Jay Roszman is on sabbatical.
@jayroszman.bsky.social
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 article! Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social on 'An O’Connellite Empire? Irish Nationalism, British Imperial Trouble, and the Limits of Anti-Imperialism in the Age of Reform'
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An O’Connellite Empire? Irish Nationalism, British Imperial Trouble, and the Limits of Anti-Imperialism in the Age of Reform*
Abstract. This article explores the way Irish nationalists in the 1830s and 1840s understood and condemned British imperial policy in times of trouble, whi
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I am very happy this article is out [OA to come]. It builds on work by scholars like @matthewjkelly.bsky.social, Paul Townend, Michael de Nie, @alanlester.bsky.social (and others) to suggest that Irish nationalism had something important to say about the British Empire in the 1830s and 1840s. 🗃️
I almost feel bad for all these Patriots fans on my flight from Boston …almost
February 9, 2026 at 3:20 AM
I almost feel bad for all these Patriots fans on my flight from Boston …almost
TIL there is a monument to the Irish Famine in Cambridge Common, sculpted by the Derry born artist, Maurice Harron. No surprise it was unveiled in 1997, during the Celtic Tiger boom times.
February 9, 2026 at 12:20 AM
TIL there is a monument to the Irish Famine in Cambridge Common, sculpted by the Derry born artist, Maurice Harron. No surprise it was unveiled in 1997, during the Celtic Tiger boom times.
Killing time 🕰️ in Harvard’s Art Museum.
February 8, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Killing time 🕰️ in Harvard’s Art Museum.
The good people at Connolly House @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social made the right choice.
February 7, 2026 at 10:20 PM
The good people at Connolly House @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social made the right choice.
🌨️🌨️🌨️😬😬😬
February 6, 2026 at 4:52 PM
🌨️🌨️🌨️😬😬😬
One of the absolute smartest people I know whose scholarship will force us to rethink how we teach the Famine in all its complexities. UL made an excellent inaugural selection. Congratulations, Pete!
I very much look forward to welcoming Dr. Peter Hession to @unioflimerick.bsky.social as our inaugural O'Malley Fellow!
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Inaugural recipient of the O’Malley Fellowship: Advancing Irish Studies joins 'remarkable community of scholars' in University of Limerick
Dr Peter Hession is the first appointee of the new University of Limerick O’Malley Fellowship: Advancing Irish Studies, supported by the Irish American Cultural Institute. Dr Hession, a historian curr...
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February 6, 2026 at 3:55 PM
One of the absolute smartest people I know whose scholarship will force us to rethink how we teach the Famine in all its complexities. UL made an excellent inaugural selection. Congratulations, Pete!
I wonder if Roy Foster would like to know that his two-volume biography of Yeats just figured on a Jeopardy tournament of champions question.
February 6, 2026 at 3:36 PM
I wonder if Roy Foster would like to know that his two-volume biography of Yeats just figured on a Jeopardy tournament of champions question.
It’s like -8C and I’m impressed by the number of Bostonians walking around with iced coffees.
February 6, 2026 at 1:23 PM
It’s like -8C and I’m impressed by the number of Bostonians walking around with iced coffees.
I am inordinately proud of myself for using the horrible hotel coffee machine*, 2 paper cups, and my Aeropress to make a decent cup of coffee at 5:30am Eastern time as I am jet lagging.
Call me MacGyver
*I asked for a water kettle but hotel staff were 'unable to lend those to patrons'.
Call me MacGyver
*I asked for a water kettle but hotel staff were 'unable to lend those to patrons'.
February 6, 2026 at 10:43 AM
I am inordinately proud of myself for using the horrible hotel coffee machine*, 2 paper cups, and my Aeropress to make a decent cup of coffee at 5:30am Eastern time as I am jet lagging.
Call me MacGyver
*I asked for a water kettle but hotel staff were 'unable to lend those to patrons'.
Call me MacGyver
*I asked for a water kettle but hotel staff were 'unable to lend those to patrons'.
Reposted by Jay Roszman is on sabbatical.
NEW BOOK!
I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line
academic.oup.com/book/62279
I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line
academic.oup.com/book/62279
Utopia
Abstract. Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of human beings’ social dreaming. In this c
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February 3, 2026 at 4:30 PM
NEW BOOK!
I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line
academic.oup.com/book/62279
I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line
academic.oup.com/book/62279
Music to my ears.
February 6, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Music to my ears.
Over 800 EoIs for the Research Ireland Investigators call! 800!!! Maybe we need a national funding structure that is better provisioned and regularised?
February 5, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Over 800 EoIs for the Research Ireland Investigators call! 800!!! Maybe we need a national funding structure that is better provisioned and regularised?
Maybe historians shouldn’t be claiming they uncovered a history that’s built on the scholarship of others in order to get more attention or a book contract?
February 5, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Maybe historians shouldn’t be claiming they uncovered a history that’s built on the scholarship of others in order to get more attention or a book contract?
Reposted by Jay Roszman is on sabbatical.
Google books going down is just the latest in the long catalogue of “don’t rely on big tech to save the commons”
February 3, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Google books going down is just the latest in the long catalogue of “don’t rely on big tech to save the commons”
I never really got into Ye Vagabonds before, but their new album is really beautiful. yevagabonds.bandcamp.com/album/all-ti...
All Tied Together, by Ye Vagabonds
12 track album
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February 3, 2026 at 10:11 PM
I never really got into Ye Vagabonds before, but their new album is really beautiful. yevagabonds.bandcamp.com/album/all-ti...
Reposted by Jay Roszman is on sabbatical.
