Preorder also available here - ( & the other @owenoshea.bsky.social in-print history titles are also available) thebookshop.ie/owen-o-shea-... #ciarraí #kerry

Táim ar bís le bheith ar ais i nDún Éideann don cheardlann seo - ag dúil go mór leis na páipéir uilig / Looking forward to what promises to be a great day of conversations on the Gaelic Atlantic !

Good news for the new academic year ! I’ve been promoted to Professor of Irish History @flcs-ulille.bsky.social and an event funded by the @meshs.bsky.social that I’m organising @labnf.bsky.social is coming soon ! www.bnf.fr/fr/agenda/la...

Tá mé ag súil go mór leis an dara cnuasach a roinnt libh san fhómhar! Buíochas mór le gach duine ag @barzazie.bsky.social agus @futafata.bsky.social as an tacaíocht. Ó Sholas Geimhridh 🌕 go Mainistir na Feola! 👼

Líon na mac léinn as an deisceart ag cur isteach ar Ollscoil na Banríona ag ardú bliain i ndiaidh bliana. Pointí don BA sa Ghaeilge: ABB (A-Leibhéal) nó H3 H3 H3 H3 H3 H3 nó H2 H3 H3 H3 H3 (Ardteist). @maitiuocoimin.bsky.social tuairisc.ie/idir-mheadu-...

me on @cmatbaby.bsky.social’s EURO-COUNTRY and why it gives voice to a distressingly normalised post-recession malaise. i hope you read!

Cláraigh linn!: www.antoireachtas.ie/oireachtas-n... @forasnagaeilge.bsky.social @cnagaeilge.bsky.social @deptrcdg.bsky.social @glornangael.bsky.social @raidiofailte.bsky.social @raidionalife.bsky.social @rternag.bsky.social @tuairisc.bsky.social @nosmag.bsky.social @anpaipear.bsky.social

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... @muahi.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @benjamin-casey.bsky.social ‪

Grazie mille a Francesca Salvadori for this review of Spiritual Wounds in Studi Irlandesi. Chuffed to see it reach an Italian readership, especially as I'm currently working on a project on multilingual legacies of Ireland's revolution 😊

Ag súil go mór le páirt a ghlacadh sa cheardlann seo. Míle buíochas le @pomuirch.bsky.social as an togra a chur le chéile.

'Diasporic documents from the Gaelic Atlantic' - a one-day, in-person workshop at the University of Edinburgh on 5 September. Tuilleadh fiosrachaidh | More information 👇

Dáta don dialann: Siompóisiam ar an fhoréigean inscne agus Léann na Gaeilge ar Dé Máirt an 25 Samhain sa Chultúrlann, is é sin Lá Idirnáisiúnta um Dhíothú an Fhoréigin in aghaidh na mBan. Clár le teacht, beidh scoth na gcainteoirí linn ar an lá! Léaráidí leis an fhile Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha.

'Public History in an Age of Anxiety', QUB Centre for Public History Conference, 9-11 September. Register now and join us for a packed programme over three days. www.qub.ac.uk/research-cen...

New membership call for @yai.ie now open! Come and join our vibrant network of ECRIs working together for the benefit of society. Some of my YAI colleagues will hold an online info session on how to apply esp. for Scholars At Risk/Scholars from a Displaced background, 1–2pm, Friday 1st August.

Event on 30 September at the BnF in Paris with @siobhraaiken.bsky.social, @danielfoliard.bsky.social and many others. We’ll discuss the French representation of the Irish revolution. Looking forward to it ! www.bnf.fr/fr/agenda/la...

Very grateful to see brilliant scholars whose work I read and re-read coming together at this horrific time.

Taner Akçam, Marianne Hirsch, and I introduce the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network and call for immediate concrete measures to prevent further atrocity crimes and to protect civilians in Gaza.

The final resting place of Eoghan Ó Tuairisc & Una Watters in Creagh Cemetary, Ballinasloe, County Galway. @ronanhession.bsky.social @siobhraaiken.bsky.social

Achoimre trí fhocal ar pholasaí an Aontais Eorpaigh i leith Gaza. Handy three word summary of EU Gaza policy.

