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Catherine Barry, Hume Scholar, working on a PhD at Maynooth University on religious toleration in 18th century Ireland.
#EarlyModern, with a broad interest in Irish intellectual thought.
Can't reply to messages (shrug)
Catherine Barry, Hume Scholar, working on a PhD at Maynooth University on religious toleration in 18th century Ireland.
#EarlyModern, with a broad interest in Irish intellectual thought.
Can't reply to messages (shrug)
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A first attempt at a list of philosophy departments and those working on philosophy in the island of Ireland.
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Suggestions for addition and requests for removal gratefully received.
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Fascinated by philosopher Bernard Williams having a corduroy suit in which the ridges run horizontally
November 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Fascinated by philosopher Bernard Williams having a corduroy suit in which the ridges run horizontally
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Please fill this in Irish parents!
For reference, the two schools closest to us are single-sex and Catholic ethos. If you prefer co-ed, or are at all unexcited about the prospect of separating a load of 4- and 5-year-olds from half their peers, do say so...
For reference, the two schools closest to us are single-sex and Catholic ethos. If you prefer co-ed, or are at all unexcited about the prospect of separating a load of 4- and 5-year-olds from half their peers, do say so...
If you're in ireland and have kids in primary school or soon to be, please fill out this survey on preferences re religious involvement in schools, and whether people prefer single-sex or co-ed. It takes < 1 minute and will inform future provision. #speirgorm www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
Primary School Survey
This survey is for parents and guardians of children in primary school or who will enter primary school in the coming years
www.gov.ie
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Please fill this in Irish parents!
For reference, the two schools closest to us are single-sex and Catholic ethos. If you prefer co-ed, or are at all unexcited about the prospect of separating a load of 4- and 5-year-olds from half their peers, do say so...
For reference, the two schools closest to us are single-sex and Catholic ethos. If you prefer co-ed, or are at all unexcited about the prospect of separating a load of 4- and 5-year-olds from half their peers, do say so...
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Check out this excellent conference with all details now uploaded.
Come join the Irish SWIP gang:
www.swip-ireland.com/events
Come join the Irish SWIP gang:
www.swip-ireland.com/events
Events — SWIP Ireland
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November 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Check out this excellent conference with all details now uploaded.
Come join the Irish SWIP gang:
www.swip-ireland.com/events
Come join the Irish SWIP gang:
www.swip-ireland.com/events
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Calling all Maynooth Psychology Alumni - join us to celebrate Maynooth Psychology at 25
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Calling all Maynooth Psychology Alumni!
The Department of Psychology at Maynooth University is delighted to mark the 25th anniversary of its psychology teaching programmes this year! As part of our… ...
Calling all Maynooth Psychology Alumni!
The Department of Psychology at Maynooth University is delighted to mark the 25th anniversary of its psychology teaching programmes this year! As part of our c...
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November 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Calling all Maynooth Psychology Alumni - join us to celebrate Maynooth Psychology at 25
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#MUPsychologyAt25
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Arendt’s warning: “Though tyranny, because it needs no consent, may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it first of all destroys the national institutions of its own people.”
November 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Arendt’s warning: “Though tyranny, because it needs no consent, may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it first of all destroys the national institutions of its own people.”
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Can Arendt still help us make sense of modern politics?
PhD student Francesco Piscitello explores this question in his new paper, Arendt and the Social: A Modern Flaw?, published in Philosophy & Social Criticism.
Read it here ⬇️
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PhD student Francesco Piscitello explores this question in his new paper, Arendt and the Social: A Modern Flaw?, published in Philosophy & Social Criticism.
Read it here ⬇️
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Can Arendt still help us make sense of modern politics?
PhD student Francesco Piscitello explores this question in his new paper, Arendt and the Social: A Modern Flaw?, published in Philosophy & Social Criticism.
Read it here ⬇️
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
PhD student Francesco Piscitello explores this question in his new paper, Arendt and the Social: A Modern Flaw?, published in Philosophy & Social Criticism.
