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Elizabeth Boyle

@thecelticist.bsky.social

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Historian/writer • @maynoothuniversity.ie • executive committee @mediumaevum.bsky.social • board member @dublinnorthwest.bsky.social • Fierce Appetites (Penguin, 2022) • rep'd by Robert Caskie • extreme metal fan • she/her

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 3d

Papers from the @ria.ie @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @scs-dias.bsky.social conference on the Book of Lecan, which took place last week, are now available to listen to on SoundCloud. Enjoy!
#MedievalSky
#SpéirGhorm

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The Book of Lecan Conference - Royal Irish Academy

During this two-day event in October 2025, speakers explored the production of the Book of Lecan or Leabhar Mór Lecain, its scribes and patrons, and the texts contained within the manuscript.

www.ria.ie

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Emily ✨🎃 @emilyoram.bsky.social · 11h

God love Kew, this is incredible

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 6h

"Led by two long-incarcerated activists Melvin “Bennu Hannibal Ra-Sun” Ray and Robert Earl “Kinetik Justice” Council, a network of sources provided the film-makers with years of evidence recorded on contraband cell phones. The footage is ghastly ..."

‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system

In the year’s most shocking documentary The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 9h

There is something about discovering Great Books for first time when you are older which is a completely different pleasure, for me at any rate

Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 9h

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 9h

It has made my day to hear that someone enjoyed my book! 😊📚

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 9h

But then a class discussion took an interesting turn and everybody mentioned Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark (which I had never read but am reading now) and Elizabeth Boyle’s Fierce Appetites was enthusiastically recommended and discussed by very brilliant classmate in context of life writing

Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 9h

But it’s not just the reading list… I have been running to read the Milkman again because 1)our first lecturer said he believed it was perhaps one of the greatest Irish novels of our time and 2)because in an academic article on Edgeworth it was mentioned again in a completely new light

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 9h

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Restitution row: how Nigeria’s new home for the Benin bronzes ended up with clay replicas

The public display of artefacts looted by British colonial forces at the new Museum of West African Art was supposed to be the crowning glory of a decades-long restitution effort. What went wrong?

www.theguardian.com

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 11h

That is iconic.

Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 18h

'There was a day when people who practise Islam went to the church & got to know the prayer space & then they did the reverse; the Catholics went to the mosque & experienced it,” said the mayor “& around 2 months later, the five religions we have in Villamalea came together to pray in the church.”'

‘It’s a question of humanity’: how a small Spanish town made headlines over its immigration stance

Mayor explains why Villamalea unanimously backed call to regularise undocumented migrants – across party lines

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 18h

Noooooo! If only he had eaten another kilo of cola bottles!

Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know why, but this is, from start to finish, one of the funniest things I have read in ages. I hope this man is living his best life now.

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Barnsley man in hospital after three-day cola bottles binge

Nathan Rimmington ate his way through 3kg of sweets - and doctors were shocked he survived.

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 1d

Definitely one for libraries to buy rather than individuals!

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Su-ming Khoo @sumingkhoo.bsky.social · 1d

Catching up with this excellent essay

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 25d

‘An age of anti-politics was dawning, in which the adoption of substantive positions or policy pledges was a risk and the best a professional politician could do was remain likeable but vague on specifics.’

@will-davies.bsky.social on the political legacy of the 1990s:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

William Davies · Repeal the 20th Century: Pre-MAGA

To understand the intellectual coordinates of Trumpism requires us to look in less conventional places and to pay more...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

New Henry Purcell music just dropped. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 1d

'In one scene, she tells him that she hates her wings: “I don’t like mystifying and frightening people … I am afraid of everyone and everyone is afraid of me.” In another passage, Chaplin wrote that Sarapha “loved him in spite of the fact that he was without wings”.'

