Nobody does fashion tips like my Skye Aunt. 'Oh Peigi, that's such a lovely dress. Usually people who carry excess weight try to squeeze it into clothes that are too small.'

After the warm summer we've had the blackberries must be plump and ready for devouring! These hand-coloured beauties are from Hieronymus Bock's 1552 herbal #Blackberries #Autumn

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

Some beautiful blooms to brighten your Friday! 💐 We hope you have a lovely weekend. 📷 Illustration of horehound, motherwort and hemp nettle from ‘The Flowering Plants of Great Britain' (1855) by Anne Pratt [Baring-Gould Library 0691] #FridayFlowers #FlowerFriday #RareBooks

If you like browsing unexpected collections of medieval MSS, have a look at the Auckland Council Libraries (NZ). The collection includes images of Aristoteles Latinus MS no. 1936 (Metaphysica, Physica, Meteora, transl. William of Moerbeke)! #medievalsky kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/coll...

Wild strawberries on a beautiful summer's day! From Hieronymus Bock's 1552 herbal.

So nice to spend the weekend stuck back into some #genealogy for a client! Love when the records show some insights into the #socialhistory of a family! I love how social history and genealogy go hand in hand!

#IrishGenealogy #FamilyHistory

When computer science, history, and archivists merge, you achieve a work of art! Hats off to the @virtualtreasury.bsky.social team and all involved!! Down the rabbit hole I go to explore the newly added content 🙌 #Irishhistory

@virtualtreasury.bsky.social Happy new releases day! www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025... #IrishGenealogy

Release day at the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (@virtualtreasury.bsky.social) is fast approaching. Some amazing material coming your way on the 30 June. Stay tuned at virtualtreasury.ie.

Mapping more accurately than ever Ireland's peatlands, which are vital as carbon sinks but whose boundaries can be hard to determine, could help fight global warming, researchers say.

Work to allow for the excavation of a burial ground at the former mother-and-baby home in Tuam, Co Galway, will begin next Monday.

Honoured, a little shocked, but delighted too, to be awarded a first class honours for my thesis. This study traces the hugely pioneering work of the United Irishwomen- the precursor to the well-known Irish Countrywomen's Association and is a fascinating topic!

Welcome to the archives.

We are delighted to be hosting the Kathleen Lonsdale touring exhibition in the Royal Irish Academy this week to tie in with the Kathleen Lonsdale RIA Chemistry Prize Ceremony. Thank you to Riverbank Arts Centre and Kildare Library Service and artist, Maeve Clancy.

I'll admit I don't really understand how these things work but my upcoming monograph seems to now be up on the *Amsterdam* University Press website, though not yet on the Leiden one (it's an LUP title). Anyway, coming in September (probably)!

Ancient Manuscripts, Modern Science! What links medieval monks, secret ink recipes & ancient cow DNA? Learn how Scientists used X-ray technology and genetic sequencing to uncover the secrets of 1,200-year-old Irish manuscripts in Switzerland Read more: museum.ie/en-IE/Collec... #NMIBlog #MuseumBlog

For the weekend thats in it, great to rewatch these two videos on the history of the Gordon Bennett Race, the Race that saved motorsport!! A great watch for any motoring heritage enthusiast Part 1 youtu.be/jXUJVAZ9KHU?... Part 2 youtu.be/62RI2IGlNyk?... #motorsporthistory

Can't believe this time last year we were away up to @qubhistory.bsky.social for #WHAI2024 , this year we extend the same warm welcome at CCSP for #WHAI2025 Still time to register before Friday! 👇 #History #Skystorians #MedHums #IrishHistory #HealthHist #MilitaryHist #ReproHist

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

Like how could you not want to speak at this year's most interesting conference? So looking forward to joining #WHAI2025 colleagues with a fab array of papers on Women & Loss @whaireland.bsky.social Book Here 👉 tinyurl.com/2jnkuw4s #History #Skystorians #GenderHist #IrishStudies #Speirgorm

#WomensHistory is for everyone @whaireland.bsky.social REGISTRATION NOW OPEN #WHAI2025 👉 tinyurl.com/2jnkuw4s Option now to book for the CONF DINNER if you have already registered, details on conf site 👇 #History #Skystorians #GenderHist #IrishStudies #Speirgorm #HealthHist #HigherEd #Ireland

"Check out this month’s LEIGHEAS Project pick: Royal Irish Academy MS 23 F 19! 📜 Featuring an Irish treatise on anatomy, Trotula texts on women’s medicine, & more. Explore on ISOS: www.isos.dias.ie/RIA/RIA_MS_2... 🩺✨ #MedievalMedicine"

I've started to create a record of how my small garden here in an urban housing estate in Portlaoise, County Laois. With zero formal training, costly mistakes, learning as I go, watching those I admire, watching YouTube, gardening shows, reading guide books and plain old intuition. #urbangardening

IGRS Top Research Tip #153: Want to know about the conditions in which your Irish labouring class ancestors lived immediately before the Famine? Were they living in a glorified mud hut? This article provides details from data locked away in the stats for the 1841 census: www.rte.ie/history/the-...

