Things are about to get real! (𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 2026) I just wanted to update a few people (the acknowledgment section is over three pages long) who I have met during the past four years This was done ONLY thanks to your help, support, and friendship

If you missed Dom Bryan's talk this week on 'Authenticity, history and everyday nationalism: comparing Irish pubs to McDonald’s restaurants', it's now online at www.youtube.com/watch?v=50e-... More QUB Irish Studies events at www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris... @domsball.bsky.social

Just a few words and pictures from the 7th International Postgraduate Conference in Irish Studies, Prague @charlesuni.cuni.cz this was my second time and I once more STRONGLY suggest every PhD in #IrishStudies to take part in this event

We are happy to present the conference which will take place in Naples, 6 and 7 March 2026, on "Violence and Empire" Here is attached the CFP including a list of themes we are interested into Deadline for proposals November 16, authors will be notified by January 9

Here (www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....) you can find my latest review on "Conflict, diaspora, and empire: Irish nationalism in Britain, 1912–1922" by Darragh Gannon

Starting the third (and final) day of this workshop with Fulvia Dellavedova: Neoconservative Catholicism in the United States. The Neocon Theory of Just War for a New International Order (1991-2003). Discussant @mariodelpero.bsky.social @sciencespo.bsky.social Chair Airton Ribeiro da Silva

Second day of the Scuola Superiore Meridionale PhD Workshop. Starting with Pavel Demchenko: "Merchants, privileges, customs: the disputed integration of the Ostsee provinces in the Russian Empire during the eighteenth century". Discussant Alexey Kraykovskiy (University of Genova) Chair Ettore Costa

PhD Workshop 2024/25 of the Scuola Superiore Meridionale in Naples, Italy 4 years of PhD students presenting their research with a Q&A and debate with supervisors and external guests

We have come to the end of the @efacis.bsky.social conference in Turku. Lovely city and amazing event, it's always great to see and know scholars from all the continent (and beyond) meeting to discuss about their research. Can't wait for the next one happening in Łódź (Poland) See all of you soon!

"Attending to Ireland" and here we are! Great inaugural day here in Turku for the first day of the 2025 @efacis.bsky.social conference! I had the opportunity to present my paper on the Home Rule crisis and British Press focusing on early paramilitarism (it could become an article, let's see!)

Flying to Helsinki and then taking a train to Turku for the 2025 @efacis.bsky.social conference! I'll see you in a couple of days, can't wait to meet old friends and colleagues and present my paper at the most important Irish conference in Europe (but no spoiler now)

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

From 21 February @royalhistsoc.bsky.social will be closing and archiving its X account. From this date all updates from the Society - and its promotion of work by fellow organisations for #history and the humanities - will be via BlueSky. Please encourage colleagues to join us here #skystorians

#CfP We are delighted to announce the two-day conference ‘Navigating War and Violence in 20th Century Ireland’ under the auspices of DCU's School of History and Geography! It will take place on 4–5 April 2025 at St. Patrick’s Campus, DCU. Call for Papers is open - see below for details.

What a group! Padua meets Vienna/Prague: New perspectives on gun history, EU-GUNS meets LINKING ARMS. Today's papers will discuss the moving of arms, their political and social role from a large temporary and geografical perspective!

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” [George Orwell, 1984] They call it "democratic debate" but it is just some facades to work on a restructure of the past, its memory, and its educational role.

This is both an incredibly niche thing but I think it should be more of a thing. Caffè Nero subscribes to the British Newspaper Archive so it’s all free on their wifi. There. I said it.

Beginning this 2025 by working on a new review for the Irish Studies Review! They kindly sent me Darragh Gannon's "Conflict, Diaspora, and Empire" What a reading!

My heart is crying. Jack you were a friend, a comrade, a smiley face I always looked for whenever in Dublin. I owe you so much. You will be deeply missed. "Chi ha compagni non muore mai"