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Looking forward to presenting this paper on my current book project @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social on Monday.

Ordnance Survey map of 1847. Image taken from Frank Cullen's Book on the 1847 Dublin Ordnance Survey maps.

#TNAConnections The Home Office (Ireland) Correspondence held at @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy — also known as the HO 100 series — letters written by high-ranking officials in Dublin Castle, addressed to the central administration in London.

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On Thursday 12 Feb. we will be sponsoring a conference on THE ULSTER PLANTATION, linked to the 'People of Plantation Ulster' database project (QUB/Maynooth). This is a free event open to all, held at PRONI (11-4). Registration and programme is at: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/conference...

This research is very important for Northern Ireland but also important for the whole island considering ongoing discussion/consultations about school patronage and the impact it has on children of different faiths or non religious background.

Queen’s study reveals majority want wider worldviews taught in NI's primary school RE curriculum A new study from Queen’s shows strong public support for Religious Education (RE) in Northern Ireland to help pupils understand a wide range of different religious and non-religious worldviews, includ...

This is a very relevant piece of research following the UK Supreme Court judgment that RE in Northern Ireland contravenes human rights.

A majority in NI would welcome an objective, critical and pluralistic Religion & Worldviews Education for all. The DE must deliver.

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This is a super article. Great to see this important work by two @tcdhistory colleagues @earner.bsky.social and Carole Holohan working with Roisin Higgins

Looking forward to this talk tomorrow!

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The Supreme Court judgment on religious teaching in NI – an analysis and an appeal… Jack Russell is a parent, primary school governor, and member of the core team at Parents for Inclusive Education NI, a grass-roots organisation that advocates for the rights of all children and paren...

One of PFIE’s core team, @jackru.bsky.social, has written an in depth analysis of the Supreme Court judgment. Strongly encourage you to read, share and comment! It’s long, but absolutely worth the read!

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Really great, detailed analysis of the recent Supreme Court ruling and what it means for religion in Northern Irish schools

Irish Studies / Public History Seminar: Jessica Martell

On 8 December we have a joint seminar with the Centre for Public History. Visiting Scholar Jessica Martell (Appalachian State Univ.) will speak on 'Beyond plantation mentalities in Irish literature, film, and culture'. In-person and online.
www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

The pointlessness of immigration policy when nobody actually knows the facts.

🔥Burning Swamps🔥, a history of the planetary emergency seen from the margins, has been out since Sept 2025

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New article! Joe Curran on '(Re-)Making the ‘Stateless Capital’: Edinburgh and Dublin in European Context, c.1820–1850'

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Our last seminar for this year, on 15 Dec. will be Patrick Walsh (TCD) speaking on 'A colonial sinew of power? Rethinking the 18th-century Irish state' (joint event with CECS). All welcome in-person and online. www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...

YouTube video by Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Ireland and the American Revolution Keynote Address | Prof Eliga Gould

Highlighting these one last time:
A keynote from Prof. Eliga Gould, 'Lord Carlisle’s Union: Making Peace in America, Ireland, and Britain, 1778-1783’.

Brings up an interesting counterfactual: What if America had gone the way of Ireland and remained within empire?

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Capitalism No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively as capitalism. It structures how we live and work, how we think about ourselves and others, how we organise our politics. Sven Beckert situat...

@svenbeckert.bsky.social’s new global history of capitalism — looks great👇 www.penguin.co.uk/books/295668...

Handshake meme - "Me doing a CAPTCHA" and "THE THIRD POLICEMAN by Flann O'Brien" uniting over "Is the guy riding the bicycle part of the bicycle?"

Opportunity to work with other me on a funded PhD at Queens - may suit anyone interested in gender, history of the child and family in 20thC Ireland. Happy to chat to anyone thinking of it!

Funded PhD opportunities at QUB:
'Childcare provision in late twentieth-century Northern Ireland (1960s-1990s)'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...

Fabulous PhD opportunity at Queen's University Belfast and Armagh Observatory:

Observing the Heavens from the 'Periphery': Astronomy in Ireland 1640-1830

www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post... Deadline 13 Jan #histSTM #histastro

Sign Now: We demand Inclusive Religious Education for all NI’s Children I've signed the petition calling for the Education Minister to reform Religious Education in NI today - will you sign too?

I've signed the petition calling for the Education Minister to reform Religious Education in NI today - will you sign too? via @actnowcampaigns.bsky.social my.actnowni.org/petitions/re...

Statement from Parents for Inclusive Education NI on the JR87 ruling: Parents for Inclusive Education NI welcomes the landmark UK Supreme Court ruling in JR87, which confirms that Northern Ireland’s current RE curriculum breaches children’s and families’ human rights. The Court found that RE in it’s current form is not “objective, critical and pluralistic” and amounts to indoctrination - and identified the failings of the Department of Education to monitor and safeguard what and how children are being taught. We would like to take this opportunity to extend our sincere thanks to JR87 and her father for bringing this case. We do not know them, but are in awe of their bravery and perseverance in taking a stand on such an epic scale. They, and all families like them who have been resoundingly let down by the current framework, have been throughly vindicated by the highest court in the land.

It is important for us to re-state that as a group, we are not campaigning to remove RE or Christianity from schools, far from it. We want RE to be objective, pluralistic, balanced, inclusive and respectful of every child and every family, regardless of belief. Yesterday was a momentous, watershed moment and now is the time for meaningful change. We are excited, optimistic, and fully committed to immediately moving forward to work with a pluralistic and interfaith panel of suitably qualified and experienced educators, policymakers, academics, faith groups and families to build an RE curriculum that truly reflects the diversity of modern Northern Ireland.

Statement from the PFIE officer group on the JR87 ruling yesterday.

This UK Supreme Court decision is potentially momentous for the way religion is taught in schools on Northern Ireland. as the situation currently stands it amounts to indoctrination’ - not a word lawyers lightly throw around. A pluralistic Northern, and future Shared, Ireland needs a new approach.

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Just out of Waterfront where I brought my 10 year old to his first Dylan concert- he is a super fan! A fantastic show- Bob has still got it.

Thinking today of my late mother Jeanne Meldon who fought so hard to preserve and protect the Castletown demesne for future generations alongside colleagues in the Castletown Foundation. She would be delighted with this news

State to buy land around Castletown House, restore access The State has agreed a deal to purchase the lands around Castletown House in Co Kildare which will likely bring an end to a two-year standoff that led to the closure of public parking and access at th...

Delighted see Irish state has purchased the entire Castletown House estate and saved this vital heritage from development. It’s been a long time coming and hopefully brings an end to a long running saga. www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...

Christian religious education taught in schools in Northern Ireland unlawful, says UK Supreme Court It had been argued that the right to withdraw from religious education prevented any breach to religious freedom protections under the European Convention on Human Rights.

The UK's Supreme Court has ruled that the Christian religious education taught in schools in the North is unlawful.

It added that to teach pupils to 'accept a set of beliefs without critical analysis amounts to evangelism, proselytising, and indoctrination'.
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Fresh off the printing press, Mary O’Sullivan’s Connell lecture on the Irish woolen industry before and after the Union: A Sheepish Account of Ireland's Changing Role in an Imperial Age, 1780–1824. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...