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...
The Irish Institute is excited to open applications for its next Emerging Scholar.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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.
Applications are invited from excellent candidates to pursue a PhD project in Geography with the School of History and Geography @unioflimerick.bsky.social #StudyAtUL
Deadline: 29th May 2026.
For more information, please see: www.ul.ie/artsoc/histo...
You still have time to get your abstracts in for 'Placing the Nineteenth Century', hosted by EHUNineteen's PhD students!
NYC study shows men are 2.6x more likely than women to bike to work. When protected bike lane coverage is high, women’s cycling rates rise significantly faster than men’s.
When protected lanes are limited or fragmented, women’s participation drops sharply.
Good bike investments give women choices.
I have been thinking about these issues in relation to the legacies of the vast TCD estates and the tenants whose labour funded the university campus drb.ie/blog/tcds-fo... and Joe they might be memorialised
Here's the link to the #1926Census of #Ireland which just went live, in case anyone is looking for it. Happy searching! nationalarchives.ie/collections/...
#IrishFamilyHistory #IrishGenealogy
80 million people globally claim Irish ancestry – why the release of 1926 Irish census records is so momentous
Dr @ciarab.bsky.social, Professor of Irish Gender History, writes ahead of the release of the 1926 census. @csoireland.bsky.social
The brilliant @ciarab.bsky.social talking about the release of the 1926 Irish census and how census research opens windows onto both your family’s past and the state’s past.
A woman in a blue and white dress with a blue cardigan holding an exhibition catalogue while standing at the top of the stairs in the National Gallery of Ireland.
What a lovely evening! The exhibition is - predictably - wonderful! Definitely worth seeing!
Photo of 'the cages' in Marsh's Library
Image of blue tits and kingfisher in gouache on vellum, c.1730
Page from a 16th century herbal showing hand-coloured poppies
Applications for the inaugural 'Museum Plinth Project' close this Friday 17th April. The residency offers artists a 6-month residency to engage with the collections of Marsh's Library or the National Museum. visualartists.ie/advert/open-...
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...
My pleasure, Dale! It’s a wonderful book!
I really enjoyed reading and reviewing these books for the spring 2026 issue of Studies in Romanticism! My thanks to Books Review Editor Susan Valladares for the invitation to do so. You can read my review - and the whole issue - OA here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56657
The cover of a book with a bright yellow frame and an inner white rectangle with the text ‘British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical by Megan Peiser’ alongside a small, whimsical black and white engraving from the cover of John Williams’ The Pin Basket (1797).
Also waiting for me upon my return from Notre Dame was this much-anticipated book: British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical by @meganpeiser.bsky.social. Enjoying reading it and exploring the companion database this afternoon!
Looking forward to the opening of William Blake: The Age of Romantic Fantasy at @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social (run in collab with @tate.bsky.social) next Wednesday! I contributed a piece on Blake & Irish Gothic to the exhibition catalogue & can’t wait to see the exhibition in person!
Looking forward to talking character in Austen, Edgeworth and Scott @tlrhub.bsky.social next week, with Sharon Marcus and Jim Chandler
Date: 14 Apr - 14 Apr 2026
Time: 13:30 - 15:30
Venue: Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub
www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...
Sorry to miss it! I’m in Dublin the next day.
Practice #10 in the MORPHSS catalogue of open research practices in AHSS: Documenting & disseminating failure
"..openly sharing aspects of a research project, or entire studies, that were unsuccessful, in order to present research experiences honestly & in a spirit of generosity to ongoing work..."
The cover of the collection Race, Violence, and Form: Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland, edited by Renee Fox and Mary Mullen. The cover image is Abandoned (2025) by Fiona McGovern.
Very happy to find this waiting for me when I returned home from South Bend! I’ve a chapter in here on ‘Irish Gothic and Global Reading Cultures in the Long Nineteenth Century’, which was so much fun to write! I loved working with @cookiegoth.bsky.social and @marymullen.bsky.social, too!
Thanks also to amazing colleagues for making me feel so welcome! Most aren’t on here (I think), so I’ll say a general thanks to @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social.
The sun just beginning to rise behind the Basilica and Golden Dome of the University of Notre Dame.
A final sunrise view of Notre Dame before I head back to Ireland later today. What a pleasure and a privilege it’s been working in Rare Books & Special Collections at Hesburgh library this past week! I’m so grateful to @ndirishstudies.bsky.social for the opportunity!
The Word of Life Mosaic at the front of Hesburgh Library.
It was a bit of an epic journey getting here yesterday, but I’m delighted to be at the University of Notre Dame for the next week or so working on my book project, Irish Gothic in the Global Nineteenth Century, with thanks to @ndirishstudies.bsky.social.
It's official - my research leave application for the autumn semester has been approved! Happy days!
I was really honoured to be asked to contribute an introduction to this excellent collection of essays! It was an eye-opening opportunity to consider how much has changed since we started Tramp Press in 2014.
'Publishing is an industry that has often proclaimed itself to be on the brink of collapse; yet the persistence of books tells a different story.' EXCEPTIONALLY proud of co-Tramp Lisa Coen for this clear-eyed, straight-up introduction to essays on women's writing in Ireland of the last decade
It was a pleasure working with all of the contributors as well as a dream editorial team, including co-editor @ellenscheible.bsky.social and LIT general editors @tarac321.bsky.social and Amanda Smith.
Opening with a fantastic introduction by Lisa Coen of @tramppress.bsky.social offering a publisher's perspective on contemporary fiction in Ireland, the issue includes excellent essays by Matt Eatough, Alison Graves, @taylorfollett.bsky.social, @kerstipowell.bsky.social, and Jane E. Dougherty.
