AHRC Awards for PhD study in Arts and Humanities at QUB (starting Sept. 2026) are now advertised at www.qub.ac.uk/Study/postgr...

The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is hiring! Applications are invited for the position of Research and Engagement, Senior Programme Manager as part of the DRI team headquartered at the Royal Irish Academy. Apply by 27.11.2025 at 3pm. www.ria.ie/about/career...

@cwallacedublin.bsky.social one got your MPhil class!

#WomenInRebellion Grief & defiance: Mary Ann McCracken’s letter after her brother’s execution is searing: a sister’s grief, a patriot’s outrage, and a refusal to forget. Read her unflinching words here: virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-CSO...

Fantastic to see this coming out. Great to see a number of new books appearing challenging received wisdoms on 18thC Ireland. See also @marcmulholland.bsky.social’s fantastic new book (and threads here) as well as Caitriona Kennedy’s superb new book on women and the public sphere.

Read this excellent book by Sunil Amrith over reading week along with Annie Proulx’s fascinating Bog, Fen and Mountain and slowly working through Amitav Ghosh’s superb new collection of essays. All part of trying to teach myself more environmental history.

👻 🧙‍♀️🎃 Molyneux Papers (TCD MS 883): Examinations & depositions taken in Co. Antrim in 1710 respecting witches and witchcraft — including testimony from Mary Dunbar, who has been "in a most grievous and violent manner / tormented and afflicted with Witches". www.virtualtreasury.ie/item/TCD-MS-...

Great to see @kbruisch.bsky.social’s superb essay on AI and Academic publishing and its extractive dimensions up on the DRB. @historytcd.bsky.social drb.ie/move-over-fo...

#WomeninRebellion Bella Martin started as a Belfast barmaid. By 1798, she was a Crown agent inside a rebel leader’s home, reporting on arms hidden under a chapel altar. Her world was dangerous — and morally murky. Read more here: virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-CSO...

“When we realised these jewels were only stolen to inflate the share price of a company whose entire value relies on the wholesale theft of other people’s art, we had no choice but grant immunity,” Genius from @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/l...

Another great thread from what is a fascinating book.

“I can’t think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people’s understanding of what’s going on in the world.” Seamus Heaney

A really interesting research opportunity and a chance to contribute to broader work on Scotland, Empire and the slave trade www.scotland.anglican.org/vacancy-lega...

This #MapMonday, explore historic maps of #Ireland! We've added new georeferenced map layers to our Maps Images Website. View first and second edition one-inch to the mile Ordnance Survey of Ireland maps in our georeferenced and side-by-side viewers 🗺️ Explore the maps > maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/...

4x4-year, fully-funded PhD opportunities to work with an interdisciplinary group at Trinity College Dublin 2026-2030. One of these is to work with me on a public history and cultural heritage PhD, in collaboration with one of Dublins most interesting neighbourhoods. www.tcd.ie/graduatestud...

This PhD on a reparatory history of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, exploring the legacies of empire is open for applications. It features a great supervisory team (moi, Kerry Pimblott, and Sadia Habib) and fabulous public history opportunities. Please share. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The recording of my recent Dublin City Council Oak Room talk ‘Cultivating Virtue:Trinity’s Colonial Legacies‘ is now available here youtu.be/exe-Us9tgQo?... @historytcd.bsky.social

It was a fantastic closing roundtable and a fitting end to a wonderful two days. Many thanks to my co-organisers, @virtualtreasury.bsky.social, @tlrhub.bsky.social, and all the speakers, participants, and attendees! The start of a generative conversation that I hope we will continue.

Resonant and always relevant words about how we are always migrants from late Manchan Magan’s last book: Ireland and Iceland

Very much looking forward to getting stuck into this new book from @marcmulholland.bsky.social bringing peasants to centre off Irish history

This was an excellent two days, some really thoughtful and stimulating papers and conversation. a great mix of papers from a wonderful range of speakers. Much to think about. Brilliantly convened by @joelherman.bsky.social and @timvrti.bsky.social.

Was a fantastic first day at ’Ireland and the American Revolution’ capped off by a brilliant keynote address by Prof. Eliga Gould. Looking forward to day two.

Off to @tlrhub.bsky.social for what should be a fascinating conference on Ireland and the American Revolution organised by @joelherman.bsky.social and @timvrti.bsky.social with support from @historytcd.bsky.social and @virtualtreasury.bsky.social www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...

In Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire, historian Eliga Gould reinterprets the Revolutionary era not just as a domestic struggle for independence, but as a quest for legitimacy on the global stage. #ReadtheRevolution: https://bit.ly/4mWCnG9

QUB History will be participating in the 2026 Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship competition. Eligible applicants (post-PhD) with strong proposals should contact a suitable mentor (www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ...) to discuss application (EOI closes 5 Nov.) www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career...

