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Dr Tara McConnell

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Food historian. Independent Researcher. Drinking studies, material culture, gastronomy. Author of "Honest Claret": The Social Meaning of Georgian Ireland's Favourite Wine (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2022).

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Dr Tara McConnell @wine18thcirl.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Meet the Beautiful Dragonfly That Thrives in Your Pollution www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/s...
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Meet the Beautiful Dragonfly That Thrives in Your Pollution
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Dr Tara McConnell @wine18thcirl.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Superb lecture from Sherlock Holmes’s academic peer, @irishcookbooks.bsky.social at the Royal Society of Antiquarians of Ireland 30 January. Always blown away by Dr Dorothy Cashman’s eye for microscopic detail.
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Dr Tara McConnell @wine18thcirl.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Here’s another shout-out: Don’t endure sexual harassment or worse—as too many women of my generation have—call it out!
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Dr Tara McConnell @wine18thcirl.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Why so not so gloomy looking? 😆
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Dr Tara McConnell @wine18thcirl.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Very much looking forward to reading this!
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Dr Tara McConnell @wine18thcirl.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Great to see another issue of this excellent Open Access journal hit the virtual shelves!
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Dr Tara McConnell @wine18thcirl.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Looking 4 a fireside read over the holidays? "Honest Claret": The Social Meaning of Georgian Ireland's Favourite Wine (www.peterlang.com) is packed/w intriguing facts about the history of wine drinking in Ireland w/emphasis as stated in title. eBook 4 instant gratification. Happy Holidays to All!
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Dr Tara McConnell @wine18thcirl.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
She Wrote the Book on Preservation in New York www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/r...
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She Wrote the Book on Preservation in New York
Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel has made it her life’s work to make sure that the city’s landmarks, and the contributions of its residents, are never forgotten.
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Dr Tara McConnell @wine18thcirl.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Great theme!
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Dr Tara McConnell @wine18thcirl.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Thrilled to see that the editors Dr Dorothy Cashman’s and Dr Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire’s groundbreaking excellent book has received this award. If you’ve any interest in food history check this publication outAvailable open access & hard copy the latter published by the Royal Irish Academy.
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Dr Tara McConnell @wine18thcirl.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Sounds lie a reasonable holiday order. 😊
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Dr Tara McConnell @wine18thcirl.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Also the winner in that category!
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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Back in stock just in time for Christmas is the Book of the Year nominee Irish Food History - A Companion, published by @ria.ie , edited by @irishcookbooks.bsky.social & Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire. A book for everyone that eats. A book to get lost in. thebookshop.ie/mairtin-mac-...
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Dr Tara McConnell @wine18thcirl.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
The Pure Liberation of a Personal Urination Device www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/m...
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The Pure Liberation of a Personal Urination Device
A plastic aqueduct provides new pathways for relief.
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Dr Tara McConnell @wine18thcirl.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Tackling the Difficult Subject at the Heart of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/m...
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Tackling the Difficult Subject at the Heart of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’
A festival devoted to the film usually focuses on its comforting message. This year, it also underscored suicide prevention.
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Dr Tara McConnell @wine18thcirl.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Not quite sure but it appears to be rampant.
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Dr Tara McConnell @wine18thcirl.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Reminds me of my experience with Endnote.
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Dr Tara McConnell @wine18thcirl.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Thrilled to see that the editors Dr Dorothy Cashman’s and Dr Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire’s groundbreaking excellent book has received this award. If you’ve any interest in food history check this publication outAvailable open access & hard copy the latter published by the Royal Irish Academy.
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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
So good to receive the physical copies of Metropolitan Science! For those interested in early modern London and/or #histSTM details here (do let your library know!) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metropoli...
Two copies of Metropolitan Science with packaging
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Nicola Griffith SHE IS HERE out now! @nicolaz.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
Since clay tablets and papyrus scrolls, the hardest part of being an author isn't writing a book it's selling it. I'm guessing even Bede sometimes despaired. But, hey, MENEWOOD is ready to preorder in the UK in paperback, so Buy My Book! Post has buy links, credits: wp.me/p5F4z1-No #medievalsky 📚💙
13th century framed illustration of a man desperately showing an open book to a mythical winged beast who is so uninterested it has turned away and stuck its own tail in its ear.Medieval-looking frame around a dailaogue between an author and reader:
Author: I have a new book! Just out in paperback!
Reader: Look at this interesting rock...
