I’m starting the week of 19 May with a paper to War Studies @ucddublin.bsky.social and finishing it on 24th with a paper to the @whaireland.bsky.social 2025 conference in Carlow College! Looking forward also to co-hosting papers by @caitbeaumont.bsky.social and Eilis ni Dhuibne in between!

Excited about a busy week 'doing history' in Dublin/Carlow later this month. On 22 May I am speaking about AHRC Funded #WomensGrassrootsActivism project at @ucddublin.bsky.social, thanks @fionnualawalsh.bsky.social for the invite. This open to all & full details are below. @whaireland.bsky.social

Excellent letter in the Irish Times reminding us that Irish builders did not build the White House as indicated by the Taoiseach this week. It was build by slaves including those owned by the Irish architect James Hoban.

My books finally arrived! Very grateful to the team at @cambridgeup.bsky.social for the superb production and supporting the project. Thinking today of the late David Fitzpatrick who began this project and to whom it is dedicated, and also of my mother who would have loved to see it in print.

I’m very much looking forward to receiving my copy of this though It think bittersweet is a very apt word for the emotions arising from it’s publication. Great to see it is out in the world, I’m very grateful to Ciarán and the other contributors for sticking with it over the years.

Fionnuala Walsh, UCD School of History, examines the contribution of NUI women to the war effort in her chapter contained in the Roll of Honour. Available in all good bookshops and online from www.fourscourtspress.ie.

Our recently published 'Roll of Honour' features the Honour Rolls of both NUI and RCSI. Read all about Emily Anderson, in a chapter by @fionnualawalsh.bsky.social, who worked in University College Galway, and in the Foreign Office as a codebreaker and was awarded an OBE for her service during WWII.

I listened to this interview while on my commute this morning and found it v moving. So much resonated with my experience of losing my mother to cancer in August. Tom’s comment re his Grandad eating ready meals now reminded me so much too of the stuff my little nephews and nieces have said since.

It was a busy week in work with teaching, planning a workshop, applying for funding, presenting to programme board, recording a podcast, giving a history society talk, PhD advising, writing a peer review report, and many many meetings but I think my greatest success was finishing the jigsaw!

I really enjoyed giving this paper and the excellent questions afterwards were very helpful for my research! Thanks so much to @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social for the invite and to Galway history department.

Beautiful. Davis's coda:

Just finished reading Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting. Much darker than I expected! Definitely one that will take a while to mull over.

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The Women’s History Association of Ireland is now on Bluesky! 🗃️ @whaireland.bsky.social

Welcome to @whaireland.bsky.social - great for the women’s history association of Ireland to have a presence here now! More and more people joining us from the site formerly known as Twitter

After a busy first three weeks of the teaching semester in UCD, it’s nice to be London bound for a history conference at Kings College. And especially good to have some enjoyable reading for the journey!

Looking for some interesting listening? Judy Bolger has a two-part podcast on the history of breastfeeding, in connection with modern pumping in the workplace (with special reference to academia). buff.ly/3OKAHld

Decided to check this place out before the other one collapses entirely…any other twitterstorians about?