Elizabeth Boyle

Screenshot of the headline and subheader of an article on Irish news site the Journal, reading: Temple Bar tourist trap pub installs giant St Patrick with a pint, then covers it with a bin bag Then they replaced the bin bag with a green cloth. More as we get it.

I hope the global chaos isn't distracting you from the truly important issues. Luckily the Journal has their eye on the ball. "More as we get it." 😆

#Spéirghorm

Early Medieval England and its Neighbours has had some cracking new articles published in the last week, including on movement of manuscripts in the eighth century and charter forgery at Westminster, as well as an impressive debut article on Byrhtferth of Ramsey: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Assistant Professorship in Medieval Literature (temporary cover) at University of Cambridge Apply now for the Assistant Professorship in Medieval Literature (temporary cover) role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

An opportunity for a medievalist to join the team at Cambridge: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQQ346/a...

Kickstart scholarship deadline soon! @maynoothuniversity.ie

"This scholarship ... was established by the Irish Probation Service, and supported by the Irish Prison Service, to support persons with a criminal justice history experiencing socio-economic disadvantage to access Higher Education (HE)."

Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize The annual prize is awarded to two writers who are currently or formerly incarcerated.

Submissions for this year's Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize, for writers who are incarcerated or formerly incarcerated, are open!

The prize honors my sister, who died tragically in 2020 after many years in & out of incarceration.

Please help us spread the word.❤️
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Maynooth University Sanctuary Scholarship applications open. Deadline 20 March!

"Scholarships are open to: 
international protection applicants in Ireland; and  refugees, beneficiaries of subsidiary protection, and those with leave to remain in Ireland."

www.maynoothuniversity.ie/edi/excellen...

As a Black man with Tourette Syndrome, the Public Advocate has some thoughts on BAFTA, Pt. 1:

Hear about his experience with Coprolalia, his thoughts on how BAFTA mishandled the moment, and the need for care for all who are harmed:

Full video: youtu.be/FgaqKIxS4Hs

Fix Your Hearts or Die It's a invitation, not a threat. The path to liberation for lonely men is feminism.

"Loneliness *is* a problem. I am inviting you to contemplate how frequently it is treated as a problem for men and only for men, to be solved by everyone else, by doing work on their behalf that can only ever be considered repair if they do it themselves."

www.the-reframe.com/fix-your-hea...

HMS Saldanha: Wooden structure believed to be 214-year-old shipwreck Strong winds have revealed what some locals believe to be the remains of HMS Saldanha, which sank in 1811.

County Donegal: could this be wreckage from a 214-year-old maritime disaster? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

Karen Newton, 65, retired admin assistant at a primary school

A valid British passport, a tourist visa and no criminal record

Handcuffed, shackled and locked up for 6 weeks, mostly sleeping on the floor

After trying to leave the US after a trip of a lifetime

- @jennykleeman.bsky.social

I saw them supporting Conan in Dublin before Christmas & they were truly fantastic.

I'm so sorry. Sending you positive vibes.

Lithographs of Hawkins's sketches of Ichthyosaur anatomy, with handwritten attotations.

A very special #FossilFriday. Thanks to @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social, one of the c19th's greatest works of palaeontological literature is now properly digitised: Thomas Hawkins's beautiful, epic, semi-unhinged Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri (nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/44...)

predominantly in Old Irish, is a remarkable piece of law &, although there was a financial inducement for the Church to support this legislation, in the form of fines paid for transgression of the law, the motivation for kings to support it is less clear & may simply have been the social good.
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definition of non-combatants. Bringing the law to fruition must have involved considerable diplomacy on the part of its architect, Adomnán, abbot of Iona, who died in 704. 23 years after his death his relics were brought to Ireland from Iona & his law was re-promulgated. The legislation, written
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However some of the references to physical & capital punishment are found in what appear to be later, 9th-century, additions to the original 7th-century law. Later additions also frame the law as one specifically designed to protect women, although the original law has a more expansive
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or killing them. The law even includes a bystander clause which renders a person liable if they see a woman, child or cleric being killed & fail to intervene. Unusually for early Irish law, the legislation meets violence with violence, prescribing mutilation & even execution as punishment.
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the Lex Innocentium (Law of the Innocents). It was promulgated in the year 697, with 91 kings, bishops & abbots from across Ireland & northern Britain endorsing the law, which seeks to regulate violence against non-combatants, i.e. women, clerics & children, by imposing huge fines for harming
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I'm stuck in Dublin airport with a delayed flight, so let me tell you about the lecture I gave this afternoon to my 2nd-year group of Law, History & Celtic Studies students who are studying early Irish law. We were looking at a piece of legislation called Cáin Adomnáin, also sometimes called
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The Last of Earth by Deepa Anappara review – into Tibet’s ‘Forbidden Kingdom’ The follow-up to Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line explores the history of colonial exploration through a perilous 19th-century odyssey

"The lines the captain drew on paper appeared to Balram to be no more than a child’s scribbles on mud. If the earth shrugged, mountains would cleave, rivers would surge, seas would swallow cities and fields alike, and every map would be rendered incoherent."

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

I absolutely don't want to hear it. Fuck off. Unfollow. 😭

‘Different but the same’: how Arsenal are keeping disabled fans in the game In tandem with Game Day Vision, the Premier League club are improving the matchday experience for supporters with a variety of conditions

A good news story! Go #Arsenal! www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Registration is now open for our joint event with the Seamus Heaney Centre on 2 March: LATE HEANEY: NICHOLAS ALLEN IN CONVERSATION WITH MARK CARRUTHERS (available online and in-person) www.qub.ac.uk/schools/seam...

This is what someone told me about Twitter (RIP) & I absorbed it: you are not responding to the person you are arguing with, but to anyone else who might be reading & might need to see what you are saying in order to open up a different world, or even just acceptance, for them.

Happy new lunar year to all who are celebrating in China, Korea, Vietnam and beyond! 🐎 Ramadan Mubarak to my Muslim friends and family! ☪️ Enjoy Shrove Tuesday 🥞 and good luck with Lent to all my Christian friends! 🎉

A black and white photo of a dense crowd of people, predominantly African-American men, outside Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, as the coffin of MLK is carried out of the church. The front right (from the viewer's perspective) pallbearer is Rev. Jesse Jackson. The photo was taken by Don Hogan Charles, who was the first African-American man to be hired as a staff photographer for the NY Times.

The first time I ever went to Atlanta, I visited Ebenezer Baptist Church, a site of so much great & terrible history. This iconic photo of Rev. Jesse Jackson carrying the coffin of Rev. Dr Martin Luther King from the church was taken by Don Hogan Charles in 1968 for the NY Times. RIP, Rev. Jackson.

What the postman brought today: the latest volume of Proceedings of the @ria.ie, with an image from the fascinating 'Minchin Manuscript' on the cover! You can read about this very cool manuscript in an #OpenAccess article by me and @davidstifter.bsky.social here:

muse.jhu.edu/article/9742...

If anyone who applied for the basic income for the arts trial and DIDN'T get it would like to talk to me for a feature please DM me or email patrick.freyne@irishtimes.com

Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop

And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)

RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless

Hugely looking forward to hosting this one-day symposium on 'Medical Learning in the Medieval Gaelic World' as part of the @researchireland.ie LEIGHEAS project @maynoothuniversity.ie - join us @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @muahi.bsky.social on Thursday 12th March!