Had a wonderful evening with @araireland.bsky.social at the lunch my #exploreyourarchive ambassador role 2025-26. Great chats had about archives and history making with the students on @ucddublin.bsky.social MA Archives & Record Management course. Really looking forward to being the #eya ambassador

REMINDER of this event on Irish and Indian Constitutions at DCU's St Pats campus at 4:30 this evening Delighted to be joining @seanrainford.bsky.social @aoifemod.bsky.social @suryaroy.bsky.social @donalcoffey.bsky.social @dculibrary.bsky.social All welcome

@crimeanwar.bsky.social All thanks to @icuf.bsky.social, the RNSHS and Eastlink TV, you can now watch my 'Ireland, Atlantic Canada and the Crimean War' lecture from Halifax back in June 2025 at youtu.be/X5-voQRJNeM #CrimeanWar #Ireland

As the WHAI continue to promote the Discipline of Women's History in Ireland we are delighted to announce that we are now on LinkedIn. If you are on LinkedIn please do give us a follow.

We are running a search for an Associate Professorship (or Professorship) in Modern Middle Eastern History 1830-1970, with expertise in across key regions, including Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, and the Maghreb. www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

Join us at DCU's St Pats campus for an evening seminar comparing the Irish and Indian constitutions, hosted by the Ireland India Institute, next Wed 26 Nov. Some leading constitutional lawyers and historians will explore shared influences and challenges between 🇮🇳 and 🇮🇪. All welcome

Every marketing team in Ireland right now. #COYBIG

Troooyyyyy 💚💚💚💚💚😭😭😭😭😭

Hi, can anyone figure out the medical term in this document?

🚨Deadline Extended🚨 You now have until December 1st to submit your proposals and/or apply for the bursaries. Come join us in beautiful Amynooth in June. This tree should be back in full summer bloom by then. frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...

Pledge to Remember: Search your family’s military story for free today 🎖️ Search for your parent, grandparent, great-grandparent, or your family name. Each search is a pledge to ensure their service & sacrifice are never forgotten. Free access until 13th November. T&Cs apply https://bit.ly/3LmtWa3

On my way to Dublin to take part in a book panel discussion on "Women, Struggle & Resilience". We're covering women's lives from c18th Ulster to c20th Dublin. It's almost sold out, last tickets here dublinbookfestival.com/event/women-... #WomensHistory #GenderHist #WomensHist

Coming next year - Empires at War Conference, September 2026 - @ucddublin.bsky.social Centre for War Studies in partnership with the Royal Military College of Canada. CfP and registration will open soon. www.ucd.ie/warstudies/c...

I am very much looking forward to reading this by @ucddublin.bsky.social 's Jack Kavanagh. www.routledge.com/The-Irish-Fr...

Not in Belfast this evening, but toasting the new book by my @ulhistory.bsky.social colleague @leannecalvert.bsky.social from home! It’s an amazing book & so beautifully produced - congrats Leanne! #skystorians @ria.ie

The history and legacy of the British Empire with @davidolusoga.bsky.social Coming in November. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 🗃️📚📺 #history

This will be of interest to many of our members.

Still a few places to hear me talking ghosts at the Hunt Museum, Limerick, Sat 25th at 2. www.huntmuseum.com/whats-on/mag...

Please come to the annual Bolton-King public lecture on 5 November, at 6pm. Organised by the Limerick Centre for Early Modern Studies (@cemslimerick.bsky.social), in association with the Hunt Museum @ulhistory.bsky.social @michistory.bsky.social @ulresearch.bsky.social @ullibrary.bsky.social

JOB Childers Professorship of Irish History University of Cambridge www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/the-chi...

Enjoy a peaceful moment for #WorldMentalHealthDay today with a listen to Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again's Mindful Heaney podcast series: www.nli.ie/learn/podcas...

Ever wonder how Ireland hosted dignitaries in the early days of the state? 🍽️ Join the ISA for a talk with Dr Elaine Mahon: “The Minister Requests the Pleasure: Irish State Hospitality, 1922–1963” 📍Dublin City Library & Archive 📅Oct. 16 🕕Talk @ 6:30 pm sharp 📖 Free + open to all! Register below!

Books Upstairs is a fine store with a particularly excellent poetry section. Why not support them by ordering your books online instead: booksupstairs.ie

Teaching fellow role for six months in Department of History MIC Limerick www.mic.ul.ie/about-mic/va...

Teetotaller that I am, it’s entirely appropriate that I’ve just reviewed a newly-released book on the early history of the #Guinness family brewery, just ahead of the (unrelated) new eight-part @netflix series #HouseofGuinness. m.independent.ie/entertainmen...

Bumping this up again. Deadline for applications is October 3rd.

Tickets for my talk on the letters of sympathy sent to Canon Begley and his parishioners following the 1926 Dromcollogher cinema fire are now available through the link below. The talk is on Sunday 28 September in Newcastle West county Limerick. register.enthuse.com/ps/event/Mar...

Cauvery is one of the nicest people you could ever meet, and I hate that she has to write this. We need leadership and firm action now before the very worst of us succeed in dragging us all down with them

how it feels to contribute to an edited volume

The Hamburg team (Professor Alan Kramer) of our @erc.europa.eu Synergy Grant BLOCKADE is looking for a FOUR YEAR PostDoc to work on blockade as 'slow violence' in the Great War-era Middle East. Please share! www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...

Link to the event: register.enthuse.com/ps/event/Lea...

If you're in Limerick on the evening of Thursday 25 September, I'll be sharing research from my upcoming book on pregnancy and paternity disputes in 18th/19th century Ulster as part of the Limerick History Festival. Be lovely to see folks there! #womenshist #histsex #histfam

Looking for members help. Dr Maria Luddy and Dr Judith Harford are writing a book on the experiences of Irish women national school teachers, 1890-1950. They would love to hear from anyone with material such as diaries, letters, photographs, or other artefacts. email [email protected].

🚨JOB POSTING🚨 We are currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans among the colonized population/Indigenous population of the interwar imperial polity of the United States of America. 18 month contract, deadline October 03. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

Minard Castle • Kerry The ruins of a FitzGerald castle that was likely constructed in the 16th century, then destroyed by Cromwell’s forces less than a century later. The castle overlooks Cill Mhuire Bay, a beautifully scenic spot on the southern side of the Dingle Peninsula. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm

After lengthy conversations with family and friends, TonytheDog is pleased to announce his intention to run for President of Ireland and will be contacting County Councils for support. #Aras25 #VoteNo1TonyTheDog

If you are around for Feile Thrá Li check out this fabulous, and free, wellness zone organised by Quest and Thrive - hundreds already booked in so only a few spaces - book at #speigorm questandthrive.ie/wellness-zon...

The Irish poet Francis Ledwidge died #OnThisDay in 1917. This commemorative stamp of Ledwidge was produced for the centenary of his death in 2017. Deposited in the DRI by An Post Museum and Archive. Discover more Irish postal design and history: repository.dri.ie/catalog/ng45...

Delighted to visit Daniel O’Connell’s beautiful house in wonderful Derrynane in Kerry.

Finally meeting @paulhuddie.bsky.social properly! I had to end my @milwelfhist.bsky.social conference early unfortunately. Thank you Paul and all conference organisers @uni-graz.at ! A Tour de force! #MilitaryWelfare #WarStudies #Welfare #Research #History

🚨 New VOICES blog! Our intern Ella Mae Cromie reflects on her search for women's wills in local history journals and the discoveries it revealed. @erc.europa.eu @tlrhub.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social

📜 Just launched: 175,000 new historical records are now available on the @virtualtreasury.bsky.social, including 60,000 names for family historians to explore in the new Population Portal. Read more: www.tcd.ie/news_events/... #IrishHistory #VirtualTreasury #DigitalArchives #VRTI #TrinityResearch

A warm day & welcome in #Limerick #MaryImmaculateCollege to kick off Ghosts in Britain & Ireland conf. Ghosts as metaphor for change, memory, youth... plus always meet so many interesting people! #Afterlife #Ghosts #deathways @clodaghtait.bsky.social

Call for Papers: extended deadline for conference: Discipline and Punish: The Early Modern University Court in Theory and Practice. Abstracts due by 30 June. For more information, see:         malcontents.hcommons.org/conference/

Next week! 👻

A well preserved Irish Great Seal of Elizabeth I attached to a deed from 1597 at the @nlireland.bsky.social

Today is publication day for the paperback edition of my monograph Making Sense of the Great War at £29.99 (or cheaper via Amazon). Though I am yet to receive my author copies, I don't need all of them, so will happily send one to someone who likes and shares this. Find it here: bit.ly/4l1M5Gu

If you are interested, CUP have released a 20% discount code for Making Sense of the Great War. You can get it for £23.99 through their website using the code HIST2425. Find more information - and purchase it - here: bit.ly/4mYM08h #History #Military #NewBook #FirstWorldWar #MilitaryMorale