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This is excellent and argument connecting historical arguments from land war era to security of tenure today is very well made.

Was lucky enough to meet Lucy and participate in this documentary. Very grateful to be included. It‘s on BBC Two tonight and tomorrow.

On this day in 1926, the census of Trinity College Dublin was certified, capturing campus life from 100 years ago. There were 185 people living across campus, from students and lecturers to support staff and their families. Among them were 26 “servants”, 17 of them women. @tcddublin.bsky.social

Divided schools mean a divided society. The only solution is a single inclusive and secular education system and this is what our politicians should be working towards.

"For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underrepresentation of discredited viewpoints in elite higher education." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

Just finished Jan Carson’s fantastic alternative history of Lough Neagh! A brilliant it and thought provoking and sometimes hilarious book

Very much looking forward to taking part in 'the Voices Across the Atlantic' talk series at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland in September. Use the link below to learn more and for registration. Very grateful to the organizers for the invitation. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/revolution...

This was a lovely launch and it’s a very good book. Highly recommend for social, political and military historians of Ireland and for those interested in the wider impact of the fiscal military state. @irishhistorians.bsky.social @eshsi.bsky.social

Knowledge & understanding grow in university settings when experts disagree with each other, testing each others' claims, adducing different evidence & positing alternative scenarios. That's how change happens. In this thread, I suggest that we take a different approach to that featured here. 1/x

Come and study with us @glasgow.ac.uk and @vadundee.bsky.social! An AHRC funded doctoral project is up for grabs looking at the role textiles play in Scotland’s design story. Full details below 👇

Our new exhibition is a must-see.

A college professor spent seven years decoding the inscription on the grave of the writer Jonathan Swift. He thinks he’s finally cracked it. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Amitav Ghosh is one of the most important thinkers of our time am always recommending him to my students and colleagues so much one colleague now scribbles ‘the Ghosh bit😀’ on my draft work as it takes on his influence and inspiration in how to think about climate and colonialism

Reading Amitav Ghosh's book "the great derangement" in mid 2010s was first time i realised Climate was actually about geopolitics in the long 200 year arc. Such a powerfully imaginative thinker and writer. what he saw a decade ago, the whole world grasps now. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

We are excited to announce the Call for Papers for our new collaborative series with Written in the Waves, Soil and Sea: Environmental Histories of the Atlantic World Proposal deadline: June 30, 2026 Series publication beginning September 2026 niche-canada.org/2026/04/30/c... #envhist

The value of labour & life that Britons stole from enslaved Africans in Barbados is staggering. But it’s important to undermine the anti-reparations myth that this astronomical sum is being ‘claimed back’. Reparative justice isn’t a bill; it’s an agreed new deal. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

The 1798 rebellion continues to invite new interpretations. In the latest History Ireland, Timothy Murtagh reviews James Quinn’s 'Bloody Summer' (UCD Press.) historyireland.com/bloody-summe...

Explore our online exhibition Power & Privilege: The Big House in Ireland https://ow.ly/x4sj50YQWJu Ireland’s Big Houses were 18–19th century landlord estates, once central to rural life. Photos capture a peaceful world—but by the 1920s land reforms and economic hardship brought this era to an end.

This is how it looks: the splendid future of 20th c. Irish environmental history! Earlier this month, we celebrated the graduation of Dr Gabriel Coleman & Dr Lily Toomey. It was such a privilege to supervise these two brilliant minds. Watch out for their work! /1 (image posted with permission)

Vacancy - Director of the National Museum of Ireland (5 year contract €115k) Deadline for application: 12 noon on 18th May 2026. www.museum.ie/en-IE/About/...

Irish hero Sir Roger Casement was knighted by the British Crown but later executed for his part in rebellion against British rule. He was a key figure as a diplomat exposing civil rights abuses and an ardent naturalist #museum collections are in Dublin www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

📣 Calling PhD researchers in economic & social history across the island of Ireland! ESHSI is recruiting Student Ambassadors — details below. Send CV & research statement to [email protected] by Fri 29 May. Please share with PhD students who may be interested 📚

In a *new* post, I have pulled together the latest data on historians in UK universities and PhDs granted. The results are ... not great. Staff numbers have been mostly shrinking since 2019. PhDs have been roughly flat. 1/3. 🗃️ More info here: manyheadedmonster.com/2026/04/23/h...