Read it here ⬇️
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Wonderful to see RTE featuring the biography of pioneering computer engineer Kay McNulty from our new publication 'Irish STEM Lives', edited by DIB's Turlough O'Riordan and Professor Jane Grimson.
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
November 26, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Wonderful to see RTE featuring the biography of pioneering computer engineer Kay McNulty from our new publication 'Irish STEM Lives', edited by DIB's Turlough O'Riordan and Professor Jane Grimson.
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
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Foliseachán nua - New publication 2
The Triads of Ireland: An Old Irish Wisdom Text
Edited by Fergus Kelly
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#DIASdiscovers
The Triads of Ireland: An Old Irish Wisdom Text
Edited by Fergus Kelly
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@dias.ie
#DIASdiscovers
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Foliseachán nua - New publication 2
The Triads of Ireland: An Old Irish Wisdom Text
Edited by Fergus Kelly
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@dias.ie
#DIASdiscovers
The Triads of Ireland: An Old Irish Wisdom Text
Edited by Fergus Kelly
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@dias.ie
#DIASdiscovers
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Foilseachán nua - New publication 1
Bodach an Chóta Lachtna
Eagrán nua de scéal Fiannaíochta
Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh (Coláiste na Tríonóide BÁC) a chuir in eagar.
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Bodach an Chóta Lachtna
Eagrán nua de scéal Fiannaíochta
Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh (Coláiste na Tríonóide BÁC) a chuir in eagar.
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@dias.ie
November 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Foilseachán nua - New publication 1
Bodach an Chóta Lachtna
Eagrán nua de scéal Fiannaíochta
Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh (Coláiste na Tríonóide BÁC) a chuir in eagar.
shop.dias.ie/product/boda...
@dias.ie
Bodach an Chóta Lachtna
Eagrán nua de scéal Fiannaíochta
Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh (Coláiste na Tríonóide BÁC) a chuir in eagar.
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@dias.ie
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Earlier this year, VOICES' own Dr Bronagh Ann McShane (@bamcshane.bsky.social) delivered the opening keynote lecture at the annual Catholic Record Society Conference in Leeds, with her paper entitled: 'Hiding in Plain Sight: Women, Agency and Catholicism in the Early Modern Courts'. Read more here:
Keynote Lecture at the Catholic Record Society Hiding in Plain Sight: Women, Agency, and Catholicism in Early Modern Ireland - VOICES
By Dr Bronagh Ann McShane In July 2025, I had the pleasure of delivering the opening keynote lecture at the annual Catholic Record Society Conference, held at Hinsley Hall in Leeds. My paper, ‘Hiding ...
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November 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Earlier this year, VOICES' own Dr Bronagh Ann McShane (@bamcshane.bsky.social) delivered the opening keynote lecture at the annual Catholic Record Society Conference in Leeds, with her paper entitled: 'Hiding in Plain Sight: Women, Agency and Catholicism in the Early Modern Courts'. Read more here:
"for he that is born in Ireland, though his parents and all his ancestors were aliens, nay if his parents are Indians or Turks, if converted to Christianity, is an Irishman as fully as if his ancestors were born here for thousands of years..."
So, they're memory-holed in Ireland as a bunch of losers to Cromwell. Which isn't fair, because the Confederacy really did aspire to be an all-Ireland, cross-religion body.
November 23, 2025 at 1:23 PM
"for he that is born in Ireland, though his parents and all his ancestors were aliens, nay if his parents are Indians or Turks, if converted to Christianity, is an Irishman as fully as if his ancestors were born here for thousands of years..."
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I've been unsuccessfully looking for a book that covers the Irish Confederacy Wars (1641-1653: basically the Irish strand of the War of the 3 Kingdoms).
And instead, I found a podcast, @paxbritannicapod.bsky.social ,
whose series 2 and 3 covers the period in a lot of detail ).
And instead, I found a podcast, @paxbritannicapod.bsky.social ,
whose series 2 and 3 covers the period in a lot of detail ).
November 10, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I've been unsuccessfully looking for a book that covers the Irish Confederacy Wars (1641-1653: basically the Irish strand of the War of the 3 Kingdoms).
