Patrick walsh
@speakerconolly.bsky.social
Associate Professor of eighteenth century Irish History, co- director Trinity Colonial Legacies Project. Procrastinator
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.
November 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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.
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
At fascinating Novels in the Pipeline event at Belfast’s Accidental Theatre. Featuring @niamhcullen.bsky.social amongst other great writers
Read this excellent book by Sunil Amrith over reading week along with Annie Proulx’s fascinating Bog, Fen and Mountain and slowly working through Amitav Ghosh’s superb new collection of essays. All part of trying to teach myself more environmental history.
November 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Read this excellent book by Sunil Amrith over reading week along with Annie Proulx’s fascinating Bog, Fen and Mountain and slowly working through Amitav Ghosh’s superb new collection of essays. All part of trying to teach myself more environmental history.
Resonant and always relevant words about how we are always migrants from late Manchan Magan’s last book: Ireland and Iceland
October 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Resonant and always relevant words about how we are always migrants from late Manchan Magan’s last book: Ireland and Iceland
Very much looking forward to getting stuck into this new book from @marcmulholland.bsky.social bringing peasants to centre off Irish history
October 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Very much looking forward to getting stuck into this new book from @marcmulholland.bsky.social bringing peasants to centre off Irish history
Finishing prepping my final paper this week. Tomorrow I am speaking at @qubhistory.bsky.social as part of the @publichistoryqub.bsky.social seminar on the colonial legacies of Trinity’s estates.
September 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Finishing prepping my final paper this week. Tomorrow I am speaking at @qubhistory.bsky.social as part of the @publichistoryqub.bsky.social seminar on the colonial legacies of Trinity’s estates.
Just finished preparing for this lecture tomorrow evening for Dublin City Council's 2025 Heritage series. I will be talking about 400 years of ‘cultivating virtue‘ in Trinity College Dublin @tcddublin.bsky.social. @historytcd.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Just finished preparing for this lecture tomorrow evening for Dublin City Council's 2025 Heritage series. I will be talking about 400 years of ‘cultivating virtue‘ in Trinity College Dublin @tcddublin.bsky.social. @historytcd.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social
My latest article now out in Eighteenth-Century Ireland my first and probably last foray into Swift Studies liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/10.3828/...
September 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
My latest article now out in Eighteenth-Century Ireland my first and probably last foray into Swift Studies liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/10.3828/...
Brilliant stuff from Jonathan Liew I Guardian on Flags, focus groups and identity www.theguardian.com/football/202...
September 4, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Brilliant stuff from Jonathan Liew I Guardian on Flags, focus groups and identity www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Just discovered this gem in an otherwise beautiful holiday house in North Antrim. Plantation themed cook book- of New Orleans not Ulster variety. Bemoans tragedy of civil war while celebrating plantation houses and food while avoiding slavery.
August 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Just discovered this gem in an otherwise beautiful holiday house in North Antrim. Plantation themed cook book- of New Orleans not Ulster variety. Bemoans tragedy of civil war while celebrating plantation houses and food while avoiding slavery.
The Trinity skull collection is here
www.tcd.ie/seniordean/l...
www.tcd.ie/seniordean/l...
July 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
The Trinity skull collection is here
www.tcd.ie/seniordean/l...
www.tcd.ie/seniordean/l...
Had a really superb visit to the Seamus Heaney Homeplace today. An excellent exhibition with enough to people to six and ten year old as well as their grandfather. And love this quote! One for all writers with kids
July 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Had a really superb visit to the Seamus Heaney Homeplace today. An excellent exhibition with enough to people to six and ten year old as well as their grandfather. And love this quote! One for all writers with kids
The weaponisation of unjustified and unjustifiable fears about asylum seekers is also revealing and something appearing with greater frequency in Ireland. The fiction of a white countryside as written about so brilliantly by Corinne Fowler continues.
June 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
The weaponisation of unjustified and unjustifiable fears about asylum seekers is also revealing and something appearing with greater frequency in Ireland. The fiction of a white countryside as written about so brilliantly by Corinne Fowler continues.
