Delighted to have my article on the banjo in late-seventeenth century Jamaica published in the latest issue of Ethnomusicology Ireland. Many thanks to my reviewers and editors for their help along the way!
https://t.co/BB6Ybt8u0I
@DrMaDMo@RTEBrainstorm@MaynoothUni@Researchirel Yes, the headline could be misinterpreted. As I conclude: "In spite of the importance attributed to Sloane and his collections, his legacy is a complex one that cannot be separated from the brutal realities of slavery and the enduring violence inflicted upon its victims”
Meet Hans Sloane, the Co Down man who brought the banjo to Europe. The legacy of the collector who brought the banjo and hot chocolate to Europe is overshadowed by his involvement in the slave trade, writes @RoryCorbett@MaynoothUni@Researchirel https://t.co/3EirhUVpa9
Kerby Miller’s magnificent archive of letters has been digitised. Free to access at @uniofgalway
Can’t wait to have a dig around. #irishdiaspora
https://t.co/zIAWYISrdQ
Registration has opened for the joint SMI and ICTM-IE postgraduate research conference (Maynooth, 12-13 January 2024), and the conference programme is now available. Full details at https://t.co/1yqBqs7wpH
📢 Closes 20 Sept. We are hiring 2 postdocs in economic history and early modern history. VOICES is a 5 yr ERC at TCD that aims to recover the lived experiences of women in early modern Ireland. Plse RT👇
https://t.co/Uo12hSGN9B
@BA_McShane@TLRHub@ronanlyons @VirtualTreasury
Born in 1794, Michael "Zozimus" Moran was a street performer, balladeer, poet, satirist & national treasure with an encyclopedic knowledge of Dublin history. His intellect was all the more incredible as he was blind from infancy, so had to no written aids or formal education.
We are delighted to announce that the 2019 Irish Historical Research Prize Lecture by Guy Beiner of @BCIrishStudies "Forgetting in the Decade of Commemorations" is now available on our website, also featuring Prof James Kelly of @DCUHist_Geog's response.
https://t.co/vtYz8K1uDE
Forgetting in the Decade of Commemorations: New Directions for Irish Historical Research
Guy Beiner's 2019 Irish Historical Research Prize Lecture (delivered orally) now available in print free of charge from NUI (email: [email protected])
or as a PDF:
https://t.co/CFLQCjNF0o
Delighted to announce full lineup of tutors for Summer School of Traditional Music.
📆 24th - 28th July
📍 Classes held on new @UlsterUni campus in the centre of Belfast
🛌 Accom available for attendees from £299 for 7 nights.
🎟 https://t.co/pSFsQsIFda
Calling all researchers in Ireland and Irish researchers abroad. #LoveIrishResearch
Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Open Letter to Minister Simon Harris - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/xNJlBkX6tk via @Change
Please sign / RT / Forward to your TDs.
@DeptofFHed@SimonHarris
Almost 4,000 years ago an Egyptian civil servant, worried for his life, fled north and found himself in the land inhabited by strange and violent cattle herders. This is the tale of Sinuhe and his experience of Indo-European warrior culture. [THREAD]
Many unionists are under impression Irish language is heritage of Irish nationalists, republicans or Catholics only, but they're mistaken. Irish has unionist and Protestant history too. Even today, unionists like @ErvineLinda speak Irish.
Here's a thread on some of that history.