Listen in to a discussion about Ireland and the American Revolution on @newstalkfm.bsky.social featuring Patrick Geoghegan, Finola O’Kane, Eliga Gould, and Patrick Griffin. The episode airs this Sunday at 7PM, ahead of our conference next week. It was a privilege to take part in the conversation.

Many thanks to the editors at the @historicaljnl.bsky.social blog for publishing this short piece, and to @ellasbaraini.bsky.social for her help with it. My recent article, and one of the central ideas of the book manuscript I’m currently working on, in a nutshell. www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

This looks fascinating. Very much looking forward to reading it. And OA too.

50th anniversary issue of Saothar, the journal of the Irish Labour History Society, featuring articles by TCD staff members Carole Holohan, Lindsey Earner-Byrne, Deirdre Foley and Brian Hanley. The back cover has a photograph of the late Jack McGinley, long time Trinity librarian and union activist.

Big congratulations to Katja Bruisch on the publication of her book! Relevance not only to Russian history but also to Ireland given the focus on peat extraction.

More information about this seminar and a link to sign up to join in online is available via the link below: www.eventbrite.com/e/qub-public...

QUB History Seminar tomorrow at 4pm BST

Really looking forward to @speakerconolly.bsky.social’s paper tomorrow for the @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar series, in co-ordination with @publichistoryqub.bsky.social. A great way to start the seminars for the academic year. All welcome, drinks and snacks supplied!

Finishing prepping my final paper this week. Tomorrow I am speaking at @qubhistory.bsky.social as part of the @publichistoryqub.bsky.social seminar on the colonial legacies of Trinity’s estates.

📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5 #envhist #energysky

This was a very interesting evening with some great questions from an engaged and thoughtful audience. more to think about which what this sort of work is always about.

Hi everyone! I'm currently looking for participants for interviews for my PhD research. I'm working on the history of the LGBT+ community in rural Ireland, the way being in rural Ireland impacted the community and how the community impacted rural Ireland, 1970-2000.

Just finished preparing for this lecture tomorrow evening for Dublin City Council's 2025 Heritage series. I will be talking about 400 years of ‘cultivating virtue‘ in Trinity College Dublin @tcddublin.bsky.social. @historytcd.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social

Rich discussion about #PublicHistory in the UK. Katie Carpenter, Anna Maguire, David Geiringer, and Julia Laite in History Workshop journal academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

Volume 40 of the Journal Eighteenth-Century Ireland is just out. Great articles from @speakerconolly.bsky.social on Swift and @francesmnolan.bsky.social on women as Jacobite agents, among others. Have a look at the link below: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/10.3828/...

Another plug for my piece on Trinity’s forgotten tenants in Kerry, Armagh and Donegal and many places in between. Connecting colonial legacies, family history and institutional selective remembering. drb.ie/tcds-forgott... @tlrhub.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @historytcd.bsky.social

My latest article now out in Eighteenth-Century Ireland my first and probably last foray into Swift Studies liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/10.3828/...

A great lineup for this semester's Department of History Research Seminar in Maynooth. This is open to all so do join us and please share widely.

Job opportunity: Engagement and Outreach Officer at the Mellon Centre for Migration Studies - please let anyone know who might be interested ce0568li.webitrent.com/ce0568li_web... The link to NI Jobs is here – www.nijobs.com/job/Outreach...

Exciting list of speakers presenting in our Environmental History Research Seminar this term. If you happen to be in Dublin, come along. We'll meet on Mondays at 1 PM in the Trinity Long Room Hub #envhist Thanks to @tlrhub.bsky.social for hosting us! @historytcd.bsky.social 👇

Another plug for my piece on Trinity’s forgotten tenants in Kerry, Armagh and Donegal and many places in between. Connecting colonial legacies, family history and institutional selective remembering. drb.ie/tcds-forgott... @tlrhub.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @historytcd.bsky.social

Excited to release the conference programme for 'Ireland and the American Revolution: 250th Anniversary Perspectives'. There are only a few tickets left, so if you would like to attend I would suggest getting one as soon as possible. Attendance is free but booking is essential.

Fascinating piece here on 'TCD’s Forgotten Tenantry' by @speakerconolly.bsky.social, which draws on his own family history. This is well worth a read.

New article in the Dublin Review of Books by @speakerconolly.bsky.social on @tcddublin.bsky.social's forgotten tenantry: drb.ie/tcds-forgott...

In 1843 71,000 people lived on the Trinity College Estates which covered 190,000 acres or 1.25% of Ireland. Most of them originated as land grants made as part of the colonial plantation of Munster and Ulster. The history of these lands and the people who lived on them is part of the TCD story