Ultán Gillen
@ultan1793.bsky.social
Interested in counter-revolution, but also Wolfe Tone. And Robespierre
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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.
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New vacancy (Junior Research Fellowship) working on the Northern Ireland Peace Process at the Quill Project in Oxford!
Based at Pembroke College with funding from the Carnegie Foundation of New York.
See details here: www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/juni...
Based at Pembroke College with funding from the Carnegie Foundation of New York.
See details here: www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/juni...
Junior Research Fellowship in the Northern Ireland Peace Process (Quill Project)
Pembroke College wishes to appoint a Junior Research Fellow in the History of the Northern Ireland Peace Process. The appointment will be from early 2026 until 31 July 2027. The post is full-time and ...
www.pmb.ox.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM
New vacancy (Junior Research Fellowship) working on the Northern Ireland Peace Process at the Quill Project in Oxford!
Based at Pembroke College with funding from the Carnegie Foundation of New York.
See details here: www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/juni...
Based at Pembroke College with funding from the Carnegie Foundation of New York.
See details here: www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/juni...
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New article! Joe Curran on '(Re-)Making the ‘Stateless Capital’: Edinburgh and Dublin in European Context, c.1820–1850'
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November 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
New article! Joe Curran on '(Re-)Making the ‘Stateless Capital’: Edinburgh and Dublin in European Context, c.1820–1850'
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Stunned that Starmer and Reeves have decided on an international student levy that hits the richestuniversities least. Totally out of character for them
November 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Stunned that Starmer and Reeves have decided on an international student levy that hits the richestuniversities least. Totally out of character for them
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New blog from IHR Director @[email protected] reflecting on how historians can advocate for history through our practice, and defend the important historical work that goes on within universities as well as beyond them. blog.history.ac.uk/2025/11/advo...
Advocating for History by Doing History - On History
This blog was written by Claire Langhamer, Director of the IHR Historians are very good at crafting arguments and in recent times very many people have advanced very many arguments about why history…
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November 26, 2025 at 10:45 AM
New blog from IHR Director @[email protected] reflecting on how historians can advocate for history through our practice, and defend the important historical work that goes on within universities as well as beyond them. blog.history.ac.uk/2025/11/advo...
Breakfast of champions
November 26, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Breakfast of champions
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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...
Just waitingfor the Sindo article calling for the Treaty ports to be returned to the UK to protect the undersea cables
November 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Just waitingfor the Sindo article calling for the Treaty ports to be returned to the UK to protect the undersea cables
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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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If you missed Catriona Kennedy's talk yesterday on 'Women, politics, and the Irish public sphere in the age of revolution', a recording is now available at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-dV...
Irish Studies Seminar: Catriona Kennedy
YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies
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November 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
If you missed Catriona Kennedy's talk yesterday on 'Women, politics, and the Irish public sphere in the age of revolution', a recording is now available at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-dV...
Udo Kier was in Blade, and said the lesson he learned was to not agree to be killed off so.easily. Also, Blade is great
November 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Udo Kier was in Blade, and said the lesson he learned was to not agree to be killed off so.easily. Also, Blade is great
No memory of ever hearing of something called "stir-up Sunday" until this year, and have heard of it twice in 3 days.
November 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM
No memory of ever hearing of something called "stir-up Sunday" until this year, and have heard of it twice in 3 days.
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We published our first essay 10 years ago today on @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social. It was based on a side idea I had for my dissertation that would explore news of Franklin’s death around the revolutionary Atlantic. ageofrevolutions.com/2015/11/21/f...
“Franklin is Dead”: Celebrity, Genius, and Religion in the Age of Revolutions
By Bryan A. Banks On June 11, 1790, an emotionally wrought Mirabeau took to the rostrum of the National Constituent Assembly after numerous days away suffering from ophthalmia to announce Benjamin …
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November 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
We published our first essay 10 years ago today on @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social. It was based on a side idea I had for my dissertation that would explore news of Franklin’s death around the revolutionary Atlantic. ageofrevolutions.com/2015/11/21/f...
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From my book: the aftermath of the 1798 Rebellion.
1/10
The 1798 Irish rebellion was largely crushed, but guerrilla resistance lingered until 1804. The government then launched a strategic de-radicalisation drive, especially targeting the middle-class leaders.
1/10
The 1798 Irish rebellion was largely crushed, but guerrilla resistance lingered until 1804. The government then launched a strategic de-radicalisation drive, especially targeting the middle-class leaders.
