If you are a #student of #History in #Ireland 👉 #CFP for #IHSA #podcast is open to 22 May 2026. Email ihsapodcast@gmail.com - a synopsis of your research & topic for discussion (max 100 words) - if you would like to contribute #Speirgorm #ECR #PhD #Undergrad #Masters 1950ihsa.jimdosite.com/podcast/

Milk transformed by science & technology: the rise of infant formula manufacturing in 20th-century Ireland. 24 april 2026. 5.30pm. picture of Dr Juliana Adelman

Delighted to welcome keynote Dr Juliana Adelman, DCU to our #HSTM 2026 Annual Meeting. The keynote: Milk transformed by science & technology: the rise of infant formula manufacturing in 20th-century Ireland will be hosted @unioflimerick.bsky.social 24 April 5.30pm #HistMed #MedHums #Skystorians

Intro to Researching at the National Library of Ireland

Intro to Researching at the National Library of Ireland

📅 Thursday, 23 April at 1pm:
www.nli.ie/exhibitions-events/intro...

Join us for this free talk in the NLI's Joly Theatre introducing the National Library as a source for research.

#IAPH is running an Oral History workshop on 25 April 2026 from 10am - 1pm ** ONLINE ** Excellent training for #Qualitative researchers too. Subsidised for Members. Places limited - email info@irishhistorians.ie subject heading ‘Oral History Training’. #Speirgorm #Skystorians #OralHistory #Ireland

Just saw a Reddit thread in a search there. “What do historians do? How do you earn money??” Re the latter, you may well ask.

Unhappy Anniversary: One Year Since Trump’s Brutish Assault on History | The New Republic It’s a year to the day since Trump’s executive order on American history. It’s just as idiotic and offensive now as it was then.

“As historians, we invite all Americans to join in defending the work of our colleagues in federal agencies entrusted with understanding and disseminating the nation’s past honestly and transparently.”

Read The New Republic article by former OAH Pres. David W. Blight: https://ow.ly/QL9Q50YBi93

Front cover of 'Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain. The Navy League and the Air League of the British Empire', by Rowan Thompson.

Next week: the latest in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' book series is 'Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain. The Navy League and the Air League of the British Empire', by Rowan Thompson: bit.ly/474AbHq

Published free OA & in p/back @uolpress.bsky.social
on 9 April #Skystorians 1/2

Last chance! There’s still time to submit nominations for the 2026 Michel Déon Prize for non-fiction, with entries closing at midnight tonight.

Readers, publishers and authors are all invited to submit nominations online: form.jotform.com/220372960158...

Join us on Thur 16 April for a visit to St Bride’s Printing Library at St Bride Foundation. The St Bride Foundation Institute was set up in 1893 for printing education, with a strong social and recreational function. This visit will take us behind the scenes of Fleet Street.

Tickets: bit.ly/41qeMp7

Wildflower folk remedy shows modern potential for tackling antibiotic resistance Scientists have proven that a wildflower steeped in folklore for its medicinal powers has genuine healing qualities—and the potential to help combat antibiotic resistance. Tormentil, a yellow wildflow...

Fascinating to see this research into bog flowers used in historic medical processes being explored due to its anti microbial properties! 🌷 phys.org/news/2026-03...

Working with medical and mental health records This session will explore the complexities of working with records related to medical scandals, terrorism, and personal trauma.

👇 This looks like a cracking session for #Skystorians and #Archivists #MedHums #HistMed #HistNursing #HistMidwifery #ReproHist #Archives www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/working-wi...

To far right gobdaws defending ‘Irelands historical homogenous society’ a history lesson - do you know how many times we’ve been invaded or people came seeking safety - Huguenots for eg. Just take 1169 - Welsh, Normans, Flemings, English, Bretons etc landed on our shores & stayed. Homogenous, not!

Commemorations Grants scheme welcoming applications - Royal Irish Academy The Commemorations Grants scheme which aims to encourage new local research and local history studies (local, national and regional) as a means of recognising the significant contribution of local his...

The Commemorations Grants scheme, funded by the Commemorations unit of the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (TAG), has opened for applications.

