Peter Gray
@petergray47.bsky.social
Historian of 19thC Ireland; Director of Irish Studies, QUB. Last book: William Sharman Crawford and Ulster Radicalism (2023); working on politics of Irish land reform and the Tenant League(s). Chair of @Irishhistorians.bsky.social There may also be cats.
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Peter Gray
@petergray47.bsky.social
· Dec 10
Part II at go.bsky.app/DgGqBqW
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A century on from the unpublished Boundary Commission report, on 3 December, a Belfast conference of QUB's Institute for Irish Studies & Centre for International Borders Research will hear leading academics analyse the history, cultures & futures of the #Irishborder
tinyurl.com/BoundaryCent...
tinyurl.com/BoundaryCent...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
A century on from the unpublished Boundary Commission report, on 3 December, a Belfast conference of QUB's Institute for Irish Studies & Centre for International Borders Research will hear leading academics analyse the history, cultures & futures of the #Irishborder
tinyurl.com/BoundaryCent...
tinyurl.com/BoundaryCent...
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Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
November 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
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Dundalk IT to get university college status after agreeing merger with Queen’s of Belfast
Dundalk IT to get university college status after agreeing merger with Queen’s of Belfast
Students enrolling at the Louth campus in September 2026 will graduate with a Queen’s degree
www.irishtimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Dundalk IT to get university college status after agreeing merger with Queen’s of Belfast
David Olusoga’s ‘Empire’ is a very fine piece of public history, although 3 episodes feels too few to do the subject full justice. Some outstanding segments but also quite a few gaps (Southern Africa, Egypt, Palestine, Pacific Islands, SE Asia, Hong Kong and of course Ireland). Second series needed?
November 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM
David Olusoga’s ‘Empire’ is a very fine piece of public history, although 3 episodes feels too few to do the subject full justice. Some outstanding segments but also quite a few gaps (Southern Africa, Egypt, Palestine, Pacific Islands, SE Asia, Hong Kong and of course Ireland). Second series needed?
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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Really enjoyed the new ‘Changing Ireland’ exhibition at the @nmireland.bsky.social - Collins Barracks! Lovely integration of commissioned poems by Paula Meehan; fascinating selection of objects, beautifully curated and displayed.
November 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Really enjoyed the new ‘Changing Ireland’ exhibition at the @nmireland.bsky.social - Collins Barracks! Lovely integration of commissioned poems by Paula Meehan; fascinating selection of objects, beautifully curated and displayed.
An unexpected item in the NMI’s new and well-presented ‘Changing Ireland’ exhibition - a Bronze Age anthropomorphic beaker from Co. Cork - the earliest representation of an ‘Irish face’?
November 16, 2025 at 6:34 PM
An unexpected item in the NMI’s new and well-presented ‘Changing Ireland’ exhibition - a Bronze Age anthropomorphic beaker from Co. Cork - the earliest representation of an ‘Irish face’?
In the spirit of the autumn internationals, the GOM proving himself a handy no. 10 by kicking into touch the HL inquiry on the Irish Land Act in 1882
November 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
In the spirit of the autumn internationals, the GOM proving himself a handy no. 10 by kicking into touch the HL inquiry on the Irish Land Act in 1882
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This is very sad news for Downpatrick. While the print media is under huge financial pressure, this has been a great local paper and an important part of cultural capital for the town and wider area.
November 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
This is very sad news for Downpatrick. While the print media is under huge financial pressure, this has been a great local paper and an important part of cultural capital for the town and wider area.
Sometimes I think the Victorians really did take too much laudanum in their tea
November 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Sometimes I think the Victorians really did take too much laudanum in their tea
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On Mon. 1 Dec. at 4.30 we'll be joined by Emily Mark-FitzGerald, Emma Radley (UCD) & Daithi Kearney (Dundalk IT) to talk about 'Irish Studies - Beyond the Text', drawing on the 2025 special issue of Irish University Review. All welcome in-person/online. Reg at www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...
November 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM
On Mon. 1 Dec. at 4.30 we'll be joined by Emily Mark-FitzGerald, Emma Radley (UCD) & Daithi Kearney (Dundalk IT) to talk about 'Irish Studies - Beyond the Text', drawing on the 2025 special issue of Irish University Review. All welcome in-person/online. Reg at www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...
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If you missed Hiram Morgan's talk on 'Anatomies of death: force famine in the Tudor conquest of Ireland', an recording is now available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hAI...
Irish Studies Seminar: Hiram Morgan
YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
If you missed Hiram Morgan's talk on 'Anatomies of death: force famine in the Tudor conquest of Ireland', an recording is now available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hAI...
