Nicholas Allen
@dedalusdenaries.bsky.social
‘Somewhere, well out, beyond’
Late Heaney (Oxford University Press, January 26, https://bit.ly/40oRn76)
Archipelagos/ Coasts/ Oceans
Late Heaney (Oxford University Press, January 26, https://bit.ly/40oRn76)
Archipelagos/ Coasts/ Oceans
The most unbelievable thing about the House of Guinness is how Sir Arthur holds his fork
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 AM
The most unbelievable thing about the House of Guinness is how Sir Arthur holds his fork
November 27, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Wee bump for this. New blog post coming this Saturday, about a man who, in under a decade, uniquely went from the Western Front to the Easter Rising to the Pogrom to the anti-Treaty IRA to the National Army to the Argenta. Oh, and he also ran in an election. "The many armies of Patrick Barnes."
New blog post. Almost a thousand men from Belfast, former IRA and Fianna members as well as non-republicans, enlisted in the National Army during the Civil War. Who were they and what did they experience in that conflict?
thebelfastpogrom.com/2025/10/25/b...
thebelfastpogrom.com/2025/10/25/b...
Belfast men in the National Army during the Civil War
The outbreak of the Civil War on 28 June 1922 contributed to the diminishing of violence in Belfast. But it saw hundreds of men, former IRA and Fianna members as well as non-republicans, travelling…
thebelfastpogrom.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Wee bump for this. New blog post coming this Saturday, about a man who, in under a decade, uniquely went from the Western Front to the Easter Rising to the Pogrom to the anti-Treaty IRA to the National Army to the Argenta. Oh, and he also ran in an election. "The many armies of Patrick Barnes."
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Dublin poets! Come join us together with @englishpen.bsky.social & The Seamus Heaney Estate for the announcement of the PEN Heaney Prize 2025. @nlireland.bsky.social Monday 1st December - details for booking below 👇👇🏾👇🏼👇🏿👇🏼
Together with @irishpen.bsky.social & the Estate of Seamus Heaney, we’re delighted to announce the PEN Heaney Prize 2025 shortlist. The winner will be announced on 1 December at a ceremony held at @nlireland.bsky.social.
Find out more & book now ⤵️
www.englishpen.org/posts/news/p...
Find out more & book now ⤵️
www.englishpen.org/posts/news/p...
PEN Heaney Prize 2025 shortlist - News & Events - English PEN
English PEN announces the six shortlisted titles for the PEN Heaney Prize 2025
www.englishpen.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Dublin poets! Come join us together with @englishpen.bsky.social & The Seamus Heaney Estate for the announcement of the PEN Heaney Prize 2025. @nlireland.bsky.social Monday 1st December - details for booking below 👇👇🏾👇🏼👇🏿👇🏼
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For all postdocs and ECRs: don't miss out on this great opportunity with the Turin Humanities Programme!
voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/tu...
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TURIN HUMANITIES PROGRAMME: 6th CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - 2025
TURIN HUMANITIES PROGRAMME 6th CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – 2025 2026-2028 RESEARCH CYCLE The full call can be found here as pdf file. Terms and Conditions (pdf) Project Description (pdf) Flyer (pdf)…
voltaire.ox.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:15 AM
For all postdocs and ECRs: don't miss out on this great opportunity with the Turin Humanities Programme!
voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/tu...
voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/tu...
Thanksgiving is the exhausted armistice that follows the warfare shopping
November 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Thanksgiving is the exhausted armistice that follows the warfare shopping
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How fabulous & part of the natural history of #Wales!
#IrishSea #envhist #Anglesey #historyofscience #histsci
William Herdman FRS FRSE, Pres. @linneansociety.bsky.social founded Puffin Island Marine Station supporting #IrishSea marine ecology
@royalsociety.org @royalsoced.bsky.social
#IrishSea #envhist #Anglesey #historyofscience #histsci
William Herdman FRS FRSE, Pres. @linneansociety.bsky.social founded Puffin Island Marine Station supporting #IrishSea marine ecology
@royalsociety.org @royalsoced.bsky.social
Back from a very successful trip to the IOM speaking with locals and visiting archives to piece together historical accounts of the herring fishery. We stumbled across these beautiful title page illustrations of marine biological station reports based on Puffin island in the late 1800s
November 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
How fabulous & part of the natural history of #Wales!
#IrishSea #envhist #Anglesey #historyofscience #histsci
William Herdman FRS FRSE, Pres. @linneansociety.bsky.social founded Puffin Island Marine Station supporting #IrishSea marine ecology
@royalsociety.org @royalsoced.bsky.social
#IrishSea #envhist #Anglesey #historyofscience #histsci
William Herdman FRS FRSE, Pres. @linneansociety.bsky.social founded Puffin Island Marine Station supporting #IrishSea marine ecology
@royalsociety.org @royalsoced.bsky.social
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Listen to SEASCAPES Maritime Podcast - tommacsweeneymaritimepodcast.ie for maritime news, comment, culture and history.
November 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Listen to SEASCAPES Maritime Podcast - tommacsweeneymaritimepodcast.ie for maritime news, comment, culture and history.
I grew up in a place where every space was marked by flags, colours and names, and while this is pathetic, it also makes me sad.
The far right flag-ification of England - as seen from the top deck of a bus near Bristol
November 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I grew up in a place where every space was marked by flags, colours and names, and while this is pathetic, it also makes me sad.
If you’re in the States and looking for an historical thriller with Irish rebels in 19th C San Francisco, the excellent @mylesdungan.bsky.social has published ‘The Red Branch’, available below.
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Red Branch
Check out The Red Branch - <p>Your undercover operation is blown before you get to San Francisco. What next? If you're Orpen, you join the cops. Sort of. </p><p></p><p>It's the Fall of 1883. Irish rev...
bookshop.org
November 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you’re in the States and looking for an historical thriller with Irish rebels in 19th C San Francisco, the excellent @mylesdungan.bsky.social has published ‘The Red Branch’, available below.
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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A beautiful winter sunset on Dublin’s River Liffey.
November 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
A beautiful winter sunset on Dublin’s River Liffey.
Slightly obsessed with this jetty
November 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Slightly obsessed with this jetty
For the frozen humanities people
I read a lot of very good new books this year, and if I had to pick one, it'd be Donald Niedekker's Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost wapo.st/48hti5c
Review | In this inventive novel, a long-dead poet narrates from beneath Arctic ice
Donald Niedekker’s “Strange and Perfect Account From the Permafrost” offers an ambitious view of human history and is full of sly jokes and imaginative surprises.
wapo.st
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
For the frozen humanities people
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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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Looking forward to taking part in the BBC Radio 4 book club discussion of Leonard and Hungry Paul on 17th December in Glasgow.
If anyone would like to attend the recording, the details are in the link below.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...
If anyone would like to attend the recording, the details are in the link below.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...
BBC Radio 4 - Bookclub - Come to a Recording
Join the audience for an edition of Bookclub
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Looking forward to taking part in the BBC Radio 4 book club discussion of Leonard and Hungry Paul on 17th December in Glasgow.
If anyone would like to attend the recording, the details are in the link below.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...
If anyone would like to attend the recording, the details are in the link below.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...
Still so many places you can imagine pirates
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Still so many places you can imagine pirates
I feel I put too much thought into my own books
November 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I feel I put too much thought into my own books
On the salt marsh
November 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
On the salt marsh
could be on another planet
November 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
could be on another planet