The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is hiring! Applications are invited for the position of Research and Engagement, Senior Programme Manager as part of the DRI team headquartered at the Royal Irish Academy. Apply by 27.11.2025 at 3pm. www.ria.ie/about/career...

🎓 PHD FUNDING OPPORTUNITY 🎓 We now have a range of funding opportunities for postgraduate research students. Please reach out to me if you're interested in a PhD in: >Counter-Terrorism >Emergency Powers >Human Rights >Constitutional Theory >Public Law www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola...

There's been a great deal of debate about how safe Dublin city centre is, but when we @dublininquirer.com looked for data to resolve this, we couldn't find much useful – so we commissioned a survey to try to add some facts/data to the debate. Today we've published five articles about the results. 1/

"The stories of sex and surveillance that are captured in Presbyterian church records reveal much about how communities attempted to monitor one another's behaviour." In RTÉ Brainstorm, UL's Dr Leanne Calvert shares a selection of stories from her new book. Read on: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2... 1/3

I ❤️ Viz

The schedule for the Donegal County Museum and County Donegal Historical Society 'Borders and boundaries' conference has been announced! @cormacmoorehist.bsky.social @lynseyblack.bsky.social

Looking forward to speaking at this Dublin County Council event 'Borders & Boundaries', although mostly looking forward to hearing these people speak: @cormacmoorehist.bsky.social @pduffy1.bsky.social, Kieran Rankin, Niamh Brennan, Liam Campbell and Jim McBride: www.donegalcoco.ie/en/news/2025...

Me too, babe. Me too.

Puff Daddy, the 1798 United Irishmen rebellion, knowledge hierarchies and the militarisation of policing... I am over the moon to see this essay published. Thank you so much to the Dublin Review of Books and to @juliango.bsky.social for writing such a thought-provoking book. drb.ie/articles/its...

Somehow the “spoil your vote” vote has been split. Incredible stuff happening

My fantastic colleague Prof Claire Hamilton is recruiting a research assistant for her project FEELING POLITICAL, which looks at populist politics, emotions and feelings of in/security in Europe. Details here, closing 2nd Nov and position is for 23 months: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

Me in conversation with the incomparable Diane Keaton from 2017. It really does feel as if the evening is drawing in. www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...

CONSPACE comes to the archives! Kicking off sabbatical with some diplomatically tricky border incidents, filed by MOD under 'navigational error, relax, nobody tell Ireland'.

Event on EU Border Violence - Maynooth University @mu-ssi.bsky.social October 9th. How EU border violence—including violent pushbacks and other violations against racialised and irregularised migrants—is recorded, represented, and contested.

En route to a hen night reading material

Green Grow the Rushes from sold-out Vicar Street in Dublin, final Fables show, just a great band, sounds, crowd. Always something super-special about Dublin for this music, since way back 🇮🇪 - Bertis @jasonnarducy.bsky.social

Claire Hamilton, my brilliant colleague at Maynooth Law and Criminology, is series editor along with David Nelkin of Routledge's New Advances in Crime and Social Harm. If you have a proposal that might be a good fit and you'd like to chat, see below.

Programme and registration is now available for the 35th Irish Conference of Historians - Inner Lives and Outer Realities. @maynoothuniversity.ie, 12-13 September. Please share widely.

Announcing a PhD scholarship for a history project on imperialism and great power projection in the Pacific. Supervised by Prudence Flowers and I here at Flinders, Adelaide. It includes an international fee waiver and stipend. Start Jan 2026. www.flinders.edu.au/scholarships...

Interested in finding out more about 'Follies' and Sondheim's wider work in advance of our new production in Belfast? Come to our In Conversation event on 4th Sept with panel, Dr Richard Schoch, Stuart Pedlar and Cameron Menzies. Full details and booking links here: niopera.com/performances...

My book is now available for pre-order on the @ria.ie website shop.ria.ie/products/pio... Isn't it beautiful 😍 #PiousPromiscuous #PromiscuousPresbyterians #HistFam #IrishHist #Family #HistSex

If you are interested in applying for the position and want to discuss, please DM me or email! legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2025/08/law-...

name of the day from eighteenth-century Irish history - Marmaduke Coghill for more on Marmaduke see Hayton, ed., Letters of Marmaduke Coghill, 1722-38 (Dublin, 2005).

