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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

He owned land around Clones in County Monaghan. I visited Chelmsford a few years ago to consult his papers at the Essex Record Office

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

that he was sure that I was a close relative, but that he hoped I was not a direct descendant! You can read about Patrick Duffy in his @ria.ie @dib.ie entry here: www.dib.ie/biography/du...

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I have fond memories of reading about the activities of the Friars Minor during my study of early modern Irish history as an undergraduate at @ucddublin.bsky.social. A Patrick Duffy OFM served as bishop of Clogher in the seventeenth century. A former provincial of the Friars Minor recently told me

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I marked the occasion by visiting the three Franciscan friaries in Dublin over the last few days - the Capuchins on Church Street, the Friars Minor on Merchant's Quay and the Conventuals in Fairview

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today marks 800 years since the death of Saint Francis. I'm no theologian, but Francis's love of the poor, simplicity and care for the environment is one of the most authentic (albeit sometimes most difficult) form of Christianity

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Orange marches were illegal under the Party Processions Act. On 10 June 1835, the Grand Lodge committee instructed Orangemen not to march in procession with banners and colours that July. I must find out if a march took place in Portadown in the end and whether the district master was disciplined!

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How ironic that on today of all days, I was in the Museum of Orange Heritage, reading committee minutes of the Grand Lodge of Ireland on 8 July 1835. They considered expelling the district master of Portadown if he persisted in his plans for a procession on 13 July! www.rte.ie/news/ulster/...

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Orange Order given permission for limited Drumcree march

The Parades Commission of Northern Ireland has allowed the Orange Order parade at Drumcree to proceed in a limited capacity for the first time in 28 years.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thanks to all at Dublin Mosque for showing me around for @culturenightdub.bsky.social last night, answering all my questions, for giving me my name in Arabic, and a copy of the Qur'an. I was meaning to read it for a while. Now I have no excuse! It's good to learn about other religions and cultures.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Thanks to the lecturer in zoology at the University of Galway tent for introducing me to the reptile. I must confess that I can't remember what type of reptile he is

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Where would you be handcuffed in a prison van one minute, and meet a reptile the next? Only at the National Ploughing Championships

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Céad míle fáilte, Jay 🇮🇪

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The cathedral has some brilliant portraits of former Anglican bishops of Clogher. Lord Robert Ponsonby Tottenham was bishop during my period of historical research, although I have never studied his own career in detail.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Mass was celebrated at this bush in the grounds of the fourth chapel during penal times. This was recounted by the famous novelist, William Carleton in his 'The Midnight Mass'. Carleton lived in a nearby cottage.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

@vmillar.bsky.social told me at a conference a few years ago in New York that you can visit Hughes's childhood home in @ulsteramericanfolkpark.org: www.ulsteramericanfolkpark.org/stories/hugh.... I must go to visit it sometime soon!

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Hughes House

Step inside John Joseph Hughes’ boyhood home.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You can read more about Hughes in Marion R. Casey's article here: www.jstor.org/stable/43657....

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Client Challenge

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The first archbishop of New York, John Hughes, was baptised on the site of the fourth chapel and returned to preach there in 1846. Hughes is best known for building Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York. A stained-glass window from the famous Harry Clarke studio in Dublin commemorates him.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Here's me sitting in the Tullycorbet stall at Clogher Cathedral. Traditionally, canons of a cathedral chapter received a preband from a particular parish in the diocese. The parish provided an income for that canon. I grew up around the corner from the now derelict Anglican church in Tullycorbet.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The current cathedral was built in 1744 on a medieval site where the first bishop of Clogher, Saint Macartan, founded his church in the fifth century. Known as the 'fourth chapel', the Catholic church dates from the 1840s but Mass was celebrated on the site in penal times

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I had a great day in Clogher, Co. Tyrone yesterday, when I visited St Macartan's Anglican Cathedral and St Macartan's Roman Catholic Church, two magnificent churches with fascinating but very different histories.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

that several Irish Catholics could elected as MPs but being unable to take their seats, they could form an unofficial Irish parliament among themselves. 🧵3/3

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Until 1829, MPs had to take an anti-Catholic oath before taking their seats in the @houseofcommons.parliament.uk but they still could stand for election. O'Conell's election as MP for County Clare raised fears among the government, as G. I. T. Machin shows, 🧵2/3

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

@frankie49.bsky.social, commenting on Trump in Doonbeg for today's @irishtimes.com, points out that Co. Clare has form in setting the political agenda, citing Éamon de Valera's by-election victory in 1917. In 1828, Daniel O'Connell won an equally important by-election for that county. 🧵1/3

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Thanks to the Irish Blood Transfusion Service for this pin in recognition of my tenth blood donation today. More information on giving blood, a vital part of our health service, can be found here: www.giveblood.ie

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Parliamentary History Journal @parlhistjournal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Are you an early career researcher with an interest in parliamentary history? We are inviting submissions of 10,000 words, including references, for our annual essay prize, worth £500. The deadline is 30 Nov. 2026. More details here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1750...

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Parliamentary History

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

While I would rather see Parliament House in Dublin in public ownership, it is nevertheless cool to do your banking in this iconic building. Here is a @parlhistjournal.bsky.social article on its history: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Séamus Coyle was my local councillor for as long as I can remember. From experience, I know how diligent he was in raising his constituents’ concerns and suggestions. As a person, he was an absolute gentleman. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam. www.northernsound.ie/news/death-o...

