@petergray47
Historian of 19thC Ireland; Director of Irish Studies, QUB. Last book: William Sharman Crawford and Ulster Radicalism (2023); working on politics of Irish land reform and the Tenant League(s). Chair of @Irishhistorians.bsky.social There may also be cats.
Yallaa would love 100 responses by the end of today and they're only 10 away.
TBH, that doesn't seem like enough voices to me so please complete this and share.
They are the best people.
In 2006 I told the late (great) Prof. Ray Gillespie that I wanted to publish every surviving scrap from the 1766 religious census, by 2016. I missed the 🎯by 10 yrs, but 😃 to report that on the 260th anniv. it's done. Everything, >50k names & population details, now online.
@maynoothuniversity.ie
EHRI-UK Seminar: Holocaust-related and Jewish refugee collections at Queen’s University Belfast Special Collections & Archives - 23 April, 13.00-15.30, McClay Library, QUB
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ehri-uk-se...
On Thursday 5 March at 4.30 our visiting Boston College Irish Studies scholar, Marcus Breen, will be speaking about 'The Struggle for Meaning in Irish Cultural Studies: Kneecap and Sinners'. All welcome in-person (Lanyon 01/052) or online. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
Constantin Torve talks about his recent research on the Irish at the Eureka Stockade (1854) in Australia in a new podcast with 'The Celtic Way'
open.spotify.com/episode/6ber...
Oh no, no, no.
Yet again, my institution seems to have forgotten it employs a department full of folks who might know what happened in the year in question.
‘It was the best of years; it was the worst of years…’
UHC officers, Old Inn manager and Mayor of ND&A join PG in unveiling the blue plaque
The William Sharman Crawford plaque
The Old Inn at Crawfordsburn
Many thanks to the Ulster History Circle, North Down & Ards Council, and the Old Inn Crawfordsburn for making all fans of William Sharman Crawford happy today
If you haven't alread, pull your stuff from Academia edu IMMEDIATELY, especially if you have unpublished and draft ideas on there.
@gsoh31.bsky.social ‘s new book on Blair reviewed today in the Irish Times by Robert McNamara
ESSHC 2027 will be in Lyon
Liz DeYoung’s 'Power, Politics and Territory in the New Northern Ireland’ has just been released in paperback by Liverpool UP. Winner of the 2023 ACIS Murphy Prize, we hosted the NI launch in Jan 2024. Many congrats Liz!
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
21 MILLION? Oh. 😱 That's the end of some universities then. It's as simple as that. I'm sorry, I tried.
www.ft.com/content/a0cf...
This makes me so, so sad and so, so tired. If it happens in other institutions, which it sounds like it will, it could finish them off altogether. Which means because students weren't being taught face-to-face in a pandemic which was killing hundreds of people A DAY, lecturers will lose their jobs.
Registration is now open for our joint event with the Seamus Heaney Centre on 2 March: LATE HEANEY: NICHOLAS ALLEN IN CONVERSATION WITH MARK CARRUTHERS (available online and in-person) www.qub.ac.uk/schools/seam...
If you missed Robin Usher’s talk on Sir Arthur Chichester and Dublin’s architecture c.1605-15, a recording is available at: m.youtube.com/watch?v=-5nX...
All perfect prep for being made lord lieutenant of Ireland
Our next seminar on Monday 23 Feb. will be Dr Paddy Gleeson (QUB) speaking on 'Landscapes of kingship: governance, rule and territory in early medieval Ireland'. All welcome in-person / online www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
Especially for @number10cat.bsky.social
Death cult update
Delighted to have played a small part in this first-rate digital history project.
Our next seminar is on Monday 16 February at 4.30. Dr Robin Usher (QUB) will speak about 'Sir Arthur Chichester and Dublin's official architecture, c.1605-15'. All welcome in-person and online. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
Karen explains the pauper’s journey outside the Limavady Workhouse main building
Karen speaking in the women’s ward
Workhouse rate notice (1875)
Small memorial in the workhouse burial ground
Many thanks to Sarah McCollum and Karen Heaney for facilitating today’s HIS3033 visit to the Limavady Workhouse Museum.
At least you get to see one team at their peak
“Studying history, we know that nothing is inevitable.”
In the first piece in a series on artificial intelligence, @amywb.bsky.social argues that now is the time to make the case for studying the humanities.
Read the full piece at Broadsides: www.nacbs.org/post/the-ai-...
