🌊To mark the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, the Embassy of France in Ireland is proud to present FLOW – Shannon Estuary 2023–2100: an artistic journey into changing coastlines through photography, video mapping, sound & workshops. 📍 2–31 Oct | Limerick, Kerry & Clare 👉 tinyurl.com/ynk332y5

Great to meet our new first years this week and find out about the geographies they bring with them @unioflimerick.bsky.social

Congratulations to our BSc Social Sciences and BA Arts students who graduated from the @unioflimerick.bsky.social yesterday! A special congratulations to the 2024-25 Geography FYP Prize winner, Eimear Winters. Her supervisor, Dr Immanuel Darkwa, presented the prize. Well done Eimear! #StudyAtUL

Pictured: Researchers from UL’s School of History and Geography at their National Heritage Week 2025 event. The ‘Locating Bench Marks, Preserving Heritage’ team was joined by archivists and surveyors from Tailte Éireann, who led a surveying demonstration in People’s Park, Limerick. #StayCurious

HERITAGE WEEK EVENT! 1-3pm, Sat 23rd August at People's Park, Limerick. The event includes a talk followed by a demonstration by @tailteeireann.bsky.social surveyors and a chance to try out the project app and learn how you can record bench marks. @unioflimerick.bsky.social @heritagecouncil.ie

Wonderful to read of the success of this summer school run by our colleague @idarkwa.bsky.social

The story behind the benchmarks hiding in plain sight around Ireland. The Ordnance Survey marks chiselled into buildings, walls & bridges were originally used to measure height across the country. By @catsporter.bsky.social & Margaret O'Sullivan @unioflimerick.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

"It's basically like a big treasure hunt" Margaret O'Sullivan from UL's School of History & Geography spoke to Clare FM about a new UL research project that's seeking the public's assistance to locate Irish heritage relics known as bench marks. 🎧 www.clare.fm/podcasts/ul-... ‪@ulgeog.bsky.social‬

Great to see this out in the world! If you like to mix weather with GIS and sentiment analysis then please have a read @irelandmapped.bsky.social

Listen again to @mudderofpearl.bsky.social chatting to Joe Nash on Live 95FM about our project to search out Ordnance Survey benchmarks in County Limerick and how you can get involved @ulresearch.bsky.social @ulgeog.bsky.social @ulhistory.bsky.social

Delighted to have made it, despite ATC strikes, to #IMISCOE2025 as the heat subsides in Paris. Paper on the ongoing transnational lives of 2nd gen returnees. @ulgeog.bsky.social @ulresearch.bsky.social

Researchers at UL are calling on the local community to get involved in a project aimed at locating and recording an important Irish heritage relic via a newly launched app. Read on: www.ul.ie/news/new-ul-... #StudyatUL #StayCurious

Thanks to everyone who supported our launch event today for 'Locating Bench Marks, Preserving Heritage'. If you missed it, you can catch up here: shorturl.at/IBk0m Scan the QR code below to access the project website and mobile app to start collecting bench marks in County Limerick!

“Locating Benchmarks, Preserving Heritage” project aims to locate and photograph the remaining Ordnance Survey benchmarks in County Limerick, estimate the loss of this important heritage, and move towards better recognition and protection of benchmarks. More info: ul.libcal.com/calendar/eve...

We are pleased to advertise for a full-time, 2 year fixed term Associate Teacher in Geography with the School of History and Geography, @unioflimerick.bsky.social Deadline: 12 noon, 4th July, 2025. Search the UL job vacancies at shorturl.at/dghws for further details. #JobFairy #AcademicJobs

We are pleased to share details of the Locating Bench Marks, Preserving Heritage launch event at 1-2 pm on Friday, 27th June 2025. The event is FREE and will be held online via MS Teams. All are welcome! Please register for the event here: ul.libcal.com/calendar/eve... Or, the QR code below

Delighted to announce that the 'Locating Bench Marks, Preserving Heritage' community collection app and website are coming soon. Details of the launch event at the end of June will be released shortly!

Why not check out our Professional Diploma in Climate Adaptation and Sustainability with Springboard places available

Looking forward to this event next week when I’ll be talking about some of the latest research to come out of the #OS200 project @irelandmapped.bsky.social

Ireland’s geographers have landed in Belfast for #CIG2025!

At last week's @unioflimerick.bsky.social Research Week, @ulgeog.bsky.social's @lizgabbett.bsky.social was awarded the President's Staff Excellence Award for Sustainability, in recognition of her tireless efforts to improve our campus. Congratulations, Liz!

Yesterday, we were delighted to cheer on 2nd year PE & Geography student, James Organ, as he presented his wildlife documentary for the UL Student Sustainability Challenge 24/25, and won! 🥇🎉 Check out: shorturl.at/EuLpT to see James' documentary and the other 4 finalist projects #ULRW25 #StudyAtUL

A new project led by Dr Catherine Porter, Associate Professor in Geography at UL, aims to locate, record and move towards the preservation of an ‘important heritage relic’ from nineteenth-century Ireland for the very first time. Read on: www.ul.ie/news/new-ul-... #StudyAtUL #StayCurious

There's still time to submit a proposal for 2025 Conference of Irish Geographers! 😍 We've two fantastic keynote speakers to address our Adaptation conference theme: 👇 Professor Simin Davoudi, Newcastle University and Professor Conor Murphy, Maynooth University. www.conferenceofirishgeographers.ie#/

Delighted to see our #RTEBrainstorm article out in podcast format making it more accessible to those interested in the 1st OS of Ireland! #LoveIrishResearch @ulresearch.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

@ulgeog.bsky.social This week, Dr Immanuel Darkwa of UL Geog is visiting KPU Vancouver, hosted by Prof Sadoway and KPU’s Global Partnerships team. Scheduled are a series of talks, lectures and collaboration discussions.

