Council managers push forward with plan for a smaller Bull Island Discovery Centre A scaled-down version is being looked at, said council Chief Executive Richard Shakespeare on Monday.

Council managers are pushing forward with a plan for a smaller Bull Island Discovery Centre. A scaled-down version is being looked at, said council Chief Executive Richard Shakespeare on Monday.

The IAI conference is approaching! We have 2 days full of fascinating talks on a wide range of topics. The conference will be on 17/18 Apr @ the Clayton Hotel Silver Springs in Cork. To get your ticket, visit buff.ly/a0w2gcF .
#iaiconference2026 #archaeologyconference #archaeology #irisharchaeology

Léachtaí Cholm Cille 2026, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Páras, 24-25 Aibreán

Léachtaí Cholm Cille 2026 Clár Déardaoin 23 Aibreán go Dé Sathairn 25 Aibreán 2026

Léachtaí Cholm Cille 2026 Clár Dé Sathairn 25 Aibreán 2026

Léachtaí Cholm Cille 2026 Clár Dé Sathairn 25 Aibreán 2026

Beidh Léachtaí Cholm Cille 2026 ar siúl sa Centre Culturel Irlandais, Páras, 24–25 Aibreán 2026. Pléifear gnéithe éagsúla de shaothrú léann agus litríocht na Gaeilge sa Fhrainc.

Déan RSVP ag nua.ghaeilge@mu.ie más mian leat freastal ar an gcomhdháil. Gach eolas ag buff.ly/sEi91JC

In 2006 I told the late (great) Prof. Ray Gillespie that I wanted to publish every surviving scrap from the 1766 religious census, by 2016. I missed the 🎯by 10 yrs, but 😃 to report that on the 260th anniv. it's done. Everything, >50k names & population details, now online.
@maynoothuniversity.ie

This is a free event in-person and online. Registration required.

1/3 📜✨ New on ISOS: Russell Library, Maynooth
Three Irish-language manuscripts (19th c.).
Grammar, poetry, devotion & tradition, scribes Seán Ó Coileáin, Denis Murray & Seosamh Ó Longáin.
Ogham lore, spiritual texts & literary reflection.
🙏 Thanks to
@mulibrary.bsky.social
@dias.ie
#DIASdiscovers

Dr Bernadette Cunningham will discuss the Annals of the Four Masters and its Mayo connections at @atumayo.bsky.social. All welcome. Lecture presented by our History & Geography programme in association with MHAS. @oflynnatu.bsky.social @b7cunningham.bsky.social

Acallam talk alert! 🔔 Register at celtic@uni-bonn.de to get the link to Nina Cnockaert-Guillou's talk, next Monday 9th February at 18:00 CET.
@ninacnock.bsky.social will discuss some of the Disappearing Text project's work so far, and the (many) different versions of Acallam na Senórach..!

Welcome to our new followers!

Looking for historical inspiration (or distraction)? 150 UK galleries, libraries, archives & museums - all active on Bluesky - are highlighted in this new pack.

Excellent and diverse collections, info about online events, heritage snark and more.

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🎆Job Klaxon!!🎆

Folúntais: Scoláireachtaí Uí Dhonnabháin @scs-dias.bsky.social @dias.ie. Spriocdháta 5 Eanáir 2026

2 O’Donovan Scholarship vacancies at the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Deadline 5 January 2026:

www.dias.ie/2025/12/05/v...

Economic and Social History Society of Ireland, 52nd Annual Conference. DCU St Patrick’s Campus, Friday 5th and Saturday 6th December 2025. eshsi_conference_programme_2025_25_novDownload

Economic and Social History Society of Ireland, 52nd Annual Conference. DCU St Patrick’s Campus, Friday 5th and Saturday 6th December 2025.

There is still time to apply for one of our 50+ Visiting Fellowships @bodleian.ox.ac.uk for the 2026-27 academic year! A vibrant interdisciplinary research centre in the heart of one of the world’s great libraries!

Poster advertising lecture `The historian at work in Lebor Gabála'.

Léacht reachtúil na Scoile do 2025
SCS Statutory Lecture for 2025
Gregory Toner, QUB
The historian at work in Lebor Gabála
Friday 14 November
UCD, Theatre R, Newman Building
Mar chuid de Thionól 2025 / Part of Tionól 2025
www.dias.ie/2025/10/22/t...
#DIASdiscovers
@dias.ie

Programme for Tionól conference 2025

Clár Tionól na bliana seo!
Programme for Tionól 2025!
14-15 Samhain/November.
#DIASdiscovers
@dias.ie
www.dias.ie/celt/

Poster advertising lectures on St Laurence O'Toole to be held in Dublin; click link for details.

Sraith léachtaí am lóin - lunchtime lecture series
St Laurence O'Toole and the Medieval Gaelic World
Ardeaglais Chríost, BÁC / Christchurch cathedral, Dublin
4, 11, 18, 25 Samhain / November.
#DIASdiscovers
@dias.ie
christchurchcathedral.ie/lunchtime-le...

