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Patrick walsh

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Associate Professor of eighteenth century Irish History, co- director Trinity Colonial Legacies Project. All views my own and not of those my employer.

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 11h
Teaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day.
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Department of History, Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Michaelmas Term schedule, Seminar in International History
Centre for International History Seminar Series
Michaelmas Term 2026
All seminars will be held on Mondays between 1300-1400 in the Long Room Hub.
5 October The U.S., “Stability,” and the 1949 Husni Za‘im Coup in Syria
Nathan Citino, Rice University
12 October “Cold War Nutrient Bonds: Occidental Petroleum’s 1973 Fertilizer
Deal with the Soviet Union and Why It (Still) Matters”
Katja Bruisch, TCD
19 October Co-sponsored with the Centre for Environmental History
The Archive of Decolonization in North Africa, Idriss Jebari, TCD
9 November 
Modernisation of Piracy: Colonial Hong Kong and Its Dangerous
Maritime Connections, c. 1890-1950, Dexter Tse, TCD
23 November 
Histories of Orphan Trafficking in East Africa and the West, Andreana Prichard, University of Oklahoma
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History at Queen's University Belfast @qubhistory.bsky.social · 16h
We have heard the very sad news that Nini Rodgers died yesterday, after a period spent in a nursing home. Her former colleagues in the School remember her fondly, while others will have known Nini through her ground-breaking research on the history of slavery and Ireland.
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Ciaran O'Neill @ciaranon.bsky.social · 11h
Sorry to read this. Nini was researching Irish connections to enslavement and abolition long before anyone else in the field and we all owe her such an enormous debt for doing all that foundational work. It was one of the great, not-heralded-enough, contributions to modern Irish history.
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Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland @virtualtreasury.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A very interesting vacancy being advertised by our VRTI Core Partners in the @irishmanuscripts.bsky.social 👇 www.recruitireland.com/company/iris...
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Administrator - Irish Manuscripts Commission
Find out more about the Administrator job. Based at the office in Co. Dublin. Salary in the range of €48,749 - 61,995.
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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
'History is a Human Craft'. In piece about ethics, our classrooms and AI, I suppose I've put up my barricades and drawn my lines. I suggest 8 'considerations' before we do any teaching with AI. This is part of a new @royalhistsoc.org short series on 'AI and History Teaching' in Transactions.
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History is a human craft | Historical Transactions
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
An intriguing report on UK History students' use of AI. In a survey of several hundred students, 42% acknowledged using it in the preparation of assessed work, tho' not directly to generate that work www.history-uk.ac.uk/projects/his...
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History and AI – A Survey of History Students in UK Universities
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become impossible to ignore in higher education. For historians, working in a discipline which depends on interpretation, evidence, and critical thinking, the devel…
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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Investing in Dublin: Tontines, Women, and Financial Life in 19th century Ireland. 1pm, Wed 7 Oct. How did Dubliners use tontines to pay for community projects? How did women help to fund the Dublin-Drogheda railway? Join us for a Library Lunchtime Lecture @ria.ie . www.ria.ie/events/inves...
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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This excellent on critical thinking and what a history degree can do for you
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
📢NEW MANY-HEADED MONSTER POST📢 There are many many reasons why rich and powerful people misrepresent evidence of all kinds. If only there were approaches and skills that could help us see through the lies ... 🗃️ #Humanities #Arts #SocialSciences manyheadedmonster.com/2026/09/22/a...
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A plea for critical thinking humans in our world of extremes
Laura Sangha A companion piece to: What is history for? Or: Doing history/thinking historically The train to Totnes this weekend was full of late holiday makers heading for Cornwall. They were grat…
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 18/09/2026
'Why Does Academic History Matter?' bit.ly/4yB8MYQ With contributions from historians Martha Vandrei, Susan-Mary Grant, Joy Porter and @davidandress.bsky.social Free to read for 7 days @historytoday.com #Skystorians
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Why Does Academic History Matter?
The study of history at UK universities appears to be under existential threat. Should anyone care?
