Any chance I can squeeze into the middle? I guess not😂 #DogsOfBluesky #JackRussellTerrier

Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch

I was fortunate enough to host the @apgenealogists.bsky.social pmc session with @andrewredfern.bsky.social on smarter workflows with AI. I'll admit to being sceptical of AI but Andrew gave some great examples of how to make it work for you #APGPMC

This was a great opening session. It's always interesting to hear Alec talk about his advocacy work #APG #Genealogy

Made my latest 🩸 donation this afternoon. Nothing like a packet of Tayto afterwards #GiveBlood

I hope you all read this from me.

I had a great chat with @gregcantyfuzion.bsky.social for his Win Happy podcast on my work as a genealogist and some other topics. This was a fun one to do and you can listen to it here fuzionwinhappy.libsyn.com/the-world-of... #Genealogy #Podcast

Join OHNI at a FREE event during this year's Dublin Festival of History! Discover how oral history brings the past to life through fascinating audio clips and personal stories. When: Monday 6th October, 6:30PM Where: Pearse Street Library, Dublin 🎟️Tickets are limited so secure your place!

I'm really looking forward to speaking as part of this conference on Friday via Zoom. I'll be talking about the religious burial ground in South Presentation Cork and what it can tell us about the lives of the women buried there #WomensHistory #LoveIrishResearch #Archives

Interested in contested public history? Fulbright-Queen’s University Belfast award now available for an MA in Public History at Queen’s University Belfast. Apply now! @ncph.bsky.social @@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social us.fulbrightonline.org/countries/eu...

Wonderful tour of Nano Nagle Place as Gaeilge for Heritage Week. My own proficiency with the language isn't great but I was really impressed by how well our guide did delivering a tour in the language #HeritageWeek #Cork #Gaeilge

I'm really looking forward to this webinar starting shortly. Three great speakers and a really interesting topic #Genealogy #LatinAmerica

If you are an APG member then consider getting involved with leadership and help contribute to the future direction of the association #Genealogy

For anyone around Cork city tomorrow at 12pm come along on this free tour of the South Parish nanonagleplace.ie/nanoevents/n... #Cork #HeritageWeek2025 #NanoNagle

📍Cork tomorrow! Join OHNI's Heritage Week event, 'Inclusive Oral Heritage: Exploring our Diverse Foundations,' 2pm at The Metropole Hotel. @heritagecouncil.ie 🎟️Spaces are FREE but please book via Eventbrite - last few remain! ☘️See you there! Booking below ⬇️

If you have an interest in the South Parish area of Cork and the history behind some of it's churches then join me next Tuesday for this special Heritage Week tour with Nano Nagle Place #HeritageWeek2025 #Cork nanonagleplace.ie/nanoevents/n...

We are delighted to announce that a full programme and registration for the 35th Irish Conference of Historian is now available. Maynooth University, 12-13 September. Please share widely. www.eventbrite.com/e/35th-irish...

This should be a fantastic webinar next week for anyone who is curious about what running a genealogy business in Latin America is like. Please spread the word #Genealogy #LatinAmerica

The wonderful folks at Cork Heritage Open Day are looking for volunteers to help out at some of the venues and on walking tours this Saturday 16th August. It's always fun to get involved with and who knows what cool stuff you'll get to see #HeritageWeek2025 #Cork www.corkcity.ie/en/cork-heri...

Keep Daisy in your prayers. She's been unwell this week. Some sort of inflammation in her gut. The vets are keeping her in for the day but it will all depend on how she responds to treatment

Join OHNI in the Metropole Hotel here in Cork for this free event as part of Heritage Week #Cork #OralHistory #HeritageWeek2025

Have you heard our latest episode of YOU’RE DEAD TO ME about Viking Women? It’s very funny! In the UK you can hear it now on BBC SOUNDS. Outside the UK, you can pay for early access on Apple’s BBC Podcasts Premium service - or wait the 28 days for it to be released for free on all pod catchers

Not even close

So, I realize racists are really dumb, but I was not prepared to have multiple people arguing with me on Twitter, the Everything App, that the United Kingdom was an ethnostate. Like...what ethnicity, mate? What's united about it? What were they uniting?