And instead, I found a podcast, @paxbritannicapod.bsky.social ,
whose series 2 and 3 covers the period in a lot of detail ).
And instead, I found a podcast, @paxbritannicapod.bsky.social ,
whose series 2 and 3 covers the period in a lot of detail ).
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This anyone? (from @tomgauld.bsky.social)
November 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
This anyone? (from @tomgauld.bsky.social)
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I‘ll also add this article here, which came out earlier this year. it works well as a preview to the book manuscript I am working on.
‘The Imperial Public Sphere: The Press, Publicity, and the Destabilization of the British Empire, c. 1695–1765’
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‘The Imperial Public Sphere: The Press, Publicity, and the Destabilization of the British Empire, c. 1695–1765’
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The Imperial Public Sphere: The Press, Publicity, and the Destabilization of the British Empire, c. 1695–1765 | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core
The Imperial Public Sphere: The Press, Publicity, and the Destabilization of the British Empire, c. 1695–1765
www.cambridge.org
November 22, 2025 at 6:49 AM
I‘ll also add this article here, which came out earlier this year. it works well as a preview to the book manuscript I am working on.
‘The Imperial Public Sphere: The Press, Publicity, and the Destabilization of the British Empire, c. 1695–1765’
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
‘The Imperial Public Sphere: The Press, Publicity, and the Destabilization of the British Empire, c. 1695–1765’
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Mad about Literature? Not mad about literature? Shopping for something for the Bluestocking in your life? Looky here!
www.anniewest.com/books-cards
#IrishLiterature #IrishWriters #ChristmasGifts #Christmas #ActualArt
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#IrishLiterature #IrishWriters #ChristmasGifts #Christmas #ActualArt
November 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Mad about Literature? Not mad about literature? Shopping for something for the Bluestocking in your life? Looky here!
www.anniewest.com/books-cards
#IrishLiterature #IrishWriters #ChristmasGifts #Christmas #ActualArt
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#IrishLiterature #IrishWriters #ChristmasGifts #Christmas #ActualArt
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Tomorrow is today! Open for your Sunday browsing
Plans for the weekend? We're open today until 6pm, tomorrow noon until 5pm
November 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Tomorrow is today! Open for your Sunday browsing
Today I learned Charles Stewart Parnell was the subject of Hollywood film.
Played by Clarke Gable no less!
Played by Clarke Gable no less!
Amazing charity shop find today: three professionally framed original 1937 movie ads for ‘Parnell’, starring Clark Gable and Myrna Loy. They are fabulous - exhibition quality framing 😱 €5 each - so of course I bought all of them 🤩
November 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Today I learned Charles Stewart Parnell was the subject of Hollywood film.
Played by Clarke Gable no less!
Played by Clarke Gable no less!
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I've just signed a contract with @princetonupress.bsky.social for my book When Things Get Personal: A Philosophical Guide to Conflict, and am getting down to my final round of revisions. Philosophy got really exciting for me when my research met real life, and I look forward to showing you how.
November 17, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I've just signed a contract with @princetonupress.bsky.social for my book When Things Get Personal: A Philosophical Guide to Conflict, and am getting down to my final round of revisions. Philosophy got really exciting for me when my research met real life, and I look forward to showing you how.
As I read this while writing a thesis on toleration...
The difference between simple prejudice and a valid argument not tolerate something is the latter is based on reason.
Unclear what the valid argument is here.
The difference between simple prejudice and a valid argument not tolerate something is the latter is based on reason.
Unclear what the valid argument is here.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood made more explicit her argument that when ethnic minorities face racism, "we have no choice but to ask: what is the cause of our division"
Her answer is the level of net migration, 2019-23 causes racism. (She on Monday said it was caused by the scale of asylum)
Her answer is the level of net migration, 2019-23 causes racism. (She on Monday said it was caused by the scale of asylum)
November 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
As I read this while writing a thesis on toleration...
The difference between simple prejudice and a valid argument not tolerate something is the latter is based on reason.
Unclear what the valid argument is here.
