Digitization alert! We recently digitized materials by and about Irish patriot and suffragist Maud Gonne. The materials include correspondence, photo, articles, Women's Prisoners' Defence League records, and more. Check them out: https://findingaids.bc.edu/repositories/2/resources/254/digitized

#DigitalHumanities @ucc.ie has a two-year postdoc suited to researchers from broad range of disciplines. my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru... Key tasks include coordinating a national survey of digital heritage practices & assisting with prototype development for communit archives. Deadline: Oct 3rd.

Died #Onthisday 1970 Nora Wallace who with her sister Sheila ran a small in the shadow of St. Augustine’s Church, in the centre of #Cork City, central to Volunteer activities during the #IrishWarofIndependence as were the sisters www.rte.ie/culture/2020...

We are happy to present the conference which will take place in Naples, 6 and 7 March 2026, on "Violence and Empire" Here is attached the CFP including a list of themes we are interested into Deadline for proposals November 16, authors will be notified by January 9

Brilliantly inspiring presenters for today's symposium in Uni College Cork, for example Prof Claire Connolly MRIA, Feargal Keane & Eoin Reardon who brought some of his vernacular-inspired furniture: celebrating 100 yrs of publishing by Cork University Press @ucc.ie @ucclibrary.bsky.social @ria.ie

Session 4, Linda Connolly, ‘Attic Press’

Session 3, Heather Laird, Daniel Corkery, ‘Synge and Anglo-Irish literature’

the second session of the CUP symposium, ‘Claire Connolly ‘the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, vols 4 and 5’

Great first session of the CUP symposium, Paul McSweeney on Mickey Grime’s ‘Urban milk supply’

Waitlist still open for our Symposium next week! 📘 Session 3 features Heather Laird on Daniel Corkery, Virginia Teehan on The Collegiate Chapel, Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh on Ogam Stones at UCC Margaret Lantry on The College 🔗 Full programme: bit.ly/CUPSymposium

#OtD 6 Sep 1921 workers took over the Cork Harbour Board’s offices, hoisted a red flag, and declared a soviet (aka: a workers' council) in protest at the refusal of wage increases. Ending after hours of negotiations, the press found it "highly ominous" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1066...

🚨JOB Alert🚨 We are looking for another postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans in the British colonies of Southern and/or East Africa in the interwar period. 24 month contract, deadline October 03. Please share widely. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

Waitlist now open for our Symposium next week 📘 Session 2 features: Claire Connolly on Irish Women’s Writing, Michelle McKeown on Irish Flora, Ciara Chambers on Gaelic Games on Film, Eoin Reardon on Irish Furniture 🔗Full programme: bit.ly/CUPSymposium

Looking forward to seeing you at our Symposium next week. bit.ly/CUPSymposium 📘 Session 1: Paul McSweeney on Urban Milk Supply. Síle Ní Mhurchú on Dánta Gráda. Iarla Ó Lionáird on Irish Music. Cormac Ó Gráda on Cork’s Economic History Other session details to follow

Celebrate 100 years of Cork University Press, Ireland’s oldest university press Join us Thu 11 Sept in UCC’s Dora Allman Room for a symposium on landmark works, from Dánta Grádha to the award-winning Atlas Series, (plus an evening reception.) Free & open to all www.eventbrite.com/e/cork-unive...

"We think that is a way of making change in itself because we want to get people talking - we want to tell people that what is being done isn't enough." (Georgia Stanway)

Really pleased to be honoured last night with UCC Research Team of the Year(Atlas of the Irish Civil War Project): Mike Murphy, Helene O’Keeffe, John Crowley, Donal O’Drisceoil, John Dorney, & Andy Bielenberg (Charlie Roche not pictured). Thanks to President John O’Halloran and Prof John Cryan.

So sorry to hear of the death of the wonderful, groundbreaking historian Kenneth Nicholls. He was so unbelievably generous to me. We have lost not just a lovely man but someone with an irreplaceable knowledge of mediaeval & #earlyModern #Ireland. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

I was really pleased to launch Martin Buckley’s new book, ‘A sense of duty: Bantry Bay 1979’ last night at the Sirius Centre in Cobh. It’s an oral history of the divers who recovered victims of the Betelgeuse disaster. Some were there last night, and were amazing to talk to. We’ll done Martin!

