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Enniskillen & the Fermanagh Campaign,1689 - A re-appraisal, byDarren Graham Join us for a re-examination of the war in Fermanagh in terms of how these forgotten events sit alongside the lore of Derry in 1689.’

Enniskillen & the Fermanagh Campaign,1689 - A re-appraisal, byDarren Graham www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/enniskille...

🔔Upcoming Public Talk 🔔

Enniskillen & the Fermanagh Campaign, 1689: A re-appraisal

10 March 7.30-9pm in the Minor Hall, Magee Campus @ulsteruni.bsky.social

I am very proud of my fellow PhD,
Dr Darren Graham 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Book your tickets for this great event👇🏻

Stamp marks 250th anniverary of American independence A stamp has been issued to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the American Declaration of Independence and a unique Irish connection to the document.

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Rusty tin for Cow and Gate milk food, 'full cream'

'The Irish food for Irish babies'. Made in Dungarvan, Co Waterford. 1950s?

https://virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-PRIV-M-5036-A-9 Handwritten copy of the Irish House of Lords resolution on 5 march 1766 ordering the 1766 Religious Census to be taken. Source: National Archives, Ireland, PRIV/M/5036A, p. 13.

https://www.virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/1766-religious-census The homepage for the 1766 Religious Census on the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland. Every surviving copy census records from over a dozen archives are gathered together and fully searchable here.

Countdown to the 260th anniversary of Ireland's first census. 🕰️ 7️⃣
5 March 1766 the Irish House of Lords orders a census of all householders noting 'which are protestants and which are Papists' (Catholics).
They gave only 61 days to cover the whole country!
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Sentimental? "several of them were composed in a very disordered state of society, if not in open rebellion. They are the melancholy ravings of the disappointed rebel, or his ill-educated offspring" - the Anti-Jacobin review of Moore's "Irish melodies" (1808).

Beautiful pieces 🤩

‘A Christ Church Set’: Exploring the Discourse of Political Friendship in Late Hanoverian Britain, 1780s-1830s

Register to join us next week, either in person or online on 25 February to hear Warwick final year PhD @brendantam.bsky.social present his paper titled:
‘A Christ Church Set’: Exploring the Discourse of Political Friendship in Late Hanoverian Britain, 1780s-1830s

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I would say Bishop Moylan would forgive the annotator’s lusting after Miss Bourke as they (rightly) recorded the succession of his brother bishops of Cloyne as a supplement to Cork! #ProperOrder

A history of Ireland, as told through the medium of... rain He excused himself on account of the rain, but the excuse did not satisfy the saint

A History of Ireland in Quotations about Rain. (Part 1) www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

Myth, monsters and making sense of a disenchanted world: why everyone is reading fantasy I have made the leap from literary fiction to fantasy – for those who think it’s mere wish-fulfilment, here’s why we need that thing with the dragons

Myth, monsters and making sense of a disenchanted world: why everyone is reading fantasy

Today is the anniversaries of Irish artist James Barry (1741-1806) & Anglo-Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973). Bowen's portrait is currently loaned to Doneraile Court as part of our Touring & Sharing program.
#CrawfordArtGallery #JamesBarry #ElizabethBowern #IrishArt #CrawfordTouringSharing

This week on Fabulous Folklore, we're exploring the 'Beliefs' category of children’s folklore. See if you recognise the beliefs people heard and spread in their childhood, including supernatural beings like witches, love divination, and superstitions!

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OUP have published the first chapter of my Runes book (on the earliest period of runic writing) open access until 19 Feb. Do have a look if you're interested! academic.oup.com/book/61598/c...

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Thanks to @martindoyle.bsky.social and Mary Miniham @irishtimes.com for taking my piece on heavy coats and ragged people for today’s paper - with a shoutout for new @universitypress.cambridge.org book on #IrishRomanticism #speirgorm

No Digging: The Story of the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas - Jon Dear Interview | Derby QUAD View our latest event: No Digging: The Story of the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas - Jon Dear Interview. See what the available times are for this event.

One week until I’ll be chatting with Mark Norman about my forthcoming book on the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas at QUAD in Derby.

And it’s just one event amongst a plethora of eldritch endeavours at this year’s UK Ghost Story Festival

Irish Studies Seminar: Patrick Walsh YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies

If you missed Patrick Walsh's talk yesterday on 'A colonial sinew of power? Rethinking the 18th-century Irish state', a recording is available at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=haJr...

