Reposted by Patrick walshJack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 11hTeaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day. 481372292
Reposted by Patrick walshDepartment of History, Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Michaelmas Term schedule, Seminar in International History 025
Reposted by Patrick walshHistory at Queen's University Belfast @qubhistory.bsky.social · 16hWe 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. 135
Reposted by Patrick walshCiaran O'Neill @ciaranon.bsky.social · 11hSorry 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. 0105
Reposted by Patrick walshVirtual Record Treasury of Ireland @virtualtreasury.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A very interesting vacancy being advertised by our VRTI Core Partners in the @irishmanuscripts.bsky.social 👇 www.recruitireland.com/company/iris...recruitireland.comAdministrator - Irish Manuscripts CommissionFind out more about the Administrator job. Based at the office in Co. Dublin. Salary in the range of €48,749 - 61,995. 033
Reposted by Patrick walshDr 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.blog.royalhistsoc.orgHistory is a human craft | Historical Transactions 611457
Reposted by Patrick walshCharles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026An 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...history-uk.ac.ukHistory and AI – A Survey of History Students in UK UniversitiesArtificial 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… 133
Reposted by Patrick walshLibrary of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Investing 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... 188
Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This excellent on critical thinking and what a history degree can do for you 0159
Reposted by Patrick walshDr 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...manyheadedmonster.comA plea for critical thinking humans in our world of extremesLaura 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… 01510
Reposted by Patrick walshRoyal 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 #Skystoriansbit.lyWhy Does Academic History Matter?The study of history at UK universities appears to be under existential threat. Should anyone care? 17360
Reposted by Patrick walshMark Doyle @markdoyle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Was 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 1015262
Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Just finished Sheila Armstong’s brilliant the red mouth. A fascinating situation to what is a sub (subterranean perhaps) genre of bog literature. Highly recommend 150
Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Absolutely 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 1103
Reposted by Patrick walshJoel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The 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/...liverpooluniversitypress.co.ukContents | 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 ... 14331
Reposted by Patrick walshDepartment of History, Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Congrats 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 022
Reposted by Patrick walshDepartment of History, Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Proposals 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. 0109
Reposted by Patrick walshDepartment of History, Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This term's schedule for the Research Seminar in Modern and Contemporary Irish History is here www.tcd.ie/history/rese...tcd.ieTrinity Research Centre for Contemporary Irish History Seminars - Department of History - Trinity College Dublin 0138
Reposted by Patrick walshDepartment of History, Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This term's schedule for the Early Modern History Research Seminar is here: www.tcd.ie/history/rese...tcd.ieEarly Modern History Research Seminar - Department of History - Trinity College Dublin 052
Reposted by Patrick walshJoel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The 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”. 1117
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...theguardian.comThe royal crown branded on enslaved Africans: Britain’s monarchy and the slave tradeFrom Elizabeth I’s backing of early voyages to royal investment in trafficking companies, generations of monarchs were central to Britain’s slave trade 087
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... 010
Reposted by Patrick walshGordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 07/09/2026The 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" 084
Reposted by Patrick walshWWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Record Uptake In CAO Course ‘How To Dismantle Capitalism So I Can Afford Rent’ waterfordwhispersnews.com/2024/08/2…waterfordwhispersnews.comRecord 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 … 0225
Reposted by Patrick walshVOICES 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-...voicesproject.ieBlog 15: Named Entity Recognition and Historical Texts - VOICESBy 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... 143
Reposted by Patrick walshIrishPhilosophy @irishphilosophy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Gullivers 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...irishphilosophy.comSwift’s Crater – Irish Philosophy 042
Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 09/08/2026This is great. Spent much of my Doctoral years in IAA - a fascinating place with wonderful staff. 061
Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Had 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 050
Reposted by Patrick walshwill pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Some 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...williamgpooley.wordpress.comUnintentional ArsonThe 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… 48045
Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Research Ireland taking on ‘strategic research’ priorities I see… 000
Reposted by Patrick walshCiaran O'Neill @ciaranon.bsky.social · 29/07/2026What 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....tandfonline.comReturning the dead: the experience of repatriation and the heritage of racial science in Finland and IrelandThis 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, ... 1179
Reposted by Patrick walshClare Moriarty @quiteclare.bsky.social · 28/07/2026We 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?! 05834
Reposted by Patrick walshHistory Ireland Magazine @historyireland.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Between 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... 11610
Reposted by Patrick walshHannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Please 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... 🗃️kcl.ac.ukAHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College LondonThe 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 0196243
Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 23/07/2026This is an excellent read. Strongly recommend 071
Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 22/07/2026This is an utterly fascinating interview. it’s also pretty terrifying. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...theguardian.com‘Most people don’t know we’ve set up a doomsday system’: physicist Laura Grego on satellites, nuclear weapons and the battle for our skiesElon 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? 055
Reposted by Patrick walshJohn McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 21/07/202621 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 0103
Reposted by Patrick walshThe English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · 20/07/2026April 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/... #CapitalCitiesacademic.oup.com(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 032
Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Enjoyed watching that on holiday in Germany with my two sons cheering on Argentina! Schadenfreude is I think the word! 010
Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Finished 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. 3151
Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 10/07/2026This is tricky, but here goes Francis Spufford Willy Vlautin Ben Myer Amitav Ghosh Javier Cercas 130
Reposted by Patrick walshKing Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026The Pope has decided that instead of competing against each other, Portugal will play Brazil while Spain plays Mexico. 1270288
Reposted by Patrick walshIrishPhilosophy @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.resources.qub.ac.ukIrish Legislation Database : Home 11518
Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 02/07/2026This looks like an interesting new book from the multitalented and always interesting @missingintheslips.bsky.social he does literature, Swift cricket and now art! 010
Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Some 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 2209
Reposted by Patrick walshDictionary 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 15738
Reposted by Patrick walshRTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 30/06/2026Almost 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 publicrte.ieAlmost 200,000 Irish historical records released onlineAlmost 200,000 historical records have been released online by the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland. 417897