Congratulations to our fantastic students, Caden Casey and Aoibhín Ní Gleasáin, on their success at the Global Undergraduate Awards in Dublin last night! Their prize-winning essays are now available to view on the GUA Library: gua.soutron.net/Portal/Defau...

Delighted Caden Casey and Aoibhín Ní Gleasáin received awards at the Global Undergraduate Awards at the Royal Irish Academy undergraduateawards.com/regional-win... Their essays at the @universityofgalway.bsky.social have been recognised as among the very best of those sent from across the world

Call for participants! Spread the word and get in touch with our PhD researcher, Elliot, if you are interested in being interviewed for his exciting PhD project!

Reminder that our Research Seminar Series is kicking off tomorrow 🎉

Aoibhín's essay was entitled 'Ireland's Missed Opportunity; The 1951 Mother and Child Scheme in Comparative Context' and Caden's essay was entitled 'The Transformation of Education in Ireland in the 1950s'. Well done on all your hard work 👏🥳

Delighted to share our Research Seminar Series for this semester! We're starting off next Wed 10 Sept @ 4pm by welcoming our new colleague, Dr Ciarán McCabe, who will be speaking on 'Privacy, Respectability, and Working-Class Domestic Spaces in Dublin's Tenements, c.1910-c.1960'!

Forthcoming publication based on papers from the 33rd Irish Conference of Historians editors @finnuniofgalway.bsky.social @kieran-hoare.bsky.social @uniofgalway.bsky.social @historyatgalway.bsky.social @uniofgalwaylib.bsky.social

The Charlie Byrne's team know how to do bookshops.... #supporttheindies #visit Galway 👌📚🇮🇪 @charliebyrne.bsky.social

The @difp-ria.bsky.social is hiring! See the link below for details of an assistant editor position on the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy team - to cover a career break until July 2028. Please spread the word. DIFP is a very exciting project to work on. 🗃️ www.ria.ie/about/career...

⭐️ UCD Press recently published titles ⭐️ We may be a bit biased, but we think our recent books look pretty good together. Cover and spine designs by the wonderful and talented Fiachra McCarthy Browse all of our books at www.ucdpress.ie or find them in stores nationwide

Thanks so much to the Irish Ambassador and Embassy in Prague for hosting my talk. So many fascinating insights from so many people into how modern Ireland has emerged and evolved @historyatgalway.bsky.social @uniofgalwayasc.bsky.social @uniofgalwaylib.bsky.social @uniofgalwaycasscs.bsky.social

If you're in Prague this Thursday, catch Tomás Finn @finnuniofgalway.bsky.social speaking at the Irish Embassy on his brilliant recent research on the transformation of post-WWII Ireland!

Thanks to the Irish Ambassador and the Irish embassy in Prague for the opportunity this Thursday 5 June to speak on the transformation of Ireland from WWII to today @historyatgalway.bsky.social @uniofgalwayasc.bsky.social @uniofgalwaycasscs.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/lecture-on...

Powerful account by our colleague @sarahannebuckley.bsky.social and Elaine Feeney of the importance of the decision by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment to publish modules addressing the history, legacy and literature of Ireland’s institutions www.thejournal.ie/readme/mothe...

Book Launch Details for Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way 21.5 Foyles Charing Cross Road 23.5 London Irish Centre, Hammersmith 27.5 Kenny’s Bookshop 29.5 Books Upstairs Tickets online via each venue! Love to see you! 🍷

Returning to Tipperary and this Friday Clonmel to revisit Pawel Paul Strzelecki, the Polish humanitarian and explorer, and how his idea saved more than 200,000 children during the Great Famine in Ireland strzelecki.ie/51194-2/

Looking forward to working with Carrick-on-Suir Library and once again with the Polish embassy in highlighting in talks at the library the role of Paul Strzelecki as a humanitarian, explorer and migrant and how ours has been a Global world for a very long time

Delighted to have presented my books on Tuairim and with Tony Varley that on Rural Ireland to the @president.ie and Mrs Higgins at Áras an Uachtaráin manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719095436/ www.ucdpress.ie/page/detail/... @ucdpress.bsky.social @universityofgalway.bsky.social

Call for papers is open #irishhistory

Next week Shauna Mulligan will compare “The Plantation and the Concentration Camp: Slave labour and racism during the American Civil War (1861-1865) and the Second World War (1941-1945)” in GO10 HRB, 4pm, Wednesday 26 February, and via Zoom webinar at universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Really enjoyed talking about Rural Ireland book with Patrick Geoghan on newstalk's talking history @ucdpress.bsky.social @historyatgalway.bsky.social www.goloudplayer.com/episodes/bes...

@biblioraphic.bsky.social Hi. My name is Tomás Finn. I am an historian at the university of Galway. Can you please add me to your starter pack?

Newly restocked & forthcoming history titles from @ucdpress.bsky.social - Inside Rural Ireland @finnuniofgalway.bsky.social , A Tract for our Times, The Diaries of Kathleen Lynn @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social & the forthcoming Mary MacSwiney from Leanne Lane. Quality! thebookshop.ie/brands/ucd-p...

