On Sat 11 April we will be hosting, in association with @irishhistorians.bsky.social, a day symposium on 'Peasant Movements and Land Agitation in Modern Ireland'. This is a free event, open to all in-person or online via Teams. More info at www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris... #IrishStudies
Looking forward to Prof Jenny Shaw (Alabama) speaking at Centre for Early Modern History seminar @tlrhub.bsky.social with the paper title
On Land and at Sea: The Enslaved Childhood of Julius Soubise, 1754–1764 www.tcd.ie/history/rese...
📣 Job Opening: Program Administrator, Research Programs 📣
Work with the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies to advance our research mission through the thoughtful design and execution of scholarly programming.
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Great tread from @ihtaria.bsky.social 👇
This should be a great conference. Well done @unioflimerick.bsky.social
Calling all History PhD students and postdocs: join us for ‘How to Publish Your Research: a workshop for Early Career Researchers’ with Profs Stephen Legg, Elisabeth Leake, Matthew Hilton & Erez Manela 18 March, Birkbeck, Bloomsbury Info
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event... @jessicareinisch.bsky.social
The National Museum of Ireland seeks applications from suitable candidates to fill the post of Design Studio Manager (HEO). This is a two-year fixed term contract position. Closing 13 March, €59k www.museum.ie/en-ie/about/...
Just a couple days until our LEIGHEAS project symposium on ‘Medical Learning in the Medieval Gaelic World’, this Thursday 12th March @ceilteachomn.bsky.social! Please get in touch if you’d like to attend – spaces are filling up fast & we want to make sure we have enough chairs & food for everyone 😊
Applications for our Irish Studies Summer School remain open until March 31. We run June 15-July 3, with a week introducing Northern Ireland, followed by two weeks exploring key themes in Irish history, the language revival and Irish literature. Info at www.qub.ac.uk/Study/intern...
📢 New book alert 📢 via @manchesterup.bsky.social. New insights into #womenshistory #Irishhistory via lens of leisure. My chapter argues how Irish Countrywomen's Association created opportunities for fun & leisure for rural women. Afterword by @clairelanghamer.bsky.social. @whaireland.bsky.social 🥳
#IrishHistory #FiannaFail #ISA
The ISA Spring Lecture Series commences Wed 18 March at 6pm, Conference Room, Dublin City Library and Archive, Pearse Street, Dublin 2.
'The Archives of the Fianna Fáil Party: A Case Study of Political Party Archives and Their Role in a Democratic State' by Kate Manning, Principal Archivist, UCD
Cover of the full article by James A. Finnegan, available to download.
Draco_constellation_map.png: Torsten Bronger derivative work: Kxx (talk) - Draco_constellation_map.png
Nice new addition to our Molyneux Papers page 🙂
'William + Samuel Molyneux, Astronomers of Castle Dillon, Armagh' by James A. Finnegan.
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Happy #InternationalWomensDay Founded to investigate science, literature and antiquities, @ria.ie encouraged debate between scholars of diverse background & interests so long as they were male. Our blog, 'Skirting the issue', looks at the first women of the Academy www.dib.ie/blog/skirtin...
Seal of Mary Whitshead. RIA GSA/25/1, Deeds of the Guild of St Anne, 9 George I, Item 1 (13 February 1723) - By 1723, the heavy wax seals hanging from the bottom of the parchment have been done away with in favor of an image impressed into several drops of wax poured directly on the document itself. https://virtualtreasury.ie/item/RIA-GSA-25-1
Locating women in the historical archive deepens our understanding of the past.
For #IWD2026 we're sharing records + research highlighting women in the records + their role in History. Starting with this 😀 👇️
Women in the Guild of St Anne - Virtual Treasury
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We were very sorry to hear of the death of Dr Deirdre McMahon, who is remembered in today’s Irish Times
IGRS Top Research Tip #197: PRONI’s Historic Environment online map viewer for Northern Ireland allows users to search, browse, or navigate to a particular area to view maps and explore local heritage: www.communities-ni.gov.uk/services/his...
📢 Call for Participation: #OHNI2026
Don’t forget to submit your abstract for the @oralhistoryie.bsky.social Annual Meeting in Tralee!
🗣️Theme: Oral History and Movement
🎙️ Keynote: Mary Stewart
⏳ Abstract Deadline: 20th March 2026
Apply at🔗 oralhistorynetworkireland.ie/events/2026-...
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Ahead of International Women's Day, the VOICES project is delighted to publish a blog exploring the background, purpose, and future uses of the VOICES Knowledge Graph. In addition, we've published a video that demos the KG in action, giving voice to the women of the Early Modern period.
From ‘A Prospect of the City of Dublin, from the Magazine Hill’ (1753) James Mason, after Joseph Tudor. Yale Centre for British Art.
#IWD2026 A nice find among the records in the Public Record Office of Ireland (before the fire of 1922!) Katherine Bayly's 'domestic accounts books'. Her daily life with her daughters in 18th-century Dublin.
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A selection of books form the Fagel Collection
TCD Library is recruiting a Senior Bibliographer to help catalogue the Fagel Collection! This is a fabulous professional opportunity to work on one of Europe's great early modern private libraries. Closing 10 March at noon. Full details available at www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies
Thanks to all who supported the 'Plantation of Ulster' conference at PRONI on 12 February, associated with the 'People of Plantation Ulster' database project. Recordings of the talks are now available at: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
Hugely looking forward to hosting this one-day symposium on 'Medical Learning in the Medieval Gaelic World' as part of the @researchireland.ie LEIGHEAS project @maynoothuniversity.ie - join us @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @muahi.bsky.social on Thursday 12th March!
Join the Irish Historical Society on Tuesday, 24 February (7pm) for a panel on: “New Directions in the Study of Early Medieval Ireland”
Speakers: Dr Elva Johnston (UCD) Dr Immo Warntjes (TCD)
Chair: Prof Dáibhí Ó Cróinín
Boston College, 43 St Stephen’s Green or online: tinyurl.com/mr59w9k2
Friends and colleagues in Irish academia! The wonderful Dr Mary McGill has asked me to circulate her @researchireland.ie - funded survey on Exploring experiences of gender-based online abuse among female academics in Ireland - please do share! forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Early medievalists! Come join us at Magdalen College, Oxford: apply for this permanent job by 27 March. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQP650/t...
Our next seminar is on Mon. 9 Feb. - Niall Whelehan will speak about ‘Radicalism, colonialism and the life of an Irish doctor in Argentina at the fin de siècle’. All welcome www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
I'll be launching my book on the Blair governments in London on Monday 9 March! Between 6.30pm and 8pm. We'll be at the Gilded Acorn bookshop between LSE and the Hunterian... Come along! Booking details below:
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Our @glasnevincemetery.bsky.social @historytcd.bsky.social Spring Lecture Series is live. Theme is 'Work and working in 19th & 20th century #Dublin' - please RT. Speakers @antoniahart.bsky.social @dublincity.bsky.social @drdeefoley.bsky.social & Conor Dodd formerly Glasnevin.
