Yep. In fact, the real failing of students was when we stopped requiring them to regularly search a library catalogue for their reading and instead produced lists with hyperlinks that students simply had to click. As soon as they have to go off list, they’re lost.

Attempting to track down the owner of 105 Union Street - where Sunday's city centre fire is believed to have started - has taken The Bell from Pollokshaws to South Lanarkshire, and given us insight into a retail sector regulated in the loosest sense of the word. But we think we've done it anyway.

100,000 trans people & allies fill central London for Trans Pride. Mainstream media: nothing Thousands of trans people & allies fill Wembley Arena for pro-trans gig with massive names like Sophie Ellis-Bextor & Sugarbabes. Mainstream media: nothing. This is what extreme media bias looks like.

Would anyone have access to this and be willing to send me a copy? www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...

1/2 The Archives Strategy Committee officially launched the NEW Archives Catalogue today! Discover a more user-friendly interface, bookmark your favourite records, search across physical & digital collections, & browse our collections with greater clarity. #archives @uniofgalwayasc.bsky.social

Honouring International Women’s Day with a look back at how far we’ve come. In 1922, Irish women finally won full voting rights—thanks to the tireless efforts of those who fought for equality and democratic participation. Their voices shaped our future and continue to inspire us today. #IWD26

#IWD2026 A nice find among the records in the Public Record Office of Ireland (before the fire of 1922!) Katherine Bayly's 'domestic accounts books'. Her daily life with her daughters in 18th-century Dublin. Read more 👇️ virtualtreasury.ie/hidden-stori... Help page👇️ virtualtreasury.ie/help

Well this is interesting news. ‘Women's museum planned to replace International Rugby Experience in Limerick’ #spéirgorm www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...

Julia Varley, expert flipper of pancakes, was also a suffragette and trade unionist. She was active in the National Federation of Women Workers and the Workers' Union, serving as chief women's officer of the TGWU from 1929 to 1936. #ShroveTuesday #PancakeDay

Looking forward to speaking about one of my favourite families, the Taylors of Coleraine, tomorrow at the first Coleraine Museum Fireside Talk of the year! All online, get in touch for more details.

Bridget Arthur was one of nine children born to Barbara Cusack and alderman Edward Arthur. Bridget’s mother died and was buried in Saint Michael's Church in Dublin on 4 September 1643.Learn more about her story and others here: voicesproject.ie/impact/blog-...

We are delighted to announce the publication of our first quarterly newsletter LifeLines: News from the Dictionary of Irish Biography. You can read it here: mailchi.mp/ria.ie/grang... And sign up here: mailchi.mp/d44f57115e53...

Lovely to see so many abstracts winging in today for the @whaireland.bsky.social conference in Limerick in May 😍 cfp closes 30 January so keep em coming! #WomensHist #GenderHist sites.google.com/view/whai202...

Our Irish Studies seminar programme for Spring 2026 www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

A genuine threat to people's safety, which needs effective regulation fast. News media obsessing over who uses which bathroom should prioritise this sort of thing instead. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

CFP for a Special Issue of Gender & History on childhood and crises to be edited by Katie Barclay and Emily Ward. Abstracts due 31 May 2026; then hybrid workshop; full articles due 31 Jan. 2027. Please share widely. #Skystorians #GenderHistory #HistChild 🗃️

📣You now have until Friday 23 January to get your proposals in - we look forward to seeing many of you in Lancaster in July!✨

Killing Women: Femicide in Northern Ireland, 1922-2000 Funded #Phd with Prof Leanne McCormick @qubhistory.bsky.social What a fantastic project! #JobFairy #ECR #AcademicChatter tinyurl.com/2zpejwmf

Looking forward to this semester‘s @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar series which starts this Friday! Drinks and snacks provided as usual. All welcome!

📣The deadline for applications to our 50th anniversary conference closes TOMORROW! We really look forward to seeing many of you there!

If you’re at a loose end tonight, come along to the first Galway Archeological and Historical Society lecture of the year! I’m speaking on tangled knots of sibling obligation, guardianship, unravelling family reputation and the nephews caught in the crossfire (poor Edmund). The Harbour Hotel at 8pm!

Lots more great images taken by George Pickow in 1952 with Wren Boys and Mummers in his wider archive here. www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

As I sit in Dub airport for the last time this year… a gal can only dream of that Galway-Belfast line 🥲

Honoured to have been elected President of the WHAI. Impressive shoes to fill following Diane Urquhart. Wonderful association to represent.

