2/2 UCD is well represented on the @deptcultureirl.bsky.social Advisory Committee by two members: Chair of the Committee, University Librarian Dr. @collinssandra.bsky.social, and committee member & Assistant Professor @ucdspswsj.bsky.social Dr. Mary McAuliffe. 👏👏 www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

1/2 We are delighted with the publication of @deptcultureirl.bsky.social Advisory Committee's Report on Women's Stories, with recommendations to enhance & enrich the representation of women & women’s stories in National Cultural Institutions & collections. Press release: www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

Permanent women’s museum may be developed in Ireland - hooray - its is necessary and a matter of equality and gender justice #speirgorm www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

*JOB FAIRY* Role: Rights and Administration Assistant (1 year, part time) UCD Press is seeking a person to support with rights and administration development. We are looking for a person to research, initiate and develop translation rights for the Press, especially in the Chinese market.

Today’s the final day to submit your abstracts!

The AHA's Vetted Resources compile materials that have been professionally vetted by historians, offering instructors access to high-quality accessibility guides, pedagogy resources, and materials specific to a range of places, eras, topics, and fields that meet professional standards.🗃️

'In writing about the life of this remarkable but overlooked Corkwoman, historian Leeann Lane has performed a great service. A meticulously researched and engrossing portrait of the Republican activist, suffragette and educational pioneer.' Well done Leeann..so deserving👏

On Thursday 12 Feb. we will be sponsoring a conference on THE ULSTER PLANTATION, linked to the 'People of Plantation Ulster' database project (QUB/Maynooth). This is a free event open to all, held at PRONI (11-4). Registration and programme is at: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/conference...

We are delighted to announce that we'll be hosting the SSNCI conference in Maynooth next June. Call for papers attached. Please spread far and wide!

On Friday 16 January we will be hosting a one-day conference on LABOUR POLITICS IN WEST BELFAST, 1918-83. Free event - all welcome (in-person and online). www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...

If you have students interested in an extremely trans- and interdisciplinary PhD in humanities, check out our new PhD in Magic: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/pg-res...

Economic and Social History Society of Ireland, 52nd Annual Conference. DCU St Patrick’s Campus, Friday 5th and Saturday 6th December 2025.

Recordings are now available of Jane Ohlmeyer's excellent RHS Anniversary Lecture: 'Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland' bit.ly/3MdjXEn Jane's lecture was given on 21 November and is available to watch or listen to again. #Skystorians 1/2

Looking forward to speaking on the influence of intellectuals in modern Ireland at Economic and Social History conference this Friday

It's #ExploreYourArchive Week! The theme for day 1 was #EYAConservation | #EYACaomhnú This image is from the Praeger collection, which represents one of the most important botanical initiatives in Ireland as it provided a baseline for modern-day conservation: doi.org/10.7486/DRI....

Economic and Social History Society of Ireland, 52nd Annual Conference. DCU St Patrick’s Campus, Friday 5th and Saturday 6th December 2025.

The day 3 theme of the Explore Your Archive focus week is #EYAMedieval | #EYAMeánaoiseach! Hasten with thy content and forgetteth not to tag 🏷️ @araireland.bsky.social & @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social in your posts #ExploreYourArchive #CuardaighDoChartlann

Who could have seen this coming except literally everyone share.google/GFaMy3K2Jjlo...

Thanks to all who attended our ICHS committee meeting this morning. Our new advocacy policy document was approved with some amendments and we’ll be making that available soon.

The Royal Historical Society has published a very helpful guide to its various membership categories, including the Fellowship. If you're engaged in History study, research or teaching (including in public history, journalism & GLAM) & keen to support the discipline, do have a look. #Skystorians

As part of the @cemslimerick.bsky.social Winter School at Univeristy of Limerick next Tuesday and Wednesday, you're welcome to Jason Harris's keynote on 'Manuscript publication in the seventeenth century: questions and approaches'. 5.15pm.

On 8 December we have a joint seminar with the Centre for Public History. Visiting Scholar Jessica Martell (Appalachian State Univ.) will speak on 'Beyond plantation mentalities in Irish literature, film, and culture'. In-person and online. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

#WomenInRebellion We hope you've enjoyed this series (curated by our colleague @timvrti.bsky.social)! These voices — from courtrooms, safehouses, prison cells, and family rooms — reveal women as actors, witnesses, and narrators in the 1798 Rebellion.

We are pleased to launch today a new funding scheme, jointly with @ihr.bsky.social & DC Thomson. Applied History Fellowships bit.ly/4ijiuII offer financial / practical support to develop the wider impact and application of academic work. £12,000 for 6 months. Closing date: 31 Jan 2026 #Skystorians

Public lecture: ‘Lord Lowry of Crossgar: A Reassessment’ Professor Brice Dickson, Queen’s University, Belfast, 14 November 2025 Irish Legal History Society

Upcoming conference: ‘O’CONNELL AND HIS LEGACY’, Catholic Historical Society of Ireland, annual conference, Saturday 22 November 2025. @dublincityuni.bsky.social

Upcoming conference: ‘O’CONNELL AND HIS LEGACY’, Catholic Historical Society of Ireland, annual conference, Saturday 22 November 2025. @dublincityuni.bsky.social

Public lecture: ‘Lord Lowry of Crossgar: A Reassessment’ Professor Brice Dickson, Queen’s University, Belfast, 14 November 2025 Irish Legal History Society

‘O’CONNELL AND HIS LEGACY’, Catholic Historical Society of Ireland, annual conference, Saturday 22 November 2025

Do share! The Catholic Historical Society of Ireland’s annual conference is on Daniel O’Connell and his Legacies - 22 Nov in @dculibrary.bsky.social - all welcome! (Small fee on the day) @nmireland.bsky.social @nlireland.bsky.social @jdmccafferty.bsky.social www.eventbrite.ie/e/oconnell-a...

Dr. Leeann Lane's thought-provoking exhibtion Cork Afterlives is now on display in O'Reilly library. Don't miss the untold stories of Cork’s revolutionary women who stayed single, and were sidelined, in the Irish Free State. @lloislanel.bsky.social @dublincityuni.bsky.social

We are co-hosting on 3 Dec. a conference on 'From Boundary Commission to Border Poll? A Century of the Irish Border'. This is a free event, but registration is required (by 26 Nov.). Info at: www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...

In a change to our planned seminar series, our next seminar will be Sophie Cooper speaking on 'Building to feel ‘at home’: Embedding/embedded memory in the built environments of Belfast and the diaspora'. Thursday 13 Nov, *online* at 7pm. @sophcocooper.bsky.social www.eventbrite.ie/e/sophie-coo...

RIA is partnering with Geographical Society of Ireland to present a panel event exploring Geography and Geosciences in the School Curriculum with keynote by @dhkaplanoh.bsky.social Kent State University Book now: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal... @geolsurvie.bsky.social

Looking forward to this event - Sarah’s book is fantastic & will be of interest to historians (or anyone!) interested in themes of religion, money, the family, class, clergy-laity relationships, immigration, the built environment & more! #speirghorm #speirgorm #skystorians

Published today: 'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940', by Gareth Roddy bit.ly/4nwj9Y2 Gareth's book is the latest title in the Society's New Historical Perspectives series @uolpress.bsky.social. Available Open Access and in paperback print #Skystorians 1/2

If you're near Limerick, Dr. Harald E. Braun (University of Liverpool) will speak in the Hunt Museum on 5 November, 6-8pm, on: ‘War Crimes: Seventeenth-Century Perspectives from the Bolton Library.’ Organised by @cemslimerick.bsky.social

The upcoming release of the 1926 census records of Ireland will be celebrated across a major public programme of events next year

Call for Papers – IHSA 2026 Conference at Maynooth University The Irish History Students’ Association, with the support of the Department of History at Maynooth University, is delighted to announce the 77th Annual IHSA Conference, taking place on Saturday, 28 February 2026.

📢 Call for Senior Editor: #DigitalHumanities on our growing broad scope open access journal Cogent Arts & Humanities ✨ Apply by 23 November 2025 👇 think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru... @tandfresearch.bsky.social @routledgehistory.bsky.social

Our next online seminar will be on Thursday 16th October! Join us for this interdisciplinary panel to discuss working in archives and methodologies! To book your place, please use this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We can't wait to see you there!

To mark the release of my new book, When Fitness Went Global: The Rise of Physical Culture in the Nineteenth Century (Bloomsbury, 2025), I’m giving away a copy. To enter: 💪 Repost 🌍 Comment with your favorite strength tradition I’ll pick a winner next week. #StrengthHeritage #SportHistory

It was a fantastic closing roundtable and a fitting end to a wonderful two days. Many thanks to my co-organisers, @virtualtreasury.bsky.social, @tlrhub.bsky.social, and all the speakers, participants, and attendees! The start of a generative conversation that I hope we will continue.

The Thatcher conference posters are up and you may see mine and Ciara Nicholson face about @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social . Anyone interested in attending the information is on the poster, or just let me know. @qubhistory.bsky.social @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social

Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News. Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.

VACANCY closing in one week: we invite applications for a new job at the Society: Events and Academic Engagement Officer (0.6 FTE) bit.ly/3V8q5PC The post-holder will join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £36,433 pro rata. Closing date: Sunday 5 Oct #Skystorians

#CfP: The Sociological Association of Ireland Annual Conference 2026, Queen’s University Belfast 7th – 8th May 2026 Details here: sociology.ie/event/2026-a... We would love to see you in beautiful Belfast! #sociology #socialtheory #sai26 #spéirghorm

Excellent analysis of the upcoming Moldova election and its importance for Europe and Russia by Keith Harrington @maynoothuniversity.ie Department of History rte.ie/brainstorm/2... via @rte.ie

Welcome IHR @tudorstuartseminar.bsky.social! You can find them and our other projects, seminars and people in our starter pack go.bsky.app/2AUxmcA Let me know if we've missed anyone.

Congratulations to @lorrainegrimes.bsky.social on the publication of her first book which is now available with Bloomsbury www.bloomsbury.com/uk/single-mo...