‼️🚨 one week left! 🚨‼️ Don’t forget folks, abstracts for SHoW 2025 are due on 30 June!! All the details can be found here: www.show.org.uk

Due to the sad loss of our friend and colleague Joe Rodgers, our three libraries will be closed on Friday 13th June.

Delighted to share details of the upcoming hybrid workshop 'The Colonial Veteran in the Archive' to be held in Maynooth on June 25. This is part of the COLVET project funded by @erc.europa.eu You will find a draft schedule and details for registration here. Please join us on the day and share widely

Really enjoyed @hayleybrabazon.bsky.social paper for @whaireland.bsky.social #WHAI2025 conference which asked key questions about #archives & capturing history of emotions & often hidden gendered experiences of trauma esp. re poorer women activists in Irish Revolution. Fascinating project.

Thanks so much to @nearfm.ie for having me in this morning to chat about my PhD research @dublincityuni.bsky.social, all things women in war, and the character of the knight in the Canterbury Tales! A really enjoyable conversation with Berni Dwan and Dr Jackie Uí Chionna!

Happy History in Your Hands Awards day! With three winners from each school, and renowned Irish footballer Niall Quinn handing out the awards we're so excited to celebrate everyone involved in the project - especially the brilliant students! Stay tuned for updates.. @dculibrary.bluesky.com

Remember to get those abstracts in for SHoW 2025!

Catching up on reading is infinitely better with a bit of sun. Finally making a dent in the stack ☀️

📣 Spotted! It’s great to see Mary MacSwiney by Leeann Lane (@lloislanel.bsky.social) on display in Cork city. Thank you to the Waterstones Cork team for the gorgeous table. #MaryMacSwiney #LeeannLane #IrishHistory #WomensHistory #WomensBiographies #Cork @waterstones.bsky.social

Delighted to celebrate the launch of Mary MacSwiney by my brilliant supervisor and dear friend, Dr Leeann Lane, this evening. A powerful and nuanced biography of a formidable and often misunderstood woman. Congratulations, @lloislanel.bsky.social — so well deserved! @ucdpress.bsky.social

Two great opportunities for researchers interested in global wartime history! The ERC Synergy project BLOCKADE is hiring: 🔹 1 Postdoctoral Researcher (3 years) 🔹 1 PhD (4 years) More details here: www.blockades.eu #AcademicChatter #Postdoc

On behalf of the organisers, we want to thank all of our speakers, attendees, chairs, keynotes, and the DCU School of History and Geography for supporting our conference. It was an absolute highlight of our PhD experience to have the pleasure of organising and hosting this event. Now, to the pub!

SHoW's @ikapika.bsky.social is presenting today's keynote for the Navigating War and Violence in twentieth-century Ireland conference ( @nwavc2025.bsky.social), which is co-organised by @hayleybrabazon.bsky.social. Fredrika's paper is titled 'Colourising Conflict'.

Our opening addressed have begun by @hayleybrabazon.bsky.social and Professor James Kelly! @dublincityuni.bsky.social

We’re all set and ready to go at DCU for today’s event on war and violence in 20th-century Ireland! Name badges prepped, tote bags stacked, and great discussions ahead. Looking forward to welcoming everyone! @hayleybrabazon.bsky.social @avavalis.bsky.social

The calm before a day of civil war, revolution, and contested memory— excited to welcome everyone to @dublincityuni.bsky.social this morning for @nwavc2025.bsky.social

Only one more sleep!! The final preparations are underway for tomorrow. We can’t wait to welcome friends and colleague from over 15 institutions across the island of Ireland, Britain and Europe! For anyone who hasn’t registered and is interested in coming along, all the details are below

Honoured to have been nominated as part of the brilliant History in Your Hands team for the @dublincityuni.bsky.social President’s Award for Engagement. Grateful to work alongside such dedicated colleagues. ✨

Really enjoyed contributing to the New Gendered Global Histories of Veterancy panel today @muahi.bsky.social! Massive thanks to @donalh.bsky.social for the kind invitation and for introducing us to the brilliant work of the COLVET project. Lots to digest now!

Participants today include our own @profalisonsfell.bsky.social @sdanisimova.bsky.social @hbuxton.bsky.social @jelenadj.bsky.social, soon-to-be member @hayleybrabazon.bsky.social and of course @donalh.bsky.social #milwelfhist #veteran

🚨 4 days to go! 🚨 We have only 4 days until Navigating War and Violence at @dublincityuni.bsky.social St Patrick’s College! Follow this link to register shorturl.at/CCFDJ. Registration includes lunch on both days, as well as tea, coffee & refreshments. See you all very soon!

Very very very proud of my wonderful friend and mentor @lloislanel.bsky.social 👏

Today marks the birthday of Irish revolutionary, politician, teacher & activist Mary MacSwiney, eldest sibling of the well-known MacSwiney family in Cork during the Civil War period. Read more about Mary MacSwiney in @lloislanel.bsky.social's new book – available for preorder: bit.ly/mary-macswiney

One of my favourite conferences of the year – and the CFP is now live! If you work on war and conflict in any form, definitely consider coming along – it’s such a welcoming space. Hope to see lots of familiar (and new!) faces there.

📢 ‘Navigating War and Violence in Twentieth-Century Ireland’, is taking place on 4–5 April 2025 at St Patrick’s Campus, DCU. 🗓️ View the full schedule below. 📚 All are welcome to attend! 🔗 More details: shorturl.at

Get your abstracts in! 👇 Conference website: www.conferenceofirishgeographers.ie#/ The Geographical Society of Ireland Annual Conference 2025 Queen’s University Belfast, 7-9th May 2025 Deadline for Proposals: 29th March 2025

SHoW's heading to Potsdam! 📢 Call for Papers – SHoW 2025 🗓 27–28 November 2025 📍University of Potsdam 📝 Abstracts due: 30 June How do societies understand, justify, and remember war and violence? And how do cultures resist, represent, or misrepresent it? All details can be found below! ⬇️

Only 12 days to go! Join us at DCU for what promises to be a great event. All details are below ⬇️

Something’s on the way from the Society for the History of War… The CFP for our annual conference is dropping VERY soon! Watch this space 👀

Brian and I are lucky to have excellent contributors: @lejhouston.bsky.social @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social @hayleybrabazon.bsky.social @swgannon.bsky.social @maryburke.bsky.social @ntmatthews.bsky.social @grahammacklin.bsky.social among several others

The book will be called "Ireland First?: Tracing the Global History of the Irish Far-Right" and will connect together global, diasporic and domestic strands of religious conservatism, fascism, anti-communism, antisemitism, racism, anti-feminism and homophobia and transphobia

Congratulations @aidanbeatty.com & @brian-hanley.bsky.social 🎉🎉

Join us at DCU on 4-5 April for a fantastic collection of papers on a broad range of topics including the economic impact of war, everyday life during violence, and the aftermath of conflicts. All are welcome to attend. See below for registration details!

Very excited to announce our first COLVET workshop on April 02. The theme is New Directions in Veteran History and our keynote will be the brilliant Jelena Ɖureinović. This is a hybrid event and all are welcome to attend. Registration required. Please share widely.

I'm on the look out for applicants for fully-funded, four year PhD research programme to come and study #diaspora #diplomacy with me here at @dublincityuni.bsky.social. Appropriate projects would engage with diasporas of #India and #Brazil in #Ireland. Deadline 28th March. www.dcu.ie/historygeogr...

www.irishtimes.com/world/middle... Truly disturbing rhetoric (again) from Trump. Yet again proving that history does indeed rhyme.

📢Call for papers! 🗓️Deadline: 14 February 📍Dublin City University, 4 - 5 April 2025 The call for papers for Navigating War and Violence in twentieth-century Ireland is closing this Friday! More details below, or at @nwavc2025.bsky.social

We all know X has become a bit of a battlefield, but while we're finding our peace here on Bluesky, history is still alive and well elsewhere! Check out r/AskHistorians on Reddit (& Bluesky), moderated by some of our members: @fraserraeburn.bsky.social & @simonlam98.bsky.social

📢 Call for Papers EXTENDED! 📢 We're excited to announce that the deadline for submissions to "Navigating War and Violence in Twentieth-Century Ireland" has been extended to February 14th! Submit your proposal to [email protected] 📚

The Society for the History of War is now on BlueSky! 🦋 Keep an eye on your feed for more information on our annual conference this year at Potsdam and the many other exciting things we have planned! 👀

Meet the SHoW social media team! 📸 We wanted to introduce ourselves as we get started here on BlueSky & LinkedIn (buff.ly/4aQklkj) @hayleybrabazon.bsky.social is a PhD candidate at Dublin City University, researching the afterlives of female veterans of the Irish Revolution

PhD life at DCU is made infinitely better by @lloislanel.bsky.social ! Great wine, and an even better supervisor 💖 thank you for everything! #phdlife

📢 Last chance to submit! 🇮🇪 Today's the deadline for papers exploring all aspects of war and violence in Ireland, and Irish experiences during 20th-century conflicts. Submit your paper & panel proposals to [email protected]. Don't miss out! ⏳

#CFP Last call for submissions! Details below 👇

Excited to announce the launch of Catholics in Conflict 2025! After a successful first symposium in 2024, we are thrilled to be back this time with a full-blown two day conference to be held in May 2025 at King’s College London. Submission deadline: 14 March 2025

All this craic in the Dáil is gas. Ceann Comhairle proceeding with Government plans for Dáil business without it being agreed, and then to adjourn the Dáil for the day when opposition cries foul… madness.

Very excited to be speaking at UCD Centre for War Studies in April!

‼️attention researchers of Northern Ireland‼️ We will be welcoming Dr Frederika Larsson @ikapika.bsky.social from the Swedish Defence University, Stockholm, to DCU for our conference this April. Dr Larsson specialises in political murals in NI - not to be missed! @nwavc2025.bsky.social

📢 #CFP #IrishStudies 📆 Deadline: 31st January Happy New Year! There is still time to submit to Navigating War and Violence in 20th Century Ireland happening on 4-5 April at DCU. A massive THANK YOU to everyone who has submitted so far - it’s shaping up to be a really exciting few days ✨✨