Censuses of Ireland, 1766-1891.

At end Nov. our total for names in VRTI CEN from 1766 religious census, 1798 census of Dublin City and censuses of Ireland 1813-1891 hit 98,000. On Tuesday we'll give the end Dec. total. Will we hit 100k? Tune in Tuesday for update. Any guesses?

Occupied America – Penn Press In Occupied America, Donald F. Johnson chronicles the everyday experience of ordinary people living under military occupation during the American Revolution....

In city after city, by the time the [British] army withdrew, most residents, even many of who had supported the Crown at the onset of the conflict, no longer saw restored royal rule as a viable option."--Donald F. Johnson 🗃️ www.pennpress.org/978081225254...

New from @imems.bsky.social in the @catholicismsem.bsky.social series, this book uncovers the hidden networks behind Catholic publishing in Restoration London, where politics, religion, and print intersected in unexpected ways under. Learn more 👉 buff.ly/JlXm0RY
#skystorians #catholicism

Joel, just seeing this! Overjoyed for you and the family! 🥳🩷

How to expel an MP from Parliament: The ejection of John Wilkes in 1764 John Wilkes was well known for treading a fine line in his outspoken comments against the government, but in 1763 Parliament decided he had gone too far.

Radical MP John Wilkes was expelled from Parliament on charges of seditious libel after publishing controversial articles in his North Briton newspaper.

Dr Robin Eagles explores how Parliament built the case against him.

Re-Enchanting American History | Critical Historical Studies: Vol 12, No 2 Abstract Around the world, citizens and leaders seek to realign collective identities with political boundaries. These aspirations are reshaping the ways we discuss—and divide over—US history. This ar...

1) My contribution to #America250: an analysis of the multiple, competing narratives of American history we have today, and why we are so divided over our past. @revolution250.bsky.social @historians.org @oah.org

19 Feb: Neil Murphy on 'Violence, colonialism and the mid-Tudor monarchy: Ireland in context' 5 March: Antonia Hart on 'Ulster women in business and bankruptcy, 1888-1922' 23 April: David Dickson on 'The Foyle, the Chesapeake, and a fifty-year transatlantic conversation'

Our spring 2026 seminar series programme is here! We'll be adding eventbrite links soon so you can join us online or in person - all are welcome!

First up we have Neil Murphy on 19 February at 6pm. Neil will speak on 'Violence, colonialism and the mid-Tudor monarchy: Ireland in context'.

CFP: Conference, 'Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750', University of Oxford, 18-19 June 2026

Deadline: 28 February 2026

Paper proposals are invited for this conference on the overlooked role of early modern women as writers of history. See clioreframed.hcommons.org.

Is It All Just Envy? The sides of the inequality debate continue to talk past one another, as Don Boudreaux's recent criticisms demonstrate.

I’ve written a new piece for @liberalcurrents.com in response to an open letter from the economist Donald Boudreaux. I address ways in which criticisms of egalitarianism err. It’s not enough to accuse them of envy or economic illiteracy. There are serious moral, social, and political concerns.

Festival of Social History To celebrate 50 years of the Social History Society, we’ve teamed up with the Institute of Historical Research to host a Social History Festival! The festival will feature two expert discussion pan…

📣Bookings now open!

👉Celebrating 50 years of the Social History Society with our 'Festival of Social History' @ihr.bsky.social

Panels, zine-making stall, tours, lunch, a roundtable, & keynote by Naomi Tadmor

📅 24 Apr 2026
💷 from £10 for members

All welcome!
socialhistory.org.uk/events/festi...

The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution: A Thousand-Year History by Mark Peterson

A provocative new #history of America’s #constitution & an urgent call to action for a nation confronted by challenges its founders could never have imagined.

Mark Peterson's The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution arrives March 10.

Preorder yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

The Cambridge Companion to the Declaration of Independence by Mark A. Graber and Michael Zuckert
A wide-ranging anthology covering the significance and history of the most important statement of American political commitments.
📚 https://cup.org/4abBuF5

James Mill claimed that the interest of almost all women was involved in the interest of their father or husband, so they lost nothing in not having a vote.

Two Irish philosophers refuted this:
www.irishphilosophy.com/2013/06/04/v...