My new article, 'Selling Education in England, 1650-1715' is now out (open access) in the English Historical Review! academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
Selling Education in England, 1650–1715*
Abstract. In the period 1650–1715, a growing consensus emerged that educational culture in England did not meet the needs of the population, and that chang
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February 3, 2026 at 11:27 AM
My new article, 'Selling Education in England, 1650-1715' is now out (open access) in the English Historical Review! academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
Reposted by Jay Roszman is on sabbatical.
18 month postdoc at the lovely IHR in London, $41,740. Deadline 7 March. 'The Fellow will play a key role within the IHR team responsible for hosting the 2027 North American Conference in British Studies (NACBS)' in London 2027.
Repost to spread the word. #Skystorians
Repost to spread the word. #Skystorians
Jacob Price Fellowship in British Studies (18 month FTC):London Senate House - Hybrid
The University of London is both the UK’s largest provider of international distance and online learning and the convenor of a federation of 17 renowned higher education institutions.
www.jobs.london.ac.uk
February 3, 2026 at 9:07 AM
18 month postdoc at the lovely IHR in London, $41,740. Deadline 7 March. 'The Fellow will play a key role within the IHR team responsible for hosting the 2027 North American Conference in British Studies (NACBS)' in London 2027.
Repost to spread the word. #Skystorians
Repost to spread the word. #Skystorians
I am very happy this article is out [OA to come]. It builds on work by scholars like @matthewjkelly.bsky.social, Paul Townend, Michael de Nie, @alanlester.bsky.social (and others) to suggest that Irish nationalism had something important to say about the British Empire in the 1830s and 1840s. 🗃️
New article! Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social on 'An O’Connellite Empire? Irish Nationalism, British Imperial Trouble, and the Limits of Anti-Imperialism in the Age of Reform'
academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
An O’Connellite Empire? Irish Nationalism, British Imperial Trouble, and the Limits of Anti-Imperialism in the Age of Reform*
Abstract. This article explores the way Irish nationalists in the 1830s and 1840s understood and condemned British imperial policy in times of trouble, whi
academic.oup.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:46 PM
I am very happy this article is out [OA to come]. It builds on work by scholars like @matthewjkelly.bsky.social, Paul Townend, Michael de Nie, @alanlester.bsky.social (and others) to suggest that Irish nationalism had something important to say about the British Empire in the 1830s and 1840s. 🗃️
'Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he shall not crumble when the world is too stupid or too base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say "In spite of it all!" has the calling for politics.' - Weber, Politics as a Vocation
“Let us be clear: we want the power of the state. We wish to hold the criminals of the regime accountable. We wish to seize back the public funds looted by Trump and his cronies. We wish to undo the damage he has done to the government. More than any of that we wish to rebuild.”
From Powerlessness to Power
We will not achieve any of our ultimate goals without exercising state power, and the most effective way to take state power is through nonviolent but confrontational resistance.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 2, 2026 at 2:33 PM
'Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he shall not crumble when the world is too stupid or too base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say "In spite of it all!" has the calling for politics.' - Weber, Politics as a Vocation
Reposted by Jay Roszman is on sabbatical.
“Let us be clear: we want the power of the state. We wish to hold the criminals of the regime accountable. We wish to seize back the public funds looted by Trump and his cronies. We wish to undo the damage he has done to the government. More than any of that we wish to rebuild.”
From Powerlessness to Power
We will not achieve any of our ultimate goals without exercising state power, and the most effective way to take state power is through nonviolent but confrontational resistance.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 2, 2026 at 11:04 AM
“Let us be clear: we want the power of the state. We wish to hold the criminals of the regime accountable. We wish to seize back the public funds looted by Trump and his cronies. We wish to undo the damage he has done to the government. More than any of that we wish to rebuild.”
Reposted by Jay Roszman is on sabbatical.
I know 2m20s is a fairly big commitment for a Bluesky video - but I do think this is top 0.001% output from a local news station.
I watch it at least once a year, every February. Take a look.
I watch it at least once a year, every February. Take a look.
Happy worst month of the year to all those who observe
February 1, 2026 at 9:33 PM
I know 2m20s is a fairly big commitment for a Bluesky video - but I do think this is top 0.001% output from a local news station.
I watch it at least once a year, every February. Take a look.
I watch it at least once a year, every February. Take a look.
Writing a talk for a keynote and reading a bit of Weber (as one does). Thinking I might copy the opening of his lecture on 'Politics as a Vocation':
"This lecture, which I give at your request, will necessarily disappoint you in a number of ways."
"This lecture, which I give at your request, will necessarily disappoint you in a number of ways."
January 30, 2026 at 11:22 AM
Writing a talk for a keynote and reading a bit of Weber (as one does). Thinking I might copy the opening of his lecture on 'Politics as a Vocation':
"This lecture, which I give at your request, will necessarily disappoint you in a number of ways."
"This lecture, which I give at your request, will necessarily disappoint you in a number of ways."
Was at a pub last night where the aesthetic was a combination of near dereliction and an abiding obsession with Nicholas Cage. Loved every second.
January 30, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Was at a pub last night where the aesthetic was a combination of near dereliction and an abiding obsession with Nicholas Cage. Loved every second.
Another excellent video from @jamellebouie.net drawing on history. A worthy reminder of our human agency and the commitment to a cause where we don't know the end, and the vulnerabilities of big structural forces that look self-perpetuating.
What I've Learned from Reading History
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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January 29, 2026 at 8:48 AM
Another excellent video from @jamellebouie.net drawing on history. A worthy reminder of our human agency and the commitment to a cause where we don't know the end, and the vulnerabilities of big structural forces that look self-perpetuating.