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ICHS 2026 Symposium: Peasant Movements and Land Agitation in Modern Ireland,  Institute of Irish Studies, QUB, Saturday 11 April 2026, 9.30-4.00pm. All welcome (in-person and online). Further details and registration👇

'Water, Towns and Topography II', the #IHTA 2026 seminar is convened with the Irish Walled Towns Network, an initiative of @heritagecouncil.ie Free to attend, booking essential 📆20 May 2026 📍Royal Irish Academy, Dublin @ria.ie 🎟️ www.ria.ie/2026/03/30/i...

sites.google.com/view/whai202... We are delighted this afternoon to present the final programme for our conference in May. Registration and further details will be made after Easter.

Looking forward to giving this lecture in just over a week's time at Waterford Central Library! Pre booking essential. #skystorians #waterfordhistory #militaryhistory waterfordlibraries.ie/from-waterfo...

We move to Belfast for the next two #MapMonday posts. #IHTA Belfast, part I to 1840 by Raymond Gillespie and Stephen A. Royle was originally published by the @ria.ie in 2003. 1/7

Really looking forward to speaking at this conference. Get your paper proposals in before April 15th www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...

Introducing the IGRS’ new short video, now available to view free on our website. www.irishancestors.ie Click on > to left of V for Vimeo sign bottom right to get a row of symbols, includig the one for expanding to full screen.

This is a free event in-person and online. Registration required.

This is a free event in-person and online. Registration required.

In the latest UCD Library #CulturalHeritage blog post Polly Morton looks at the eccentric life of 19th century landowner Adolphus Cooke, taken from the Urban Folklore Project held in @bealoideasucd.bsky.social @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social @ Read at buff.ly/jHTP2Jo

This year's Wiles Lectures in the History of Civilisation will be given on 20-23 May by Prof Sunil Amrith (Yale) on the subject 'Towards a History of Repair'. More details at: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ... All welcome!

Upcoming talk: Professor Joseph Brady will give a lecture on 'Killester - A unique garden suburb' on Thursday 26th March (tomorrow) at 5pm in the Máirtín Uí Chadhain Lecture Theatre (Room 2041B), Arts Block, Trinity College Dublin (@tcddublin.bsky.social). Admission is free and all are welcome.

In honour of #WorldTuberculosisDay read all about Dr Noel Browne, who lost his father, mother and older brother to TB, and who spent months in hospital suffering from the disease. As Minister for Health he launched a campaign to eradicate TB from Ireland. www.dib.ie/biography/br...

Job opportunity with manuscripts and early printed books! Librarian at Lincoln Cathedral – Cathedral Library £43,722 - Full time applicaiton DL: 14 April 2026 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQX901/l...

This may be of interest to @ssnci.bsky.social members and suppporters!

Don't forget! Tonight (Tuesday) Marc Caball will address the society on 'The night and life on the streets: Tralee in the late 1820s and early 1830s'. 7pm, Boston College, Stephen's Green Dublin. Or online: t.co/uqF4SzxwXQ

Looking forward to speaking at this @irishhumanities.bsky.social event organised by Eugene McNulty and Rupsa Banerjee tomorrow www.irishhumanities.ie/news-events/...

ICHS 2026 Symposium: Peasant Movements and Land Agitation in Modern Ireland,  Institute of Irish Studies, QUB, Saturday 11 April 2026, 9.30-4.00pm. All welcome (in-person and online). Further details and registration👇

This week’s #MapMonday is another town with monastic foundations. Armagh by Catherine McCullough and W.H. Crawford was originally published by @ria.ie in 2007

A reminder that you have until Friday to get your nominations in for the ARA Archive Volunteering Award 2026 - find all the info and criteria etc here: www.archives.org.uk/ara-archive-...

📢 Doctoral and early career historians: submit your abstracts for the 1-day Cambridge-based workshop examining the history of Black health and healthcare in 20th-century Britain. Submission deadline: 1 April Workshop date: 29 May More info and contact info👉 histmed.org/call-for-par...

Today we launch a call for the Society's next round of 'Public History Grants' and 'Conference Panel Grants', 2026-27: bit.ly/4lNt8ck Public History Grants support collaborative projects by historians working in / outside HE; Panel Grants enable conference attendance on a shared theme #Skystorians

#DIBLives Armed with a blunderbuss, a brace of pistols, and a dagger, highwayman William Crotty (d. #OTD 1742) was a deadly shot with both hands. He was popular with the people of Waterford who claimed he killed only in self-defence & shared his spoils with the poor. www.dib.ie/biography/cr...

A famine, a mission and a battle for souls. In Famine-era Achill, relief, religion and power became deeply entangled. Patricia Byrne examines the Achill Mission’s expansion, its role as landlord, and the tensions surrounding aid, education and conversion. historyireland.com/evangelical-...

