After 10 years at the helm of Irish Studies at QUB, with various ups and downs over the last decade, I’m handing over to our new leadership team from Monday. Many thanks to Peter and @siobhraaiken.bsky.social for stepping up to take forward Irish Studies in Belfast! www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

New Irish Studies Leadership

After 10 years as Director of the Institute of Irish Studies, Prof Peter Gray is handing over to a new leadership team from the start of August 2026.

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What happens when historic human remains are returned to a community of origin? In this new co-authored article we compare recent reburials at Inishbofin in Ireland and Pälkäne in Finland: both controversial processes for reasons that overlap in fascinating ways. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Returning the dead: the experience of repatriation and the heritage of racial science in Finland and Ireland

This article examines the contemporary return and reburial of human remains in two European contexts – Inishbofin, Ireland, and Pälkäne, Finland – to analyse how communities of descent experience, ...

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Because you don’t save, Mr Deasy said, pointing his finger. You don’t know yet what money is. Money is power. When you have lived as long as I have. I know, I know. If youth but knew. But what does Shakespeare say? Put but money in thy purse.

reburial politics! I read the lit. on physicality w/ the dead when writing on Antigone: here, it’s the “‘reading of bones’, a ‘double-bodily engagement’ between the living & the dead, visible in…physical handling of the coffins, the carrying of remains through familiar landscapes” TRL great start!

Ciaran O'Neill@ciaranon.bsky.social · last wk.

What happens when historic human remains are returned to a community of origin? In this new co-authored article we compare recent reburials at Inishbofin in Ireland and Pälkäne in Finland: both controversial processes for reasons that overlap in fascinating ways. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What happens when historic human remains are returned to a community of origin? In this new co-authored article we compare recent reburials at Inishbofin in Ireland and Pälkäne in Finland: both controversial processes for reasons that overlap in fascinating ways. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Returning the dead: the experience of repatriation and the heritage of racial science in Finland and Ireland

This article examines the contemporary return and reburial of human remains in two European contexts – Inishbofin, Ireland, and Pälkäne, Finland – to analyse how communities of descent experience, ...

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Excited to offer a fully funded PhD with Maeve Ryan and I at KCL. Details below. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin...

CRSW / AHRC Doctoral Studentship: Narratives of Enslavement and their Legacies | King's College London

King’s College London’s Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, jointly supervised by English and War Studies.

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The book is out and available, in full open access with @degruyterbrill.bsky.social 🚨 Thank you to the @c2dh.uni.lu for the open access. 11 chapters about the public fabric of history in Europe. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... @ncph.bsky.social @ifphexplorers.bsky.social

Best Goodreads review of all time.

This piece by @joshcaress.bsky.social - published by @lukeoneil47.bsky.social - is by far the most perceptive take on American identity + myth + memory I've read this anniversary...

Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social · last mo.

"There has never been a time in American history when our country was not mythologizing itself to cover atrocities.... More than any other nation, America is an idea. And that idea is a phantasm, a collective dream, or—more plainly—a fantasy." www.welcometohellworld.com/america-250-...

A new coauthored article just out on open access. Written with Finola O’Kane and Chris Nikkel, it looks at the ways that Irish families with connections to enslavement elide, remember, or forget those connections www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Rotten roots: the colonial genealogies of Irish enslavers

This article reinterprets Irish links to Atlantic slavery as a problem of kinship, inheritance, and family memory. It focuses in particular on genealogy as a technology of memory within enslaver fa...

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📢 Applications are open for the National Library of Ireland’s 2026–2027 Studentships! ⭐ Library ⭐ Archival ⭐ Research A great opportunity to gain hands-on experience and develop your career. Learn more, and apply by 3pm, 17 July 2026: https://www.nli.ie/about-us/working-national-library-ireland

A new coauthored article just out on open access. Written with Finola O’Kane and Chris Nikkel, it looks at the ways that Irish families with connections to enslavement elide, remember, or forget those connections www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Rotten roots: the colonial genealogies of Irish enslavers

This article reinterprets Irish links to Atlantic slavery as a problem of kinship, inheritance, and family memory. It focuses in particular on genealogy as a technology of memory within enslaver fa...

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A real honour to receive this prize for my book - the list of past winners includes some of my favourite people and some of my favourite books in Irish history.

@acirishstudies.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Winner of the James S. Donnelly Prize for Books on History, Sarah Roddy's Mondy & Irish Catholicism develops an important interdisciplinary study that integrates social history with economics, religious studies, & diaspora scholarship

Lovely to see my book has received an honourable mention for the Lawrence J. McCaffrey Prize, an @acirishstudies.bsky.social award for the best monographs on Irish America. Congrats to @irishacw.bsky.social on a well-deserved win for his work on Irish-American soldiers. acisweb.org/2025/05/2024...

2025 Book Prize Winners Announced | American Conference for Irish Studies – An Chomhdháil Mheiriceánach do Léann na hÉireann

Congratulations to the 2025 Book Prize & Fellowship recipients! Special thanks to the book prize and fellowship committees for your work and dedication!

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Assistant Professor in Drama, Theatre and Performance Trinity College Dublin 5 year Tenure track universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...

What great news! Congratulations Leanne and Elaine! www.irishnews.com/entertainmen...

Netflix acquires Bad Bridgets adaptation of hit book by Northern Ireland professors

Film from Kneecap director Rich Peppiatt will shoot across Ireland

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"Bruisch’s book stands as a model of thoughtful, methodologically sophisticated historical writing—one that would serve both undergraduate and graduate students especially well as an example of how history can and should be written." So delighted! Wanna bring 🔥 Burning Swamps 🔥 into your classroom?

Daniella M.@farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Check out Maria Fedorova's review of Katja Bruisch's "Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy," published in 2025 by @universitypress.cambridge.org; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #energy www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

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Bloomsbury Books UK@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We're thrilled to unveil the cover for The Red Mouth by Sheila Armstrong... From a rising star in literary fiction comes a story of two discoveries made deep in an Irish bogland, threading together four lives across time. The Red Mouth is out on July 2nd.

Note: relatively stable institution; HAPP's a supportive (even harmonious) School; there's another Ancient History colleague; and pay at Queen's is now relatively high (starting salary is junior; post confirmation-in-post, lecturer starts c. £52k, SL starts c. £66k). www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRP030/l...

Lecturer in Ancient History at Queen's University Belfast

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Ancient History on jobs.ac.uk!

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New podcast episode: Irish Writers and Literary Institutions feat. Suad Aldarra, Kevin Power, and Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe, with @molimuseum.bsky.social This was a great conversation! radio.moli.ie/r/irish-writ...

While I am glad that more people are acknowledging the scope of Harvard officials' enslaving and profiting from slavery (this database is a small part of a much larger history), I also hope that people will engage with the ongoing violence of this sort of data:

The Boston Globe@bostonglobe.com · 3mo ago

Harvard University's top leaders likely enslaved thousands of people between the founding of the school in 1636 and the defeat of the Confederacy, according to new research.

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Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Creative Writing (Permanent) Maynooth University www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRL937/a...

Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Creative Writing (Permanent) at Maynooth University, National University of Ireland Maynooth

Searching for an academic job? Explore this Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Creative Writing (Permanent) opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

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This remarkable colour photograph of hot air balloons at the inaugural Paris Air Show was taken in 1909 by Léon Gimpel, using the Autochrome Lumière process, the first commercial process for colour photography

News from @michistory.bsky.social colleagues that should be of interest to #IrishStudies folk, and also 90s indie veterans. This does sound kind of amazing. #IrishDiaspora www.mic.ul.ie/news/2026/mi...

Received a pointlessly passive aggressive email from a senior academic I have never met. It has inspired me to put together a thread about some of my encounters with Socially Awkward Historians (SAHs) over the years.

🎓 Postdoc Opportunity 🎓 Ph.D. scholars in any area of Irish studies are eligible to apply for our National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. NEH Fellows continue their research while in residence at the Keough-Naughton Institute for up to three years. 👉 Apply here: go.nd.edu/neh-fellowship

Explore our online exhibition Power & Privilege: The Big House in Ireland https://ow.ly/x4sj50YQWJu Ireland’s Big Houses were 18–19th century landlord estates, once central to rural life. Photos capture a peaceful world—but by the 1920s land reforms and economic hardship brought this era to an end.

Online Exhibition | Power and Privilege: The Big House in Ireland

Online Exhibition | Power and Privilege: The Big House in Ireland Date Permanent Online Exhibition Location Online Category Exhibition Price Free View exhibition View exhibition Date Permanent Online Exhibition Location Online Category Exhibition Price Free View exhibition Parkanaur House, Dungannon…

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Vacancy - Director of the National Museum of Ireland (5 year contract €115k) Deadline for application: 12 noon on 18th May 2026. www.museum.ie/en-IE/About/...