We'll introduce our new board on our socials in the next weeks. But first up, our new President: Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social She is a historian of the family & sexuality in C18th-19th Ireland. Leanne is based at @unioflimerick.bsky.social which is where our next conference will be!

On Saturday night we voted in our next Executive Board (2025-30). Big welcome to our new members & welcome back to those continuing with us 😀 We also thank our outgoing board members for all their service #WomensHist #GenderHist www.ifrwh.com/contact-the-...

We are delighted to announce that we'll be hosting the SSNCI conference in Maynooth next June. Call for papers attached. Please spread far and wide!

On behalf of the committee and all of the members of the WHAI we would like to thank Diana Urquhart for her support as president of the association over the past five-years. Congratulations too to @sonjatiernan.bsky.social our new WHAI president.

We had a really great catch up yesterday. Thanks again to @melissashiels.bsky.social for a fascinating talk on how Regency women dressed.

We are delighted this afternoon to announced the CFP for the 36th annual WHAI conference 2026. The conference will be held at Mary I Limerick on 29 & 30 May 2026. Closing dates for submissions on the theme of 'Gain' is 31 Jan. 2026. sites.google.com/view/whai202...

Looking forward to this year’s @whaireland.bsky.social Christmas event on Saturday! If you’re about in Dublin, call in and raise a merry glass 🍷 More info here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/whai-chris...

#CfP for next year’s SHS conference! Drop me a line if you have any Q about the ‘Lifecycles, Families, and Communities’ strand 📣

Our annual Christmas event and AGM is happening on 6 December. Click on link to register. emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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.

As someone with a complex about being a lecturer who looks about 12, I take a new bizarre joy out of these types of conversations with my students as they slowly realise that I am from Another Time.

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!

Brilliant morning at #NACBS thinking about singleness in 19th-century England and Ireland. I spoke on unmarried sisters, the spinster aunt, and finding space in the family for renegotiating relationships.

Last week, our colleague @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social ran the second workshop of the 'Sites of Fracture' project, in collaboration with the this/OUR academic-artist collective. Over two days in east Cork, participants explored the village of Killeagh as a site of resistance against capitalism.

Interested in doing a MA in History? Find out more at University of Galway's Postgraduate Open Day on Tues., 11 Nov. 4-6pm in Bailey Allen www.universityofgalway.ie/postgraduate... For a preview our exciting MA, take a look here youtu.be/SIKBbxm0K1o

As we await a verdict in the trial of Soldier F, another reminder that in 2010 the Bloody Sunday inquiry found - the killings were unjustified - none of the 14 dead (7 of whom were children) had guns - no warnings were given - no soldiers were under threat - the troops were the first to open fire

Irish Book Week | Day 3: Share an Irish Debut Book Today’s pick is Irish Debut Book and we’re celebrating with the recently published Pious and Promiscuous by Leanne Calvert (RIA, 2025).

New favourite lecture slide decoration: Convent of Mercy pupils greet JFK in Galway, 1963. Spectacular headgear.

Call for Papers – IHSA 2026 Conference at Maynooth University The Irish History Students’ Association, with the support of the Department of History at Maynooth University, is delighted to announce the 77th Annual IHSA Conference, taking place on Saturday, 28 February 2026.

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...

Congratulations to all our students graduating over the next few days at our Autumn conferring ceremonies 🎉 You've all worked so hard and now is time to celebrate this amazing achievement! 👏 (Not sure if the Grad style has changed over the years??)

Congratulations to our fantastic students, Caden Casey and Aoibhín Ní Gleasáin, on their success at the Global Undergraduate Awards in Dublin last night! Their prize-winning essays are now available to view on the GUA Library: gua.soutron.net/Portal/Defau...

I do enjoy the juxtaposition of these two ads for holidays in American Vogue, April 1982. Jet off to the sexy Caribbean or go home to Ireland to…reluctantly meet the old folk? 🥴

Nice news this morning that I’ve been elected as Fellow of the Royal Historical Society 🎉 As ever, thanks for the support @elainefarrell.bsky.social!

RTE’s geoblocking of #TraitorsIRL as I head back up north this evening is high treason.

Asking people to be referees gives me such anxiety on a good day. This would genuinely tip me over the edge.