A reminder that @edinburghup.bsky.social has their St Andrew's weekend sale on so you can get huge amounts of books for half price! Mine is now £13 - it would be an amazing Christmas present for someone very particular in taste 😂 edinburghuniversitypress.com

Great workshop on the Irish Political Constitution today, co-organised with @laurcah.bsky.social and @alangreene.bsky.social Some great papers, planning on a special issue of the Irish Jurist in 2026. Thanks to @maynoothlaw.bsky.social and the NUI for their support.

Tremendous opportunities with the new Centre for Legal History of India @mpilhlt.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ006/o... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ045/t...

See below details of an exciting opportunity at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (@mpilhlt.bsky.social) for three PhD students in the newly established Centre for Legal History in India www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ045/t... #LegalHistory #LegalTheory #ConstitutionalHistory

Very cool Eavan Boland stands outside the library in TCD

JE le 5 décembre à Sciences Po Lille organisée avec l’Institut pour la Photo, le CEAC et @cecille-ulille.bsky.social. Inscription: [email protected] @flcs-ulille.bsky.social @sofeir.bsky.social @univlille.bsky.social

This new edited volume on the colonial genealogies of EU Law looks interesting. Great to see a few familiar EUI names there, including the wonderful editor, and it's Open Access. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Dublin from the skies

REMINDER of this event on Irish and Indian Constitutions at DCU's St Pats campus at 4:30 this evening Delighted to be joining @seanrainford.bsky.social @aoifemod.bsky.social @suryaroy.bsky.social @donalcoffey.bsky.social @dculibrary.bsky.social All welcome

"Nora Thornton and Joanne Carroll are @nlireland.bsky.social archivists who combine a personal interest in #food and #foodculture with their professional work..." Learn more about our historic #cookbooks in this @irishexaminer.bsky.social article: www.irishexaminer.com/food/arid-41...

🚨#History #envhist Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Environmental History. 🗃️ Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students! See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word... 👇👇👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...

Fabulous PhD opportunity at Queen's University Belfast and Armagh Observatory: Observing the Heavens from the 'Periphery': Astronomy in Ireland 1640-1830 www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post... Deadline 13 Jan #histSTM #histastro

In this forthcoming comparative paper, I argue that India's basic structure doctrine and the finality of referendums in Ireland both play an equivalent constitutional role of taking 'final say sovereignty' away from politicians. Pre-publication draft: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Dundalk IT to get university college status after agreeing merger with Queen’s of Belfast

Join us at DCU's St Pats campus for an evening seminar comparing the Irish and Indian constitutions, hosted by the Ireland India Institute, next Wed 26 Nov. Some leading constitutional lawyers and historians will explore shared influences and challenges between 🇮🇳 and 🇮🇪. All welcome

TFW your extremely niche area of academic research is in the news! A 🧵 on some aspects of the building formerly known as the Pro-Cathedral (or the Metropolitan chapel as it was called first!) www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Senior Curator - Programming, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin City Council careers.dublincity.ie/Job/JobDetai...

BOOK: Philip BAJON, Informal Decision Making in the European Community under the Luxembourg Compromise. The Law that Never Was (London: Bloomsbury/Hart, 2025 📖 esclh.blogspot.com/2025/11/book...

the Duncan Tanner prize not only showcases the very best of early career scholarship in modern British history year after year, but the committee also give every entrant considered and generous feedback on their scholarship. it's win/win - do enter your work! academic.oup.com/tcbh/pages/e...

📣 REMINDER ALL WELCOME to the Dublin launch of From Bullets to Ballots: Politics and Electioneering in Post-Civil War Kerry, 1923–33 6.30pm, Tuesday 11 November 2025 Books Upstairs, 17 D’Olier Street Dublin 2, D02 RX06 RSVP [email protected] @owenoshea.bsky.social @booksupstairs.bsky.social

VACANCY: Postdoctoral researcher in legal history on Labour Evolution: Forging Individual Rights in the Transformation of Early Modern European Empires (Helsinki: University of Helsinki; DEADLINE 15 NOV 2025) @helsinki.fi esclh.blogspot.com/2025/11/vaca...

JOB Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400, University of Cambridge www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Huntingdon - This comment from Simon Calder is worth repeating. My thoughts with all involved

Are you an early career researcher in law looking for new academic opportunities? Join the Max Planck Law Open House—an online info session and Q&A—on 2 December, 15:30 CET to learn about PhD and postdoc possibilities across our network: law.mpg.de/event/open-h... #OpenHouseEvent

ALL WELCOME to the Dublin launch of From Bullets to Ballots: Politics and Electioneering in Post-Civil War Kerry, 1923–33 by Owen O’Shea 6.30pm, Tuesday 11 November 2025 Books Upstairs, 17 D’Olier Street Dublin 2, D02 RX06 RSVP [email protected] @owenoshea.bsky.social @booksupstairs.bsky.social

JOB Childers Professorship of Irish History University of Cambridge www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/the-chi...

