Susan Marie Martin PhD
@susanmariemartin.bsky.social
Dublin’s Women Street Traders, 1882-1932 available to preorder Four Courts Press. Also wrote The Shawlies. Areas: women street traders, urban margins & relevant SDGs. Foucault, Historical Sociology. Global nomad (4 continents, 6 countries).
Pinned
The cover of my forthcoming book features this gorgeous photo of the mkt at St. Patrick’s Close (late 19thC) generously provided by the @nlireland.bsky.social . Jonathan Swift (satirist, Dean of St. Patrick’s) was a regular there & recognized how critical earnings were for women street traders.
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Reform’s lead is disappearing very fast.
YouGov / Sky / Times weekly voting intention
CON 20% (+1),
LAB 19%(+2),
LDEM 16%(nc),
RefUK 24%(-2),
GRN 14%(-2)
YouGov / Sky / Times weekly voting intention
CON 20% (+1),
LAB 19%(+2),
LDEM 16%(nc),
RefUK 24%(-2),
GRN 14%(-2)
January 13, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Reform’s lead is disappearing very fast.
YouGov / Sky / Times weekly voting intention
CON 20% (+1),
LAB 19%(+2),
LDEM 16%(nc),
RefUK 24%(-2),
GRN 14%(-2)
YouGov / Sky / Times weekly voting intention
CON 20% (+1),
LAB 19%(+2),
LDEM 16%(nc),
RefUK 24%(-2),
GRN 14%(-2)
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I'm a few days late with this, but delighted to share the good news about Catherine E. Ross's excellent book Educating the Romantic Poets: Life and Learning in the Anglo-Classical Academy, 1770-1850. Congratulations, Catherine!
We're thrilled to share that Catherine E. Ross' Educating the Romantic Poets has won the 2025 Marilyn Gaull Book Award! Huge congratulations to Catherine.
bit.ly/EDRP25 #MLA #MLA2026
bit.ly/EDRP25 #MLA #MLA2026
January 12, 2026 at 3:48 PM
I'm a few days late with this, but delighted to share the good news about Catherine E. Ross's excellent book Educating the Romantic Poets: Life and Learning in the Anglo-Classical Academy, 1770-1850. Congratulations, Catherine!
In the morning and at sunset, my favorite place to read, write and think. Great start to 2026 in Malaga. ❤️
January 12, 2026 at 12:52 PM
In the morning and at sunset, my favorite place to read, write and think. Great start to 2026 in Malaga. ❤️
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On this day in 2013, Harold Crowchild, also known as Iron Shield, died.
Born in 1915, he served in the Second World War and earned several medals for his service. Upon his death, he was the last surviving Tsuu T'ina veteran of the war.
Born in 1915, he served in the Second World War and earned several medals for his service. Upon his death, he was the last surviving Tsuu T'ina veteran of the war.
January 12, 2026 at 12:01 PM
On this day in 2013, Harold Crowchild, also known as Iron Shield, died.
Born in 1915, he served in the Second World War and earned several medals for his service. Upon his death, he was the last surviving Tsuu T'ina veteran of the war.
Born in 1915, he served in the Second World War and earned several medals for his service. Upon his death, he was the last surviving Tsuu T'ina veteran of the war.
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“Atlantic City - Pennsylvania Railroad”, by Sascha Maurer, c.1940
January 12, 2026 at 12:11 PM
“Atlantic City - Pennsylvania Railroad”, by Sascha Maurer, c.1940
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I didn't think tithes were still being collected in 1908..everyday is a school day in archives
January 12, 2026 at 11:00 AM
I didn't think tithes were still being collected in 1908..everyday is a school day in archives
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Why quick fix diets are the shiny shortcut that rarely work. Aggressive, short-term diets might be seductive and deliver quick wins but, writes Catherine Norton @unioflimerick.bsky.social @researchireland.ie, they are unsustainable and rarely deliver lasting success www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Why quick fix diets are the shiny shortcut that rarely work
Aggressive, short-term diets might be seductive and deliver quick wins, but they are unsustainable and rarely deliver lasting success
www.rte.ie
January 12, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Why quick fix diets are the shiny shortcut that rarely work. Aggressive, short-term diets might be seductive and deliver quick wins but, writes Catherine Norton @unioflimerick.bsky.social @researchireland.ie, they are unsustainable and rarely deliver lasting success www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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Raindrops in lichen.
