A real honour to receive this prize for my book - the list of past winners includes some of my favourite people and some of my favourite books in Irish history.

We're thrilled to announce the #ACIS 2025 book awards! Congratulations to all our winners and many thanks to everyone who served on the committees.

I am sure formal announcements will be up soon on the @acirishstudies.bsky.social website, but a huge congratulations to all the prize winners, especially my @ucc.ie colleague, @claireconnolly.bsky.social!

An emerging theme of ACIS 2026 is the centrality of public engagement in Irish Studies - which I think is the answer to "why Irish Studies?"

Call for Interview Participants! My @researchireland.ie study exploring women’s experiences of online harassment and abuse in Irish academia is seeking insights from those impacted to help increase awareness and support. To share your story please email: [email protected]

Many of our graduate students will be presenting at #NationalACIS26 in Denver this week!

We're gearing up for #NationalACIS26 in Denver next week! #ACIS members: let us know if you're attending & what you're presenting on! We'd love to feature faculty, postdocs, & grad students on our social media. acisdenver2026.com

📣Your next favorite book is now 50% off 📣 Our Radical May sale is on until May 14th! Shop the sale: www.plutobooks.com/product-cate...

This is the census return for the family of Gerry Healy who would later become a notorious figure on the British far-left My biography of Healy is now on sale for half price with @plutopress.bsky.social for International Workers' Day www.plutobooks.com/product/the-...

A question for any Irish historians looking through the newly released 1926 census: when a person in the census has their name crossed out it usually means they recently died. What does it mean if the person is still alive?

A question for any Irish historians looking through the newly released 1926 census: when a person in the census has their name crossed out it usually means they recently died. What does it mean if the person is still alive?

My article on 1970s feminists, spycops, and if feminist historians can use materials extracted by undercover police officers is out in History Workshop Journal doi.org/10.1093/hwj/...

Dr. Peter Hession will deliver the inaugural O'Malley Fellowship Lecture next Monday, 27 April, from 5:30 pm in the Kemmy Business School, UL (with live streaming). All are welcome, but please register to attend. Link to register: tinyurl.com/58he94t6.

Wrote a piece for the Examiner on the fuel protests - www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Marking the 150th anniversary of the rescue of six Fenian leaders from Fremantle Prison by the whaling ship Catalpa. The flag of the Catalpa will be on display at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, on Saturday, 18th and Sunday, 19th April 2026 only. www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

Excited to see that @labour-hub.bsky.social has published a review of In Solidarity, Under Suspicion! Mike Phipps: "there is a lot here that could teach us how to help build contemporary social movements." labourhub.org.uk/2026/04/05/w... @evansmithhist.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social

anybody familiar with the attitudes of Irish historians, political scientists, and/or theorists? curious what the reputation of Oliver Cromwell is as a historical figure amongst those folks, and whether it's changed much in the last few generations

I’m coming to Pittsburgh next month ✨ I’m giving a talk at the University Pittsburgh’s Frick Fine Arts Auditorium on April 9th at 7pm as part of the Alice and Staughton Lynd Working Class History Seminar; it’s free and open to the public, so tell your yinzer friends!

Dear all, Here is the updated programme of the SOFEIR Irish Studies conference, on the theme of Irish Exceptionalism. It takes place next week (25-26 March) at the University of Strasbourg. See you there soon! www.sofeir.fr/irish-except...

Save 30% on #NewBook "Wild Tides" by Patrick Brodie, which traces Ireland’s shift from reckless pre-2008 real estate development to a post-crisis investment in media infrastructure, revealing how financialization alters the daily life of a nation. buff.ly/NVSBjbJ

I have a new OA article out on the early history of Irish young people’s anti-abortion group Youth Defence. It’s part of a special issue by Agata Ignaciuk and Sylwia Kuzma-Markowska on anti-abortion activism in Europe.Thanks to reviewers and the RSE for funding. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

From day one Trump has shown us his corruption and desire for regime change in multiple countries that he has no business being in. This is an insanely unpopular, dangerous, and illegal act of war. Congress must pass a War Powers Resolution immediately and hold this lawless president accountable.

