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Reading old documents in archives is my bread and butter, but reading the 1926 Irish Free State census online and seeing the names of close relatives, some of whom I remember, is another experience! The census can be searched here: nationalarchives.ie/collections/...
It's a pity that the Dáil has abandoned the Westminster tradition of voting through its division lobbies and is voting on the confidence motion by roll-call.
I marked Good Friday this evening with an ecumenical walk through the streets of Dublin, led by Achbishops Dermot Farrell and Michael Jackson from St Mary's Cathedral to @cccdublin.bsky.social
The manuscript is now held in the @ria.ie. Dating from the C8, it was remodelled in the C14. The bottom left of the shrine depicts Patrick presenting it to Macartan. More on Macartan in @dib.ie: www.dib.ie/biography/ma...
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Today being St Macartan's Day, I called into @nmireland.bsky.social's Archaeology branch to view An Domhnach Airgid. Macartan was a disciple of St Patrick and founding bishop of Clogher. According to tradition, Patrick gave Macartan a gospel manuscript that was kept in this shrine.
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@lindaervine.bsky.social will be speaking about the east Belfast Irish language project 'Turas' in Cahans Meeting House, County Monaghan, tomorrow, 20 March at 20:00.
Beidh @lindaervine.bsky.social ag caint faoin tionscnamh Gaeilge Oirthear Bhéal Feirste, 'Turas' i dTeach Pobail Cahans, Contae Mhuineacháin, amárach, 20 Márta ag 20:00. Eircode H18 E7N1
Happy #StPatricksDay On this day in 1835 there was ‘a very large attendance’ of MPs in the Commons, including the leading Irish MP Daniel O’Connell ‘wearing a large bunch of shamrock’. For more on some of the Irish MPs we have researched, see victoriancommons.wordpress.com/category/ire...
Some St Patrick's Day reading - by Roman Catholic bishop emeritus of Clogher Joseph Duffy
No better way to begin St Patrick's Day celebrations than by visiting his city of Armagh for an ecumenical vigil walk between the two cathedrals led by Archbishops Eamon Martin and John McDowell
The passage of the Hereditary Peers Bill in the Lords yesterday means an end to 366 unbroken years of membership of Parliament by peers claiming their seats by hereditary right.
If one overlooks the hiatus of 1649-1660, their participation dates back to the very beginning of parliaments.
#HistParl
At @abbeytheatre.bsky.social tonight, to see the centenary production of the classic The Plough and the stars. Let's hope there's no disruption like there was when it was first performed back in 1926! More on about the playwright, Sean O'Casey here: www.dib.ie/biography/oc...
The latest issue of @parlhistjournal.bsky.social explores the practices and organisation of politics in the long 19th century.
Edited by #HistParl's Dr Naomi Lloyd-Jones, this special issue can be accessed now:
The 2026 special issue, edited by Naomi Lloyd-Jones is now live! The issue is the product of a 2023 conference at @durhamhistory.bsky.social discussing collective action and the politics of organisation in Britain and Ireland in the long nineteenth-century:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1750...
Parliamentary History is delighted to join LinkedIn! Check out our page and give us a follow. Details of our upcoming special issue will be posted on our platforms very soon! www.linkedin.com/company/parl...
I was delighted to attend the launch of the @arinsproject.bsky.social exhibition on the Protestant Association of County Monaghan at Monaghan County Museum today. Curated by Samuel Beckton, it contains documents of the Association, which will be deposited in an archive after the exhibition ends1.
The Trustees and editors of Parliamentary History are delighted to announce that the essay prize for 2025 has been awarded to Peter Keeling (linktr.ee/peterkeeling) for:
‘Non-simultaneous polling in United Kingdom general elections, 1885-1918'
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And they’re off. The annual mass escape from Dublin Castle, commemorating the real jailbreak of 1592 by Red Hugh O’Donnell & the O’Neill Brothers. Competitors will cover 62km through the night, across the mountains to Glenmalure Valley. That’s if they make it, unlike Art O’Neill, who died en route.
Having heard about the campaign to grant Choral Evensong World Heritage status on BBC Radio 4 last night, I decided to attend one this evening at St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. I used to attend one regularly during my year at @lincoln.ox.ac.uk.
bbc.com/audio/play/m...
@markhennessy.bsky.social's article on this file is the most interesting so far: www.irishtimes.com/history/2025...
One of my favourite parts of Christmas is @irishtimes.com and @news.rte.ie's coverage of the release of state papers transferred to the National Archives. Coverage be found at www.irishtimes.com/tags/state-p... and www.rte.ie/news/state-p...
Reading the Standard for the last time on a Thursdsy evening. My article on its political ideology during its first five years is on the right.
4/ As I said in my piece, the legacy of the paper will live on in that it will be an immensely valuable source for historians of County Monaghan and south Ulster in various periods of history from 1839 to 2025.
3/ I will try to get my hands on a physical copy of the last ever Standard today. For anyone not around County Monaghan this week, a digital copy of the final issue can be purchased here: subscriber.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/subscribe.as...
2/ Growing up in rural County Monaghan, it was a weekly ritual in our house to buy the both 'the Standard and the Journal' (the latter being the Irish Farmers Journal) every Thursday. When I moved to Dublin and was too busy to come home for the weekend, the digital paper was a valuable resource.
1/ I wrote a short piece on the early history of the Northern Standard for its final ever issue today. There are also some good memoirs from Adrian Harte and Brendan Ó Dufaigh shining light on its more recent history.
