Jay Roszman is on sabbatical.

Purple and yellow Crocuses

Signs of spring.

Ripped out a kitchen before lunch. Not too shabby.

Thanks for having me! It was great to hear so many different perspectives on violence from graduate students.

Sunday Independent from 1989. One headline reads: “When GUBU became GURU” and “Haughey to go for an election: FG offer fails to stop poll”.

Ripping out the old kitchen, finding old newspapers

Hello, hello - this should be quite interesting

Do I miss the negative temperatures, bitter wind chill, and lots of snow in Boston? Maybe not…but there is something a bit miserable about returning to a sunless sky, the grayest soupy clouds, and misting rain.

I almost feel bad for all these Patriots fans on my flight from Boston …almost

TIL there is a monument to the Irish Famine in Cambridge Common, sculpted by the Derry born artist, Maurice Harron. No surprise it was unveiled in 1997, during the Celtic Tiger boom times.

Killing time 🕰️ in Harvard’s Art Museum.

Two boxes of Barry’s Tea.

The good people at Connolly House @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social made the right choice.

nothing says 'quintessentially Italian' quite like Mariah Carey

🌨️🌨️🌨️😬😬😬

One of the absolute smartest people I know whose scholarship will force us to rethink how we teach the Famine in all its complexities. UL made an excellent inaugural selection. Congratulations, Pete!

I wonder if Roy Foster would like to know that his two-volume biography of Yeats just figured on a Jeopardy tournament of champions question.

I am drinking a warm beverage that purports to be “coffee” but I’d vigorously contend that claim.

It’s like -8C and I’m impressed by the number of Bostonians walking around with iced coffees.

I suppose hot water kettles are truly foreign contraptions not to be trusted.

Yes, a Marriott! I’m in Boston.

An abomination known as a 'hotel coffee machine'.

I am inordinately proud of myself for using the horrible hotel coffee machine*, 2 paper cups, and my Aeropress to make a decent cup of coffee at 5:30am Eastern time as I am jet lagging.

Call me MacGyver

*I asked for a water kettle but hotel staff were 'unable to lend those to patrons'.

Utopia Abstract. Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of human beings’ social dreaming. In this c

NEW BOOK!

I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line

academic.oup.com/book/62279

A spam email, subject line: "Your research is invisible to AI."

Music to my ears.

Over 800 EoIs for the Research Ireland Investigators call! 800!!! Maybe we need a national funding structure that is better provisioned and regularised?

Maybe historians shouldn’t be claiming they uncovered a history that’s built on the scholarship of others in order to get more attention or a book contract?

Many thanks for sorting this out so quickly!

Google books going down is just the latest in the long catalogue of “don’t rely on big tech to save the commons”

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.” Matthew‬ ‭23‬:‭13‬

Mike Johnson (and co.) have a lot of woes coming for them.

I never really got into Ye Vagabonds before, but their new album is really beautiful. yevagabonds.bandcamp.com/album/all-ti...

Selling Education in England, 1650–1715* Abstract. In the period 1650–1715, a growing consensus emerged that educational culture in England did not meet the needs of the population, and that chang

My new article, 'Selling Education in England, 1650-1715' is now out (open access) in the English Historical Review! academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

18 month postdoc at the lovely IHR in London, $41,740. Deadline 7 March. 'The Fellow will play a key role within the IHR team responsible for hosting the 2027 North American Conference in British Studies (NACBS)' in London 2027.

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