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...

Fabulous PhD opportunity at Queen's University Belfast and Armagh Observatory: Observing the Heavens from the 'Periphery': Astronomy in Ireland 1640-1830 www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post... Deadline 13 Jan #histSTM #histastro

I've signed the petition calling for the Education Minister to reform Religious Education in NI today - will you sign too? via @actnowcampaigns.bsky.social my.actnowni.org/petitions/re...

Statement from the PFIE officer group on the JR87 ruling yesterday.

This UK Supreme Court decision is potentially momentous for the way religion is taught in schools on Northern Ireland. as the situation currently stands it amounts to indoctrination’ - not a word lawyers lightly throw around. A pluralistic Northern, and future Shared, Ireland needs a new approach.

Just out of Waterfront where I brought my 10 year old to his first Dylan concert- he is a super fan! A fantastic show- Bob has still got it.

Delighted see Irish state has purchased the entire Castletown House estate and saved this vital heritage from development. It’s been a long time coming and hopefully brings an end to a long running saga. www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...

The UK's Supreme Court has ruled that the Christian religious education taught in schools in the North is unlawful. It added that to teach pupils to 'accept a set of beliefs without critical analysis amounts to evangelism, proselytising, and indoctrination'. jrnl.ie/6879415

Fresh off the printing press, Mary O’Sullivan’s Connell lecture on the Irish woolen industry before and after the Union: A Sheepish Account of Ireland's Changing Role in an Imperial Age, 1780–1824. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

At fascinating Novels in the Pipeline event at Belfast’s Accidental Theatre. Featuring @niamhcullen.bsky.social amongst other great writers

A reminder that our fellowship scheme is open for a second year!

Changing places: @angela-historian.bsky.social on the rise and decline of a Donegal port @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

This is fascinating

Inevitable once Ken away from @secondcaptains.bsky.social #whenkensaway what a result

It would be one thing having a "debate" on immigration if people meant they wanted a "debate" based on facts. But what most people seem to mean when they say they want a debate is that is they want us to pretend a bunch of entirely made up bullshit is true.

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🔔 Admissions are open for the M.Phil in Environmental History at Trinity College Dublin. Come and join us - or recommend our course to your students! #envhist #skystorians More info here 👇 www.tcd.ie/courses/post...

Great to have these videos up for those interested who weren't able to attend the conference. Keynotes by Prof. Eliga Gould and Prof. Nicholas Canny and a @virtualtreasury.bsky.social panel. Please share widely. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... @historytcd.bsky.social @historyatgalway.bsky.social

Great feature in historyireland.bsky.social by bsky.app/profile/mayn... Eamon Darcy on William Molyneux & the birth of #LocalHistory in Ireland. 👀 our Curated collection www.virtualtreasury.ie/curated-coll... 📢 Shout out to funders bsky.app/profile/ria.ie & 📷TCD Library bsky.app/profile/tcdd... 😊

Not only is Trump making war on the past, but now he is making war on the pasta. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Estate agents outbidding morality once again. If perhaps a logical outcome to over zealous unthinking and uncritical remembrance

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.