Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman
@niamhroisin.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Dept of History, University of Limerick. Currently writing about the development of Catholic architecture in Ireland, 1780s-1950s. #CeaseFireInGaza https://pure.ul.ie/en/persons/niamh-nicghabhann-coleman
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‘New and elegant chapels, either built or in the act of building’: St John the Baptist, Cashel, and Catholic architecture in an era of relief and reform | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core
‘New and elegant chapels, either built or in the act of building’: St John the Baptist, Cashel, and Catholic architecture in an era of relief and reform - Volume 48 Issue 174
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This @irishhistsoc.bsky.social article examines the building of grand chapel buildings by Catholics in Ireland after the first Relief Acts, but 30 years before Emancipation. It looks at architectural patronage as civic participation, focusing on Cashel & Waterford www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
My favourite shop! The Apple Farm shop in Tipperary @theapplefarmer.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 11:24 AM
My favourite shop! The Apple Farm shop in Tipperary @theapplefarmer.bsky.social
Just listened to the @ria.ie podcast on this with the two authors - a really illuminating listen - podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
November 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Just listened to the @ria.ie podcast on this with the two authors - a really illuminating listen - podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
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The Head of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo, visited Istanbul’s Blue Mosque as part of his four-day trip to Turkiye.
Officially called the Sultanahmet Mosque, it was built in the sixth century and has great significance to both Christians and Muslims.
Officially called the Sultanahmet Mosque, it was built in the sixth century and has great significance to both Christians and Muslims.
November 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The Head of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo, visited Istanbul’s Blue Mosque as part of his four-day trip to Turkiye.
Officially called the Sultanahmet Mosque, it was built in the sixth century and has great significance to both Christians and Muslims.
Officially called the Sultanahmet Mosque, it was built in the sixth century and has great significance to both Christians and Muslims.
‘reports from the human soul, from the depths of being – not factual dispatches such as would appear in newspapers, but “facts of art”, attesting to the truth of the human experience.’ - such a powerful and sad essay on art and war
“The poet writes as if making an incision in consciousness. At the site of this wound, language breaks, becomes tentative, interrogational, kaleidoscopic. But it endures.”
~ Carolyn Forché (2024)
Read the full essay on our website:
irishpages.org/sharing-the-...
@irishlittimes.bsky.social
~ Carolyn Forché (2024)
Read the full essay on our website:
irishpages.org/sharing-the-...
@irishlittimes.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 12:06 PM
‘reports from the human soul, from the depths of being – not factual dispatches such as would appear in newspapers, but “facts of art”, attesting to the truth of the human experience.’ - such a powerful and sad essay on art and war
Another year of Graduate Seminar in Irish Cultural History wrapped up - brilliant students w presentations on LGBTQIA+ helplines in 1990s Limerick, Alternative Ulster zine & punk in Belfast, pilgrimages to Croagh Patrick, Celtic Revival children’s books, Victorian Staffordshire China dogs…
November 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Another year of Graduate Seminar in Irish Cultural History wrapped up - brilliant students w presentations on LGBTQIA+ helplines in 1990s Limerick, Alternative Ulster zine & punk in Belfast, pilgrimages to Croagh Patrick, Celtic Revival children’s books, Victorian Staffordshire China dogs…
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
That ‘last lecture before the Christmas break’ feeling 🎄
November 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
That ‘last lecture before the Christmas break’ feeling 🎄
Happy world linguistics day from Limerick, Ireland!
Happy World Linguistics Day from Montreal, Canada!
(I wonder how many different places we can get world linguistics day wishes from this year!)
(I wonder how many different places we can get world linguistics day wishes from this year!)
Happy World Linguistics Day from Melbourne, Australia!
November 26, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Happy world linguistics day from Limerick, Ireland!
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Help 🙏 I’m moving into Ch2 of my PhD by PP, which focuses on the shift in practice embodied by my memoir Negative Space. If you know of any academic writing which references my work, I’d be very grateful to be pointed in its direction. @lilydunn.bsky.social @minxmarple.bsky.social please share? #phd
November 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Help 🙏 I’m moving into Ch2 of my PhD by PP, which focuses on the shift in practice embodied by my memoir Negative Space. If you know of any academic writing which references my work, I’d be very grateful to be pointed in its direction. @lilydunn.bsky.social @minxmarple.bsky.social please share? #phd
Having just given feedback on draft student work, I am SO IMPRESSED by students who resist the easy, empty solutions offered by AI, & whose voices I can clearly hear, & whose perspectives are genuinely interesting & important. (Esp students who compare 18th c Thomas ‘Bullocks’ Wyse to Logan Roy!)
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
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November 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Having just given feedback on draft student work, I am SO IMPRESSED by students who resist the easy, empty solutions offered by AI, & whose voices I can clearly hear, & whose perspectives are genuinely interesting & important. (Esp students who compare 18th c Thomas ‘Bullocks’ Wyse to Logan Roy!)