Saw this in Discord and it’s amazing

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...

This was on the cataloging shelf this morning, and the amount of whoops and cheers I’ve let out just reading the introduction and skimming chapters! A really important book for Irish visual and material culture, and much needed in the broader Irish Studies field 📚

Barstool Sports Spins Off New Literary Journal https://theonion.com/barstool-sports-spins-off-new-literary-journal/

I wrote about this a few years ago www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

teaching "The Conditions of the Working Class in England" for the first time in a while and turns out I had well and truly forgotten how historical figures used to post about the Irish on main

Statement from the family of Alex Pretti.

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

I am the book reviews editor for @jich.bsky.social and always looking for new review pitches. If you’d like to review a recently published book on imperial, colonial or Commonwealth history (broadly defined), please get in touch: evan dot smith at adelaide dot edu dot au. Authors, get in touch too!

Excited to share details of my first monograph, Revolutionary Connections, coming out Open Access with OUP this year! It explores diverse forms of international engagement in revolutionary Russia and Ireland, including responses to Ireland in Russian-language texts. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Check out my latest for the @crexuio.bsky.social blog. I look at how a politically maturing Irish far right is increasingly leveraging Irish republicanism through masculinity to build a home-grown ideology.

I was just denied access to the ICE processing center at the Whipple Building. Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained. The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.

Apply to the Catherine Shannon prize here acisweb.org/shannon-prize/ $500 for attending the ACIS conference in Denver in May. Preference will be given to untenured faculty, graduate students, independent scholars without full-time employment, retired academics, and international scholars.

Guy Beiner discusses the new Catherine Shannon Award, created through a collaboration between the Charitable Irish Society and ACIS. The award stands as a tribute to her legacy, supporting the next generation of scholars just as she has done throughout her remarkable career.

🎙️A new episode of the Irish Left Archive Podcast looking at the project over the past year. podcast.leftarchive.ie/@ILAPodcast/...

Unearned income built the world. Mother of Capital is OUT NOW! www.plutobooks.com/product/moth...

Part 1 of the JRWS special issue on the history of the far-right in the US is out! Read it for free, and spread it widely. escholarship.org/uc/jrws No better time than now to learn what's precedented and what's not.

Exciting delivery at the Sydney Jones library today! ✨ So nice to see my chapter on socialist-feminist activism in 1980s Merseyside finally in print (almost 2 years after writing!) in @d-j-frost.bsky.social and @evansmithhist.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social wonderful volume.

GOD: if my commandments get 50,000 likes, i will tell Abraham to kill his son

extremely sad news that Asad Haider has passed away. i didn't know him personally but it'd be impossible to overstate how important his writing and editing in Viewpoint was to my trajectory. as I said last night, we are losing too many comrades.

#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

The CFP for the American Conference of Irish Studies' 2026 national meeting in Denver closes on 12 December. More info here: acisweb.org/conferences/...

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...

Socialism won! Join DSA: dsausa.us/join-zohran 🌹

If you'd like to read a review of my book where I am accused of holding "petty-bourgeois political sensibilities" (yes you read that correctly)--well, then, do I ever have a review for you! www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Aproveitei o embalo e fiz uma tradução.

“As duas esposas irlandesas de Friedrich Engels”, de Aidan Beatty — tradução https://otriunfodorealismo.blog/2025/11/08/as-duas-esposas-irlandesas-de-friedrich-engels-de-aidan-beatty-traducao/

If you're at Historical Materialism this week, I'll be talking about my new chapter, 'British Marxism and the Coup in Chile' + chairing the launch event for our book, 'In Solidarity, Under Suspicious: the British Far Left from 1956' - Saturday, 10-11.45, Birkbeck. Please do come along!