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Oh yes, completely agree!

I was just illustrating the inclusive part. 😊

Accepting all forms of Christianity in the one country was huge for the time.

"...and by the laws of England, as capable of the liberties of a subject."

Irish Confederate delegation (1644)

"for he that is born in Ireland, though his parents and all his ancestors were aliens, nay if his parents are Indians or Turks, if converted to Christianity, is an Irishman as fully as if his ancestors were born here for thousands of years..."

I've been unsuccessfully looking for a book that covers the Irish Confederacy Wars (1641-1653: basically the Irish strand of the War of the 3 Kingdoms).
And instead, I found a podcast, @paxbritannicapod.bsky.social ,
whose series 2 and 3 covers the period in a lot of detail ).

This anyone? (from @tomgauld.bsky.social)

I‘ll also add this article here, which came out earlier this year. it works well as a preview to the book manuscript I am working on.

‘The Imperial Public Sphere: The Press, Publicity, and the Destabilization of the British Empire, c. 1695–1765’

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Mad about Literature? Not mad about literature? Shopping for something for the Bluestocking in your life? Looky here!
www.anniewest.com/books-cards
#IrishLiterature #IrishWriters #ChristmasGifts #Christmas #ActualArt

Tomorrow is today! Open for your Sunday browsing

Today I learned Charles Stewart Parnell was the subject of Hollywood film.

Played by Clarke Gable no less!

I've just signed a contract with @princetonupress.bsky.social for my book When Things Get Personal: A Philosophical Guide to Conflict, and am getting down to my final round of revisions. Philosophy got really exciting for me when my research met real life, and I look forward to showing you how.

As I read this while writing a thesis on toleration...

The difference between simple prejudice and a valid argument not tolerate something is the latter is based on reason.

Unclear what the valid argument is here.

the multi-year lack of a truly functional manuscripts catalog at the BL is finally over!!!!

Poster for The Left Bank November Seminar Series Academy Plaza Hotel, Dublin Saturday 22nd Of November 2-5pm Session 1 WELFARE NOT WARFARE Cllr Noelle Browne, Senator Alice Mary Higgins, Eoghan MacNeill (The Ditch) SESSION 2 IS RIGHT WING POPULISM UNSTOPPABLE? Sinéad Gibney TD, Cllr Karl Stanley, Tom Cowin (Tribune Magazine)

For anyone in Dublin city centre later today, I'm chairing a conversation between @sineadgibney.bsky.social TD and Dr Tom Cowin on the subject of "is right wing populism unstoppable?". We're the second session, so we'll be kicking off around 3:30pm - Academy Plaza Hotel, just off Cathal Brugha St.

He is ignoring the passage of time. US was established based on British polical ideas, but the British establishment moved on from those ideas precisely because of that.

Skinner's Liberty as Independence good on this.

Well documented US also has moved away from those ideas, esp in recent decades.

*Three Women, Three Pregnancies, Three Punishments* Dr Riona Doolan - 17:00 Thursday 27 November 2025, 2.31 Iontas Maynooth University

Bígí linn | Join us for the next Early Irish & Celtic Studies research seminar. Thursday 27 November at 17:00, Room 2.31 IONTAS.

*Three Women, Three Pregnancies, Three Punishments*
Dr Riona Doolan (Maynooth University)

Fáilte roimh chách!

This evening! #philsky

John Kerrigan · No Illusions: Syntax of Slavery Slavery was accepted across most of the early modern world. No one wanted to be a slave, except when the alternative was...

‘By 1790, one in eight Liverpool households were dependent on the slave trade.’

John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

#WorldPhilosophyDay has crept up on me, so have this quote from #UmbertoEco 's "The Search for a Perfect Language" on the original perfect language, ar an teanga bhunaidh fhoirfe, Gaeilge (Irish).

www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/02/20/p...