Restorative Justice - Seeing the practical impact on certain communities and being a teeny tiny part of this truly makes me proud. The whole team works INCREDIBLY hard. Words can heal and actions can build. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ap...

One of a number of *fully-funded* PhD studentships associated with our new Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery and War. I'll be co-supervising with the Centre director, Maeve Ryan: an interdisciplinary collaboration with War Studies. PlHappy to answer questions/offer advice! 🗃️#EarlyModern

Great new piece on RTE Brainstorm by my @historytcd.bsky.social PhD student Ciana Devitt on long colonial history of seaweed extraction in Ireland and It’s contemporary resonances www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

'Guillon de Prince said on Saturday that other French families must confront their historical allegiances to slavery and the state should go beyond symbolic gestures to address the past, including through reparations.'

This a very interesting colonial legacy story with wider implications for how we think about the labour that cultivated Irish landed estates and build Irish country houses: Kylemore Abbey ‘honours legacy’ of estate labourers with restored bothy and tool shed www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Just finished this excellent book by @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction. My dodo obsessed sons were drawn in by the cover but there is so much here including a brilliant chapter on the eccentric Irish-Australian anthropologist Daisy Bates

Great new piece on RTE Brainstorm by my @historytcd.bsky.social PhD student Ciana Devitt on long colonial history of seaweed extraction in Ireland and It’s contemporary resonances www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Universities: researching and working not just for you but for us, and stronger when collaborating rather than competing.

This is awful news

Today is publication day for this beautiful book. Inspiration for it came from seeing @billyshortall.bsky.social talk about his brilliant PhD research at the IHSA in @tlrhub.bsky.social in 2017. One of those joyful collaborations that come along sometimes in academia. Cover is a Paul Henry painting

Full-funded (home or international) collaborative PhD studentship (Kew and Royal Holloway, University of London) available. Deadline 8 May. Topic: ‘Just acquisitions? Law and ethics over time in Kew’s overseas plant collecting history’ #Skystorians

This is excellent and worth remembering long roots of export driven Irish agrarian capitalism. Goes back to 18th Century ‘provisions’ trade connecting Munster grasslands to Caribbean and North America. Then as now inequality at home shaped inequality abroad in world shaped by extractive capitalism.

I'm delighted to say we have opened our visiting fellowship scheme in the College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies @uniofgalway.bsky.social. Deadline for applications is 1 May 2026. All visits must take place in the period May to Sept 2026. www.universityofgalway.ie/colleges-and...

This is very good from Conor McCabe and one of the few piece's of analysis I have read that clearly links the fuel protests with Ireland's deeply unequal and dysfunctional grass-fed agricultural system. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Really beautiful expression of why fostering the Irish language is an ecological rather than a political issue in this old letter from the late poet Gabriel Rosenstock in today’s Irish Times.

🔔⏰Just over 1 month to go! ⏰🔔 Call for papers: Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn' A two-day workshop organised by @andrewseaton.bsky.social and myself at Lincoln College, Oxford, 16-17 September. Deadline for abstracts is 15 May. Details in poster below!

This looks like a fascinating exhibition in the @nmireland.bsky.social on a remarkable 19th century story

New book review published advance access by @jich.bsky.social Scott Denis McCarthy reviews 'Power and Powerlessness in Union Ireland: Life in a Palliative State' by Ciaran O’Neill www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Continued my reading into bogs finishing Donald Murray’s The Dark Stuff. Really good on bogs and moors as marginal places but also on various schemes to make unprofitable acres profitable from Todd Andrews and Bord na Mona to Dutch ‘welfare’ institutions to highland clearances.

‘Immigrants could be found in every corner of the Irish Free State….the 1920s were quite a globalised world’. (John Gibney)

Excellent news for the field www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Is this the first time an antiquarian bookshop has been the site of agrarian protest?