Congratulations Karina

USIHS Lecture: Prof David Dickson (TCD) ‘The Foyle, the Chesapeake, and a fifty-year transatlantic conversation: Getting the measure of the Moore family archive, 1798-1847′ Thursday 23 April at 6pm. In-person at 27 University Squar…

USIHS talk this Thursday at 6pm - Prof David Dickson (TCD)
‘The Foyle, the Chesapeake, and a fifty-year transatlantic conversation: Getting the measure of the Moore family archive, 1798-1847′. In-person at QUB or online via the link at usihs36.com/2026/03/23/u... All welcome!

Stained glass of St Brendan arriving by boat to see the ‘unhappy Judas’ (who is consumed by fire)

‘A Meeting’ (1918) - a dancing mermaid and merman

Richard Mulcahy in IFS uniform in a blue and white stained glass surround - made for his family in 1925

The ‘unhappy Judas’ in stained glass about to make a grisly end thanks to an angel suspending a noose

Some stunning Harry Clarkes on display at the NMI

Very large US naval flag with 36 stars laid out on the floor at the NMI

Transoceanic Fenian swashbuckling - the Catalpa flag briefly on display at NMI for the 150th anniversary of the Fremantle ‘rescue’

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....

Welcome to the UK’s most zeitgeisty theme park: the Stephen Collins cartoon The ultimate metaphorical experience ride is here …

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Next Friday at 12, PhD candidate Michael O'Connor will speak about his work on Irish slaveholders in Jamaica in an event hosted by the Centre for 18th-Century Studies at QUB

Samuel Beckett waited outside Lidl to do the same but his supplier never turned up

Universities: researching and working not just for you but for us, and stronger when collaborating rather than competing.

Ulster University to cut up to 450 jobs An Ulster University spokesperson said that

Appalling news
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Following up on yesterday’s classes on the extraordinary amalgam of scholarship and propaganda that is Wilde’s 1851 Tables of Deaths

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. 🧵

Peasant Movements and Land Agitation Symposium - full recording YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies

A full recording of Saturday's Symposium on 'Peasant Movements and Land Agitation in Ireland' is now available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJaf...

@marcmulholland.bsky.social @peelersandsheep.bsky.social @petergray47.bsky.social @sophcocooper.bsky.social

In our next seminar on 20 April, Melissa Baird & Michael Kennedy (DIFP) will speak on:
‘“Agents from the South running around Northern Ireland”: Backchannel talks between
loyalists and the DFA in the aftermath of Sunningdale’s collapse’ All welcome! www.ticketsource.com/institute-of...

Time re re-enjoy when Vance (not his real name) couldn't find any Irish ancestry and that the Vances found in NI did not want to be linked to him in any way.

What happens to Britain's radical right if Orbán loses? Inside the money, power and patronage connecting Hungary and the British right

It's a good night to read this excellent piece, on the Orban regime's network of financial support for the nationalist right in Britain.

For many on the radical right, the tills are about to stop ringing.
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

Image: A small, angry boy stands in front of his parents. They are in modern clothes, but he is dressed as a regency gentleman with top hat, breeches, cane etc. He says "No title, no estates, and less than a thousand a year! How am I ever to find a wife!" Caption: Noah's parents realise that he has been drawn into the manorsphere.

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com #manosphere

Nine academics standing behind a table

Thanks to all the speakers at today’s symposium on Peasant Movements and Land Agitation in Ireland

Echoes of 1956

At Ashok Malhotra’s Booklaunch at No Alibis - as close as we can get to Shangri-La in Belfast

Photo of Resignation letter from Dr. Martin Peterson

First Plato—now Dr. Peterson—out the door at Texas A&M!

Who’s next?

Here is Dr. Peterson’s letter of resignation, which he just shared with the faculty.

On Monday 13 April we'll be joined by Dr Sinead Moynihan (Exeter), who will speak on 'Watching the mail for [...] the Amerikay letther: Benedict Kiely and the New Yorker'. All welcome. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

Countryside view with statue of a stag

Country garden in sunshine - rain clouds in distance

Easter in Tyrone

Medieval stone face from Fermanagh

Stone head from Keenaghan Lough

Iron skull from Enniskillen Gaol

White Island figured replicas (9thC)

Fermanagh faces

We dodged a bullet there

UU finally bringing in the Terminator

Forgotten Dead Memorial A man who believes the dead deserve respect has created and erected a monument in memory of those who have been forgotten.

Just doing god’s work, no matter what the missus thinks - William Sorensen interviewed in 1966 about his Carr’s Hill memorial #Cork
www.rte.ie/archives/202...

Massive if true