I’m delighted to read a review of Rebel Women in Fortnight. Many thanks to @hayleybrabazon.bsky.social for her thoughtful and perceptive comments.

Thank you so very much to @marg50.bsky.social for such a detailed and positive review of Mary MacSwiney @ucdpress.bsky.social Praise from such a wonderful and rigorous historian as Margaret is unparalleled.

Not to be missed! Terrific RTE doc this eve with the very brave Natasha O’Brien

Fantastic symposium yesterday @ Boston College Dublin ! Brilliant papers and great discussions! A million thanks to Pauline, Virginie, @lloislanel.bsky.social, Kathryn, @siobhraaiken.bsky.social, Diane and the wonderful staff at BC !

Join the EFACIS PhD Representatives for an online writing session and/or casual lunch break this Friday (6 June) at 10 am CET. All PhD students in Irish Studies are very welcome to join via us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... More information at fb.me/e/jgOA7tywl

Check this out !

Today at 4pm

The most immediate way to revitalise the Irish language and stem the flow of young people from rural Ireland would be to ban Airbnb.

‘Our future is gone’: Refugee camps in West Bank face unprecedented destruction My report from Jenin for @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

Today, small children in Gaza are dying of starvation. Just a mile away, hundreds of trucks sit full of food. The IDF blocking them entering. This is the face of the Israeli regime - evil beyond comprehension.

WHO’s emergencies director, Mike Ryan, sounds the alarm on Israel’s ongoing genocide operation in Gaza. Netanyahu has turned the strip into an open air concentration camp and is deliberately starving civilians.

NOW OPEN FOR REGISTRATION: TONGUES: Medical Humanities across Linguistic and Cultural Frontiers. The Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research 2025 Congress | 21-23 May 2025 | Lancaster University, Hosted Online. For details, programme, and registration, click here: tinyurl.com/5n75xpaz

I have a very personal essay in today’s Irish Times about the grandfather I never met, the historian KH Connell www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

RESEARCH WORKSHOP with Dr Siobhra Aiken: 'Migrant Community Language Enclaves: The Case of the ‘Gaeltacht’ of Springfield, Massachusetts' Wed 12 March Fellows’ Room, Mitchell Institute,18 University Sq 13:00 - 14:30 www.qub.ac.uk/Research/GRI...

@siobhraaiken.bsky.social wrote this masterpiece

Bualadh bos don chéad rún eile sula gcaitear vóta fiú. "Ba cheart go mbeadh sé riachtanach Oifigeach Gaeilge Mac Léinn Lán-Aimseartha a bheidh i ngach ollscoil in Éirinn". #afcnag #afcnag25

Today in the @irishtimes.com our exec member @deirdreflynn.bsky.social speaks about the challenges facing academia & what the YAI can do. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

All set for our workshop and lecture tomorrow on photography, revolution and reception. Some tickets still available for our keynote from Professor @caitbeaumont.bsky.social. Fáilte roimh chách/ all welcome! @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social @qubhistory.bsky.social

Happy to be in Belfast @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social for our workshop tomorrow on Why photography matters. Thanks @siobhraaiken.bsky.social and Mark! And so looking forward to the lecture from @caitbeaumont.bsky.social on family photos, contested memories and re-imagining past lives.

Very enjoyable evening at Connolly House this evening, talking about Rebel Women from West Belfast, in exact place they lived & worked. Engaged audience & lots of questions. Many thanks to @siobhraaiken.bsky.social for taking part and @btpbooks.bsky.social for supplying the books.

All set to speak at QUB on family history, photos, navigating memories & how #familyhistory challenges national memory making. Grateful to @clairedubois.bsky.social @siobhraaiken.bsky.social for invite. #Afterlives @ucddublin.bsky.social @whaireland.bsky.social. 🎟️ 👇 www.eventbrite.ie/e/a-photogra...

Two events this week not to be missed: Margaret Ward today in Áras Uí Chonghaile and Caitríona Beaumont on Friday in Queen's (register here: eventbrite.ie/e/a-photogra...)

Still some places available for this lecture by Caitríona Beaumont on Friday 14th February at 3pm! @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social @qubhistory.bsky.social

Still some places available for this lecture by Caitríona Beaumont on Friday 14th February at 3pm! @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social @qubhistory.bsky.social