The Freak: script of Charlie Chaplin’s unfinished final film to be published

Exclusive: Fantasy about ‘a beautiful creature with wings’ has been compiled from drafts, storyboards and sketches

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 1d

"Hoping to develop an initiative that could relieve some of the pressure, the Y.M.C.A. of the Seven Council Fires partnered with Y.M.C.A. alumni from across the country to build high-quality, energy-efficient houses that people would feel proud to call home."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/r...

Tiny Homes Aim to Address Shortage on Lakota Reservation

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Pete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social · 1d

I'd love to know what every comedian who played the Riyadh Comedy Festival thinks of this piece by Jonathan Liew. It's an electrifying read. And really hard to think what any counter-justification from the participating comics would consist of. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We know what the comedians got out of the Riyadh comedy festival. What about the Saudi regime? | Jonathan Liew

The tawdry event was an ultimately doomed attempt by the Saudi government to buy the kind of authentic grassroots culture it is unwilling to countenance, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

www.theguardian.com

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Síle Ní Mhurchú @silenimhurchu.bsky.social · 2d

Next Thursday, 16 October, 2-5 p.m. ORB G.27
The McCarthy MSI project & The Department of Modern Irish @ucc.ie present:

The Quire and the Medieval manuscript
a seminar on how manuscripts are made

Fáilte roimh chách / All welcome

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 2d

"It is a show that considers the missing chapters and histories in the archives, and how they might be brought into being ..."

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Enslavement, immolation and a HIV diagnosis: the artists expressing harsh truths with collage

From queer relationships and migration to AI and colonial histories, a huge range of artists have spliced together photography and archive material to create images that challenge history as we know i...

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Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · 3d

A new Early Medieval Europe virtual issue on Travel and Mobility in the Early Middle Ages, featuring five brilliant articles published over the past 20 years by Andy Merrills, Paul Dutton, Frank Riess, Ben Allport and Rebecca Thomas: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Beyond migrations: travel and mobility in the early Middle Ages: Early Medieval Europe

Early Medieval Europe is an interdisciplinary medieval studies journal covering European history from the fall of the Roman Empire up until the 11th century.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 2d

Just arrived. The posthumously published book of my late colleague, Dr Colmán Etchingham. Thanks to everyone who saw it through to publication. We plan to hold an event in Maynooth to mark its publication (details to follow). Available to order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/vikings...
#MedievalSky

A copy of Colmán Etchingham, Vikings in Early Medieval Ireland: Church-raiding, Politics and Kingship (Boydell and Brewer, 2025).

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 2d

Medieval History job at DCU.

#MedievalSky
#Spéirghorm

Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 3d

Assistant Professor in Irish and/or European Medieval History
Dublin City University - School of History & Geography #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY744/a...

Assistant Professor in Irish and/or European Medieval History at Dublin City University

Discover an exciting academic career path as a Assistant Professor in Irish and/or European Medieval History at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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John Sabapathy @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social · 3d

Chapeau to @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social for his wonderful new book which has just arrived, an amazingly global and ecumenical volume, in all senses! Beautifully produced by OUP (and before publication day!?).

A spur to others!

Front cover of Charles West's Europe in the Eleventh Century

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 3d

The Book of Lecan Conference - Royal Irish Academy

During this two-day event in October 2025, speakers explored the production of the Book of Lecan or Leabhar Mór Lecain, its scribes and patrons, and the texts contained within the manuscript.

www.ria.ie

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 4d

Hmmm. I'm hoping to get over to see it during my Christmas break. Definitely not a rave review. 🫤

Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 4d

'... you won’t find stolen Benin bronzes here, or any other plundered art. “It was important to start where that narrative leaves off ... These are the artists who emerge on the other side of that violence, grappling with a loss of tradition and trying to relocate forms and techniques.”'

‘This is a west African story’: how modern art tackled Nigeria’s identity crisis

As the landmark Nigerian Modernism exhibition opens at the Tate, curator Osei Bonsu talks about the art in dialogue with ideas of nation-making

www.theguardian.com

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