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Claire Connolly
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Professor of Modern English @ucc.ie | Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Secretary @ria.ie | Irish Romanticism: a Literary History @universitypress.cambridge.org

https://research.ucc.ie/en/persons/claire-connolly/

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 10d
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
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 1d
@jenniebatchelor.bsky.social shares that applications are now open for her new Rare Books School course on "The Rise of Periodical Print Culture, 1700–1830." The course will run from the 12th-17th July 2026. More info at the Rare Books School website: buff.ly/hY81Dzi Thanks for #SharingYourNews!
The Rise of Periodical Print Culture, 1700–1830 | Rare Book School
Course Length: 30 hours Course Week: 12–17 July 2026 Format: in person, University of York in York, UK Fee: $1,495 This course focuses on the diversity and proliferation of periodical publications…
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BC_Gemma @bcgemma.bsky.social · 2d
Dipper flashing its nictitating membrane / third eyelid #Birds

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 2d
New network: The Eighteenth Century Ecologies Network, based at the University of York (@cecs-york.bsky.social)

More info on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6273
Poster for the Eighteenth Century Ecologies Network Seminar Series 2026, Heslington Hall, University of York, and Online: "Based at the University of York's Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, the Eighteenth-Century Ecologies Network is a hub for researchers interested in the many diverse ecologies of the long eighteenth-century and Romantic periods. Through a regular seminar series beginning in early 2026, we aim to present the latest research in our field, allowing scholars from across the eighteenth-century humanities to engage with diverse and cutting-edge research from established and emergent scholars in the field. We thus hope to produce a network of mutually informed and engaged scholarship, with an eye always to the climate crisis. Visit us at: https://hzjs20.wixsite.com/eighteenth-century-e"

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 3d
Thank goodness someone was keeping the Irish peasants busy

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 3d
So beautifully and painfully understated.

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Murray Pittock : @murrayp.bsky.social · 4d
Looking forward to giving one of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow lectures for 2026 on 'The Roots and Fruits of Scotland's Global History' on the 28th: @sahavoice.bsky.social @asls.org.uk @iassl.bsky.social . Details: www.royalphil.org/lecture/the-...
The Roots and Fruits of Scotland's Global History - The Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow
Summary
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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 4d
This book claims to have been printed on the frozen River Thames in 1814 during the last of the great frost fairs!

Frostiana, published by G. Davis in 1814 (Syn.7.81.93)

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 5d
Yay 🙌

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Luisa Calè @luisacale.bsky.social · 5d
OUT TODAY: My monograph, The Book Unbound, is printed in hardback today @universitypress.cambridge.org: www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...
The Book Unbound
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1830-1900 - The Book Unbound
www.cambridge.org

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Edwin Rose @edwinrose.bsky.social · 5d
Delighted to see this recent article in the @smithsonianmag.bsky.social by @donnalferguson.bsky.social on some of the research outputs for the Naming Species in the South Pacific project: www.smithsonianmag.com/history/newl... With thanks to our collaborators, @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social
Newly Digitized Records Reveal How Indigenous People Shared Their Knowledge of New Zealand's Plants With Captain Cook's Crew
Long-overlooked documents housed at London's Natural History Museum testify to the exchange of information between 18th-century European botanists and their Indigenous counterparts
www.smithsonianmag.com

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 5d
A Library Lunchtime Lecture by one of the exhibition's curators, Dr @emilymfg.bsky.social , will take place on Tuesday, 20 January 2026 at 1pm.

More information about this lecture and booking details are available on the RIA website: www.ria.ie/events/libra...
Library Lunchtime Lecture: The Art & Life of Casimir Markievicz, a Polish Artist in Bohemian Dublin, 1903-13 - Royal Irish Academy
A Library Lunchtime Lecture to accompany a panel exhibition, Casimir Markievicz – A Polish Artist in Bohemian Dublin (1903-1913), organised by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Dublin and hoste...
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 5d
One of the best literary journals anywhere, outside and in, is @winterpapers.bsky.social. Their open submissions period for the 2026 issue is 14-28 February. Everything will be read and replied to early August. The editing is excellent: acute & sympathetic. Have a go! winterpapers.com/submissions
Winter Papers Submissions
winterpapers.com

