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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 2h

I could spend hours looking at digitised images from the @nlireland.bsky.social Lawrence Collection. What an incredible visual repository of 19th-c Ireland.

The Quays on the northside of Cork looking east, with the Shandon Bell in background.

Two boys, one with a cap and a barefoot leg straddling the Quay wall, the other in a bowler hat looking into the River Lee.

Entitled 'Paddys Market', in Cork. An image with many people milling about, lots of produce in the foreground, furniture, baskets.

A shawled woman looking back toward the camera with what look like mounds of cabbages stacked in the foreground and wicker baskets.

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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 16h

This is an incredible, sober, brave, and almost intolerably heartbreaking essay worthy of every minute one sits with it.

Paul Laity · After Martha

For the hospital, and for the NHS, it was a closed case, another preventable death: medicine is imperfect, such things...

www.lrb.co.uk

Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 1d

Just read reference to O'Connell being "the friend of human rights all over the world" from 1840, which seems remarkably early for such language?

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 1d

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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 1d

“Put grandda on the phone”. He’s now talking about watering plants.

Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 1d

I may need to emulate your tactic. It’s wild how unaware he is.

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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 1d

Having hung up the phone “love you”, he’s now giving Lois a ring.

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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot believe this guy on a perfectly quiet 6:15 train to Dublin is having a full blown conversation w someone.

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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 2d

I missed Fintan O'Toole in yesterday's Irish Times. When he's good, he is *REALLY* good.

The Government has 'no narrative, no vision, no passion, no sense of purpose. ...It watches child poverty rise in a rich society as though it is a helpless spectator.'

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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 2d

2/2 And, advocating for free trade as 'restrictions on human food are the barbarous dogmas of a dead age.'
"The influence of a fear of famine will now bring about what human reason and kiliness born of our common christianity could not, and that is – to buy food, by our own labour'.

Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 2d

1/2 Prepping for class this morning in my Famine module, decided to look at what was happening OTD 180 years ago. From the Cork Examiner (a broadly nationalist paper), a few screenshots. First, calling on both farmers and government to act (with a firm endorsement of Peel as the man of the hour). 🗃️

Cork Exmainer, Wednesday 8 October 1845 'The Potato Crop - The Duty of the Government in the Present Crisis.'

'The ports must be thrown open, and Foreign corn admitted free of duty. ...But, will that be sufficient? We think not. Still more must be done. ...warehouses should be set apart, and food laid up therein for the time of scarcity. This also is the duty and the business of the Government, whose immediate attention should be directed thereto.'

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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 2d

Am I going to regret drinking this cup of coffee in 2.5 hrs time when I am trying to fall asleep?

a group of people in front of a back to the future sign

ALT: a group of people in front of a back to the future sign

media.tenor.com

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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 2d

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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 3d

As the History Representative for ACIS, I have the distinct privilege to chair the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book. If you, or someone you know, has a book copyrighted in 2025 in Irish Studies please do consider submitting! Details here. 🗃️ #speirgorm

Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book | American Conference for Irish Studies – An Chomhdháil Mheiriceánach do Léann na hÉireann

Don Murphy, husband of ACIS Past President Maureen Murphy, was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, and died in New York on March 2, 1986. He received his bachelor of electrical engineering degree and his…

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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 4d

I knew the moment I saw these UA jersey that we were definitely going to lose that football game.

Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · Aug 28

Nope nope nope nope nope. These are even stupider looking than the all-red union suit look #BillsMafia

An advertisement for the Buffalo Bills’s “Rivalries Cold Front” uniforms to be worn bs the Patriots on October 5. The photo shows three players wearing all-white uniforms with silver numbers 10, ,17, and 50, walking out of a bank of white clouds. They look ridiculous, like someone asked ChatGPT what space football players would look like.

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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 5d

lol. He doesn’t come across quite so petty in the piece above.

Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 5d

Looks like a great turnout. Love that pub.

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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 6d

..."the rest are fools or bootlickers, or both."

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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 7d

Annual rant that car insurance in this country is a complete and absolute criminal racket.

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Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · 7d

Many thanks to the editors at the @historicaljnl.bsky.social blog for publishing this short piece, and to @ellasbaraini.bsky.social for her help with it. My recent article, and one of the central ideas of the book manuscript I’m currently working on, in a nutshell.

www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 8d

Ah a great spot. That’s a fine looking pint.

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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 8d

I posted this video to a a thread with friends from college w diverse political views and was completely unprepared for how divisive it was.
Overwhelmingly, people thought it was shameless self-promotion.

I just thought it was a video of a politician being a decent human being for some kids.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 8d

A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down.

All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown.

So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 8d

Dancing at Lughnasa and Friel’s family and their history in Donegal. He’s turning it into a book and I’m not 100% sure what the overall spine will be. He’s a great storyteller and historical detective.

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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 8d

B. Friel: "But I am sure that Professor Andrews will agree that the imperatives of fiction are as exacting as the imeratives of cartography and historiography."

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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 8d

Was at a wonderful seminar today from Breandán Mac Suibhne where @claireconnolly.bsky.social mentioned this exchange between John Andrews and Brian Friel, which includes an introduction from Kevin Barry, from the 1980s. An excellent read. www.jstor.org/stable/30060...

The historian, John Andrews: '...what finally mad eme accept your invitation was a feeling that somebody should turn up at a seminar like this and say "Rest, rest, perturbed spirits" the the real Lancey and the real Yolland."

Brian Friel: "Now that I meet Professor Andrews for the first time I want to thank him for providing me with that metaphor and to apologise to him for the tiny bruises inflicted on history in the play. He has pointed out the error of the bayonet. ... But I am sure that Professor Andrews will agree that the imperatives of fiction are as exacting as the imeratives of cartography and historiography."

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