Brian Hanley appeared on RTE's Nationwide on Monday 17th discucssing the first years of the Troubles in Northern Ireland www.rte.ie/player/serie...

I have studied much about Edward Lucas for my PhD research, particularly his role as MP for County Monaghan from 1834 to 1841. For anyone in Dublin today and free, I'll be mentioning him in my talk at @historytcd.bsky.social seminar in @tlrhub.bsky.social at 2.30pm

Great to have these videos up for those interested who weren't able to attend the conference. Keynotes by Prof. Eliga Gould and Prof. Nicholas Canny and a @virtualtreasury.bsky.social panel. Please share widely. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... @historytcd.bsky.social @historyatgalway.bsky.social

Launch details for Catherine Healy’s excellent new monograph, based on her brilliant @historytcd.bsky.social PhD: happening tomorrow evening in Dublin www.eventbrite.ie/e/book-launc...

Dr Annabel Hancock has just published, together with Prof Ian Forrest, a new edited volume on Trust and Mistrust in Premodern Europe and the Mediterranean. www.arc-humanities.org/978180270284...

'Augustine vs Wodan. Notker Labeo, Wednesday, and Irish Intellectual Influence at St Gall in the Early Middle Ages.' New #OA article by Immo Warntjes @historytcd.bsky.social in 'Frühmittelalterliche Studien': www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Dr Katja Bruisch, who recently published a book with a major university press, wrote about the relation of AI to academic publishing.

It was a pleasure to collaborate with Paul Dryburgh (TNA, UK) on this blog on the fascinating life of H.S Sweetman. More to come so watch this space! @historytcd.bsky.social @virtualtreasury.bsky.social www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...

A night to remember. Delighted to welcome @willdalrymple.bsky.social to Trinity for our annual Edmund Burke Lecture on the East India Company in a packed Edmund Burke theatre. 🤩🤩🤩 @tlrhub.bsky.social @historytcd.bsky.social

New: Meath: The Irish Revolution, 1912-23, by Dr. Ciáran Wallace. As politics, war and revolution intruded on daily routine, some embraced change, risking life and livelihood for a chosen cause; others resisted. Gradually, violence affected the regular round of shopping, sport and socializing. 1/2

A packed house in TCD’s Emmet Theatre for the Friends of Medieval Dublin Symposium on Saturday 4 October. Congratulations to colleagues from History, Sparky Booker, Peter Crooks, Seán Duffy, and others on drawing a great crowd to a very successful symposium.

What a privilege to screen From that Small Island at the iconic Cine Brasilia designed by Oscar Niemeyer. It was simply fabulous. 🤩 @voicestcd.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @historytcd.bsky.social

One week until our Symposium, looking forward to seeing you all there! @historytcd.bsky.social @dublincityheritage.bsky.social @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social @virtualtreasury.bsky.social

50th anniversary issue of Saothar, the journal of the Irish Labour History Society, featuring articles by TCD staff members Carole Holohan, Lindsey Earner-Byrne, Deirdre Foley and Brian Hanley. The back cover has a photograph of the late Jack McGinley, long time Trinity librarian and union activist.

Big congratulations to Katja Bruisch on the publication of her book! Relevance not only to Russian history but also to Ireland given the focus on peat extraction.

Dan Geary in the Irish Times on Trump and historical US contempt for the UN: www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Exciting list of speakers presenting in our Environmental History Research Seminar this term. If you happen to be in Dublin, come along. We'll meet on Mondays at 1 PM in the Trinity Long Room Hub #envhist Thanks to @tlrhub.bsky.social for hosting us! @historytcd.bsky.social 👇

The Department of History at Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social hosts Dr. Uğur Zekeriya Peçe @ugurpece.bsky.social for a talk titled "Bury the Hatchet: Civil War and Peace in Ottoman Crete" on September 30 (Tuesday), 18.00-20.00. For more information, see www.tcd.ie/ahss/news-an...

Great to see a good turnout at @tcdunit18.bsky.social for @cwallacedublin.bsky.social's talk on Wed 17th titled "30 June 1922 – Dublin’s biggest explosion? Recovering the lost Public Record Office of Ireland”. @historytcd.bsky.social

Just finished preparing for this lecture tomorrow evening for Dublin City Council's 2025 Heritage series. I will be talking about 400 years of ‘cultivating virtue‘ in Trinity College Dublin @tcddublin.bsky.social. @historytcd.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social

New article in the Dublin Review of Books by @speakerconolly.bsky.social on @tcddublin.bsky.social's forgotten tenantry: drb.ie/tcds-forgott...

