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Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman

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Associate Professor, Department of History at the University of Limerick. Researching religious architecture, histories of public space. Interested in books, new music, design. #CeaseFireInGaza https://pure.ul.ie/en/persons/niamh-nicghabhann-coleman

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Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · May 14

This @irishhistsoc.bsky.social article examines the building of grand chapel buildings by Catholics in Ireland after the first Relief Acts, but 30 years before Emancipation. It looks at architectural patronage as civic participation, focusing on Cashel & Waterford www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

‘New and elegant chapels, either built or in the act of building’: St John the Baptist, Cashel, and Catholic architecture in an era of relief and reform | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core

‘New and elegant chapels, either built or in the act of building’: St John the Baptist, Cashel, and Catholic architecture in an era of relief and reform - Volume 48 Issue 174

www.cambridge.org

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Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · 1h

There it is now on the 25 inch OS map

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TFW you realise the pizza place you are queuing in used to be the early 19th c Catholic cathedral of Galway 🤯

Stone pillars on decent bases in a bustling pizza place

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 8h

okay who did this?

A display of wild swimming books. At the bottom of the display, under all the other books is a copy of JAWS by Peter Benchley.

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Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · 8h

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Dr Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth @carolinemccaff.bsky.social · 20h

Lights on, lights off. A wonderful day discussing the Portland Vase (especially its 18th Century reception) with colleagues at the British Museum

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Mark O’Brien @obrienpmark.bsky.social · 20h

Remembering those who died, on this, the tenth anniversary of the devastating fire in a temporary Traveller halting site in Carrickmines. Sending love and support to their family and friends.

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Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social · 1d

Here are three wonderfully preserved Roman shoes that were discovered at Bar Hill Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in Scotland in the early 1900s. Shoes made for men, women and children have been found there, reminding us that frontier zones were not an exclusively military environment. #FindsFriday

Three ancient roman shoes with pierced decoration displayed on dummy feet.

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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 1d

👩‍🎓🏅 Dr Tess McCann has won this year’s UCD Conway Festival Gold Medal for the discovery of a gene mutation responsible for inherited retinal diseases leading to vision loss.

www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

UCD Conway Festival gold medal award to Dr Tess McCann

www.ucd.ie

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 1d

“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.”

The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 1d

MM refusing to do anything on climate shows that he puts disproportionate weight on the opinions of lobbyists for data centers, car manufacturers, dairy, etc cause support for government action on climate change actually unites people across the country..so who is he talking about?

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araireland @araireland.bsky.social · 3d

An online lecture series promoting the principles of diversity & inclusion across archival collections and the wider record-keeping community will kick off on Oct 22nd at 1pm.

1st talk will be about Preserving Records in support of Truth Recovery in Northern Ireland

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

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Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · 1d

Shared with my students this morning - thanks!

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Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · 1d

Does Arena still feature?

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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations ✊️

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 1d

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 1d

the portland chicken guy 🥰

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · 1d

This looks like a gorgeous book

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 2d

Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉

Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:

www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

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A woman’s place was not in the home: New book challenges assumptions about women’s work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England’s national economy before 1700. Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historic...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 2d

Dublin small press fair on 28 & 29 November at Pearse St library. Free and open to the public.

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Keelin O’Donoghue @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social · Nov 17

🕯️ Reminder

Our Annual #CUMHRemembers Service is taking place today

Sunday, 15 October

⏱️ 6pm

📍 Sacred Heart Church, Western Road, Cork

💜 #BLAW
#BabyLossAwarenessWeek #WaveOfLight
#CUMHRemembers

@PregnancyLossIE @IrelandSouthWID

Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · 2d

Horrifically violent

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#CeaseFireInGaza

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys