Sarah Roddy
@seroddy.bsky.social
Social historian of modern Ireland based at Maynooth University.
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“Scholarly effort is in decline everywhere as never before. Indeed, cleverness is shunned at home and abroad. What does reading offer to pupils except tears?”
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
‘Doing the Readings’
Dr Will Pooley (Associate Professor in Modern History), University of Bristol The students, we often grumble, don’t read the secondary readings we set for class. Every year, we find ourselves press…
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November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
“Scholarly effort is in decline everywhere as never before. Indeed, cleverness is shunned at home and abroad. What does reading offer to pupils except tears?”
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
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TFW your extremely niche area of academic research is in the news! A 🧵 on some aspects of the building formerly known as the Pro-Cathedral (or the Metropolitan chapel as it was called first!) www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
Pro-Cathedral designated Dublin's Catholic cathedral
Pope Leo XIV has designated St Mary's Pro Cathedral in Dublin as the city's official Catholic Cathedral, becoming the first in the capital for 500 years.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
TFW your extremely niche area of academic research is in the news! A 🧵 on some aspects of the building formerly known as the Pro-Cathedral (or the Metropolitan chapel as it was called first!) www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
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Upcoming conference: ‘O’CONNELL AND HIS LEGACY’, Catholic Historical Society of Ireland, annual conference, Saturday 22 November 2025. @dublincityuni.bsky.social
‘O’CONNELL AND HIS LEGACY’, Catholic Historical Society of Ireland, annual conference, Saturday 22 November 2025
Registration: Full programme available here: OConnell & his Legacy_CHSI Programme 22 Nov 2025Download
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November 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Upcoming conference: ‘O’CONNELL AND HIS LEGACY’, Catholic Historical Society of Ireland, annual conference, Saturday 22 November 2025. @dublincityuni.bsky.social
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A reminder to get there early on Thursdsy lest you be subject to the kinds of brawls over seating that @seroddy.bsky.social details in the book. No pew rents will be applied and there may even be some catering to get you in the door before the event.
Really looking forward to hearing @seroddy.bsky.social in conversation with @niamhroisin.bsky.social on her wonderful new book Money and Irish Catholicism in Maynooth on Thursday evening. All are welcome to attend so please do join us.
November 3, 2025 at 7:51 AM
A reminder to get there early on Thursdsy lest you be subject to the kinds of brawls over seating that @seroddy.bsky.social details in the book. No pew rents will be applied and there may even be some catering to get you in the door before the event.
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Really looking forward to hearing @seroddy.bsky.social in conversation with @niamhroisin.bsky.social on her wonderful new book Money and Irish Catholicism in Maynooth on Thursday evening. All are welcome to attend so please do join us.
October 31, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Really looking forward to hearing @seroddy.bsky.social in conversation with @niamhroisin.bsky.social on her wonderful new book Money and Irish Catholicism in Maynooth on Thursday evening. All are welcome to attend so please do join us.
Looking forward to being in conversation with @niamhroisin.bsky.social on my new book Money and Irish Catholicism: An Intimate History, 1850-1921 in Maynooth next week - all welcome!
Thursday November 6 18:00-19:00 Iontas Building, First Floor, Room 1.33.
Thursday November 6 18:00-19:00 Iontas Building, First Floor, Room 1.33.
October 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Looking forward to being in conversation with @niamhroisin.bsky.social on my new book Money and Irish Catholicism: An Intimate History, 1850-1921 in Maynooth next week - all welcome!
Thursday November 6 18:00-19:00 Iontas Building, First Floor, Room 1.33.
Thursday November 6 18:00-19:00 Iontas Building, First Floor, Room 1.33.
Great theme for the annual Historic Houses conference next May: x.com/historiciris...
historicirishhouses on X: "🚨Call for Papers🚨 We are delighted to announce the Call for Papers for the 24th Annual Historic Houses International Conference. 📌 Theme: Life Cycles and the Historic House 📍 Maynooth University 📅 11–12 May 2026 https://t.co/afdqTBVfHw" / X
🚨Call for Papers🚨 We are delighted to announce the Call for Papers for the 24th Annual Historic Houses International Conference. 📌 Theme: Life Cycles and the Historic House 📍 Maynooth University 📅 11–12 May 2026 https://t.co/afdqTBVfHw
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September 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Great theme for the annual Historic Houses conference next May: x.com/historiciris...
It was lovely to launch my book at the 35th Irish Conference of Historians on Friday, and be able to thank Maynooth History colleagues for helping to make it happen (the launch, but also the book itself!)
September 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
It was lovely to launch my book at the 35th Irish Conference of Historians on Friday, and be able to thank Maynooth History colleagues for helping to make it happen (the launch, but also the book itself!)
I've written a blog for the Social History Society about my new book: socialhistory.org.uk/shs_exchange...
Money and Irish Catholicism: An Intimate History, 1850-1921
Sarah Roddy’s Money and Irish Catholicism: An Intimate History, 1850-1921, which is out in e-book format now and will be released imminently in hard copy by Cambridge University Press, examin…
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June 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I've written a blog for the Social History Society about my new book: socialhistory.org.uk/shs_exchange...
Have just received hard copies of my book from Cambridge UP. It's about the ordinary people who funded the Irish Catholic church between the end of the Famine and independence. It takes in social, economic, religious, emotions history and much else besides...
June 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Have just received hard copies of my book from Cambridge UP. It's about the ordinary people who funded the Irish Catholic church between the end of the Famine and independence. It takes in social, economic, religious, emotions history and much else besides...
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Can't wait to dig into this from @seroddy.bsky.social. 🗃️ #IrishStudies
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Money and Irish Catholicism | Irish history
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March 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Can't wait to dig into this from @seroddy.bsky.social. 🗃️ #IrishStudies
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I love this - such a great piece from Joe Moran.
What might be found in 'the insides of history', the knotty details of a life that don't make it into the archives?
Joe Moran imagines the voice of his grandfather, questioning what histories might be lost and writing the histories left behind:
www.historyworkshop....
Joe Moran imagines the voice of his grandfather, questioning what histories might be lost and writing the histories left behind:
www.historyworkshop....
Lost Voices: The Insides of History
Joe Moran on what is lost and what is left behind in history, through imagining the voice of his grandfather.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
January 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I love this - such a great piece from Joe Moran.
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Really useful podcast here on methodology & history with @seroddy.bsky.social as part of the Irish History Students Association series - will be sharing with my MA students! open.spotify.com/episode/38Hc...
Methodology and historical research: a conversation with Dr Sarah Roddy
Irish History Students' Association · Episode
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December 12, 2024 at 10:01 AM
Really useful podcast here on methodology & history with @seroddy.bsky.social as part of the Irish History Students Association series - will be sharing with my MA students! open.spotify.com/episode/38Hc...
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Please share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...
December 10, 2024 at 10:46 AM
Please share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...