The pillar of the Wallace Sisters home on the Old Youghal Road Cork . Nora Wallace had the house named after her sister Sheila when she died she insisted on the name being in Irish

Patrick's Bridge c1920 #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike B&W📸#Cork Public Museum www.irishfamilydetective.ie/colourisation

Do share! The Catholic Historical Society of Ireland’s annual conference is on Daniel O’Connell and his Legacies - 22 Nov in @dculibrary.bsky.social - all welcome! (Small fee on the day) @nmireland.bsky.social @nlireland.bsky.social @jdmccafferty.bsky.social www.eventbrite.ie/e/oconnell-a...

Dr. Leeann Lane's thought-provoking exhibtion Cork Afterlives is now on display in O'Reilly library. Don't miss the untold stories of Cork’s revolutionary women who stayed single, and were sidelined, in the Irish Free State. @lloislanel.bsky.social @dublincityuni.bsky.social

Looking forward to this.

Honouring Dr John Creedon, a true voice of Ireland It was our great honour to award an Honorary Doctorate of Arts to broadcaster and writer John Creedon during our autumn conferring ceremonies. Read: www.ucc.ie/en/news/2025...

Jane (Jenny) Dowdall first female Lord Mayor of Cork 1959 to 1960. She was a Fianna Fail Senator from 1951 to 1961. She died December 1974.

Check our this piece on the representation of the Irish revolution in the French press - coauthored with @siobhraaiken.bsky.social and Mark O’Rawe ! @cecille-ulille.bsky.social @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social @meshs.bsky.social @labnf.bsky.social @ccirlandais.bsky.social

Thanks to everyone who made the @efacis.bsky.social Roundtable for our forthcoming special issue on "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" such an engaging and rewarding discussion! For those who missed it, the full roundtable can be watched on EFACIS's YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2rN...

ALL WELCOME to a special event in celebration of Bloody Summer: A New History of the 1798 Rebellion by James Quinn 🗓️ Thursday, 13 November, 6pm The National 1798 Rebellion Centre, Parnell Road, Mill Park Rd, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford Y21 PY03 Guest Speaker: Kevin Whelan RSVP [email protected]

When you make it into Cork’s annual Christmas Holly Bough - when you know you know. Thank you so much to Linda Kenny. @ucdpress.bsky.social

#Onthisday 1921 Linda Kearns, Eithne Coyle, Mae Burke (pictured at Ducket’s Grove #Carlow) & Aileen Keogh escape from Mountjoy Prison having been incarcerated during the Irish War of Independence issuu.com/ballymoteher... B&W📸UCD

#Onthisday 1618 Sir Walter Raleigh, a former Mayor of #Youghal #Cork was beheaded outside the Palace of Westminster - this was his home which still stands: Myrtle Grove, Youghal www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-lon...

Death announced of Mary ‘May’ McGee who won historic Supreme Court contraception case

The day is always better when @johncreedon.bsky.social plays Van Morrison - and especially when he plays “Rave on John Donne”!

Karl Blau in the mix tonight rte.ie/johncreedon.

Irish playwright, author and politician, Terence MacSwiney, died #OTD 1920 after 74 days on hungerstrike. Huge crowds lined the streets of London for the funeral procession.

A wonderful day of book signing all over Dublin city with the fabulous author of Mary MacSwiney @lloislanel.bsky.social @schoolhumandev.bsky.social Get your signed copy in 🖊📕👏 @gutterbookshop.bsky.social @dubraybooks.bsky.social @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social @booksupstairs.bsky.social

Cuimhní le Catherine Connolly ar Ghaillimh a hóige. Tógtha as eagrán speisialta de Comhar sa bhliain 2020.

Lovely time signing books in Dublin bookshops with the wonderful @ucdpress.bsky.social team, Noelle Moran and Cait O’Neill

🎉 Today marks the birthday of Irish writer and political activist Rosamond Jacob. In her biography of Jacob, published by UCD Press, Dr Leeann Lane (@lloislanel.bsky.social) considers the legacy of this fringe figure. Get a copy of Rosamond Jacob: Third Person Singular at www.ucdpress.ie

🚨TODAY!🚨 "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" Online Roundtable Monday 13 October @6pm Irish Time Details: www.efacis.eu/content/efac... Registration Link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... All Welcome!

Died #Onthisday 1969 Louise Gavan Duffy, educator, suffragist & nationalist who founded Scoil Bhríde, Ireland’s first Gaelscoil for girls. She was at the GPO during the #EasterRising & recalls that time in this interview from @RTEArchives rte.ie/archives/201...

