Lecturer in Early Modern History; #BookHistory; Female Book Owners @RECIRC_; James Ware: Royalism, History & Antiquarianism @boydellbrewer 2028; Coined #HerBook
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Ever wondered why Wentworth was seen as The Kingdomes Monster (eebo)?
My article **Power, Prerogative and the Politics of Sir Thomas Wentworth in Early Stuart England and Ireland** is just published with @HistoricalJnl and is #openaccess on #firstview:
cambridge.org/core/journals/…
It appears everybody is 'ill satisfied' in January 1637, at least in the eyes of the second viscount Conway anyway. Something tells me he's not entirely the life of the party #earlymodern
What this article does not mention is that it survived the #17thc because it was preserved by the historian Sir James Ware.
All in his letter to Archbishop Ussher dated 21 September 1627, which includes references to many other valuable Irish medieval manuscripts
One of the most important surviving medieval manuscripts written in Irish goes on public display after a two-year long project to conserve it
rte.ie/news/2025/0521/151393…
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A Latin-English-Gaelic dictionary compiled c.1712-30 & purchased by Marsh's around 1743 for £20. We went with the entry on trees as it's #NationalTreeWeek as well as #SeachtainnaGaeilge!
See the full manuscript on ISOS: isos.dias.ie/MARSH/MS_Z_3_1_…
ALT detail of page from an 18th century Latin-English-Gaelic dictionary
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It's International Women's Day so looking back to the Nine Years War in Ireland, you'd need your head felt to think women weren't involved. Of course they were. They played a significant role as messengers, spies and envoys. Tyrone's intelligence network depended on them
And it was 20 minutes late by the time it got to Hazelhatch 🤷♂️ God knows when we’ll arrive at GCD
07.19 Newbridge/GCD departed Sallins +12mins delayed due to a mechanical issue onboard. -AD @TFIupdates #irishrail
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Technologies of writing - a nifty pen holder and what looks like a portable ink bottle to go with it. I've seen such in other paintings.
The Dominican priory was an important centre for key manuscripts and proved remarkably open to loaning its registers to Protestant scholars such as Ware and Ussher who were examined Ireland’s medieval past in the seventeenth century
Steeple of Saints Peter and Paul in the distance, through a not so aesthetically pleasing metal gate in the Dominican Priory of Kilmallock, County Limerick
#lovesgates #thursgate #ireland #Archaeohistories #Archaeology
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Kevin Gerard Tracey (@maynoothuni) analyses an Irish exile's natural history, not only for political theology, but also its attention to rescue capture, natural laws, state, and self.
📝 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
ALT Screenshot of a journal article's webpage title: Chronotopes of exile and loss in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's Zoilomastix (c. 1626) Abstract This essay explores the relationship between an early modern exile and his native environment, as depicted in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's unfinished natural history Zoilomastix. Writing by turns in Latin, Spanish and Gaelic from the safety of the Habsburg court, O'Sullivan Beare marshalled Ciceronian rhetoric and Plinian wonder to argue for the conservation of interwoven natural and cultural environments. One of the earliest examples of national historiographies written from exile by erudite Irish figures, Zoilomastix has most often been read in terms of its political theology. Though understandable, such readings obscure O'Sullivan Beare's idiosyncratic treatments of self, state and nature. Additionally, such readings only partially consider the author's attempts to engage with the debates on ethnicity, natural law and resource capture which directed
The beautiful Oughterard, Co. Kildare #Ireland. Site of a monastery founded by St Bríga (not the St Bridget) in #6thc but later burned by Viking king of Dublin, Sitric.
Best known as resting place of Arthur #Guinness, who founded the Guinness Brewery at St. James's Gate in 1759
ALT Sun setting behind the round tower at Oughterard in Co. Kildare, Ireland
ALT Mausoleum of Arthur Guinness (d. 1803), founder of the Guinness Brewery in Dublin
Hot tip: while these things unfortunately happen it might have been useful to update colleagues at Connolly who first told ppl to board an out of service train, and then over the subsequent 45 mins made no reference to the cancellation while customers waited at the platform
Delays to services through Connolly station are expected due to a signalling issue at Connolly. @TFIupadtes -AB
Excited to receive proofs for my forthcoming #earlymodern and #bookhistory chapter on the role of the Irish Protestant community in preserving crucial
#medieval #manuscripts in seventeenth-century Ireland
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Ok folks, the new book has a face, with a following wind should be out by mid-November. Come and see the history book where the Irish win at the end....
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Looking forward to presenting a paper on 'Disease and illness: Dr Edward Worth and infectious diseases in early eighteenth-century Dublin' at 6.00pm at the Gilbert Library, Pearse Street, as part of @HistFest and many thanks to the Old Dublin Society for arranging it!
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Over the past two years, aside from looking at the aurora, writing grant applications, and moaning about the weather, I have been working on this: cordis.europa.eu/project/id/…. Today, I finally published my dataset, available here: zenodo.org/records/13857788. I hope it's useful!
In researching for something else, I stumbled across this wonderful #HerBook blog by John McQuillen on some exciting #earlymodern female book ownership examples @MorganLibrary. This is well worth a read @martinevanelk @WhiteMicheline @RECIRC_
themorgan.org/blog/women-boo…
A brilliant conference with a brilliant range of papers that showcase the very best of #earlymodern Irish history. Give it a go - click the links and find out just why Tudor and Stuart Ireland is such a varied and fascinating period 👇👇👇
Relive (or catch up on) our sessions from TSI XII. All our 2024 conference papers are now available online as podcasts via:
Spotify open.spotify.com/show/5e2jHd…
Apple:podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
History Hub historyhub.ie/tudor-and-stua…
Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/history-hub/s…
What a compelling read on the Countess d’Yve’s library: “It was not until more than five years after her death, in October 1819 and October 1820, that the library was sold in two auctions, each provided with a printed catalogue of 2,900 and 3,921 lots”. #HerBook
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Wonderful 17thC(?) doodle of a hanging in this unique copy of John Heywood’s ‘The play of the wether’ (London, ?1544), @theULSpecColl Sel.5.61. The inscription below notes that ‘These to thifes rob[b]ed a man at ?Clatford riding to Wickham market ffor to bye some corne…’ (1/2)
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Come to my workshop on #materiality of #LetterWriting at UCL in November!
Check out the webpage for more:
Workshop on visual and material aspects of letter-writing in early modern Britain
22 Nov 9am–4pm @UCL_IAS with @livesandletters
This workshop, organised by @samklai, is designed to boost research in epistolary materiality through knowledge exchange
ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advan…
