Clodagh Tait
@clodaghtait.bsky.social
Historian at MIC, Limerick, of women, men, children, emotion, death, violence, ghosts, cursing, folklore. Joint editor IHS.
https://www.mic.ul.ie/staff/283-clodagh-tait
https://www.mic.ul.ie/staff/283-clodagh-tait
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November 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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📢Applying for a PhD?📢
My excellent colleagues are running a Zoom masterclass next Weds 3 December on how to write a successful PhD proposal and how to apply for funding.
Free, register below - choose from:
- 10am: lnkd.in/eUPhAXHc
- 4pm: lnkd.in/e_U79jUt
🗃️ #PhDChat #Humanities
My excellent colleagues are running a Zoom masterclass next Weds 3 December on how to write a successful PhD proposal and how to apply for funding.
Free, register below - choose from:
- 10am: lnkd.in/eUPhAXHc
- 4pm: lnkd.in/e_U79jUt
🗃️ #PhDChat #Humanities
November 27, 2025 at 7:35 AM
📢Applying for a PhD?📢
My excellent colleagues are running a Zoom masterclass next Weds 3 December on how to write a successful PhD proposal and how to apply for funding.
Free, register below - choose from:
- 10am: lnkd.in/eUPhAXHc
- 4pm: lnkd.in/e_U79jUt
🗃️ #PhDChat #Humanities
My excellent colleagues are running a Zoom masterclass next Weds 3 December on how to write a successful PhD proposal and how to apply for funding.
Free, register below - choose from:
- 10am: lnkd.in/eUPhAXHc
- 4pm: lnkd.in/e_U79jUt
🗃️ #PhDChat #Humanities
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How to keep mice and rats out of your cheese chamber:
Mix weasel brains with hog suet and scatter them around the room. Problem solved! You're welcome.
Mix weasel brains with hog suet and scatter them around the room. Problem solved! You're welcome.
November 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
How to keep mice and rats out of your cheese chamber:
Mix weasel brains with hog suet and scatter them around the room. Problem solved! You're welcome.
Mix weasel brains with hog suet and scatter them around the room. Problem solved! You're welcome.
How to keep mice and rats out of your cheese chamber:
Mix weasel brains with hog suet and scatter them around the room. Problem solved! You're welcome.
Mix weasel brains with hog suet and scatter them around the room. Problem solved! You're welcome.
November 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
How to keep mice and rats out of your cheese chamber:
Mix weasel brains with hog suet and scatter them around the room. Problem solved! You're welcome.
Mix weasel brains with hog suet and scatter them around the room. Problem solved! You're welcome.
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This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
'A mortification of the bowels' sounds deeply unpleasant (Thady Halloran's Commonplace book).
November 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
'A mortification of the bowels' sounds deeply unpleasant (Thady Halloran's Commonplace book).
Light pollution from industrial agriculture given a puff piece by @news.rte.ie. No, we don't need tasteless strawberries in December, even if they are Irish.
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Light pollution from industrial agriculture given a puff piece by @news.rte.ie. No, we don't need tasteless strawberries in December, even if they are Irish.
Apologies to the Lemass family for this comment, but all names applied to public utilities should be vetted for their 'tabloid headline' potential. Do we want to risk 'More disruption at Lame-ass airport'?
A bill to officially rename Dublin Airport after former taoiseach Seán Lemass has been moved to a second stage.
TD introduces bill to rename Dublin Airport after Lemass
A bill to officially rename Dublin Airport after former taoiseach Seán Lemass has been moved to a second stage.
www.rte.ie
November 26, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Apologies to the Lemass family for this comment, but all names applied to public utilities should be vetted for their 'tabloid headline' potential. Do we want to risk 'More disruption at Lame-ass airport'?
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Looking forward to speaking at the History Research Seminar at Maynooth tomorrow. I'll be talking about 'the news' and how its disruptive qualities are anything but new. The context will be the British Empire, particularly Ireland and America. Very grateful to conveners for the invitation.
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.
November 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Looking forward to speaking at the History Research Seminar at Maynooth tomorrow. I'll be talking about 'the news' and how its disruptive qualities are anything but new. The context will be the British Empire, particularly Ireland and America. Very grateful to conveners for the invitation.
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Registration for this conference closes today - there are a few places left!
We are co-hosting on 3 Dec. a conference on 'From Boundary Commission to Border Poll? A Century of the Irish Border'. This is a free event, but registration is required (by 26 Nov.). Info at: www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...
November 26, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Registration for this conference closes today - there are a few places left!
November 26, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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For a yr, I've been working on a series for The New Atlantis about the vast systems that underlie our lives. Our ancestors built them up over decades to fend off hunger, thirst, darkness and disease. But too few of us know about them—and they're all at risk. The conclusion is now available online:
Why We Are Better Off Than a Century Ago
Our ancestors built grand public systems to conquer hunger, thirst, darkness, and squalor. That progress can be lost if we forget it.
www.thenewatlantis.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
For a yr, I've been working on a series for The New Atlantis about the vast systems that underlie our lives. Our ancestors built them up over decades to fend off hunger, thirst, darkness and disease. But too few of us know about them—and they're all at risk. The conclusion is now available online:
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Our last seminar for this year, on 15 Dec. will be Patrick Walsh (TCD) speaking on 'A colonial sinew of power? Rethinking the 18th-century Irish state' (joint event with CECS). All welcome in-person and online. www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...
November 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Our last seminar for this year, on 15 Dec. will be Patrick Walsh (TCD) speaking on 'A colonial sinew of power? Rethinking the 18th-century Irish state' (joint event with CECS). All welcome in-person and online. www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...
