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Patrick walsh
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Associate Professor of eighteenth century Irish History, co- director Trinity Colonial Legacies Project. Procrastinator

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · Sep 16
Another plug for my piece on Trinity’s forgotten tenants in Kerry, Armagh and Donegal and many places in between. Connecting colonial legacies, family history and institutional selective remembering. drb.ie/tcds-forgott...
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TCD’s Forgotten Tenantry - DRB
Patrick Walsh writes: 1923 was a significant year in the life of Thomas Horgan of Ballynaskreena, Co Kerry. His youngest surviving daughter, Bridget (known as Bridie), was born, and he became the firs...
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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 21h
🔥Burning Swamps🔥, a history of the planetary emergency seen from the margins, has been out since Sept 2025

PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
Book cover of Burning Swamps by Katja Bruisch. Green font. A b/w in the centre shows a woman with a headscarf stacking peat

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d
Most of the public think net migration increased last year, when in fact numbers halved.

New findings from the Ipsos/British Future Immigration Attitudes Tracker show that 56% of the public thinks immigration increased last year. Just 1 in 6 realise it was down
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · 1d
New article! Joe Curran on '(Re-)Making the ‘Stateless Capital’: Edinburgh and Dublin in European Context, c.1820–1850'

academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 2d
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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Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · 3d
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...
Ireland and the American Revolution Keynote Address | Prof Eliga Gould
YouTube video by Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities
www.youtube.com

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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 3d
@svenbeckert.bsky.social’s new global history of capitalism — looks great👇 www.penguin.co.uk/books/295668...
Capitalism
No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively as capitalism. It structures how we live and work, how we think about ourselves and others, how we organise our politics. Sven Beckert situat...
www.penguin.co.uk

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Patrick Walsh, Kevin O’Sullivan

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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 6d
Funded PhD opportunities at QUB:
'Childcare provision in late twentieth-century Northern Ireland (1960s-1990s)'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
REF: DfEHIS - HIS-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast
www.qub.ac.uk

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 7d
I've signed the petition calling for the Education Minister to reform Religious Education in NI today - will you sign too? via @actnowcampaigns.bsky.social my.actnowni.org/petitions/re...
Sign Now: We demand Inclusive Religious Education for all NI’s Children
I've signed the petition calling for the Education Minister to reform Religious Education in NI today - will you sign too?
my.actnowni.org

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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 7d
On 8 December we have a joint seminar with the Centre for Public History. Visiting Scholar Jessica Martell (Appalachian State Univ.) will speak on 'Beyond plantation mentalities in Irish literature, film, and culture'. In-person and online.
www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
Irish Studies / Public History Seminar: Jessica Martell
www.qub.ac.uk

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 7d
This UK Supreme Court decision is potentially momentous for the way religion is taught in schools on Northern Ireland. as the situation currently stands it amounts to indoctrination’ - not a word lawyers lightly throw around. A pluralistic Northern, and future Shared, Ireland needs a new approach.
pfie.bsky.social Parents for Inclusive Education @pfie.bsky.social · 7d
Statement from the PFIE officer group on the JR87 ruling yesterday.
Statement from Parents for Inclusive Education NI on the JR87 ruling: Parents for Inclusive Education NI welcomes the landmark UK Supreme Court ruling in JR87, which confirms that Northern Ireland’s current RE curriculum breaches children’s and families’ human rights. The Court found that RE in it’s current form is not “objective, critical and pluralistic” and amounts to indoctrination - and identified the failings of the Department of Education to monitor and safeguard what and how children are being taught. We would like to take this opportunity to extend our sincere thanks to JR87 and her father for bringing this case. We do not know them, but are in awe of their bravery and perseverance in taking a stand on such an epic scale. They, and all families like them who have been resoundingly let down by the current framework, have been throughly vindicated by the highest court in the land. It is important for us to re-state that as a group, we are not campaigning to remove RE or Christianity from schools, far from it. We want RE to be objective, pluralistic, balanced, inclusive and respectful of every child and every family, regardless of belief. Yesterday was a momentous, watershed moment and now is the time for meaningful change. We are excited, optimistic, and fully committed to immediately moving forward to work with a pluralistic and interfaith panel of suitably qualified and experienced educators, policymakers, academics, faith groups and families to build an RE curriculum that truly reflects the diversity of modern Northern Ireland.

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Parents for Inclusive Education @pfie.bsky.social · 7d
Statement from the PFIE officer group on the JR87 ruling yesterday.
Statement from Parents for Inclusive Education NI on the JR87 ruling: Parents for Inclusive Education NI welcomes the landmark UK Supreme Court ruling in JR87, which confirms that Northern Ireland’s current RE curriculum breaches children’s and families’ human rights. The Court found that RE in it’s current form is not “objective, critical and pluralistic” and amounts to indoctrination - and identified the failings of the Department of Education to monitor and safeguard what and how children are being taught. We would like to take this opportunity to extend our sincere thanks to JR87 and her father for bringing this case. We do not know them, but are in awe of their bravery and perseverance in taking a stand on such an epic scale. They, and all families like them who have been resoundingly let down by the current framework, have been throughly vindicated by the highest court in the land. It is important for us to re-state that as a group, we are not campaigning to remove RE or Christianity from schools, far from it. We want RE to be objective, pluralistic, balanced, inclusive and respectful of every child and every family, regardless of belief. Yesterday was a momentous, watershed moment and now is the time for meaningful change. We are excited, optimistic, and fully committed to immediately moving forward to work with a pluralistic and interfaith panel of suitably qualified and experienced educators, policymakers, academics, faith groups and families to build an RE curriculum that truly reflects the diversity of modern Northern Ireland.

