A lot of the Church’s focus is on its historic financial entanglement with slavery. But in some ways this is the tip of the iceberg. The Anglican (and Catholic) Church was a major force within slave plantation societies, legitimising, normalising, and proselytising slavery.

Forget 'reprehensible'; this is a stain on the Irish state. Of course, the issue is not new, but if we are serious about human rights, we need to stop the use of Shannon for these flights. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society is now inviting applications for its Open Bursary 2026-7. €2000 to support archival research, symposiums/conferences, or publication expenses associated with original work on eighteenth-century Ireland. More information here: www.ecis.ie/2026/01/05/e...

Our @glasnevincemetery.bsky.social @historytcd.bsky.social Spring Lecture Series is live. Theme is 'Work and working in 19th & 20th century #Dublin' - please RT. Speakers @antoniahart.bsky.social @dublincity.bsky.social @drdeefoley.bsky.social & Conor Dodd formerly Glasnevin.

This documentary on Peter ‘Jamaica’ Daly and his descendants is well worth a listen for anyone interested in Ireland and the Caribbean and irish colonial legacies. Great work by all involved

If you are interesting in seeing how early modern beer was made come and see Susan Flavin’s great documentary this Friday at Dublin Castle, and enjoy some tastings too 🍺 🍺 www.eventbrite.ie/cc/brewing-p...

This series of talks and tastings at Dublin Castle orgsnisec by my brilliant @historytcd.bsky.social colleague Dr Susan Flavin will be excellent. highly recommend signing up

116,090 days ago a Limerick land transaction became Memorial No. 1 in the brand-new Registry of Deeds! 🧐 virtualtreasury.ie/hidden-stori... Want to see more? 👉 Come along on Wed 11 Feb to the Limerick Roadshow Admission free bit.ly/4r0Ej2M @tailteeireann.bsky.social @limericklive.bsky.social

Huge work to do on the experience of Irish-speaking emigrants to Britain, especially in the 19th century! An example of the untapped richness of the archive 👇

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Delighted to see that my review of Laura Kelly’s brilliant book Contraception and Modern Ireland is out with @irishhiststudies.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Essential reading for anyone working on histories of gender, feminism, contraception and Catholicism

Today we are very proud of our own @javedlove.bsky.social , who has exercised his legal right to withdraw from teaching RE and Collective Worship. Javed is the first teacher in NI to exercise this right for at least 10 years. Find out why he did so below. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Our spring 2026 seminar series programme is here! We'll be adding eventbrite links soon so you can join us online or in person - all are welcome! First up we have Neil Murphy on 19 February at 6pm. Neil will speak on 'Violence, colonialism and the mid-Tudor monarchy: Ireland in context'.

Great work by @brookenewman.bsky.social, can't wait to see the book and the reaction from the Caribbean nations still with King Charles as head of state. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Here's one of the panels that Trump just removed from the President's House site in Philadelphia. (I took this picture of it last March. A couple of weeks later I led a walking tour that included the site.) Does this information "disparage" the United States?

For any of you interested in early modern beer, Dublin Castle, or just history and food in general, this series of talks and tastings I have helped put together might be of interest 🍻🧐 #History #Heritage #Food #Beer #SpeirGorm www.eventbrite.com/cc/brewing-p...

📣 Calling all experts on 18th-century Britain! Apply for this fantastic job by 15 Feb. 📣 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE665/a...

back teaching 1720 bubbles today. Still sadly relevant! calls for universal adoption and restrictions on competitors what did for John Law and the South Sea Company…hmm

a very of the moment image at the wonderful and hilarious Oliver Jeffers Disasters and Interventions exhibition at @qub Naughton Gallery

Last year, we made the decision to step away from X. The Royal Irish Academy is committed to creating, convening, and sharing knowledge for the public good and as an organisation we value Independence; Integrity; Curiosity; Openness and Rigour. In our view, X no longer aligns with these values

Some tweets on relief, taxation, empire during the Famine in Ireland; from my book: www.hodgesfiggis.ie/book/at-the-...