Authors @finnuniofgalway.bsky.social & Tony Varley @historyatgalway.bsky.social discuss Rural Ireland & housing in @irishtimes.com Future population and climate projections are such that housing needs demand a proactive response which addresses environmental as well as social and economic needs

Thanks to @jenoconnell.bsky.social and @irishtimes.com for the opportunity for Tony Varley and me to write about Rural housing and to highlight our book on Rural Ireland www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025... @ucdpress.bsky.social

@erinannmcc.bsky.social Please add me to starter pack. Hope you're well thanks

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@irishstudiesqub.bsky.social Please add me to Irish Studies contact list Thanks

Inside Rural Ireland draws on a broad range of expertise - historians, geographers, sociologists, political scientists - to forensically chart the changes in the Irish countryside over the century @uniofgalwaylib.bsky.social @finnuniofgalway.bsky.social connachttribune.ie/mapping-chan...

This is a book that merits reading by anyone who grew up in rural Ireland - thought provoking

Our thanks to @irishtimes.com and @markhennessy.bsky.social for featuring Inside Rural Ireland (Edited by @finnuniofgalway.bsky.social and Tony Varley) in the recent edition of Ticket, the culture magazine. Pick up a copy of Inside Rural Ireland at bookshops across Ireland or ucdpress.ie!

Thanks to @irishtimes.com and @markhennessy.bsky.social for featuring Inside Rural Ireland (Edited by @finnuniofgalway.bsky.social and Tony Varley) in the recent edition of Ticket, the culture magazine. Pick up a copy of Inside Rural Ireland at bookshops across Ireland or ucdpress.ie!

www.agriland.ie/farming-news... Many thanks to Agriland for a lovely review of Tony Varley and my new book on Rural Ireland @ucdpress.bsky.social @historyatgalway.bsky.social @uniofgalway.bsky.social

🎄🧵 Next up is this great read from Tomás Finn and Tony Varley which made use of Muintir na Tíre archive @uniofgalwaylib.bsky.social www.ucdpress.ie/page/detail/... #Christmas  #EYAFestives @ucdpress.bsky.social 3/x

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www.theirelandpodcast.com/latest-podca... Enjoyed speaking with Tony Varley about our new Inside Rural Ireland book with Fender Jackson on the Ireland podcast www.ucdpress.ie/page/detail/... @ucdpress.bsky.social @historyatgalway.bsky.social

Lovely turn out for the Clonmel Historical & Archaeological Society: December Lecture where Tomás Finn discussed his new publication 'Inside Rural Ireland: Power and Change since Independence'. Thanks to all everyone in Clonmel @historyatgalway.bsky.social @ucdpress.bsky.social

'This timely book brings together leading historians and sociologists to uncover the hidden dynamics of rural Ireland's evolution' - nice review of our colleague @finnuniofgalway.bsky.social's new co-edited book, Inside Rural Ireland, from last Friday's Irish Daily Mail.

Clonmel Historical & Archaeological Society: December Lecture: On Monday 9th December Tomas Finn will speak on his new publication 'Inside Rural Ireland: Power and Change since Independence' Starts at 8.15 pm in the Main Guard, Clonmel @ucdpress.bsky.social

ALL WELCOME to the Dublin launch of Inside Rural Ireland tomorrow. Guest Speaker Maurice Manning, and a discussion with Mary Daly and Bryan Fanning. In bookshops nationwide. 3pm, Thurs 5th Dec at NUI, 49 Merrion Sq, D2 @nuimerrionsq.bsky.social @ucdpress.bsky.social @historyatgalway.bsky.social

ALL WELCOME to the Dublin launch of Inside Rural Ireland next week 3pm, Thurs 5th Dec at NUI, 49 Merrion Sq, D2 In bookshops nationwide and at www.ucdpress.ie @nuimerrionsq.bsky.social @ucdpress.bsky.social

ALL WELCOME to the Dublin launch of Inside Rural Ireland next week 3pm, Thurs 5th Dec at NUI, 49 Merrion Sq, D2 In bookshops nationwide and at www.ucdpress.ie @nuimerrionsq.bsky.social @ucdpress.bsky.social

A wonderful atmosphere at University of Galway this evening for a publisher talk, panel discussion & Inside Rural Ireland launch Huge congratulations to editors @FinnUniofGalway, Tony Varley & all contributors Available in bookshops nationwide and at ucdpress.ie

All welcome to launch of Inside Rural Ireland. Looking forward to seeing you in NUI Dublin on Thursday 5 December

Standing room only at the event to celebrate the launch of Inside Rural Ireland yesterday, edited by Tony Varley and @finnuniofgalway.bsky.social. Congrats to the contributors, thanks to the speakers on the panel and to Dan Carey who launched it, and to @ucdpress.bsky.social for a beautiful book. 🗃️

Our first post! Join us this afternoon (13 November) for a roundtable and launch of the new book, Inside Rural Ireland, co-edited by our very own @finnuniofgalway.bsky.social with Tony Varley. All are welcome - online or in-person. For the Zoom, register at the link below.

Very much looking forward to the panel discussion and launch for Inside Rural Ireland this Wednesday at University of Galway Congratulations to editors Tomás Finn and Tony Varley, University of Galway, and to all contributors In bookshops nationwide & at ucdpress.ie All welcome