Shameless epicure, bon viveur and dandy; early modern legal historian & criminologist; worthless sinner; Miserere mei, Deus, secundum magnam misericordiam tuam
All done now - we had a lovely day for it. It was a very small wedding. Essentially just close family.
Delighted to be now a married man!
(Picture from when we stopped in for a sneaky pint at The Seven Wonders after the photos for twenty mins of calm)
#WalkinOnAir
A miraculous image of the Blessed Virgin is buried under the tree and anyone who cuts or damaged the tree will cause it to bleed and the person responsible will die within the year. Planted in, or soon after, 1448.
#MuckrossAbbey
The Windjammer.
Early house, opens at 7am. An old Beamish house. Owned by the brewery and the owner lived upstairs.
And the building was formerly the house and office of the recruiting sergeant of the East India Rifles.
@BBCNewsNI
‘Despite her Presbyterian background, she was a supporter of the United Irishmen,’
You guys have a lot to learn about the history of Irish Presbyterians and republicans.
Any chance you’d have a chat with a historian before you publish these kind of stories.
Thrilled to say that I am again a paperback writer!!!
I didn’t think it was possible but
@ManchesterUP
have managed to produce a book in an even more beautiful shade of lilac
😍
In fairness, it’s now down to a very affordable £20, so y’all know what you’re getting for Xmas 😂
@karenievers
I dare say there are many other music groups that have vocalized support for organizations, proxies, armies, and states that had murdered people.
Popular music groups don’t often have a reputation for political correctness.
A legal-historian of early modern Irish crime and punishment, I will 'live-tweet' the last days and hours of John Atherton, a bishop of Waterford & Lismore and ally of the Wentworth executive, who was executed on 5 Dec 1640 in Dublin.
Delighted to get my hard copies of my new book:
The Irish Parliament, 1613-89: the evolution of a colonial institution
with
@ManchesterUP
No. XCVIII in the
@ichrpi
Studies series (discount for members)
Thank you so much to all friends, family, mentors, colleagues & students
New in paperback - The IRISH PARLIAMENT, 1613-89, publishing on the 30 August. Available for pre-order now.
Fair play to the publisher
@ManchesterUP
- this makes it quite affordable at £20.
They also let me improve on one error of my own in the text 😳
Delighted to finally get my hands on these volumes.
In total it comes to 2,368 pages on the speeches and writing of Oliver Cromwell.
Fun reading for the weekend!!
Talking with my gf’s sons in their late teens. I just found out they don’t know how to:
- avoid execution by pleading clergy
- enter a replication in chancery
- bring March lords to heel
- burn in the hand
‘Nobody in our generation does that stuff’
Y’all, this is wild
Just me?
Talking with my sons in their 20s. I just found out they don’t know how to:
- mail a letter
- write a check
- send a package
- write in cursive
“Nobody in our generation does that stuff”
Y’all, this is wild.
Just me?
Lord Ashbourne, son of the Lord Chancellor, Gaelic revivalist, brother to the would-be assassin of Mussolini, last speaker of Irish in the House of Lords……whether he wore his kilt into the chamber is as yet not known.
Another day in Central Europe, another church founded by a Gaelic Irishman.
This time it’s Salzburg and Saint Virgil, known to his friends as Fearghal.
Whoda thought someone from Laois could manage something like that.
Just a little earlier in 1830, Irishmen made up 42.2% of the British Army and at this time there were more Irishmen than Englishmen in the British Army.
At this time, Ireland makes up 32.2% of the population of the UK
Irishmen comprised around one-third of the British Army in the mid-1850s.
c. 30,000 of them fought in the Crimean War, my g-g-grandfather amongst them.
#imperialirish
Real guillotine blade from the policing museum in Paris, originally on the guillotine at Place de Grève (now Hotel de Ville) - responsible for dispatching many souls, including Corday, assassin of Marat, and some prominent revolutionaries when the tide turned against them.
How privileged am I that a friend and colleague chose me as steward for this gorgeous edition of
#Pepys
Books are truly the most beautiful creation of mankind, both as physical specimens and as literature, and these particular volumes are high up on this list 😍😍
#DiaryLove
I'll be giving a lecture tomorrow evening, about this time (Wednesday at 8, Irish time)
ALL WELCOME
Zoom ID 384 406 666
Crime and punishment in early modern Ireland - A general discussion of its development of over two centuries
Broadcasting from the study of Castel del Coley
Absolutely thrilled to have published:
‘Crime, Criminal Policy, and Law Reform in Seventeenth-Century Irish Parliaments’
The Journal of Legal History
A great journal and they allowed just over 16,000 words 😮
DM for free E-prints link!
