Just in case there’s anyone out there who still thinks that statues are about ‘history’ rather than politics. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This Thursday, author #DarrenReid will be launching his new monograph 'Invoking Empire' with the #NACBS online. Tune in from 12pm EDT / 5pm BST on 18th September 📅 RSVP here: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...

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

Ahhhhhhhhhhh look what just arrived in the post. My BOOK!! It exists 🥰🥰

Thrilled to have this piece up on Dublin Review of Books today drb.ie/tcds-forgott... it brings together my own family history and the work we are doing as part of the Trinity Colonial Legacies project.

Fun to chat with Aidan for the channel!

New in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' 'Irish Catholic Recruitment into the British Army during the American Revolution: A Case Study of the 46th Regiment of Foot', by Sadie Sunderland bit.ly/4m80z84 What can Irish recruitment tell us about the complexity of the C18th military? 1/2

Enjoying our #IrishStudies recommendations? Stay tuned for SEEING IRELAND: ART, CULTURE, AND POWER IN MODERN IRELAND, edited by @ciaranon.bsky.social and Billy Shortall. #GoIrish #Art Coming this spring–preorder today! undpress.nd.edu/9780...

If anyone wants to listen to me talking about a despicable little brat from Newry on RTE, you can listen back to this Irish imperial lives episode below. Lambert Blair rose from being a small time trader on St Eustatius to become one of the largest slaveowners in the Dutch empire.

More @librarycongress.bsky.social fun for Irish history folks: ‘A dream in Dublin or A night on Kilmainham Guard’ aquatint (1822) by IR Cruikshank (brother to George). A bored soldier at Kilmainham Gaol dreams of all the things he’d rather be doing; check out details! www.loc.gov/pictures/ite...

"Following two years of community feedback, expert guidance, and comprehensive research and review, we have announced official policies that provide clearly defined guidelines for the Mütter Museum’s use, acceptance, and exhibition of human remains." 📜 live-cpp-cms.pantheonsite.io/sites/defaul...

Irish history / photo nerd klaxon: thanks to dedicated archivists @librarycongress.bsky.social, I’ve reconstructed the 1907 ‘Ireland through the Stereoscope’ full 100-card set from their archives. It’s the only complete one I’ve found in a public collection - an amazing record of 19th/20th c Ireland

Nice to finally welcome a brand new #publichistory volume with De Gruyter Oldenbourg. It honours the long tradition of Trinity History Workshop books emerging from our dept as far back as 1985. The book is tinyurl.com/y68y54m6

Very powerful stuff from the President of Ireland on stopping the starvation in #gaza

hello. if you work at a university please ask your library to buy my book. it is all about books and libraries and also plants, museums, the Royal Society, and the ways we learn. I think it will be interesting to lots of people, hopefully. thank you www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Delighted to see our (Brendan Twomey and myself) new Curated Collection on the Registry of Deeds up on @virtualtreasury.bsky.social virtualtreasury.ie/curated-coll.... @historytcd.bsky.social

Delighted to see @historytcd.bsky.social public history graduate Anna Collins featured in the IT today, doing the work and making invisible histories visible. Glasnevin Cemetery’s Queer History Tour: ‘If you’re here for the drama, you’ll get it’ www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2...

For anyone interested in the development of Open Access publishing in Ireland, PublishOA and the Royal Irish Academy have released a wonderful report mapping the landscape of scholarly publishing on the island. The report is free to download and available for you here: zenodo.org/records/1563...

This will be a really important book for anyone interested in modern Irish history, the Irish diaspora, the wealth accrued by the RC Church, and all the people who built and funded it.

Historians of Ireland, Britain, the British Empire, Empires, Unions, Federalism, and those working in the history of ideas and political theory, this is definitely worth a look. Particularly the second debate, in which arguments are made about what form the Union should take.

This is going to be such an important book by @aearls.bsky.social - the first to grapple with the everyday lives of queer men in Ireland before the gay rights movement! Out 20th June but available for pre-order at a very reasonable price: tupress.temple.edu/books/love-i...

OA for a few days only in honour of its launch: a new edited volume on European University Legacies by Peter Bille Larsen and Marketa Krizova, including a chapter by yours truly on the colonial history of @w-u-r.bsky.social @historywur.bsky.social edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-europea...

The EFACIS PhD representatives are pleased to announce a summer writing retreat for PhD students and early-career researchers at the Irish College Leuven. If you are interested in joining, please fill out the survey at the link below before 13/6! More information at www.efacis.eu/content/summ....

The SSNCI @ssnci.bsky.social is pleased to announce its annual essay prize!! This prize aims to highlight the high quality research of an ECR or someone in a profession outside of the academy. Please spread widely!

