Webinar! Women in Revolution: From the Margins to the Centre 7:00-8:15, Thursday 4 June 7:00-7:45 Talks: Prof Jane Ohlmeyer (TCD), Dr Catriona Kennedy (York), Prof Lindsey Earner-Byrne (TCD) 7:45-8:00 Discussion chaired by Dr Joel Herman 8:00-8:15 Q&A events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d2a073...
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Dr Sparky Booker spoke in a podcast on Dublin's Medieval Boom: open.spotify.com/episode/7EyW...
Trinity Talks: Dublin’s Hidden Histories – Dublin’s Medieval boom
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So excited to receive & read, this new memoir by Lesley Bond, an alumni of our @historytcd.bsky.social Masters #publichistory programme in 2017. Lesley did her diss on the Blasket islands, and with her partner became caretaker on the Islands in 2019. We are so proud of this amazing book and alum!
Congratulations to our graduates Dr Coleman and Dr Toomey!
Katja Bruisch@kbruisch.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis is how it looks: the splendid future of 20th c. Irish environmental history! Earlier this month, we celebrated the graduation of Dr Gabriel Coleman & Dr Lily Toomey. It was such a privilege to supervise these two brilliant minds. Watch out for their work! /1 (image posted with permission)
5 May conference at Trinity on the Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland and the US. Sponsored by TCD, UCD, QUB, UG. Great lineup of speakers! www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...
We Shall Overcome: Civil Rights Struggles in Northern Ireland and the United States
A one day conference organised by the School of Histories and Humanities.
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Having taught about Fenianism this term to first years @historytcd.bsky.social the story of the Fenian's escape from Freemantle Prison in Australia is fascinating! Anyone who can go along to this talk about Brenda Malone should do so! Looks fascinating.
National Museum of Ireland@nmireland.bsky.social · 4mo agoCurator Brenda Malone speaks with @ronanmcgreevy.bsky.social for @irishtimes.com about the dramatic Catalpa escape & its historic flag. See the flag in person 📍 National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks 🕒 Sat 18 April from 12:00 🕒 Sun 19 April from 13:00 🔗 www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
Great new piece on RTE Brainstorm by my @historytcd.bsky.social PhD student Ciana Devitt on long colonial history of seaweed extraction in Ireland and It’s contemporary resonances www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
The long but largely forgotten history of Irish seaweed disputes
Current controversies over access to Irish seaweed are a reminder that such disputes are a vivid part of Ireland's colonial past
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Dr Tess Wingard edited a special issue of the Journal of Medieval History on ‘The Medieval Church: From Margins to Centre’
Ruth Karras@rmkarras.bsky.social · 3mo agoNew special issue of Jnl of Medieval History: The Medieval Church, From Margins to Centre, ed. E.R. Price-Goodfellow & T. Wingard. Articles by both editors, E. Van der Molen, A.E. Bailey, H.K. Wood, J. Jenkins & L. Hampson @tandfresearch.bsky.social #medievalsky www.tandfonline.com/toc/rmed20/5...
The Medieval History Research Seminar and the Trinity History Workshop organised a roundtable ‘From Thesis to Book’ featuring our recent PhD grads who have published monographs: Michel Summer (now Univ of Heidelberg), Ronan Mulhaire (Hibernia College), and Niall Ó Sulleabháin (Kings College London).
For students currently enrolled for a postgrad History degree at TCD, or planning to enrol, or TCD History grads enrolling for a postgrad degree elsewhere: Cluff Memorial Studentship www.tcd.ie/history/post...
Funding Opportunities - Department of History - Trinity College Dublin
Applications for an award under the Cluff Memorial Studentship scheme are invited for 2026-27.
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Conference on Gender in Chinese History to be held at UCC, 25 March, featuring @isabellajackson.bsky.social as keynote, and Ezra Kücken, Yuxuan Lang, and Dr Yushu Geng also speaking.
New publication announcement! Rethinking Childhood in Modern Chinese History, co-edited by our own @isabellajackson.bsky.social and her former postdoc Dr. Yushu Geng: www.routledge.com/Rethinking-C...
Rethinking Childhood in Modern Chinese History
At the cutting edge of the growing field of the history of childhood, this book shows how placing children at the centre of historical analysis enables the past to be viewed in new ways. Demonstrating...
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Dr. @isabellajackson.bsky.social gave a talk for the Dublin Lunar New Year festival on classical Chinese gardens, including the one in Dublin's St Anne's Park: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFOV...
