Patrick walsh

I wanted to name my eldest son Marmaduke but was rightly overruled!

🧵(1) Born #OTD 1775, Daniel O'Connell. Known by supporters as 'The Liberator', O'Connell was considered the leader of Ireland's Catholic majority in the first half of the 19th century, and 'by far the most prominent Irishman in the Commons' from 1830. buff.ly/eBmk09B

Sketch of Daniel O’Connell’s head in profile

Under the flap - hostile cartoons of scenes from O’Connell’s life

For the day that’s in it: ‘Phrenological survey of the head of an agitator’ (c.1843, NLI). Important to celebrate the life and legacy of one of Ireland’s greatest political leaders, but we need a bit of critical debate about this also.

Fantastic opportunity here.

Be my replacement for a year and work in a great School with lovely colleagues! Please share with any modern Europeanists who might be interested!

Lecturer (Education) in Modern European History at Queen's University Belfast Apply now for the Lecturer (Education) in Modern European History role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

A proper 12-month replacement post with decent salary (for UKHE, at least) in modern European history. Belfast is a decent place to live - relatively affordable apart from extortionate pint prices - and I can personally vouch for what a great & friendly School we have.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOE451/l...

The killing times: a massacre map of Australia's frontier wars This interactive tells the stories that have long been kept out of our history books. It shows evidence of mass killings from 1788 until 1928: a sustained and systematic process of conflict and expans...

Worth reading this article in conjunction with the colonial frontier violence map produced by the University of Newcastle 2019-25 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

This is the week Scotland was forced to confront its role in slavery, and say: ‘Yes, that was us’ | Hannah Lavery Guardian revelations about Edinburgh University’s links to both the practice and theory of the evil trade must now provoke a national reckoning on race, says poet and playwright Hannah Lavery

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This is fascinating on settler colonial violence in Australia and the dynamics of family and local settler caste memory. And Major Logue was an Irish Australian - one of many complicit and active in settler violence.

@kbruisch.bsky.social this might interest you

It’s an excellent book

'Public History in an Age of Anxiety', QUB Centre for Public History Conference, 9-11 September. Register now and join us for a packed programme over three days.

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Vincent Brown · What Universities Owe When challenged to justify past investment in slavery – or current investments in, say, fossil fuel extraction or arms...

‘Yale’s leaders, in their drive to make the college a national institution, were careful not to alienate wealthy and powerful benefactors, including slaveholding Southerners.’

Vincent Brown reviews ‘Yale and Slavery’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Congratulations and richly deserved! Avast me hearties

Allan Ahlberg, beloved children's author, dies aged 87 Working first with his wife Jane, and later with illustrators including Raymond Briggs and Bruce Ingman, he wrote more than 150 books

Sad to see death of Alan Ahlberg, author of children’s classics Peepo and Each Peach Pear Plum which was so important in our house it ended up being brought up at my mother’s funeral. She gave it to every new baby and could recite it at will www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Slavery, Decoloniality, and the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Rachael Scally draws out the legacies of slavery of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, and what it means for the decolonisation of Scotland's healthcare institutions.

Tomorrow Edinburgh Festival Fringe begins, a month long celebration of the arts.

Rachael Scally's article reveals the legacies of slavery in one of the festival's key venues, the Royal Infirmary (now the Edinburgh Futures Institute).

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Edinburgh University’s ‘skull room’ highlights its complicated history with racist science Skulls were collected from all over the world because of some academics’ fascination with the discredited belief that skull shape denoted intelligence

This is very good on Edinburgh skull room. Some very similar stories to be told about Trinity’s Anatomy collection beyond the well known Haddon-Dixon collection. Some of the same people worked in Edinburgh and Dublin including Prof Daniel Cunningham. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

‘The real issue is change’: Edinburgh University’s first Black philosophy professor on racism and reform Prof Tommy J Curry reflects on leading the institute’s slavery review – and why it must lead to meaningful action

"I don’t see that history as something that sits in the past with a closed door,” Frith adds. “It is something that directly affects all of us today in very different and uneven ways, but it nonetheless does affect the shape of our society, our relations, everything."

The Childers Professorship of Irish History at University of Cambridge Searching for an academic job? Explore this The Childers Professorship of Irish History opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

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Map of Trinity College Dublin Skill Collection- mostly stolen from indigenous communities across the globe

The Trinity skull collection is here
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There is a map of the global reach of the Trinity collection in our Inishbofin Working Paper.The Trinity collection also includes executed prisoners including Irish travellers as well as prisoners skulls from Burma. Like Edinburgh dynamics of racial and class superiority very evident

Edinburgh University’s ‘skull room’ highlights its complicated history with racist science Skulls were collected from all over the world because of some academics’ fascination with the discredited belief that skull shape denoted intelligence

This is very good on Edinburgh skull room. Some very similar stories to be told about Trinity’s Anatomy collection beyond the well known Haddon-Dixon collection. Some of the same people worked in Edinburgh and Dublin including Prof Daniel Cunningham. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Edinburgh University had ‘outsized’ role in creating racist scientific theories, inquiry finds Investigation finds one of Britain’s oldest and most prestigious universities benefited from transatlantic slavery and was haven for white supremacist theories

Pleased this is finally published after I proposed it a few years ago. A lot of work by brilliant colleagues & some expected and some shocking findings. It’ll upset some (it’s a long time ago etc) but if a uni can’t speak truth to its own power what’s its point? www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

Exclusive: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication.

My latest.
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The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention calls on world leaders to step in immediately with measures that ensure food and water gets into Gaza right now.

No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits.

“GET FOOD AND WATER INTO GAZA NOW.

IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT.”

Featuring poetry by @alkinsel.bsky.social and artwork by Izaac Elliott and Alison Lowry exploring personal, local and recent histories of mothers, children and institutional care

I’m so pleased that the three wonderful creative works commissioned for my and @kathrowold.bsky.social AHRC network ‘institutions and infant care, can now be viewed online www.institutionsandinfantcare.org/services-2

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Had a really superb visit to the Seamus Heaney Homeplace today. An excellent exhibition with enough to people to six and ten year old as well as their grandfather. And love this quote! One for all writers with kids