Last week, our colleague @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social ran the second workshop of the 'Sites of Fracture' project, in collaboration with the this/OUR academic-artist collective. Over two days in east Cork, participants explored the village of Killeagh as a site of resistance against capitalism.

Interested in doing a MA in History? Find out more at University of Galway's Postgraduate Open Day on Tues., 11 Nov. 4-6pm in Bailey Allen www.universityofgalway.ie/postgraduate... For a preview our exciting MA, take a look here youtu.be/SIKBbxm0K1o

Join us this week for our final research seminar of the semester! Dr Jake Subryan Richards will be speaking on his new book 'The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans and the End of the Slave Trade'. All welcome, Hardiman G011, Wednesday 5 Nov at 4pm!

Congratulations to the first ever cohort of BA History (Pathways) students, the first to graduate from this new programme 🎉 pictured here with their programme director Dr Gearóid Barry. L-R: Dr Barry & Ava Kerrane. Cormac Wilkinson, Shane Ward, Enda Bourke, Shane Coyle, Dr Barry & Noah Carberry.

Join us tomorrow for our research seminar in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Religion. Dr Celeste McNamara will be speaking on "Sleeping with the in-laws: Annulment by reason of affinity in 18th-century Venice". All welcome!

Congratulations to Dr Pat Farrell graduating this week with a PhD in History 🎉 pictured alongside her doctoral supervisor, Dr Róisín Healy!

Congratulations to all our students graduating over the next few days at our Autumn conferring ceremonies 🎉 You've all worked so hard and now is time to celebrate this amazing achievement! 👏 (Not sure if the Grad style has changed over the years??)

Congratulations to our PhD student Kieran Devenish on the successful launch of his book on an important aspect of the economic and social history of Bray and an article in the 50th issue of Saothar @historyatgalway.bsky.social

We are delighted to announce a new collection – Ireland’s Educational Foundations: Digitising and Mapping the 1826 Education Inquiry – has been published in the Repository by @ria.ie in collaboration with Dr. Alan Fernihough of @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social. Find out more: dri.ie/news/new-col...

This week we are joined by Dr Ramazan Hakki Öztan for our History Research Seminar, in collaboration with the BILQIS project, entitled 'Revolutionaries, Counterinsurgency, and Humanitarianism in Late Ottoman Europe'. Please note that for this week only we'll be in Áras Moyola MY127!

A very stimulating and enjoyable week for University of Galway History students and staff in Tartu, Estonia, on ENLIGHT course on small nations, featuring a fantastic visit to Baltic German manor, Alatskivi Castle. Many thanks to hosts University of Tartu!

Congratulations to our fantastic students, Caden Casey and Aoibhín Ní Gleasáin, on their success at the Global Undergraduate Awards in Dublin last night! Their prize-winning essays are now available to view on the GUA Library: gua.soutron.net/Portal/Defau...

A History module developed by Dr Róisín Healy, The History of Small Nations in Modern Europe, is the University of Galway nominee for the ENLIGHT Teaching and Learning Award at the upcoming ENLIGHT Conference at Uppsala University, 8-10 October 👏 For more info: onlineexpo.com/en/enlight-2...

Join us for this week's History Research Seminar on Wednesday at 4pm! Our very own Dr Anita Rupprecht will be speaking on 'Out of Sight: the Narrative of the Slave-ship, Le Rodeur (1819)'. All welcome! Hardiman Research Building G011 or get in touch to join on zoom.

Call for participants! Spread the word and get in touch with our PhD researcher, Elliot, if you are interested in being interviewed for his exciting PhD project!

Looking forward for this week's Research Seminar by Dr Martin Nekola, who will be speaking on 'A Small Nation in a Big Country: The History of Czech Communities in the USA (1848-1918)'. Wednesday 24 Sept. in the Hardiman G010. See you there!

A massive congratulations to two of our brilliant students, Aoibhín Ní Gleasáin and Caden Casey, for their success at the Global Undergraduate Awards! Aoibhín was the Island of Ireland Regional Winner in History and Caden was Highly Commended in the History category. A fantastic achievement 🎉

Helen Hayes-Sweeney and her MA supervisor, Breandán Mac Suibhne, joined the History Show this weekend to discuss their use of the Imirce Collection. Brilliant to hear such fascinating research carried out at MA level! Have a listen here: www.rte.ie/radio/podcas...

Advance Notice: We are pleased to announce that the CSR will welcome @celestemcnamara.bsky.social to UoG to speak on 'Sleeping with the In-laws: Annulment by Reason of Affinity in 18th Century Venice' on 29th October, co-hosting with @historyatgalway.bsky.social. Further details in due course!

A big welcome to our MA cohort this year! We were joined by teaching colleagues, incoming, and outgoing MA students for the most important part of MA orientation - pizza! 🍕

Happy first week of the semester! Today we made the most of the sunshine and welcomed colleagues in History and Philosophy back for the new academic year!

Reminder that our Research Seminar Series is kicking off tomorrow 🎉

University of Galway launches digital archive of Long Kesh journals www.universityofgalway.ie/about-us/new... @araireland.bsky.social @historyatgalway.bsky.social

Delighted to share our Research Seminar Series for this semester! We're starting off next Wed 10 Sept @ 4pm by welcoming our new colleague, Dr Ciarán McCabe, who will be speaking on 'Privacy, Respectability, and Working-Class Domestic Spaces in Dublin's Tenements, c.1910-c.1960'!

Delighted to have you with us, Daniel!

My review of Patrick Gleeson's tremendous book 'Landscapes of Kingship in Early Medieval Ireland AD 400-1150' (IrishTimes 23/08/25). Very hard to do it proper justice in 800 words, but already it has led me to redesign my medieval Irish lecture modules @historyatgalway.bsky.social #medievalireland.

