Dr Jennie Orr
@drjenniferorr.bsky.social
FRHistS SFHEA; Vice President @bars.bsky.social; Senior Lecturer @newcastleuni.bsky.social; 🇮🇪 & 🏴 Studies, 1798, labouring class poetry, transatlantic networks, MedHums; Member @thencps.bsky.social Didn’t come up the Lagan in a bubble
Thank you to all attendees of the in-person portion of #BARS2026 'Romantic Retrospection' at the University of Birmingham. It was a wonderful few days! Reminder too that the online Conference is taking place tomorrow - Thursday 6th Aug starting at 12 noon (UK time). (1/5)
“A subject is only elite if you only allow the elite to study it … [Classics] is everyone’s heritage” - Bettany Hughes on the money #Odyssey
Jimmy‘s was the first autograph I ever collected as a young child at the Ards air show in the early 1990s. The second was Frank Carson.
madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · 2d agoA lot of people today talking about an awful person who died but i want to make everyone aware of a good person who died: Northern Irish comedian Jimmy Cricket, who you should all look up if you don’t know. 10/10 all around wife guy, dad, granddad, and just a generally solid person
Mary Ann McCracken’s statue flanking the stage of this beautiful celebration of Irish culture. Makes me feel we are capturing some of that 1790s spirit. Wish she could have seen it in her lifetime. #fleadh #fleadhcheoil #fleadhBelfast #fleadh2026 #belfast
The Dale Farm Choc Pop is the greatest ice lolly in the world. I will tolerate no dissent.
A deeply destructive and inexpert management consultancy class has emerged whose sole purpose is to shrink Anglosphere universities and to undermine their future - all the better to secure more work. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...
Inside Britain's university crisis
As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter
democracyforsale.substack.com
Every commentator saying too many kids go to university has to tell their own kid to not do a degree
Honourable mention at @bars.bsky.social for Colleen Taylor @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social and her Irish Materialisms in the first book prize contest #BARS2026 👏👏👏 - with shoutouts to Colleen’s mentors in BC, Notre Dame and @ucc.ie
After giving a paper on poet Samuel Thomson, it’s appropriate that I flew in past the site of his cottage Crambo Cave
Romantic Ireland: the fabulous Lucy Cogan and I owned the pre-Conference dinner graveyard shift with our panel on Ulster labouring class poetry, joined by Aino Haataja’s excellent tour of Maria Edgeworth’s philosophy. #BARS2024
Lovely skyline meal with an old friend (and fellow conference delegate) after day 1 of #BARS2026 Catching up on 15 years of life!
As a big fan of Canal Boat Diaries, I wanted to get along the Birmingham & Worcester Canal so made it my running route this morning. Grateful for the shade as it was 18 degrees before 7am.
Welcome to the BARS Conference 2026, 'Romantic Retrospection', at the University of Birmingham! We're just being welcomed by Dr Jessica Fay for the start of a fantastic and packed day 1! Please use the hashtag #BARS2026 to join the conversation!
Loving the fact that the opening @bars.bsky.social plenary is a collaborative onez, bringing together Jonathan Sachs, Jon Mee and Kevis Goodman to kick off the conference, introduced by Matt Ward. #BARS2026
Better update here: bsky.app/profile/alis...
Alison Stenning@alisonstenning.bsky.social · last wk.Some of the nurdle volunteers on the North Tyneside coast have written a press release (not me!) about the nurdle spill, the official response and the amazing community action. Please do share with journalists etc. online and offline. Contact details in the PR. docs.google.com/document/u/0...
realising my eyesight is truly shocking so if anyone sees me in the conference hotel at #BARS2026, I’m not ignoring you - please come up and say hello 👋
Love it when the Mournes pop into view on take off.
We’ve struggled with a lot in Northern Ireland but the local familiarity is surely one of our greatest characteristics. A young member of EasyJet boarding crew for BFS-BHX made his first boarding call today and got a round of applause from the local passengers. “well done son“ 🥹
Playing the boarding queue game where I guess which management consultants are three sheets to the wind in departures
We are officially heading BARS-ward @bars.bsky.social. Minus @drbeard79.bsky.social but for his sake we'll do our best to make it the best time. I'm looking forward to our Thurs panel on Romantic Ireland featuring Maria Edgeworth, labouring class rebels and Scottish humanism #BARS2026
Get yourself a hospital ward who will dance to Thriller to help with your zombie shoulder shimmy exercises
Sinéad. Three years gone. Her beautiful, courageous, honest voice will always be treasured by me.