On Divis mountain where you get three seasons every twenty minutes.
June 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
On Divis mountain where you get three seasons every twenty minutes.
At Belfast ant-racism protest. My two sons have made an excellent poster
June 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
At Belfast ant-racism protest. My two sons have made an excellent poster
And we are done! Two fantastic days of Eighteenth Century papers and conviviality at @tlrhub.bsky.social. Finished up with a great keynote on political caricature by James Kelly.
June 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
And we are done! Two fantastic days of Eighteenth Century papers and conviviality at @tlrhub.bsky.social. Finished up with a great keynote on political caricature by James Kelly.
Our chapter is entitled Trinity’s Colonial Legacies: Transparency, Instrumentality, and Agency in an Engaged Research Project and reflects on the processes and challenges of doing legacy work on public.
June 5, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Our chapter is entitled Trinity’s Colonial Legacies: Transparency, Instrumentality, and Agency in an Engaged Research Project and reflects on the processes and challenges of doing legacy work on public.
Great to see our (Mobeen Husssin @ciaranon.bsky.social and v myself)’s chapter on our Trinity Colonial Legacies project in this fascinating new book on European University Legacies edited by Peter Bille Larsen and Marketa Kristova. Open Access edinburghuniversitypress.com/pub/media/eb...
June 5, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Great to see our (Mobeen Husssin @ciaranon.bsky.social and v myself)’s chapter on our Trinity Colonial Legacies project in this fascinating new book on European University Legacies edited by Peter Bille Larsen and Marketa Kristova. Open Access edinburghuniversitypress.com/pub/media/eb...
So a foreign king speaks from a throne to remind another would be foreign king about the sovereignty of a third country 🤔
May 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
So a foreign king speaks from a throne to remind another would be foreign king about the sovereignty of a third country 🤔
Good to see some more contextual reporting on ongoing saga at Castletown in @irishtimes.com over weekend. Castletown House: Vandals cause more than €500,000 of damage amid dispute over right-of-way access
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20... 1/8
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20... 1/8
May 12, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Good to see some more contextual reporting on ongoing saga at Castletown in @irishtimes.com over weekend. Castletown House: Vandals cause more than €500,000 of damage amid dispute over right-of-way access
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20... 1/8
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20... 1/8
Channelling my inner James Richardson with my gazette/cappucino combo!
April 17, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Channelling my inner James Richardson with my gazette/cappucino combo!
And @ciaranon.bsky.social and myself still weren’t done so we visited the wonderful and life affirming African-American Smithsonian Museum in DC. A powerful and important place which has given us much to ponder about what museums can do in our present moment and why they really matter today.
April 14, 2025 at 9:09 AM
And @ciaranon.bsky.social and myself still weren’t done so we visited the wonderful and life affirming African-American Smithsonian Museum in DC. A powerful and important place which has given us much to ponder about what museums can do in our present moment and why they really matter today.
Our remarkable hosts @dgannon2016.bsky.social and Adam Rothmann also took us to Virginia to Monticello and to the University with its extraordinary and moving monument to the enslaved people who built and worked on the campus
April 14, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Our remarkable hosts @dgannon2016.bsky.social and Adam Rothmann also took us to Virginia to Monticello and to the University with its extraordinary and moving monument to the enslaved people who built and worked on the campus
Meanwhile the Tanaiste was celebrating the Philadelphia-Irish including Philip Sheridan, union general and perpetrator of genocidal settler colonial violence in Native Americans - but sure he was from Cavan
March 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Meanwhile the Tanaiste was celebrating the Philadelphia-Irish including Philip Sheridan, union general and perpetrator of genocidal settler colonial violence in Native Americans - but sure he was from Cavan
Excellent letter in the Irish Times reminding us that Irish builders did not build the White House as indicated by the Taoiseach this week. It was build by slaves including those owned by the Irish architect James Hoban.
March 15, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Excellent letter in the Irish Times reminding us that Irish builders did not build the White House as indicated by the Taoiseach this week. It was build by slaves including those owned by the Irish architect James Hoban.