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Mark Doyle @markdoyle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Was very happy to beam into QUB today to launch the Africans in Ireland website that I and a number of colleagues have been working on for years. Maps, database, & other resources documenting the African presence in Ireland from the late 16th to early 20th centuries. africansinireland.com
A right-facing silhouette of the Black preacher and seaman John Jea, Methodist preacher and seaman, from his 1816 book The Life, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea, the African Preacher
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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just finished Sheila Armstong’s brilliant the red mouth. A fascinating situation to what is a sub (subterranean perhaps) genre of bog literature. Highly recommend
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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Absolutely delighted to see this in print. I had a lot of fun reading and thinking about 40 years of writings on eighteenth century Irish history! brilliant it’s OA too
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Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The new issue of Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr is out now and open access (not sure if this is temporary or not). Use the link below to view the special anniversary issue. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/10.3828/...
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Contents | Eighteenth-Century Ireland 41,
This article surveys writings on the history of eighteenth-century Ireland over the first forty years of the journal Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá Chultúr. Commissioned to mark the journal’s fortieth anniversary, it adopts a cautiously ...
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Department of History, Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Congrats to our MPhil students: Constantia Maxwell award, Nora Mulvehill, Public History & Cultural Heritage; bursaries to Murphy McDonald Bradshaw, PHCH; Eva Hendley, Medieval; Laurie Seiters, Early Modern ; Regan Grogg, Modern Irish; Finn Purdy, Environmental; Isabelle Steuver, International
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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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Department of History, Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This term's schedule for the Research Seminar in Modern and Contemporary Irish History is here www.tcd.ie/history/rese...
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Trinity Research Centre for Contemporary Irish History Seminars - Department of History - Trinity College Dublin
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Department of History, Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This term's schedule for the Early Modern History Research Seminar is here: www.tcd.ie/history/rese...
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Early Modern History Research Seminar - Department of History - Trinity College Dublin
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Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The schedule for the TCD Early Modern History Research Seminar is now up. Join us for the first seminar on the 5 October: Fara Dabhoiwala (Princeton University): “Race, Slavery, Religion, and Citizenship in the Atlantic World, 1655-1762: Ireland, Jamaica, and the family of Francis Williams”.
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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“It was a merciless, monarchy supported company,” Radburn said of the South Sea Company “and the trafficking of enslaved people was the heart of it.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...
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The royal crown branded on enslaved Africans: Britain’s monarchy and the slave trade
From Elizabeth I’s backing of early voyages to royal investment in trafficking companies, generations of monarchs were central to Britain’s slave trade
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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Great piece by @geolug.bsky.social and @aoifeb.bsky.social on the destruction of historic pat records and the choices we make about whose history and lives we choose to privilege in our records www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 07/09/2026
The laugh of the ghost of Eric Williams, first Prime Minister of my beloved Trinidad and Tobago, echos through the land... Paraphrasing "sometimes it appears as if the British only invented the slave trade in order to claim the credit for abolishing it"
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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Record Uptake In CAO Course ‘How To Dismantle Capitalism So I Can Afford Rent’ waterfordwhispersnews.com/2024/08/2…
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Record Uptake In CAO Course ‘How To Dismantle Capitalism So I Can Afford Rent’
WITH THE first round of CAO course offers out, some key trends are emerging with noticeable trends including a serious surge in popularity for a degree in How To Dismantle Capitalism So I Can Afford …
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VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND @voicestcd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
🚨 New Blog Alert 🚨 Check out the latest blog by Felix Vanden Borre! It’s on Named Entity Recognition which identifies categories of things, such as people, in texts. But how does it cope with tricky historical texts? Learn more about it here! voicesproject.ie/impact/blog-...
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Blog 15: Named Entity Recognition and Historical Texts - VOICES
By Felix Vanden Borre VOICES is experimenting with different computational methodologies to query historical sources at scale and recover the lives of non-elite early modern Irish women. One such meth...
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IrishPhilosophy @irishphilosophy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Gullivers Travels were published 300 years ago today. There is a crater on Deimos, a moon of Mars, named after Swift. Gullivers Travels claimed Mars had two moons, while deploring the appropriation and misuse of scientific ideas. #Gulliver300 irishphilosophy.com/2015/08/17/s...
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Swift’s Crater – Irish Philosophy
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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This is great. Spent much of my Doctoral years in IAA - a fascinating place with wonderful staff.
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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Had great time today at final concert of Belfast TradFest in St Anne’s Cathedral. my sons had great time all week learning more fiddle 🎻 and beginning whistle respectively! Huge crowds and so much music everywhere
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Some historical background to the fires in southwestern France, drawing on reading I did for my 2019 book about the moorlands, and lamenting the deeply depressing reality that we have known many of the causes of this ecological disaster for 150years 🗃️ williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/u...