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On the last day of Michael D’s presidency, paying tribute to his splendid run as Head of State for the past 14 years. Meeting him has always been such a pleasure, incl for the 2019 launch of the Strzelecki exhibition with the Embassy of Poland in the Royal Irish Academy with Prof Peter Gray (1/3)
November 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
On the last day of Michael D’s presidency, paying tribute to his splendid run as Head of State for the past 14 years. Meeting him has always been such a pleasure, incl for the 2019 launch of the Strzelecki exhibition with the Embassy of Poland in the Royal Irish Academy with Prof Peter Gray (1/3)
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Congratulations! And here's a picture of a souvenir coaster celebrating your 50th in 2015!
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Congratulations! And here's a picture of a souvenir coaster celebrating your 50th in 2015!
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We'll be celebrating our first 60 years with a drinks reception following our Irish Studies seminar on Monday 8th December - please join us!
November 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
We'll be celebrating our first 60 years with a drinks reception following our Irish Studies seminar on Monday 8th December - please join us!
Delighted by this - its a great novel.
Ferdia Lennon wins 2025 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for Glorious Exploits
Ferdia Lennon wins 2025 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for Glorious Exploits
The €10,000 prize, awarded annually since 1976, celebrates an outstanding body of work by an emerging Irish writer under 40
www.irishtimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Delighted by this - its a great novel.
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I am honestly sick of being told — at a university FFS — that we need to ‘embrace’ this profoundly unethical and irresponsible technology.
He started using ChatGPT for help with homework and eventually it ended up helping him to commit suicide...
"thank you for letting me ride with you to the end"
"may your next save file be somewhere warm"
"see you on the other side"
#NihilismAndTechnology
"thank you for letting me ride with you to the end"
"may your next save file be somewhere warm"
"see you on the other side"
#NihilismAndTechnology
November 7, 2025 at 7:40 AM
I am honestly sick of being told — at a university FFS — that we need to ‘embrace’ this profoundly unethical and irresponsible technology.
A real privilege to be giving the citation for an hon DLitt for Rob Savage this evening. At Aviva University, now a constituent college of the National University of Ireland (it seems)
November 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
A real privilege to be giving the citation for an hon DLitt for Rob Savage this evening. At Aviva University, now a constituent college of the National University of Ireland (it seems)
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On 24 Nov. we welcome Dr Catriona Kennedy (York), to speak about her new book 'Women, politics, and the Irish public sphere'. All welcome (hybrid) www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
Irish Studies Seminar: Catriona Kennedy, 'Women, politics, and the Irish public sphere'
www.qub.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 8:20 AM
On 24 Nov. we welcome Dr Catriona Kennedy (York), to speak about her new book 'Women, politics, and the Irish public sphere'. All welcome (hybrid) www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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We are co-hosting on 3 Dec. a conference on 'From Boundary Commission to Border Poll? A Century of the Irish Border'. This is a free event, but registration is required (by 26 Nov.). Info at: www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...
November 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
We are co-hosting on 3 Dec. a conference on 'From Boundary Commission to Border Poll? A Century of the Irish Border'. This is a free event, but registration is required (by 26 Nov.). Info at: www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...
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If you missed Elena Bergia's talk on 'In two stirrups: Identities in motion between Northern Ireland and Casalattico (Italy)', a recording is now available at youtu.be/R_ampLPzWyU
Irish Studies Seminar: Elena Bergia
YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
If you missed Elena Bergia's talk on 'In two stirrups: Identities in motion between Northern Ireland and Casalattico (Italy)', a recording is now available at youtu.be/R_ampLPzWyU
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Provocative, big-picture essay from a major historian of capitalism
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Provocative, big-picture essay from a major historian of capitalism
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On 10 November we will be joined by Hiram Morgan (UCC), who will talk about '"Anatomies of death": forced famine in the Tudor conquest of Ireland'. All welcome, in-person or online: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
October 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM
On 10 November we will be joined by Hiram Morgan (UCC), who will talk about '"Anatomies of death": forced famine in the Tudor conquest of Ireland'. All welcome, in-person or online: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
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In a change to our planned seminar series, our next seminar will be Sophie Cooper speaking on 'Building to feel ‘at home’: Embedding/embedded memory in the built environments of Belfast and the diaspora'. Thursday 13 Nov, *online* at 7pm. @sophcocooper.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.ie/e/sophie-coo...
www.eventbrite.ie/e/sophie-coo...
Sophie Cooper: USIHS seminar - Building to feel ‘at home’
USIHS Seminar. Online, Thursday 13 November at 7pm.
www.eventbrite.ie
November 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
In a change to our planned seminar series, our next seminar will be Sophie Cooper speaking on 'Building to feel ‘at home’: Embedding/embedded memory in the built environments of Belfast and the diaspora'. Thursday 13 Nov, *online* at 7pm. @sophcocooper.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.ie/e/sophie-coo...
www.eventbrite.ie/e/sophie-coo...