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By Richard Parfitt | With great sadness, this will be my last blog for Pubs and Publications as a member of the committee. It’s possible I’ll be back in a guest capacity, like the force ghost of Obi Wan… Continue Reading →
By Tim Galsworthy I recently holidayed in Budapest and, at the first available opportunity, ventured to the outskirts of the city to visit Memento Park. Memento Park was created in the aftermath of the Cold War as a site where Budapest’s… Continue Reading →
Samantha Snyder | Having my name on the cover of a book was not something I expected to accomplish by the age of 26. Publishing a book was something I had always wanted to do, but I figured it was… Continue Reading →
By Sibyl Adam | Public engagement, or its more convoluted brethren, impact, has always seemed a bit obvious to me. Why wouldn’t you be interested in institutions and groups outside of academia, and why wouldn’t they be interested in you? Clearly… Continue Reading →
By Eleanor Hardy | It’s no secret that writing a PhD can be a lonely and insular experience. It’s also no secret that the PhD itself can start to feel pretty esoteric and obscure. Even if you work on a well-known… Continue Reading →
by Kasper Swerts | The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is the best video game ever made, period. In addition to the fascinating story, good gameplay and beautiful music, the thing that has always struck me in this game, and… Continue Reading →
By Richard Parfitt | Every year, on the 12th July (‘the Twelfth’), members of the Orange Order march to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne. At this battle, near Drogheda on the Irish east coast, the Protestant… Continue Reading →
By Maeve Casserly | ‘Was is it for this that men like Connolly died?’ asked an outraged @adriancummins of the planned Luas tram strike in Dublin over the Easter weekend.[1] Ordinarily, strike action would have only caused mild murmurs of… Continue Reading →
By Maurice Casey | In a recent review of Michael Seidleman’s cultural history of the Spanish Civil War, Rob Stradling chastised Seidleman’s ‘insatiable appetite for archival anecdotes.’ Navigating the strange world of Irish-Soviet connections, I frequently come across weird archival finds that… Continue Reading →
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