Peter Gray
Historian of 19thC Ireland; Director of Irish Studies, QUB. Last book: William Sharman Crawford and Ulster Radicalism (2023); working on politics of Irish land reform and the Tenant League(s). Chair of @Irishhistorians.bsky.social There may also be cats.
- Superlative stuff
- Three days official mourning announced in East Belfast
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- Alexis Soyer redivivus
- Reading the new IESH on the train - may owe @jayroszman.bsky.social a pint or two
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- We only win when it snows
- A wee dash of Wigtown book and kitten porn to welcome in the new year
- Portpatrick - once ‘Ireland’s Gretna Green’
- Stormy in - cosy out
- Seasonal visitor to Belfast’s finest cheese emporium
- Singalong family outing to north Down’s smallest farmyard cinema 🎦
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- Congratulations Karina
- Delighted to meet up with MA Irish Studies graduates Natalie Boehmer and Brynna Crumley at yesterday’s graduation
- Also with my MA history dissertation student Jon Walker
- ULS 67 - 7 Racing : zut alors
- Some counter-hegemonic protest from a Limavady Presbyterian in 1889 (from the wonderfully named 'County Derry Liberal', 27 Apr. 1889)
- Many thanks to Elizabeth Malcolm for her kind review of William Sharman Crawford in IHS www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- I see some familiar faces there
- David Olusoga’s ‘Empire’ is a very fine piece of public history, although 3 episodes feels too few to do the subject full justice. Some outstanding segments but also quite a few gaps (Southern Africa, Egypt, Palestine, Pacific Islands, SE Asia, Hong Kong and of course Ireland). Second series needed?
- For example, I want to know if the UK government really did consider ‘planting’ Zululand with the obstreperous Irish in 1879 (as imagined here by the Weekly Freeman)
- An unexpected item in the NMI’s new and well-presented ‘Changing Ireland’ exhibition - a Bronze Age anthropomorphic beaker from Co. Cork - the earliest representation of an ‘Irish face’?
- Nor far from the bizarre horse gear gifted by Col. Gaddafi to Dev in the early 70s (surrounded by less welcome Gaddafi gifts from later years)
- In the spirit of the autumn internationals, the GOM proving himself a handy no. 10 by kicking into touch the HL inquiry on the Irish Land Act in 1882
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- I guess its what happens when you put together an author and a reviewer whose understanding of the subject in question can both be described as 'superficial'
- Sometimes I think the Victorians really did take too much laudanum in their tea
- (Penny Satirist, Jan. 1840)
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- He also 'owned' three other boroughs in Cork, so I suppose it all adds up?
- Delighted by this - its a great novel.
- A real privilege to be giving the citation for an hon DLitt for Rob Savage this evening. At Aviva University, now a constituent college of the National University of Ireland (it seems)
- Visiting the great and good of Budapest past on All Souls Day
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- You left out poor old Schubert
- Ossian in Budapest - a spooktastic painting
- Budapest gothic and neo-gothic
- Cafe culture in fin de siècle Pest
- Doing a thing tomorrow night for the Crossgar Historical Society
- This is great news - delighted that Sunil will be our visiting Wiles Lecturer in History at QUB next May. The book is outstanding.
- Stephen Collins’ latest
- New resource on BNA for people interested in 1890s Ireland - 'The Illustrograph' (1894-9) Dubbed 'The Graphic of Ireland,' it was a monthly paper edited by H. Easom Hudson, printing a range of photographs celebrating Irish personalities & places. www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/illus...
- As featured recently in Dom Bryan's talk on Irish pubs and 'banal nationalism' www.youtube.com/watch?v=50e-...
- A bit late to finding this but still interesting - a silhouette made c.1829 of Mabel Sharman Crawford, and the only image I’ve seen of WSC’s wife (1785-1844). Part of the 1947 Crawfordsburn House sale and now at the Crawford AG Cork
- A chapbook that no doubt flew out of the peddler’s knapsack in early 19th century Ulster
- Doing a WSC talk for ‘Reclaim the Enlightenment’ Belfast on Wednesday evening at 6pm if anyone’s interested reclaimtheenlightenment.net
- Belfast's own Crystal Palace (on Queen's Island, 1850s) - Marcus Ward / NLI
- Belated find - but useful for a talk on Wednesday: 'GULIELMO SHARHOMO CRAWFOOT, the celebrated posture master, athlete, and juggler' to perform in the 'GRAND ENTERTAINMENT' of the 1852 Co Down election, alongside various circusified Presbyterians [NLI]
- 'THE SOIL IS OURS!! In which a MASKED LEAGUER will show how to Murder an Agent.'
[This user deactivated their account]- That’s all very well, but having a ‘Dublin’ funeral parade around St George’s Hall is not going to down well in either city.
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- Congrats Evi!
- For the series that's in it - 'Tapping him again' (Arthur Guinness loses the 1880 Dublin city election) - Pat, 3 April 1880
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- Congrats Kieran - that's great news
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- How Beamish profits funded the North Down UVF in 1913-14 would be a drama worth televising
