If you are free later, why not consider adding this seminar to your tu-do(r) list?

This THURSDAY: Don’t miss a fascinating seminar both in-person and online to kick off the @usihs.bsky.social calendar for 2026! More information on the Eventbrite below.

Really looking forward to this week’s @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar by @mauricejcasey.com! A great title and no doubt a great paper on anti-fascist vegetarians - one not to miss! Snacks and drinks provided. All welcome - in person and online! More information: www.eventbrite.com/e/qub-histor...

A reminder that our first seminar of 2026 is on Thursday! Neil Murphy @northumbriauni.bsky.social will speak on 'Violence, colonialism and the mid-Tudor monarchy: Ireland in context'. If you can't join us in person @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social join online 👇 www.eventbrite.ie/e/violence-c...

Get to know Claudia M. Serrano, Doctoral Candidate in Political Science at UBC, and learn about her research on border control, migrant safety, and critical border studies, as well as her advice for graduate students navigating critical migration studies. 🔗 Read the Q&A: shorturl.at/PM861

Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...

Really looking forward to hearing this week’s @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar by QUB’s very own, Andrew Himmelberg! Drinks and snacks provided as usual. All welcome! www.eventbrite.com/e/qub-histor...

Looking forward to this week’s @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar with @emilybaughan.bsky.social (chaired by @kieranconnell.bsky.social). Snacks and drinks provided as usual. All welcome! www.eventbrite.com/e/qub-histor...

Looking forward this Friday to hearing this week’s @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar in collaboration with @publichistoryqub.bsky.social. Annie McAleer will talk about the work of UNTOLD: The Museum. Snacks and drinks provided. All welcome! More information: www.eventbrite.com/e/qub-histor...

Looking forward to this seminar series kicking off in February!

Our spring 2026 seminar series programme is here! We'll be adding eventbrite links soon so you can join us online or in person - all are welcome! First up we have Neil Murphy on 19 February at 6pm. Neil will speak on 'Violence, colonialism and the mid-Tudor monarchy: Ireland in context'.

Rebecca Brown (@ulsteruni.bsky.social) is kicking off the @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar series for the semester this Friday at 4pm (more details below and on the Eventbrite link). Snacks and drinks provided as usual. All welcome! www.eventbrite.com/e/qub-histor...

Looking forward to this semester‘s @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar series which starts this Friday! Drinks and snacks provided as usual. All welcome!

Still looking for a gift for the person who has everything? How about 'Childhood and the Irish', with accounts of good times and bad from a range of childhoods from the medieval to the recent. I have a pieces on a Waterford keen and on the foundlings of Youghal and their nurses.

Thank you to the wonderful Castle Books in #Castlebar (one of my truly beloved independent bookshops) for stocking both Christmas & the Irish and Childhood & the Irish. Popped in to sign some copies this afternoon.

It was great to be at the launch by @miriamocal.bsky.social of Childhood and the Irish: A Miscellany edited by @salvadorryan.bsky.social last week at @ria.ie! Thinking back on the childhoods of two of the crucial Carmelite figures within my PhD was fascinating and so rewarding.

We are delighted that Dr Ruth Duffy has been awarded an honourable mention in the Irish Historical Studies First Book Prize 2024 for Healthcare and the Troubles! Congratulations, Ruth 🎉 Discover more about the book here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

#OpenAccess Research article, 'Gendered hierarchies and marked bodies: narratives of household violence in early modern Ireland' by Dianne Hall is available through the following link! @universitypress.cambridge.org

#OpenAccess Research article, 'Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-1990', by Charlie Lynch is available through the following link: @universitypress.cambridge.org

#OpenAccess research article, 'Encountering modern Irish history: historiography, archives and imagination in the twenty-first century' by Lindsey Earner-Byrne, Roisín Higgins and Carole Holohan is available through the following link! @universitypress.cambridge.org @earner.bsky.social

What a great way to end this semester’s @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar series tomorrow with @niamhcullen.bsky.social, chaired by @elainefarrell.bsky.social! Drinks and snacks provided as usual. For more information and to sign up to attend online see: www.eventbrite.com/e/qub-histor...

Speaking of great books on Irish America, my @irishhiststudies.bsky.social book review on @anelisehshrout.bsky.social's excellent 'Aiding Ireland: the Great Famine and the rise of transnational philanthropy' has just come out www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Have you got a new book out about Irish America? Regardless of discipline, if it came out in 2025, you can submit it to the ACIS Lawrence McCaffrey Prize for Books on Irish America! You need to fill out the form on this website and the books need to be sent by 1 January! acisweb.org/mccaffrey-pr...

Looking forward very much to the launch of Childhood and the Irish THIS EVENING in the Royal Irish Academy by @miriamocal.bsky.social, with the event MC’d by @jdmccafferty.bsky.social. Hope to meet many of you there. Fáilte roimh chách!

A great and supportive environment is provided by the @catholicrs.bsky.social annual conference. To read more about the range of fascinating topics and research which is discussed at this conference, see my report on this year’s conference below.

In a change to the advertised schedule this week‘s @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar will be given by QUB’s very own @pfarrelly2025.bsky.social. Snacks & drinks will be provided as usual. For more information & to sign up to attend online, see the Eventbrite below: www.eventbrite.com/e/qub-histor...

