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Seán William Gannon

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Irish Historian. Twentieth-Century Ireland: Ireland and Empire: Irish Revolution: Royal Irish Constabulary: Irish Jewish History. https://independent.academia.edu/Se%C3%A1nWilliamGannon https://irishhistorians.ie/members/seanwgannon/

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At Trinity Long Room Hub to mark The Limerick Boycott in Context Hosted by School of Languages, Literatures & Cultural Studies, & Centre for Jewish Studies.

With fellow essayists Trisha Oakley Kessler & Katrina Goldstone, & editors Natalie Wynn & Sean Gannon. In conversation with Zuleika Rodgers.

13.05.2025 20:10 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
Blue book cover with a black and white photograph showing a detail of a manuscript

Blue book cover with a black and white photograph showing a detail of a manuscript

Panel discussion: 'The Limerick Boycott in Context', bringing together the editors of and contributors to the recently published book.

📅13 May, 6.30pm @tlrhub.bsky.social

More information: www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...

@swgannon.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social

06.05.2025 10:46 — 👍 8    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
Screengrab of a contract for the upcoming book "Ireland First?: Tracing the Global History of the Irish Far-Right"

Screengrab of a contract for the upcoming book "Ireland First?: Tracing the Global History of the Irish Far-Right"

For the last year @brian-hanley.bsky.social and I have been working on a proposed edited book on the global history of the Irish far-right. Today we are signing a contract to publish this with NYU Press and their Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series

20.03.2025 15:03 — 👍 46    🔁 9    💬 6    📌 3
Book titled America in Ireland: Culture and Society 1841-1925, published by Cambridge University Press.

Book titled America in Ireland: Culture and Society 1841-1925, published by Cambridge University Press.

My books finally arrived! Very grateful to the team at @cambridgeup.bsky.social for the superb production and supporting the project.
Thinking today of the late David Fitzpatrick who began this project and to whom it is dedicated, and also of my mother who would have loved to see it in print.

10.03.2025 14:21 — 👍 84    🔁 19    💬 12    📌 3
Front page of 'Legal Transfer and Legal Geography in the British Empire' edited by Donal K Coffey and Stefan Vogenauer. The front image is the an image of James I abolishing the Brehon law and bringing the common law to Ireland.

Front page of 'Legal Transfer and Legal Geography in the British Empire' edited by Donal K Coffey and Stefan Vogenauer. The front image is the an image of James I abolishing the Brehon law and bringing the common law to Ireland.

Donal K. Coffey and Stefan Vogenauer
Preface
Part I
Legal Transfer in the Common Law World:
From the Early Modern Period until the Present
7 | Scott A. Carrière
Law and Legalism in Corporate Newfoundland, 1583–1699
37 | Matilde Cazzola
Aboriginal Protection and parens patriae: Indigenous Youths,
Juvenile Delinquents, and the Reformatory Principle in Australia
and England
73 | Philip Girard
On the Edge of Many Empires: Employers’ Liability in Quebec’s
Industrial Age, 1880–1931
105 | Christopher M. Roberts and Hazel W. H. Leung
The Legacies of Vagrancy Law and the Reconstruction
of the Criminal in Hong Kong, 1945–2022
V
Part II
Landscape, Law, and Spatial Justice
in the former British Empire
139 | Amy Strecker and Amanda Byer
Introduction: Landscape, Law, and Spatial Justice
in the former British Empire
151 | Amanda Byer
Reserving Space: Land, Nature, and Empire in the Development
of Commonwealth Caribbean Environmental Law
187 | Sonya Cotton
Legislating “Community” in Southern Africa’s Plural Properties
239 | Raphael Ng’etich
Competing Notions of Land in Colonial Kenya and the Impact
on Present-Day Land Governance
279 | Sinéad Mercier
A Haunting Absence: Tracing the Origins of International Energy
Law from the Laboratory of Ireland