The magic of an Irish Atlantic rainforest 🌍
The magic of an Irish Atlantic rainforest 🌍
January 11, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Raindrops in lichen.
The magic of an Irish Atlantic rainforest 🌍
The magic of an Irish Atlantic rainforest 🌍
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On this day in 1947, Eva Tanguay died.
Born in Marbleton, Quebec in 1878, she was called The Queen of Vaudeville. She was known for her stage style and use of free publicity.
Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇
buff.ly/0HGbdzU
Born in Marbleton, Quebec in 1878, she was called The Queen of Vaudeville. She was known for her stage style and use of free publicity.
Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇
buff.ly/0HGbdzU
January 11, 2026 at 12:00 PM
On this day in 1947, Eva Tanguay died.
Born in Marbleton, Quebec in 1878, she was called The Queen of Vaudeville. She was known for her stage style and use of free publicity.
Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇
buff.ly/0HGbdzU
Born in Marbleton, Quebec in 1878, she was called The Queen of Vaudeville. She was known for her stage style and use of free publicity.
Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇
buff.ly/0HGbdzU
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Happy Nollaig na mBan! Here's a piece celebrating some of Ireland's most interesting women, with a thread about each of them here:
bsky.app/profile/ciar...
Prints also available (currently on sale):
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
bsky.app/profile/ciar...
Prints also available (currently on sale):
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
January 6, 2026 at 8:27 AM
Happy Nollaig na mBan! Here's a piece celebrating some of Ireland's most interesting women, with a thread about each of them here:
bsky.app/profile/ciar...
Prints also available (currently on sale):
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
bsky.app/profile/ciar...
Prints also available (currently on sale):
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
After a stomach bug felled me on 31 Dec, I'm happy 2return2 'in-between spaces' - a project exploring women & urban informality in Belfast, Galway, Limerick, Cork & Dublin from 1890 onwards. Slipping back into laneways, neglected city centres & tenement rooms #historicalsociology #informaleconomies
January 5, 2026 at 1:40 PM
After a stomach bug felled me on 31 Dec, I'm happy 2return2 'in-between spaces' - a project exploring women & urban informality in Belfast, Galway, Limerick, Cork & Dublin from 1890 onwards. Slipping back into laneways, neglected city centres & tenement rooms #historicalsociology #informaleconomies
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Just under a month to submit an abstract for our 2026 conference 'Intimacies in nineteenth-century Ireland'! For details see ssnci.org/annual-confe...
Annual Conference 2026 | The Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland
ssnci.org
January 2, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Just under a month to submit an abstract for our 2026 conference 'Intimacies in nineteenth-century Ireland'! For details see ssnci.org/annual-confe...
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Delighted to have our next book review up online this morning. Thanks to Berni Dwan for taking the time to review it for us.
womenshistoryassociation.com/book-reviews...
womenshistoryassociation.com/book-reviews...
Finding Mary. The untold story of an Inishowen murder, 1944. (Maynooth Studies in Local History: Number 172) (Four Courts Press, 2025)
Hands up if you sometimes skip the preface of a book. Well please don’t do that when you read Finding Mary. The untold story of an Inishowen murder, 1844. The preface to Finding Mary is a fine piec…
womenshistoryassociation.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Delighted to have our next book review up online this morning. Thanks to Berni Dwan for taking the time to review it for us.
womenshistoryassociation.com/book-reviews...
womenshistoryassociation.com/book-reviews...