The call for papers for our 68th Annual Conference, to be held 1-2 July 2026 at Notre Dame London, is live on our website here: www.crs.org.uk/conferences. For a great write up of last year's event by @conorbrockbank.bsky.social, see here: www.crs.org.uk/conference-r... #catholichistory #catholic

Funded PhD opportunities at QUB: 'Childcare provision in late twentieth-century Northern Ireland (1960s-1990s)' www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...

On my way to Belfast this morning to talk about the pharmaceutical industry, bodies, ecosystems, and how we read the history of Ireland's economic transformation since the 1960s. Will include some chat about the smells of 1980s Ireland, as well as what topography tells us about Ireland's economy.

Looking forward to this week’s @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar by @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social, chaired by @kieranconnell.bsky.social! Snacks and drinks will be provided as usual. For more information and to sign up to attend online, see the link below: www.eventbrite.com/e/qub-histor...

Childhood and the Irish will be launched by RTÉ’s Miriam O’Callaghan in the Royal Irish Academy on Monday 1 December at 5:30pm. Book your place at Eventbrite below. Hope to meet many of you there! www.eventbrite.ie/e/childhood-...

Another great seminar in the @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar series tomorrow from QUB’s own, Ni Yang. Wine, soft drinks and snacks provided as usual. All welcome! More information about the seminar in the link below: www.eventbrite.com/e/qub-histor...

Join online from your home for this great seminar by @sophcocooper.bsky.social talking about others feeling at home, which is taking place TOMORROW at 7pm!

Opposition to Margaret Thatcher - an Interdisciplinary Conference: This Friday 👇. Share to anyone interested

The Catholic Historical Society of Ireland Annual Conference on 'O'Connell and his Legacy' takes place on Saturday 22 November 2025 at the St Patrick's campus @dublincityuni.bsky.social To book see www.eventbrite.ie/e/oconnell-a...

Gone to the printer and soon to be released… Launching in the Royal Irish Academy on Monday 1 December at 5:30pm. Further details to follow. “Christmas prezzies sorted, so…” 🎄 #Childhood #Ireland #IrishHistory wordwellbooks.com/index.php?ro...

Childhood and the Irish: A Miscellany edited by @salvadorryan.bsky.social is available for pre-order. The collection explores a variety of experiences including my own article on the childhoods of two Irish Carmelite missionaries, who were brothers, in Co. Wicklow! wordwellbooks.com/index.php?ro...

Nearly here: Childhood and the Irish, ed. Salvador Ryan. I have articles on the parish children of Youghal, and a grandmother's keen on a little Waterford girl c. 1870s. wordwellbooks.com/index.php?ro...

I just signed up to attend @sophcocooper.bsky.social’s talk (thank you for the online event, @usihs.bsky.social), and we just happen to be covering the built environment in my graduate seminar on memory (we focus on Northern Ireland) in 2-3 weeks, so I will be announcing this to my students tonight.

Another fascinating @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar coming up later TODAY by Dr Lloyd Maphosa! Chaired by the great @emorier.bsky.social. Drinks and snacks provided. All welcome! More information and the sign up for attending online in the link below: www.eventbrite.com/e/qub-histor...

Thanks to QUB HAPP for sharing our online Opposition to Thatcher conference, held next Friday. Just look at the speakers. Topics include: Ireland, Miners, local Gov, culture etc. Very multi-disciplinary. Please share with anyone interested. @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social @qubhistory.bsky.social

In a change to our planned seminar series, our next seminar will be Sophie Cooper speaking on 'Building to feel ‘at home’: Embedding/embedded memory in the built environments of Belfast and the diaspora'. Thursday 13 Nov, *online* at 7pm. @sophcocooper.bsky.social www.eventbrite.ie/e/sophie-coo...

Exciting news! Filming will soon start on a Bad Bridgets film, inspired by Elaine Farrell & Leanne McCormick's great book. We're delighted to have both Elaine & Leanne on our USIHS Committee (for many reasons, this is just today's extra one) @badbridgetbook.bsky.social deadline.com/2025/10/dais...

If you missed Seán's talk the other week, the recording is now on our website! usihs36.com

Just over 3 weeks to the event: 'Opposition to Thatcher - An Interdisciplinary Conference'. It's online on Teams & greatly funded by QUB HAPP. Just scan the QR Code to sign up. Please pass on to anyone who might be interested - lots of fantastic speakers lined up. @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

Looking forward to this week’s @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar, co-ordinated with @publichistoryqub.bsky.social, with Dr Laura Aguiar (UU) speaking this week! Snacks and drinks provided as usual. For more information & to sign up online follow the link below below: www.eventbrite.com/e/qub-histor...

If you’re in Sheffield or the vicinity this Sat night, why not come along to this @otsfestival.bsky.social discussion of multiculturalism with myself, Emer O’Neill & others. Tickets and details 👇 offtheshelf.org.uk/events/diver...

Congratulations to @conorbrockbank.bsky.social for a great @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar paper this afternoon! Not just entertainingly titled and delivered, but with some really interesting insights 🦎

Still time to sign up to attend this online, or to attend in person at 4pm TODAY!

A great opportunity to get the work being done by undergrads, PhDs & early career researchers across the island of Ireland all in one place! Looking forward to seeing what comes from the universities across the island, & those abroad doing Irish history, including from @qubhistory.bsky.social