Donal K. Coffey and Stefan Vogenauer Preface Part I Legal Transfer in the Common Law World: From the Early Modern Period until the Present 7 | Scott A. Carrière Law and Legalism in Corporate Newfoundland, 1583–1699 37 | Matilde Cazzola Aboriginal Protection and parens patriae: Indigenous Youths, Juvenile Delinquents, and the Reformatory Principle in Australia and England 73 | Philip Girard On the Edge of Many Empires: Employers’ Liability in Quebec’s Industrial Age, 1880–1931 105 | Christopher M. Roberts and Hazel W. H. Leung The Legacies of Vagrancy Law and the Reconstruction of the Criminal in Hong Kong, 1945–2022 V Part II Landscape, Law, and Spatial Justice in the former British Empire 139 | Amy Strecker and Amanda Byer Introduction: Landscape, Law, and Spatial Justice in the former British Empire 151 | Amanda Byer Reserving Space: Land, Nature, and Empire in the Development of Commonwealth Caribbean Environmental Law 187 | Sonya Cotton Legislating “Community” in Southern Africa’s Plural Properties 239 | Raphael Ng’etich Competing Notions of Land in Colonial Kenya and the Impact on Present-Day Land Governance 279 | Sinéad Mercier A Haunting Absence: Tracing the Origins of International Energy Law from the Laboratory of Ireland

Delighted to say that this new co-edited volume by myself and Stefan Vogenauer is now available as volume 25 of the Global Perspectives on Legal History series. It is open access here: www.lhlt.mpg.de/publications... We have a great set of authors who contributed to this.

04.03.2025 16:20 — 👍 29    🔁 19    💬 2    📌 2
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The Irish-Argentine newspaper The Southern Cross is celebrating its 150th anniversary Viviana P. Keegan introduces readers to the Irish-Argentinian newspaper, The Southern Cross, which will soon be digitised.

We have a new Irish Diaspora Histories blog post! Viviana Keegan writes on Irish-Argentinian The Southern Cross newspaper which is being digitised this year! Give it a read here... #irishdiaspora

irishdiasporahistory.wordpress.com/2025/03/04/t...

04.03.2025 13:55 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Tracing the Global Greater War in the Records of West African Veterans of the French Army | Colvet.eu

🚨New Blog Post🚨 I wrote this for the COLVET
blog on how West African veteran records can help us put a face on the Global Greater War and its impacts outside Europe. It includes ten brief biographies of West African veterans and their wartime experiences around the globe. colvet.eu/tracing-the-...

19.02.2025 14:45 — 👍 22    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 2
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Delighted to have received my contributor copy of this important new volume on the Limerick Boycott of 1904. It was a privilege to be invited to contribute to this collection of essays.

21.02.2025 09:21 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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CFP: 'Ireland and the American Revolution'. The organisers invite submissions for papers to be presented at a conference held in the Trinity Long Room Hub at Trinity College Dublin on the 9-10 October 2025. If you are interested submit an abstract of 250 words and a brief bio by the 1 May 2025.

06.02.2025 17:26 — 👍 61    🔁 42    💬 3    📌 7
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Looking for an Enemy - Carla King
DRB review of Reimagining the Jews of Ireland drb.ie/articles/loo...

21.02.2025 09:13 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Very pleased to say that our edited collection on the history, historiography, and cultural memory of the 1904 Limerick Boycott is published this week. Thanks to all the contributors.
peterlang.com/document/149...

05.02.2025 13:57 — 👍 18    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 2
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Peter Lang Verlag - The Limerick Boycott in Context «Historically it has been fashionable to view the Limerick Boycott as a deplorable but isolated incident. The essays in this volume expertly challenge ...

Gone to print and available in a matter of weeks, thank you to Seán Gannon and Natalie Wynn for the invitation to contribute an essay to this timely volume.

www.peterlang.com/document/149...

31.01.2025 07:52 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Since 2020 I have been working on this theoretical essay on antisemitism and sexuality studies - really happy to see it published in the last few days in the Journal of Right-Wing Studies

01.01.2025 20:10 — 👍 20    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 1
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Tune into @rte.ie Radio 1 today at 1:30pm to listen to #IrishImperialLives in #Australia #Irishhistory #Empire #decolonisation

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Pages from history – Felix M Larkin on the Freeman’s Journal It’s a century since the final edition appeared on December 19th, 1924

The Freeman’s Journal newspaper ceased publication on 19 December 1924. The Irish Times has published my Irishman’s Diary piece on the history of the Freeman.

