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Complex solidarities: the public history of Irish and Native American allyship
(2025)Since 2020, Irish people have donated over $2.5 million to a relief fund supporting residents of the Navajo and Hopi reservations in northeastern Arizona. Many donors believed their contributions helped `repay a debt’ ... -
The Irish Drought Impacts Database (IDID): A 287-Year Database of Drought Impacts derived from Newspaper Archives
(2024)Understanding of past droughts has been mostly shaped by meteorological data, with relatively less known about the human aspects of droughts, their socio-economic impacts, as well as choices people make in response to ... -
Challenges in Detecting Volcanic Forcing in Climate and Societal Proxies: Insights from the 1170/1171 CE Eruption
(2025)While our current understanding of the impacts of volcanic eruptions on the atmosphere and climate has significantly advanced, uncertainties persist regarding the climate and societal response to major volcanic events ... -
Jet Stream Driven European Climate Extremes and Agricultural Productivity over the Past 700 Years
(2024)The jet stream is an important dynamic driver of climate variability in the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes1–3 . Modern variability in the position of summer jet stream latitude in the North Atlantic–European sector ... -
A Historical Plankton Index: Zooplankton abundance in the North Sea since 800 CE
(2024)The North Sea region boasted one of the world’s most important fisheries for many centuries. Climate directly and indirectly influences the development and survival of many important pelagic fish in the North Sea ecosystem. ... -
CHINACHILD Voices of enslaved Chinese girls 1912-1949
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Recreating a unique early modern beer
(2022)Beer was an important source of nutrition in the past. To study its importance in diet, the nutritional input of beer in early modern Ireland (c1550 – c1650) was examined. Archival records in Dublin Castle facilitated ... -
Environment as a Weapon: Geographies, Histories, Literature
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CHCI-Mellon Crises of Democracy Global Humanities Institute Curriculum
(Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, 2019)The Crises of Democracy Global Humanities Institute (GHI) was an 18-month project (2018-19) funded by the Consortium of Humanities and Centres institutes and the A.W. Mellon Foundation. The GHI brought together a consortium ... -
A Visigothic Computus of AD 722 (Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, VMI 11, 26r?27r)
(Brepols, 2023)Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, VMI 11 contains a short text (26r–27r) overlooked by scholars of early medieval computus. This short note demonstrates its Visigothic origin and AD 722 as the year of composition. The text ... -
Draft Trinity Colonial Legacies Working Paper on TCD and Slavery
(2023)In April 2023 the Board of Trinity College Dublin voted to de-name the Berkeley Library. Built in 1967 as the New Library and named after the Irish Philosopher, cleric, and Trinity alumnus, Bishop George Berkeley in 1978, ... -
Report on George Berkeley's Legacies at Trinity
(2023)This Working Paper details the memorialisation of Bishop George Berkeley (1685-1753) at Trinity College Dublin. It begins by first explaining who George Berkeley was, before moving on to discuss how he has been memorialised ... -
Gaelicisation, Education and the Gaelic Script
(Peter Lang, 2024)On St Brigit’s Day 1922, the new Provisional Government of the Saorstát, announced the first of a series of far-reaching changes to the national education system. The first of these, known as Public Notice No. 4, was ... -
Review of Toby Lincoln, An Urban History of China
(2023)Perhaps the greatest achievement of this book is the way that Toby Lincoln manages to convey a great enthusiasm for the vibrancy of Chinese cities. Author and reader alike are seduced by these exciting concentrations of ... -
Female Revolutionaries and Political Violence in India and Ireland 1919-1939
(Routledge, 2023)Post-Famine Irish family constructs were complex and hinged to a great degree on social class and household means. The term ‘family’ is hard to define since it may be used to describe a range of relationships, from related ... -
Injection: A Gender Perspective on Domestic Slavery
(Palgrave, 2023)This “injection” comes from the point of view of a historian of slavery turned historian of sexuality. The history of sexuality sits very uneasily with the history of enslavement, however, because of the problem of agency ... -
Climatic, Weather and Socio-Economic Conditions Corresponding with the mid-17th Century Eruption Cluster
(Routledge, 2022)The mid-17th century is characterized by a cluster of explosive volcanic eruptions in the 1630s and 1640s, climatic conditions culminating in the Maunder Minimum, and political instability and famine in regions of western ... -
New challenges for the Human Oceans Past agenda
(2022)We contend that the harvest of marine resources played a critical, but as yet underappreciated and poorly understood, role in global history. In a review of the field of marine environmental history and archaeology we ... -
Cowboys, Cod, Climate and Conflict: Navigations in the Digital Environmental Humanities
(Routledge, 2022)The DEH can be seen as an academic response to three major interwoven changes and challenges: the digital revolution; global warming and global warming and social-political agency related to environmental change. In the ...