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Death of local councillor Séamus Coyle has been announced | NorthernSound

Long-serving Fianna Fáil County Monaghan Councillor Séamus Coyle has died. The local rep who is the current Cathaoirleach of the Ballybay/Clones Municipal Dist...

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

If Mayo can't win on Reek Sunday, when can they win?

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

For more on the Co. Monaghan constituency and the election, see Stephen Farrell's @histparl.bsky.social entry: www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-... 🧵3/3

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Daniel O'Connell's Catholic Association sent John Bric to Monaghan to canvass for Westenra. The attached report is from the Morning Register, 1 July 1826. 🧵2/3

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

On this day, 200 years ago, during the Co. Monaghan general election, priests in Monaghan addressed their flock attending Mass on the day of Saints Peter and Paul and encouraged them to vote for Henry Robert Westenra to remove the anti-Catholic Charles Powell Leslie from parliament. 🧵1/3

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I was delighted to be involved in this project both as a speaker at the conference at @durhamhistory.bsky.social back in 2023, and helping to promote the wonderful @parlhistjournal.bsky.social issue on social media. You can read the issue and conference blogs, including my own, in the link below.

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Parliamentary History Journal @parlhistjournal.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

We are delighted to publish our latest issue with a number of Open and Free Access articles from leading scholars, covering topics as diverse as social mobility in the reign of Henry VI, the 1876 Royal Titles Bill, and the May 1940 Norway Debate. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17500206...

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Parliamentary History: Vol 45, No 2

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Irish Committee of Historical Sciences - ICHS @irishhistorians.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Colleagues might consider signing this petition against the downgrading of AHSS research by Research Ireland openletter.earth/concern-abou...

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Concern about Research Ireland’s Strategy and Programme Plan

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

The only Eurovision I'm watching this year.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

As the king opens a new session of @ukparliament.parliament.uk today, I retraced (as I do daily on my way to @tcddublin.bsky.social) the route taken by the lord lieutenant of Ireland during the C18 from @dublincastle.bsky.social to the House of Lords chamber when he opened the Irish Parliament

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I know the feeling only too well.

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 22/04/2026

All research papers published in the Academy’s journals during 2026 will be freely available online, providing equitable open access for authors and readers, with no APCs charged. This development was made possible by Project MUSE’s Subscribe to Open initiative and ongoing support from IReL.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Reading old documents in archives is my bread and butter, but reading the 1926 Irish Free State census online and seeing the names of close relatives, some of whom I remember, is another experience! The census can be searched here: nationalarchives.ie/collections/...

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

It's a pity that the Dáil has abandoned the Westminster tradition of voting through its division lobbies and is voting on the confidence motion by roll-call.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I marked Good Friday this evening with an ecumenical walk through the streets of Dublin, led by Achbishops Dermot Farrell and Michael Jackson from St Mary's Cathedral to @cccdublin.bsky.social

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The manuscript is now held in the @ria.ie. Dating from the C8, it was remodelled in the C14. The bottom left of the shrine depicts Patrick presenting it to Macartan. More on Macartan in @dib.ie: www.dib.ie/biography/ma... 2/2

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Today being St Macartan's Day, I called into @nmireland.bsky.social's Archaeology branch to view An Domhnach Airgid. Macartan was a disciple of St Patrick and founding bishop of Clogher. According to tradition, Patrick gave Macartan a gospel manuscript that was kept in this shrine. 1/2

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

@lindaervine.bsky.social will be speaking about the east Belfast Irish language project 'Turas' in Cahans Meeting House, County Monaghan, tomorrow, 20 March at 20:00.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Beidh @lindaervine.bsky.social ag caint faoin tionscnamh Gaeilge Oirthear Bhéal Feirste, 'Turas' i dTeach Pobail Cahans, Contae Mhuineacháin, amárach, 20 Márta ag 20:00. Eircode H18 E7N1

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Victorian Commons @victoriancommons.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Happy #StPatricksDay On this day in 1835 there was ‘a very large attendance’ of MPs in the Commons, including the leading Irish MP Daniel O’Connell ‘wearing a large bunch of shamrock’. For more on some of the Irish MPs we have researched, see victoriancommons.wordpress.com/category/ire...

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Ireland – The Victorian Commons

Posts about Ireland written by Martin Spychal, sball1832, Kathryn Rix, and Philip Salmon

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Some St Patrick's Day reading - by Roman Catholic bishop emeritus of Clogher Joseph Duffy

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

No better way to begin St Patrick's Day celebrations than by visiting his city of Armagh for an ecumenical vigil walk between the two cathedrals led by Archbishops Eamon Martin and John McDowell

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The Georgian Lords @georgianlords.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The passage of the Hereditary Peers Bill in the Lords yesterday means an end to 366 unbroken years of membership of Parliament by peers claiming their seats by hereditary right. If one overlooks the hiatus of 1649-1660, their participation dates back to the very beginning of parliaments. #HistParl

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

At @abbeytheatre.bsky.social tonight, to see the centenary production of the classic The Plough and the stars. Let's hope there's no disruption like there was when it was first performed back in 1926! More on about the playwright, Sean O'Casey here: www.dib.ie/biography/oc...

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History of Parliament @histparl.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

The latest issue of @parlhistjournal.bsky.social explores the practices and organisation of politics in the long 19th century. Edited by #HistParl's Dr Naomi Lloyd-Jones, this special issue can be accessed now:

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Special Issue: The Politics of Organising in the Long 19th Century

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