The ASC's Division of Historical Criminology have a new award, Early Career Researcher Award, open to members of the Division, details and how to nominate in the latest DHC newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/historic...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Police interviewing and Criminal Investigations (x2 6-year fixed term) - at DCU with Professor Yvonne Daly: universityvacancies.com/dublin-city-...

Behold the new look website for the Dublin Review of Books! This issue has pieces on Virginia Woolf, the double act of David Trimble & John Hume, and Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind in its new Rereadings series (+ a piece by me on Leanne Calvert's excellent new book): drb.ie

Final couple of days to submit an abstract for this journal special issue - gendering postcolonial punishment! Guest edited by Lucia Bracco and me! Give me a shout if you have any questions.

The Ireland-Northern Ireland border is often described as ‘soft’, but it does not operate equally. For many, it is a contemporary site of racialised border violence. Read the new post by @lynseyblack.bsky.social and @niamhkeady-tabbal.bsky.social 👇 blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Excellent piece by Kieran McEvoy: Calls for an amnesty for British soldiers in Northern Ireland are based on a myth. Investigating past army misdeeds is a witch-hunt, right-leaning Britain is told, but where is the evidence? www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

The 2026 @acjrd.bsky.social annual conference is on 11th June - Prevention First: Designing Safer Communities from Systems to Streets - launched by Senator Lynn Ruane (Ashling Hotel, Dublin 8), registration details to follow, early info here: www.acjrd.ie/news/events/...

The first writing from this strand of the Research Ireland CONSPACE borders project. Thank you so much to Niamh Keady-Tabbal for being amazing and pulling everything together! Our piece on the Northern Ireland/Ireland border, questions of immigration, and how it impacts asylum seekers and refugees.

a bit of Andor cosplay

And in the darkness bind them.

@esmoriemiller.bsky.social @lizzieseal.bsky.social and I have out a call for abstracts/titles for the Routledge International Handbook of Historical Criminology - if you're interested take a look here: www.linkedin.com/posts/lynsey...

The State of the Union, but in a Cork accent: the staaaate of the Union, like.

A bit of a long shot, but I’m looking to pay someone to photograph some archival documents for me in Amsterdam in the next 6 months. If you know any PhD students based there etc who might be interested pls do send me a message. #historians #paidresearcher

The Digital Film Archive had our 25th birthday party last night. Music, poetry and some very, very good film. Local filmmaker Colm Laverty is genius at using the archives to amazing effect. This went down a storm at the event. The Hard Border by Seamus O'Rourke

🔊Call for Abstracts for a special issue 🔸Gendering Postcolonial Punishment – Guest Editors @lynseyblack.bsky.social Lucia Bracco #prisons #incarceration #patriarchy #gender #sexuality#GlobalSouth #criminology 🔸Abstract submission deadline: 30 March 2026 www.crimejusticejournal.com/genderingpos...

📣Apply for Small Grants Funding! Are you looking to conduct research into social or cultural history? Do you need support with archival visits, organising a conference, or buying specialist equipment? ⏰Our next funding deadline is 1 March socialhistory.org.uk/funding/smal...

Call for Abstracts | Gendering Postcolonial Punishment - Special Issue in @crimjustjournal.bsky.social - guest edited by Lucia Bracco and me: www.crimejusticejournal.com/genderingpos...

I think that RTÉ should continue to exist and that BBC Northern Ireland become BBC Ireland, giving us all access to the iPlayer. jrnl.ie/6925139

The Irish Legal History Society is now on LinkedIn (21st century, you what!?) #legalhistory www.linkedin.com/company/iris...

When everyone’s off to wash the dishes but you say you’re joining the army to get out of it

📣The special issue is out! for a global, anti colonial criminology of war, genocide and resistance - with @hannahwilkinson.bsky.social 🌸 thanks to @mattiasdebacker.bsky.social and Ana Gabriela Perez for the editorial guidance and support ✨✨ www.criminologicalencounters.org/index.php/cr...

We are delighted to share the programme for our upcoming conference! We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.

Dr Megan Coghlan, Assistant Professor of Criminology in the School of Law and Criminology has been awarded a research grant as part of the North East Inner City’s (NEIC) strategy to improve community health, wellbeing and recovery. See: tinyurl.com/ahthzytj

Opportunity to work with other me on a funded PhD at Queens - may suit anyone interested in gender, history of the child and family in 20thC Ireland. Happy to chat to anyone thinking of it!

Since Palestine Action was banned, the PSNI has targeted more than a dozen people for showing support - an offence under the Terrorism Act - but has taken no similar action against displays of support for paramilitaries thedetail.tv/articles/pal...

With apologies to those whose yoga classes were disrupted by the 1916 Rising, Bolands Mills is back open again.

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

Colours on Parnell Square this morning.

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...

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