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Over the moon to be part of @winterpapers.bsky.social. It’s a joy to be sharing my essay ‘Mid-Life Music Lessons’ as part of this beauty alongside so many whose work I admire. The launch is @dublinbookfest.bsky.social next Sat, Nov 8. Here’s to music, winter reading & dreaming the future.
November 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Over the moon to be part of @winterpapers.bsky.social. It’s a joy to be sharing my essay ‘Mid-Life Music Lessons’ as part of this beauty alongside so many whose work I admire. The launch is @dublinbookfest.bsky.social next Sat, Nov 8. Here’s to music, winter reading & dreaming the future.
“Old age is supposed to be the time when one finds a resolution, intellectual and moral. My old age isn’t like that; it’s full of complications, questions, mystification & uncertainties…it’s exciting all the same.” Nathalie Zemon Davis 2010 The Social Historian magazine.utoronto.ca/people/faculty…
https://magazine.utoronto.ca/people/faculty…
September 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
“Old age is supposed to be the time when one finds a resolution, intellectual and moral. My old age isn’t like that; it’s full of complications, questions, mystification & uncertainties…it’s exciting all the same.” Nathalie Zemon Davis 2010 The Social Historian magazine.utoronto.ca/people/faculty…
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Book launch 📢🎉
Join LSE Press editors to mark the publication of The London Consensus: Economic Principles for the 21st Century - free to read #OpenAccess.
🔻Tues 28th Oct, 6.30 www.lse.ac.uk/school-of-pu...
@lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social @lse-sticerd-case.bsky.social @lseechist.bsky.social
Join LSE Press editors to mark the publication of The London Consensus: Economic Principles for the 21st Century - free to read #OpenAccess.
🔻Tues 28th Oct, 6.30 www.lse.ac.uk/school-of-pu...
@lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social @lse-sticerd-case.bsky.social @lseechist.bsky.social
The London Consensus: Economic Principles for the 21st Century
Tues 28 Oct, 6.30pm at LSE | Join us for the launch of 'The London Consensus: Economic Principles for the 21st Century'
www.lse.ac.uk
September 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Book launch 📢🎉
Join LSE Press editors to mark the publication of The London Consensus: Economic Principles for the 21st Century - free to read #OpenAccess.
🔻Tues 28th Oct, 6.30 www.lse.ac.uk/school-of-pu...
@lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social @lse-sticerd-case.bsky.social @lseechist.bsky.social
Join LSE Press editors to mark the publication of The London Consensus: Economic Principles for the 21st Century - free to read #OpenAccess.
🔻Tues 28th Oct, 6.30 www.lse.ac.uk/school-of-pu...
@lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social @lse-sticerd-case.bsky.social @lseechist.bsky.social
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Tickets for my talk on the letters of sympathy sent to Canon Begley and his parishioners following the 1926 Dromcollogher cinema fire are now available through the link below. The talk is on Sunday 28 September in Newcastle West county Limerick.
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Martin Walsh- Limerick History Festival | The Limerick Civic Trust
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September 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Tickets for my talk on the letters of sympathy sent to Canon Begley and his parishioners following the 1926 Dromcollogher cinema fire are now available through the link below. The talk is on Sunday 28 September in Newcastle West county Limerick.
register.enthuse.com/ps/event/Mar...
register.enthuse.com/ps/event/Mar...
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Why did Dublin authorities try to ban street trading in the 1920s? The move to ban women traders selling fruit, vegetables and fish at Dublin street markets was led by a group of 'substantial ratepayers', writes @susanmariemartin.bsky.social @ucc.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Why did Dublin authorities try to ban street trading in 1920s?
The move to ban women traders selling fruit, vegetables and fish at Dublin street markets was led by a group of 'substantial ratepayers'
www.rte.ie
September 25, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Why did Dublin authorities try to ban street trading in the 1920s? The move to ban women traders selling fruit, vegetables and fish at Dublin street markets was led by a group of 'substantial ratepayers', writes @susanmariemartin.bsky.social @ucc.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Tuesday in the stacks. My happy place (&sentiment) in the wake of a public school board in Alberta banning 200 books. One is Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale 4 sexually explicit content. Apparently the sexual exploitation of women should not be part of the curriculum. Tragic. #TorontoReferenceLibrary
September 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Tuesday in the stacks. My happy place (&sentiment) in the wake of a public school board in Alberta banning 200 books. One is Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale 4 sexually explicit content. Apparently the sexual exploitation of women should not be part of the curriculum. Tragic. #TorontoReferenceLibrary
Today’s read is a revisit picked up last summer from @fourcourtspress as part of my research for ‘civic evil’ and civil disobedience. I had discovered that Sarah Cecilia Harrison was a strong advocate of women street traders and other pro-poor food supply chains including allotments….
August 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Today’s read is a revisit picked up last summer from @fourcourtspress as part of my research for ‘civic evil’ and civil disobedience. I had discovered that Sarah Cecilia Harrison was a strong advocate of women street traders and other pro-poor food supply chains including allotments….
The cover of my forthcoming book features this gorgeous photo of the mkt at St. Patrick’s Close (late 19thC) generously provided by the @nlireland.bsky.social . Jonathan Swift (satirist, Dean of St. Patrick’s) was a regular there & recognized how critical earnings were for women street traders.
August 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The cover of my forthcoming book features this gorgeous photo of the mkt at St. Patrick’s Close (late 19thC) generously provided by the @nlireland.bsky.social . Jonathan Swift (satirist, Dean of St. Patrick’s) was a regular there & recognized how critical earnings were for women street traders.
The Library Book by Susan Orlean (Simon & Schuster, 2018).
July 20, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The Library Book by Susan Orlean (Simon & Schuster, 2018).
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Dublin’s housing crisis isn’t new - one in four lived in cramped one-room tenements in 1911, new CSO data shows
jrnl.ie/6752501
jrnl.ie/6752501
Dublin’s housing crisis isn’t new - one in four lived in cramped one-room tenements in 1911, data shows
Despite the poor state of the tenements, many landlords received tax rebates on their properties at the time.
jrnl.ie
July 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Dublin’s housing crisis isn’t new - one in four lived in cramped one-room tenements in 1911, new CSO data shows
jrnl.ie/6752501
jrnl.ie/6752501
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Spotted during this afternoon’s reference shift @ransomcenter.bsky.social: T.E. Lawrence’s copy of #Ulysses, signed by #JamesJoyce! (A bit early for #Bloomsday, but impressive nevertheless…)
#humanities #literature
#modernism #speccolls
#LawrenceOfArabia #booksky 🗃️📜📚
#humanities #literature
#modernism #speccolls
#LawrenceOfArabia #booksky 🗃️📜📚
June 14, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Spotted during this afternoon’s reference shift @ransomcenter.bsky.social: T.E. Lawrence’s copy of #Ulysses, signed by #JamesJoyce! (A bit early for #Bloomsday, but impressive nevertheless…)
#humanities #literature
#modernism #speccolls
#LawrenceOfArabia #booksky 🗃️📜📚
#humanities #literature
#modernism #speccolls
#LawrenceOfArabia #booksky 🗃️📜📚
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As a #researcher, do you want to connect with funders, the media, the public or policymakers? Start by thinking like a storyteller, writes Erin O'Dwyer of @sydney.edu.au: ow.ly/HpfS50VZ2WV #research #academicsky #impact #scicomm
Find the hero energy in the story of your research
Want to connect with funders, the media, the public or policymakers? Start by thinking like a storyteller
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May 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
As a #researcher, do you want to connect with funders, the media, the public or policymakers? Start by thinking like a storyteller, writes Erin O'Dwyer of @sydney.edu.au: ow.ly/HpfS50VZ2WV #research #academicsky #impact #scicomm