Richard Clune

Under pressure, people don't rise to the occasion, they fall to the level of their training

[Richard Clune @RichardClune7]

You hardly care about my opinion, do you? Take a day off Twitter.

[Richard Clune @RichardClune7]

Four exceptional goals in the French-Senegal game

[Richard Clune @RichardClune7]

@pat_nolan This really irks me. Maybe Offaly people think the Tailteann is beneath you but getting to see Wicklow on the television in Croke Park doesn’t happen too often, that we’re doing it two years in a row is amazing. The TC is already down the pecking order, don’t relegate it further

[Richard Clune @RichardClune7]

@MickFoley76 Is it the first time there are 14 strong teams in the championship?

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

This assault occurred last night outside Cotswold's on Trinity Street, Dublin 2. You can see Salamanca's in the background.

The victim, Vlad, isn't transgender - he's a crossdresser - not that it matters in terms of an expectancy not to be assaulted on a night out.

Pathetic.

[FlickyNation 🇦🇷🇧🇦 @Habibullaakarim]

It's mind-boggling to think about who funded Serbia in this war

[Jamison Daniel @AntiquarianMuse]

MAGA-influencer Riley Gaines being told/paid by Patriot Mobile handlers what her "sincerely held" beliefs are in leaked video.

Mar-A-Lago Face is a phenomenon that needs to be studied academically.

[Lucas Navarrete @LucasNavarreteM]

Just another example of the NBA sharing the full ending one of their biggest games of the 21st century to promote and grow their product.

LaLiga and football in general would never.

[Nicole Penn @nmpenn]

Gordon Wood wrote the lead essay for "Democracy and the American Revolution," the first volume in @AEI's "America at 250" series. I had to pick my jaw up off the ground the first time I read how he summed up the democratic force the Revolution unleashed:

[Professor Simon Chadwick @Prof_Chadwick]

A suggested World Cup reading list...

[Richard Clune @RichardClune7]

@willocallaghan How many people actually watch the Saturday Game? I feel like it’s fairly invisible

[Make American History Great Again @JosephRardin]

The Great American historian Gordon S. Wood has died. He was a gold standard for American history, especially the Founding Era. To be so into the Founding Era and die on its 250th anniversary must be an honor. Sadly, he did not get to see the 250th Independence Day.

[Bob Elder @southernphd]

I never met Gordon Wood, but I have a story about him.

In one of my grad school seminars, we read Wood’s Creation of the American Republic. The sheer erudition and evidentiary depth of the book bowled me over.

Back then, before kids and before life accelerated to warp speed, I used to call my mother every Sunday to catch up. Lots of times, we ended up talking about what I was reading that week in my grad seminars or for leisure. Mom had an omnivorous mind, and she was always looking for something else to read. She was a true intellectual—curious about almost everything, always eager to integrate new arguments or ideas into her existing schemas of how the world worked or to have those schemas challenged and changed.

When we talked that particular Sunday, I think I tried to describe to her part of Wood’s argument about the relationship between the state constitutions during the Articles of Confederation era and the federal Constitution. Maybe I was tired, maybe I didn’t completely understand her questions, but the end result of the conversation was that Mom had questions about Wood’s argument that I didn’t answer satisfactorily. I told her that she should probably just read the book, and we said goodbye.

She did eventually read the book, but the next Sunday, Mom started our conversation by saying, “Well, I had a lovely conversation with Gordon Wood this week.” For a split second, I thought she was joking, but then I remembered who I was dealing with. I started to sweat. “How?” I asked. A whole variety of unlikely scenarios in which the foremost historian of the American Revolution and my mother, who lived in Wichita, Kansas, might have met ran through my mind. “Oh, I just looked up his office phone number on Brown’s website and called, and he picked up!” Mom said. I decided I would have to find another profession.

As it ended up, Gordon Wood spent about an hour on the phone with my mother answering her questions about the Constitution. Ever since, I’ve had a soft spot for the man when I imagine him picking up the phone in Providence and finding Becky Elder from Wichita on the other end of the line. His generosity in that moment spoke very well of him.

Rest in peace, professor.

[Richard Clune @RichardClune7]

@gedser102 @irish_news Cork hurling fans and Munster hurling fans as a whole would like to have a word

[yoshimi battles video game addiction @nise_yoshimi]

there's a certain type of history book I'm fond of that I can only describe as having the atmosphere of a horror film. You just can't look away

[Richard Clune @RichardClune7]

@TullMcAdoo He could do with an editor, that was a painful first half

[Richard Clune @RichardClune7]

@GaelicStatsApp Ah, that loss to Longford in the league was terrible, but I’m desensitised to these things! A poor championship would have surely seen Oisin gone

We should expect to beat Tipp, then there are no outstanding favourites in the quarters

[Richard Clune @RichardClune7]

@GAALeagueTables Jeez, will you let it go man? The siege mentality that exists within Ulster football and Munster hurling is painful. You’re from a successful county, don’t get bogged down in the smaller stuff

[Richard Clune @RichardClune7]

@byrne_david Is it not Donal Burke? He got 2-52 according to Score Beo

[Richard Clune @RichardClune7]

@mlverney Cork will easily beat Clare too, the Munster lads will try to drum up a bit of interest in it but Clare have only beaten two bad teams and got hammered by a good team