Inaugural Lecture by Professor Olwen Purdue on Friday 15 May at 5pm in the Canada Room, Queen's University Belfast:
'The Journeys we Make, the Stories we Tell, and the Spaces In Between'
The Lecture will be from 5pm to 6pm, followed by a drinks reception.
Register here: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ...
We're really looking forward to our April USIHS seminar! Prof. David Dickson @historytcd.bsky.social will speak on Thurs 23 April on The Foyle, the Chesapeake, and a fifty-year transatlantic conversation: Getting the measure of the Moore family archive, 1798-1847
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1986210363...
A poster with a black background and green/white type as well as a picture of Dr. Peter Hession. The type reads: Inaugural Lecture, O'Malley Fellowship: Advancing Irish Studies; The University of Limerick is pleased to invite you to the inaugural lecture by Dr. Peter Hession, O'Malley Fellow in Irish Studies. ' "From nowhere, going nowhere": The Famine Road in Context'. Monday, 27 April 2026. Reception: 5.30 pm. Lecture: 6.00pm. Location: KBG12, Kemmy Business School, UL. RSVP by 6pm, 24 April 2026.
Dr. Peter Hession will deliver the inaugural O'Malley Fellowship Lecture next Monday, 27 April, from 5:30 pm in the Kemmy Business School, UL (with live streaming). All are welcome, but please register to attend. Link to register: tinyurl.com/58he94t6.
4 PhD funded positions at Swansea University on history, heritage, archives and museums.
#PublicHistory #Museums #Archives #Heritage
www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Promotional graphic for the book Irish Culture and Partition, 1920–1955 by Stephen O’Neill. On the left is the book cover, with a dark green top section displaying the title and author, and a colorful stained-glass image below featuring a red hand and a sword among abstract shapes. On the right, yellow text on a blurred stained-glass background reads: “Comprehensively reinterprets the effect on culture of the continuing division of the island of Ireland.” The Liverpool University Press logo appears in the top right.
New in Irish Studies | @oneillsb.bsky.social's Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955, is the first book dedicated to examining culture and partition in Ireland.
Discover more here ⬇️
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
I'm pleased to announce I'm a founding co-editor of the new @manchesterup.bsky.social book series, Radical Histories.
Do let me know if you have a proposal for a book that fits our inclusive remit on radical histories.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/radic...
Fully funded four year AHRC PhD project @swanseahistory.bsky.social on 'Rethinking Reparations: A Cultural and Social History of Post-First World War Compensation to Civilians in Britain and its Empire, 1918-25.' Closing date 22 May. Get in touch if you are interested!
Big thanks to @undpress.bsky.social, whose production team and editorial staff were genuinely old-school excellent. And to the Irish government, for choosing to fund a volume that critiques commemorations, via Decade of Centenaries funding. And to @ndirishstudies.bsky.social for addl support.
Paul Henry, Village dans l’ouest de l’Irlande (A West of Ireland Village), oil on canvas, 66 x 82 cm,
And a cover to end all covers, by Paul Henry. This was the painting the French government bought at the exhib as a tacit recognition of the free state in early 1922. So it was the perfect cover for the book. To see a recreation of the exhibition in Paris see www.seeingIreland.ie
A tidy essay from Paul Larmour on Irish arts and crafts. A conversation between @martinadevlinbooks.bsky.social and Vera Klute, which was chaired by the lovely and much lamented Sean Rocks. Check out Vera's work here: www.veraklute.net and Martina's writing here: martinadevlin.ie
Grace Henry (1868–1953), Mallaranny, ca. 1918, oil on canvas, 71 x 56 cm. Location unknown, photograph in private collection.
Susan Mary (“Lily”) Yeats (1866–1949), The Moon, silk embroidery on blue poplin ground, 24 x 36 cm. Private Collection.
There are contributions from some of the most brilliant 🇮🇪 art historians working today, @katymilligan.bsky.social , Angela Griffith, Roisin Kennedy. A virtuoso foreword from Joe Cleary. And some spectacular reproductions of artwork throughout. Some favourites below.
