Inniu, chuir an tUachtarán fáilte roimh an Uasal Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Uachtarán na hÚcráine, agus an Chéadbhean Olena Zelenska chuig Áras an Uachtaráin ar ghlao chúirtéise. Ráiteas ón Uachtarán: president.ie/ga/ilmheain-...

The latest EYA Spotlight exhibition is now live! At CAHG’s annual conference, community groups shared digital posters highlighting their work. These posters are now exhibited on the EYA website. Explore them here 👉 www.exploreyourarchive.org/spotlight-co...

Library Ireland Week is here! #LIW25 Our restored An Tiomna Nuadh shows how libraries and conservation work light the way by ensuring rare and fragile books last for future readers. Read more about the conservation process in our latest blog post 📚 nuigarchives.blogspot.com/2025/11/our-...

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

Colonel Sauerzweig’s arrangement and translation of 'Silent Night' from the Conradh na Gaeilge archive🌟 Humming beneath the melody, the lower voices in the quartet set a quiet, peaceful tone that fits today’s #ExploreYourArchive theme of #EYASilence @araireland.bsky.social @cnagaeilge.bsky.social

We lost the wonderful Shane MacGowan two years ago today. The Pogues' album "Rum, Sodomy and the Lash" is one of my favourite albums of all time. The emotion that Shane put into singing the lyrics of "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" is profound and very moving. #ShaneMacGowan

@araireland.bsky.social Explore your Archive kicked off over the weekend and our @uniofgalwayasc.bsky.social account have been sharing some gorgeous posts based on each day's theme! #EYAConservation #ExploreYourArchive #EYACaomhnú #CuardaighDoChartlann

Appropriately commemorated on the old ten pound note, as Swift was most famed in his time for his opposition to Wood's copper half-pence. www.irishphilosophy.com/2013/06/18/s...

Helpless -Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young🍁 tidal.com/browse/track...

An tseachtain seo caite, tugadh An Tiomna Nuadh, an t-aistriúchán Gaeilge ar The New Testament ó 1602, ar ais chuig an bhfoireann bailiúchán speisialta. Rinneadh obair chaomhnaithe ar an leabhar i dTeach Mhucrois, Cill Airne agus anois tá cuma iontach air! #EYACaomhnú #CuardaighDoChartlann

Last week, we welcomed back An Tiomna Nuadh, the 1602 Irish translation of The New Testament. After undergoing major conservation work in the Muckross Bookbindery in Killarney, An Tiomna Nuadh has returned in much better condition. Look at the transformation! #EYAConservation #ExploreYourArchive

Not one, but two new posts now live on our blog!

Irisí Vogue ó chartlann Siobhán McKenna, le grianghraf de Siobhán McKenna lena clann san áireamh, agus fógraí le haghaidh stocaí níolóin. #EYAÁilleacht #CuardaighDoChartlann

Siobhán McKenna's collection of 1950s Vogue magazines including a feature on Siobhán and her family, and plenty of ads for nylon tights. A snapshot of beauty in the 1950s! #EYABeauty #ExploreYourArchive

Pause a moment, and read... • Brendan Kennelly •

We are absolutely delighted that 'Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages' will be sponsored by @lincolnmedieval.bsky.social @ochjs.bsky.social Register here: buytickets.at/bordersbound... Programme: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

On 11 November 1954: The Two Towers is published! Being the second part of J.R.R. #Tolkien's epic The Lord of the Rings, it is a volume of two halves. The first follows Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli to Fangorn and Rohan; and after the Battle of the Hornburg, ends with Gandalf taking Pippin to Gondor.

During both World Wars, the Society tried to prevent destruction of its books and collections by moving some of them out of London to safer storage.

Don lá atá ann! Tá taispeántas ó chartlann Máire Mhic Róibín leagtha amach ag @niamhnicharra.bsky.social do ábhar atá bainteach leis an searmanas insealbhaithe. Tá sé le feiceáil sa Seomra Leitheoireachta Cartlann agus Bailiúchán Speisialta💜 #uachtaránnahÉireann #cartlanna #gaeilge #insealbhú

Delighted Caden Casey and Aoibhín Ní Gleasáin received awards at the Global Undergraduate Awards at the Royal Irish Academy undergraduateawards.com/regional-win... Their essays at the @universityofgalway.bsky.social have been recognised as among the very best of those sent from across the world

🎉The call for participation for #HAP26 is now open! Alongside @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy, @royalhistsoc.org & @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social we invite you to explore the theme 'Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: The Impact of Archives and Historical Research'. Apply today: bit.ly/46VfEVY

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 🎉

For culture night, the start of a paper delivered by President's Michael D. Higgins to Trinity Historical Society on the worthiness of the arts in the 21st century.

Tuesday evening openings are back! Open until 8 each Tuesday evening. Getting the Michael D Higgins collection listed, wonderful drafts and research notes from his receipt of a Doctorate of Laws at NUI Galway on 23 January 2012.

