Dubliner, FSA, FRHistS; mostly medieval with an unhealthy interest in James Joyce. Likes tea and books in industrial quantities. Níl ann ach mo thuairim ...
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Dr Anne Marie D'Arcy retweeted
Coming soon! So excited about this 😀
Here's something to be excited about: "Hoarded Gold: A Book of Old English Wisdom" by Eleanor Parker (@ClerkofOxford) will be published by Uppsala Books and available worldwide before the end of November!
Follow us (@UppsalaBooks) for more announcements about this book and other exciting new releases.
Dr Anne Marie D'Arcy retweeted
Samuel Beckett, Banville’s greatest literary influence, was a member of the French Resistance, but then Beckett was a lot of things John Banville will never be 💅
‘Second-rate artists and mediocrities can take a stand. Real artists don’t take a stand on anything’ — John Banville buff.ly/HSmql5q
Dr Anne Marie D'Arcy retweeted
Brittany, France early 20thc, women making 'picot bigouden' a form of intricate and complex crochet linking to Irish crochet #WomensArt
White Martyrdom, and a paraphrase of the Cambrai Homily, feature in Finnegans Wake. Currently writing a short piece on Joyce and his sense of himself as a peregrinus.
Oct 25 is the feast of Blessed Thaddeus McCarthy. In his title 'the white martyr of Munster' he reflects the categories of martyrdom laid down in the Cambrai Homily (7th/8thc.) and as an Irishman who rests in Italy, he echoes the peregrini, as I muse here: omniumsanctorumhiberniae.com…
Hmmm ... is the 'International' market for vulture fund rabbit hutches cooling?
Why don’t Irish people want to live in apartments? Only 13 per cent of Irish households live in the country’s 230,000 flats or apartments. In Europe, nearly half of all households live in an apartment or flat.
Read here: irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…
Dr Anne Marie D'Arcy retweeted
Dr J.B. Lyons (22 July 1922 #Kilkelly #Mayo-25 Oct 2007).✍️History/Prof Medical History @RCSI_Irl.👨🎓Castleknock, @UCDMedicine @NUIMerrionSq. 👨⚕️The Mater, Dublin; County Hospital, Castlebar; St Michael's, Dún Laoghaire; Mercer's, Dublin. 🚢Dr for a while!💉 dib.ie/biography/lyons-john-…
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Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, KG, PC, FRS (25 Oct 1683 Eng-6 May 1757). Lord Lieutenant Ireland 1720-4. Father an illegitimate son of King Charles II by his mistress Barbara Villiers! Grafton Street, Dublin named for his father; lane on his land. dib.ie/biography/fitzroy-cha…
Dr Anne Marie D'Arcy retweeted
Interviewer; "So you're not organised and funded as a group to disproportionately influence State policy in your own favour?"
Head of data centre lobby "Certainly not!".
The head of Ireland's data centre lobby has claimed the sector is falling victim to “conspiracy theories" and “disinformation" originating in American politics.
He also likened local opponents of data centres in their communities to Brexiteers.
thejournal.ie/irish-data-cen…
He was the most brilliant and lovely man ...
Fr Leonard Boyle, OP, OC (13 Nov 1923 #Ballintra #Donegal-25 Oct 1999). Taught @PIMS_Mediaeval & Centre for Medieval Studies @UofT. Prof of Latin Palaeography & History of Medieval Theology @_Angelicum. Prefect @vaticanlibrary; digitalised it, employed♀️! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonar…
Dr Anne Marie D'Arcy retweeted
By 500AD the Irish were well established
They weren’t ‘Irish clans’ which implies separation, they saw themselves as one people, one nation, the Irish
Dr Anne Marie D'Arcy retweeted
Man Writing a Letter, 1662-65 Woman Reading a Letter, 1665 Gabriel Metsu (Two jewels from the National Gallery of Ireland #Dublin
@NGIreland
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Metsu was buried #otd 24 Oct 1667 in the Nieuwe Kerk #Amsterdam.
Dr Anne Marie D'Arcy retweeted
🤦♂️ A marketing professor is being investigated for criticizing his university’s marketing strategy.
The university cites the “potential impact that [his] comments have had on colleagues.”
This should get Lancaster University more publicity than its marketing team ever could.
Dr Anne Marie D'Arcy retweeted
A History of Ireland in 100 Stamps. Dr Max Barrett.
This is more than a stamp book - which would be great as stamps are miniature works of art. It is also a fabulous, beautifully illustrated, informative & interesting Irish History book! Perfect Christmas pressie! #IrishHistory
Dr Anne Marie D'Arcy retweeted
Time to quote the OfS guidance on the implementation of The Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023. (officeforstudents.org.uk/new…)
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A claimed £140m budget crisis & suddenly courses have to go at Edinburg University
University senior management is quick to talk about financial sustainability when cutting programmes, but far less keen to explain their actions brought us to this point
thenational.scot/news/266563…
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“The FT has revealed that one in 10 full-time undergraduates are now taught by for-profit companies after a rapid rise of franchise arrangements, under which courses are subcontracted to private providers.” ft.com/content/5fcd5f35-3557… @FT
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#Otd 1886: Plan of Campaign began.
It was outlined in the United Irishman newspaper. Purpose was reduction in rent when poor harvest. When landlord refused, tenants were to pay no rent at all.
To be put into operation on 203 estates (mainly south & west). Lasted until 1891.
