Serendipitous to be sitting in the final panel of the Future of Irish Studies conference and get the email that my first article has been published - open access - in Women’s History Review. 😍 @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social @ndirishstudies.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Just no @dublincitycouncil.bsky.social This is horrendous. There are so many great tours with deeply knowledgeable human tour guides. Why would you do this?

Texas cops tried to find an abortion patient by using data from an automatic license plate reader (ALPR), which gave them access to over 83,000 cameras across the country. The dystopian future feminists have been warning about is already here. www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

www.ria.ie/2025/05/22/2... The WHAI is delighted to see that Prof. Maria Luddy has been elected as an Honorary member of the RIA. Prof Luddy's contribution to women's history in Ireland has been significant. And this is an acknowledgment of that contribution to historical debate.

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book... This is an intense, revealing, well-researched and often compelling biography. Lane … has made a profound contribution to our understanding of the republican women of that generation and their intimate and public lives. @ucdpress.bsky.social

Listen to @drdeefoley.bsky.social on the RDS podcast talking about her research on Irish women's craft work: therds.podbean.com/e/episode-7-...

Recently published by @drdeefoley.bsky.social: how did the housewives of rural Ireland make money? www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Amazing opportunity and ACE @drdeefoley.bsky.social as cosupervisor!

Amazing history PhD opportunity at Trinity College Dublin to work on women’s experiences of maternity care in Dublin, 1950-2020. Dream supervisory team of @drdeefoley.bsky.social and @earner.bsky.social. 🤩Closing date 23 May. #histmed

Funded PhD working with @drdeefoley.bsky.social on experiences of pregnancy and giving birth in Ireland 1950-2020. Begins September 2025; apply now! 🗃️ www.tcd.ie/history/asse...

PhD opportunity at TCD under the supervision of Dr Deirdre Foley and Dr Lindsey Earner Byrne.

I am beyond delighted to share that my first book Rediscovering Women in Early Irish Television 1957-73 is officially under contract with @livunipress.bsky.social and will be part of the brilliant Reappraisals in Irish History Series. I am so excited to be able to get this work out in the world.

A week after the TCD modern Irish history symposium, I'll be in London for this gathering on British History. Featuring a panel on Irish environmental history, with me, @erikahanna.bsky.social and @momoulton.bsky.social. Very much looking forward to it - not least because Julia Laite is the keynote.

Looking forward to seeing you (and your paper), Kevin! Very excited about this. Thanks @drdeefoley.bsky.social and @earner.bsky.social for putting such a great programme together.

Really looking forward to speaking at this at the end of the month.

Booking now for this symposium on 25 April, featuring @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social @mwait13.bsky.social @tortietabby.bsky.social @brian-hanley.bsky.social and others working on Ireland in the 1970s beyond. Hoping for some interesting discussion! @iaphistorians.bsky.social @whaireland.bsky.social

To mark international Single Parents Day, One Family together with Trinity College Dublin and Glasgow Caledonian University launches new campaign highlighting the history, experiences and misconceptions facing one-parent families @onefamilyireland.bsky.social @mediacoops.bsky.social #singleparentday

Upcoming symposium, 25th April, on Contemporary Irish History. www.eventbrite.ie/e/new-direct...

How did fascist movements in 1930s Britain appeal to women and even former suffragettes? Martin Durham, in a rediscovered talk given to History Workshop in 1983, and Daniel Jones (@narson.bsky.social) on the continued resonance of these insights in today's world. www.historyworkshop....

Poster advertising the conference on welfare organized by the New York Wages for Housework Committee on April 24th,1976. Silvia Federici Papers, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Brown University.

Thinking of Ann Lovett today, ##otd 1984, 15yrs old & pregnant, she went to the grotto in Granard where she gave birth to a still born baby boy, she was found sometime later but died shortly after of hypothermia & blood loss. Her story shocked the country #speirgorm www.thejournal.ie/readme/ann-l...

Happy publication week! Delighted (& slightly terrified) my first book is out in the wild for everyone to read 😂 Had so much fun going down the rabbit hole researching these families and hope that’s evident on the page #histfam

A longer version of Laura's article is available to read Open Access in the latest issue of History Workshop Journal 🗃️

🙌Funded PhD Opportunity!🙌 Please do share widely. The DCU School of History and Geography is currently advertising paid PhD opportunities esp in Medieval Ireland, the history of Irish towns and cities, legal history and women’s and gender history www.dcu.ie/historygeogr...

I am really excited to announce now it is official that I will be publishing my first monograph with MUP, ‘Women’s welfare activism: Everyday power and politics in twentieth-century Britain’. Thank you to the many many people who have encouraged me along the way. I really appreciate all the support.

One of the most single-minded anti-Treaty women refusing to compromise on her allegiance to the 2nd Dáil, leading deValera to describe her as ‘incorrigible’. This biography seeks out a deeper understanding of a richly complex woman, too often written off as a virago Out Feb 25

Megan McCauley looks at Co. Donegal hiring fairs & their criticism in the press museumofchildhood.ie/a-sadder-sig... #MuseumOfChildhoodIreland #MúsaemÓigeNahÉireann #Donegal #Children #history #labour Photo:’Fair Day,Glenties,Co.Donegal L ROY 09764,The Lawrence Collection @nlireland.bsky.social

Dublin Rape Crisis Centre discuss impact of McGregor trial: 20% increase in calls to Helpline 50% increase in 1st time callers Many expressing distress & anxiety around details of the case...& increases in negative victim-blaming attitudes. #ConorMcGregor #NikitaHand www.drcc.ie/news-resourc...

Nikita Hand is a hero

Calls to the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre increased significantly during the case against Conor McGregor which attracted widespread media attention

Exhibiting Irishness out with @ManchesterUP manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526157263

✨Little reminder that Aontu exists because Peadar Tóibín resigned from Sinn Fein because of its support for Repeal. They want to seriously curtail women’s access to abortion, and would overturn repeal if they could.✨

Happy leaders debate day to all who celebrate

New Irish users: if your following list is still looking a bit bare, @annapr.bsky.social’s three Starter Packs will get your timeline nice and busy. Go to her profile and click the ‘starter packs’ tab

Starter pack for Queer & Trans History (modern & contemporary)! This is a very incomplete work in progress - suggested additions welcome :) go.bsky.app/DF3FYCh

Congratulations to @drdeefoley.bsky.social who has published a chapter on women's work, maternity leave and childcare in Ireland, 1969-81 in this book: www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2024/t...

The next Irish Historical Society meeting will be next Tuesday, 19th November, at 7pm, in Boston College, 43 St Stephen's Green Dublin. Dr Kevin O'Sullivan 'Green futures: Climate, capitalism and the global history of Ireland at the end of the twentieth century'.

We’re putting together an Irish Women’s and Gender History starter pack. It’s very much a work in progress as we figure out who is here! go.bsky.app/Bk1ULub

I haven’t been on here very much but if anyone is around Trinity tomorrow then so am I.

Thanks to all our new follower here on Blue Sky. This is the link to our website where you will find resources and updates on what is happening with our association. We hope to have details on our annual conference for 2025 posted to the site in early December.