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.

Conor McCabe: Protesters' grievances are real — they're bearing a heavy load Responsibility for the time-sensitive targets at the heart of national policy is carried by agricultural contractors who are struggling to make repayments on loans for the necessary heavy machinery, a...

Wrote a piece for the Examiner on the fuel protests - www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

A large historic American flag is laid flat on a white floor inside a museum gallery, surrounded by photography lighting stands and softbox lights, with wall displays and a mezzanine level visible above.

A close view of a large American flag spread on the floor in a museum space, with two people working nearby and studio lights positioned around the flag for documentation.

A person stands on a mezzanine operating a camera mounted on a tripod, photographed from below, with ceiling beams and a large fan visible in the background.

A historic American flag photographed flat against a white background, showing thirteen stars in the canton and alternating red and off-white stripes, with visible signs of age and wear.

Marking the 150th anniversary of the rescue of six Fenian leaders from Fremantle Prison by the whaling ship Catalpa. The flag of the Catalpa will be on display at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, on Saturday, 18th and Sunday, 19th April 2026 only.
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Excited to see that @labour-hub.bsky.social has published a review of In Solidarity, Under Suspicion!

Mike Phipps: "there is a lot here that could teach us how to help build contemporary social movements."

labourhub.org.uk/2026/04/05/w...

@evansmithhist.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social

God’s Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland God’s Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland, by Micheál Ó Siochrú, is a compelling insight into one of the most controversial figures in Anglo-Irish history.

I focus on a later period of Irish history but Micheál Ó Siochrú‘s work would be a good indication?

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anybody familiar with the attitudes of Irish historians, political scientists, and/or theorists? curious what the reputation of Oliver Cromwell is as a historical figure amongst those folks, and whether it's changed much in the last few generations

Flyer for my talk at the university Pittsburgh on April 9th at the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium at 7pm as part of the Alice and Staughton Lynd Working Class History Seminar

I’m coming to Pittsburgh next month ✨

I’m giving a talk at the University Pittsburgh’s Frick Fine Arts Auditorium on April 9th at 7pm as part of the Alice and Staughton Lynd Working Class History Seminar; it’s free and open to the public, so tell your yinzer friends!

Irish Exceptionalism Programme – SOFEIR conference – University of Strasbourg, 26-27 March 2026 – SOFEIR Here is the latest version of the Irish Exceptionalism programme for the SOFEIR 2026 conference, which will take place at the University of Strasbourg on 26 and 27 March.

Dear all,

Here is the updated programme of the SOFEIR Irish Studies conference, on the theme of Irish Exceptionalism. It takes place next week (25-26 March) at the University of Strasbourg. See you there soon!

www.sofeir.fr/irish-except...

Cover of Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland by Patrick Brodie. At the bottom of the cover there is a photograph of three empty houses in disrepair with abandon building materials and gravel in the foreground. The sky is dark and stormy. Above this, the cover is a solid dark teal green. The title is written in a white sans-serif type in all caps. The subtitle is below in the same type. The author’s name is below in a white serif font.

Save 30% on #NewBook "Wild Tides" by Patrick Brodie, which traces Ireland’s shift from reckless pre-2008 real estate development to a post-crisis investment in media infrastructure, revealing how financialization alters the daily life of a nation. buff.ly/NVSBjbJ

Youth Defence, young people and anti-abortion activism in Ireland, c.1992–97 This article explores the first five years of the Irish young people’s anti-abortion group Youth Defence. Using newspaper articles and archival sources, I illustrate how the group effectively mobil...

I have a new OA article out on the early history of Irish young people’s anti-abortion group Youth Defence. It’s part of a special issue by Agata Ignaciuk and Sylwia Kuzma-Markowska on anti-abortion activism in Europe.Thanks to reviewers and the RSE for funding.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

From day one Trump has shown us his corruption and desire for regime change in multiple countries that he has no business being in.

This is an insanely unpopular, dangerous, and illegal act of war. Congress must pass a War Powers Resolution immediately and hold this lawless president accountable.

CRITICAL RACE THEORY? BROTHER, EVERY RACE IS CRITICAL

Saw this in Discord and it’s amazing

Friends and colleagues in Irish academia! The wonderful Dr Mary McGill has asked me to circulate her @researchireland.ie - funded survey on Exploring experiences of gender-based online abuse among female academics in Ireland - please do share! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Hand holding a hardcover book with a black and white illustration and the text “Performing Modernity: Culture and Experiment in the Irish Free State” by Elaine Sisson.

This was on the cataloging shelf this morning, and the amount of whoops and cheers I’ve let out just reading the introduction and skimming chapters! A really important book for Irish visual and material culture, and much needed in the broader Irish Studies field 📚

Barstool Sports Spins Off New Literary Journal

Barstool Sports Spins Off New Literary Journal theonion.com/barstool-sports-spins-of...

I wrote about this a few years ago

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teaching "The Conditions of the Working Class in England" for the first time in a while and turns out I had well and truly forgotten how historical figures used to post about the Irish on main

Statement from the family of Alex Pretti, Michael and Susan Pretti: We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump's murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Statement from the family of Alex Pretti.

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

I am the book reviews editor for @jich.bsky.social and always looking for new review pitches. If you’d like to review a recently published book on imperial, colonial or Commonwealth history (broadly defined), please get in touch: evan dot smith at adelaide dot edu dot au. Authors, get in touch too!

Excited to share details of my first monograph, Revolutionary Connections, coming out Open Access with OUP this year! It explores diverse forms of international engagement in revolutionary Russia and Ireland, including responses to Ireland in Russian-language texts. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Check out my latest for the @crexuio.bsky.social blog. I look at how a politically maturing Irish far right is increasingly leveraging Irish republicanism through masculinity to build a home-grown ideology.

I was just denied access to the ICE processing center at the Whipple Building.

Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained.

The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.

Apply to the Catherine Shannon prize here
acisweb.org/shannon-prize/

$500 for attending the ACIS conference in Denver in May. Preference will be given to untenured faculty, graduate students, independent scholars without full-time employment, retired academics, and international scholars.

Guy Beiner discusses the new Catherine Shannon Award, created through a collaboration between the Charitable Irish Society and ACIS.

The award stands as a tribute to her legacy, supporting the next generation of scholars just as she has done throughout her remarkable career.

2025 Round Up This episode is a round up of the Irish Left Archive project in 2025 and answers to some listener questions. Thanks as always to everyone who has supported and engaged with the archive by sending documents, speaking on the podcast, emailing, commenting, and using the site. Thanks also to the editorial team of Saothar, the journal of the Irish Labour History Society, for including an article on the Irish Left Archive in their 50th anniversary edition, Saothar 50. More to come in 2026!

🎙️A new episode of the Irish Left Archive Podcast looking at the project over the past year.

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A book endorsement for Mother of Capital: How Rent Gave Birth to Modernity: 'Costa takes us back into the womb of history to show that it was rent that gave birth to capital, and that the two never parted ways since then' Xavier Lafrance, Université du Québec à Montréal

Unearned income built the world.

Mother of Capital is OUT NOW!

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Part 1 of the JRWS special issue on the history of the far-right in the US is out! Read it for free, and spread it widely. escholarship.org/uc/jrws

No better time than now to learn what's precedented and what's not.

Exciting delivery at the Sydney Jones library today! ✨ So nice to see my chapter on socialist-feminist activism in 1980s Merseyside finally in print (almost 2 years after writing!) in @d-j-frost.bsky.social and @evansmithhist.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social wonderful volume.

GOD: if my commandments get 50,000 likes, i will tell Abraham to kill his son