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🏭 New Special Issue on Industrial Urbanisms and Entangled Modernities in Eurasia edited by Victoria Fomina
🔗 Introduction doi.org/10.1017/S096...
#UrbanHistory
🔗 Introduction doi.org/10.1017/S096...
#UrbanHistory
November 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
🏭 New Special Issue on Industrial Urbanisms and Entangled Modernities in Eurasia edited by Victoria Fomina
🔗 Introduction doi.org/10.1017/S096...
#UrbanHistory
🔗 Introduction doi.org/10.1017/S096...
#UrbanHistory
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Send in your abstracts for the Sadness + Gender conference we're holding in June 2026! We have some fantastic keynote speakers and specialist panels lined up and would love to see you all in Dublin! #cfp @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @molimuseum.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Send in your abstracts for the Sadness + Gender conference we're holding in June 2026! We have some fantastic keynote speakers and specialist panels lined up and would love to see you all in Dublin! #cfp @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @molimuseum.bsky.social
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BREAKING: At least 24 people are dead and 54 wounded after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began in October, officials say.
Israel launches strikes in Gaza ceasefire's latest test as hospitals say 20 killed
Israel's military says it has launched new airstrikes against Hamas militants in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began on October 10.
bit.ly
November 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
BREAKING: At least 24 people are dead and 54 wounded after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began in October, officials say.
Really enjoyed presenting my research on Daniel O’Connell & Catholic architecture today at the CHSI conference at DCU, & learning loads from the other speakers. #speirgorm #skystorians
November 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Really enjoyed presenting my research on Daniel O’Connell & Catholic architecture today at the CHSI conference at DCU, & learning loads from the other speakers. #speirgorm #skystorians
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The attack marks the latest of nearly 400 Israeli violations of a US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
Deadly Israeli attack on Gaza brings death toll since ceasefire to 280
The attack marks the latest of nearly 400 Israeli violations of a US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
bit.ly
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The attack marks the latest of nearly 400 Israeli violations of a US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
I think we all have played our part here ☕️
70 teaspoons placed in tearooms around the institute & observed weekly over 5 months. 80% of spoons disappeared; spoon halflife~81 days. Communal room halflife lower than in specific labs. 250 spoons annually required to maintain 70 spoon population.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute
Objectives To determine the overall rate of loss of workplace teaspoons and whether attrition and displacement are correlated with the relative value of the teaspoons or type of tearoom. Design Longitudinal cohort study. Setting Research institute ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 20, 2025 at 9:19 AM
I think we all have played our part here ☕️
A pop-up Villa Rotunda from a student in today’s post! Love it!
November 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
A pop-up Villa Rotunda from a student in today’s post! Love it!
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New 'Historical Geography at Large' essay!
Stephen Daniels reviews 'Reimag(in)ing the Victorians', an exhibition curated by Isobel Elstob at Lakeside Arts, University of Nottingham (22 Sep 2023 - 7 Jan 2024), and the accompanying monograph.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.004
Stephen Daniels reviews 'Reimag(in)ing the Victorians', an exhibition curated by Isobel Elstob at Lakeside Arts, University of Nottingham (22 Sep 2023 - 7 Jan 2024), and the accompanying monograph.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.004
November 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
New 'Historical Geography at Large' essay!
Stephen Daniels reviews 'Reimag(in)ing the Victorians', an exhibition curated by Isobel Elstob at Lakeside Arts, University of Nottingham (22 Sep 2023 - 7 Jan 2024), and the accompanying monograph.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.004
Stephen Daniels reviews 'Reimag(in)ing the Victorians', an exhibition curated by Isobel Elstob at Lakeside Arts, University of Nottingham (22 Sep 2023 - 7 Jan 2024), and the accompanying monograph.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.10.004
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An @ihr.bsky.social Parliaments, Politics & People seminar on 3 December will be of interest to our members & followers:
Helen Wilson, 'Black and Political: Reconstructing Black Participation in British Politics, 1750-1850'
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
#Prosopography #PoliticalHistory
Helen Wilson, 'Black and Political: Reconstructing Black Participation in British Politics, 1750-1850'
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
#Prosopography #PoliticalHistory
Black and Political: Reconstructing Black Participation in British Politics, 1750-1850
www.history.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 11:58 AM
An @ihr.bsky.social Parliaments, Politics & People seminar on 3 December will be of interest to our members & followers:
Helen Wilson, 'Black and Political: Reconstructing Black Participation in British Politics, 1750-1850'
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
#Prosopography #PoliticalHistory
Helen Wilson, 'Black and Political: Reconstructing Black Participation in British Politics, 1750-1850'
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
#Prosopography #PoliticalHistory
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Troy story 3
📸 Attila Kisbedenek
📸 Attila Kisbedenek
November 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Troy story 3
📸 Attila Kisbedenek
📸 Attila Kisbedenek
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November 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Time to start working on that Troy Parrott Statue!!! #coybig #speirgorm
November 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Time to start working on that Troy Parrott Statue!!! #coybig #speirgorm