📣CALL FOR QUOTATIONS 📣 @fingal.ie invites quotations for provision of services in relation to the Fingal Food Oral Heritage Project 2026. ⏳ Closing date: 29th April 2026, 12:00. oralhistorynetworkireland.ie/noticeboard-... #OralHistory #NationalFolkloreCollection #Dublin #Fingal @fingal.ie

Our @glasnevincemetery.bsky.social @historytcd.bsky.social Spring Lecture Series is live. Theme is 'Work and working in 19th & 20th century #Dublin' - please RT. Speakers @antoniahart.bsky.social @dublincity.bsky.social @drdeefoley.bsky.social & Conor Dodd formerly Glasnevin.

Amárach! Fáilte roimh chách!

An online lecture series promoting the principles of diversity & inclusion across archival collections and the wider record-keeping community will kick off on Oct 22nd at 1pm. 1st talk will be about Preserving Records in support of Truth Recovery in Northern Ireland @araukie.bsky.social (1 of 2)

In the last few months, bands including Hotline TNT and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have pulled music from Spotify in a new wave of artist-led protests against the platform. n.pr/4p9uwXX

It's very sad to have the news of Bríd McGrath's death. She was an indefatigable editor for @irishmanuscripts.bsky.social See our tribute to her here: www.irishmanuscripts.ie/brid-mcgrath/

We are delighted to announce that a full programme and registration for the 35th Irish Conference of Historian is now available. Maynooth University, 12-13 September. Please share widely. www.eventbrite.com/e/35th-irish...

Required by Congress, the reports no longer single out things like rigged elections or sexual violence against children as human rights violations.

Writing this piece about blackberries brought back memories, memories that many of us remember almost as a collective, but alongside the familiar are the less well-known worlds of the blackberry. See link below 👇🔻

My latest, from the Israel-Gaza border, where I listened in as tour groups came to view the ruins of Gaza: www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

Disturbing news. @araukie.bsky.social absolutely right in its call for better protection for police records. These are important historical documents. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Please fill out the form at celtichagiography.org if you are interested in joining or would like to keep updated.

Congratulations to Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, the new Laureate for Irish Fiction www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, the full documentary is now available on our Channel 4 Documentaries YouTube. youtu.be/iv3wpeJ6Oco?...

Interesting Read for a Quiet Sunday - It is critical to ensure public schools teach students how to think, not what to think. Indoctrination is the goal of authoritarians. That is UnAmerican. www.indexoncensorship.org/2024/12/acad...

America’s unions celebrate today’s anniversary of President FDR signing the Fair Labor Standards Act into law, which established the 40-hour workweek, child labor protections, minimum wage and more. These protections were won because workers organized and demanded better.

Bengt af Klintberg, folktale researcher, speaking at the ISCLR conference in Stockholm, Sweden. #ISCLR2025

🚨 Celtica is now available open-access! This is the result of painstaking work going on behind the scenes since 2022. Issues 33 to 36 (2021–24) are now online, and future issues will appear online & in print. We will also digitize the back issues of the journal. 🔗 journals.dias.ie/index.php/ce...

The Folklore and the Senses conference has come to an end 🥲 Thank you to everyone for making it so fantastic: the speakers, attendees, and in particular to Department of Folklore & Ethnology @ucc.ie for organising and keeping things running smoothly and hosting us at your beautiful campus!

Irish is no longer just the language of saints and scholars, but of queer poets and writers who are sharing their stories. Piece by Dr Seán Mac Risteaird @seanmacristeaird.bsky.social of @fsg-dcu.bsky.social for @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social. Read here: launch.dcu.ie/3SZePUv #RTEBrainstorm

Deadline is this Friday!

Fintan O’Toole: Official documents are quietly disappearing from departmental websites. Why?

Have just received hard copies of my book from Cambridge UP. It's about the ordinary people who funded the Irish Catholic church between the end of the Famine and independence. It takes in social, economic, religious, emotions history and much else besides...

‘R&D is a long-term source of prosperity, and an area of UK competitive advantage… but to maximise the impact on UK productivity, innovation policy needs to link more strongly with industrial strategy for a services based economy.’ Me in CityAM ahead of the SR www.cityam.com/dont-forget-...

