Victoria Anne Pearson
PhD candidate, Ulster University
researching the life & work of Dr Francis Moylan, RC Bishop of Kerry & Cork, 1735-1815
- Éigse na Cholmcille will take place in #Derry on Friday, 16 January 2026. This year’s event is a gathering of colleagues from @ulsteruni.bsky.social @ucc.ie & University of Galway and is graciously hosted by both the RC & CofI Derry Dioceses All Welcome! 🕊️
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- Derry (Halloween) Girls- bone cracker! 💀 Halloween in Derry has started at The Sacred Tree in the Craft Village 🎃
- Reposted by Victoria Anne PearsonOn 20 November, I'm giving a lunchtime lecture at the V&A about my book Shoes and the Georgian Man. It's free, do come along! #skystorians @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social www.vam.ac.uk/event/xd9XBD...
- Reposted by Victoria Anne PearsonIt was a fantastic closing roundtable and a fitting end to a wonderful two days. Many thanks to my co-organisers, @virtualtreasury.bsky.social, @tlrhub.bsky.social, and all the speakers, participants, and attendees! The start of a generative conversation that I hope we will continue.
- Traveling this morning to👇🏻 My thanks to the organising committee @tlrhub.bsky.social especially @joelherman.bsky.social for the invite and his kind consideration. I will be speaking about the Moylan brothers, in Cork & Philadelphia, & the American Revolution. @ulsteruni.bsky.social
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- Another one from Dad’s vault. I believe this is from the PAYE Strikes in 1979/80. @electionlit.bsky.social
- From my father’s archive A rare Mary Robinson poster issued by the Trade Unions affiliated to The Labour Party during the 1990 presidential election campaign 🌹 @electionlit.bsky.social @labourpartyireland.bsky.social @siptu.bsky.social
- Reposted by Victoria Anne PearsonCelebrate 100 years of Cork University Press, Ireland’s oldest university press Join us Thu 11 Sept in UCC’s Dora Allman Room for a symposium on landmark works, from Dánta Grádha to the award-winning Atlas Series, (plus an evening reception.) Free & open to all www.eventbrite.com/e/cork-unive...
- A powerful and moving event for Féile 2025 at the Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin in Derry tonight. Peter Taylor in conversation with Raymond McCartney was a complex and often uncomfortable confrontation with the past and its many truths. Míle Buíochas to all.
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- Reposted by Victoria Anne PearsonRadical Poverty: The Capuchins and Catholicism in Britain, 1850-2022' by the CCS' @liamtemple.bsky.social is now available to pre-order through @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social! Details here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/radical-p... #skystorians #CathHist #history #Catholicism
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- Reposted by Victoria Anne Pearson🧵(5) While an authoritative and influential parliamentarian, much of O'Connell's strength was as a 'popular' politician among the masses, presenting himself as a 'people's champion' and embracing an early form of celebrity culture, as Dr Simon Morgan explores: buff.ly/YgsMFr4
- Reposted by Victoria Anne PearsonThe 1970s Quarto editions of McGahern books are a case study in themselves in book cover design that literally don't relate to the actual book at all!
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- Beautiful editions of a collection from my childhood. Marita Conlon McKenna had such an influence on my young mind. I love her work.
- I came across this beautiful gem recently in the Mother Jones Flea Market A comprehensive history of Order in city, the ads included are a snapshot of Cork’s social history. It was produced to mark the opening of the ‘new’ St Francis Church, Liberty St in 1953
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