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Unintentional Arson
The fires in southwestern France are an appalling demonstration of the reality of climate change in 2026. But this is not the first ecological devastation in the region, and the role of human actio…
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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Research Ireland taking on ‘strategic research’ priorities I see…
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Ciaran O'Neill @ciaranon.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
What happens when historic human remains are returned to a community of origin? In this new co-authored article we compare recent reburials at Inishbofin in Ireland and Pälkäne in Finland: both controversial processes for reasons that overlap in fascinating ways. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Returning the dead: the experience of repatriation and the heritage of racial science in Finland and Ireland
This article examines the contemporary return and reburial of human remains in two European contexts – Inishbofin, Ireland, and Pälkäne, Finland – to analyse how communities of descent experience, ...
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Clare Moriarty @quiteclare.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
We should be livid. The article says students are asked to do everything with originals via post (no email when there's no functioning post service?!) and failed for "insufficient evidence of strong obligations to return to your home country". What would that case look like in Gaza right now?!
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History Ireland Magazine @historyireland.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Between 1730 & 1830, Dublin’s Foundling Hospital admitted approx 127,000 children. Records indicate that around 80% died. Drawing on contemporary sources, Dr Mark B. Roe examines one of the most significant—and tragic—institutions in Irish social history. historyireland.com/the-foundlin...
A watercolour illustration of Dublin's Foundling Hospital
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️
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AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College London
The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies
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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This is an excellent read. Strongly recommend
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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This is an utterly fascinating interview. it’s also pretty terrifying. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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‘Most people don’t know we’ve set up a doomsday system’: physicist Laura Grego on satellites, nuclear weapons and the battle for our skies
Elon Musk is trying to own it, competing powers are trying to fight in it and nobody seems to be regulating it. So who does space really belong to?
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
21 July 1592: the Mayor & Corporation of #Dublin grant the former lands of the Priory of All Hallows to the “Provost, Fellows & Scholars” of Trinity College Dublin “...forever” #otd
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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
April Article! Joe Curran @muahi.bsky.social on '(Re-)Making the ‘Stateless Capital’: Edinburgh and Dublin in European Context, c.1820–1850' academic.oup.com/ehr/article/... #CapitalCities
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(Re-)Making the ‘Stateless Capital’: Edinburgh and Dublin in European Context, c.1820–1850*
Abstract. This article revisits and complicates the idea of the ‘stateless capital’, a city that (through absorption into a larger political entity) was no
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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Enjoyed watching that on holiday in Germany with my two sons cheering on Argentina! Schadenfreude is I think the word!
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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Saladin in 1189:
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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Finished reading @jonawils.bsky.social’s brilliant The Power and the Glory. A superb humane history which brilliantly gets at why the World Cup continues to enthrall and appall.
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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This is tricky, but here goes Francis Spufford Willy Vlautin Ben Myer Amitav Ghosh Javier Cercas
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The Pope has decided that instead of competing against each other, Portugal will play Brazil while Spain plays Mexico.
Mon., Jul 6, 3:00 PM
Portugal
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IrishPhilosophy @irishphilosophy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
#IrishHistory #IrishLaw #IrishStatutes #ILD Good news for those working on Irish history from 1692 to 1800. The Irish Legislation Database is back online at a new address. resources.qub.ac.uk/ild/ Much thanks to Prof David Hayton. Please share widely.
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Irish Legislation Database : Home
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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
This looks like an interesting new book from the multitalented and always interesting @missingintheslips.bsky.social he does literature, Swift cricket and now art!
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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Some wonderful new archival materials for Irish history made scale by the extraordinary @virtualtreasury.bsky.social team. Some great essays here too curating and introducing the archival materials provided by over 100 international partners
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Dictionary of Irish Biography @dib.ie · 30/06/2026
#DIBLives #OTD 1922 a huge explosion at the Public Records Office in the Four Courts destroyed centuries of Irish administrative, legal & genealogical records. @virtualtreasury.bsky.social has spent years recreating many of these records & made them freely available to the public. virtualtreasury.ie
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 30/06/2026
Almost 200,000 historical records have been released online by the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland. The release of the records will cover seven centuries of Irish history and will make over half a million documents free and permanently available to the public
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Almost 200,000 Irish historical records released online
Almost 200,000 historical records have been released online by the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland.
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