We are delighted to announce that registration for our Annual Conference 2026 is now open. 'Intimacies in nineteenth-century Ireland' takes place @maynoothuniversity.ie
18-19 June 2026. See shop.maynoothuniversity.ie/index.php?ap...
More information to follow soon!
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.
In advance of tomorrow's release here is a short piece on the historical Irish censuses based on my past and ongoing research #spéirgorm theconversation.com/80-million-p...
Review of Irish Studies in Europe 9.1 is now available at risejournal.eu !
The Animal in Ireland - Real and Imagined, Part 2
edited by Maureen O'Connor, Ina Bergmann, Maria Eisenmann and Kirsten Sandrock
Have a look at the Table of Contents at www.efacis.eu/sites/defaul...
How can we preserve and celebrate trans histories?
If you're in Birmingham on 29 April, come hear about the Digital Transgender Archive.
Speaker: Prof K. J. Rawson (Northeastern University)
Chair: Prof Mo Moulton
Arts 104 University of Birmingham
29 Apr 1pm
www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net
🌈🎓
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....
Public lecture: Irish Society for Archives’ Spring Lecture Series ‘How to start a new archives service: experience of the CIÉ Group Archives’, Kevin Forkan, Wednesday 6 May at 6pm
An image shoeing the cover of a new book, Seeing Ireland: Art, Culture, and Power in Modern Ireland (UND Press, 2026), with a blurb quote by Diarmuid Ó Giolláin calling it a 'highly original contribution to the study of Irish Art.'
Today is publication day for this beautiful book. Inspiration for it came from seeing @billyshortall.bsky.social talk about his brilliant PhD research at the IHSA in @tlrhub.bsky.social in 2017. One of those joyful collaborations that come along sometimes in academia. Cover is a Paul Henry painting
There are two QUB History seminars on 24 April:
Alice Mauger on drink and the late 20thC NY Irish at 2pm
Li Na on Making Asian Public History at 4pm
2.5 year postdoc opportunity at CoE NARS, Tampere University. The focus is on the history of everyday nationalism and we encourage applications dealing with the history of childhood and youth. Please distribute far and wide and encourage great scholars to apply. tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...
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...
Delighted to announce the CFP for the fourth series of the Irish History Students' Association podcast. Any questions please email ihsapodcast@gmail.com 1950ihsa.jimdosite.com/podcast/
Delighted that we will be welcoming the brilliant Prof Rashid Khalidi to Maynooth next Tuesday for a talk on the shared genealogies of colonial counter-insurgency in Ireland and Palestine. Follow this link to register. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...
Milk transformed by science & technology: the rise of infant formula manufacturing in 20th-century Ireland. 24 april 2026. 5.30pm. picture of Dr Juliana Adelman
Delighted to welcome keynote Dr Juliana Adelman, DCU to our #HSTM 2026 Annual Meeting. The keynote: Milk transformed by science & technology: the rise of infant formula manufacturing in 20th-century Ireland will be hosted @unioflimerick.bsky.social 24 April 5.30pm #HistMed #MedHums #Skystorians
Peter Hession giving a lecture in University of Limerick on famine history on Monday April 27
For colleagues in Limerick and Munster, this should be great. I am sure Peter has lots of fascinating things to say about the history of the famine road.
We’re hiring more at Warwick! Assistant Professors in History of Capitalism: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/mobile-1/... & History of Iberian Empires: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/mobile-1/... Happy to answer any questions for anyone interested!
The in-person places are now fully booked, but you can either request a 'recording only' option or join the waiting list here: buytickets.at/royalirishac...
#IHTA2026
It's official! My next book "The Indian Revolutionary Movement in Europe, 1905-1918: Exile, Internationalism, and Resistance to Empire" is coming out with Liverpool University Press on 14 August 2026.
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
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...
Congratulations to Keough-Naughton Institute postdoc Robert O’Sullivan on winning the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland Essay Prize! 👏 @rosulli.bsky.social
👉 Read his article that earned the award: doi.org/10.1017/ihs....
@irishhistsoc.bsky.social @irishhiststudies.bsky.social
Visiting fellowships are BACK at @uniofgalwaycasscs.bsky.social!
Details here: www.universityofgalway.ie/colleges-and...
Come visit us! ☘️📚🌧️
Lauren Ottaviani
‘“A call for women to be up and doing”: Nationalism and Suffrage in the Work of Mary E.L. Butler’
For full details see
ssnci.org/society-for-...
Cianna Devitt
‘Floating Property’: Litigating Coastal Enclosure in the Boyd v Clarke Case 1886-1887
and
As well congratulating our very worthy essay winner Dr Robert O'Sullivan, the SSNCI Committee also wished to acknowledge for special commendation two other submissions:
This article was published in Irish Historical Studies. The judges were very impressed by the article’s innovative transnational approach. For more see ssnci.org/society-for-...
We are DELIGHTED to announce that the SSNCI Essay Prize 2025 has been awarded to Dr Robert O’Sullivan @rosulli.bsky.social (@notredame.bsky.social) for his article ‘The Irish-American press, the Franco-Prussian War and Irish-American identity in the postbellum United States, 1870–71’.
Lauren Ottaviani
‘“A call for women to be up and doing”: Nationalism and Suffrage in the Work of Mary E.L. Butler’
For full details see
ssnci.org/society-for-...
Cianna Devitt
‘Floating Property’: Litigating Coastal Enclosure in the Boyd v Clarke Case 1886-1887
and
As well congratulating our very worthy essay winner Dr Robert O'Sullivan, the SSNCI Committee also wished to acknowledge for special commendation two other submissions:
