IrishPhilosophy

A post on the literary women of Dublin, who were friends or acquaintances of Anne Donnellan

www.irishphilosophy.com/2019/04/07/t...

Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas and Beyond | Home Adrian Blau is Professor of Politics at King’s College London. His research interests include the history of political thought and other issues in political theory/philosophy, including corruption, democracy and rationality.

A reassessment of Quentin Skinner's classic paper on its 50th anniversary, drawn from a @britishacademy.bsky.social conference - Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas and Beyond, edited by @adrianblau.bsky.social & open access at www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

1766 religious census of Boho parish, Co. Fermanagh, by Revd John White.
‘One Papist is generally a herdsman for a whole townland. There is not a Papist in the parish anyway considerable, either in circumstances, or mental capacity, all poor, low, illiterate people’.

Anne Donnellan (c. 1700-1762) gave the bequest which originally established these lectures. Told Swift that she was "an asserter of the rights and privileges of women". Never married (refused an offer of marriage from Berkeley), literary & artistic interests & friends.

www.dib.ie/biography/do...

The Donnellan Lectures return this April!

Hosted by the Dept of #Philosophy at @tcddublin.bsky.social, this year’s series features Prof Ruth Chang from @ox.ac.uk delivering 3 lectures on hard choices in life, law & AI.

📅 21–23 April
🎟 Free - registration required
Tickets ▶️ tinyurl.com/mv3vt4s4

"Queens University Belfast…on departing posted: 'We are currently not using X (formerly Twitter). This decision reflects our commitment to ensuring that our communications take place in spaces that are respectful, inclusive and aligned with the University’s values.'"

Very useful book for my masters thesis on the inter-war feminist journal Urania that Gore-Booth co-founded (declaring that 'sex is an accident') which included a trans feminine editor, Irene Clyde. 👀

A manuscript of the Tain Bó Cúailnge was (according to the Lebor Laignech) exchanged for a manuscript of Isidore's Etymologies, the great 7th century collection of classical learning.

www.irishphilosophy.com/2017/04/04/i...

If you want to discuss your postgraduate options in Early Irish at Maynooth University with Dr Niamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social or myself, come to our stand thos afternoon.

Language, Education and Medical Learning in the Premodern Gaelic World - Trees and Medicine

Returning to the Mothership @nlireland.bsky.social #phonehome

FROM JAMES CONNOLLY TO MISS LILLIE REYNOLDS (Undated) This is a love letter, this is a letter written by me Jim, to the nicest girl between here and anywhere, to tell her that all her mistakes, her wilfulness, her troublesomeness, only make me love her the more, and make me more than ever determined to have the possession of such a delightful bundle of contradict- ions all to myself. You make things worse, indeed, the very idea is rank heresy. Why if I was ever so miserable the thought of having such a wife e to come home to, a wife whom I love with all my heart and soul, the thought would make me brave in the face of any difficulty, cheerful in the face of any misfortune. You know me too well, Lillie, I think, to ever I felt imagine, I could be angry with you for long. inclined that way the thought of your sweet face and your lovable ways would make me ashamed of myself. Hoping I shall ever remain rich in the continuance of your love and that we shall soon see the accomplishment of that event which shall join our hands as our hearts have long been joined. I remain, Yours lovingly, Jim.

A love letter from the revolutionary James Connolly to his best girl (and future wife) Lillie.

It is weird that AI applications are overtly offering "talking with spirits" as a feature when articles exist comparing AI to fraudulent psychics.

softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

Clondalkin Round Tower. A tall tapering tower of stone with a conical cap, with a pale blue sky behind.

In today's edition of our free #MonumentMonday email newsletter, we visit Clondalkin to see one of Ireland's oldest, and finest, round towers.

#Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺 #DiscoverIreland

Happening this Thursday!

“What is most repugnant to me in America is not the extreme freedom that reigns there, it is the lack of a guarantee against tyranny.”
– Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835/40)

My Reformation class wrestled with double predestination just last week. It was fun to watch the wheels turn in the students' heads as they puzzled out all the doctrine's implications. It was a lively discussion.
#reformazing

OC 24, Mil 475 Can we seriously say, that a poor peasant or artizan has a free choice to leave his country, when he knows no foreign language or manners, and lives from day to day, by the small wages which he acquires? We may as well assert, that a man, by remaining in a vessel, freely consents to the dominion of the master; though he was carried on board while asleep, and must leap into the ocean, and perish, the moment he leaves her.

Hume, arguing against the idea that living in a country amounts to tacit consent to the ruler's authority (against Locke iirc).

davidhume.org/texts/empl2/oc

The 1760s saw a rise in agarian violence, carried out by secret societies like the Whiteboys in Munster, and more openly by the "Hearts of Oak" or "Oakboys" in Ulster.

More on the Hearts of Oak movement: www.jstor.org/stable/30008...

The MS of the Week is RIA MS 23 O 48(b), Liber Fergus Fergusiorum.

The manuscript is of Connacht provenance and the contents are mainly religious tracts.

Visit @rialibrary.bsky.social to read more about this MS and explore highlights from the RIA Library’s collections.

2 Mar: d.?672, St Chad, bishop of Mercia #otd He studied at Rathmelsigi in #Ireland Some of his relics still survive

RIP William E Connolly

excellent colleague, friend, and philosopher @michalwieczorek.bsky.social is hiring in the School of Education at UCD! if you are interested in critical research on education and technology, or if any of your students are, you know where to go!

It’s Women’s History Month, with the theme “leading the change”, and I want to celebrate all the unsung women who innovated, resisted and risked their lives to pave the way for the freedoms we cherish today. My book introduces 12 of these women from the C17th but there many more stories to be told

An extraordinary project this.

"Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking."

(Bertolt Brecht)

Contemporary 17th century reader inserting a short biography of Philip Pinson of Tuam in Sir James Ware's 'Catalogue of the Archbishops of Cashel & Tuam'. The author omitted Pinson from the list of archbishops, although the prelate only held the post for three days!

Always fascinated by the way contemporary #earlymodern scholars engaged with other works of interest.

Here is one knowledgeable #17thc reader inserting a bio of Philip Pinson (archbishop of Tuam for three days!) whom the author omitted: Ware's catalogue of the archbishops of Cashel and Tuam (1626)

'Her Breath in Mine' | The Women of Seamus Heaney's Poetry In Celebration of International Women's Day

'Her Breath in Mine' | The Women of Seamus Heaney's Poetry

For International Women's Day at #SeamusHeaney: Listen Now Again, join us for an uplifting, thought‑provoking celebration of women.

📅 Sat, 7 March at 2pm:
https://www.nli.ie/exhibitions-events/her-breath-mine-women-seamus-heaneys-poetry

IGRS Top Research Tip #196: Were any of your ancestors part of the 17th century plantation of Ulster? The Ulster Settlers Database brings together a variety of surviving sources which identify many of the early settlers: ulster-settlers.maynoothuniversity.ie

Maynooth University Library Cat Update It being a spring-like day, Maynooth University Library Cat took the opportunity to choose a spot away from his usual post so he could loaf in the sunshine.

Maynooth University Library Cat Update

It being a spring-like day, Maynooth University Library Cat took the opportunity to choose a spot away from his usual post so he could loaf in the sunshine.