How cool is this poster! I'm delighted to speaking at this seminar with @catherine-healy.bsky.social at EPIC on Wednesday about my work on the Michael Davitt papers!

📢 Join the Oral History Network of Ireland for a full-day, in-person #oralhistory workshop: Introduction to Oral History: The Lifecycle Approach. 🗓️ Date: Friday 6th March 2026 🕙 Time: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM 📍Location: Maynooth University, Co. Kildare 🎟️ €50 (OHNI Members) / €70 (Non-members)

Balliol College & the English Faculty are seeking to appoint an outstanding candidate as Tutorial Fellow & Professor or Associate Professor of English with expertise in any aspect(s) of literature in #English of the long nineteenth century (approx 1780–1914) #Academicjob #19C Find out more >>

A huge thank you to Jay Roszman (UCC), who delivered the keynote at this year's #Comhfhios, titled "The Problem of Meaning: 'Outrages' & Violence in Pre-Famine Ireland" An amazing lecture to end a captivating day of research on violence and its legacies in Ireland! @jayroszman.bsky.social @ucc.ie

One of the absolute smartest people I know whose scholarship will force us to rethink how we teach the Famine in all its complexities. UL made an excellent inaugural selection. Congratulations, Pete!

The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature was published this week by @livunipress.bsky.social. This collection brings so many new perspectives to the discussion of death and the body in Irish literature from the eighteenth century to the present. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Deadline today 1 Feb!

Deadline today 1 Feb!

Don't forget to submit your abstract for our annual conference to be held @maynoothuniversity.ie - CfP deadline 1 Feb! ssnci.org/annual-confe...

Don't forget to submit your abstract for our annual conference to be held @maynoothuniversity.ie - CfP deadline 1 Feb! ssnci.org/annual-confe...

Don't forget! Less than a week to submit your abstract for what promises to be a brilliant conference!

Just a week to go to get those abstracts in. We are really looking forward to putting the programme together for our conference in Limerick - happening 29 & 30 May 2026.

Don't forget! Less than a week to submit your abstract for what promises to be a brilliant conference!

A big thank you to Catriona Kennedy for giving a brilliant SSNCI annual lecture yesterday!! Thank you @nlireland.bsky.social for all your support!

REMINDER: The deadline to apply for the Global Irish Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship is Feb. 27. 👉 apply.interfolio.com/176805 @lcis-leuven.bsky.social @cirishcaceres.bsky.social @aedei.bsky.social @efacis.bsky.social @irishstudieswue.bsky.social @sofeir.bsky.social @intyeatssociety.bsky.social

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

Remember abstract deadline 1 Feb!

Just two days to go!

Two of my favourite chapters in this collection come from @maryburke.bsky.social and Kate Costello Sullivan. These are two creative and insightful readings

We have timed this event so that attendees have plenty of time to get the bus up to the @ssnci.bsky.social annual lecture at the @nlireland.bsky.social if they so wish, so it can really be a bumper day of 19th c Irish history! #speirgorm

Don't forget to submit your abstract for our 2026 conference 'Intimacies in nineteenth-century Ireland' @maynoothuniversity.ie deadline for abstracts 1 Feb! For more see ssnci.org/annual-confe...

Don't forget to submit your abstract for our 2026 conference 'Intimacies in nineteenth-century Ireland' @maynoothuniversity.ie deadline for abstracts 1 Feb! For more see ssnci.org/annual-confe...

We are delighted that Catriona Kennedy will give the @ssnci.bsky.social annual lecture on 'Women & Irish politics in the age of revolution'!! It will be held @nlireland.bsky.social on 22 January. For more see www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...

Help please! I'm putting together a big research proposal that will involve investigating C19th-early C20th burials in Liverpool, Dublin and NYC. If anyone knows of anyone in Dublin & NY who would be helpful for me to talk to/work with, or specific locations of interest, pls drop them here?! 🪦

We are delighted that Catriona Kennedy will give the @ssnci.bsky.social annual lecture on 'Women & Irish politics in the age of revolution'!! It will be held @nlireland.bsky.social on 22 January. For more see www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...

Just under a month to submit an abstract for our 2026 conference 'Intimacies in nineteenth-century Ireland'! For details see ssnci.org/annual-confe...

Just under a month to submit an abstract for our 2026 conference 'Intimacies in nineteenth-century Ireland'! For details see ssnci.org/annual-confe...