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Naughty goings on in 18th-century Cork
November 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Naughty goings on in 18th-century Cork
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How the Victorians invented the gym selfie. British and Irish men in the 1890s mailed their portraits to fitness guru Eugen Sandow, who created a global business with gyms, books and training kits, writes @physcstudy.bsky.social @ulsteruni.bsky.social @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
How the Victorians invented the gym selfie
British and Irish men in the 1890s mailed their portraits to fitness guru Eugen Sandow, who created a global business with gyms, books and training kits
www.rte.ie
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
How the Victorians invented the gym selfie. British and Irish men in the 1890s mailed their portraits to fitness guru Eugen Sandow, who created a global business with gyms, books and training kits, writes @physcstudy.bsky.social @ulsteruni.bsky.social @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Naughty goings on in 18th-century Cork
November 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Naughty goings on in 18th-century Cork
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One for the #speirgorm community.
I wonder if any Irish historians on here can help me identify any of the people in this picture? Early 1900s probably in Dublin, it's Tom Clarke in the middle and I think I know who it is on the left of the image. Any of the others though?
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
One for the #speirgorm community.
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Hey you, is this a 2 on your forehead, or are you modeling for this science book again? #skystorians
1 2 3 all over the face. This numbered face is part of an #earlymodern book about physiognomy, the art of face reading, and chiromancy, the art of fortune-telling by looking at your hand. The numbers described the person's character, personality or body functions from their outer appearance.
1/2
1/2
November 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Hey you, is this a 2 on your forehead, or are you modeling for this science book again? #skystorians
Would love to see all the Church of Ireland registers properly online, like the Catholic ones on the @nlireland.bsky.social website.
Thanks to Heritage Council funding, digital versions of these parish registers will soon be online. And the precious records of St Luke's Douglas can move from a damp old building to a temperature-controlled archive. #Speirgorm #Ireland 🗃️
November 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Would love to see all the Church of Ireland registers properly online, like the Catholic ones on the @nlireland.bsky.social website.
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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A second keynote from Prof. Nicholas Canny, 'Interconnections between Ireland and North America in the Era of Revolutions, c1760-c1848'.
A little known Irish book on the revolution is used to weave together a sprawling story of a connected revolutionary Atlantic.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Ju...
A little known Irish book on the revolution is used to weave together a sprawling story of a connected revolutionary Atlantic.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Ju...
Ireland and the American Revolution Keynote Address 2 | Prof. Nicholas Canny MRIA
YouTube video by Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM
A second keynote from Prof. Nicholas Canny, 'Interconnections between Ireland and North America in the Era of Revolutions, c1760-c1848'.
A little known Irish book on the revolution is used to weave together a sprawling story of a connected revolutionary Atlantic.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Ju...
A little known Irish book on the revolution is used to weave together a sprawling story of a connected revolutionary Atlantic.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Ju...
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Highlighting these one last time:
A keynote from Prof. Eliga Gould, 'Lord Carlisle’s Union: Making Peace in America, Ireland, and Britain, 1778-1783’.
Brings up an interesting counterfactual: What if America had gone the way of Ireland and remained within empire?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv4F...
A keynote from Prof. Eliga Gould, 'Lord Carlisle’s Union: Making Peace in America, Ireland, and Britain, 1778-1783’.
Brings up an interesting counterfactual: What if America had gone the way of Ireland and remained within empire?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv4F...
Ireland and the American Revolution Keynote Address | Prof Eliga Gould
YouTube video by Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Highlighting these one last time:
A keynote from Prof. Eliga Gould, 'Lord Carlisle’s Union: Making Peace in America, Ireland, and Britain, 1778-1783’.
Brings up an interesting counterfactual: What if America had gone the way of Ireland and remained within empire?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv4F...
A keynote from Prof. Eliga Gould, 'Lord Carlisle’s Union: Making Peace in America, Ireland, and Britain, 1778-1783’.
Brings up an interesting counterfactual: What if America had gone the way of Ireland and remained within empire?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv4F...
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This year’s O’Donnell Lecture at the University of Edinburgh will be given by Professor @brendankanect.bsky.social of @earlymodirish.bsky.social fame. Brendan is Visiting Leverhulme Professor in Edinburgh in 2025 and 2026.
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 AM
This year’s O’Donnell Lecture at the University of Edinburgh will be given by Professor @brendankanect.bsky.social of @earlymodirish.bsky.social fame. Brendan is Visiting Leverhulme Professor in Edinburgh in 2025 and 2026.
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Please come to our Limerick Centre for Early Modern Studies Public Lecture, when Dr Jason Harris (UCC) will be talking about manuscript publication in the seventeenth century: Glucksman Library, 2 December, 5.15pm. All welcome.
November 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Please come to our Limerick Centre for Early Modern Studies Public Lecture, when Dr Jason Harris (UCC) will be talking about manuscript publication in the seventeenth century: Glucksman Library, 2 December, 5.15pm. All welcome.
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Interviewer: How do you explain this 4-year gap on your resume?
Guy: That’s when I went to Yale...
Interviewer: That’s impressive. You are hired.
Guy: Thanks. I really needed this Yob.
Guy: That’s when I went to Yale...
Interviewer: That’s impressive. You are hired.
Guy: Thanks. I really needed this Yob.
November 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Interviewer: How do you explain this 4-year gap on your resume?
Guy: That’s when I went to Yale...
Interviewer: That’s impressive. You are hired.
Guy: Thanks. I really needed this Yob.
Guy: That’s when I went to Yale...
Interviewer: That’s impressive. You are hired.
Guy: Thanks. I really needed this Yob.