Historian Margaret Ward’s books Hanna Sheehy Skeffington and Fearless Woman highlight the fascinating life of a pivotal figure in feminist, labour and nationalist movements in Ireland. 🔗 Browse on www.ucdpress.ie

Today marks the 149th birthday of Irish activist and politician Hanna Sheehy Skeffington ⭐️ Hanna Sheehy Skeffington was the most significant feminist in twentieth-century Ireland. An advocate of feminism, socialism, and republicanism, her writings transcended national boundaries.

The idea of Vote Left, Transfer Left was pretty strongly adhered to in Dublin Central as the count went on. What happened was that the voters didn’t consider SF to be left. The SF candidates big transfer moments came from Steenson and Hutch.

If the vote in Dublin central is as predicted the constituency will have three left wing TDs - and Mary Lou McDonald.

Listening to the @johncreedon.bsky.social show en route home from voting - the best two hours of the day 🙏

#dogsatpollingstations #dublincentral

#Onthisday 1971 members of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement boarded the 8am train from #Dublin to #Belfast to buy contraceptives, legal under UK law & returned to Dublin highlighting the hypocrisy of Irish law More rte.ie/archives/201...

Thank you so much to Dr Jennifer Redmond @jenniferredmond.bsky.social for such a positive and thoughful review of Mary MacSwiney in @irishhiststudies.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/ihs.... So wonderful to see @ucdpress.bsky.social getting the recognition it absolutely deserves.

Motion 4 passed. Conference reaffirmed the importance of fair and open sabbatical policies for staff balancing teaching, research and administrative commitments. #IFUTADC2026 #HigherEducation

Conference has passed Motion 1 calling for fair and transparent promotions policies across Irish universities that properly recognise and reward staff contributions. #IFUTADC2026 #HigherEducation #WorkersRights

Lovely to attend @dculibrary.bsky.social History In Your Hands prize giving today. Some great research projects. This is a wonderful initiative to help second level students locate and evaluate primary sources and to write a research paper - well done to all involved. @hayleybrabazon.bsky.social

Sinn Féin 🤬🤬🤬🤬

Sinn Féin now rebranding as We Ourselves And Tough Luck The Rest Of Ye, presumably.

I guess “the lads on the tractors” who Mary Lou MacDonald alleged made women in her constituency feel “safer” will approve. Horrible. Sinn Fein is not a left wing party!

People who fought for Repeal would be stunned to see the approach Sinn Féin are taking to abortion reform and our legislation, the Reproductive Rights (Amendment) Bill. It's appalling to see a self-proclaimed progressive party turn heel on progressing women's healthcare.

‘The best part of independence: The independence of the mind’ ⭐️ Today marks the birthday of pioneering feminist and nationalist activist Anna Parnell, whose account of the land war was acutely sensitive to Irish political developments and challenged male authority.

On the establishment of FF and the potential of a united republican front in June ‘27 GE, Mary MacSwiney’s sense of despair was palpable: “I seem these days to be living again through the agony of the early months of 1922. You will remember how anxious everyone was then to bring about a Pact”.

@dubcitycouncil.bsky.social what of those of us in terraced houses who have no back entrances? Also, why not consult with residents and not just the waste companies about the need for compactors. This change should be rolled out with compactors in all areas. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...

Public exhibitions at UCC Library - FREE and OPEN TO ALL. Sonic Experiments - March to June Cork Afterlives - March to June Printed in Defiance - April to September

In 1921-22 Jenny Wyse Power sent a series of letters to Sighle Humphreys using code names for prominent republicans. De Valera was Biggar, Makievicz was O’Looney and Mary MacSwiney was Rasputin. Charming.

We’re delighted to announce our ‘Women in Revolution’ webinar Thursday 4 June 7:00-8:15 PM featuring @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @earner.bsky.social + Catriona Kennedy. Attendance is free. All are welcome For more info + to register 👀👇 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d2a073...