Thinking about how absolutely amazing the Irish Folklore Collection is on www.duchas.ie Stories from people who had potentially survived the Great Famine, the Irish Land Wars, Home Rule Bills, First World War, Easter Rising, Spanish Flu, War of Independence, a new state, Civil War,what a centenary!

Delighted that my book "Witchcraft, magic and culture 1736-1951" (1999) is getting a makeover this autumn after 26 years! Liking the new cover. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526192660/

What a rich array of papers. It'll be tough to choose which panels to attend!

Man who bought a military uniform about 5 years ago finds a letter from December 1945 in the pocket written by a woman to her sweetheart in the RAF. 👇 BBC News - Bid to reunite family with letter to RAF darling found 80 years on - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@ssnci.bsky.social New Perspectives on Conflict and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century is out on 28 July 2025! Order a copy for yourself, your class or your library via www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... #SSNCI #IrishStudies #conflict

Recently, we came across this treasure trove again: notebooks and sketches by William Edward Trevithick (1899-1958), a gardener turned botanical illustrator and artist 🌱🖌️ He would end up contributing around 60 plates to Curtis's Botanical Magazine. #KewLA #Archives #SciArt

Anyone else cool down their brain from tech overload by doing some night gardening?! Or am I officially that weird neighbour who potters about her garden like an oddball? I just love how being around the plants and trees calms down my whole nervous system and helps me reset.

Earth Day is a reminder that we only have one planet. Sometimes, it takes seeing Earth from space to truly grasp how precious it is. 🧵⬇️ (1/4)

An honour to be invited to the 1916 Easter Rising Commemorations. Remembering dad's grandad, grandmother, grand uncle's and grand aunts who were Irish Volunteers and Cumann na mBan.

Count me in on this as well

Gertrude de Ferranti campaigned for affordable accessible electricity in home, through Electrical Association for Women & work with husband Sebastian de Ferranti. 1936 1 of 2 women attending World Power Conference as UK representatives b #OTD 15 Apr 1869 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrud... #WomenInSTEM

There's a lot of birch in this image, but coming up through it is oak, holly, hazel, + other wild trees. Below, there's already a rich woodland flora of bluebell, violet, anemone, etc. Birch is a pioneer species, colonising open ground fast and creating conditions for the rest of the ecosystem. 🌍

It's being submitted today for marking, and I can't wait to continue on the research more of this topic. I've found so much of the work of the United Irishwomen, their road blocks and ideas are being replicated by so many of us in the regenerative space and we can learn so much from these women.

A national study by the ESRI has found that farmers, people living in rural areas, and urban residents are all worried by climate change and equally willing to take action to help stop it

IGRS Top Research Tip #149: Court records are a much underused resource in Ireland and many series still exist in whole or part. Here’s a short description of the jurisdictions of the various pre-1922 Irish courts: legalblog.ie/courts-4/

Plant it and they will come! A short clip of the birds flying around this tiny urban garden space. It shows that you don't need massive acres of land to support biodiversity and nature in thriving. There were also some beautiful bumble bees flying by on their search of pollen. #biodiversity #garden

This election 100 years ago this week is the main topic of discussion on the new The Irish History Boys podcast series I am presenting with Tim McGarry, shows.acast.com/the-irish-hi....

Since I stumbled across the United Irishwomens #HerbGrowing Association of 1916, affiliated with the National Herb Growers Association in England, I am following that rabbit hole to find out more about them both. That's me occupied for the next body of research on women's social history!

Hobbit Girl Spring is here. 😌🌿

A day on the Slieve Bloom Mountains. First stop at The Ridge of Capard where I could see the Wicklow Mountains, all the way as far as Slieve Bán in Roscommon. Then on to the magical Glenbarrow, this trail just reminds me of the books I read as child, full of adventure, magic, nature and wonder.

Knowing how to use catalogues is a vital tool in getting the most from archival collections. See link below for details about searching collections held by the National Archives of Ireland…

Navigating the new system for Irish census records launched by the National Archives irishheritagenews.ie/new-system-f...