Dance first, think later? This is a project I have been working on for a while. If you have journeyed through clubs, raves, dancefloors, sounds and crowds of 1990s/early 2000s Northern Ireland I would love to chat!

Limerick has some great doors

Our key note speaker prof Sarah Richardson speaking now - on women and state and its challenges @womenshistnet.bsky.social

“Irish time”

How has there not been an Irish horror film with this title yet

Thank you to Eoghan McNeill of @wereontheditch.bsky.social for speaking with humour and insight at our event on border violence this week AND for validating my life choices!

Thank you to everyone who took part, who came along to speak and listen, and thank you to @niamhkeady-tabbal.bsky.social and @mu-ssi.bsky.social @maynoothlaw.bsky.social for making it possible.

The Ditch’s Eoghan McNeill speaks at Maynooth University tomorrow, 20 May, at the event Ireland's Hidden Border Violence. From 12pm. More information here: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

I will be speaking at Maynooth University tomorrow, 20 May, at the event Ireland's Hidden Border Violence. From 12pm. More information here: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

End Deportations Belfast will be on a panel at this very important event at @maynoothuniversity.ie on May 20th 2026. 28 years on from the Good Friday Agreement, the imposition of border controls undermines peace progress and the very idea of a shared island.

Britain, 2335: The budget ceremony begins with the traditional Announcement of the Fuel Duty Rise. Two months later, there will be the traditional Postponement of the Fuel Duty Rise, continuing a ritual begun centuries earlier by Chancellors in the Fossil Fuel era

Out today: latest report by @katyhayward.bsky.social and me on the views of voters in Northern Ireland on Brexit, the Windsor Framework and UK-EU Relations. Some key findings 👇 Full report available via @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social at: www.qub.ac.uk/sites/post-b...

make her feel divine make her feel desired makerfield by-election

Lovely.

I am hugely looking forward to events tomorrow: Small symposium on "Ogham - the earliest written Irish" in the Lismore Heritage Centre (Co. Waterford), plus a visit to the ogham stones around Dungarvan. ...and you can expect a surprise announcement.

Andy Burnham will force Keir Starmer to quit as PM by standing in by-election after by-election until Labour loses its majority.

It’s mortifying to be scrambling to fill a bookstore event but that’s the reality. I’m in Scotland and England next week. There are tix left for these events. The London one will be cancelled if I don’t sell some tickets soon so all pre-bookings and help with getting the word out is appreciated.

Druid is a touring theatre company based in the west of Ireland. For those of us who experienced a wonderful and baffling few minutes thinking that the University of Galway was hiring a druid.

DKIT is to be renamed Dundalk University College as part of its "all-island university" partnership with Queen's University Belfast.

For all the budding legal historians, the Irish Legal History Society's essay prize deadline has been extended to 2nd June (something about a bank holiday and my unrealistic expectations of how people should spend it): www.irishlegalhistorysociety.org?page_id=1464

I disgraced myself.

I know it's not exactly crop circles, but saw these on Molesworth Street yesterday and was wondering where/who they came from.

Just in case you're ever feeling academically awkward. Fear not.

Thanks to @niamhkeady-tabbal.bsky.social, this event is coming together! Register here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/4ge7WFzEY2

The Abbey/The Project/The Gate

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...

📣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!