Author: I think you'd like it. It's—
Reader: 🎶 La-la-la 🎶
Author: No, really, it's just your sort of—
Reader: 🎶 LA-LA-LA! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!! 🎶
The Reader's dialogue is bracketed by musical-note emojis
Against an azure background meant to look like dyed vellum, the cover of a novel, Menewood by Nicola Griffith, and next to in gold text, a quote from Carolyne Larrington, Professor of Medieval Euroipean Literature, University of Oxford, "Menewood is an absolute triumph. Hildl is truly a hero for everywoman, here and now."Against an azure background meant to look like dyed vellum, two yellow squares side by side, each with a quote. On the left, "Menewood is marvellous…I wanted to read for a thousand pages. Kelly Link, MacArthur fellow and Pulitizer-nominated author of The Book of Love" and on the right, "Redemptoive absorbing, and deeply satisfying, Constance Grady, Vox"
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Dr Tara McConnell @wine18thcirl.bsky.social · 13/10/2024
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Three Castles Burning
Three Castles Burning is a social history podcast, dedicated to the story of the Irish capital. Dublin is a city of many stories, Three Castles Burning tells some of the more forgotten ones.
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Dr Tara McConnell @wine18thcirl.bsky.social · 29/09/2024
Irish Food History: A Companion, eds Maírtín Mac Con Iomaire & Dorothy Cashman. The winter is long. It's good to have an excellent book on hand that you can dip in and out of. Available Open Access arrow.tudublin.ie/irishfoodhist/ & hard copy shop.ria.ie/products/iri...
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Dr Tara McConnell @wine18thcirl.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
Great line-up!
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The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
📢 NEW Will of the Month Blog Post! 📢 To mark the new academic year, we look at the will of a man 'local' to the University of Exeter. Read about the charitable bequests of an Exeter Alderman, his pots & pans, & a box locked with 2 keys 🔑 #history #EarlyModern sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
A photograph of St Petrock's Church, Exeter, photo by Robert Cutts from Bristol - , CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43766974
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The Prize Papers Project @prizepapers.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
Exciting times ahead! Today our research students received an introduction to @transkribus.bsky.social from Frank Marquardt and will now be using it regularly for their work and research. Transkribus is a very helpful tool if you work with documents in at least 19 languages. #earlymodern #history 🗃️
Group picture. Frank Marquardt (black shirt in the back) and Kristin Langefeld (blue shirt) in Prize Papers seminar room with our research students, slides in the background (saying "Prize Papers Project meet Transkribus"), happy students.
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Dr Tara McConnell @wine18thcirl.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
@archive.org is definitely an invaluable resource for many researchers.
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
bog butter www.irishnews.com/news/ireland...
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Donegal farmer uncovers 22kg slab of ancient bog butter
The accidental discovery could one of the biggest finds of it’s kind in Ireland so far
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William M. Cavert @williamcavert.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
This is a great resource for anyone who teaches on Renaissance France, early modern Europe and its empires/colonies/contacts, the history of science and technology, and anything related.
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
There is a row of horse chestnut trees outside the study windows. Writing at my desk, I can see adults picking up conkers, polishing them on their jumpers and stuffing them gleefully into their pockets. The passing school children are too busy on their phones to notice.
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
Faculty job openings at Cornell, Information Science. Open area open rank and a special focus on areas including computational social science approaches. Application review beings Nov 10. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28405
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Dr Tara McConnell @wine18thcirl.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
Have bowed out of Twitter (because it is, in fact, X). Hung in there because of the nice community trying to keep it positive. Now looking forward to finding new and former Twitter pals on this forum. 😊
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #1,246,916, Dr Tara McConnell ‪@wine18thcirl.bsky.social‬, joined on Sep 28, 2023"
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Dr Tara McConnell @wine18thcirl.bsky.social · 28/07/2024
For feck’s sake!
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Doc Sarah Lonsdale @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social · 28/07/2024
Morning everyone who loves second-hand books and bookshops: I'm researching an essay about strange/fascinating/moving artefacts found in second hand books such as old love letters/newspaper cuttings etc that have a bearing on your experience of the book. A reply/ repost hugely appreciated!!
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Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com · 14/07/2024
Councillors are pushing for answers from Waterways Ireland on its plans for the old graving docks. “Are they going to flip the site for even more money, or are they going to do something themselves?” asked Green Party Councillor Claire Byrne. dublininquirer.com/2...
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Councillors push for answers from Waterways Ireland on its plans for the old graving docks - Dublin Inquirer
It is urgent that they provide a plan, said Green Party Councillor Claire Byrne. “Are they going to flip the site for even more money, or are they going to do something themselves?”
