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Billy Kay @billykayscot.bsky.social · 17h

wee hame toun o Gawston wis mentioned in Barbour’s Scots epic The Brus set in the 14th century, an seiven hunner years on I’ll speak an read in the same dear mither tongue Barbour yaisit lang syne. “The King lay into Gallistoune that is richt even anent Loudoun.” It’s a week the day, guid fowk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤️

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 13h

"Hills of Ireland" paint Benjamin Moore (l) v Behr (r)

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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So apparently there’s a company that runs events where profs (mostly STEM) do “fun” topical lectures in bars and it’s a way of enticing burnt out gen-Z folks who want to escape brainrot and I love this and feel like we humanists could significantly undercut them…

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The contamination of nice animal stuff on social media is one of the most vile effects of genAI.

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Let’s try again: I’d like to hear about new research from Scottish historians. Especially ECRs whose work may not get much attention. This is because I have a newspaper column where I publicise new work by Scottish historians! Tell me about your research!

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Department of History, Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Proposals for papers are invited for the annual conference of the Economic and Social History Society of Ireland to be held at Trinity College Dublin on 4 & 5 Dec. Abstracts of 300 words should be sent to adolan@tcd.ie by 23rd Oct. 2026. All aspects of Irish economic and social history are welcome.

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National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

📣 We're #hiring: Education Assistant Join the National Library of Ireland's Education, Learning & Programming team and help deliver creative learning and public engagement programmes that bring our collections to life. 📚 Role details + apply: ow.ly/k1nu50ZPF3z 📅 #Apply by: 3pm, 9 Oct 2026

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Back by popular demand - Stoneybatter in the 1926 census - next Sat. 10th Oct - book here www.eventbrite.ie/e/a-story-fo...

A STORY FOR
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The 1926 Census, Stoneybatter & Dublin 7

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Toothpickings @toothpickings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Modernity has not erased Gothic darkness; it has merely displaced it from the realm of superstition to the realistic and quotidian.” -a banger from Sam George and Bill Hughes @ogomproject.bsky.social while discussing *The Black Vampyre* in their new book.

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Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We're excited to share the cfp for the joint VSAWC & VISAWUS conference: "Victorian Borders." Please circulate widely and submit your proposal by November 1st.

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Novel Studies List go.bsky.app/FcvMAmd

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I have spent more time thinking about this insane Quora post than the dude who wrote it.

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“The ways of living that a “Scottish ethnology” contains – the “carrying stream” of folk culture that Hamish Henderson once named – might well be what is left to us to do, after the machines establish their regnancy.” @patkane.bsky.social www.thenational.scot/politics/266...

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Edinburgh University is cutting the very subjects that define Scotland

I’VE had my shield up for universities for months now, since Andy Burnham – graduate of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge – began steering working-class youth away from academic and towards vocational qu...

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Iona Fyfe @ionafyfe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Workshop announcement! 📣 It's #BandcampFriday and my offering today is THREE themed monthly online Scots Song workshops. If you register TODAY, Bandcamp doesn't charge me platform fees. ↓ 🔗 ionafyfe.bandcamp.com/merch

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Claire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🚨 Open letter from people of Protestant backgrounds concerning the Garvaghy Road 🚨 We feel compelled to speak publicly about what is happening in Portadown 🚨Over the past few hours we have collected over 140 signatures

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Catherine Crichton @catherinecrichton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So excited to see the cover for my novel based on the life of Irish artist Harry Clarke. It tells the story of his controversial Geneva Window as seen through the eyes of a young female assistant in Clarke’s studio. Set in 1920s Dublin, publishing January with @stairwellbooks.bsky.social

The cover features a highly detailed stained glass panel by Clarke. It features the character of Nelly from Liam O’Flaherty’s Mr Gilhooley. He picks her up from the street and she dances for him wearing only a thin veil. The figure of Nelly is depicted with a head of golden curls. Her pink veil, decorated with tiny star and heart shapes and a yellow zigzag border, seems to float around her. Clarke used a photo of a dancer from the Ballet Russes as inspiration. Cover text reads ‘The Window, A Novel, Catherine Crichton’

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

discrete but interesting Kennedys-from-below memoir. Most mind-blowing was that a girl on an average 1960s wage could afford to rent an NYC apartment to use only on her one night off

cover of Jackie's Girl, a coming-of-age memoir by a young woman who spent thirteen years as Jackie Kennedy’s personal assistant

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I signed copies of both of my books at The Winding Stair bookshop on the quays today so why not support a lovely bookshop and your favourite writer by popping in and treating yourself?

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

lovely piece on an unjustly neglected & once bestselling American author

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Civilization really is collapsing when NYT line editing has got this bad. From today‘s guest essay on birds: “Victorian society was to be asked to consider birds as something they should consider...”