Delighted to host Dr Leeann Lane's fantastic exhibition on the afterlives of Cork republican women in Cregan Library until the 30th of this month! It'll be travelling to the O'Reilly Library for display from the 1st of November. @dublincityuni.bsky.social

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.

A small fire at the front of the bookshop was started last night after rubbish bags that were awaiting collection were set on fire. The guards don’t have reason at this time to believe it was a targeted attack. Thankfully the damage was limited and everyone is safe. We are open for business as usual

Died #Onthisday 1957 the fascinating Helen Laird, actress, costumier, teacher, & suffragist. With Maud Gonne she helped form the Ladies’ School Dinners Committee feeding children from #Dublin's poorest schools & She worked with the Save the Children Fund for thirty years

Beautiful Neil Young track to end another wonderful @johncreedon.bsky.social show.

Brid Duggan sister of Peg , Annie and Sarah. Brid was a national school teacher near her home in Blackpool Cork. Unlike her three sisters she was a staunch supporter of De Valera she had a photo of him displayed prominently at her home on Cathedral Street.

Back in 2021 after some searching found the grave of May and Lil Conlon at Kilcrea Friary Cork. Lil's book "Cumann na mBan and the women of Ireland " is well worth reading. Great information on the War of Independence in the Cork area.

A mural of Terence MacSwiney on Liberty Street Cork it is in connection with Mairead Lucy who typed the draft of Principles of Freedom.

#OTD in 1922 dark days in the Irish Civil War. The Dail passed a resolution giving the Army powers to execute prisoners after a summary miltiary trial. (Pic is of cabinet members at M.Collins funeral) www.theirishstory.com/2013/09/27/t...

Really excited to share this front cover draft of my latest book (co-written with Alan Tate) due out in November on Lemon's Pure Sweets. Lemon's used to have a slogan, "You cannot eat a better sweet". This Christmas you cannot get a more beautiful book, full of wonderful images.

Dylan’s Desolation Row from start to finish on the @johncreedon.bsky.social show. How amazing. Reminds me of a night long ago in Gorbys, Cork when the DJ played Hurricane from start to finish which was joyous and I still remember.

Ooo (Out Oct 16) #OnceAYear #bookpost #finishedcopies #booksky #Irish #books 📚 💙

It's official - 'Finding Mary: The Untold Story of an Inishowen Murder' is out. I hope I've done justice to Mary Doherty's short life, ended violently when she was just 14. Available now at www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2025/f... #irishhistory #nineteenthcentury #donegal #womenshistory #inishowen

Yesterday's #WhereinCork was the former Victoria Hotel Patrick Street #Cork #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike

“Back in Leinster House, the talk returned to Hermès bags. Did you know that you can’t just buy one? And that there are quota and non-quota bags and starter bags and list systems and even then you might have to take whatever bag which could cost tens of thousands is offered. Not very democratic.”

Sarah Langford one of the Duggan sisters from Blackpool Cork a seamstress by trade worked from home had to endure numerous raids on the house by the Black and Tans a friend of Michael Collins she supported the treaty. She went through great difficulties to get a pension for her service.

Left to right Lil Conlon, Sarah Duggan, Kate Breen from Kerry is standing ( not properly visible) and May Conlon all republican. All except Kate Breen supported the treaty. Kate eventually became a Fianna Fail councillor. The Conlons lived in Shanakiel Cork.

Best part of the day: @johncreedon.bsky.social playing Van Morrison! 🙏

Nora Giles O Daly Nationalist member of Cumann na mBan. The Black and Tans described her as a very dangerous woman she took the pro treaty side in the Civil War. She became secretary of the Dail Courts . She died. May 1943 aged 59.

Bodenstown June 1963

Peg Duggan from Thomas Davis Street Cork had a flower shop with her sister by Parliament Bridge they were members of Cumann na mBan. Peg's shop was a hot bed of activity during the war of Independence. She supported the treaty. There was a Peg Duggan branch of Fine Gael.

Digitization alert! We recently digitized materials by and about Irish patriot and suffragist Maud Gonne. The materials include correspondence, photo, articles, Women's Prisoners' Defence League records, and more. Check them out: https://findingaids.bc.edu/repositories/2/resources/254/digitized

It’s here! We’re elated to share that WTF Happened: #WakingTheFeminists and the Movement That Changed Irish Theatre by Sarah Durcan with Lian Bell has arrived in the world. Learn about the story behind this groundbreaking feminist movement. 🔗 Order at bit.ly/WTF-Happened or bookstores nationwide

#MSPC Realising you can't write a good reference to support someone's military pension claim....