When you get confirmation that you have been allocated the bookings you requested in @ucdarchives.bsky.social 🙌 🙏 #sighlehumphreys

Someone needs to explain to Sinn Féin that one cannot ride two horses at the same time, playing up to "legitimate concerns" and expecting the public to understand what they are pretending is some sort of nuanced political take. There are two words for fascists, and two words only - no pasarán.

she used the EXACT same phrase about 'the lads' and women feeling safer, and dismissed the far-right issue saying 'everyone' could distinguish between them and the 'actual protestors'. So it's just up to us to distinguish between fascists and the fascist-adjacent when they take over public space 🤷‍♀️

Delighted that my exhibition “Cork Afterlives: Single Women and the New Irish State” is now on display in the Boole Library, UCC, my first Alma Mater @ucclibrary.bsky.social

Died #Onthisday 1953 Maud Gonne (pictured on far right of 1st image) revolutionary-feminist-activist. B&W📸& more NLI nli.ie/1916/exhibit...

I work on Abbey Street and no, funnily enough, groups of angry men did not make me feel safer.

McDonald should ask the Muslim Sisters of Éire how safe they felt with the 'lads' on O'Connell Street. Or does she not consider them her constituents? Interviewers ask the follow-up question challenge 🤷🏽‍♀️

Jesus Christ, this is fucking APPALLING. Sinn Fein have made their decision on the far right apparently, and it’s that they’re a great bunch of “lads”.

Mary Lou couldn't care less about how the "lads" treated the Muslim Sisters of Eire that week obviously. Directly threatening women doesn't fit into the convenient narrative she wants to create to win votes, so lets just forget about those women's experiences hey @sinn-fein.bsky.social

‘Remembering Revolution: The Easter Rising and its Impact in Public’ - on tomorrow, 25th April, 12-2pm, GPO museum - I’ll be taking about my research on gendered and sexual violence during the war of independence/civil war Tickets below #spéirghorm www.gpomuseum.ie/events/remem...

All my thanks to Orlane of Joy and Jargon @nearfm.ie for inviting me to talk about my work. Being an archivist is, in my case, an (almost) all-consuming mission. I'm convinced it's more than history, it's about doing justice, for people in the archives and people who need them.

Being in @ucdarchives.bsky.social is a serotonin boost. And I am back in again tomorrow 🙌

I think this is my favourite so far. Alice Knox in Blackrock, Co. Dublin who is very glad to be single. #1926census nationalarchives.ie/collections/...

My great-grandmother wrote 'Out of Work' for her adult daughter (aged 17) but census enumerator changed it to 'Home Duties'. Women can't be unemployed! #1926census

1926 Census: Sean McDermott Street Magdalene Laundry. 30 nuns and over 100 other women. Occupation entered as: Laundress. The incarceration of women in the early Free State. #SpeirGorm

Climate friendly travel for a lazy corgi 🦊

Very much open to correction but think I might've found Peig. #1926Cencus #TheStoryOfUs nationalarchives.ie/collections/...

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A massive thank you to a brilliant friend Cónal Creedon for today’s lunch time talk in Cork City Libraries Sincerest thanks to Tony Fitzgerald, deputising as Lord Mayor and all in Cork City Libraries & Cork City Council Míle Buíochas to all who came out

Dorothy Macardle and Rosamond Jacob shared a home as per the 1926 census. Macardle describes herself as a writer. The two would have many words over Jacob’s relationship with Frank Ryan who tended to call late at night. @ucdpress.bsky.social

Delighted to welcome keynote Dr Juliana Adelman, DCU to our #HSTM 2026 Annual Meeting. The keynote: Milk transformed by science & technology: the rise of infant formula manufacturing in 20th-century Ireland will be hosted @unioflimerick.bsky.social 24 April 5.30pm #HistMed #MedHums #Skystorians

Patrick's Bridge #Cork c.1900 #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike #FlashbackFriday📸Cork City Libraries

This is how Bruce Springsteen opened his concert in Los Angeles last night. 🔥🔥 Footage from @margaret_nagle on Threads.

The care workers who come in to my Dad twice a day are now struggling to get petrol. These protests by the far right are unconscionable.

This is wonderful @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social www.swirlandthread.com/write-smarte...

I know a first world problem but getting to ucd archives by public transport from the north side will be almost impossible today 😩

The General Strike against Militarism, Ireland April 1922: From April to June 1922, there frantic efforts to prevent civil war over the Treaty. One of the most interesting was a general strike against ‘militarism’. www.theirishstory.com/2021/08/07/t...

National monument, Grand Parade, Cork commissioned by Cork Young Ireland Society and unveiled 17 Mar, 1906. Commmorating, 1798, 1803, 1848, 1867. Only one woman’s name: Anne Devlin.