Great to see our (Mobeen Husssin @ciaranon.bsky.social and v myself)’s chapter on our Trinity Colonial Legacies project in this fascinating new book on European University Legacies edited by Peter Bille Larsen and Marketa Kristova. Open Access edinburghuniversitypress.com/pub/media/eb...

On 5 June 2020, anti-racism protestors toppled the statue of slave trader Edward Colston. Where is it now? Eleanor Callaghan examines how local authorities and museum curators in Bristol turned the controversial monument into an opportunity for inclusive public history. www.historyworkshop....

Trinity College Dublin board votes to cut ties with Israeli universities and companies

Superb evening launching the inaugural “Irish Heritage Studies”, the new academic journal of the OPW - a little damp outside, but boundless pride and optimism from (and for) friends and colleagues within! @opwireland.bsky.social #History #Heritage #Ireland

Incandescently proud of my PhD student @susancurleymeyer.bsky.social who has aced her PhD viva - 'Regulation, Resistance, and Resilience: The Visual and Material Culture of Dublin’s Female Street Traders (c.1870s-1920s)’ - examined by Prof. Tim Barringer (Yale) and @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social 🎉

New article! ‘“No race hate here”? Irish national identity and racism in the mid twentieth century’ just published online in Irish Historical Studies. Explores Irish attitudes to race and racism, including an ugly spate of racist attacks in Dublin during 1963-64. Open access: doi.org/10.1017/ihs....

This open access article about conceptions of femininity in sports uniform might be of interest to anyone in Ireland who is currently following Skort-gate in Camogie… www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Irish history/heritage nerds, there's a new RTE documentary series, Legacy, looking at various historic properties, kicking off this Sunday 6.30pm (inc Dublin Castle & the Pearse Museum). 🏰☘️

New Section 900 podcast episode out from our wonderful graduate students @historytcd.bsky.social featuring @ciaranon.bsky.social and myself talking about the Trinity Colonial Legacies project. Was fun to do this podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

I often pass this kitsch masterpiece on Parnell st as I walk to work.

Our last regular #IrishStudies seminar for this semester will be on Tue. 6 May, when Ciaran O'Neill (TCD) will talk about his recent book 'Power and Powerlessness in Union Ireland'. All welcome! in-person/online www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/irish-stud... @ciaranon.bsky.social @oxfordunipress.bsky.social

What does it mean to be civilised?

PhD opportunity at TCD under the supervision of Dr Deirdre Foley and Dr Lindsey Earner Byrne.

My article on the destabilization of the British Empire in the eighteenth century has been published open access in the @historicaljnl.bsky.social. It brings one of the major arguments of my PhD to print: we need to think about the imperial transformations of the public sphere. bit.ly/3XXW86z

It's time for some visuals!!! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 has a cover. Out this fall with @cambridgeup.bsky.social #envhist #skystorians #PeatSky #energysky

The Department of History at Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social is seeking a historian specializing in the 19th-century Europe. Come and join us! Please see below for details.

Just returning from a fascinating few days in Washington thanks to the Georgetown Irish Studies Initiative. Really interesting chats on legacies of slavery in Irish and American universities and society more generally. globalirish.georgetown.edu/ireland-and-...

My open access article on the public history of allyship and solidarity between Native American and Irish people has just been published. It draws on thousands of comments published on a GoFundMe page between 2020 and 2024. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

One of our Public History students, Anna Collins, works as a Tour Guide in Glasnevin Cemetery while she completes her studies part-time with us. She has spoken about her education and personal pathway into history and heritage with the Irish Independent. www.independent.ie/business/in-...

I have a very personal essay in today’s Irish Times about the grandfather I never met, the historian KH Connell www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Cracking new book by a former undergrad of ours @historytcd.bsky.social, Shane Lynn, on global Irish nationalism and the South African war. Published by the excellent Irish diaspora series @gihnyu.bsky.social. Beautifully written.

Olusegun is a Visiting Research Fellow with us @historytcd.bsky.social and he is giving a talk for Africa day @ria.ie on the long history of African Studies in Ireland. 26th May 2025 at 1.30-4pm. Looks great, and all are welcome.

Great news! I am recruiting a(nother) PhD student! 'Ulster Americans' is a collaborative PhD with National Museums NI, specifically the Ulster American Folk Park, and is open to home and international students so please spread the word! More details in the link. www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...

Upcoming symposium, 25th April, on Contemporary Irish History. www.eventbrite.ie/e/new-direct...

Last week I hosted an @oieahc.bsky.social Coffeehouse featuring SlaveVoyages, one of the longest running & most transformative digital history projects ever. The project began with NEH funding. It is a concrete example of the power of public investment in our past. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIhr...

BOOK PROOFS! Very excited to be at this stage and can’t wait to see Oceanic Connections out in the world. For fans of poetry, the blue humanities, Ireland, the Caribbean … 🌊 📖