Shop local. Shop Irish. #supporttheindies 📕👌

Postdoc Opportunity! University of Kiel - Postdoctoral Research Position in History of Knowledge of the Ancient World networks.h-net.org/jobs/69323/u...

Today's most read on @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social. Check out our new digital exhibition tracing the history of visual representations of the Irish revolution in France: @clairedubois.bsky.social meshs-omekas.univ-lille.fr/omeka-s/s/im... www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Delighted to get my mitts on a copy of @mcculld.bsky.social ‘s latest tome, launched tonight

4x4-year, fully-funded PhD opportunities to work with an interdisciplinary group at Trinity College Dublin 2026-2030. One of these is to work with me on a public history and cultural heritage PhD, in collaboration with one of Dublins most interesting neighbourhoods. www.tcd.ie/graduatestud...

To mark the release of my new book, When Fitness Went Global: The Rise of Physical Culture in the Nineteenth Century (Bloomsbury, 2025), I’m giving away a copy. To enter: 💪 Repost 🌍 Comment with your favorite strength tradition I’ll pick a winner next week. #StrengthHeritage #SportHistory

Assistant Professor in Irish and/or European Medieval History Dublin City University - School of History & Geography #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY744/a...

I'm sure Du Bois scholars know about this already but was not aware of this online resource of Bu Bois' papers at Umass Amhearst. Absolutely amazing stuff in here. credo.library.umass.edu/view/collect...

Delighted that my exhibition on the afterlives of Cork republican women who did not go on to marry is now up in Creegan lib DCU @dculibrary.bsky.social I want to thank all the DCU library staff and especially @orlanicaodha.bsky.social Also thanks to @cecilearchives.bsky.social for all her help.

The counting of votes will proceed as normal, the returning officer said, “in line with the rules for the counting of votes as set out in the 1993 Act”. http://jrnl.ie/6837130

As the History Representative for ACIS, I have the distinct privilege to chair the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book. If you, or someone you know, has a book copyrighted in 2025 in Irish Studies please do consider submitting! Details here. 🗃️ #speirgorm

Medieval historians, anyone want to come be my colleague at DCU? We’re hiring! universityvacancies.com/dublin-city-... #historians

Should be excellent: “Late Heaney” Nicholas Allen A personal and lyrical study of Seamus Heaney's work after he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 global.oup.com/academic/pro... @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social

JOB AD: 3 3-year postdocs available at the Bonn Center for Slavery and Dependency Studies (BCDSS) @dependencybonn.de: I can highly recommend it as a place to spend (some of) your postdoc phase -- a deeply interdisciplinary environment with wonderful colleagues. shorturl.at/69hMY

Just published! Check out 'Between Paternal Power and Prerogative: The Reformatory Origins of Protection in the British Empire (1788–1888)' by Matilde Cazzola: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

One year ago today: the publication of my book - Ghosts of a Family - about the McMahon family massacre and political violence in Belfast in the 1920s.

OPPORTUNITY: applications are open for the Keough-Naughton Library Research Award in Irish Studies

Martin Mansergh, Fianna Fáil adviser and key figure in peace process, dies aged 78

Éamon de Valera gave his inaugural speech as President of the League of Nations #OTD in 1932. He's pictured here in Waterloo Station, London, on his way to Geneva.

Tá an chéad Phreab-Ghaeltacht eile ag teannadh linn! Scaipigí an focal, tagaigí le cairde agus buailigí isteach. Frankfurt Art Bar – Dé Céadaoin 01.10.2025 ó 18:30 ar aghaidh!

Congratulations to @lorrainegrimes.bsky.social on the publication of her first book which is now available with Bloomsbury www.bloomsbury.com/uk/single-mo...

BC Irish Studies is inviting applications for visiting summer Burns fellowships in 2026, 2027, & 2028 The application is open to researchers and writers in any discipline pertaining to Irish Studies. Early-career scholars are particularly encouraged to apply apply.interfolio.com/174086

Delighted to share that the Department of #DigitalHumanities @ucc.ie will host a digital artist as part of the first @artscouncilireland.bsky.social Digital Artist in Residence pilot programme. Applications are now open! Enquiries to @stephenroddy.bsky.social artscouncil.ie/funding-oppo...