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History at Queen's University Belfast @qubhistory.bsky.social · 2d

QUB History will be participating in the 2026 Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship competition. Eligible applicants (post-PhD) with strong proposals should contact a suitable mentor (www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ...) to discuss application (EOI closes 5 Nov.)
www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career...

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 2d

Wow! Happy reading!

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Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · 5d

Listen in to a discussion about Ireland and the American Revolution on @newstalkfm.bsky.social featuring Patrick Geoghegan, Finola O’Kane, Eliga Gould, and Patrick Griffin. The episode airs this Sunday at 7PM, ahead of our conference next week. It was a privilege to take part in the conversation.

Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · 22d

Excited to release the conference programme for 'Ireland and the American Revolution: 250th Anniversary Perspectives'. There are only a few tickets left, so if you would like to attend I would suggest getting one as soon as possible. Attendance is free but booking is essential.

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Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · 5d

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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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 7d

This looks fascinating. Very much looking forward to reading it. And OA too.

Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 7d

Published this month: 'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940', by Gareth Roddy bit.ly/48Hkjfu

The next in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' book series, available from 30 October: Open Access and paperback print @uolpress.bsky.social #Skystorians

Cover of new Royal Historical Society monograph published on 30 October 2025: 'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940' by Gareth Roddy

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Department of History, Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social · 12d

50th anniversary issue of Saothar, the journal of the Irish Labour History Society, featuring articles by TCD staff members Carole Holohan, Lindsey Earner-Byrne, Deirdre Foley and Brian Hanley. The back cover has a photograph of the late Jack McGinley, long time Trinity librarian and union activist.

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Department of History, Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social · 12d

Big congratulations to Katja Bruisch on the publication of her book! Relevance not only to Russian history but also to Ireland given the focus on peat extraction.

Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 13d

📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5

#envhist #energysky

Book cover of "Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy" by Katja Bruisch. A black and white photograph shows a woman with a headscarf stacking peat

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Conor Brockbank @conorbrockbank.bsky.social · 13d

More information about this seminar and a link to sign up to join in online is available via the link below:
www.eventbrite.com/e/qub-public...

QUB Public History Seminar: Patrick Walsh

Eventbrite - QUB History Seminars presents QUB Public History Seminar: Patrick Walsh - Friday, September 26, 2025 at Irish Studies Room, 27 University Square, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Find event and...

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History at Queen's University Belfast @qubhistory.bsky.social · 13d

QUB History Seminar tomorrow at 4pm BST

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Conor Brockbank @conorbrockbank.bsky.social · 13d

Really looking forward to @speakerconolly.bsky.social’s paper tomorrow for the @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar series, in co-ordination with @publichistoryqub.bsky.social. A great way to start the seminars for the academic year. All welcome, drinks and snacks supplied!

Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 13d

Finishing prepping my final paper this week. Tomorrow I am speaking at @qubhistory.bsky.social as part of the @publichistoryqub.bsky.social seminar on the colonial legacies of Trinity’s estates.

From Fellows Hall to Front square: Reckoning with the colonial legacies of the Trinity estates

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 13d

Finishing prepping my final paper this week. Tomorrow I am speaking at @qubhistory.bsky.social as part of the @publichistoryqub.bsky.social seminar on the colonial legacies of Trinity’s estates.

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 13d

Congratulations Katja!

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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 13d

📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5

#envhist #energysky

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 13d

This was a very interesting evening with some great questions from an engaged and thoughtful audience. more to think about which what this sort of work is always about.

Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 14d

Just finished preparing for this lecture tomorrow evening for Dublin City Council's 2025 Heritage series. I will be talking about 400 years of ‘cultivating virtue‘ in Trinity College Dublin @tcddublin.bsky.social. @historytcd.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social

Oak Room talk on Trinity’s Colonial Legacies in Dublin’s Mansion House 24 September

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Elliot @altirishhistorian.bsky.social · 15d

Hi everyone! I'm currently looking for participants for interviews for my PhD research. I'm working on the history of the LGBT+ community in rural Ireland, the way being in rural Ireland impacted the community and how the community impacted rural Ireland, 1970-2000.

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 14d

Just finished preparing for this lecture tomorrow evening for Dublin City Council's 2025 Heritage series. I will be talking about 400 years of ‘cultivating virtue‘ in Trinity College Dublin @tcddublin.bsky.social. @historytcd.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social

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Thomas Cauvin @thomascauvin.bsky.social · 16d

Rich discussion about #PublicHistory in the UK.
Katie Carpenter, Anna Maguire, David Geiringer, and Julia Laite in History Workshop journal

academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

Teaching Public History in Britain Today: A Roundtable Discussion

Abstract. ‘What is Public History Now?’ This was the question posed by the 2022 AHRC Network led by Julia Laite. The network culminated in a conference of

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Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · 18d

Volume 40 of the Journal Eighteenth-Century Ireland is just out. Great articles from @speakerconolly.bsky.social on Swift and @francesmnolan.bsky.social on women as Jacobite agents, among others. Have a look at the link below:

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/10.3828/...

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 18d

Will let you know. I am becoming quite interested in idea of ‘profitable acres’ at the moment so this is very pertinen.

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 18d

This looks great. Looking forward to reading it.

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 19d

He was very interesting indeed. Sadly I don’t set or benefit from the price. I am a big fan of Castleward

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 19d

Swift calls him Micky Windybanks in one of his bank poems!

Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 19d

yes he was involved in sorts of ‘improvement’ - he turns up in my book on the South Sea Bubble. was also a barrack speculator and a rock salt entrepreneur. a busy man!

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 21d

Another plug for my piece on Trinity’s forgotten tenants in Kerry, Armagh and Donegal and many places in between. Connecting colonial legacies, family history and institutional selective remembering. drb.ie/tcds-forgott...
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TCD’s Forgotten Tenantry - DRB

Patrick Walsh writes: 1923 was a significant year in the life of Thomas Horgan of Ballynaskreena, Co Kerry. His youngest surviving daughter, Bridget (known as Bridie), was born, and he became the firs...

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 19d

send me an email at tcd and will send it on

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