Isabella Jackson (TCD) -- Classical Chinese Gardens through the Centuries
YouTube video by TCAS: Trinity Centre for Asian Studies
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Another media appearance by @brian-hanley.bsky.social: speaking about Father Coughlin and the American far right in the 1930s in this documentary www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaFJ...
Next Friday, I will be speaking at the Ó Cléirigh seminar on my forthcoming article in the Proceedings of the RIA, which analyses surviving letters sent by Irish kings and provides a full edition and translation of them. All are welcome! @historytcd.bsky.social
Honoured to receive an award on behalf of our team from our Equality Office for the contribution our colonial legacies project has made to EDI initiatives in college as part of a wonderful celebration this morning. @historytcd.bsky.social
Just listened to a fascinating paper by @drmishaewen.bsky.social on ‘Gender, Race and Kinship in Early Barbados’ at the @historytcd.bsky.social Early Modern History Research Seminar. Leaving with much food for thought.
I'll be speaking on 25 Feb @historytcd.bsky.social about capitalism and agriculture in 20th century Irish history - based on my work with the Sites of Fracture project. www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...
"If land were to be sacrificed...": Industrial dairy pollution and the more-than-human history of Irish global capitalism - Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute | Trinity Colleg...
A lecture by Prof Mo Moulton (University of Birmingham) as part of the Modern and Contemporary Irish History Seminar Series.
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Call for papers, Irish Conference of Medievalists! Trinity College Dublin, 28-29 May (in person) Registration €40 (students €20). 1/4
Our @glasnevincemetery.bsky.social @historytcd.bsky.social Spring Lecture Series is live. Theme is 'Work and working in 19th & 20th century #Dublin' - please RT. Speakers @antoniahart.bsky.social @dublincity.bsky.social @drdeefoley.bsky.social & Conor Dodd formerly Glasnevin.
This series of talks and tastings at Dublin Castle orgsnisec by my brilliant @historytcd.bsky.social colleague Dr Susan Flavin will be excellent. highly recommend signing up
Will Derham@willderham.bsky.social · 7mo agoFor any of you interested in early modern beer, Dublin Castle, or just history and food in general, this series of talks and tastings I have helped put together might be of interest 🍻🧐 #History #Heritage #Food #Beer #SpeirGorm www.eventbrite.com/cc/brewing-p...
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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Join us for a #BehindTheHeadlines discussion on shifting global norms and the changing international order. Experts in history, law, environmental humanities, and politics will explore recent tensions and their implications for Europe and the world. 🎫 www.eventbrite.ie/e/1981570379...
24th September 2025 - Dr Patrick Walsh @historytcd.bsky.social, 'Cultivating Virtue? Trinity College Dublin's Colonial Legacies' youtu.be/exe-Us9tgQo?...
Cultivating Virtue? Trinity College Dublin's Colonial Legacies | Oak Room Talks 2025
YouTube video by Dublin City Heritage
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Our term has started and we've got another round of great Environmental History Research Seminars scheduled in Dublin. Come and join us! Thanks to @tlrhub.bsky.social for supporting and hosting the series! #envhist @historytcd.bsky.social 👇
Upcoming talk next week by Dr Seçil Yılmaz (University of Pennsylvania): "Love in the Time of Syphilis: Medicine, Sex and the End of Ottoman Empire" Trinity College Dublin, @historytcd.bsky.social Long Room Hub, Neill Lecture Theatre, 27 January 2026 Tuesday, 16.00-18.00 www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...
Indeed, the legal historian known as Sparky, because that is her name.
Congratulations to Dr Sparky Booker, together with Dr Kevin Costello of UCD, on the publication of their edited volume on Irish and British legal history. The distinguished lineup of authors covers topics from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2026/a...
Four Courts Press | A Sense of Place
Studies in Irish and British legal history in memory of W.N. Osborough by Sparky Booker and Kevin Costello, editors
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Happy New Year! In our new episode Dr Sparky Booker @historytcd.bsky.social shares some wonderful, instructive, insights into how we can explore gender, class, ethnicity & community through an exam of individual legal cases in a fascinating period of Irish history. open.spotify.com/episode/38Aq...
Women, marriage and the law in later medieval Ireland with Dr Sparky Booker
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Great belated Christmas present in the post today. Delighted to have a chapter in this, particularly as it’s dedicated to the late Björn Weiler, who I had the privilege of speaking alongside the conference and who had always been incredibly generous to me over the years @historytcd.bsky.social
