April at 6pm. In-person at 27 University Squar…

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Tina Morin @drtinamorin.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Dr. Peter Hession will deliver the inaugural O'Malley Fellowship Lecture next Monday, 27 April, from 5:30 pm in the Kemmy Business School, UL (with live streaming). All are welcome, but please register to attend. Link to register: tinyurl.com/58he94t6.

A poster with a black background and green/white type as well as a picture of Dr. Peter Hession. The type reads: Inaugural Lecture, O'Malley Fellowship: Advancing Irish Studies; The University of Limerick is pleased to invite you to the inaugural lecture by Dr. Peter Hession, O'Malley Fellow in Irish Studies. ' "From nowhere, going nowhere": The Famine Road in Context'. Monday, 27 April 2026. Reception: 5.30 pm. Lecture: 6.00pm. Location: KBG12, Kemmy Business School, UL. RSVP by 6pm, 24 April 2026.

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Marc Mulholland @marcmulholland.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I've used AI to construct a graph of morality rates in workhouses during the famine: probably the best proxy we have for overall death-rates. It really begins late 1846 with a huge surge and drags on into 1851. December to April are the killing months.

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Ultán Gillen @ultan1793.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Looking at a free state census record image, and then the transcription. It has mistaken Do (short for Ditto) for N/A so only one person per page in the household has any religion. How did.this get past?

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The Discovery Programme @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

We are delighted to be here at the annual Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland conference. Looking forward to two days of sharing research with colleagues from across the country

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

It’s striking that none of these guys ever say the need to urgently rearm means we need to, say, sharply jack up taxes on the top 50% of earners. A thing that would surely work, and quite easily too. If it’s that important, then it’s surely a must.

Lord Robertson says the government needs to abandon the "lethargic thought process of the post Cold War" era and instead get onto a proper war footing like
Ukraine
Finally, Lord Robertson says there has to be a national conversation on defence - something that Sir Keir Starmer said would happen 18 months ago. The public needs to understand the threat and to realise that there will have to be some difficult spending choices made for the UK genuinely to bolster its security in a "very very turbulent world"
He finishes by saying: "We need the whole country to wake up. The clock is ticking"

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Marc Mulholland @marcmulholland.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I've reviewed Edward Burke's latest - a fine book - for American Historical Review:

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Marc Mulholland @marcmulholland.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

This was very stimulating, as they say. I was in there (on the far-left, in the spex) trying to do my bit in saving the peasantry from being condescended to as gullible "lugs, thugs and mugs" (as I put in in my book).

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The Rosary (c.1912) by Irish artist Grace Henry #womensart

Painting of a sitting white woman wearing a warn shawl in an interior with hands together

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 10/04/2026

Ukraine and Russia will cease fire for the Orthodox Easter holidays, the warring countries' leaders said, announcing a rare 32-hour halt in fighting

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Ukraine and Russia to cease fire for Orthodox Easter

Ukraine and Russia will cease fire for the Orthodox Easter holidays, the warring countries' leaders said, announcing a rare 32-hour halt in fighting.

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Robert O'Sullivan @rosulli.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Very pleased to have been awarded the Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland Essay Prize for my 2024 Irish Historical Studies article 'The Irish-American press, the Franco-Prussian War and Irish-American identity in the postbellum United States, 1870–71’ doi.org/10.1017/ihs....

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The Irish-American press, the Franco-Prussian War and Irish-American identity in the postbellum United States, 1870–71 - Volume 48 Issue 174

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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Abbeyleix, Co. Laois. I haven’t seen this yellow plastic covering on shop windows since the 1970s, this is a real survivor.

An old fashioned wooden shop front, painted blue, with the name Leinster House over the door. It has two display windows on either side of the door, and they’re both full of clothes on mannequins. Both windows are also covered in that weird yellow plastic to protect goods from sun damage, so everything for sake looks…yellow.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Why does my weak and pathetic cat refuse to bark and wag its tail

European Union
Weak and pathetic: whyis the EU not using its leverage to stop Israel?
Deep divisions on Israel mean the union has failed to act over Lebanon, Gaza, or settler violence in the West Bank

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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

New 1926 General Strike map online! Using early 20th century Ordnance Survey maps, the online resource shows strike events (through archive sources) in their contemporary landscape. Explore the map, digitised sources and more at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...

Map of Britain made from early 20th century Ordnance Survey maps. It includes pins which link to digitised documents and links to a timeline.

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Irish Committee of Historical Sciences - ICHS @irishhistorians.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

This is a free event in-person and online. Registration required.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Come on, now. It’s the same shit as ever, it’s just these guys are just too stupid to realise it would help to pretend that it isn’t.

@jaynordlinger
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This is what the Left always accused us of being about. Damned if the Republican Party hasn't made it true.
• The Intellectualist ® @highbrow_nobrow • 1d Jesse Watters: How does taking out a dictator in Venezuela help the average American?
VP JD Vance: It means is we are going to be able to control the incredible natural resources of Venezuela. @acyn (2026)

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Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride win Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Prize. Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of today’s pages www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride win Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Prize

Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of tomorrow’s pages

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

James Joyce: A Political Life by Frank Callanan is a major new #biography that reveals how politics profoundly shaped Joyce’s life, thought & writings. Out now in the UK/Europe, & available in North America on April 14. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #JamesJoyce #Literature

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Marc Mulholland @marcmulholland.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

This article is a pretty good sample of just how far constructionism has gone and how we have come to deny fundamentally trans-historical human nature.

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Marc Mulholland @marcmulholland.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I've been using AI to visualise a *lot* of data-points onto a pretty detailed map of Ireland (130 polygons) and I gotta say, it's been invaluable. It would have been impractical (for me) before now.

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

So, historian here looking for more freelance work over the next few months. I’m a very experienced RA and have done lots of things, including numerous oral history interviews, editing, co-authoring a book, public history journalism, archive work…

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Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

📜Chartists, Rebels & Radicals🔥 Dr Neil Pye @livunipol.bsky.social and Constantin Torve @quceh.bsky.social will explore the lasting impact of 19th century popular protest. 🗓️6pm, 29 April 🧭CTL, @liverpooluni.bsky.social FREE registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1985517033... #AcademicSky #HistSky

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Chartists, Rebels & Radicals - Dr Neil Pye and Constatin Torve

Talk exploring the lasting impact of 19th century popular protest, and the lessons to be learned from it in our time.

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Irish Committee of Historical Sciences - ICHS @irishhistorians.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

ICHS 2026 Symposium: Peasant Movements and Land Agitation in Modern Ireland, Institute of Irish Studies, QUB, Saturday 11 April 2026, 9.30-4.00pm. All welcome (in-person and online). Further details and registration👇

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Symposium: Peasant Movements and Land Agitation in Modern Ireland

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

The Iranian government are a bad bunch but if they don’t do this, they all get killed, their military gets destroyed to the foundations and their country gets broken up into an ungovernable mess. And it’s not like neither Reed nor Phillips understand that this is so. They get it just fine.

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Marc Mulholland @marcmulholland.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

It's blindingly obvious that a return to sit-down exams is the only response to AI. I don't understand why the switch hasn't been immediate and universal.

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