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
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.
'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).
Naughty goings on in 18th-century Cork
November 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Naughty goings on in 18th-century Cork
As part of the @cemslimerick.bsky.social Winter School at Univeristy of Limerick next Tuesday and Wednesday, you're welcome to Jason Harris's keynote on 'Manuscript publication in the seventeenth century: questions and approaches'. 5.15pm.
November 24, 2025 at 10:17 AM
As part of the @cemslimerick.bsky.social Winter School at Univeristy of Limerick next Tuesday and Wednesday, you're welcome to Jason Harris's keynote on 'Manuscript publication in the seventeenth century: questions and approaches'. 5.15pm.
Aran sweater doggie is absolutely going to roll in the first puddle he meets.
November 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Aran sweater doggie is absolutely going to roll in the first puddle he meets.
A quick stop under blue skies at Holy cross Abbey, Co Tipperary
November 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
A quick stop under blue skies at Holy cross Abbey, Co Tipperary
This is exactly how I like to organise my skeleton closet (Carrowkeel, Co Sligo)
November 16, 2025 at 11:38 PM
This is exactly how I like to organise my skeleton closet (Carrowkeel, Co Sligo)
Someone is selling this haunted lamp on FB.
November 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Someone is selling this haunted lamp on FB.
Many oral histories skip the question of bathroom facilities, so I enjoyed this account of a seven-seater outdoor jacks in Co. Antrim. Any advance on seven?! (NB a 'clocking hen' is one sitting on eggs, which may be the origin of the terminology.)
Doreen Bishop, We just got on with it, 2022.
Doreen Bishop, We just got on with it, 2022.
November 7, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Many oral histories skip the question of bathroom facilities, so I enjoyed this account of a seven-seater outdoor jacks in Co. Antrim. Any advance on seven?! (NB a 'clocking hen' is one sitting on eggs, which may be the origin of the terminology.)
Doreen Bishop, We just got on with it, 2022.
Doreen Bishop, We just got on with it, 2022.
How does he even manage this?
November 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM
How does he even manage this?
Moist evening at Gabhal Luimnigh
November 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Moist evening at Gabhal Luimnigh
A heart shaped darn by my granny on a Lydons of Galway blanket. She died nearly 20 years ago, but would be glad to see the blanket is still going strong.
November 1, 2025 at 10:53 PM
A heart shaped darn by my granny on a Lydons of Galway blanket. She died nearly 20 years ago, but would be glad to see the blanket is still going strong.
Demodoggie awaits a snack of human flesh. Or cheese.
October 31, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Demodoggie awaits a snack of human flesh. Or cheese.
Six months on and AI has gotten even worse at bibliographies (last summer probably there would have been two real ones and two hallucinated; none of these exist).
October 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Six months on and AI has gotten even worse at bibliographies (last summer probably there would have been two real ones and two hallucinated; none of these exist).
On the day that's in it. 1930 ed of the revised Church of Ireland prayerbook, showing the shifts wording used in an east Cork parish due to 3 heads of state 1936-8.
October 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
On the day that's in it. 1930 ed of the revised Church of Ireland prayerbook, showing the shifts wording used in an east Cork parish due to 3 heads of state 1936-8.
Me before getting on train: I'm going to do all the stuff, read all the things.
Me on train: snore
Me on train: snore
October 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Me before getting on train: I'm going to do all the stuff, read all the things.
Me on train: snore
Me on train: snore
One again I implore you all to only vote for presidents who, alongside their other achievements, can knock a bit of a laugh out of things like voting for their own successor, and whose spouses genuinely like them.
October 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
One again I implore you all to only vote for presidents who, alongside their other achievements, can knock a bit of a laugh out of things like voting for their own successor, and whose spouses genuinely like them.
If you're near Limerick, Dr. Harald E. Braun (University of Liverpool) will speak in the Hunt Museum on 5 November, 6-8pm, on:
‘War Crimes: Seventeenth-Century Perspectives from the Bolton Library.’ Organised by @cemslimerick.bsky.social
‘War Crimes: Seventeenth-Century Perspectives from the Bolton Library.’ Organised by @cemslimerick.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
If you're near Limerick, Dr. Harald E. Braun (University of Liverpool) will speak in the Hunt Museum on 5 November, 6-8pm, on:
‘War Crimes: Seventeenth-Century Perspectives from the Bolton Library.’ Organised by @cemslimerick.bsky.social
‘War Crimes: Seventeenth-Century Perspectives from the Bolton Library.’ Organised by @cemslimerick.bsky.social
Chonky cherubs
(Sampler by Ann Lucas, Maxwells Auctioneers listing)
(Sampler by Ann Lucas, Maxwells Auctioneers listing)
October 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Chonky cherubs
(Sampler by Ann Lucas, Maxwells Auctioneers listing)
(Sampler by Ann Lucas, Maxwells Auctioneers listing)