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Reposted by: Patrick Walsh

amrevmuseum.bsky.social
In Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire, historian Eliga Gould reinterprets the Revolutionary era not just as a domestic struggle for independence, but as a quest for legitimacy on the global stage.

#ReadtheRevolution: https://bit.ly/4mWCnG9
Among the Powers of the Earth
Read an excerpt from Eliga H. Gould's book, Among the Powers of the Earth.
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Reposted by: Patrick Walsh, Keith Lilley

qubhistory.bsky.social
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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by Patrick Walsh

speakerconolly.bsky.social
Wow! Happy reading!
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Reposted by: Patrick Walsh

joelherman.bsky.social
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.

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by Patrick Walsh

speakerconolly.bsky.social
This looks fascinating. Very much looking forward to reading it. And OA too.
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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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Reposted by: Patrick Walsh

royalhistsoc.org
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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Reposted by: Patrick Walsh, Kevin O’Sullivan

historytcd.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Patrick Walsh

conorbrockbank.bsky.social
More information about this seminar and a link to sign up to join in online is available via the link below:
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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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Reposted by: Patrick Walsh, Keith Lilley

qubhistory.bsky.social
QUB History Seminar tomorrow at 4pm BST
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by Patrick Walsh — Reposted by: Patrick Walsh

speakerconolly.bsky.social
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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by Patrick Walsh

speakerconolly.bsky.social
Congratulations Katja!
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Reposted by: Patrick Walsh, Kris Inwood, John Hogan , and 1 more

kbruisch.bsky.social
📣 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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by Patrick Walsh

speakerconolly.bsky.social
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.
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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
Oak Room talk on Trinity’s Colonial Legacies in Dublin’s Mansion House 24 September
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by Patrick Walsh

speakerconolly.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Patrick Walsh

altirishhistorian.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Patrick Walsh, Karin Priem

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

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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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Reposted by: Patrick Walsh

joelherman.bsky.social
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/...
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by Patrick Walsh

speakerconolly.bsky.social
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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by Patrick Walsh

speakerconolly.bsky.social
This looks great. Looking forward to reading it.
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by Patrick Walsh

speakerconolly.bsky.social
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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by Patrick Walsh

speakerconolly.bsky.social
Swift calls him Micky Windybanks in one of his bank poems!

by Patrick Walsh

speakerconolly.bsky.social
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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by Patrick Walsh

speakerconolly.bsky.social
send me an email at tcd and will send it on
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by Patrick Walsh

speakerconolly.bsky.social
My latest article now out in Eighteenth-Century Ireland my first and probably last foray into Swift Studies liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/10.3828/...
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Reposted by: Patrick Walsh, John Paul Newman

donalh.bsky.social
A great lineup for this semester's Department of History Research Seminar in Maynooth. This is open to all so do join us and please share widely.
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Reposted by: Patrick Walsh

irishstudiesqub.bsky.social
Job opportunity: Engagement and Outreach Officer at the Mellon Centre for Migration Studies - please let anyone know who might be interested ce0568li.webitrent.com/ce0568li_web...
The link to NI Jobs is here – www.nijobs.com/job/Outreach...
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by Patrick Walsh

speakerconolly.bsky.social
This is utterly depressing.
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by Patrick Walsh

speakerconolly.bsky.social
Yes indeed. The Galway estates provided a specific personal income stream for the provost! And yes the Landed Estates database is an excellent resource for this extractive history
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Reposted by: Patrick Walsh, Simon Naylor

kbruisch.bsky.social
Exciting list of speakers presenting in our Environmental History Research Seminar this term. If you happen to be in Dublin, come along. We'll meet on Mondays at 1 PM in the Trinity Long Room Hub #envhist

Thanks to @tlrhub.bsky.social for hosting us!
@historytcd.bsky.social
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by Patrick Walsh — Reposted by: Patrick Walsh

speakerconolly.bsky.social
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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