Peter J. Marshall (1933-2025) and the Royal Historical Society: an appreciation bit.ly/4mSADyn We are very grateful to @petermandler.bsky.social for his reflections on Peter Marshall, former President of the Society (1996-2000), which are published today on the RHS blog #Skystorians

Dia dhaoibh, a chairde! The Northern Ireland Place-Name Project has just landed on Bluesky. We will be sharing stories, history and a few surprises behind our local place-names. Do you have ideas on what type of content you would like to see? Maps, archives or just fun facts? Let us know below 😀

The 2025 Richard Benson Lecture in the Reproduced Image (@bodleian.ox.ac.uk) will be given by Joel Meyerowitz, reflecting on his career through his photobooks. 28 October 2025 Weston Library. Book now to avoid disappointment! visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/oct25/...

Registration closes 7 Sept. 35th Irish Conference of Historians, 12-13 Sept. @maynoothuniversity.ie Please share widely. @muahi.bsky.social @muresearch.bsky.social @mu-ssi.bsky.social @mulibrary.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social @qubhistory.bsky.social

Two papers this afternoon reinforce messages from earlier that there needs to be active intention to create genuine inclusively of archives & for the users of archives - looking at intergenerational practices as well as radical softness & "slow archives" speakers: Chloe Lee & Nella McNicol #ARA2025

From our exhibition on school nursing: this early 1900s pamphlet by the Liverpool Queen Victoria District Nursing Association, which explores the role of the school nurse in the late 1890s. You can read more about this item and the display from the curator's blog post here: bit.ly/4mKVaoe

Looking for members help. Dr Maria Luddy and Dr Judith Harford are writing a book on the experiences of Irish women national school teachers, 1890-1950. They would love to hear from anyone with material such as diaries, letters, photographs, or other artefacts. email [email protected].

There’s still plenty of time to submit an entry to the Parliamentary History Essay Prize!

Economic and Social History Society of Ireland CfP for their annual conference deadline 30 September 2025!

Forthcoming publication based on papers from the 33rd Irish Conference of Historians editors @finnuniofgalway.bsky.social @kieran-hoare.bsky.social @uniofgalway.bsky.social @historyatgalway.bsky.social @uniofgalwaylib.bsky.social

My colleagues @philosophygalway.bsky.social have just advertised for a permanent position in Philosophy of Technology. There are some very exciting things happening in that subject in our School and University at the moment - a very good time to be coming to Galway! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNQ811/l...

We’ve launched a new collection of openly accessible videos, Interviews with Historians, in which prominent 20th century historians reflect on their lives and professional practices. Access the collection here: www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...

Lecture: Dr Robert Armstrong (TCD, ‘Reflections on the 1625 Revival’, Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland, 15 May 2025 www.historians.ie/lecture-dr-r...

Public webinar: Helen Doyle (Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Maynooth University). Title: ‘Institutions of confinement or care? The successes and failures of the Irish District Lunatic Asylum system.’ @hstmnetworkireland.bsky.social Zoom registration: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The Irish word ‘Cásc’ (in English, Easter) derives from the Romance language line of ‘Pascha’ via Latin & Greek, and so back to Aramaic. (Met Museum)

We are sorry to hear of the death of Tom Dunne, professor emeritus of history at UCC and formerly a director of Cork University Press. Details of funeral arrangements are at rip.ie/death-notice...

13 Apr 1742: The first ever performance of G. F. Handel's Messiah oratorio takes place in #Dublin #otd at Neal’s #music hall Fishamble St (NPG)

Returning to Tipperary and this Friday Clonmel to revisit Pawel Paul Strzelecki, the Polish humanitarian and explorer, and how his idea saved more than 200,000 children during the Great Famine in Ireland strzelecki.ie/51194-2/

Delighted to be in conversation with the great @philippesands.bsky.social for the first of the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social programme in the Oxford Literary Festival about his amazing new work, ‘38 Londres Street’.

The MA History webinar takes place on Tuesday 1st April. The MA in History introduces students to advanced historical research. Covering a wide range of topics across the whole modern period, this MA enables students to study what they are passionate about.📜Meet Sarah-Anne Buckley to find out more

35th Conference of Irish Historians. Hosted by @maynoothuniversity.ie Department of History. Theme 'Inner Lives and Outer Realities'. Call for papers closes 31 March @muahi.bsky.social @mu-ssi.bsky.social @iaphistorians.bsky.social www.historians.ie/cfp-35th-iri...

Come to our free lecture this Thursday and learn all about satirical portrayals of antiquarians being confounded by inscriptions! www.sal.org.uk/event...

And gosh the ongoing caricature of scholarly publishing that this elicits...for profit STEM publishing has its own detailed workflows worth understanding, but mostly not for profit humanities publishing takes a lot of intensive work *on the editorial and production side* that should be compensated.

This week the Society launched two new funding programmes generously supported by the Scouloudi Foundation: > RHS Public History Grants bit.ly/4bF4zJK > RHS Panel Grants bit.ly/4ky23ZP Both programmes will assist historians working collaboratively, in and outside higher education #Skystorians

My colleague Matthew Holford presenting on the four 13th century copies of Magna Carta now @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social esp the 1225 issues. All part of #Westonat10

Looking forward to working with Carrick-on-Suir Library and once again with the Polish embassy in highlighting in talks at the library the role of Paul Strzelecki as a humanitarian, explorer and migrant and how ours has been a Global world for a very long time