100 years ago today it all kicked off at the Abbey - enjoyed writing this for @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social 👇

With the release of my new book 'Rory O'Connor: To Defend the Republic' the same day, tomorrow morning I will be discussing the book and Rory O'Connor on Today with David McCullagh on RTÉ Radio One at 10.30am. Do tune in! ... and available to listen on RTÉ website and streaming services thereafter.

The old county gaol #Cork c1900 now part of the UCC Campus #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike B&W📸NLI www.irishfamilydetective.ie/colourisation

Weekend sorted

No @johncreedon.bsky.social show on @rteradio1.bsky.social tonight - how less than good!

Living with a recalcitrant corgi in these days of endless rain is a constant series of negotiations re the necessity to go outdoors 😩

⭐️ Today marks the birthday of Irish writer and republican activist Dorothy Macardle. On this bank holiday Monday in honour of St Brigid, browse a variety of biographies about women in Irish history under the Gender Studies category on www.ucdpress.ie

Remembering Ann Lovett who tragically died 42 years ago today after giving birth alone in a grotto in Granard. The Statue of the Virgin at Granard Speaks -Paula Meehan "and though she cried out to me in extremis I did not move, I didn’t lift a finger to help her, I didn’t intercede with heaven

The best gang.

What a joy it is to be in the National Library of Ireland. It lifts my spirit.

'All the best spies eat at Gaj's'. B. #OTD 1919, Margaret Gaj’s eatery in the heart of 'Baggatonia' welcomed a diverse clientele. Garda special branch often dropped in to check who was there, leading the restaurant to advertise 'All the best spies eat at Gaj's'. www.dib.ie/biography/ga... #DIBLives

A sign that January is finally coming to an end- @johncreedon.bsky.social is back on @rteradio1.bsky.social 🙌

The Long Valley on Wintrop Street many years ago.

Teresa Deevy, the playwright once described as 'the Irish Chekhov', died #otd in 1963. Teresa lost her hearing when she was 19 but learned to lip-read in the theatres of London. She returned home to write plays that gave voice to women in the margins. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Reading Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth for a module I am teaching: her memory of the road to World War I is rather horrifyingly analogous to present day uncertainties.

“I’m a remarkable woman..always was, though none of you seemed to think so.”May Morris, English artist embroiderer, designer, feminist and socialist, dismayed by the lack of support for women artists founded the Women’s Guild of Arts, 1907 #womensart

Really looking forward to the new novel from @louisekennedy.bsky.social

🔔 TONIGHT 🔔 Exhibition Panel Discussion | Walls of Containment 📅 Friday 16 January 2026 ⏰ 7:30pm 📍 Presentation Arts Centre 🎟️ Free – booking required at wexfordartscentre.ie Get the book: Walls of Containment by Patrick Quinlan with photography by David Killeen at ucdpress.ie/page/detail/...

Brilliant @mcculld.bsky.social show on history of Irish radio on @rteradio1.bsky.social

It is an honour to have the brilliant activist, campaigner and academic Ailbhe Smyth launch my book on Thursday 5 February at 7pm in the Irish Film Institute #booklaunch

When you go to the NLI to check some references to finish a chapter for an edited collection and you discover one such reference is your father’s article …

🗃️ "Tenement Talk Preparing for the Immigration Journey": @irpinaingiro.bsky.social & @kevinkenny.bsky.social in conversation about "Rituals of Migration" @nyupress.bsky.social Jan 28, 6:30pm at the Tenement Museum, 103 Orchard Street NYC, also on YouTube Live: ⬇️⬇️⬇️ www.tenement.org/events/tenem...

Sean O Riada , Sean O Se , Niall Tobin , Eamon De Valera and Ruth O Riada. Sean O Se passed away earlier today.

When your dog 🦊is unwell …😱😱 Waiting to see the vet

Born #OnThisDay 1893 in #Dublin Leslie Price De Barra, Director of Cumann na mBan & later Chairperson & President of @irishredcross 'A Woman Of Great Perseverance' married to Tom Barry - www.glowred.org/100-voices/l...

Happy New Year(from 1912 Votes for women) @lse.library Joan of Arc "May the new year bring votes to women and may the old sex inequality be altogether swept away!" @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @womenslibrary.bsky.social @lsesu.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social

Approaching the centenary of the establishment of Fianna Fáil it might be interesting to try to understand the viewpoints of those who ultimately were left behind as the fourth Sinn Féin party calcified after 1926.

Tributes paid to John O'Shea, co-founder of Cork's Everyman Theatre www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...

My New Year’s resolutions: finish my biography of Sighle Humphreys and continue to give my dog 🦊 the best life possible.

Wondering why all the humans are dancing to Cher on the @johncreedon.bsky.social show 😳😂

Brilliant @johncreedon.bsky.social Christmas Day Show from start to end 🙏

Let Christmas begin

Here I am on the radio! Talking to @mylesdungan.bsky.social about “From Crown to Harp” on the History Show… www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Died #Onthisday 1958 Dorothy McCardle, writer & republican and as she says herself 'a propagandist, unrepentant and unashamed’ historyireland.com/dorothy-maca...

🎄A Mary MacSwiney double-page spread in the Holly Bough! How wonderful to see this feature on a book written by a Cork author (@lloislanel.bsky.social) about an important figure in not only local Cork history but also revolutionary Irish history.

I arrived into the BL 3 days after the cyber attack to see some precious material I'd ordered weeks in advance & cried all over the librarian who offered tea & sympathy & later emailed me photos they had taken on their own phone of any of 'my' material they manually retrieved. Support the strike!

TBT this day 2019 ❤️

In writing about the life of this remarkable but overlooked Corkwoman, historian Leeann Lane has performed a great service. A meticulously researched & engrossing portrait of the Republican activist, suffragette and educational pioneer @lloislanel.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

Our gender studies books include an array of biographies, letters & diaries, feminist perspectives, histories of social movements, inspiring speeches and more. ⭐️ This is only a small selection of books in our catalogue now available for 20% off through 25 December. Shop the sale at www.ucdpress.ie

#Onthisday 1913 the Cork Corps of the Volunteers was born. The RIC Co Insp reported that on 29 Dec, 150 Vols were drilled by ‘an ex Military Sergeant ... this movement does not appear to have any public opinion behind it and will ... die out again so far as Cork is concerned.’

The Long Valley Wintrop Street Cork

Can Christmas please be over right now.

Yvette lives around the corner from me; we regularly say hello as we walk our dogs. That she cannot access help without giving up her beloved dogs is … no words!

Patrick Street and French Church Street Cork earlier today.

Cork City in the 1960's

Ryan's Buildings Cork.

My father is in CUH with a stroke. Cannot say enough good things about every single person we have engaged with in the hospital. The empathy, the agency given to elderly patients, the kind voice and tone from staff to patient. I couldn’t do it. I am in awe and so very thankful.

Cork ❤️

Cork ❤️