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Jay Roszman
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Historian of 19th-c Ireland, Britain, & Empire at University College Cork. An 🇺🇸in 🇮🇪. Book on agrarian violence and British policy w Cambridge (2022). Next project on Irishmen, education, and empire.
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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
November 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM
I’ve managed to make it to my office on the last week of term without bringing my laptop with me 🙃🙃🙃
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The robber barons, in spite of all their awful terribleness and moral improprieties, still managed to gift society institutions of cultural utility. Carnegie built hundreds of public libraries!

…and this man is using his obscene wealth to create a poorly functioning party gag?

An utter disgrace.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
In the **very** unlikely event that any mutuals find themself in the National Archive of Ireland tomorrow I could use help with calling up a file! I hoped to get to Dublin but am unable to do so before I need said reference...
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Last class tomorrow in my Ireland and Empire in the 19th century module and we are discussing this compelling 2010 article in Urban History from @markdoyle.bsky.social on Belfast, empire and identity.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Window 🪟 plant 🪴 cat 🐈‍⬛
November 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Congratulations to our colleague Dr Ciarán McCabe on the publication of his new book entitled 'Pre-Famine Fever Epidemics: A case study of the Cork Street Fever Hospital, Dublin' (Four Courts, 2025). The book is being launched this evening at Pugin Hall, Maynooth University at 7pm!
November 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Sometimes I wonder if at least one class a semester should just consist of reading an article out loud *in class* and trying to understand what students think authors are saying, or what things mean page-by-page.

Might be really boring but wonder if it might help students understand *how* to read.
November 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Ezzzzzzeeeeeeee 🧢🧢🧢
November 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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I think if I worked in a production company and was allowed to commission a movie with a €70m budget was based on one tweet, it would be this one.
November 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
My Saturday night is really shaping up:
Microsoft Word, Daniel O'Connell in west Cork, and 1/3 bottle of Beaujolais 🍷
kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter in a room .
ALT: kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter in a room .
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Whhaaattt. (From the most recent LRB)
November 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Historian's/writer's quandary,
Am I:
- slow
- lazy, or
-'methodical'?
November 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Oooh, oooh! Pick me, pick me! I know the answer to this one!!!

(I used to listen to this podcast when I first moved to Ireland to orientate myself to politics but stopped many moons ago, yet still get occasional notifications)
November 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
New (old) town motto for Bandon just dropped. 🗃️ Yeesh 😬
(from the Cork Constitution, 14 Oct 1834)
November 20, 2025 at 10:06 PM
A colleague just sent an email in response to something from the higher ups, and all I can think of is "...FROM THE TOP ROPE!!!"
a man is jumping over a woman in a wrestling ring during a mixed tag match .
ALT: a man is jumping over a woman in a wrestling ring during a mixed tag match .
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I really envy colleagues' ability to write in different modes and styles, with different purposes in mind.

Sometimes I feel like I only know how to write history one way, which I am finding particularly frustrating as it is NOT suited to the task at hand...
November 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Something wonderful about how the later afternoon winter’s sun hits St Fin Barre’s cathedral.
November 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I often think about what is coming for 'evangelical Christianity' that has sold itself to mammon, and am reminded of many verses from the Bible, but often come back to Jesus's woes in Matthew 23.
NEW: For Rev. David Black, the pastor seen shot in the head w/pepper balls by DHS agents in a viral clip, protesting ICE is part of an old Christian tradition.

“I’m seeing almost a revival of Christianity through what’s happening at Broadview in Chicago,” he says. religionnews.com/2025/11/19/f...
For the Rev. David Black, protesting ICE is part of an old Christian tradition
(RNS) — ‘I’m seeing almost a revival of Christianity through what’s happening at Broadview in Chicago,’ the Rev. David Black said.
religionnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
…why do I keep saying yes to things?
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Hark! What’s that I hear?

…ahh yes, the din of hundreds of students queuing in Christmas jumpers at 9:52am in front of the pub for the annual chaos that is “College Christmas”
November 20, 2025 at 9:55 AM
I need to write ~2500 words today. Channeling my inner UG/PG/PhD self.
November 20, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
November 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Gosh, this song is so sad and beautiful.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=LdnD...
Joshua Burnside - Moon High (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Joshua Burnside
m.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Dear Irish Government,

Why is my electricity bill a million euros?

Sincerely,

The Irish public
November 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM