Jay Roszman

1/5 📣 An article I've written about the Queen's University in Ireland, its constituent colleges, and their relationship to the British Empire has been published with @jbritishstudies.bsky.social. The article makes the case for rethinking about the Queen's University's purpose in Ireland. 🗃️

I drifted into a proper old local pub where every head turned when I walked in and stared at me. It’s been awhile since I’ve been somewhere that is cash only.

I just wasted 10 minutes of my life listening to that Maher interview of Levitt, and my God - the amount of water carrying for the Trump administration was genuinely shocking.

on some level, this is just a form of anti-politics.

Pretty sure this is New Hampshire propaganda.

Any Irish Lit people know who “RJA” is, or Vratch, or anything about the poem “Ancient Hibernians and others”? Stumbled across this looking at a different pamphlet bound together and am now very curious.

"On the 4th November 1869, the Director of the Natural History Museum reported the presentation of an Egyptian Mummy and Sarcophagus by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales."

'The new Museum building was inaugurated in August, 1857, by the delivery of two Lectures and a Conversazione ... second lecture by Dr Livingstone on his "African Discoveries"'.

Yes - doing this with my third year students!

"A group of three bronze cannons forms a central feature in the Rotunda. they were captured in the Punjab, at Sobaron, in 1846, and at the Maharajpur, in Gwalior, in the year 1843, and have been deposited on loan in the Museum by Lord Gough, to whose father they were presented by the EIC".

In my weird side quest to learn everything I can about Philip Meadows Taylor, I've found that he applied to the Ulster King of Arms for a crest and family motto, which was granted. The crest included a leopard with a green 'trefoil' (aka a clover) symbolically joining India and Ireland.

"Let’s be clear: this is not religious persecution. It’s a test. And you can study for tests. You don’t even have to study that hard. You just have to believe in Jesus." buff.ly/oFYteni

Okay Buffalo 🦬 . Another W!

Is that 3 3rd and very long conversions this drive 😖

Josh Allen. A flip pass for...20+ yard TD? He's one-of-a-kind.

We needed that!

What a day.

This really is a masterclass in political pedagogy.

This was a great, wide-ranging read from @claireconnolly.bsky.social.

From birtherism to the stolen-election myth, Trumpism can be understood as the notion that some Americans are not really Americans, and that their political rights are illegitimate. https://dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/whats-at-stake-in-the-ilhan-omar-case/

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Hey look 👀 - it’s @imbibecoffee.bsky.social doing it right. Excited for this month’s coffee club.

Little Miss Sunshine for Tax Purposes

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold for Tax Purposes.

Quite right. 👇👇👇

I post about this a fair bit but I still find this statistic absolutely flabbergasting. The country rests on its laurels for how well its population is educated while it cripples the sector by starving the patient.

*chef’s kiss*

Leaving X has, I'm pretty sure, hit my bookings and career. But it comes at the massive bonus of a) my own mental wellbeing and b) not providing free content for the owner of Starlink:

One of the most enjoyable personal aspects of today's hours on the picket line was meeting new colleagues. Had a remarkable hour conversation about medieval Irish, the books of Lismore and Ballymote, the first Professor of Celtic Languages at QCC, growing up in Vermont, etc. ✊

Tomorrow will be the first time I’ve ever been on strike. Solidarity to all those on the picket lines.

When needs must.

Watching that clip of Zuckerberg trying not to spit out his Guinness has made me thirsty for a pint.

Looks like I missed a wild one overnight. Go Bills.

Maybe I read this somewhere and forgot (likely!) but TIL that not one, but two!, Irish revisionists were also presidents of the Irish Federation of University Teachers: TD Williams and RD Edwards

Ha! Always nice to follow one's historical rabbit holes to their conclusion. Look forward to writing about how the forerunner of Rudyard Kipling and the Anglo-Indian 'adventure' novel ended up with a plaque in a (now Russian Orthodox) church in Harold's Cross.

Preaching of John the Baptist to a very international crowd. By Pieter Brueghel the Younger (whose day is today) after his father's composition. He did this a lot, & people loved the results!

Notwithstanding my complaints about some of their columnists, I do enjoy getting the weekend paper delivered to the house. Hard to beat a cup of coffee and the newspaper in bed on a lazy Saturday morning.

Aubrey and I saw a gray heron perched on a branch on the walk to school. Me: Hey look, is that a heron over there? A: Yes, it is. They always remind me of old men sitting at the pub staring at their pints. Me: *looking again* Yep, I can see that. 🍺🐦