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Peter Gray
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Historian of 19thC Ireland; Director of Irish Studies, QUB. Last book: William Sharman Crawford and Ulster Radicalism (2023); working on politics of Irish land reform and the Tenant League(s). Chair of @Irishhistorians.bsky.social There may also be cats.
We only win when it snows
January 2, 2026 at 10:00 PM
A wee dash of Wigtown book and kitten porn to welcome in the new year
January 1, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Portpatrick - once ‘Ireland’s Gretna Green’
December 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Stormy in - cosy out
December 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Seasonal visitor to Belfast’s finest cheese emporium
December 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Singalong family outing to north Down’s smallest farmyard cinema 🎦
December 23, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Also with my MA history dissertation student Jon Walker
December 9, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Delighted to meet up with MA Irish Studies graduates Natalie Boehmer and Brynna Crumley at yesterday’s graduation
December 9, 2025 at 9:08 AM
ULS 67 - 7 Racing : zut alors
December 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Some counter-hegemonic protest from a Limavady Presbyterian in 1889 (from the wonderfully named 'County Derry Liberal', 27 Apr. 1889)
December 4, 2025 at 11:24 PM
For example, I want to know if the UK government really did consider ‘planting’ Zululand with the obstreperous Irish in 1879 (as imagined here by the Weekly Freeman)
November 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Nor far from the bizarre horse gear gifted by Col. Gaddafi to Dev in the early 70s (surrounded by less welcome Gaddafi gifts from later years)
November 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
An unexpected item in the NMI’s new and well-presented ‘Changing Ireland’ exhibition - a Bronze Age anthropomorphic beaker from Co. Cork - the earliest representation of an ‘Irish face’?
November 16, 2025 at 6:34 PM
In the spirit of the autumn internationals, the GOM proving himself a handy no. 10 by kicking into touch the HL inquiry on the Irish Land Act in 1882
November 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Sometimes I think the Victorians really did take too much laudanum in their tea
November 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
A real privilege to be giving the citation for an hon DLitt for Rob Savage this evening. At Aviva University, now a constituent college of the National University of Ireland (it seems)
November 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Visiting the great and good of Budapest past on All Souls Day
November 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
You left out poor old Schubert
October 31, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Ossian in Budapest - a spooktastic painting
October 31, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Budapest gothic and neo-gothic
October 31, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Cafe culture in fin de siècle Pest
October 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Doing a thing tomorrow night for the Crossgar Historical Society
October 27, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Stephen Collins’ latest
October 24, 2025 at 9:48 AM
New resource on BNA for people interested in 1890s Ireland - 'The Illustrograph' (1894-9)
Dubbed 'The Graphic of Ireland,' it was a monthly paper edited by H. Easom Hudson, printing a range of photographs celebrating Irish personalities & places.
www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/illus...
October 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
A bit late to finding this but still interesting - a silhouette made c.1829 of Mabel Sharman Crawford, and the only image I’ve seen of WSC’s wife (1785-1844). Part of the 1947 Crawfordsburn House sale and now at the Crawford AG Cork
October 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM