On the latest episode of the 'Resisiting Empire' podcast I speak to host Alex Amenn on the lives and legacies of both Liam Lynch and Rory O'Connor. Never really spoke about the two in parallel like this before. Link to the episode on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3e65...

Out this week from @merrionpress.bsky.social , the second book on Gaza and Palestine by journalist Fintan Drury : Genocide: Sponsoring the Destruction of Palestine . thebookshop.ie/fintan-drury...

Unmasking Samantha Cookes: Superb exposé of a spiralling conwoman www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Out Now! The Story of Us: Independent Ireland and the 1926 Census www.irishacademicpress.ie/product/the-... #1926Census #TheStoryOfUs #speirgorm #IrishAcademicPress

#TheStoryOfUs - insights and analysis from a range of voices, plus a look at the process of digitizing the records #1926Census

Thanks to @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social for this supremely elegant window display to celebrate the release of The Story of Us: Independent Ireland and the #1926Census - looking glorious in today's sunshine! 🌞📚

✨Preorder now!✨ The Story of Us - A landmark book that brings the 1926 census to life through stunning visual material and essays by leading historians, exploring themes of identity, migration, language and everyday life in the newly independent Ireland 🇮🇪📋 www.irishacademicpress.ie/product/the-...

Coming soon to a bookshelf near you: my biography of revolutionary leader Austin Stack which will be published later this year by Merrion Press Thrilled to publish the remarkable story of this important figure and to share new archive material about his life and times #irishhistory #books 📚

It's out today. 'Have I Got Your Attention?: A Guide to Adult ADHD in Ireland', co-authored by me and @ailsy.bsky.social, and released via @merrionpress.bsky.social with thanks to ADHD Ireland. In all good bookshops and online from today, launch info in image below! #spéirghorm #ireland #adhd

People of Dublin & Cork, join us to launch Have I Got Your Attention? with authors Mike & Ailín and some special guests 📢👀 All welcome! #booklaunch #irishwriters #ADHD #ADHDtips

ICYMI: Conor W. O'Brien sat down with John D Healy recently to discuss his latest book, The Living and the Dead: Tales of Loss and Rebirth from Irish Nature 'Lost Animals of Ireland: Heartbreaking Extinctions and Hopeful Returns' www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6LZ...

Preorders via @merrionpress.bsky.social, online, and your local indie bookshop. Please pre-order if you can, each one helps with possible bestseller chart placement, helping us spread word further! www.irishacademicpress.ie/product/have... #adhd #actuallyadhd #spéirghorm #ireland #neurodivergence

...plus, personal insights on life with ADHD in Ireland from nine incredible interviewees. The book will be on store shelves physically around Ireland and online, as well as an ebook from the @merrionpress.bsky.social website. #adhd #ireland #spéirghorm #actuallyadhd #neurodivergence

In case ye missed it last week: I co-wrote a book on ADHD in Ireland! 'Have I Got Your Attention?: A Guide to Adult ADHD in Ireland' releases Thursday March 26 via @merrionpress.bsky.social, available in all bookshops. Thread follows... 🧵 #spéirghorm #ireland #adhd #actuallyadhd #neurodivergence

⭐There's been so much going on, we've almost forgotten to tell you! First up—curious what books are out this month? We've got you covered! ⭐ @lilliputpress.bsky.social @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social @merrionpress.bsky.social @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/new-books-fo...

Thrilled to share that two of our titles, Shooting Crows by Trevor Birney and The Root of All Evil: the Irish Boundary Commission by Cormac Moore, have been shortlisted for the prestigious Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Prize! www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

OUT NOW! Rory O'Connor: To Defend the Republic is the first official biography of the enigmatic IRA leader who was a close comrade of Michael Collins and Kevin O’Higgins and was controversially executed during the Irish Civil War www.irishacademicpress.ie/product/rory... #speirgorm #IrishHistory

Thrilled to get a copy of this hugely important new biography of Rory O'Connor from my good friend and fellow historian @gerardshannon.bsky.social and published by @merrionpress.bsky.social A vital addition to the historiography of the revolutionary period #books #irishhistory

Back in stock today from @merrionpress.bsky.social, the reprint of @cormacmoorehist.bsky.social Root of All Evil - The Irish Boundary Commission. Such a good read. thebookshop.ie/cormac-moore...

A huge thank you to President Connolly and her wonderful staff for welcoming us to Áras an Uachtaráin yesterday, where Eoin Ó Broin & @malmccann.bsky.social presented a copy of their new book, Flats and Cottages: Herbert Simms and the Housing of Dublin’s Working Class 1932-48 📚

Hello Bluesky! 👋 Happy to be here among the sane people, at last!