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Patrick Duffy
@pduffy1.bsky.social
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Historian interested in O'Connellite politics and the emergence of a north-south frontier, 1824-44. Former @researchireland.ie Scholar, @historytcd.bsky.social. [email protected]
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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 17d
@markhennessy.bsky.social's article on this file is the most interesting so far: www.irishtimes.com/history/2025...

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 17d
One of my favourite parts of Christmas is @irishtimes.com and @news.rte.ie's coverage of the release of state papers transferred to the National Archives. Coverage be found at www.irishtimes.com/tags/state-p... and www.rte.ie/news/state-p...
State Papers - The Irish Times
www.irishtimes.com

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 25d
Reading the Standard for the last time on a Thursdsy evening. My article on its political ideology during its first five years is on the right.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 26d
4/ As I said in my piece, the legacy of the paper will live on in that it will be an immensely valuable source for historians of County Monaghan and south Ulster in various periods of history from 1839 to 2025.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 26d
3/ I will try to get my hands on a physical copy of the last ever Standard today. For anyone not around County Monaghan this week, a digital copy of the final issue can be purchased here: subscriber.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/subscribe.as...

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 26d
2/ Growing up in rural County Monaghan, it was a weekly ritual in our house to buy the both 'the Standard and the Journal' (the latter being the Irish Farmers Journal) every Thursday. When I moved to Dublin and was too busy to come home for the weekend, the digital paper was a valuable resource.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · 26d
1/ I wrote a short piece on the early history of the Northern Standard for its final ever issue today. There are also some good memoirs from Adrian Harte and Brendan Ó Dufaigh shining light on its more recent history.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · Dec 11
4/ Past editions of the paper from 1839 to 1871 can be read on britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk and past editions from 1885 to 2004 can be read on irishnewsarchive.com
Home | Search the archive | British Newspaper Archive
Whether you are a researcher, historian or you simply want to know more about Britain's history, take this fantastic opportunity to search The British Newspaper Archive - a vast treasure trove of hist...
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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · Dec 11
3/ Charles Gavan Duffy, on p. 41 of the first volume of his My life in two hemispheres (New York, 1898) noted that when the ill Arthur Wellington Holmes asked him to guest edit the Standard, he selected the 'local Orange news' from the latest papers. Something the extract from today's paper omits!

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · Dec 11
2/ I argued that the Standard was founded to act as a vehicle of politicisation to craft an identity based on Ulster as a Protestant territory. Many of its early editorials stressed the need of Protestants in Counties Monaghan, Armagh and Cavan to defend Ulster from O'Connellism

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · Dec 11
1/ Sad news from Monaghan this morning that the Northern Standard is to cease publication. I have written about the first few years of the Standard for my PhD thesis. Its inaugural editorial on 12 January 1839 promised to act as a 'watchtower' for the Protestants of Ulster'

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marcmulholland.bsky.social @marcmulholland.bsky.social · Dec 11
The Orange Order has just elected its 21st Grand Master. Here's a book I've edited and introduced on and from its early history.

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · Dec 10
Fighting Farney – Frank McNally on the battle for his hometown’s ‘western front’
Fighting Farney – Frank McNally on the battle for his hometown’s ‘western front’
Carrickmacross's lopsided pub distribution seems to be indirect effect of a deeper division
www.irishtimes.com

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · Dec 9
Sounds like an interesting project
jayroszman.bsky.social Jay Roszman is on sabbatical. @jayroszman.bsky.social · Dec 9
So thrilled for my friend and colleague, Dr Eugene Costello, who has been awarded a mega-ERC award for his incredible project tying together environmental and economic history in the early modern period by exploring commercial cattle farming.
Major EU project to investigate the rise of commercial cattle farming | University College Cork
Discover the latest impact of University College Cork with news and views from our leading research experts, our students and our graduates
www.ucc.ie

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Jay Roszman is on sabbatical. @jayroszman.bsky.social · Dec 9
So thrilled for my friend and colleague, Dr Eugene Costello, who has been awarded a mega-ERC award for his incredible project tying together environmental and economic history in the early modern period by exploring commercial cattle farming.
Major EU project to investigate the rise of commercial cattle farming | University College Cork
Discover the latest impact of University College Cork with news and views from our leading research experts, our students and our graduates
www.ucc.ie

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · Dec 7
Finally getting the chance to begin reading @marcmulholland.bsky.social's Rising of the moon

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · Dec 4
This is the correct call. It should have been taken last year, but fair play to @rte.ie and the Dutch, Spanish and Slovenian broadcasters for doing the right thing.