A year ago I was connected to the BBC Ideas team by @ukri.org They asked me about the impact of maternal imprisonment. By the end of the meeting they were shocked, upset & determined to make a film about it. This is it. Huge kudos to the women who took part 💪🏼 www.bbc.co.uk/videos/c4g81...

He had no regrets. And he had very few egrets too.

Final plenary of #MaynoothCrimCon 'Responding to the far right'

Great day at #MaynoothCrimCon presenting @iccl.bsky.social and @cajni.bsky.social joint report on how the Irish government can investigate legacy jurisdictions in the South!

Great morning session on Young Adulthood & the Justice System #MaynoothCrimCon Informative presentations by our own hub colleague Kylie Gill, as well as presentations from Alison Coyne UCD and Siobhan Buckley UU @slsshub.bsky.social @qubcriminology.bsky.social

Excited to be at the 16th Annual North/South Criminology Conference with my colleagues from @slsshub.bsky.social #MaynoothCrimCon @qubcriminology.bsky.social

Ciara Bracken-Roche introducing the second plenary on online spaces and the far right, looking at the criminological implications #MaynoothCrimCon

As someone with a PhD in an evolutionary science, I have to say I was very impressed by Prof. Vanessa Barker’s reference to Linnaeus in her #MaynoothCrimCon plenary session talk on far-right extremism. Really made my heart jump - yes! My kind of interdisciplinary, historical reference.

Excited to be at the Irish North/South Criminology conference at Maynooth University. Today, Dr Paul Gavin and I will be presenting our latest research on barriers associated with mental health support!

John Morrison @maynoothlaw.bsky.social responding to keynote, we need to talk about concepts like nationalism in criminology #MaynoothCrimCon

Prof Orla Lynch @orlalynch-ucc.bsky.social offering a response to keynote, teasing out some parameters of emergent far right in Ireland #MaynoothCrimCon

How liberal democracies bend, not break: the success of right-wing legal mobilization - opening keynote from Prof Vanessa Barker #MaynoothCrimCon

I'm at #maynoothcrimcon & presenting later today re: cuts to funding on gender violence & implications for American criminology. Swing by & say "hi" 👋

If you're at #MaynoothCrimCon this week ... #Criminology #SocialHarm #AI

Just left the #MaynoothCrimCon PhD pub happening (because I'm not happening) but we're kicking off tomorrow with our plenary on the far right. Looking forward to two days of great papers!

Really excited to catch up with everyone at #MaynoothCrimCon #CrimSky #AcademicSky #CriminologyResearchAndTeaching

Hey #MaynoothCrimCon Can't wait for this week. Feel like it's needed. #criminology

Giving a talk tomorrow about far-right politics in Canada at @maynoothuniversity.ie. It's about penal populism as a form of far-right politics and how "far-right studies" often suffers from presentism. #maynoothcrimcon #criminology Parallel Sessions 2, 4pm, TSI/043

PhD Training Day ahead of the North/South Criminology Conference at Maynooth University where I will be presenting my paper #MaynoothCrimCon @qubcriminology.bsky.social @slsshub.bsky.social

North South Criminology Conferencing getting underway today with PhD Training Day! We're posting at #MaynoothCrimCon for the duration, and kicking off full conference tomorrow with Vanessa Barker's plenary on mobilisation of the far right, responses from @orlalynch-ucc.bsky.social and John Morrison.

Survivors have been excluded from the planning of memorial centre on a former Magdalene Laundry site in the north inner-city, councillors warn. “I don't know how many times we have to ask to be included.” www.dublininquirer.c...

If you are interested in historicising, contextualising, or rewriting #truecrime, join @lizzieseal.bsky.social, me, and our 8+1 speakers! The conference is free and open but registration is required - see the programme and follow the link 👇 drive.google.com/file/d/1tLdN...

Today, as the process for appointing a new Garda Commissioner is under way, I have an opinion piece in The Irish Times about the controversy-crisis cycle in policing, ‘copaganda’ and the need for vigilance on policing culture… www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Saturday 21st June, 1.30 at Belfast City Hall, say it loud and clear. #WeAreBelfast

Glasnevin Cemetery’s Queer History Tour: ‘If you’re here for the drama, you’ll get it’ Delighted that my research on the queer revolutionary women is part of this fabulous tour #speirgorm #pride2025 www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2...

If women rioted every time one of us was attacked Northern Ireland would lie in ashes.