The difference between simple prejudice and a valid argument not tolerate something is the latter is based on reason.
Unclear what the valid argument is here.
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the multi-year lack of a truly functional manuscripts catalog at the BL is finally over!!!!
Latest update from @britishlibrary.bsky.social says they are launching a new version of their main catalogue on Monday 8 December and around that time also launch an interim version of their Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Hooray!
www.bl.uk/stories/news...
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Restoring our services – November 2025 update
In the coming weeks and months we will be restoring a number of key functions.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
the multi-year lack of a truly functional manuscripts catalog at the BL is finally over!!!!
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For anyone in Dublin city centre later today, I'm chairing a conversation between @sineadgibney.bsky.social TD and Dr Tom Cowin on the subject of "is right wing populism unstoppable?". We're the second session, so we'll be kicking off around 3:30pm - Academy Plaza Hotel, just off Cathal Brugha St.
November 22, 2025 at 10:36 AM
For anyone in Dublin city centre later today, I'm chairing a conversation between @sineadgibney.bsky.social TD and Dr Tom Cowin on the subject of "is right wing populism unstoppable?". We're the second session, so we'll be kicking off around 3:30pm - Academy Plaza Hotel, just off Cathal Brugha St.
He is ignoring the passage of time. US was established based on British polical ideas, but the British establishment moved on from those ideas precisely because of that.
Skinner's Liberty as Independence good on this.
Well documented US also has moved away from those ideas, esp in recent decades.
Skinner's Liberty as Independence good on this.
Well documented US also has moved away from those ideas, esp in recent decades.
'America is British'.
It turns out Danny Kruger is peak 'Americans are the same as us'.
Until this mindset – conscious and subconscious – is defeated in Britain, we'll never see ourselves as properly European.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
It turns out Danny Kruger is peak 'Americans are the same as us'.
Until this mindset – conscious and subconscious – is defeated in Britain, we'll never see ourselves as properly European.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘America is British’. Heaven is ‘a socialist state’. David Attenborough is ‘anti-human’ – the startling theories of Reform MP Danny Kruger
He was a Conservative party big-hitter who wrote speeches for David Cameron and worked with Boris Johnson before he suddenly jumped ship. He talks family, flags and why Nigel Farage is ‘top dog’
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:55 AM
He is ignoring the passage of time. US was established based on British polical ideas, but the British establishment moved on from those ideas precisely because of that.
Skinner's Liberty as Independence good on this.
Well documented US also has moved away from those ideas, esp in recent decades.
Skinner's Liberty as Independence good on this.
Well documented US also has moved away from those ideas, esp in recent decades.
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Bígí linn | Join us for the next Early Irish & Celtic Studies research seminar. Thursday 27 November at 17:00, Room 2.31 IONTAS.
*Three Women, Three Pregnancies, Three Punishments*
Dr Riona Doolan (Maynooth University)
Fáilte roimh chách!
*Three Women, Three Pregnancies, Three Punishments*
Dr Riona Doolan (Maynooth University)
Fáilte roimh chách!
November 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Bígí linn | Join us for the next Early Irish & Celtic Studies research seminar. Thursday 27 November at 17:00, Room 2.31 IONTAS.
*Three Women, Three Pregnancies, Three Punishments*
Dr Riona Doolan (Maynooth University)
Fáilte roimh chách!
*Three Women, Three Pregnancies, Three Punishments*
Dr Riona Doolan (Maynooth University)
Fáilte roimh chách!
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This evening! #philsky
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The Royal Institute of Philosophy
Cardiff Annual Lecture 2025
Perception Under Threat
Frédérique de Vignemont
Thursday 20 November
8.30pm (UK time)
Live on YouTube
with audience questions
Everyone is welcome!
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The Royal Institute of Philosophy
Cardiff Annual Lecture 2025
Perception Under Threat
Frédérique de Vignemont
Thursday 20 November
8.30pm (UK time)
Live on YouTube
with audience questions
Everyone is welcome!
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Perception Under Threat - Frédérique de Vignemont
YouTube video by The Royal Institute of Philosophy
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November 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This evening! #philsky