Congratulations to Pól Ó Dochartaigh and Niall Ó Ciosáin (and many of our colleagues in Roinn na Gaeilge) for their contributions in the recently published The Oxford History of the Irish Book, vol II: The Printed Book in Irish, 1567-2010s (OUP, 2025)!

Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley joined @news.rte.ie to discuss the importance of hearing the lived experience of survivors and families impacted by institutions as excavation begins at the former mother and baby home in Tuam. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

I find watching myself on tv excruciating, but in case anyone else is willing to put themselves through it, then I was on the latest episode of From That Small Island on @rte.ie this evening - talking (briefly!) about humanitarianism. @historyatgalway.bsky.social www.rte.ie/player/serie...

As always, have a search of your attics and let us know if you find any treasure troves of letters! 💌

Great lunchtime listen about our fantastic Imirce collection @uniofgalwayasc.bsky.social with our colleagues Breandán Mac Suibhne and Daniel Carey. Explore the vast database here: imirce.universityofgalway.ie/p/ms

Thanks so much to the Irish Ambassador and Embassy in Prague for hosting my talk. So many fascinating insights from so many people into how modern Ireland has emerged and evolved @historyatgalway.bsky.social @uniofgalwayasc.bsky.social @uniofgalwaylib.bsky.social @uniofgalwaycasscs.bsky.social

Tudor & Stuart Ireland 2025 is shaping up into a brilliant conference @ucddublin.bsky.social on 21-22 August. We've had a super response to the CFP, so if you're interested in speaking, please submit your proposal by Friday, 7 June. All the details can be found at tudorstuartireland.com

Our colleague, @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social, was interviewed for the forthcoming @rte.ie television documentary series 'From That Small Island: The Story of the Irish'. Catch the first episode on RTÉ1 and RTÉ Player this Sunday, 8 June at 6.30pm!

If you're in Prague this Thursday, catch Tomás Finn @finnuniofgalway.bsky.social speaking at the Irish Embassy on his brilliant recent research on the transformation of post-WWII Ireland!

I'm really excited about this workshop, which also doubles as the first event in our new AHRC-funded project, 'Sites of Fracture', which looks at c20th Irish history through the lens of landscape & capitalism. More details here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/pro... 🗃️ @historyatgalway.bsky.social

Our colleague @sarahannebuckley.bsky.social was interviewed by Seán Moncrieff at Newstalk about the new NCCA modules www.goloudplayer.com/episodes/529...

Congratulations to our PhD student Elliot Gallogly who recently received Research Ireland's doctoral funding. Here he is speaking on forgotten Sapphics of the Irish revolutionary era. His research examines the experience of LGBT+ individuals in rural Ireland, 1975-1998 @sarahannebuckley.bsky.social

The University of Galway has been named among the top 100 Universities in Europe according to the QS World University Rankings. The University was placed 98th in Europe out of 690 institutions across 42 locations and the Rankings by Subject have placed Classics and Ancient History in the top 51-150

Powerful account by our colleague @sarahannebuckley.bsky.social and Elaine Feeney of the importance of the decision by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment to publish modules addressing the history, legacy and literature of Ireland’s institutions www.thejournal.ie/readme/mothe...

Hosted by the School of History and Philosophy, a talk on 13 May by Dr. Georg Gangl of the Centre for the Philosophy of Historiography at the University of Ostrava, Czechia helped strengthen connections between the disciplines of History and Philosophy and postgraduate researchers within the school.

Great coverage of Imirce, another great archive www.universityofgalway.ie/colleges-and... one can consult when studying history at the University of Galway www.universityofgalway.ie/colleges-and... @uniofgalwaylib.bsky.social @uniofgalwayasc.bsky.social @uniofgalwaycasscs.bsky.social

Tuesday 13th May at 2pm in G010 the School of History and Philosophy hosts an event to enhance the school's research environment. It includes discussions on the Historiography and the Philosophy of History by Georg Gangl (University of Oulu Finland) and a Roundtable by Profs Dal Lago and Ó Murchadha

Co-organised by the School of History and Philosophy, the Wannsee Conference symposium takes place at the University of Galway tomorrow - exploring representations of this key episode in the history of the Holocaust in museums and media.

Our colleague Sarah-Anne Buckley here at the launch of ‘Old Ireland in Colour’, photography exhibition at Kylemore Abbey. The exhibition will run until late Autumn 2025 in the Victorian Castle. The exhibition is based on the best-selling book series by Sarah-Anne Buckley and John Breslin.

Lots of stimulating papers on Religion on the Ethnic Frontier at workshop organised by Róisín Healy, Head of History, and hosted by the Centres for the Study of Religion and for the Investigation of Transnational Encounters. Thanks to all who participated, especially our visitors from overseas!

Always a contentious subject, our colleague Tomás Finn wrote an article on one off housing with Tony Varley for the Irish Times following the publication of their book www.ucdpress.ie/page/detail/... with UCD press

Hosted by the Centres of Religion and the Investigation of Transnational Encounters, this workshop on Religion on the Ethic Frontier provided fascinating insights into religious and national tensions in diverse places across Europe and beyond during the 19th and 20th centuries

Reminder Workshop on religion on the ethnic frontier with examples from across Europe from the nineteenth century to the present to be held at the University of Galway tomorrow Tuesday, 29 April. All welcome. Please rsvp to organiser at [email protected].

Workshop on religion on the ethnic frontier with examples from across Europe from the nineteenth century to the present to be held at the University of Galway on Tues., 29 April. All welcome. Please rsvp to organiser at [email protected].