🗃️ Time to rewrite immigration history with Native history in mind. The US was founded on the conquest, dispossession, removal, exploitation, or genocide of Native people. Denial of that fact generated counter-myths: empty land, waste land, Manifest Destiny—and the slogan “nation of immigrants.” 🧵1/7

This is fascinating by @claireconnolly.bsky.social on coats and the Irish peasantry

This is fantastic! Mick and Keane as Mozart and Salieri: Ken Early: The Saipan film makes the conflict between Keane and McCarthy less interesting www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer...

@jayroszman.bsky.social on Daniel O'Connell as global icon - and beacon of beer drinking during prohibition!

The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society has a new website that is well-worth checking out for details of the annual conference, journal, and news of the inaugural ECR bursary, which was awarded to @mzukovs.bsky.social. The next bursary will be announced shortly. www.ecis.ie/news-events/

If you missed Patrick Walsh's talk yesterday on 'A colonial sinew of power? Rethinking the 18th-century Irish state', a recording is available at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=haJr...

Many congratulations to Dr @cwallacedublin.bsky.social on his Civic Engagement Award presented by the Provost at a ceremony on 5 December, in recognition of an initiative Ciarán has developed with @virtualtreasury.bsky.social to create a toolkit to promote improved digital inclusion for older people

It turns out complaining about the lack of defence spending and the need to do our part in supporting our neighbours and their capitalist interests has always been part of irish political discourse.

Looking forward to presenting this paper on my current book project @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social on Monday.

#TNAConnections The Home Office (Ireland) Correspondence held at @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy — also known as the HO 100 series — letters written by high-ranking officials in Dublin Castle, addressed to the central administration in London. Jump in here: virtualtreasury.ie/curated-coll...

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...

This research is very important for Northern Ireland but also important for the whole island considering ongoing discussion/consultations about school patronage and the impact it has on children of different faiths or non religious background.

This is a very relevant piece of research following the UK Supreme Court judgment that RE in Northern Ireland contravenes human rights. A majority in NI would welcome an objective, critical and pluralistic Religion & Worldviews Education for all. The DE must deliver. www.qub.ac.uk/News/Allnews...

This is a super article. Great to see this important work by two @tcdhistory colleagues @earner.bsky.social and Carole Holohan working with Roisin Higgins

Looking forward to this talk tomorrow!

One of PFIE’s core team, @jackru.bsky.social, has written an in depth analysis of the Supreme Court judgment. Strongly encourage you to read, share and comment! It’s long, but absolutely worth the read! sluggerotoole.com/2025/11/28/t...

Really great, detailed analysis of the recent Supreme Court ruling and what it means for religion in Northern Irish schools

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...

The pointlessness of immigration policy when nobody actually knows the facts.

🔥Burning Swamps🔥, a history of the planetary emergency seen from the margins, has been out since Sept 2025 PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!

New article! Joe Curran on '(Re-)Making the ‘Stateless Capital’: Edinburgh and Dublin in European Context, c.1820–1850' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Our last seminar for this year, on 15 Dec. will be Patrick Walsh (TCD) speaking on 'A colonial sinew of power? Rethinking the 18th-century Irish state' (joint event with CECS). All welcome in-person and online. www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...

Highlighting these one last time: A keynote from Prof. Eliga Gould, 'Lord Carlisle’s Union: Making Peace in America, Ireland, and Britain, 1778-1783’. Brings up an interesting counterfactual: What if America had gone the way of Ireland and remained within empire? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv4F...

@svenbeckert.bsky.social’s new global history of capitalism — looks great👇 www.penguin.co.uk/books/295668...

Opportunity to work with other me on a funded PhD at Queens - may suit anyone interested in gender, history of the child and family in 20thC Ireland. Happy to chat to anyone thinking of it!

Funded PhD opportunities at QUB: 'Childcare provision in late twentieth-century Northern Ireland (1960s-1990s)' www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...