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.
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

Book cover: Meath: The Irish Revolution, 1912-23, by Ciarán Wallace. Cover is grey with a sepia photo of a group of men and women .

New: Meath: The Irish Revolution, 1912-23, by Dr. Ciáran Wallace.
As politics, war and revolution intruded on daily routine, some embraced change, risking life and livelihood for a chosen cause; others resisted. Gradually, violence affected the regular round of shopping, sport and socializing. 1/2

The Limerick Boycott in Context reviewed in the current issue of the @irishtheolquart.bsky.social . Very many thanks to all involved 🙏

On Monday 20 October we welcome Dr Ian d'Alton to QUB Irish Studies to talk about '1932 - seeing the same world differently: Irish Catholics and Protestants a decade after independence'. All welcome in-person and online. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

At Trinity Long Room Hub to mark The Limerick Boycott in Context Hosted by School of Languages, Literatures & Cultural Studies, & Centre for Jewish Studies.

With fellow essayists Trisha Oakley Kessler & Katrina Goldstone, & editors Natalie Wynn & Sean Gannon. In conversation with Zuleika Rodgers.

Blue book cover with a black and white photograph showing a detail of a manuscript

Panel discussion: 'The Limerick Boycott in Context', bringing together the editors of and contributors to the recently published book.

📅13 May, 6.30pm @tlrhub.bsky.social

More information: www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...

@swgannon.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social

Screengrab of a contract for the upcoming book "Ireland First?: Tracing the Global History of the Irish Far-Right"

For the last year @brian-hanley.bsky.social and I have been working on a proposed edited book on the global history of the Irish far-right. Today we are signing a contract to publish this with NYU Press and their Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series

Book titled America in Ireland: Culture and Society 1841-1925, published by Cambridge University Press.

My books finally arrived! Very grateful to the team at @cambridgeup.bsky.social for the superb production and supporting the project.
Thinking today of the late David Fitzpatrick who began this project and to whom it is dedicated, and also of my mother who would have loved to see it in print.

Front page of 'Legal Transfer and Legal Geography in the British Empire' edited by Donal K Coffey and Stefan Vogenauer. The front image is the an image of James I abolishing the Brehon law and bringing the common law to Ireland.

Donal K. Coffey and Stefan Vogenauer Preface Part I Legal Transfer in the Common Law World: From the Early Modern Period until the Present 7 | Scott A. Carrière Law and Legalism in Corporate Newfoundland, 1583–1699 37 | Matilde Cazzola Aboriginal Protection and parens patriae: Indigenous Youths, Juvenile Delinquents, and the Reformatory Principle in Australia and England 73 | Philip Girard On the Edge of Many Empires: Employers’ Liability in Quebec’s Industrial Age, 1880–1931 105 | Christopher M. Roberts and Hazel W. H. Leung The Legacies of Vagrancy Law and the Reconstruction of the Criminal in Hong Kong, 1945–2022 V Part II Landscape, Law, and Spatial Justice in the former British Empire 139 | Amy Strecker and Amanda Byer Introduction: Landscape, Law, and Spatial Justice in the former British Empire 151 | Amanda Byer Reserving Space: Land, Nature, and Empire in the Development of Commonwealth Caribbean Environmental Law 187 | Sonya Cotton Legislating “Community” in Southern Africa’s Plural Properties 239 | Raphael Ng’etich Competing Notions of Land in Colonial Kenya and the Impact on Present-Day Land Governance 279 | Sinéad Mercier A Haunting Absence: Tracing the Origins of International Energy Law from the Laboratory of Ireland

Delighted to say that this new co-edited volume by myself and Stefan Vogenauer is now available as volume 25 of the Global Perspectives on Legal History series. It is open access here: www.lhlt.mpg.de/publications... We have a great set of authors who contributed to this.

The Irish-Argentine newspaper The Southern Cross is celebrating its 150th anniversary Viviana P. Keegan introduces readers to the Irish-Argentinian newspaper, The Southern Cross, which will soon be digitised.

We have a new Irish Diaspora Histories blog post! Viviana Keegan writes on Irish-Argentinian The Southern Cross newspaper which is being digitised this year! Give it a read here... #irishdiaspora

irishdiasporahistory.wordpress.com/2025/03/04/t...