November 20, 2025 at 10:24 AM
From my book: the aftermath of the 1798 Rebellion.
1/10
The 1798 Irish rebellion was largely crushed, but guerrilla resistance lingered until 1804. The government then launched a strategic de-radicalisation drive, especially targeting the middle-class leaders.
1/10
The 1798 Irish rebellion was largely crushed, but guerrilla resistance lingered until 1804. The government then launched a strategic de-radicalisation drive, especially targeting the middle-class leaders.
227 years to the day after Wolfe Tone died, we renain as far away from the unity of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter as ever
November 19, 2025 at 8:49 PM
227 years to the day after Wolfe Tone died, we renain as far away from the unity of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter as ever
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In this blog, we uncover new information about the provenance of the RIA Library's Haliday Pamphlet and Tract Collections. Charles Haliday MRIA (1789?-1866) was a 19th C book collector whose extraordinary collection of over 25,000 pamphlets is house in RIA Library. www.ria.ie/blog/notes-o...
November 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
In this blog, we uncover new information about the provenance of the RIA Library's Haliday Pamphlet and Tract Collections. Charles Haliday MRIA (1789?-1866) was a 19th C book collector whose extraordinary collection of over 25,000 pamphlets is house in RIA Library. www.ria.ie/blog/notes-o...
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🎉 All stipendiary IHR Fellowships, Bursaries, & Prizes are now LIVE! 🎉
universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/lst/
(All of our open competitions start with "IHR" in the title.)
Got a question? Please check the application page & our website for more information.
www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/lst/
(All of our open competitions start with "IHR" in the title.)
Got a question? Please check the application page & our website for more information.
www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
Programs - School of Advanced Study
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November 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🎉 All stipendiary IHR Fellowships, Bursaries, & Prizes are now LIVE! 🎉
universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/lst/
(All of our open competitions start with "IHR" in the title.)
Got a question? Please check the application page & our website for more information.
www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/lst/
(All of our open competitions start with "IHR" in the title.)
Got a question? Please check the application page & our website for more information.
www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
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1832 Committee on Tithes: "The late Bishop of Cork said to me, 'We are in the habit of blaming the Roman-catholics for the resistance to tithes, but I believe, if the real truth was known, there is scarcely any country gentlemen in Ireland who is not in his heart a whiteboy.'"
November 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
1832 Committee on Tithes: "The late Bishop of Cork said to me, 'We are in the habit of blaming the Roman-catholics for the resistance to tithes, but I believe, if the real truth was known, there is scarcely any country gentlemen in Ireland who is not in his heart a whiteboy.'"
The second best Northern Star behind the original
The first issue of the Chartist newspaper, the Northern Star, appeared #OnThisDay 18 November 1837. Without it, Chartism would have been a far weaker thing.
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www.chartistancestors.co.uk/northern-sta...
November 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The second best Northern Star behind the original
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Join us online for this year’s Breandán Ó Buachalla Lecture, organised with the support of @nlireland.bsky.social. The lecture, “The harp and the harper in Classical Irish Poetry” will be given by Dr Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh. Registration now open
www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...
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Binn gotha na dtéad
The harp and the harper in Classical Irish Poetry
www.nli.ie
November 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Join us online for this year’s Breandán Ó Buachalla Lecture, organised with the support of @nlireland.bsky.social. The lecture, “The harp and the harper in Classical Irish Poetry” will be given by Dr Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh. Registration now open
www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...
www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...
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It's 1987. PREDATOR and THE RUNNING MAN are in theaters.
It's 2025. PREDATOR and THE RUNNING MAN are in theaters.
It's 2025. PREDATOR and THE RUNNING MAN are in theaters.
November 12, 2025 at 3:43 AM
It's 1987. PREDATOR and THE RUNNING MAN are in theaters.
It's 2025. PREDATOR and THE RUNNING MAN are in theaters.
It's 2025. PREDATOR and THE RUNNING MAN are in theaters.
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Reposted by Ultán Gillen
Walt Disney Presents at Disney's Hollywood Studios now features an exhibit with props and costumes from holiday films like 'The Muppet Christmas Carol' and 'The Santa Clause.'
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Walt Disney Presents at Disney's Hollywood Studios now features an exhibit with props and costumes from holiday films like 'The Muppet Christmas Carol' and 'The Santa Clause.'
Want
November 15, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Want