Wonderful end to a great day celebrating 💯 #WomensLibrary at @lselibrary.bsky.social @fotwl.bsky.social with Sally Alexander & Mary Evans reflecting on their interactions with its collections & archivists. It shaped their scholarship & feminism & this in turn influenced those coming in their wake.

wonderful to see this beautifully readable & important biography of a queer Irish figure being republished!

Thanks @ciaranon.bsky.social - it was such an honour to write this with Carole and Roisin, two scholars and friends I’ve learned so much from. Thanks to @irishhistsoc.bsky.social, in particular @elainefarrell.bsky.social & @clodaghtait.bsky.social

Special day. Hunters, Co Wicklow

@irishhistsoc.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @whaireland.bsky.social

Right Now, most of the American can relate to this message from the 90's.

Only one of these men has a criminal conviction—and his name isn’t Kilmar Garcia!

250 years ago today America began its march toward independence at the Battles of Lexington and Concord. The battles marked “No Kings Day, Part I.” Today millions of Americans will take part in “No Kings Day, Part II.”

UMass Amherst faculty have been leading the way on the East Coast, first starting the Stand Together letter campaign and then passing a Faculty Senate resolution calling for mutual defense compacts among 1) MA unis/colleges and 2) public/land-grant universities across the country. Join us!

Georgia O’Keeffe, Light Coming on the Plains, III, 1917 #WomensArt

The special issue "In Search of the Migrant Child – Entangled Histories of Childhood and Migration" is all out. Amazing group of articles and scholars. Grateful to be part of it with my own work on experiences of refugee children in wartime Austria-Hungary. journals.sagepub.com/toc/jcha/60/2

And least you forget you can download the entire #EverydayWelfare OA book & learn more about concept of #experientialexpertise & how it can be utilised to gain new insights into everyday lives & everyday activism. Just click on the link 👇. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

✨NEW PUBLICATION✨ @sshmedicine.bsky.social I am over the moon that my new article “unmarried women’s experiences of accessing the pill in Scotland c. 1968-1980” is finally out OPEN ACCESS in SHM. It draws on 31 #oralhistory interviews eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Due to where Easter falls, our next USIHS event will be the J.C. Beckett Lecture which will be delivered by Prof. Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social on 22 May at PRONI. More information on the eventbrite www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-anti-a...

The archival clips from @rte.ie are outstanding, thanks @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social for publishing our piece. @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social and I always enjoy a chance to highlight great work in the field including those in our edited collection for Four Courts www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2024/t...

Can't wait to read this!

My second journal article is out in Culture, Health & Sexuality. It is the final paper of the MANFOKUS project. Our paper examines how men in Germany reflect on (their) masculinities in the context of contraception and family planning. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13691058.2025.2458719

Very honoured to be invited to speak at @whaireland.bsky.social annual conference in May. Means a lot esp. as I gave my first academic paper to its predecessor the Irish Association for Research in Women’s History @ucddublin.bsky.social in September 1990. Fond memories ❤️. #womenshistory #LSBU

@dcuresearch.bsky.social @dublincityuni.bsky.social

Queen of Spades, 1909, by Margaret Macdonald, one of the defining artists of Art Nouveau and the Glasgow School #WomensArt

www.tcd.ie/news_events/... #singleparentday @onefamilyireland.bsky.social @mediacoops.bsky.social @whaireland.bsky.social @irishhistsoc.bsky.social @karenkiernan.bsky.social

Fantastic new book ed. by Fiona Ahern '100 Years of Empowering Women' to celebrate centenary of Irish Federation of University Women (IrFUW), was launched at @ucddublin.bsky.social & showcases lives of amazing women grads. @ucdgender.bsky.social @whaireland.bsky.social www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

One of the most single-minded anti-Treaty women refusing to compromise on her allegiance to the 2nd Dáil, leading deValera to describe her as ‘incorrigible’. This biography seeks out a deeper understanding of a richly complex woman, too often written off as a virago Out Feb 25

Cannot wait to read this! @whaireland.bsky.social @irishhistsoc.bsky.social

📢 Access to birth control in Ireland & challenges faced by women & men in navigating religious doctrine & the law vs social justice & health care on @newstalkfm.bsky.social panel made up of @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social @jenniferredmond.bsky.social @earner.bsky.social & me. @whaireland.bsky.social

Come and hear me talk about democracy & political participation in #earlyModern #Ireland on Tuesday. Freemen, freeholders, grand juries and town panels all feature. Image Limerick’s panel 1641. Béidh fáilte roimh cách!

As the storm comes in, as good a time as any to say why I'm not saying much about politics right now. I refuse to hand over my attention to it. I'm well aware. But I'm choosing to imagine, live in, and work hard for, a positive future here, where we find ourselves. Resist, dissent, solidarity all.

And the book exists online! Available in July this year manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526140128/

Congratulations to our MA Design History & Material Culture students who graduated last week – a superb group who produced excellent dissertations; topics included ethe of repair and anticipation in architecture, designing domestic commensality in mid-20C Ireland and Victorian fortune-telling dolls

🔔New Article | @jhideas.bsky.social From our very own Sophie Smith (Univ): Women and Intellectual History in the Twentieth Century, Part Two: Activists, Academics, and the Future muse.jhu.edu/article/944581

When I'm feeling at a low ebb and a bit burned out, Tim Robinson's writing is a good restorative. And his maps of the Burren, Connemara and the Aran Islands are just magic. Always loved this quote by him: "Irish placenames dry out when anglicised, like twigs snapped off from the tree".

Author Maggie O’Farrell: I had a teacher at school who took the register, called my name and said to me, ‘Are your family in the IRA?’ The novelist on her new book, growing up Irish in Britain, the film adaptation of Hamnet and life with a stammer www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

We are in awe of the determination & bravery of Nikita Hand as she endured the civil process to seek justice for the brutality she received at the hands of Conor McGregor. We hope that the verdict today gives Nikita a sense of vindication and will help her healing and recovery.

All our publications....all downloadable for free. The lastest one - A Very Hard Struggle - was published last year but it's one we're very proud of due to the topics chosen by our contributors. Edited by Catriona Crowe and Anne Dolan. www.militaryarchives.ie/en/online-co...

Call for papers: UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association annual event, Glasgow, 17-18 June 2025 (CFP deadline 15 Jan 2025) easychair.org/cfp/ukie2025. The theme is ‘Collaboration beyond boundaries’ #DigitalHumanities

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” - James Baldwin

historians arriving on Bluesky be like

Fine Gael to announce plans to ‘phase out’ third level fees in election manifesto, says Simon Harris www.irishtimes.com/politics/202... >>if this doesn’t come with equivalent direct exchequer funding to universities, the system will collapse. It is already on the brink of bankruptcy.

It's wonderful to see the 'Atlas of the Irish Civil War: New Perspectives' out in the world. A huge thank you to our constellation of contributors, the fantastic CUP team, @DeptCultureIRL for their support, @NLI for their partnership, and the generous creators and keepers of the array images.

Please join us next week - this kind of research more important than ever @historytcd.bsky.social @kbruisch.bsky.social

We’re putting together an Irish Women’s and Gender History starter pack. It’s very much a work in progress as we figure out who is here! go.bsky.app/Bk1ULub

oops this is the link womenshistoryassociation.com

New Royal Historical Society report highlights the value of History but the precarity of the discipline in UK Higher Ed. Well worth a read files.royalhistsoc.org/wp-content/u...