Peter Gray

Marching Round The Ladies

Superlative stuff

Our demands most moderate are, we only want a ladder.

Three days official mourning announced in East Belfast

Researchfish — Information for Researchers Regarding Researchfish Sunsetting After careful consideration, Elsevier have made the difficult decision to sunset Researchfish on July 31st 2027, when the product will no longer be availab

OOOOH

Researchfish

Is going extinct 🐡🐟🐠

help.researchfish.com/en_US/resear...

In which we learn what happens when you combine the effectiveness of online learning with the efficiency of UK government, the academic rigour of management consultancy, and the fundamental honesty of purpose of ChatGPT.

YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies Irish Studies Seminar: Connal Parr 26.1.26

If you missed Connal Parr's talk this week on 'No borders: The Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement and its legacies', a recording is now available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OLY...

On Monday 2 Feb. Ciara McAllister will be speaking about ‘A class apart: Representing the “Troubles” and the working class’ - all welcome in-person or online www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

I wear a helmet on my bike, which I use as my primary means of transportation.

But I did not wear one when I was cycling while on holiday in Holland. The infrastructure is in place to make being hit a vanishing unlikelihood.

‘Parnell’ Stipendiary Research Fellowship in Irish Studies Competition at University of Cambridge Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a ‘Parnell’ Stipendiary Research Fellowship in Irish Studies Competition on jobs.ac.uk!

A 3 year JRF at Magdalene and Notre Dame in Irish Studies – sounds like a pretty great opportunity for someone.

Our Irish Studies seminar programme for Spring 2026 www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

'[A] detailed, fluently written and exhaustively researched account of Crawford’s life and career.'

Our thanks to Elizabeth Malcolm and the IHS for this review of @petergray47.bsky.social's William Sharman Crawford and Ulster Radicalism.

🔗 Find the book at www.ucdpress.ie or bookshops nationwide

YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies Irish Studies Booklaunch: Veronique Atlglas 19.1.26

If you missed the launch this week of Veronique Altglas's new book 'Judaizing Christianity and Christian Zionism in Northern Ireland: For God, Israel, and Ulster', a recording is now available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9nt...

Congrats to @emilymfg.bsky.social on this amazing exhibit

On Monday 26 Jan. we'll be joined by Dr Connal Parr (Northumbria), who will speak on 'No borders? The Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement and its legacies' (hybrid format; all welcome) www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

Looking forward to this semester‘s @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar series which starts this Friday! Drinks and snacks provided as usual. All welcome!

Terrific syllabus language about the dangers of Generative AI

Last year, we made the decision to step away from X.

The Royal Irish Academy is committed to creating, convening, and sharing knowledge for the public good and as an organisation we value Independence; Integrity; Curiosity; Openness and Rigour.

In our view, X no longer aligns with these values

Connal Parr and Anne Devlin speaking on the politics and legacies of Paddy Devlin and of Civil Rights in today’s conference on Labour politics in West Belfast

Some Belfast public history events coming up with our colleague Dr Robyn Atcheson robynatcheson.com/events

Alexis Soyer redivivus

It is an excellent book, and one anyone interested in 19th-century Ireland would benefit from reading!

Reading the new IESH on the train - may owe @jayroszman.bsky.social a pint or two

A Library Lunchtime Lecture by one of the exhibition's curators, Dr @emilymfg.bsky.social , will take place on Tuesday, 20 January 2026 at 1pm.

More information about this lecture and booking details are available on the RIA website: www.ria.ie/events/libra...

Booklaunch: Veronique Altglas, Judaizing Christianity and Christian Zionism in Northern Ireland

On Monday 19 Jan we’ll be hosting the booklaunch of Veronique Altglas’s new book Judaizing Christianity and Christian Zionism in Northern Ireland. All welcome www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

How a ferocious 19th-century hurricane helped Irish people get their British pension The devastating 1839 hurricane that hit the island of Ireland had unexpected benefits for some decades later.

My first piece for @theconversation.com is now online!
Is it weird to have a favourite natural disaster? Mine is the Night of the Big Wind.

theconversation.com/how-a-feroci...

Guest Gist: 2026, Our Already Rotting Future Seamus O'Reilly warns of AI maximum bubbledrive this year.

In what's now become an annual tradition, I've written another piece for The Gist about how and why I hate A.I.

On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence.
www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2...

‘Some nights I do not sleep’: Families remember 16 sectarian killings in 24 hours in North Relatives reflect on 50th anniversary of Kingsmill, O’Dowd and Reavey murders

‘Some nights I do not sleep’: Families remember 16 sectarian killings in 24 hours in North

We only win when it snows

The Book Shop, Wigtown

Kitten patrolling the Scottish Room

Kitten on the lookout for booklifters

First edition MacNeice

A wee dash of Wigtown book and kitten porn to welcome in the new year

Maxwell Otter monument in Galloway, Scotland - defo in my top three otter monuments worldwide