Good piece here from @ciarab.bsky.social explaining more about why this census release is so important theconversation.com/80-million-p...

80 million people globally claim Irish ancestry – why the release of 1926 Irish census records is so momentous Dr @ciarab.bsky.social, Professor of Irish Gender History, writes ahead of the release of the 1926 census. @csoireland.bsky.social

In advance of tomorrow's release here is a short piece on the historical Irish censuses based on my past and ongoing research #spéirgorm theconversation.com/80-million-p...

To lighten the mood a little I wrote about my first historical crush. A lover AND a fighter and quite literally a legend. It’s Earl Gerald of Desmond. A man taught the dark arts by the devil himself and possibly turned into a goose by his mother. open.substack.com/pub/medieval...

📣Out now on #firstview Ciara Breathnach @ciarab.bsky.social @ucc.ie on 'Newspapers as Surrogate Archives: A Case Study of the Early Twentieth-Century Dublin City Coroner’s Court' #Archives #Newspapers #Press #Ireland #Legal #History 20thc📰🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Newspapers as Surrogate Archives: A Case Study of the Early Twentieth-Century Dublin City Coroner’s Court | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Call for STSM candidate at Lancaster University: “A Demographic Kernel Framework for Predicting Psychosis Risk Across Urban Space.” Autumn 2026, up to 2 months, funding up to €2,500 via GREATLEAP COST Action. Apply with CV + motivation to [email protected] by 4 March ⬇️

Join the panel discussion on Dr Averill Earls’ book: Love in the Lav on January 23rd at the Irish Georgian Society, 18:00-19:30pm More information here ⬇️ buff.ly/XMWp8cR 📚 Book available at @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social @templeunivpress.bsky.social @aearls.bsky.social

Help! To my #academic and #history and #genderstudies friends: THE INTERMEDIARIES is exactly the kind of book the current admin don’t want you to teach— #trans history, #LGBTQ fight against nazis, real 🧪 science. Knowing y’all, you may be teaching it anyhow (yay!) if so TELL ME. I will come.

📌 ciaraioch.com is now taking Christmas orders for prints, cards, and vouchers - each archival-quality print on heavy art paper is made in Ireland, ships internationally in eco-friendly packaging with discount tracked postage, and comes with a FREE card and treats for every customer 🎁 #SpéirGorm

First year selling my art at Christmas without the Other site, where most of my sales came from, as well as losing US orders to new tariffs, so it'll be a tough one - I put huge work into every order, so even if you can't buy, shares help get them in front of eyes. GRMA! www.ciaraioch.com/artprints

🎉 All stipendiary IHR Fellowships, Bursaries, & Prizes are now LIVE! 🎉 universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/lst/ (All of our open competitions start with "IHR" in the title.) Got a question? Please check the application page & our website for more information. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

📣 Call for participants 📣 Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice? We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ! Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.

Amazing experience to bring Dr Bot to Cheltenham Festival on stage with technology journalist Lara Lewington + chaired by the BBC's Claudia Hammond. Great discussions, and a lively audience. @yalebooks.bsky.social

Reminder to the #histSTM #skystorian crowd that there's an online, free seminar this pm UK time which feels like it might speak to a lot of contemporary interests (including #EnvHist - see you there!

Fantastic story on our homepage this morning about the race to find a polio vaccine, written by a polio survivor happy that she has become a “dinosaur” of the time before we had one. Worth your while: www.thebulwark.com/p/polio-vacc...

AI is smart, just don’t ask it to speak the Irish language

Are you a postgraduate researcher trying out digital methods, tools or resources as a means of exploring historical phenomena? Consider applying for our Postgraduate Seminar Series ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/08/ihr-...

Are you an emerging scholar researching Black British history and looking for opportunities to share your research? Please get in touch with @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social or Meleisa Ono George via contact info below to take part in this ⚡️ talks session @ihr.bsky.social (and please share widely!)

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

WG1 Seminar resumes next Fri 26 Sep at 1pm CET with Prof Enrique Perdiguero who will speak on Fighting Cancer in Spain in the Second Half of the 20th Century: A First Approach. #skystorians #medhums #histmed #eurohisthealth #CA22159

Very much this. The IHR really is open to everyone and this includes our common room and our library as well as our wonderful seminars. All free, all welcome!