Business group Ibec has warned that Ireland's current public investment model for research and innovation does not match the country’s ambition to become a European Innovation Leader

In an era of higher education cuts, especially in Languages and History, here is a rather touching death notice of the Welsh scholar Rhygyfarch of St David's. He composed a number of works including a Latin Life of St David (Quote from Brut y Twysogyon or ... 1/4 #wales #history

In the latest UCD Library #CulturalHeritage Collections blog post, written by Simon O’Leary, explore the work of the Hans Hartmann, including a recently digitised collection of audio tapes which Hartmann collected in the West of Ireland throughout the 1960's. (1/2) buff.ly/HGdzjRo

This is good news here, indeed. But the university sector is struggling through lack of funding, very poor staff/student ratios & road blocks preventing us from growing our staff. We're not quite at the crisis point like in the UK, but it wouldn't take much for us to tip over too.

Minister for the Arts Patrick O'Donovan has publicly backed the retention of the Basic Income for the Arts scheme today saying that its impact is 'far-ranging and affects all aspects of recipients' lives'

Irish summer is just Irish winter but with more daylight hours to stare at the rain

Our Celtic Students Conference 2025 is just around the corner! Go to linktr.ee/celticstudents to register and view our Conference Schedule. 🔗 We look forward to seeing you all online and in Aberystwyth! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

25 May 1661: Bishop Henry Jones of #Clogher translated to #Meath; like Calderon (who d. #otd in 1681) he wrote about the pilgrimage to Lough Derg.

Ukraine's pavilion, Vernacular Hardcore, organized around the concept of a Dakh (Ukrainian for roof), focuses on wartime reconstruction, as part of this year's biennale titled Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.

📢 Clear your calendars! 🗓 On June 16th I'm hosting a day of talks on the Irish manuscripts in St Gall! The stellar line-up includes special guests from the Stiftsbibliothek. Tickets are free! Reserve here 👉 stgallmanuscripts.eventbrite.ie @historytcd.bsky.social @researchireland.ie #medievalsky

The left is losing the working class vote, giving the populist right an opening to steal their historic claim to being for the many, not the few. It's time to re-invent or die. Find out more: ippr.org/articles/facing-the-future-progressives-changing-world

"warning to every other university" with students treated as nothing more than cards to be played or nails to be hammered.

A short film I did with the TNA Education team on the (so-called) Glorious Revolution. With lots of extra materials for teachers and history students. Based on the Declaration of Rights issued by the Westminster Parliament in Feb 1689 www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/st...

Investors are worried about the ongoing trade war — and rethinking the safety and soundness of U.S. government debt. By @mariaaspan.bsky.social

Breaking News: George Wendt, a six-time Emmy nominee for his role as the beer-chugging everyman Norm Peterson on “Cheers,” is dead at 76. nyti.ms/3ZuGwrN

What happened when priests and rabbis experienced magic mushrooms? Michael Pollan reports.

Happy to share a free PDF of my book “Brutalism as Found: Housing, Form and Crisis at Robin Hood Gardens” - thanks to the Open Access policy of its publisher @GoldsmithsPress pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles…

Easons bookshop, Dublin “It is illegal [in Ireland] to promote the sale or use of detection devices for the purposes of searching for archaeological objects” www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...

NPR has identified nearly 40 small, independent entities – both inside and outside the federal government's control – that a team of young DOGE staffers has tried to access in recent weeks.

I’m delighted to be one of the awardees, particularly because my project on exploring shared spatial histories of infertility is a collaboration with the wonderful Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, drawing on their expertise on sites and monuments #speirgorm @kellyfitzgerald.bsky.social

chatgpt is an extinction event for institutions because and to the extent that their entire societal function has become using graded assessment to limit access to social capital and employment prospects

Traveller and Roma students continue to face persistent and systemic barriers in higher education, according to a new report launched today by Marian Harkin TD, Minister of State for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

NEW: Trump Administration kills grant for PBS children’s shows www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...

On Northside Today from 11am Emma speaks to @bamcshane.bsky.social about women in the Catholic Church as the Papal Conclave prepares to convene tomorrow.