Always good to receive proofs - forthcoming with Cambridge Press as part of the Thirteenth Century Conference series @historytcd.bsky.social

The event is free and all are welcome - no registration is necessary. For further details and a programme visit dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/26th-m... We look forward to seeing you there! [3/3] @historytcd.bsky.social @virtualtreasury.bsky.social @dublincitycouncil.bsky.social

30 Sept talk by Uğur Zekeriya Peçe, Lehigh University. In the 1890s, conflict erupted on the strategic Ottoman island of Crete and devolved into civil war between Christians and Muslims. 1/4 chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.tcd.ie/history/assets/pdf/news/ottoman.pdf

Our colleague @kbruisch.bsky.social co-wrote this piece for the @irishtimes.com about AI's role (or lack thereof) in education. While this represents Dr Bruisch's individual view, not as a representative of the department, it's safe to say that many of us agree. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Congratulations to History’s Professor Patrick Geoghegan on organizing the enormously successful O’Connell 250 Symposium at TCD on 29-30 July. See alt-text for list of the pictured speakers.

One of our undergrads featured in Irish Times: www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

Really delighted to see this out. Great work by colleagues and alumni of @historytcd.bsky.social #publichistory masters programme. #openaccess as well. Thanks to everyone involved. @smythh.bsky.social @richardlegay.bsky.social @ciaranon.bsky.social

Great work by one of our @historytcd.bsky.social #publichistory students Morgan Hansen as part of her internship with the excellent @virtualtreasury.bsky.social thanks for facilitating our students on your project, helping them do public history.

My PhD student Yuxuan Lang gave a great paper on photographs of Chinese slave-girls in Guangzhou at the fascinating Global Urban History Project in Berlin today ‪@globalurbanhistory.bsky.social‬ @historytcd.bsky.social

Finished! A big thank you the speakers, chairs, Rob Shields @ualberta.bsky.social for his keynote, Prof Joseph Clarke and @historytcd.bsky.social for their support, Rike and the team @tlrhub.bsky.social for their help and @researchireland.ie for their support of @pduffy1.bsky.social's research.

Congratulations to my @historytcd.bsky.social colleagues @petercrooks.bsky.social and @cwallacedublin.bsky.social and their team @virtualtreasury.bsky.social on repurposing 30 June as a joyful day of archival discovery through their extraordinary work

Very proud to share that my PhD student Peter Fraundorfer won the Terence Barry Prize for Best Graduate Paper in Irish Medieval Studies for his paper presented at the IMC in Leeds last year! Well done Peter! @historytcd.bsky.social @imc-leeds.bsky.social @researchireland.ie

Delighted to see our (Brendan Twomey and myself) new Curated Collection on the Registry of Deeds up on @virtualtreasury.bsky.social virtualtreasury.ie/curated-coll.... @historytcd.bsky.social

Great news! Celtica is finally available online with back issues to be digitised soon! @scs-dias.bsky.social @historytcd.bsky.social

Anna Collins @glasnevincemetery.bsky.social tour guide and @historytcd.bsky.social public history student is leading a new #pride #LGTBQ tour in Glasnevin cemetery this weekend for @dublinpride.bsky.social . More info here. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2...

Delighted to see @historytcd.bsky.social public history graduate Anna Collins featured in the IT today, doing the work and making invisible histories visible. Glasnevin Cemetery’s Queer History Tour: ‘If you’re here for the drama, you’ll get it’ www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2...

A great big thank you to all 200 (!) of you who participated in this event! I It was a fabulous day and I think we all learned something new! #EIH @researchireland.ie @historytcd.bsky.social @tcdthebook.bsky.social #medievalsky #stgallen

🎧 Tune in to @nearfm.ie tomorrow (June 5th) at 6pm for a compelling conversation with Dr Ciaran O’Neill (@historytcd.bsky.social), uncovering the city’s hidden ties to the transatlantic slave economy. Supported by @cnam-ie.bsky.social. 🔗 nearfm.ie/trinity-talk...

Great to see this piece by Eleanor Callaghan based on her brilliant dissertation from our @historytcd.bsky.social M.Phil in Public History.

Off to @tlrhub.bsky.social where Aileen Douglas, @amyprendergast.bsky.social and myself will be welcoming delegates to the 40th(!) annual conference of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Conference this morning. www.ecis.ie/annual-confe... @historytcd.bsky.social

To mark the 50th anniversary of the Journal of Medieval History we’ve asked eight distinguished historians each to use an article from the journal’s first five years as a jumping off point to discuss historiographical trends. @tandfresearch.bsky.social

Always exciting receiving proofs. Looking forward to seeing my edition published in Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Sources @historytcd.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social

Thank you and best wishes to @evepatt.bsky.social and @ciaranon.bsky.social as they finish their five-year term as director and deputy director respectively of @tlrhub.bsky.social today. Congrats and good luck to my supervisor, Patrick Geoghegan @historytcd.bsky.social as he takes over as director

📢 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

I had a great time chatting about my research on the new Section 900 podcast series, presented by postgraduates from @historytcd.bsky.social 🎧 Give it a listen here! open.spotify.com/episode/4ZlU...

Celebrating 10 years of the Trinity Centre for Asian Studies with my excellent PhD students, Dexter Tse and Yuxuan Lang! @historytcd.bsky.social

Well worth a read - what the stats don’t show about Irish women’s economic activity & income.

A review by @brianhanley.bsky.social Rebel Notes: A timely take on republicanism and music, from The Wolfe Tones to Kneecap, via Alan Partridge www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...