Call for Papers. IASIL 2026 Conference : Translating Ireland. Host and dates: Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU), Budapest. 6-10 July 2026. Extended deadline for submissions: Friday, 23 January 2026. #essecfp. 👉 essenglish.org/cfp-conferen...

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Absolutely delighted to see that my article on Catholic chapels in Ireland from the 1790s to the 1820s is now available in Architectural History, the journal of the SAHGB - a real career dream come true to have an article in this journal, I must say! #skystorians www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It's a few weeks away - January 23rd - but it would be great to see a good turnout for this Dublin discussion of Averill Earls' important new book on male same-sex desire in 20th c. Ireland!

#OpenAccess highlight: 'Britishness, Irishness, and class: Catholic identities in Anglo-Australia 1880-1916', by Scott Denis McCarthy is available through the following link: @universitypress.cambridge.org

CfP 'Intimacies in nineteenth-century Ireland' @ssnci.bsky.social annual conference in June 2026. Deadline 1 Feb 2026! For details see ssnci.org/annual-confe...

CfP 'Intimacies in nineteenth-century Ireland' @ssnci.bsky.social annual conference in June 2026. Deadline 1 Feb 2026! For details see ssnci.org/annual-confe...

@crimeanwar.bsky.social @ssnci.bsky.social @britjnlmilhist.bsky.social @bcmh-news.bsky.social @smh-historians.bsky.social @societyarmy.bsky.social For those of you that missed my lecture, you can now view it via the Military History Society of Ireland's website: www.mhsi.ie/lectures.htm #CrimeanWar

We are really looking forward to a fantastic @ssnci.bsky.social conference in @maynoothuniversity.ie next June! CfP Deadline 1 Feb 2026!

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!

We are really looking forward to a fantastic @ssnci.bsky.social conference in @maynoothuniversity.ie next June! CfP Deadline 1 Feb 2026!

@ssnci.bsky.social @muahi.bsky.social @petergray47.bsky.social @niamhroisin.bsky.social @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social @leannecalvert.bsky.social

Apropos of the CFP announcement for the 2026 @ssnci.bsky.social conference, I have been making my way (slowly) through @marcmulholland.bsky.social new book and it is excellent and very thought provoking. Will be great to hear from him, @leannecalvert.bsky.social & Fionnuala Dillane. 🗃️

Don't forget this exciting conference, this weekend!

The Catholic Historical Society of Ireland Annual Conference on 'O'Connell and his Legacy' takes place on Saturday 22 November 2025 at the St Patrick's campus @dublincityuni.bsky.social To book see www.eventbrite.ie/e/oconnell-a...

The Catholic Historical Society of Ireland Annual Conference on 'O'Connell and his Legacy' takes place on Saturday 22 November 2025 at the St Patrick's campus @dublincityuni.bsky.social To book see www.eventbrite.ie/e/oconnell-a...

Another VPFA Study Day: 'The Critical Age in Victorian Popular Literature' ❓literary representations of the (peri-) menopause 🌏 online 📅 19th May 2026 💰 free for VPFA Members/ £5 for non-members Send proposals (250) to [email protected] and [email protected] by 19th February 2026

If you missed Ian d'Alton's talk yesterday about '1932: Seeing the same world differently: Irish Catholics and Protestants a decade after independence', it's now available online at youtu.be/9oxWs0PTA1Y

@ucddublin.bsky.social @ssnci.bsky.social The book might have dropped during the summer, but we only got to have a celebratory coffee today. My thanks again to the Society for the opportunity to do this book, to the contributors and referees, and to my two excellent (and chuffed) co-editors #ssnci

We've just issued our monthly newsletter, a round-up of news, events and opportunities of interest to Ireland’s Digital Arts and Humanities community. Check it out on our website dariah.ie/newsletter/ and while you're there, why not sign up to receive it directly to your inbox each month !!

Our next vol contained some timely reflections Peter Gray (ed.), Victoria's Ireland? : Irishness and Britishness, 1837-1901 www.edepositireland.ie/collections/...

Next revisit the Irish Revival! Betsey Taylor FitzSimon and James H. Murphy (eds), The Irish Revival Reappraised www.edepositireland.ie/collections/...

Friends & Followers in Dublin! I'll be giving the annual Edmund Burke Lecture at TCD today 18:30, at the Edmund Burke Lecture Theatre. All most welcome (but do register) The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence & the Pillage of an Empire share.google/Yxfq3IMYhcKd...