Applications are invited for PhD bursaries in the School of History and Geography @unioflimerick.bsky.social Prospective applicants are required to make contact with staff in advance of submissions. Closing date 30/05/2025 www.ul.ie/artsoc/histo...

Our latest publication from #OS200 colleagues @niamhroisin.bsky.social, @zenobiewan.bsky.social and @drfranceskane.bsky.social Please ask if you'd like a link to the pdf. @ulgeog.bsky.social @ulhistory.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social @researchireland.bsky.social @ukri.org #LoveIrishResearch

This week we are thrilled to welcome Assistant Professor Dr Gourav Misra. Gourav has a background in agriculture, climate change and geoinformation science. He earned his PhD from TU Munich and his research interests span sustainability, environmental science, phenology and ecology. Welcome Gourav!

Last week @ulgeog.bsky.social welcomed Abbeyfeale's St. Mary's Natl School students. The not-so-shy students & teachers toured the lab, examined 500 ma rocks, discovered fossils in limestone & peered at foraminifera sends. Thank u to UL's Jackie Hehir for all her help organising the visit.

Call for papers! - Migration, Place/making and Belonging conference @ UCC June 2025 www.ucc.ie/en/iss21/res...

Historians and Geographers attending the annual #Christmas School lunch.

Hot off the press! 🔥 #EsriIreland has released a writeup on #OS200 and our use of #ArcGIS to analyse and visualise the 1st Ordnance Survey of Ireland shorturl.at/69Z88 #ResearchIreland #AHRC #LoveIrishResearch #UL #QUB

Check out our starter pack of UL academics, researchers, departments and faculties We're proud to have so many talented people working at UL, and proud to be leading research into everything from healthcare innovation to sustainability go.bsky.app/6E5Dav8 #StudyatUL #Ireland

Fascinating #GeoWeek lunchtime talk today from @lizgabbett.bsky.social focusing on the navigation histories and human impact on the River Shannon @unioflimerick.bsky.social

Our next event for #GeoWeek @unioflimerick.bsky.social takes place at lunchtime tomorrow when @lizgabbett.bsky.social is hosting a 'walk and talk' at 1pm on the banks of the River Shannon. All students and staff welcome #LoveUL

It was a packed house for the School of History & Geography table quiz @unioflimerick.bsky.social & the perfect way to begin GeoWeek! Congratulations to 'In Last Place' who won the coveted #GeoWeek mugs & to all who supported & participated @ulgeog.bsky.social @ulhistory.bsky.social #AAG #LoveUL

Geography Awareness Week has arrived! We kick off with the inaugural #UL School of History and Geography table quiz this evening! All are welcome 😀 #LoveUL #GeoWeek #GeoWeek2024 @ulgeog.bsky.social @ulhistory.bsky.social @geographers.bsky.social #GeographicalSocietyOfIreland #UniversityOfLimerick

Since we’re covering story maps in @ulgeog.bsky.social labs today, I thought I’d share this story map I created of the #archaeology work we’ve been doing at Dún Ailinne in Co Kildare! storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/88f6...

Welcome to the new communication platform for UL History. We look forward to building up a following here as time goes on.

I've created a starter pack for Irish geography as a friendly place to gather all those working in or interested in the geographies of Ireland. Hopefully this will help new users find their people on this platform. Please share :-) Comment and I'll add you go.bsky.app/ErsX3jh

Great to see so many geographers joining #BlueSky. Fits well with this year's #GeoWeek theme, 'Geographers Take Action' At #UL we have several events planned to celebrate all things geography including a table quiz, a lunchtime river 'walk and talk', and a careers lecture from #ESRIIreland #LoveUL

Did you miss our talk at PRONI in October? Don't fret, you can now watch it online and learn more about what the project team has been up to: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TUa... #UniversityOfLimerick #QUBelfast

To celebrate Geography Awareness Week 2024 (Nov 18-22nd) UL School of History and Geography are hosting several events for all members of the UL community! #GeoWeek #LoveUL

Dr. Cat Porter welcomes our new first year geographers to the University of Limerick

A new semester dawns at the University of Limerick! Welcome back to our continuing students and hello to our latest budding geographers! We look forward to meeting you later today 😊

We are pleased to announce that recent graduate of @ULGeog, University of Limerick, Marc Moser has been awarded the 2023/24 UL Geography Final Year Project Prize for his dissertation titled 'Third places and social isolation: a geospatial study on Utah'. Congratulations Marc! #StudyAtUL

Wonderful to see the first @ULGeog taught geographers graduate from the University of Limerick. During their time here they have developed essential skills that will help to build a better future for all. Congratulations from all staff in the School of History and Geography! #StudyAtUL