Mark Empey

Lecturer in Early Modern History; #BookHistory; Female Book Owners @RECIRC_; James Ware: Royalism, History & Antiquarianism @boydellbrewer 2028; Coined #HerBook

[Mark Empey @memps2]

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:

https://t.co/JPFjhkXm71

[Mark Empey @memps2]

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

[Mark Empey @memps2]

@RoyalStuartSoc Not sure too many Irish people would be confident taking that lift 😂

[Mark Empey @memps2]

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

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

One of the most important surviving medieval manuscripts written in Irish goes on public display after a two-year long project to conserve it
https://t.co/2ChDvDdOPb

[Marsh's Library @MarshsLibrary]

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: https://t.co/OCJttBIURp

[Jim O'Neill @neilojim1972]

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

[Mark Empey @memps2]

And it was 20 minutes late by the time it got to Hazelhatch 🤷‍♂️ God knows when we’ll arrive at GCD

[Iarnród Éireann @IrishRail]

07.19 Newbridge/GCD departed Sallins +12mins delayed due to a mechanical issue onboard. -AD @TFIupdates #irishrail

[Georgianna Ziegler @EMHerstory]

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.

[Mark Empey @memps2]

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

[Jim the Siiker @Jim73131158]

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

[Mark Empey @memps2]

@RuthCan75563366 @dramdarcy Quite likely the same pillory that is regularly mentioned in 17th-century accounts as being at Oxmanstown

[Renaissance SRS @SRSRenSoc]

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.

📝 https://t.co/C4B7qbZmnh

[Mark Empey @memps2]

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

[Mark Empey @memps2]

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

[Iarnród Éireann @IrishRail]

Delays to services through Connolly station are expected due to a signalling issue at Connolly. @TFIupadtes -AB

[Mark Empey @memps2]

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

[Mark Empey @memps2]

@scahill @thetimes Congratulations Susan! The other half bought two copies! One for my niece and the other for herself 😂

[SSEMWG @SSEMWomenGender]

The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender is currently accepting applications for Graduate Student Travel Grants for spring/summer 2025 conferences.

[Jim O'Neill @neilojim1972]

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....

[Mark Empey @memps2]

@hiramjmorgan Presumably the subtle message for the door near the Wentworth portrait is “enter at your peril”

[Edward Worth Library @EdwardWorthLib]

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!

[Mark Empey @memps2]

@metamedievalist Congratulations Ciaran! Must be satisfying to see this done. What a huge achievement. Well done

[Dr Ciaran McDonough @metamedievalist]

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: https://t.co/5UyXhrnPCv. Today, I finally published my dataset, available here: https://t.co/qYNAsFa42k. I hope it's useful!