RTÉ to boycott Eurovision Song Contest over Israel

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RTÉ to boycott Eurovision Song Contest over Israel
Ireland will not participate in next year's Eurovision Song Contest, and it will not be broadcast by RTÉ, after the European Broadcasting Union confirmed today that Israel will be allowed to take part...
www.rte.ie

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · Dec 3
I was studying in the main reading room of the @nlireland.bsky.social this evening, and I remember thinking to myself that there were quite a few division bells that I could hear from next door.
@irishtimes.com
www.irishtimes.com/politics/oir...
Seanad suspended in row over extended vote deadline to enable Coalition Senators reach chamber
Doors should have been locked at usual deadline time, says Independent Lynn Ruane
www.irishtimes.com

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · Dec 3
#OTD 100 years ago, the UK, NI and Free State govts agreed to quash the Boundary Commission: www.difp.ie/volume-2/192.... As my article argues, this agreement doesn't negate the strong evidence that the Free State took the commission seriously: muse.jhu.edu/article/956691
@difp-ria.bsky.social
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy - Volume 2
03/12/1925 - Agreement Amending and Supplementing the Articles of Agreement and for a Treaty between Great Britain and Ireland (1921)
www.difp.ie

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marcmulholland.bsky.social @marcmulholland.bsky.social · Dec 2
A tweet series from my book: This one on O'Connellism and the triumph of conservatism in Protestant Ulster.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · Nov 29
More crimes committed by Israel. How so many in the West continue to support this terrorist state is beyond me.

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marcmulholland.bsky.social @marcmulholland.bsky.social · Nov 29
"Palestinians ... are regularly deprived of food and water, and subjected to severe beatings, attacks by dogs, electrocution, water boarding, and sexual violence." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UN panel says Israel operating 'de facto policy of torture'
Rights groups gave harrowing details about conditions in Israeli detention centres. Israel has not responded but has previously denied allegations of torture.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · Nov 26
2/ See his @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social profile here: adb.anu.edu.au/biography/gr.... I'm interested in exploring in future if James and other Protestant and Catholic convicts or settlers in Australia brought with them any identity associated with Ulster and if this affected their politics.
Biography - James Gray - Australian Dictionary of Biography
adb.anu.edu.au

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · Nov 26
1/ Indeed. Charles Gavan Duffy declared that there was 'generally an idle, ignorant, half-bred cub in every village in Ulster who looks up to Sam Gray as his role model’ (The Nation, 6 May 1843). His son James, a member of the Tasmanian Parliament named his home 'Ulster Lodge'.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · Nov 25
Sam Gray had his conviction for a non-capital felony quashed by the House of Lords in 1844. He was denied a peremptory challenge against one of his jurors, as defendants in England had the right to do. Now it seems that most defendants in England won't have a jury at all! www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Conor J. Kelly @conorjkelly.bsky.social · Nov 25
New vacancy (Junior Research Fellowship) working on the Northern Ireland Peace Process at the Quill Project in Oxford!

Based at Pembroke College with funding from the Carnegie Foundation of New York.

See details here: www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/juni...
Junior Research Fellowship in the Northern Ireland Peace Process (Quill Project)
Pembroke College wishes to appoint a Junior Research Fellow in the History of the Northern Ireland Peace Process. The appointment will be from early 2026 until 31 July 2027. The post is full-time and ...
www.pmb.ox.ac.uk

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · Nov 24
I could order a file for you on Thursday if that's time enough? I'm afraid that I'll be away from Dublin tomorrow and Wednesday

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · Nov 23
I agree. However, Monaghan County Museum, despite moving to a new multi-million euro facility, can only display a fraction of their collection. Unfortunately, the majority of their collection is in storage for most of the time.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · Nov 23
The door of Rossmore Castle, the Westenra family seat outside Monaghan town was also on display. The castle was built by the second Baron Rossmore in 1827 but was demolished in 1974 due to dry rot damage.

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Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social · Nov 23
Stephen Farrell's @histparl.bsky.social and Stephen Ball's forthcoming @victoriancommons.bsky.social profiles of Rossmore mention his bagpiping. To Ball, it was evidence of
Rossmore's 'strong sense of Irishness'. Farrell's profile can be read here: www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-...
www.historyofparliamentonline.org