Yesterday, the Royal Irish Academy officially launched the Waterford’s Transported Convict Women online exhibition, a powerful new resource exploring the lives of women transported from Waterford to Tasmania between 1788 and 1853. Read more about the launch: www.ria.ie/2026/06/03/t...

Lovely to see my book has received an honourable mention for the Lawrence J. McCaffrey Prize, an @acirishstudies.bsky.social award for the best monographs on Irish America. Congrats to @irishacw.bsky.social on a well-deserved win for his work on Irish-American soldiers. acisweb.org/2025/05/2024...

Managed to get through a gigantic pre-election motorcade in Antigua and reach Shirley Heights for sunset. Montserrat coming into view in the second photo.

Install this morning of an exciting new exhibition on the Irish in England, curated by Chris Kissane and based on research by Neil Cummins and Cormac Ó Gráda. Open now at EPIC until the end of June: epicchq.com/event/no-iri...

The Keough-Naughton Institute, Notre Dame Global, and Miranda House at the University of Delhi brought together an international group of scholars last week for a conference, “India and Ireland: Shared Histories and Interconnected Pasts.” 👉 Read a recap here: irishstudies.nd.edu/news/india-a...

Sad to be leaving Delhi after an amazing week at Miranda House. It was lovely to speak with students and to meet lots of people doing interesting research on Indo-Irish connections. Thanks to @ndirishstudies.bsky.social and Notre Dame Mumbai for bringing us together.

I was honoured to speak at EPIC last night on the Michael Davitt Papers Project as part of their seminar ‘Michael Davitt’s Global Paths.’ I’m grateful to @catherine-healy.bsky.social for reaching out to me and creating the opportunity to be part of such a thoughtful and engaging seminar.

Looking forward to this seminar on Michael Davitt with @dalykeeks.bsky.social at EPIC next Wednesday. Free and open to all! Register here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/rebel-with... (Land League-style poster by the brilliant Niamh McArdle.)

‘The Epstein files reveal a patriarchy in action. This is a world where the men are rich and powerful, and the women are not’. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Céad míle fáilte to the Derry Girls. This image appears in the Melbourne Advocate in July 1911 and relates to some 34 shirt workers who went to Melbourne to help set up the Welch Margetson Factory there. The workforce in Derry was unmatched and world leading in skill and quality.

This documentary was so much fun to make. It’s compiled from audio we gathered across a couple of years and follows two amazing women - Meg and Dympna - all the way to Jamaica, in search of Meg’s ancestor: an Irish Catholic enslaver and coffee planter, Peter Daly www.rte.ie/radio/docono...

Give @catherine-healy.bsky.social a follow and check out her new book while you're at it: Irish Domestic Servants in Transatlantic Culture, c. 1870-1945 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

On the show today: @adrianweckler.bsky.social says travel to the US; Are electric cars too quiet?; Displays of anger; @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social on dangerous firewood; @mrssmartmoney.com on financial illiteracy; @drjoannafortune.bsky.social with parenting; @catherine-healy.bsky.social on rebel women