Pages from history – Felix M Larkin on the Freeman’s Journal

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

17.12.2024 03:23 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Article by @swgannon.bsky.social on the Limerick boycott of 1904. www.theirishstory.com/2020/07/05/r...

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New Yorker

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White text on a brown background that reads 'A valuable contribution to migration scholarship, examining the practice of repatriating Irish paupers from Britain.' Next to this, on the right, the book cover of The Removal of Irish Paupers from Britain by Lewis Darwen and Donald M. MacRaild. In the bottom left corner, the LUP125 logo. The background is a cream coloured illustration of an 19th century dockyard.

White text on a brown background that reads 'A valuable contribution to migration scholarship, examining the practice of repatriating Irish paupers from Britain.' Next to this, on the right, the book cover of The Removal of Irish Paupers from Britain by Lewis Darwen and Donald M. MacRaild. In the bottom left corner, the LUP125 logo. The background is a cream coloured illustration of an 19th century dockyard.

Publishing today: The Removal of Irish Paupers from Britain by Lewis Darwen and Donald MacRaild, a new addition in the Reappraisals in Irish History series. Discover more here ⬇️
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

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Good King Wenceslas Last Looked Out: The Subversion of Societal Heterodoxies in Pre-State Czechia in the Long Ninth Century.

13.12.2024 09:56 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Christmas songs as academic titles

Santa Claus is coming to town: the nuclear family as surveillance state

Rudolph the red nose reindeer: how labour value distorts interpersonal relations

We wish you a merry Christmas: interpellating figgy pudding as holiday melancholia

09.12.2024 12:17 — 👍 250    🔁 76    💬 18    📌 13
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Free print copies of 'Limerick After the Civil War, 1923-1930' are available now.

To get yours, contact:
📧localstudies@limerick.ie
☎️ 061-557727
www.limericklocalstudiesdigital.ie/items/show/2...

10.12.2024 18:14 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Also check out our article on the Treaty debates in the 2nd Dail after its signing. They were long, fraught and eventaully very bitter and personal www.theirishstory.com/2022/01/08/t...

06.12.2024 11:58 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Engraving of UK Foreign Office building,  Westminster

Engraving of UK Foreign Office building, Westminster

Isabella Jackson is giving a keynote at a conference at the Cambridge History Faculty on'Diasporas, Diplomacy and Dreams of Modernity: Cultural Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century East Asia' and her keynote is 'Foreign Office Imperialism: China’s treaty ports and the British Foreign Office'.

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Pleased to share news of my new book, 'A Documentary History of Jewish–Christian Relations' published @cambridgeup.bsky.social. It's the first comprehensive single-volume history of Jewish–Christian relations over 2,000 years. Further info, inc. launch discount: www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/research/pro...

05.12.2024 11:29 — 👍 29    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 2

Hadn't known he was from Limerick, thanks. I feel an OLJ article coming on!

05.12.2024 10:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Bruce Buchan 240123
YouTube video by Swedish Collegium Scas Bruce Buchan 240123

At no point in its #history was Europe’s #Enlightenment free from #colonisation and #race. The history of Enlightenment needs to be rewritten as a history of acquisitive #racism. Here’s a lecture I gave at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies in Uppsala this year. #C18 youtu.be/zrxoONxqPQk?...

05.12.2024 04:46 — 👍 37    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 1

First post on Bluesky to say that I've been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to investigate the reception of the Vikings 🤗 Expect lots of modern Vikings (and several ON jobs) to be posted here soon!

03.12.2024 13:58 — 👍 67    🔁 13    💬 5    📌 2
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' @norseincork.bsky.social 's project hopes to find out what impact this period of history has had on our politics, our culture and our sense of European identity'.

@irishindependent.bsky.social

04.12.2024 07:10 — 👍 11    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Recent Scholarship, 2024-2015 We are constantly adding to this list of recent scholarship. Please get in touch if you have a book or article coming out – we would love to note it here or highlight it through a short blog …

There have been so many #irishdiaspora history publications this year! I've done another update of the Irish Diaspora History Bibliography but am sure I have missed more - so please do have a look and let me know! I'll soon be onto 2025! irishdiasporahistory.wordpress.com/recent-schol...

03.12.2024 17:49 — 👍 23    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 2

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