Lecturer in International Economic History University College Cork - School of History - College of Arts Celtic Studies and Social Sien #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMV502/l...

Two permanent lectureships going in UCC History Department, one in International Economic History post-WWI and one in Irish Seventeenth Century History. You'd get to work with wonderful colleagues there. Share widely.

Really proud to launch Padraig Og O Ruairc’s new ‘A history of the far right and fascism in Ireland’ tonight at Eason’s in Cork. Great turnout for an important book!

New podcast with Padraig O Ruairc irishhistoryshow.ie/108-fascism-...

🚨FT Permanent Job 🚨 My department is hiring a lecturer (B/B) in 18th-c. Irish history, with the desire for someone whose research and teaching pertains to the Irish 'long eighteenth century (1690-1830)...and broader international, political and intellectual context of the period.' 🗃️

Who's joining us in Cardiff for our Annual Welsh Lecture? Come hear Ruth Canning discuss 'The “Irish Problem” in English Colonial History', with a response from @lloydbowen.bsky.social & chaired by our Wales Rep @mrfw17thc.bsky.social! June 18, 2025. All welcome! www.rensoc.org.uk/event/the-ir...

The UCC Quad is soaking up the rays this afternoon

Congrats to the organisers and presenters who attended the Irish History Students’ Association conference at UCC yesterday. I was honoured to give the keynote. Between the IHSA and the UCC History Society, the future of the discipline is in good hands!

Great celebration last night of the Corpus of Electronic Texts of Ireland (CELT), the world’s first digital humanities project still going strong since 1991. Great talks by Eamon O’Flaherty & Victoria Pearson. Congrats to Hiram Morgan & Beatrix Faeber.

Permanent full time Lectureship in Archaeology (Museum Studies) in my lovely department at UCC! Join us! www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...

Then the following Wednesday 12 Feb, I’m talking all things book-related with Vona Groarke and @sarahannebuckley.bsky.social for the new ACIS New Book Series. Zoom only, 5pm Irish time 🎉

President Higgins today received representatives of Cork University Press and the editors of 'Atlas of the Irish Civil War: New Perspectives' on a courtesy call at Áras an Uachtaráin. Cork University Press this year celebrates its 100 year anniversary

This week's @irishexaminer.bsky.social city column: the one present every household in Cork needs this year (and other places). H/t @ucc.bsky.social Cork University Press UCC History www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Warmest congrats to the editors and contributors of the Atlas of the Irish Civil War published by @corkup.bsky.social in @ucclibrary.bsky.social @ucc.bsky.social. I see the labour of love these publications are and the dedication of our colleagues in the Press. Richly deserved recognition.

History Book of the Year #irishbookawards @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social

I (John Dorney) was involved in the UCC Irish Civi lWar fataltiies project, logging every death in the Irish Free State from political violence from June 28 1922 to May 24 1923. Also mapped by location of death. Have a look if you haven't already. www.ucc.ie/en/theirishr...

It's wonderful to see the 'Atlas of the Irish Civil War: New Perspectives' out in the world. A huge thank you to our constellation of contributors, the fantastic CUP team, @DeptCultureIRL for their support, @NLI for their partnership, and the generous creators and keepers of the array images.

'Conflict of Many Colours' - Frank McNally in 'An Irishman's Diary' @IrishTimes this morning on the 'sumptuously illustrated' Atlas of the Irish Civil War. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

Fine Gael to announce plans to ‘phase out’ third level fees in election manifesto, says Simon Harris www.irishtimes.com/politics/202... >>if this doesn’t come with equivalent direct exchequer funding to universities, the system will collapse. It is already on the brink of bankruptcy.

A series written by myself and produced by Kevin Brannigan, featuring historians Liz Gillis, Mary McAuliffe, Katrina Goldstone, John Borgonovo, John Dorney and Liam O'Callaghan. Looks at state violence, government death squads, anti-Semitism and crime. open.spotify.com/show/58ashFk...