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Seán William Gannon

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Seán William Gannon @swgannon.bsky.social · Feb 5

Very pleased to say that our edited collection on the history, historiography, and cultural memory of the 1904 Limerick Boycott is published this week. Thanks to all the contributors.
peterlang.com/document/149...

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Seán William Gannon @swgannon.bsky.social · 4d

The Limerick Boycott in Context reviewed in the current issue of the @irishtheolquart.bsky.social . Very many thanks to all involved 🙏

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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 9d

On Monday 20 October we welcome Dr Ian d'Alton to QUB Irish Studies to talk about '1932 - seeing the same world differently: Irish Catholics and Protestants a decade after independence'. All welcome in-person and online. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

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Salvador Ryan @salvadorryan.bsky.social · May 13

At Trinity Long Room Hub to mark The Limerick Boycott in Context Hosted by School of Languages, Literatures & Cultural Studies, & Centre for Jewish Studies.

With fellow essayists Trisha Oakley Kessler & Katrina Goldstone, & editors Natalie Wynn & Sean Gannon. In conversation with Zuleika Rodgers.

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Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies at TCD @langslitscultures.bsky.social · May 6

Panel discussion: 'The Limerick Boycott in Context', bringing together the editors of and contributors to the recently published book.

📅13 May, 6.30pm @tlrhub.bsky.social

More information: www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...

@swgannon.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social

Blue book cover with a black and white photograph showing a detail of a manuscript

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Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com · Mar 20

For the last year @brian-hanley.bsky.social and I have been working on a proposed edited book on the global history of the Irish far-right. Today we are signing a contract to publish this with NYU Press and their Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series

Screengrab of a contract for the upcoming book "Ireland First?: Tracing the Global History of the Irish Far-Right"

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Fionnuala Walsh @fionnualawalsh.bsky.social · Mar 10

My books finally arrived! Very grateful to the team at @cambridgeup.bsky.social for the superb production and supporting the project.
Thinking today of the late David Fitzpatrick who began this project and to whom it is dedicated, and also of my mother who would have loved to see it in print.

Book titled America in Ireland: Culture and Society 1841-1925, published by Cambridge University Press.

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Donal Coffey @donalcoffey.bsky.social · Mar 4

Delighted to say that this new co-edited volume by myself and Stefan Vogenauer is now available as volume 25 of the Global Perspectives on Legal History series. It is open access here: www.lhlt.mpg.de/publications... We have a great set of authors who contributed to this.

Front page of 'Legal Transfer and Legal Geography in the British Empire' edited by Donal K Coffey and Stefan Vogenauer. The front image is the an image of James I abolishing the Brehon law and bringing the common law to Ireland.

Donal K. Coffey and Stefan Vogenauer
Preface
Part I
Legal Transfer in the Common Law World:
From the Early Modern Period until the Present
7 | Scott A. Carrière
Law and Legalism in Corporate Newfoundland, 1583–1699
37 | Matilde Cazzola
Aboriginal Protection and parens patriae: Indigenous Youths,
Juvenile Delinquents, and the Reformatory Principle in Australia
and England
73 | Philip Girard
On the Edge of Many Empires: Employers’ Liability in Quebec’s
Industrial Age, 1880–1931
105 | Christopher M. Roberts and Hazel W. H. Leung
The Legacies of Vagrancy Law and the Reconstruction
of the Criminal in Hong Kong, 1945–2022
V
Part II
Landscape, Law, and Spatial Justice
in the former British Empire
139 | Amy Strecker and Amanda Byer
Introduction: Landscape, Law, and Spatial Justice
in the former British Empire
151 | Amanda Byer
Reserving Space: Land, Nature, and Empire in the Development
of Commonwealth Caribbean Environmental Law
187 | Sonya Cotton
Legislating “Community” in Southern Africa’s Plural Properties
239 | Raphael Ng’etich
Competing Notions of Land in Colonial Kenya and the Impact
on Present-Day Land Governance
279 | Sinéad Mercier
A Haunting Absence: Tracing the Origins of International Energy
Law from the Laboratory of Ireland

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Sophie Cooper @sophcocooper.bsky.social · Mar 4

We have a new Irish Diaspora Histories blog post! Viviana Keegan writes on Irish-Argentinian The Southern Cross newspaper which is being digitised this year! Give it a read here... #irishdiaspora

irishdiasporahistory.wordpress.com/2025/03/04/t...