Clodagh Finn: A woman’s toolkit for change for the next 100 years As we mark International Women’s Day, a new book looks at how women overcame the barriers and restrictions imposed on them

Many thanks to brilliant @clodaghfinn.bsky.social in @irishexaminer.bsky.social for highlighting our #womensgrassrootsactivism project on eve of #IWD2026. Great to have work of @soroptimistgbi.bsky.social & #ICA acknowledged & remembered @whaireland.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

and though #IHSA now in its 77th year is organised for students by students, as a peer support, it always has some of the most interesting and intesectional #IrishHistory so watch out for 2027! Thanks to our organisers @maynoothuniversity.ie for hosting this year, a lovely event with great keynotes

After many years of service to #IHSA Executive Committee 1950ihsa.jimdosite.com our wonderful colleague & Chair has stepped down. Wishing @sarahannebuckley.bsky.social our sincere thanks 4 encouraging & supporting next gen #Irish #historians #skystorians. We will miss you! #IrishStudies #Speirgorm

A selection of books form the Fagel Collection

TCD Library is recruiting a Senior Bibliographer to help catalogue the Fagel Collection! This is a fabulous professional opportunity to work on one of Europe's great early modern private libraries. Closing 10 March at noon. Full details available at www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies

📢 Free online teacher CPD!

Join our Digimap for Schools session with Ordnance Survey on 16 June 🗺️

Whether you’re a new or experienced user, we’ll show you how to use data collection and tables to bring this versatile tool into your classroom.

🔗 Book your place: bit.ly/3OAUvtC

UCD School of Archaeology supports an SEO for commercial archaeology in Ireland. It would support better employment conditions for young archaeologists and be of benefit to our discipline

On Thursday 5 March at 4.30 our visiting Boston College Irish Studies scholar, Marcus Breen, will be speaking about 'The Struggle for Meaning in Irish Cultural Studies: Kneecap and Sinners'. All welcome in-person (Lanyon 01/052) or online. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

The Edward Worth Library, Dublin, is offering two short-term research fellowships of between 1 week and 1 month between Jun and Nov 2026 to encourage research relevant to its collection of c. 4,300 books, left to Dr Steevens’ Hospital by Dublin physician Edward Worth (1676-1733).
#histmed

A reminder that our first seminar of 2026 is on Thursday! Neil Murphy @northumbriauni.bsky.social will speak on 'Violence, colonialism and the mid-Tudor monarchy: Ireland in context'. If you can't join us in person @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social join online 👇
www.eventbrite.ie/e/violence-c...

British Association for Irish Studies

A reminder that our 2026 PGR Bursary and Essay Prizes are currently open for submission - you can read reports from our 2025 Bursary awardees now on our website:

irishstudies.co.uk

An exhibition on the early years of Fianna Fáil in Co. Kerry and supported by a Commemorations Bursary from the RIA will go on display at Kerry library branches during February and March.

Find more on this exhibition: owenoshea.ie/new-exhibition-on-early-...

The roof timbers in Saint Mary’s Collegiate Church (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2021)

The roof timbers in Saint Mary’s Collegiate Church Youghal which have been carbon dated to 1170. Likely built by shipwrights so essentially an upside down boat. www.patrickcomerford.com/2021/08/sain... #speirgorm

Rolling back environmental regulation is the ultimate act of self-harm Across the world, right-wing political forces are working to dismantle decades of environmental and social progress, writes Ciaran Brennan

'Here in Ireland, in Europe and further afield, we are witnessing a deregulatory agenda cloaked in the language of simplification. Across the world, right-wing political forces are working to dismantle decades of environmental and social progress.'

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

'These vast and oppressive buildings, designed to isolate as much to treat, remain among the most imposing architectural relics of the State ... It is this uneasy inheritance that underpins Killeen's exhibition.'

📰Our thanks to Enniscorthy Guardian for this beautiful spread on Walls of Containment.

"Munsther Irish"
One for @darach.bsky.social

Restored Peatlands Could Become Carbon Sinks Within Decades - Eos That’s much faster than what most scientists thought.

Restored Peatlands Could Become Carbon Sinks Within Decades eos.org/articles/res...