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

CFP: NeMLA (Newport, March 2027) roundtable on small presses to further the conversations of our coedited collection on @tramppress.bsky.social (spring 2027 with @syracuseup.bsky.social cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S...

book stack of Tramp Press titles showing spines

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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

👩‍🎓📃 Analysis of almost 40,000 review reports for research funding reveals that female researchers provide longer, more positive assessments than their male counterparts and cover the formal evaluation criteria more comprehensively. 🧵 @stefanmueller.bsky.social @ucdpolitics.bsky.social

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

More people (including me up until today) should know about the American Folkways Series edited by Erskine Caldwell

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American Folkways series - Wikipedia

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Michelle McCann, PhD. @mcgoffmccann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Did your grandmother have egg money? For most Monaghan farm women, 1910-1950, egg money was often the only money they controlled. It paid for the boots, the schoolbooks and the shop. Get in touch: Eggmoneyinmonaghan@gmail.com A Monaghan County Council Commemorations History Bursary project

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Kyle Riismandel @kyleriismandel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Whatever you think of the contents, my book cover rules:

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Abigail Swingen @abigailswingen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Working on a book, article, or dissertation on #18thc British world? The Lewis Walpole Library offers 4-week visiting fellowships and 2-week travel grants for scholars. The deadline for applications is November 2. 🗃️ More info: walpole.library.yale.edu/fellowships/...

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Visiting Fellowships and Travel Grants | Lewis Walpole Library

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Pipipohutukawa @pipipohutukawa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Amen to that! FWIW I peer assess arts funding grants occasionally and fail those that either don’t pay artists for their work or pay them badly - always a good indicator of unworthy and generally unviable projects.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Every clothing price now is BUY NEW for $485 or ON CLEARANCE for $7.99

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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I went out this morning with Max and Marty. We came upon this monument to the Stratford Martyrs. Has anyone written the relevant history of public commemoration? The monument went up 1879. The economist I'm writing on has an 1867 lecture on the martyrdom of Bishop Ferrar at Carmarthen ...

Front panel of the monument. "To the Glory
of
GOD
in his suffering Saints
This Monument
is raised to perpetuate the great
principles of the Reformation
and
to commemorate the death
of 18 Protestant Martyrs
burnt in this neighbourhood
for the pure faith of Jesus Christ."
The there's a bas relief sculpture of the execution, and the words "ERECTED AD 1878"
More: https://christianheritage.info/places/united-kingdom/greater-london/london/monument-outdoor/stratford-martyrs-memorial/

Max, left, and Marty, right. Two small harnessed dogs seen from above, waiting patiently for the light to change.

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Sheridan Le Fanu’s The House by the Church-yard is unjustly less read and admired than his Uncle Silas. Centred on old Chapelizod, this more loosely shaped, even riverine, gothic novel is animated by mystery and a Thackeray-style jocosity.

Sheridan Le Fanu
The House by the Churchyard 1863
introduced by Elizabeth Bowen

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

TOO often news outlets who picked up her research are credited. THIS is where the story started: Catherine Corless, ‘The Home’, JOTS [Journal of the Old Tuam Society] 9 (2012), 75–82.

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Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna @patrickjmahone1.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

160 years ago this summer, a group of Black American Civil War veterans gathered in New York's Washington Square Park to offer their services to the cause of Irish freedom - their story is recalled in my 'From the Square' blog for @nyupress.bsky.social nyupress.org/blog/2026/07...

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Forgotten Black Fenians – New Research Reveals Post-Civil War Solidarity by Patrick J. Mahoney, author of The Fenian Empire - NYU Press

This summer marks 160 years since the Battle of Ridgeway, the definitive event of the Fenian raids on Canada. Fought on June 2, 1866, near Ridgeway, Ontario, it pitted hundreds... READ MORE

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Next gift for your medievalist friend sorted: Liberty of London Bayeux Tapestry in Cotton

Liberty British Museum Bayeux Tapestry in Cotton

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Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Another episode coming very soon

THE REFUGEE CHRONICLES by Evgeny Shtorn, trans. Alexandra Novitskaya, published by Skein Press (October 2026)

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

PSA: you know what scholars love? Talking about their books! You know what you can do? Invite them to your class to do so. It’s great! You absolutely do not have to use AI or tell students to use AI to understand their books. You can get the actual real life person to help with that! For free!

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’ll be on BBC Radio Ulster’s The Ticket this evening, sometime from 6pm, talking to Kathy Clugston about #NoVacancy Listen in live or listen back via this link www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio Ulster - The Ticket, Culture Night, Jan Carson, Paddy McKeown, Richard Clements and Anna-Jane Casey

From blockbuster movies to comedy gigs, Kathy Clugston has just the ticket.

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I did a double take. A university just put the words "humanities research" out there where anyone can see them? Are we sure that's allowed?

Colorful vertical banner attached to a post. Sideways-oriented in the upper right is the text "fluent in social change." Below, oriented as standard left-to-right text, reads "Expanding what is possible through humanities research"

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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

performer list as plot reveal: "starring Glen Powell, Glen Powell..."

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Dublin City University @dublincityuni.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

DCU Arts & Culture and the @artscouncilireland.bsky.social have announced two Writers in Residence positions for 2027. The closing date for applications is Thursday, October 1st, at 5:30pm. For more information, click here: launch.dcu.ie/3TAQrfO

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