The Irish-Argentine newspaper The Southern Cross is celebrating its 150th anniversary

Viviana P. Keegan introduces readers to the Irish-Argentinian newspaper, The Southern Cross, which will soon be digitised.

irishdiasporahistory.wordpress.com

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · Feb 19

🚨New Blog Post🚨 I wrote this for the COLVET
blog on how West African veteran records can help us put a face on the Global Greater War and its impacts outside Europe. It includes ten brief biographies of West African veterans and their wartime experiences around the globe. colvet.eu/tracing-the-...

Tracing the Global Greater War in the Records of West African Veterans of the French Army | Colvet.eu

colvet.eu

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Salvador Ryan @salvadorryan.bsky.social · Feb 21

Delighted to have received my contributor copy of this important new volume on the Limerick Boycott of 1904. It was a privilege to be invited to contribute to this collection of essays.

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Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · Feb 6

CFP: 'Ireland and the American Revolution'. The organisers invite submissions for papers to be presented at a conference held in the Trinity Long Room Hub at Trinity College Dublin on the 9-10 October 2025. If you are interested submit an abstract of 250 words and a brief bio by the 1 May 2025.

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Seán William Gannon @swgannon.bsky.social · Feb 21

Looking for an Enemy - Carla King
DRB review of Reimagining the Jews of Ireland drb.ie/articles/loo...

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Salvador Ryan @salvadorryan.bsky.social · Jan 31

Gone to print and available in a matter of weeks, thank you to Seán Gannon and Natalie Wynn for the invitation to contribute an essay to this timely volume.

www.peterlang.com/document/149...

Peter Lang Verlag - The Limerick Boycott in Context

«Historically it has been fashionable to view the Limerick Boycott as a deplorable but isolated incident. The essays in this volume expertly challenge ...

www.peterlang.com

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Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com · Jan 1

Since 2020 I have been working on this theoretical essay on antisemitism and sexuality studies - really happy to see it published in the last few days in the Journal of Right-Wing Studies

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Kate O'Malley @kateom.bsky.social · Dec 27

Tune into @rte.ie Radio 1 today at 1:30pm to listen to #IrishImperialLives in #Australia #Irishhistory #Empire #decolonisation

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Felix M Larkin @felixmlarkin.bsky.social · Dec 17

The Freeman’s Journal newspaper ceased publication on 19 December 1924. The Irish Times has published my Irishman’s Diary piece on the history of the Freeman.

Pages from history – Felix M Larkin on the Freeman’s Journal

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

Pages from history – Felix M Larkin on the Freeman’s Journal

It’s a century since the final edition appeared on December 19th, 1924

www.irishtimes.com

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The Irish Story @theirishstory.bsky.social · Dec 17

Article by @swgannon.bsky.social on the Limerick boycott of 1904. www.theirishstory.com/2020/07/05/r...

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Seán William Gannon @swgannon.bsky.social · Dec 14

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · Dec 13

Publishing today: The Removal of Irish Paupers from Britain by Lewis Darwen and Donald MacRaild, a new addition in the Reappraisals in Irish History series. Discover more here ⬇️
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

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Seán William Gannon @swgannon.bsky.social · Dec 13

Good King Wenceslas Last Looked Out: The Subversion of Societal Heterodoxies in Pre-State Czechia in the Long Ninth Century.

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · Dec 9

Christmas songs as academic titles

Santa Claus is coming to town: the nuclear family as surveillance state

Rudolph the red nose reindeer: how labour value distorts interpersonal relations

We wish you a merry Christmas: interpellating figgy pudding as holiday melancholia

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Seán William Gannon @swgannon.bsky.social · Dec 10

Free print copies of 'Limerick After the Civil War, 1923-1930' are available now.

To get yours, contact:
📧[email protected]
☎️ 061-557727
www.limericklocalstudiesdigital.ie/items/show/2...

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The Irish Story @theirishstory.bsky.social · Dec 6

Also check out our article on the Treaty debates in the 2nd Dail after its signing. They were long, fraught and eventaully very bitter and personal www.theirishstory.com/2022/01/08/t...

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Department of History, Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social · Dec 6

Isabella Jackson is giving a keynote at a conference at the Cambridge History Faculty on'Diasporas, Diplomacy and Dreams of Modernity: Cultural Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century East Asia' and her keynote is 'Foreign Office Imperialism: China’s treaty ports and the British Foreign Office'.

Engraving of UK Foreign Office building, Westminster

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