Had great time today at final concert of Belfast TradFest in St Anne’s Cathedral. my sons had great time all week learning more fiddle 🎻 and beginning whistle respectively! Huge crowds and so much music everywhere

Some historical background to the fires in southwestern France, drawing on reading I did for my 2019 book about the moorlands, and lamenting the deeply depressing reality that we have known many of the causes of this ecological disaster for 150years 🗃️ williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/u...

Unintentional Arson

The fires in southwestern France are an appalling demonstration of the reality of climate change in 2026. But this is not the first ecological devastation in the region, and the role of human actio…

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Research Ireland taking on ‘strategic research’ priorities I see…

What happens when historic human remains are returned to a community of origin? In this new co-authored article we compare recent reburials at Inishbofin in Ireland and Pälkäne in Finland: both controversial processes for reasons that overlap in fascinating ways. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Returning the dead: the experience of repatriation and the heritage of racial science in Finland and Ireland

This article examines the contemporary return and reburial of human remains in two European contexts – Inishbofin, Ireland, and Pälkäne, Finland – to analyse how communities of descent experience, ...

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We should be livid. The article says students are asked to do everything with originals via post (no email when there's no functioning post service?!) and failed for "insufficient evidence of strong obligations to return to your home country". What would that case look like in Gaza right now?!

RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · last wk.

Sources within the universities say the refusal rate this year is in marked contrast to last year, when more than 80 Gazan students left Gaza in an evacuation organised by the Irish Government.

Between 1730 & 1830, Dublin’s Foundling Hospital admitted approx 127,000 children. Records indicate that around 80% died. Drawing on contemporary sources, Dr Mark B. Roe examines one of the most significant—and tragic—institutions in Irish social history. historyireland.com/the-foundlin...

Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️

AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College London

The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies

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This is an excellent read. Strongly recommend

Hurst Publishers@hurstpublishers.bsky.social · 2w ago

PB edition of the critically acclaimed ‘The Truth About Empire’ edited by @alanlester.bsky.social w/foreword by @sathnam.bsky.social out now! ‘Book of the Year’ @historyextra.bsky.social Extracted in @theguardian.com Sample 👉 tinyurl.com/38u2ndw3 & use code TRUTH20 for a 20% off in buy link.

This is an utterly fascinating interview. it’s also pretty terrifying. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘Most people don’t know we’ve set up a doomsday system’: physicist Laura Grego on satellites, nuclear weapons and the battle for our skies

Elon Musk is trying to own it, competing powers are trying to fight in it and nobody seems to be regulating it. So who does space really belong to?

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21 July 1592: the Mayor & Corporation of #Dublin grant the former lands of the Priory of All Hallows to the “Provost, Fellows & Scholars” of Trinity College Dublin “...forever” #otd

April Article! Joe Curran @muahi.bsky.social on '(Re-)Making the ‘Stateless Capital’: Edinburgh and Dublin in European Context, c.1820–1850' academic.oup.com/ehr/article/... #CapitalCities

(Re-)Making the ‘Stateless Capital’: Edinburgh and Dublin in European Context, c.1820–1850*

Abstract. This article revisits and complicates the idea of the ‘stateless capital’, a city that (through absorption into a larger political entity) was no

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Enjoyed watching that on holiday in Germany with my two sons cheering on Argentina! Schadenfreude is I think the word!

Saladin in 1189:

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 3w ago

The English crosses are weak

Finished reading @jonawils.bsky.social’s brilliant The Power and the Glory. A superb humane history which brilliantly gets at why the World Cup continues to enthrall and appall.

This is tricky, but here goes Francis Spufford Willy Vlautin Ben Myer Amitav Ghosh Javier Cercas

Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · 4w ago

five living writers that you've read five books by each Rita Dove Tasha Suri Courtney Milan Grant Morrison Tom Perrotta

The Pope has decided that instead of competing against each other, Portugal will play Brazil while Spain plays Mexico.

#IrishHistory #IrishLaw #IrishStatutes #ILD Good news for those working on Irish history from 1692 to 1800. The Irish Legislation Database is back online at a new address. resources.qub.ac.uk/ild/ Much thanks to Prof David Hayton. Please share widely.

