Terry Dunne

Clare Museum Lecture Series – March 2026 — Clare Museum Threatening Letters of Pre-Famine Ireland The March instalment of Clare Museum’s Lecture Series will feature a talk by Terry Dunne...

Looking forward to contributing to Clare Museum‘s series of talks this Wednesday with a presentation on threatening letters -
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Map showing four 'Manitoba' field names in South Ronaldsay, Orkney: 1st Field of Manitoba; 2nd Field of Manitoba; Manitoba - Field with the Water Supply in it; and Old Silage Field - Manitoba.

New Fields of Time post
Distant Horizons: California, Siberia and Manitoba

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It's on FB too: www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

Today in London’s rebel history: bread rioters in the East End seize food, 1855. “Yesterday some bread riots took place in Whitechapel and the mob did a considerable deal of damage to the workhouse…” There’s this idea that we have progressed from mid-Victorian times, and …

#OnThisDay in London's rebel history: bread rioters in the East End seize food, 1855.
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decorated stelae from Tiya and the Soddo region of south-central Ethiopia
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#otd 1921, the Upton train ambush. IRA shot up train carrying British troops at Upton station in Cork, but ended up killing or mortally wounding 8 civilians. 3 IRA Vol were also killed. www.theirishstory.com/2011/02/15/t...

Architecture of Djenne, Mali, ca. 1897
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#OtD 6 Feb 1921 France's colonial govt began construction of the Congo-Ocean Railway in what is now the Republic of the Congo. At least 14,000 people died making it and it was used to transport goods like rubber stolen inland to be shipped to Europe stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7969...

Our next seminar is on Mon. 9 Feb. - Niall Whelehan will speak about ‘Radicalism, colonialism and the life of an Irish doctor in Argentina at the fin de siècle’. All welcome www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

Excerpt of ship's manifest with text in German

Handwritten illegible word

I think this is a challenging question but if anyone has the expertise to translate the word on the right (found under the column heading left), that would be great. Context: passenger list of 1905 Hamburg to Grimsby sailing; all passengers appear to be Yiddish speaking Jews.

1/10. Tory peer Daniel Hannan has posted a potted history of slavery that demonstrates how historical understanding is being twisted by politicians. I’ll examine it in light of historians’ research.

Leaflet issued during the May 1926 General Strike in support of the government: The General Strike. MESSAGE FROM THE PRIME MINISTER. Constitutional Government is being attacked. Let all good Citizens whose livelihood and labour have thus been put in peril bear with fortitude and patience the hardships with which they have been so suddenly confronted. Stand behind the Government, who are doing their part, confident that you will co-operate in the measures they have undertaken to preserve the liberties and privileges of the people of these Islands. The laws of England are the people’s birthright. The laws are in your keeping. You have made Parliament their guardian. The General Strike is a challenge to Parliament and is the road to anarchy and ruin. STANLEY BALDWIN.

Front page of the Daily Graphic, 13 May 1926. It includes photographs of strike breaking activities, including medical students and soldiers moving goods.

The Leeds Citizen, a special strike bulletin published on behalf of the local strike committee. This edition dates from 8 May 1926 and includes the Trades Union Congress' statement that the General Strike was an industrial dispute (rather than a revolutionary challenge to the constitution), information about the local situation, and a report on debates in the House of Commons.

Leaflet issued by the Trades Union Congress during the May 1926 General Strike: TRADES UNION CONGRESS CONSTITUTION NOT CHALLENGED The General Council of the Trades Union Congress does NOT challenge Constitution. It is not seeking to substitute unconstitutional government. Nor is it desirous of undermining our Parliamentary institutions. AN INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE The sole aim of the Council is to secure for the miners a decent standard of life. The Council is engaged in an Industrial dispute. THERE IS NO CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS. THE ONLY ISSUE In any settlement, the only issue to be decided will be an industrial issue, not political, not constitutional. Printed and Published by the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, 33 Eccleston Square, London, S.W

As the General Strike centenary gets closer, we've been boosting our digitised content!

560 original documents have now been digitised & are free to access, including strike bulletins, radio transcripts, union communications & more... #GeneralStrike100

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Could be they had very poor English and lacked confidence, but it had to be him or their gangerman ordering food for them.

John Murphy | Obituary Obituary: Leading figure in the construction industry who founded his own civil engineering firm

He is pretty emphatic. Working for www.theguardian.com/business/200...

No, late teens, early 20s, needed other Irish people to order food for them.

My father remembers meeting people who could only speak Irish in London in early 1960s.

Another day in the archive, reading the diaries of a 19th-century doctor at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. This Irish migrant's story was, I thought, heartbreaking:

May 30 1877,

"Yesterday I was called into a ward to interpret for an old man who had been knocked down by an omnibus. ...

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War memorial for Saint-Louis located in Guet N'Dar. Historians underline the political legacies of wartime service of men from the 4 Communes but it's also worth noting that there was resistance too, especially in working class areas like Guet N'Dar where men refused to be enrolled in December 1915.

Droughdool Mote (a Neolithic round mound) covered in bracken

The Ordnance Survey Name Book entry for Droughdool Moat records that, "it is said to be the place where the devil deposited the Exciseman mentioned by Robert Burns in the song styled The Deil's awa wi the Exciseman."
I've not been able to find any other record of this tradition

Vincent R. Dunne - Wikipedia

The 1934 Minneapolis strike was led by the ex-Wobbly turned Trotskyist Dunne brothers who were descended from a Co. Clare emigrant - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent...

Deep cut for the labor nerds, @johnwbudd.bsky.social @willpjones.bsky.social

Shaping up downtown with the Minneapolis Teachers Union, saw this image at the light rail station.

The 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters strike that helped spur passage of the NLRA.

(top) Brava and Mogadishu, Somalia
(bottom) Malindi and Mombasa, Kenya
ca. 1875

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I am still looking for the public's help as I complete this project. I am particularly interested in finding diaries and letters written at the time of the fire. Even if they don't directly reference the fire, they are still of use. It's likely that these letters still exists in drawers, boxes etc

#skystorians #geneology Can anyone with access to the 1851 census of England help? I am researching an Irish-born N.C.O. who joined the Army while resident in Lancashire in 1858. I have his military records and quite a bit on his later life but want to fill in some details of his family background.

Please take this advice seriously!!

Adding a #OnePlaceWednesday hashtag to this one – and looking forward to seeing more #OnePlaceStudies making use of National Farm Survey documents when they appear online a little later this year!

10-01-1860 USA: Collapse of a Pemberton factory in Lawrence, Massachussetts. 900 workers, mostly Irish, trapped in the rubble. More than 100 dead, more injured.

Just ordered a copy of The Gardens of the British Working Class Paperback by Margaret Willes from Oxfam. Really looking forward to spending a few winter evenings reading it with the promise of spring around the corner.

Book covers for ‘Feargus O’Connor’, Samuel Holberry’ and ‘Chartist Lives’.

All Chartists Great and Small: three recent books offer insights into the lives of local and national Chartist leaders
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Hi Blueskystorians - I'm looking for your favourite, recent-ish examples of work that is conceived and published as local history, but reaches out to national/global themes. Any thoughts?