Wonderful 17thC(?) doodle of a hanging in this unique copy of John Heywood’s ‘The play of the wether’ (London, ?1544), Cambridge UL Special Collections 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)

Come to my workshop on #materiality of #LetterWriting at UCL in November! Check out the webpage for more:

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

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 👇👇👇

In researching for something else, I stumbled across this wonderful #HerBook blog by John McQuillen on some exciting #earlymodern female book ownership examples The Morgan. This is well worth a read Martine van Elk Micheline White EM Women's Writing themorgan.org/blog/women-boo…

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/101…. Today, I finally published my dataset, available here: zenodo.org/records/138577…. I hope it's useful!

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 Dublin Festival of History and many thanks to the Old Dublin Society for arranging it!

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....

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.

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

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

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

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/10.1111/re…

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

Delighted to welcome Melanie Bigold for our next event -- all welcome!

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.

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

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

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…

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