Print edition held by @rialibrary.bsky.social in Dublin.

We are delighted to share the Call for Papers for our Spring Seminar Series 2026:

Dr Benjamin Thébaudeau will begin our series of evening lectures with a talk on the Joyce Country & Western Lakes Geopark on Wednesday 22nd October at 7.30pm. All welcome. @atumayo.bsky.social @atu-hrg.bsky.social @oflynnatu.bsky.social

Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History

Join us for a series of free, online lectures to explore sources of women's lived experience, intellectual and religious networks, and socio-political power in medieval and early modern Scotland.

scottishhistorysociety.com/shs-winter-l...

Join us at the Royal Irish Academy on 2 and 3 October for a two-day conference exploring all aspects of the Book of Lecan.

Book your tickets now: www.ria.ie/events/libra...

To attend, please register at the event of your choice here. If you have signed up but suddenly find yourself unable to make it, you can relinquish your spot by emailing: ihr.events@sas.ac.uk. If you would like to attend in-person and the event reads as fully booked, please do drop by anyway as we can always find some extra chairs! Thursday 16 October, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm Lyndal Roper (University of Oxford), Turbulence and the German Peasants’ War of 1524-6 Please register here if you would like to attend. Hybrid. Online-via Zoom & Room 243, Second Floor, Senate House Thursday 30 October, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm Emily Vine (University of Exeter), Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London Please register here if you would like to attend. Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House Thursday 27 November, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm Nailya Shamgunova (University of East Anglia), ‘English and Scottish Scholars at the Global Library, c. 1500-1700’ Please register here if you would like to attend. Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House

We're back! 🎉 And we're thrilled to announce our term card for Autumn 2025! Our first event is on Thursday 16 October at 5.30 pm. Lyndal Roper will be discussing 'Turbulence and the German Peasants' War of 1524-6'. You can register to attend the event at: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

BC Irish Studies is inviting applications for visiting summer Burns fellowships in 2026, 2027, & 2028

The application is open to researchers and writers in any discipline pertaining to Irish Studies. Early-career scholars are particularly encouraged to apply

apply.interfolio.com/174086

UPCOMING EVENT
Dear Friends,
Join us on Saturday 4 October in the Robert Emmet Theatre (Room 2037), Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin, for our 26th Medieval Dublin symposium, organised with the support of the Department of History of TCD as part of the Dublin Festival of History [1/3]

Bound for Devotion: The Prayer Book as Object and Practice, 1300–1800 Prayer was central to religious life in the late medieval and early modern period. Despite growing scholarly interest in religious texts, devotional practices, and spirituality, prayer and prayer book...

One month left to submit an abstract for our conference 'Bound for Devotion: The Prayer Book as Object and Practice, 1300–1800', 1-3 July 2026 in Leiden:
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
#medieval #earlymodern #bookhistory

Opening page of RHS blog post: 'Peter J. Marshall and the Royal Historical Society: an appreciation'.

Peter J. Marshall (1933-2025) and the Royal Historical Society: an appreciation bit.ly/4mSADyn

We are very grateful to @petermandler.bsky.social for his reflections on Peter Marshall, former President of the Society (1996-2000), which are published today on the RHS blog #Skystorians

Conference: Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade | Museum Plantin-Moretus The aim of this two-day conference is to share knowledge of women’s rich and varied lives and works in the period before the rapid industrialisation of book production which changed the face of home l...

REGISTRATION OPEN!

Now more than ever, research is reshaping our view of women’s roles in the early modern book trade. Join us in Antwerp (5–7 Nov 2025) for our conference Women & the Household in the #earlymodern Book Trade.

Register here: tinyurl.com/womenbooktrade

#rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜

Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Postdoctoral Research Associate (16th-18th century focus) - Inclusive Histories Full-time, Fixed Term (12 months)Applications are invited for the post of Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of Humanities.Inclusive Histories is a collaborative research and schools engage...

Postdoctoral Research Associate (16th-18th century focus) - Inclusive Histories - Royal Holloway #skystorians 🗃️#earlymodern #c18th jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

The Childers Professorship of Irish History at University of Cambridge Searching for an academic job? Explore this The Childers Professorship of Irish History opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOC329/t...

A plan of the upright stones indie the passageway at Newgrange, drawn by Mr Lhuyd (c. 1690). Photo courtesy: The Library, Trinity College Dublin, 'Plan of the cave at New Grange.' Dublin Philosophical Society papers transcribed by Samuel Molyneux (TCD MS 883)

Excited to share a new collaboration led by Dr Eamon Darcy @maynoothuniversity.ie‬ with ‪@ria.ie @dri.ie‬
The Molyneux Papers-20 vivid county descriptions from the 1680s online:
virtualtreasury.ie/curated-coll...

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‪@rtebrainstorm.bsky.social‬ tinyurl.com/yc3b3tpa
#IrishHistory 📷TCD Library

We are delighted to release the full conference programme for the 35th Irish Conference of Historians. Full details and registration available here: www.eventbrite.com/e/35th-irish...