Reposted by Patrick Walsh, Aileen Fyfe, Iwan Rhys Morus

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 7d
Fabulous PhD opportunity at Queen's University Belfast and Armagh Observatory:

Observing the Heavens from the 'Periphery': Astronomy in Ireland 1640-1830

www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post... Deadline 13 Jan #histSTM #histastro

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 8d
He was keeping notes!

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 8d
Just out of Waterfront where I brought my 10 year old to his first Dylan concert- he is a super fan! A fantastic show- Bob has still got it.
Bob Dylan set list Belfast Nov. 2025

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 8d
Thinking today of my late mother Jeanne Meldon who fought so hard to preserve and protect the Castletown demesne for future generations alongside colleagues in the Castletown Foundation. She would be delighted with this news

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 8d
Delighted see Irish state has purchased the entire Castletown House estate and saved this vital heritage from development. It’s been a long time coming and hopefully brings an end to a long running saga. www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
State to buy land around Castletown House, restore access
The State has agreed a deal to purchase the lands around Castletown House in Co Kildare which will likely bring an end to a two-year standoff that led to the closure of public parking and access at th...
www.rte.ie

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Eoin McLaughlin @eoinaldo.bsky.social · 8d
Fresh off the printing press, Mary O’Sullivan’s Connell lecture on the Irish woolen industry before and after the Union: A Sheepish Account of Ireland's Changing Role in an Imperial Age, 1780–1824. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 8d
The UK's Supreme Court has ruled that the Christian religious education taught in schools in the North is unlawful.

It added that to teach pupils to 'accept a set of beliefs without critical analysis amounts to evangelism, proselytising, and indoctrination'.
jrnl.ie/6879415
Christian religious education taught in schools in Northern Ireland unlawful, says UK Supreme Court
It had been argued that the right to withdraw from religious education prevented any breach to religious freedom protections under the European Convention on Human Rights.
jrnl.ie

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 9d
At fascinating Novels in the Pipeline event at Belfast’s Accidental Theatre. Featuring @niamhcullen.bsky.social amongst other great writers

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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 10d
Changing places: @angela-historian.bsky.social on the rise and decline of a Donegal port
@rtebrainstorm.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
The rise and fall of Ballyshannon port
The port's international connections brought much prosperity to the Co Donegal town, but the good times didn't last
www.rte.ie

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 11d
This is fascinating

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 11d
"a set of servers have been symbolically placed in the main sanctuary of the former church"
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/16/t...
Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are stored | CNN Business
The Internet Archive is preserving the web one page at a time, a job that’s more critical than ever as the internet evolves in the age of AI.
edition.cnn.com

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 11d
Inevitable once Ken away from @secondcaptains.bsky.social #whenkensaway what a result

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 12d
It would be one thing having a "debate" on immigration if people meant they wanted a "debate" based on facts. But what most people seem to mean when they say they want a debate is that is they want us to pretend a bunch of entirely made up bullshit is true.

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 14d
Every ad now
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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 15d
🔔 Admissions are open for the M.Phil in Environmental History at Trinity College Dublin. Come and join us - or recommend our course to your students! #envhist #skystorians

More info here 👇
www.tcd.ie/courses/post...
Screenshot of the admissions website of the Environmental History M.Phil at Trinity College Dublin

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Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · 15d
Great to have these videos up for those interested who weren't able to attend the conference. Keynotes by Prof. Eliga Gould and Prof. Nicholas Canny and a @virtualtreasury.bsky.social panel. Please share widely.

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

@historytcd.bsky.social @historyatgalway.bsky.social

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Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland @virtualtreasury.bsky.social · 16d
Great feature in historyireland.bsky.social by bsky.app/profile/mayn... Eamon Darcy on William Molyneux & the birth of #LocalHistory in Ireland.

👀 our Curated collection
www.virtualtreasury.ie/curated-coll...
📢 Shout out to funders bsky.app/profile/ria.ie
&
📷TCD Library bsky.app/profile/tcdd...
😊
Engraving of William Molyneux in full wig and white lace collar c. 1660s Image of the headline to Eamon Darcy's feature in History Ireland: 'A Heap of Rude Materials - William Molyneux and the birth of local Irish history in the age of empires.

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 17d
‘and they called it Macaroni…’

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 17d
Estate agents outbidding morality once again. If perhaps a logical outcome to over zealous unthinking and uncritical remembrance
remembrancewatch.bsky.social RemembranceWatch @remembrancewatch.bsky.social · 18d
We will respect them but also, have you taken the two minute silence to really think about the value of your property? It's what the fallen would have wanted. They gave their tomorrow so we can tout for your business today.

Even by estate agent standards. That's low.