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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Wonderful to commemorate the centenary of Eva Gore-Booth’s death with Patrick Geoghegan on Talking History with an excellent panel @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social & Catherine Healy. Seems fitting to share during Pride month @manchesterup.bsky.social link.goloudplayer.com/s/pGyDrCbH7wIk

Eva Gore-Booth

Featuring: Dr Sonja Tiernan, National Coordinator of the Irish Humanities Alliance, Royal Irish Academy, and the author of ‘Eva Gore-Booth: An Image of Such Politics’ and ‘Eva Gore-Booth: Irish Radical Poet, Rebel and Reformer’; Dr Mary McAuliffe, historian, lecturer, and Director of Gender Studies at UCD; and Dr Catherine Healy, historian-in-residence at EPIC, The Irish Emigration Museum.

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Doing this talk, 'Writing Belfast in the Age of Partition', with my mate Michael Magee at Féile an Phobail on Tuesday 4th August at St Mary's, 5PM. Free and no booking needed. Lifetime ambition achieved!

Last few tickets remaining for the XXV Ulster American Heritage Symposium Thursday 25th and Friday 26th June 2026 Really interesting topics being discussed. Day 1 tickets - www.eventbrite.com/e/ulster-ame... Day 2 tickets - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ulster-ame...

amazing from Michael Magee, as always www.independent.co.uk/voices/belfa...

I wish I could say this is not my Belfast – but mob rule has never been far away

The people under attack today are not the same as those driven from their homes in Northern Ireland's past, says Michael Magee – but the forces behind the violence bear an unsettling resemblance

independent.co.uk

Yesterday, the Royal Irish Academy officially launched the Waterford’s Transported Convict Women online exhibition, a powerful new resource exploring the lives of women transported from Waterford to Tasmania between 1788 and 1853. Read more about the launch: www.ria.ie/2026/06/03/t...

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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Managed to get through a gigantic pre-election motorcade in Antigua and reach Shirley Heights for sunset. Montserrat coming into view in the second photo.

Install this morning of an exciting new exhibition on the Irish in England, curated by Chris Kissane and based on research by Neil Cummins and Cormac Ó Gráda. Open now at EPIC until the end of June: epicchq.com/event/no-iri...

The Keough-Naughton Institute, Notre Dame Global, and Miranda House at the University of Delhi brought together an international group of scholars last week for a conference, “India and Ireland: Shared Histories and Interconnected Pasts.” 👉 Read a recap here: irishstudies.nd.edu/news/india-a...

Sad to be leaving Delhi after an amazing week at Miranda House. It was lovely to speak with students and to meet lots of people doing interesting research on Indo-Irish connections. Thanks to @ndirishstudies.bsky.social and Notre Dame Mumbai for bringing us together.

I was honoured to speak at EPIC last night on the Michael Davitt Papers Project as part of their seminar ‘Michael Davitt’s Global Paths.’ I’m grateful to @catherine-healy.bsky.social for reaching out to me and creating the opportunity to be part of such a thoughtful and engaging seminar.

Looking forward to this seminar on Michael Davitt with @dalykeeks.bsky.social at EPIC next Wednesday. Free and open to all! Register here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/rebel-with... (Land League-style poster by the brilliant Niamh McArdle.)

‘The Epstein files reveal a patriarchy in action. This is a world where the men are rich and powerful, and the women are not’. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein’s sordid men’s club

Files reveal a world of flattery and fratboy tones, where rich men are cultivated and women provide services

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Céad míle fáilte to the Derry Girls. This image appears in the Melbourne Advocate in July 1911 and relates to some 34 shirt workers who went to Melbourne to help set up the Welch Margetson Factory there. The workforce in Derry was unmatched and world leading in skill and quality.

This documentary was so much fun to make. It’s compiled from audio we gathered across a couple of years and follows two amazing women - Meg and Dympna - all the way to Jamaica, in search of Meg’s ancestor: an Irish Catholic enslaver and coffee planter, Peter Daly www.rte.ie/radio/docono...

Jamaica Daly

An Irish family learns about their ancestor's past as a slave-owner.

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Give @catherine-healy.bsky.social a follow and check out her new book while you're at it: Irish Domestic Servants in Transatlantic Culture, c. 1870-1945 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Irish Domestic Servants in Transatlantic Culture, c. 1870-1945

Examining the transatlantic history of Irish serving women reveals intricate cultural complexities of class, and roles through archival research.

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On the show today: @adrianweckler.bsky.social says travel to the US; Are electric cars too quiet?; Displays of anger; @orlaghgaynor.bsky.social on dangerous firewood; @mrssmartmoney.com on financial illiteracy; @drjoannafortune.bsky.social with parenting; @catherine-healy.bsky.social on rebel women