🚨New Blog Post🚨 I wrote this for the COLVET
blog on how West African veteran records can help us put a face on the Global Greater War and its impacts outside Europe. It includes ten brief biographies of West African veterans and their wartime experiences around the globe. colvet.eu/tracing-the-...

Delighted to have received my contributor copy of this important new volume on the Limerick Boycott of 1904. It was a privilege to be invited to contribute to this collection of essays.

CFP: 'Ireland and the American Revolution'. The organisers invite submissions for papers to be presented at a conference held in the Trinity Long Room Hub at Trinity College Dublin on the 9-10 October 2025. If you are interested submit an abstract of 250 words and a brief bio by the 1 May 2025.

Looking for an Enemy - Carla King
DRB review of Reimagining the Jews of Ireland drb.ie/articles/loo...

Very pleased to say that our edited collection on the history, historiography, and cultural memory of the 1904 Limerick Boycott is published this week. Thanks to all the contributors.
peterlang.com/document/149...

Peter Lang Verlag - The Limerick Boycott in Context «Historically it has been fashionable to view the Limerick Boycott as a deplorable but isolated incident. The essays in this volume expertly challenge ...

Gone to print and available in a matter of weeks, thank you to Seán Gannon and Natalie Wynn for the invitation to contribute an essay to this timely volume.

www.peterlang.com/document/149...

Since 2020 I have been working on this theoretical essay on antisemitism and sexuality studies - really happy to see it published in the last few days in the Journal of Right-Wing Studies

Tune into @rte.ie Radio 1 today at 1:30pm to listen to #IrishImperialLives in #Australia #Irishhistory #Empire #decolonisation

Pages from history – Felix M Larkin on the Freeman’s Journal It’s a century since the final edition appeared on December 19th, 1924

The Freeman’s Journal newspaper ceased publication on 19 December 1924. The Irish Times has published my Irishman’s Diary piece on the history of the Freeman.

Pages from history – Felix M Larkin on the Freeman’s Journal

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

Article by @swgannon.bsky.social on the Limerick boycott of 1904. www.theirishstory.com/2020/07/05/r...

New Yorker

White text on a brown background that reads 'A valuable contribution to migration scholarship, examining the practice of repatriating Irish paupers from Britain.' Next to this, on the right, the book cover of The Removal of Irish Paupers from Britain by Lewis Darwen and Donald M. MacRaild. In the bottom left corner, the LUP125 logo. The background is a cream coloured illustration of an 19th century dockyard.

Publishing today: The Removal of Irish Paupers from Britain by Lewis Darwen and Donald MacRaild, a new addition in the Reappraisals in Irish History series. Discover more here ⬇️
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Good King Wenceslas Last Looked Out: The Subversion of Societal Heterodoxies in Pre-State Czechia in the Long Ninth Century.

Christmas songs as academic titles

Santa Claus is coming to town: the nuclear family as surveillance state

Rudolph the red nose reindeer: how labour value distorts interpersonal relations

We wish you a merry Christmas: interpellating figgy pudding as holiday melancholia

Free print copies of 'Limerick After the Civil War, 1923-1930' are available now.

To get yours, contact:
📧localstudies@limerick.ie
☎️ 061-557727
www.limericklocalstudiesdigital.ie/items/show/2...

Also check out our article on the Treaty debates in the 2nd Dail after its signing. They were long, fraught and eventaully very bitter and personal www.theirishstory.com/2022/01/08/t...

Engraving of UK Foreign Office building, Westminster

Isabella Jackson is giving a keynote at a conference at the Cambridge History Faculty on'Diasporas, Diplomacy and Dreams of Modernity: Cultural Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century East Asia' and her keynote is 'Foreign Office Imperialism: China’s treaty ports and the British Foreign Office'.

Pleased to share news of my new book, 'A Documentary History of Jewish–Christian Relations' published @cambridgeup.bsky.social. It's the first comprehensive single-volume history of Jewish–Christian relations over 2,000 years. Further info, inc. launch discount: www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/research/pro...