Today we remember the Irish Famine, 1740-41 (Bliain an Áir / Year of Slaughter) - responsible for death of possibly as high as 20% of the population (in little over 1 year), proportionately much greater than that of the 1840s famine (across five years)
Is
@GaryLineker
a secret Jacobite?
That looks suspiciously like James, Duke of York hanging over his right shoulder.
Spent part of his career in Spanish service? Holds the French in high esteem? Failing to see the ultimate threat from the Dutch?
A draft order for the digging up and executing of Cromwell, Bradshaw, Ireton, and Pride
I don't believe they got around to doing Pride, but the other three were hung, the heads were displayed on spikes on the top of Westminster hall. Cromwell's came down in a storm 20 years later
A little teaser for a book I'm writing on Irish crime and punishment - a discussion of gaols and gaol-breaking in early modern Ireland
It features conditions, administration, incarceration as punishment, and, naturally enough.....cross-dressing break-outs
"Your goverment is working night and day to repel this virus and we will succeed, just as this country has seen off every alien invader for the last thousand years"
Boris Johnson thanks members for "zooming in" as he delivers his party conference speech
So long since I’ve been in a first-hand book store (let’s face it, second is best), so it was a lovely feeling to step into
@Hodges_Figgis
and spot these two beauties from my past.
Any eye-witness for the assize at Cork in September 1661, where the famous
#FlorenceNewton
#witchcraft
trial took place and absolutely nothing about it.
Typical. Why can't historical figures learn to note things that will be important to us 360 years later.
15 quid for the 5 vol set of
@HistParl
😍
Don’t tell Prof Hayton he’s selling for £3 a volume! 🤣
Nothing in this life, and I mean nothing, is a satisfying as a great deal on ethically sourced second-hand history books!!
#HistParl
#SecondHand
#BookRecycling
A most beautiful library, and the bullet holes from another era are the perfect illustration of how we must be watchful at all times to protect our invaluable heritage
@MarshsLibrary
A short blog piece I wrote for
@IRLcriminology
on
#gender
#law
#punishment
and ultimately what was a woeful miscarriage of justice in Early Modern Ireland.
5 min read - give it a go.
Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries: "It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use
So happy I got up early for this.
What Sunday mornings are made for!
Amazing performance. The Brazilian was good in the first round in fairness but Kellie was in control after that. Superb stuff.
🥇
#kellieharrington
#kellie
@kelechnekoff
Judging by the British Army’s behavior in my home country and that of the British administration, you’ll be waiting about 50 years. And just as you get close, they’ll introduce an amnesty.
So very pleased to finally have my own copy of
@museumbums
- I can now indulge my passion for antique filth without having to go to my local museum or gallery.
Delighted to sign contract for 'Crime and Criminal Justice in Early Modern Ireland: Developing a Colonial Institution' part of
@BloomsburyBooks
History of Crime, Deviance and Punishment (series ed
@AM_Kilday
), so this is the sort of thing I'll be working on for next few years
Ohhhh - positive response by both readers for a very long article in a swanky journal.
Accepted with a handful of minor revisions.
That’s brightened up my day no end!
😛😛😛
’Prorogue’ or ‘prorogation’ appears 32 times in me new book.
Finally the I’m feeling all valid and useful for the first time in 15 years.
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
#HistParl
Delighted to get my hard copies of my new book:
The Irish Parliament, 1613-89: the evolution of a colonial institution
with
@ManchesterUP
No. XCVIII in the
@ichrpi
Studies series (discount for members)
Thank you so much to all friends, family, mentors, colleagues & students
Did you know you can search, read & download more than a century of articles from our Journal (first published in 1892) free on our Society's website? Just click on Journal at top of any page and search or browse to your heart's content.
#HeritageWeek2020
I can only assume this is another Irish loan-word into the English language?
Sir Richard Bolton describing the illegal hunting of rabbits (coinín as Gaeilge) in the early 1620s in a
#CriminalLaw
text book.
The thing I find weird about
@RTEOne
#TheWayWeWere
, is the celebs (and some historians) saying the Irish never drank wine but on the most special occasions……in the 17thC the fountains ran with wine. We literally imported 100s of tuns of it.
Any thoughts
@Wine18C_Ireland
Very excited to hear from the publisher that this is coming out in the next few weeks.
Yet another wonderful
@IrLegalHist
volume, produced to the highest standard by
@FourCourtsPress
- very proud to be part of the contributors on this one.