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Marion McGarry @marionmcgarry.bsky.social · 04/07/2024
Do have a read of my new piece on how a domestic ‘circular economy’ was achieved as recently as our Irish grandparents generation, and three examples showing how they did: furniture, fashion and food waste 👇 www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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How our ancestors were recycling long before green bins
There are many lessons to learn from past generations in how they reused and recycled furniture, fashion and food waste
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Dr Tara McConnell @wine18thcirl.bsky.social · 07/06/2024
One of the best events in the summertime is westcorkhistoryfestival.org.
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West Cork History Festival – West Cork History Festival
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Dr Tara McConnell @wine18thcirl.bsky.social · 04/06/2024
Open Access alert! Irish Food History:A Companion, Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire and Dorothy Cashman, eds. Google for link to 28 chapters exploring Ireland’s food history from Prehistory to the present. Free to read/download. Very reasonably priced hard copy Book can be preordered at RIA.ie.
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Royal Irish Academy
Ireland’s leading body of experts in the sciences & humanities. We recognise world class researchers, support scholarship and promote awareness of how science and humanities enrich our lives. Learn mo...
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Dr Tara McConnell @wine18thcirl.bsky.social · 01/06/2024
Smollet’s reference to ‘the suppurations that flow into [Bath’s]waters’ in Humphrey Clinker put me off of Jacuzzis for life. 😆
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Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social · 24/05/2024
Just under a week to go until the deadline for paper proposals for our 'Clerical Lives' conference at Manchester in September 2024. We welcome any paper proposals exploring the 17 and 18C clergy in Britain and their experiences/identities at clericallives@gmail.com CfP below!
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Dr Tara McConnell @wine18thcirl.bsky.social · 24/05/2024
You yell ‘em, Cat.
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Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social · 22/05/2024
Very much looking forward to Susan Whyman's talk this evening to @long18thsem.bsky.social at @ihr.bsky.social on 'Edmund Rack, Master of Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Bath'. It is hybrid, so do register to come along either in person or virtually. www.history.ac.uk/events/edmun...
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Edmund Rack, Master of Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Bath
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Centre for the History of People, Place & Community @chppc.bsky.social · 20/05/2024
Join us online & in person at the @ihr.bsky.social this Wednesday 22nd May at 5.30pm for Louisa Foroughi’s seminar ‘Identity & Regionality: #Yeoman Farmers in 15th & 16th-C England’. Everyone’s welcome. Sign up for this free event here www.history.ac.uk/events/ident...
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Identity and Regionality: Yeoman Farmers in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century England
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Dr Tara McConnell @wine18thcirl.bsky.social · 05/05/2024
www.eventbrite.ie/e/2024-dubli...
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2024 Dublin Gastronomy Symposium
The DGS Committee looks forward to welcoming you to the 2024 edition, and the theme 'Food and Memory: Traces, Trauma and Tradition'.
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Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com · 01/05/2024
A historian puts out call for kids to join monthly history book club. At a session Saturday, Amelia McCarthy said she liked the current pick to read but wanted to know why there are no seagulls in it, since it’s based in Dublin city centre. dublininquirer.com/2...
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Historian puts out call for kids to join monthly history book club - Dublin Inquirer
On Saturday, Amelia McCarthy said she liked the current pick to read but wanted to know why there are no seagulls in it, since it’s based in Dublin city centre.
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Dr Tara McConnell @wine18thcirl.bsky.social · 28/04/2024
www.nytimes.com/2024/04/27/a...
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Dr Tara McConnell @wine18thcirl.bsky.social · 28/04/2024
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jericho jennifer nelson @henkaipantomime.bsky.social · 27/04/2024
hey so my Cranach book is out! in which I offer another model of Renaissance artistic identity formation: the fashioning of communities rather than of the self. (if you've ever wondered about how often, while wandering museums, you run into a nude woman painted by Cranach, I explain this, too.
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Lucas Cranach
A revealing new account of the life and work of this early modern German printmaker.   This captivating biography brings Lucas Cranach the Elder into the spotlight for the twenty-first century. The il...
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Dr Tara McConnell @wine18thcirl.bsky.social · 18/04/2024
Delighted to find my book “Honest Claret”: The Social History of Georgian Ireland’s Favourite Wine (Oxford:Peter Lang, 2022) reviewed by @lucycogan.bsky.social in The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs (V38N1), 158. 😊 One always appreciates the time expended by thoughtful reviewers!
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Dr Tara McConnell @wine18thcirl.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
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