Pinned
Looking over coverage of women in ‘Irish Historical Studies’ over the years. First woman to figure was, predictably perhaps, St Brigit. Subject of an article in issue 2 (Sept. 1938).
Marie Coleman
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Marie Coleman
@MarieMCole
Historian of Twentieth Century Ireland. Views my own. Retweets do not signify endorsement.
Belfast
Joined March 2012
- A promotion to Professor is a nice way to start the summer holidays it must be said.
- It’ll take me most of my 30 years training as a historian to work out how he could have been either a Protestant or a former Protestant 1,000 years before there were Protestants. In another 30 years I’ll still be stuck on this one.
- President to be proud of.Incredibly touching scenes outside St Anne’s Cathedral following Lyra McKee’s funeral as Irish President Michael D Higgins hugs her partner Sara
00:00 - Delighted to see so many tweets from colleagues in @QUBelfast sharing the great news of academic promotions, and pleased to join them with news of my own promotion to Reader.
- Disapponted by the sense in this mornings news that Arts degrees are not a good option for future employment practices. Studying Arts @ucddublin @UCDHistory best thing I ever did. Arts degrees DO NOT limit chances, rather they DO broaden horizons.
- Have I got this right - we need more workers now that we don’t have enough workers because of Brexit, say the people who advocated Brexit?Northern Ireland's Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots proposes that immigration rules be relaxed to allow Filipino meat plant workers into the UK to help ease labour shortages bbc.in/3nYKUgS
- This is so ill-informed - QUB doesn't even do A-level interviews. Acceptance system is central through UCAS.Replying to @SteveAikenUUP and @UKChangeQUB delays A Level interviews and acceptances until after other unis in GB have offered places to NI students. This means that many, who come from a unionist background, have already accepted places in GB unis, when QUB finally gets round to offering them a place - too late!
- Doesn’t this just sum up how so many women from history have been and continue to be sidelined.Very good point made by Joseph O’Connor in @IrishTimes letters page today #AnnaParnell @MargaretWard1
- I very much doubt an experienced diplomat either misheard of misinterpreted what he heard. He wrote it down the very next day. It was similar to comments he had heard previously from the same source.Orangeman @TB_Elliott on report that Queen Elizabeth II called parade season "that silly marching business".
00:00 - And delighted to be in such good company as @opurdue
- Although partition appears to have endured without such unanimity.UK Brexit Minister Lord Frost says it is difficult to see how the Northern Ireland Protocol can be "genuinely durable" without the consent of "all of the people" of NI. bbc.in/39eBLss
- My 3 year stint as Head of History in @QUB_History ends today. Research leave awaits from Monday.
- Probably the first time any research I have undertaken has produced a detailed response from the Orange Order.Orange Order grand secretary @mervgib responds to the remarks attributed to the late Queen Elizabeth II.