This looks like an interesting new book from the multitalented and always interesting @missingintheslips.bsky.social he does literature, Swift cricket and now art!

nancysharplife.bsky.social@nancysharplife.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The final draft of the MS will be on its way to the typesetters any day now. A cover will be finalized soon. The book is coming. But why read it? A reason a day for maybe 30 days.

Some wonderful new archival materials for Irish history made scale by the extraordinary @virtualtreasury.bsky.social team. Some great essays here too curating and introducing the archival materials provided by over 100 international partners

Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland@virtualtreasury.bsky.social · last mo.

📣 🧐 Come see over half a million freely available records. Dive in and explore! 👇 View 194,000 new releases and 10 new features in one place 👇 www.virtualtreasury.ie/2026-new-rel... New to the Virtual Treasury? Check out our Help page for mini-videos and a User Guide www.virtualtreasury.ie/help

#DIBLives #OTD 1922 a huge explosion at the Public Records Office in the Four Courts destroyed centuries of Irish administrative, legal & genealogical records. @virtualtreasury.bsky.social has spent years recreating many of these records & made them freely available to the public. virtualtreasury.ie

Almost 200,000 historical records have been released online by the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland. The release of the records will cover seven centuries of Irish history and will make over half a million documents free and permanently available to the public

Almost 200,000 Irish historical records released online

Almost 200,000 historical records have been released online by the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland.

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If AI displaces millions of workers, how should societies respond? 19th century Ireland offers an intriguing historical parallel. As Britain industrialised, Ireland deindustrialised. The responses still have something to teach us about adapting to technological change: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

The history of loan funds & microfinance in 19th century Ireland

By the 1840s, Ireland had one of the densest networks of microfinance institutions in the world to help people adapt to economic change

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Great new job as Professor of Early Modern Irish History at Dublin City University advertised today. universityvacancies.com/dublin-city-...

How loan funds helped Ireland deal with the effects of the Industrial Revolution. By the 1840s, Ireland had one of the densest networks of microfinance institutions in the world to help people adapt to economic change, writes @eoinaldo.substack.com @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

The history of loan funds & microfinance in 19th century Ireland

By the 1840s, Ireland had one of the densest networks of microfinance institutions in the world to help people adapt to economic change

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Somehow those "tough decisions" are always about making poor people even poorer, not about nationalisation or taxing the super rich.

Ian Smith@iankmsmith.ft.com · last mo.

One big gilt investor said Burnham's chancellor decision would “set the tone” for the soon-to-be PM's relationship with markets. "Is it going to be a government of Burnham backers, or is he going to be able to make tough decisions?" Our piece on the race to watch www.ft.com/content/f5cc...

This is excellent.

Clint Smith@clintsmithiii.bsky.social · last mo.

Since he's returned to office Trump has attacked the Smithsonian as "out of control" where everything discussed "is how horrible our country is, how bad slavery was." Lonnie Bunch has been the person who has put himself between Trump and the Smithsonian. This is the story of his work to protect it.

Explore the Extraordinary at Castletown House, Ireland’s finest Palladian-style country house. Discover magnificent interiors, historic collections, stunning parklands and Ireland’s only fully intact 18th-century print room. Plan your visit: heritageireland.ie #ExploreTheExtraordinary

Really great to see this report on the Restitution and Repatriation of cultural Heritage now out. Will hopefully shape further further restitution, decolonial and legacy work in Ireland. www.heritagecouncil.ie/our-work-wit...

Nigel Monaghan@nigelmonaghan-nh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Report now approved by the Irish government on dealing with Restitution and Repatriation of Cultural Heritage held in museums. Process established to manage applications on case by case basis. Link in comments #decolonisation #museums www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

📢 The National Archives UK #USA250 events include our very own @joelherman.bsky.social 😀 investigating - Divided loyalties: Ireland and the American War Wed 1 Jul • 7:30 PM www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/divided-loyalties-ireland-and-the-american-war-of-independence-tickets-1989899074699 Online - Free

Divided loyalties: Ireland and the American War of Independence

Discover how Ireland engaged with ideas of rebellion and liberty in an age of revolutions.

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