Looking forward to launching "Rituals of Migration" @nyupress.bsky.social @gihnyu.bsky.social Sept 19, 7pm w/ @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @unlawfulentries.bsky.social @tedsmyth.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social &co. 🎉🎉🎉

#CallForPapers #CFP The Fight against Tuberculosis. Policies, Exchanges, & Representations in Europe &its Colonies, 1850s-1970s Call OPEN - closes 30 Nov 2025 Zagreb, Croatia (Croatian Academy of Sciences & Arts) 26-27 May 2026. Info 👉 tinyurl.com/sjn8wrpc #Skystorians #TB #HistMed #EuroHistHealth

Talking about police surveillance, archives and queer lives with @aearls.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/love-in-the-...

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#EAHMH25 was a fab conference with an incredible array of fascinating papers, topics & scholars. Finally met some of my @eurohealthhist.bsky.social @costprogramme.bsky.social colleagues in person. Event better to team up with my other #COST gang @thegreatleap22116.bsky.social #Berlin #Research

Super evening with our @costprogramme.bsky.social @thegreatleap22116.bsky.social colleagues. Stories were told, legends were made and plans were mapped. This is what #COST is about - optimising opportunties for collaboration - this time in stereo! #Synergy #COST22159 #EAHMH25 #COST22116 #Research

Museum of Cambridge are looking for a #Disability Heritage Research Volunteer, to work remotely, creating histories of people with disabilities in Cambridgeshire. www.museumofcambridge.org.uk/wp-content/u...

So deeply honoured to be among those participating in this symposium in honour of a truly remarkable man, a brilliant scholar, trusted mentor, and dear friend. Green Carnations: Remembering Éibhear Walshe Wednesday 10 September University College Cork www.eventbrite.ie/e/green-carn...

Steve Shirley escaped the Holocaust as a child & went on to found one of the earliest software startups. The really impressive part? She employed women programmers who had been pushed out of the workforce after having kids, & allowed them flexible, family friendly, work from home jobs—in the 1960s!

Do you want to strengthen social resilience against the spread of disinformation online? We have the most incredible gig: a 4-year postdoctoral research position focusing on topics like digital literacy, fact-checking, and hybrid threats. Apply! (also repost) hanken.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index...

This is a huge blow to critical, independent research on the BBC. If you care about maintaining access to the archive of a major cultural institution, please read and sign.

It's very sad to have the news of Bríd McGrath's death. She was an indefatigable editor for @irishmanuscripts.bsky.social See our tribute to her here: www.irishmanuscripts.ie/brid-mcgrath/

Contact Zones: Photography, Migration and Cultural Encounters in the United States, eds. Justin Carville & Sigrid Lien. (Leuven: Leuven University Press). Available in paperback and Open Access at LUP and @jstor.bsky.social

People in the US, what kind of customs charges, if any, have you had to pay on art prints (not originals) purchased from EU countries lately?

'A day of connection for history postdocs and late-stage PhDs based in Northern Ireland. The programme of social opportunities and academic and public history sessions will bring the ECR community together in Belfast.'

Tá an chéad Phreab-Ghaeltacht eile ag teannadh linn! Céadaoin 6ú Lúnasa sa Frankfurt Art Bar ag 18:30. Ceol traidisiúnta ó 20:00 amach. Bígí linn, scaipigí an focal agus tagaigí le cairde!

What are the odds sitting in Kew, miles of shelving and gazillions of records, the item I want is in use … right now!

Sharing this again because too many in higher ed think the appropriate analgesic for this pain is AI.

Canvas just became one of the most powerful surveillance, IP theft, & data monetization tools in the world. OpenAI bought a user-base locked in to long-term contracts. But they can’t make us use their trashware. Boycott. Luddify. Open source. Don’t let them have your work or your students.

Friendly reminder that Instructure, parent company of Canvas, is owned by KKR, a private equity firm that purchased it for $4.8 billion last November.

So the @researchireland.ie Global Talent Scheme is now open for "exceptional mid-career and established researchers," currently employed outside Ireland, who want to move their research here. All disciplines (I think). Individual awards up to €3.25m (!) www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob...

This graph is astonishing. The people that bang on about “natural birth” and “women have been doing this forever without help” need to be forced to stare at this until their eyes water.

Are you an early-career historian with a love for radical, public history? We are currently looking for two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop. Deadline is at midnight on 15th August. See below for more details! www.historyworkshop....

Every time someone articulates the position "Culture costs too much. Why do we have to pay for that?" you can now cite the recent study that for every 1 euro invested in Berlin museums, it pays 1.75 euros into the city's economy. Culture *is* the economy smdh! www.rbb24.de/kultur/beitr...

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