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 5d
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paulodonovan.bsky.social Paul O'Donovan @paulodonovan.bsky.social · 6d
Even in rainy Ireland, solar PV is a winner. First full calendar year of having panels and generation (7.7Mwh) comfortably exceeds consumption (7Mwh). Consuming slightly more from April to September as I switched off the gas boiler and used electricity for hot water.
Graphic showing generation and consumption of electricity

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Paul O'Donovan @paulodonovan.bsky.social · 6d
Even in rainy Ireland, solar PV is a winner. First full calendar year of having panels and generation (7.7Mwh) comfortably exceeds consumption (7Mwh). Consuming slightly more from April to September as I switched off the gas boiler and used electricity for hot water.
Graphic showing generation and consumption of electricity

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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 6d
Our good friends at the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris are advertising a short-term research fellowship in their old library and historical archives. Check it out at portail.centreculturelirlandais.com/index.php?lv...

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Yen-Chi Wu @yenchiwu.bsky.social · 6d
This little book is available for pre-order now. Please use this promo code to receive a 20% discount 😄

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 7d
Very hard!

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 7d
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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 7d
I wish someone had told me to stay at home till 11 ... ⛸️😱

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 7d
So many words! So little meaning!

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Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland @ssnci.bsky.social · 7d
We are delighted that Catriona Kennedy will give the @ssnci.bsky.social annual lecture on 'Women & Irish politics in the age of revolution'!! It will be held @nlireland.bsky.social on 22 January. For more see
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Amazon, aristocrat or democrat?
Women and Irish politics in the age of revolution
www.nli.ie

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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 7d
No matter what you’re currently doing you should stop and (try to) read this. A contender for the worst-written article I’ve ever seen and also just barking mad! Does the Irish Mirror have no sub-editors?! #speirgorm (and hat-tip to @apiln.bsky.social)
Musician Camille O’Sullivan tells of encounters with Graham Dwyer
Camille O’Sullivan worked for a number of years as an architect in an office alongside killer Dwyer
www.irishmirror.ie

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 7d
Keen to know more about 'Thermal horizons: energy and infrastructures of British global power, c. 1830–1900'? Join us to discuss Alex Bremmer's paper on Tuesday 13 January either in person at the Institute of Historical Research, London or on Zoom, 5:30 GMT. Free and open to the public.
Thermal horizons: energy and infrastructures of British global power, c.1830-1900
www.history.ac.uk

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neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social · 7d
Boxes for cosmetic patches or gaming counters (one with original mother-of-pearl counters), c1710-15
Small silver boxes (about the diameter of a North American quarter), each with an embossed portrait on the lid of Queen Anne in profile, crowned, with the initials QA or AR. One contains MOP counters engraved with the numbers 1, 2 and 4 (is the one for 3 missing? there would be room in the box for a few more, actually)

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Matheus Duarte @alvesduarte.bsky.social · 8d
I'm hiring 2 postdocs on my Wellcome project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)"

Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
King's College
3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29
Deadline: 01/02/26
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Postdoctoral Research Associate | King's College London
www.kcl.ac.uk

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Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social · 8d
Did you know that Burns Library holds a collection of photographs and albums belonging to Irish activist, printer, and camogie player Máire Gill? They live in our Loretta Clarke Murray Collection and we’ve just digitized them! https://findingaids.bc.edu/repositories/2/resources/254/digitized
Full length photographic portrait of Maire Gill in a medieval costume

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bsky.social · 8d
Just a reminder that the closing date for submissions to the 3d Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland with Sample-Studios and University College Cork is January 12th 2026:

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Call for Papers for the 3rd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland - Sample-Studios
Proposals are now being accepted for the 3rd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland, a conference organised by Sample-Studios and the Department of Digital
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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 8d
Fab cover

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 8d
Went for a walk today. More photos when I get home and edit what’s on the property camera. Slightly dicy walk up but wonderful at the top of the Long Mynd: deep snow, wild ponies and silence.
Wild ponies on a snowy Long Mynd. Ring fort, Caer Caradoc, the Lawley and the Wrekin from the Long Mynd

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 8d
Thanks for posting!