Irish delegates in Paris, January 1922: Katherine Hughes, Mary MacSwiney, Éamon de Valera, Countess Markievicz, Thomas Hughes Kelly, and Seán T. O’Kelly. Bibliothèque nationale de France.
The Irish Race Congress in session at the Hotel Continental, Paris, January 1922. Bibliothèque nationale de France.
The political side of things had big pre-Civil War vibes... a chapter by @dgannon2016.bsky.social helps to explain the political theatre of 1922 in Paris, and this remarkable gathering of the new elite. They bickered and ignored each other and nothing was solved.
The book was inspired by an exhibition of Irish art, organised by an Irish gov in the months before the transfer of powers in 1922. Featuring the most important artists in 20C Ireland, it ran in Paris alongside a controversial political conference. www.irishtimes.com/culture/seei...
An image shoeing the cover of a new book, Seeing Ireland: Art, Culture, and Power in Modern Ireland (UND Press, 2026), with a blurb quote by Diarmuid Ó Giolláin calling it a 'highly original contribution to the study of Irish Art.'
Today is publication day for this beautiful book. Inspiration for it came from seeing @billyshortall.bsky.social talk about his brilliant PhD research at the IHSA in @tlrhub.bsky.social in 2017. One of those joyful collaborations that come along sometimes in academia. Cover is a Paul Henry painting
2.5 year postdoc opportunity at CoE NARS, Tampere University. The focus is on the history of everyday nationalism and we encourage applications dealing with the history of childhood and youth. Please distribute far and wide and encourage great scholars to apply. tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...
The book cover for Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation. It shows two men sat on a bench in the 1930s.
"Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation" is published TODAY by @cornellupress.bsky.social! I tell the story of how queer men didn't just exist in Belfast but could be accepted by friends, family & colleagues... at least until a moral panic about homosexuality in the 1950s. 🧵
I'm delighted to say we have opened our visiting fellowship scheme in the College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies @uniofgalway.bsky.social. Deadline for applications is 1 May 2026. All visits must take place in the period May to Sept 2026.
www.universityofgalway.ie/colleges-and...
Excited to announce that my journal article on women printsellers in early nineteenth-century Dublin has been published in @eshsi.bsky.social It explores the gendered dynamics of the family print shop and how labour was divided in these domestic and commercial spaces.
Awesome. I love this. A bunch of lads falling out of a harbour bar built into the walls of the castle is the home rule highlight for me.
Join our partners at Migration Institute of Finland and the Immigration History Research Center Archives for this exciting event on a new collaboration.
@umnengagement.bsky.social @migrationcollab.bsky.social @iehs.bsky.social
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New book review published advance access by @jich.bsky.social
Scott Denis McCarthy reviews 'Power and Powerlessness in Union Ireland: Life in a Palliative State' by Ciaran O’Neill
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A cover of a beautiful book, written by Molly-Claire Gillett, titled Irish Lacemaking: Art, Industry, and Cultural Practice (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Really enjoyed this book by Molly-Claire Gillett on the history of Irish lacemaking. I reviewed it for EHR, but the review is basically me saying how much I liked it.
Exhibit A, the Duke of Wellington’s slippers @ Apsley House @apsleyhouse.bsky.social
Exhibit B, Michael Collins’s slippers @ N.M. of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social
All I’m saying is, fighting Irish men seem to have liked their comforts …
#History #Heritage #Dublin #London #Ireland #England
Join us for a discussion on character formation in the works of Maria Edgeworth, Walter Scott, and Jane Austen.
📅 Tuesday, 14 April, 1.30pm, Trinity Long Room Hub
Register now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/character-...
Happy to say I'm moving to @ucdphilosophy.bsky.social with my own Enterprise Grant. My project, mentored by @ka-od.bsky.social & Eoin McCarney (NLI) is co-hosted by @ucddublin.bsky.social & @nlireland.bsky.social It's focused on historical Irish mathematical & philosophical writings.
Thrilled!🥰
A Finnish classic! My father in law would be very proud.
Some great contributors in a book that feels really timely. Can’t wait to read it!
