Excited to announce that my journal article on women printsellers in early nineteenth-century Dublin has been published in @eshsi.bsky.social It explores the gendered dynamics of the family print shop and how labour was divided in these domestic and commercial spaces.

Looking forward to talking character in Austen, Edgeworth and Scott @tlrhub.bsky.social next week, with Sharon Marcus and Jim Chandler Date: 14 Apr - 14 Apr 2026 Time: 13:30 - 15:30 Venue: Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...

📣 New opportunity for early-career scholars! We’ve partnered with the Women’s History Association of Ireland (@whaireland.bsky.social) to award £500 for the best first monograph in women’s/gender history ❗Deadline: 31 July 2026 Find out more & apply: womenshistorynetwork.org/womens-histo...

We are delighted to have partnered with @womenshistnet.bsky.social to offer this award. Please do spread the word

Women's History Network@womenshistnet.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📣 New opportunity for early-career scholars! We’ve partnered with the Women’s History Association of Ireland (@whaireland.bsky.social) to award £500 for the best first monograph in women’s/gender history ❗Deadline: 31 July 2026 Find out more & apply: womenshistorynetwork.org/womens-histo...

sites.google.com/view/whai202... We are delighted this afternoon to present the final programme for our conference in May. Registration and further details will be made after Easter.

Gentle reminder for those that submitted an abstract for the conference. Please check your inbox (and junk email folder). We need to confirm attendance by this day next week (20 March)

Women’s History Association of Ireland@whaireland.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We are delighted this afternoon to announced the CFP for the 36th annual WHAI conference 2026. The conference will be held at Mary I Limerick on 29 & 30 May 2026. Closing dates for submissions on the theme of 'Gain' is 31 Jan. 2026. sites.google.com/view/whai202...

Come and join us!! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS657/a...

Assistant Professor in 18th Century Literature at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin

Discover an exciting academic career path as a Assistant Professor in 18th Century Literature at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

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Come and work with us at Glasgow! Full time permanent post in History of Art: lecturer in material and visual culture with specialism in dress history or textile history. Details below 👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQR311/l...

Lecturer in Visual and Material Cultures (R&T) at University of Glasgow

Searching for an academic job? Explore this Lecturer in Visual and Material Cultures (R&T) opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

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#DIBNewLives Born in July 1781 and at a time when women’s intellectual contributions were rarely publicly disseminated, Louisa Beaufort was among the first in Ireland to publish in her own name and to contribute original antiquarian research. www.dib.ie/biography/be...

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center: If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I am a tyrant at conferences. I want papers to be polished and well-timed.

This Valentine’s season, discover how 18th c. couples poured their hopes, anxieties and desires into hand written love letters - read my article in Bath Spa uni news feature here #18c #love #letters www.bathspa.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

It's St Gobnait's feast day, so who was Cork's medieval beekeeper @liber-ray.bsky.social @ria.ie looks at the life and times of Ireland's lesser-known patron saint of bees and beekeeping www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

It's St Gobnait's feast day so who was Cork's medieval beekeeper?

St Gobnait was an Irish female saint associated with bees in the Middle Ages and is still celebrated by local communities today

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Our latest PhD Placement opportunities - come and work at the British Library for 3-6 months to develop your research and professional skills. 8 projects available, deadline for applications 27 February. www.bl.uk/services/res...

Just a regular fox taking an #earlymodern Uber. Nothing to see here. #skystorians

If you’re at a loose end tonight, come along to the first Galway Archeological and Historical Society lecture of the year! I’m speaking on tangled knots of sibling obligation, guardianship, unravelling family reputation and the nephews caught in the crossfire (poor Edmund). The Harbour Hotel at 8pm!

🚨Special announcement: our annual conference will be 3–4 Sept 2026 at LSE Library, in collaboration with @lselibrary.bsky.social, & Friends House, London. Theme: Celebrating the Centenary of the Women’s Library: One Hundred Years of Women’s History. Call for Papers coming mid-Jan! #WomensHistory

Our good friends at the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris are advertising a short-term research fellowship in their old library and historical archives. Check it out at portail.centreculturelirlandais.com/index.php?lv...

Some festive greenery courtesy of Mary Delany.

In our last blogpost of 2025, Maddock Research Fellow Dr Zoë Van Cauwenberg @zvancauwenberg.bsky.social sheds light on some of the women authors and illustrators among the book owned by Benjamin Guinness, now part of our Benjamin Iveagh collection marshlibrary.ie/between-the-...

Between the Bindings: Uncovering the Histories of Irish Women Writers - Marsh's Library

Zoë Van Cauwenberg uncovers some of the Irish women writers and illustrators in the Benjamin Iveagh collection.

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Update !

Claire Connolly@claireconnolly.bsky.social · 8mo ago

'the heart is sick with hoping and hoping before books reach Ireland' Maria Edgeworth in 1816 Publication day for @universitypress.cambridge.org Irish Romanticism was yesterday but no sign of any books in Cork yet! www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...

📻 Listen back: Dr Niamh Wycherley of the Dept of Early Irish (Sean-Ghaeilge) was on Newstalk's Let Me Explain With Sean Defoe, talking about what medieval Christmas was like in Ireland and whether pagans had similar festivals around the same time of year 🎄 www.goloudplayer.com/episodes/206...

206. Christmas before Christians

This week the wonderful Dr Niamh Wycherly from Maynooth University joins us to discuss what medieval Christmas was like in Ireland and whether pagans had similar festivals around the same time of year

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We are delighted to announce that we'll be hosting the SSNCI conference in Maynooth next June. Call for papers attached. Please spread far and wide!

After the hard work that goes into a peer-reviewed article, very pleased to be in print today! Come for the constructions of women’s sexuality in the 19th century Lords; stay for new diary source on the hidden attic from which women watched the Commons below onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

It was lovely to catch up with @whaireland.bsky.social members on Saturday at the annual Christmas event and AGM, held this year at O’Connell House - once home to Daniel O’Connell - where @melissashiels.bsky.social helped us step back in time to Georgian Dublin with an engaging costumed talk.

Dublin on a December day.

On behalf of the committee and all of the members of the WHAI we would like to thank Diana Urquhart for her support as president of the association over the past five-years. Congratulations too to @sonjatiernan.bsky.social our new WHAI president.

We had a really great catch up yesterday. Thanks again to @melissashiels.bsky.social for a fascinating talk on how Regency women dressed.

Women’s History Association of Ireland@whaireland.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Looking forward to meeting old friends for a catch up tomorrow. There is still time to register for our AGM and Christmas event. Thanks to @melissashiels.bsky.social for agreeing to be our guest speaker - it promises to be a brilliant talk.

Very excited for this conference next summer! #CFP (deadline 28 Feb) Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750 at Oxford 18-19 June 2026. #earlymodern 🗃️ clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...

"Of the 991 history exam questions set in 2023, 357 featured a named individual, but only 31 were women – and nine of those were references to Elizabeth I or her reign." Dr Natasha R. Hodgson of Nottingham Trent University writes this week in The Conversation bit.ly/49ZqTiq

Women are still absent from how history is taught and assessed in England

Over a third of GCSE, AS and A-level exam papers in 2023 made no mention of women at all.

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More happy publication news! The first of a two-part special issue on 'Irish Women's Genre Fiction' is out. Thanks to our fantastic contributors and to the editorial team at LIT! Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory: Vol 36, No 3 www.tandfonline.com/toc/glit20/3...

Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory

Volume 36, Issue 3 of Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory

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