On #WorldPhilosophyDay, we're raffling off two exclusive tote bags filled with illustrated introductions to Aristotle, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hannah Arendt, Umberto Eco and Judith Butler from our comic book series "Philosophische Einstiege."

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'Philosophy Today' Public Lecture Series 2026 Philosophy Today returns for 2026 with six public talks exploring power, wealth, science, memory, and the emotions that shape our lives.

🎉 Booking is now open for Philosophy Today 2026!

Delighted to launch the 2026 line-up of our popular annual lecture series on #WorldPhilosophyDay. From wealth & emotion to memory & more, the series explores ideas that shape how we live today. Starts Jan 29.

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Vittorio Bufacchi: Philosophy is an antidote to toxic certainty The world desperately needs philosophy today, to stand up to totalitarianism, and halt the process of democratic backsliding, writes Vittorio Bufacchi on World Philosophy Day

It's World Philosophy Day!
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Nationwide 2025-11-17 Nationwide reflects on the remarkable journey of Project Children, fifty years of hope, leadership, and cross-community friendship. Presented by Anne Cassin. Watch Nationwide 2025-11-17 on RTÉ Player ...

Brian Hanley appeared on RTE's Nationwide on Monday 17th discucssing the first years of the Troubles in Northern Ireland

www.rte.ie/player/serie...

Dunsink Observatory was built in 1785, and is considered Ireland’s oldest scientific institution. In 1947 the DIAS Astronomy & Astrophysics section became the caretakers of Dunsink Observatory. Today Dunsink Observatory stands as a physical testament to the evolution of astronomical research and education in Ireland and across the world over more than two centuries. In 2018 Dunsink was designated by the European Physical Society as a “site of historical significance”- the first such designation in Ireland and in 2025 as part of the Astronomical Observatories of Ireland, Dunsink Observatory was added to Ireland’s tentative list for Inscription as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

✨ #13 of 85 Things About DIAS - Dunsink Observatory becomes part of DIAS

Dunsink Observatory was built in 1785, and is considered Ireland’s oldest scientific institution. In 1947 the DIAS Astronomy & Astrophysics section became the caretakers of Dunsink Observatory.

#DIASdiscovers #DIAS85

For no reason remembering Plato’s argument that our rulers - the Philosopher Kings - should be prohibited from owning private property in order to avoid corruption.

Book launch: Intimate Connections Join us at EPIC to celebrate the publication of a new book on Irish female migration

Launch details for Catherine Healy’s excellent new monograph, based on her brilliant @historytcd.bsky.social PhD: happening tomorrow evening in Dublin

www.eventbrite.ie/e/book-launc...

As a reminder, the traditional gift to the philosopher in your life on World Philosophy Day is cash

Great to have these videos up for those interested who weren't able to attend the conference. Keynotes by Prof. Eliga Gould and Prof. Nicholas Canny and a @virtualtreasury.bsky.social panel. Please share widely.

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

@historytcd.bsky.social @historyatgalway.bsky.social

Vittorio Bufacchi: Philosophy is an antidote to toxic certainty The world desperately needs philosophy today, to stand up to totalitarianism, and halt the process of democratic backsliding, writes Vittorio Bufacchi on World Philosophy Day

November 20 is World Philosophy Day. To mark the occasion, here's a piece from Prof. Vittorio Bufacchi in today's Irish Examiner:

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

For those of you working at @maynoothuniversity.ie and @stpatsmaynooth.bsky.social
and who may wish to get a head-start on your #Christmas prezzie purchases, I’ve spotted some copies of “Christmas and the Irish” on sale in the Maynooth University bookshop, among many other fabulous books.

First 'all Ireland university' as DkIT partners with QUB The new partnership between Queens University Belfast and Dundalk Institute of Technology is not a "parent child relationship," and represents the first "all-Ireland university", the Minister for Furt...

Dundalk IT has a new partner in Queen's University Belfast... (1/2)

www.rte.ie/news/leinste...