Patrick walsh
LightNews LightNews
speakerconolly.bsky.social
Patrick walsh
@speakerconolly.bsky.social
1.7K followers 270 following 240 posts
Associate Professor of eighteenth century Irish History, co- director Trinity Colonial Legacies Project. Procrastinator
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
speakerconolly.bsky.social
Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · Sep 16
Another plug for my piece on Trinity’s forgotten tenants in Kerry, Armagh and Donegal and many places in between. Connecting colonial legacies, family history and institutional selective remembering. drb.ie/tcds-forgott...
@tlrhub.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @historytcd.bsky.social
TCD’s Forgotten Tenantry - DRB
Patrick Walsh writes: 1923 was a significant year in the life of Thomas Horgan of Ballynaskreena, Co Kerry. His youngest surviving daughter, Bridget (known as Bridie), was born, and he became the firs...
drb.ie
Reposted by Patrick walsh
pfie.bsky.social
One of PFIE’s core team, @jackru.bsky.social, has written an in depth analysis of the Supreme Court judgment. Strongly encourage you to read, share and comment! It’s long, but absolutely worth the read!

sluggerotoole.com/2025/11/28/t...
The Supreme Court judgment on religious teaching in NI – an analysis and an appeal…
Jack Russell is a parent, primary school governor, and member of the core team at Parents for Inclusive Education NI, a grass-roots organisation that advocates for the rights of all children and paren...
sluggerotoole.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Reposted by Patrick walsh
niamhcullen.bsky.social
Really great, detailed analysis of the recent Supreme Court ruling and what it means for religion in Northern Irish schools
November 28, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Reposted by Patrick walsh
irishstudiesqub.bsky.social
On 8 December we have a joint seminar with the Centre for Public History. Visiting Scholar Jessica Martell (Appalachian State Univ.) will speak on 'Beyond plantation mentalities in Irish literature, film, and culture'. In-person and online.
www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
Irish Studies / Public History Seminar: Jessica Martell
www.qub.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Reposted by Patrick walsh
cathalmalone.bsky.social
The pointlessness of immigration policy when nobody actually knows the facts.
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d
Most of the public think net migration increased last year, when in fact numbers halved.

New findings from the Ipsos/British Future Immigration Attitudes Tracker show that 56% of the public thinks immigration increased last year. Just 1 in 6 realise it was down
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
November 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Reposted by Patrick walsh
kbruisch.bsky.social
🔥Burning Swamps🔥, a history of the planetary emergency seen from the margins, has been out since Sept 2025

PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
Book cover of Burning Swamps by Katja Bruisch. Green font. A b/w in the centre shows a woman with a headscarf stacking peat
November 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Reposted by Patrick walsh
enghistrev.bsky.social
New article! Joe Curran on '(Re-)Making the ‘Stateless Capital’: Edinburgh and Dublin in European Context, c.1820–1850'

academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
November 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Reposted by Patrick walsh
irishstudiesqub.bsky.social
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
Reposted by Patrick walsh
joelherman.bsky.social
Highlighting these one last time:
A keynote from Prof. Eliga Gould, 'Lord Carlisle’s Union: Making Peace in America, Ireland, and Britain, 1778-1783’.

Brings up an interesting counterfactual: What if America had gone the way of Ireland and remained within empire?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv4F...
Ireland and the American Revolution Keynote Address | Prof Eliga Gould
YouTube video by Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Reposted by Patrick walsh
janeijking.com
@svenbeckert.bsky.social’s new global history of capitalism — looks great👇 www.penguin.co.uk/books/295668...
Capitalism
No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively as capitalism. It structures how we live and work, how we think about ourselves and others, how we organise our politics. Sven Beckert situat...
www.penguin.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Reposted by Patrick walsh
tomewing.bsky.social
Handshake meme - "Me doing a CAPTCHA" and "THE THIRD POLICEMAN by Flann O'Brien" uniting over "Is the guy riding the bicycle part of the bicycle?"
November 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Reposted by Patrick walsh
niamhcullen.bsky.social
Opportunity to work with other me on a funded PhD at Queens - may suit anyone interested in gender, history of the child and family in 20thC Ireland. Happy to chat to anyone thinking of it!
irishstudiesqub.bsky.social Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 7d
Funded PhD opportunities at QUB:
'Childcare provision in late twentieth-century Northern Ireland (1960s-1990s)'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
REF: DfEHIS - HIS-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast
www.qub.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Reposted by Patrick walsh
irishstudiesqub.bsky.social
Funded PhD opportunities at QUB:
'Childcare provision in late twentieth-century Northern Ireland (1960s-1990s)'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
REF: DfEHIS - HIS-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast
www.qub.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Reposted by Patrick walsh
rhiggitt.bsky.social
Fabulous PhD opportunity at Queen's University Belfast and Armagh Observatory:

Observing the Heavens from the 'Periphery': Astronomy in Ireland 1640-1830

www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post... Deadline 13 Jan #histSTM #histastro
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
speakerconolly.bsky.social
I've signed the petition calling for the Education Minister to reform Religious Education in NI today - will you sign too? via @actnowcampaigns.bsky.social my.actnowni.org/petitions/re...
Sign Now: We demand Inclusive Religious Education for all NI’s Children
I've signed the petition calling for the Education Minister to reform Religious Education in NI today - will you sign too?
my.actnowni.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Reposted by Patrick walsh
pfie.bsky.social
Statement from the PFIE officer group on the JR87 ruling yesterday.
Statement from Parents for Inclusive Education NI on the JR87 ruling: Parents for Inclusive Education NI welcomes the landmark UK Supreme Court ruling in JR87, which confirms that Northern Ireland’s current RE curriculum breaches children’s and families’ human rights. The Court found that RE in it’s current form is not “objective, critical and pluralistic” and amounts to indoctrination - and identified the failings of the Department of Education to monitor and safeguard what and how children are being taught. We would like to take this opportunity to extend our sincere thanks to JR87 and her father for bringing this case. We do not know them, but are in awe of their bravery and perseverance in taking a stand on such an epic scale. They, and all families like them who have been resoundingly let down by the current framework, have been throughly vindicated by the highest court in the land. It is important for us to re-state that as a group, we are not campaigning to remove RE or Christianity from schools, far from it. We want RE to be objective, pluralistic, balanced, inclusive and respectful of every child and every family, regardless of belief. Yesterday was a momentous, watershed moment and now is the time for meaningful change. We are excited, optimistic, and fully committed to immediately moving forward to work with a pluralistic and interfaith panel of suitably qualified and experienced educators, policymakers, academics, faith groups and families to build an RE curriculum that truly reflects the diversity of modern Northern Ireland.
November 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
speakerconolly.bsky.social
This UK Supreme Court decision is potentially momentous for the way religion is taught in schools on Northern Ireland. as the situation currently stands it amounts to indoctrination’ - not a word lawyers lightly throw around. A pluralistic Northern, and future Shared, Ireland needs a new approach.
pfie.bsky.social Parents for Inclusive Education @pfie.bsky.social · 8d
Statement from the PFIE officer group on the JR87 ruling yesterday.
Statement from Parents for Inclusive Education NI on the JR87 ruling: Parents for Inclusive Education NI welcomes the landmark UK Supreme Court ruling in JR87, which confirms that Northern Ireland’s current RE curriculum breaches children’s and families’ human rights. The Court found that RE in it’s current form is not “objective, critical and pluralistic” and amounts to indoctrination - and identified the failings of the Department of Education to monitor and safeguard what and how children are being taught. We would like to take this opportunity to extend our sincere thanks to JR87 and her father for bringing this case. We do not know them, but are in awe of their bravery and perseverance in taking a stand on such an epic scale. They, and all families like them who have been resoundingly let down by the current framework, have been throughly vindicated by the highest court in the land. It is important for us to re-state that as a group, we are not campaigning to remove RE or Christianity from schools, far from it. We want RE to be objective, pluralistic, balanced, inclusive and respectful of every child and every family, regardless of belief. Yesterday was a momentous, watershed moment and now is the time for meaningful change. We are excited, optimistic, and fully committed to immediately moving forward to work with a pluralistic and interfaith panel of suitably qualified and experienced educators, policymakers, academics, faith groups and families to build an RE curriculum that truly reflects the diversity of modern Northern Ireland.
November 20, 2025 at 1:23 PM
speakerconolly.bsky.social
Just out of Waterfront where I brought my 10 year old to his first Dylan concert- he is a super fan! A fantastic show- Bob has still got it.
Bob Dylan set list Belfast Nov. 2025
November 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
speakerconolly.bsky.social
Delighted see Irish state has purchased the entire Castletown House estate and saved this vital heritage from development. It’s been a long time coming and hopefully brings an end to a long running saga. www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
State to buy land around Castletown House, restore access
The State has agreed a deal to purchase the lands around Castletown House in Co Kildare which will likely bring an end to a two-year standoff that led to the closure of public parking and access at th...
www.rte.ie
November 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Reposted by Patrick walsh
thejournal.ie
The UK's Supreme Court has ruled that the Christian religious education taught in schools in the North is unlawful.

It added that to teach pupils to 'accept a set of beliefs without critical analysis amounts to evangelism, proselytising, and indoctrination'.
jrnl.ie/6879415
Christian religious education taught in schools in Northern Ireland unlawful, says UK Supreme Court
It had been argued that the right to withdraw from religious education prevented any breach to religious freedom protections under the European Convention on Human Rights.
jrnl.ie
November 19, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Reposted by Patrick walsh
eoinaldo.bsky.social
Fresh off the printing press, Mary O’Sullivan’s Connell lecture on the Irish woolen industry before and after the Union: A Sheepish Account of Ireland's Changing Role in an Imperial Age, 1780–1824. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
journals.sagepub.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
speakerconolly.bsky.social
At fascinating Novels in the Pipeline event at Belfast’s Accidental Theatre. Featuring @niamhcullen.bsky.social amongst other great writers
November 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Reposted by Patrick walsh
abdnriiss.bsky.social
A reminder that our fellowship scheme is open for a second year!
abdnriiss.bsky.social Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies @abdnriiss.bsky.social · 25d
We're delighted to announce that, after a very successful first year, RIISS will be hosting a further New Voices ECR Visiting Fellow in 2026. Applications are open until 5th December 2025.
www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-e...
New Voices ECR Visiting Fellowship
www.abdn.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Reposted by Patrick walsh
davidstoreygeog.bsky.social
Changing places: @angela-historian.bsky.social on the rise and decline of a Donegal port
@rtebrainstorm.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
The rise and fall of Ballyshannon port
The port's international connections brought much prosperity to the Co Donegal town, but the good times didn't last
www.rte.ie
November 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
speakerconolly.bsky.social
This is fascinating
November 16, 2025 at 9:58 PM
speakerconolly.bsky.social
Inevitable once Ken away from @secondcaptains.bsky.social #whenkensaway what a result
November 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM