The Works Progress Administration was created in May 1935 as part of the New Deal to provide jobs to the unemployed during the Great Depression. One of the WPA’s most idealistic goals was to send books and librarians to areas where there were none. Read more: https://bit.ly/4hkgtNC #ALA150

Great fun to work with @heleneokeeffe.bsky.social and @csoireland.bsky.social colleagues on our Census 1926 event last May @ucc.ie and this series arising from it @amrcampop.bsky.social @stephenscarth.bsky.social among the authors #spéirgorm #irishhistory

Central Statistics Office Ireland@csoireland.bsky.social · last wk.

Understanding our Past Through a Unique Collection of Articles on Census 1926 cso.ie/en/csolatestnews/pr #CSOIreland #Ireland #Census #Census2022 #CensusIreland #Population

Interested in a PhD in historical demography/population studies at @camunicampop.bsky.social, @camunigeography.bsky.social, Cambridge University? We have 3 suggested topics (see thread): contact me to discuss, or to suggest your own idea. Apply by early December for funded places.

Apologies to users in the US who are currently unable to access the DIB website. This is due to an ongoing layer 7 DDoS attack, and we hope to restore access as soon as possible.

Oh no. We've lost another icon. 😕 Bonnie Greer, writer and cultural commentator, dies aged 77

Bonnie Greer, writer and cultural commentator, dies aged 77

The British-American novelist and playwright who regularly appeared on current affairs shows will be remembered for her ‘warmth, humour and generosity’, says her husband

theguardian.com

Culture Night at Collins Barracks ✨ Join us for an evening of conversations, discoveries and the occasional moment that completely changes how you see Irish History. 📍 National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks 🎟️ Free admission www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum... #CultureNight #CultureNight2026

Very grateful to @aidanbeatty.com for his time and the enjoyable chat about the problem archival absence poses to historical research. Honourable mention to the fabulous series Editor @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social #spéirgorm

New Books in Irish Studies@leabhairnua.bsky.social · 4w ago

Talking with @ciarab.bsky.social about archives, silences and the limits of digital solutions @universitypress.cambridge.org @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/absence-in-t...

Does anyone have a subscription/access to ukpressonline and be willing to download for me ONE article? Please? I do not seem to have institutional access and do not wish to take out a whole year's subscription. Irony alert: the article is from The Daily Worker.

Georgetown University professor Jordan Sand: "AI Is an Anti-Primary Source Machine. Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room." www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/ai-i...

The Annals of Innisfallen, which chronicle life in Ireland from before the arrival of St Patrick until the 15th century, will go on public display in this country for the first time 40 years today, in an exhibition that will open at UCC

The Annals of Innisfallen exhibition to open at UCC

The Annals of Innisfallen, which chronicle life in Ireland from before the arrival of St Patrick until the 15th century, will go on public display in this country for the first time 40 years today, in...

rte.ie

🎥 We are putting together a package to support and amplify every single dispute in the union. Today is our first ever local dispute video from the brilliant Glasgow Caledonian UCU Branch who are fighting to protect jobs. Please give it a watch and share.

Hello, #historians and #science communicators! I’m applying for a fellowship to improve translating the science side of my historical research on Pitocin- but they want me to have a few thousand followers! Could you please help a scholar out by following and sharing with friends?

Does a good job of documenting what many of us suspected: the media attention to Arday was simply disproportionate to his misdeeds.

Carole Cadwalladr@carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NEW: It was a digital lynching. And the media is never going to hold itself to account for the role it played in Jason Arday’s death. But there are things we can do. This is a practical guide based on my own experience. broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-digital-...

The CSO has released data on metered electricity consumption for 2025. The extraordinary headline figures: - Electricity consumption from data centres grew by nearly 10% last year, and now accounts for 23% of Ireland's electricity demand.

Rhasidat Adeleke just after receiving her silver medal. #SpéirGhorm

Patrick Brannigan@patrickjmb.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Rhasidat Adeleke wins silver in the 200m! 22.28 a national record.

This is awful.

Jason Arday 'found dead after being found unresponsive at home'

FORMER Cambridge professor Jason Arday has been found dead at an address in south London, The Telegraph reports. Mr Arday, 41, was found “unresponsive” at a property in Battersea on Friday afternoo…

thesun.co.uk

📘From our latest issue! Ciara Breathnach @ciarab.bsky.social @ucc.ie on 'Newspapers as Surrogate Archives: A Case Study of the Early Twentieth-Century Dublin City Coroner’s Court' #Archives #Newspapers #Press #Ireland #Legal #History 20thc📰🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

So much happening for #HeritageWeek2026. The wonderful @louiseoc.bsky.social is giving a free talk on 15 August 12-1pm at UCC library. libcal.ucc.ie/event/4571491

Heritage Week 2026: 'Printed in Defiance- the making of the 1916 Proclamation' -

For Heritage Week 2026, step behind the scenes of Printed in Defiance: The Making of the 1916 Proclamation with UCC Library Conservator Louise O'Connor. This special Heritage...

libcal.ucc.ie

I'm pleased to announce that @universitypress.cambridge.org has just published Antoon De Baets' Element "Censorship of History", no. 38 in the Elements in Historical Theory and Practice series. Downloadable free till Aug. 19. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Censorship of History

Cambridge Core - Global History - Censorship of History

cambridge.org

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eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925)

From District Magazine. Grim.

PwC (like, among others, KPMG before it) found to be producing 'thought leadership' advice promoting agentic AI use that is larded with AI hallucinations. Worth bearing in mind if they are, for example, one of your university's consultants.

PwC published ‘thought leadership’ reports marred by AI hallucinations

Big Four consultant is latest firm found to have produced slapdash work while marketing expertise on the technology

ft.com

“‘Cultural sensitivity concerning the Gaeltacht people of Ireland – A concept analysis’ is teideal don taighde úr.” Más maith is mithid.

‘Níor thuig mé i gceart riachtanais mhuintir na Gaeltachta sa tseirbhís sláinte go dtí go bhfaca mé féin iad’

Léiríonn taighde úr gur féidir cúram níos fearr a thabhairt do mhuintir na Gaeltachta nuair a thuigtear a gcultúr agus a dteanga dhúchais

tuairisc.ie

If anyone is considering editing something from our collections, we will happily supply a digital copy at no cost. Please contact Kate (archives at ucd dot ie).

Irish Manuscripts Commission@irishmanuscripts.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Closing date: Wed 29 July The IMC student prize of €1,000 is awarded to a postgraduate student for editing a short historical document, which will also be considered for publication in Analecta Hibernica. Learn more at: irishmanuscripts.ie/imc-student-prize-2026/

the other editors can't make it so it'll be just me but I'll try and adequately perform some magnetism for y'all next week

Kristof Smeyers@kristofsmeyers.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Anyone in London on 22 July, why not join us @treadwells-books.bsky.social for a soirée about 'performing magnetism'? www.treadwells-london.com/events-1/mag...

🚨We are hiring a two-year postdoctoral researcher (80%) at the University of Zurich within the new Horizon Europe project WELFAIR on the political implications of technological change, demographic ageing and rising inequality. The full job ad is here: tinyurl.com/3b6ddm25 Apply by August 9, 2026.

If art critics talked like football pundits.

Queen Medb of Connacht, famed for her role in the Táin Bó Cúailnge and flanked by bulls Finnbhennach and Donn Cúailnge - formidable warrior queen, shrewd leader, seductive beauty, and one of Ireland's most powerful, strong-willed, and legendary women 🐂 Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...