#DIBLives Born #OTD 1731, Elizabeth Rawdon's Dublin residence was described as ‘the gathering place of people of genius.’ In 1783 she was the 1st woman published in 'Archaeologia' when she submitted a discourse on the remains of a human skeleton discovered on her estate. www.dib.ie/biography/ra...

early thoughts on ‘Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation’! 🥰 I am hearing that copies are starting to land stateside already… official publication date is April 15 www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Review by Sarah-Anne Buckley of Olwen Purdue and Georgina Laragy's book 'Poverty, Children and the Poor Law in Industrial Belfast, 1880-1918', is available here: @universitypress.cambridge.org

Nottingham Medieval Studies Vol. 69, No. 1 (2025) www.brepolsonline.net/content/jour... @brepols.net

The Commemorations Grants scheme, funded by the Commemorations unit of the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (TAG), has opened for applications.

How such a brilliant resource is restricted to so few continues to baffle me. For what good? You only have to look at the amazing *freely accessible* Irish History Online database, hosted and maintained by @ria.ie, to truly grasp what scholars are missing out on #dh Check it out here: www.iho.ie

On Sat 11 April we will be hosting, in association with @irishhistorians.bsky.social, a day symposium on 'Peasant Movements and Land Agitation in Modern Ireland'. This is a free event, open to all in-person or online via Teams. More info at www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris... #IrishStudies

Reminder: the next Irish Historical Society meeting takes place Tuesday, 24 March, 7:00pm. Prof Marc Caball (UCD) will speak on “The night and life on the streets: Tralee in the late 1820s and early 1830s.” Boston College, 43 St Stephen’s Green/or online: tinyurl.com/yrzf9sva

The Royal Irish Academy (RIA) has awarded the Cunningham Medal to Mary E. Daly MRIA in recognition of her outstanding distinction in research and her contribution to advancing the aims of the Academy. Read more: www.ria.ie/2026/03/16/m...

Additional tickets have been released for Dr Deirdre Foley's talk on Wednesday 25th March from 6-7pm in the Wood Quay Venue, 'Women and Girls in Jacob's Biscuit Factory, c.1911-1977'. Reserve your spot at the link below!🔗 @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social www.eventbrite.ie/e/women-and-...

Dear all, Here is the updated programme of the SOFEIR Irish Studies conference, on the theme of Irish Exceptionalism. It takes place next week (25-26 March) at the University of Strasbourg. See you there soon! www.sofeir.fr/irish-except...

Brilliant to have @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social speak with our students & staff (& wider Limerick history community) next week! Really looking forward to attending!

1/2 The Irish Independent features the #Digital #Archive Project, #Imirce. Kyle Kusch, Project Digital Archivist speaks about the importance of postcards to #Irish #immigrants in the 19th century. Prof. Kerby Miller donated the collection in 2021 @uniofgalwayasc.bsky.social Photo: Aengus McMahon

#StPatricksDay is an appropriate time to issue a call for expressions of interest in my latest book project, with working title “Im/migration and the Irish”. This will chart BOTH the experiences of Irish migrants abroad over 1,500 years AND those who have migrated…

New publication post this morning! Delighted to have an essay in this volume - this essay begins w the town of Emly in Tipperary & the controversial request by the Catholics to buy Church of Ireland cathedral building there. Drop me a DM if you would like to read but can’t get hold of a hard copy.

The Call for submissions to the annual IHA conference - Un/Silencing Healthcare: Voices, Power and Imagination has been extended to Thursday 16 April 2026. www.irishhumanities.ie/news-events/...

Interested in environmental history? The IHR is offering a summer 2026 internship with the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). Apply by 15 April 2026, 11:59 pm BST. More details at: buff.ly/Vzpz6G3.

☘️ Read St Patrick in his own words ☘️ A concise booklet 'My name is Patrick. I am a sinner. A simple country person and the least of all believers' presents St Patrick’s Confession in a clear and faithful English translation: https://shop.ria.ie/products/my-name-is-patrick?variant=47002150764890

"I’m very worried about what is being destroyed. We’re all extremely worried, because what we’re seeing is the ad hoc closure and drastic cutting of many, many departments across the country." Historian Lyndal Roper in today's THE: bit.ly/4sqsfJ2 #Skystorians 1/2

🎙️ Submit your #oralhistory proposal by Friday 20th March! OHNI welcomes community groups, researchers, archivists & all #oralhistory practitioners. ✨ Keynote: Mary Stewart @britishlibrary.bsky.social 🗓️ 18–19 June 2026 📍 Meadowlands Hotel, Tralee, Co. Kerry Submit🔗 forms.gle/4T2iaauPBrWq...

Looking forward to Prof Jenny Shaw (Alabama) speaking at Centre for Early Modern History seminar @tlrhub.bsky.social with the paper title On Land and at Sea: The Enslaved Childhood of Julius Soubise, 1754–1764 www.tcd.ie/history/rese...

📣 Job Opening: Program Administrator, Research Programs 📣 Work with the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies to advance our research mission through the thoughtful design and execution of scholarly programming. 👉 Apply here by March 27: careers.nd.edu/search-caree...

Great tread from @ihtaria.bsky.social 👇

This should be a great conference. Well done @unioflimerick.bsky.social