Clodagh Tait

Very excited for this conference next summer!
#CFP (deadline 28 Feb) Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750 at Oxford 18-19 June 2026. #earlymodern 🗃️ clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...

Look guys, if the gays can boycott the Eurovision, the very very very least you can do is boycott FIFA

FIFA Peace Prize Several gold hands hold up a globe with their fingertips

trapped souls of the dead lusting for vengeance-ass trophy
never seen a more clearly cursed object

Spectres Across the Atlantic, c.1820-1940: Communicating with the Dead Over Space and Time In Irish tradition it was believed that both the living and the dead might in certain circumstances appear at a distance from their bodies. This article considers occasions where such supernatural ...

The crisis appartion at the start was very well told. I've written on crisis apparitions here; they can't really be classed with ghosts I think: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How many formats for a CV can there possibly be: An Academic Memoir

#OpenAccess Research article, 'Gendered hierarchies and marked bodies: narratives of household violence in early modern Ireland' by Dianne Hall is available through the following link!

@universitypress.cambridge.org

"Having looked at some deaths of MPs involving vegetables ..." is an unimprovable line

My head nearly fell off. The actual Minister for Health said this?

m.independent.ie/irish-news/t...

I know there's a lovely author I follow here who always puts up the craziest houses for sale but I'm having a mind blank... Anyway, if crazy houses are your thing, this one in Devon is worth a gander... just wear sunglasses... #HomesForSale www.chestertons.co.uk/properties/2...

Ireland among countries boycotting Eurovision after Israel allowed to compete There had been calls for Israel's exclusion over the war in Gaza, as well as unfair voting accusations.

Dear BBC, the objection to Israel is not its "war in Gaza". It's its *war crimes* against the Palestinian people, in Gaza (and let's not forget the illegal occupations).
Tell it how it is.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Volcanic eruption triggered 'butterfly effect' that led to the Black Death, researchers find A volcanic eruption in 1345 may have kicked off a series of events that led to the Black Death sweeping through medieval Europe.

Researchers have marshaled ice core and tree-ring data to suggest that a previously unknown volcano erupted in 1345 and triggered climate changes that eventually led to the Black Death. 🏺🧪

(Thanks to @monicamedhist.bsky.social for commenting!)

Creepy decaying gnome in a box at a car boot sale, rope beside him adds to ambiance

Zero chance he's not going to strangle you in your sleep

📣 #CfP Reminder 📣

Are you a #historian researching #earlymodern gender-based violence?

📜 Check our Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow @ladygiada.bsky.social 's Call for Papers: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns 👇

⏰ Send your proposal by 20 December 2025

📣 #genderhistory #genderstudies

a brilliant, incisive piece by @earner.bsky.social et al. The focus on “stories that disturb rather than coalesce with grand narratives” - and how such histories might be written - is a vital framing for what we might playfully dub the New Irish Queer History.

The margins of a will register, showing text reading 'Abraham Swallow' and 'Anne Turkey'.

Found the 'people named after birds' page of the will register

Ireland will not compete in Eurovision 2026 after Israel allowed to remain in competition Spain and the Netherlands have also confirmed that they will not take part in the contest.

RTÉ doing the right thing 🇵🇸

Applications invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships, 2026-27 - RHS Applications are now invited for the Royal Historical Society’s Centenary PhD Fellowships to support postgraduate historians to complete a doctorate. Two Fellowships, of six months each, are offered f...

Applications are now invited for the Society's 2026-27 Centenary PhD Fellowships for early career historians completing a doctorate bit.ly/48pWB72

Fellowships provide support of £8500 per award for 6 months and are held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians

Watch: TCD debuts world's first film in ancient Sumerian Students and staff at Trinity College Dublin have produced the world's first film in the ancient - and dead - Sumerian language.

Students and staff at Trinity College Dublin have produced the world's first film in the ancient - and dead - Sumerian language

Wonder if he's related to Bill Bailey.

A page from the Dorney School punishment book showing various students, their offences, and their punishments

Thinking of the student Mary Young who 106 years ago today 'said "shan't" under [her] breath when told to repeat poor work'.

An important article by amazing scholars - even if you're not a historian of Ireland you should read it!

Thank you to everyone who attended/spoke at our 4th Winter School this week! It was a fantastic event that featured talks by staff & students, a wonderful keynote lecture by Dr Jason Harris of History @ucc.ie, all expertly & generously faciltated by @ullibrary.bsky.social special collections staff.

Found it delft rather than silver christening punchbowls. Sally Kevill-Davies, Yesterday's children : the antiques and history of childcare, p.257.

I know I've seen a picture of another family one, will try and remember where!

In this case presumably for baptism at the church, as a liner in the font?

The Church Plate of the County of Northampton

And England books.google.ie/books?id=tgg...

A Cheerful and Comfortable Faith This enlightening book examines the physical objects found in elite Virginia households of the eighteenth century to discover what they can tell us about their owners’ lives and religious practices. L...

And in Virginia books.google.ie/books?id=Nk4...

Not a punchbowl, but, 1741: ‘the silver soup tureen in which the Balfours were christened’. T. Barnard, ‘Learning, the Learned and Literacy in Ireland, c.1660–1760’ in Barnard
et al. (eds), ‘A Miracle of Learning’: Studies in Manuscripts and Irish Learning
(Aldershot, 1998), p. 217..

'Just checking if you've paid your sneaky mince pie for breakfast tax'