The Women’s History Network is offering one £250 prize for an undergraduate dissertation on any aspect of women’s or gender history (though with a strong focus on women) written during the 2024-2025 academic year. Find out more! womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-undergra... #GenderHist #WomensHistory

A special plea to buyers of Pen and Sword family history books scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-sp... #genealogy #FamilyHistory

Imagine it’s the west of Ireland in 1847, during the Great Famine? Starving men, women, children desperately try to get to the Workhouse or charity Soup Kitchens. British Red Coat soldiers line up on the road, fire, then bayonet wounded by the road, while laughing. 1/

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

Spectacular drone display celebrating 150 years of Felixstowe Port. Open day at the Bishop of Norwich’s garden. Lego comes to Ipswich. All happening this weekend. Plus Suffolk’s history recorders | Kate Viscardi Read more ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk @gardeningkate.bsky.social

This is one of those times when I miss Terry Pratchett. He had such a strong sense of injustice and righteous anger when he saw it. I can only imagine what he would have felt about what's happening at the moment

"...the long-running historical debate over the relative value of oral and documentary evidence." Explore this gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/m...

There should be some sort of universal law banning Zoom meetings beyond two hours. Just sat through a three and a half hour meeting. Plenty of important stuff discussed but I have no idea if I was even paying attention after the second hour.

My cousin was interviewed for @offtheball.bsky.social about the science of making hurleys. Araglen hurleys will be in fierce demand after all this www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqK... #Hurling #Araglen #AllIreland

Great to see some familiar faces in this clip from RTE news earlier this evening when Marty Morrissey stopped off in Araglen ahead of the All Ireland on Sunday #Hurling #AllIreland #Cork #Araglen

The build up to the All Ireland final on Sunday continues. Good to see my cousin interviewed @independent.ie about his hurley making business in Araglen #Araglen #Cork #Tipperary #Hurling

Dasher getting his dog on in the sunshine this afternoon #DogsOfBluesky

We're Hiring: The National Museum of Ireland is seeking a Curator of Contemporary Irish History 🕔 Deadline: Friday, 18 July 2025 at 17:00 📄 Learn more & apply: www.museum.ie/en-IE/About/... #JobFairy #museumjobs

Post your choice for alternate reality president that isn't President Whitmore from Independence Day (Vetinari was my first choice but I think Sam Vimes would be funnier. Certainly not a believer in kings!)

For anyone with scholarship on Academia.edu you might want to check your account settings. I learned from a friend that some material is being used to auto-generate AI podcasts. Luckily there is a setting allowing you to opt out www.academia.edu/settings#ai-...

Alright which one of you supremely talented people made this. I love it. #BecauseINeverRelent

Will this also apply to the ESTA Visa Waiver? www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Want to learn how to capture amazing stories? 🎤 OHNI's training programme will start in mid-September 2025. Find out more and explore OHNI membership at [email protected] Or visit www.oralhistorynetworkireland.ie #OralHistory #SharedStories #OralHistoryNetworkIreland #Training

I felt it was good idea to write down some of my thoughts on my recent experience as a @pastpreservers.bsky.social guest speaker on board @fredolsencruise.bsky.social around the Irish coast ryangenealogicalresearch.com/2025/06/18/c... #cruise #Ireland

The Raise the Roof campaign group is holding a rally outside the Dáil calling for urgent Government action on Ireland's housing and homelessness crisis

An amazing keynote from @stevenhigh.bsky.social in Limerick @oralhistoryie.bsky.social annual meeting. So many amazing projects I wish I had known about when working on my MA last year #oralhistory #publichistory

I should have remembered what a chaotic mess Terminal 3 of Manchester Airport is. Security go over the top when scanning bags and the gates are right next to each other so it's hard to know which line you should be in

The second formal night on the cruise and very glad I brought a tux @fredolsencruise.bsky.social

Got a chance to visit the Giant's Causeway yesterday during our @fredolsencruise.bsky.social stopover in Belfast. It's such an amazing landscape. At sea today and I have my first @pastpreservers.bsky.social talk this afternoon on Irish folklore

Got a chance to visit the Giant's Causeway yesterday during our @fredolsencruise.bsky.social stopover in Belfast. It's such an amazing landscape. At sea today and I have my first @pastpreservers.bsky.social talk this afternoon on Irish folklore

📢Early bird extended📢 The Oral History Network of Ireland (OHNI) early bird rate for our Annual Meeting extended to Friday 6 June. Join us at the Absolute Hotel in Limerick on 13-14 June 2025. 👉 Register today oralhistorynetworkireland.ie/2025-meeting #EarlyBird #OralHistory #Limerick #OHNI