Could not afford him. He wants a Job not a FAS COURSE
Well done, Choco. I am very proud of you.
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Heās not an actual doctor
Right Iām lost here, @ChocolateMouse did you get a history PhD in UK?
No he has a history of VD in the UK
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Cheers, pal.
No.
Iām not 100%, palā¦ Iāve to step back a bit now and first off, sort out corrections. Secondly, get short term employmentā¦ Iāve a part time contract teaching/tutoring at present but not being paid for the summer aint gonna cut it so iāll take on a corporate position in the short term to look after princesses many needs and wantsā¦
Short term - Iām gonna continue to look at crime and particularly the fabrication of it in the immediate pre-Famine period. Hopefully knock out an article here.
I have another project in mind that examines Fenianism in the States and particularly how one divisive character used Fenianism and the Irish for his own economic/political gain. Probably another article.
If I have the will, iād love to fully develop what I started in my thesis- examining magistrates/gentry in the pre-Famine period. I developed an 850 strong database on individual magistrates from Limerick, Tipp, Clare, Kingās Co., Queenās Co., Leitrim and Roscommon- In it I examined their landholdings, clubs and societies they were members of, other official/civil roles, marriages/family connections etc. etcā¦ If youāre familiar with the NUIG Landed Estates Database, it would very much compliment and add to this and iād love to take on that challenge and extend outside the counties I have examined. This would come down to funding but the first two projects are achievable.
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You should talk to my nephew about this. He did some research on court cases and magistrates in Limerick in the 1800sā¦or maybe you are my nephew???
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Does he have a surname, this nephew of yours?
Scratch that- Iām gonna take on Limerick GAA as my next project.
Ideas?
Yes, it needs a few no nonsense 1800ās style magistrates involved in it.
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Vokes from the City. Langford out Askeaton way. Massey from Castleconnell. The OāGrady from Grange/Bruff. The Dickinsons from Croomā¦ All fine Gaels in their day.
Has anyone written a piece on the local impact on the GAA of the National Party split in the 1890s?
I donāt know off the top of my head but thereās an elderly chap here just finishing up a thesis on Limerick from 1920-1945 and he looks into the aftermath of all thisā¦ My understanding is that the split killed GAA in many areas, particularly Limerick City and soccer and rugby remained strongā¦ Iāll fire him off an email now and ask him has he any article/book on itā¦
@ChocolateMice
Are you interested in teaching or lecturing long term?
Teaching at second level?? Not a hopeā¦ Lecturing, I thought I wasā¦Iām not sure anymore. Academia is some amount of horse-shite tbh.
Iām confused. How do you plan on making a living?
Thereās an interesting piece that the late Seamus Ć Ceallaigh wrote in One Hundred Years of Glory which was the Limerick GAA history produced in the Centenary Year of 1984.
There were basically two county boards, one led by a priest from Fedamore if I recall correctly.
Iāll try dig the article out and reference it or you could try get your hands on a copy of the book. Itās out of print a long time but most older Gaels in Limerick would have a copy.
Itās the only article I can recall coming across, but it gave a good insight into the goings-on of the time. Of course, not a whole lot has changed in the meantimeā¦
As a matter of interest, were the magistrate class turncoat locals, or Protestant settler/planter types, and if the latter, had their families been long ingrained or more recent?