Delighted to share a new article in the special issue Women Making Fashion, edited by @serenadyer.bsky.social The article explores how women in the Cong Lace Industries used philanthropy and lacemaking to engage with Unionism and Irish nationalism in nineteenth-century Ireland. #WomensHistory

Cong Lace Industries 1884–1899: philanthropy as political propaganda

The Cong Lace Industries were established in the west of Ireland in 1884 under the initiative of Martha Dawson and the subsequent management of Alice Elwood. Conceived as a philanthropic social ent...

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Very grateful to John Morley at Galway Bay FM for interviewing me about my upcoming lecture for the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, and my thanks to the society for organising it. You can listen back here: open.spotify.com/episode/2e2H...

Galway Talks with John Morley (Wednesday, 5th November 2025)

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Delighted to be presenting some new research on the Headford Lace industry to the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society next Monday (10 November) at 8pm in the Harbour Hotel. All welcome! gahs.ie/next-lecture/

#fridayfinds from the archives: 'Many people are of the opinion that it never yet rained toads or frogs, but ...' (Saunders's News-Letter, Dublin, January 06, 1778). 🐸🐸🐸

A lovely way to start the academic year!

University of Galway - History@historyatgalway.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Happy first week of the semester! Today we made the most of the sunshine and welcomed colleagues in History and Philosophy back for the new academic year!

Delighted to share our Research Seminar Series for this semester! We're starting off next Wed 10 Sept @ 4pm by welcoming our new colleague, Dr Ciarán McCabe, who will be speaking on 'Privacy, Respectability, and Working-Class Domestic Spaces in Dublin's Tenements, c.1910-c.1960'!

Delighted to be in Dublin for THREADS: Stitching Together the History of Irish Dress ##THREADS2025

Huge thanks to @erinannmcc.bsky.social for the invitation to join the @stemma.bsky.social hackathon last week, which finished on a high with our team's proposal winning the prize for Most Potential (details in thread). Grateful to team mates John Lavagnino, Julian Neuhauser, and Akash Ragupathi.

University of Galway@uniofgalway.bsky.social · last yr.

Researchers gathered in Galway this week for the STEMMA Hackathon at the PorterShed to explore how technology can be used in the study of early modern English manuscripts (1475-1700). @stemma.bsky.social @portershed.bsky.social

What a privilege to participate in this innovative research collaboration. Working with these amazing people from such diverse backgrounds has been a truly rewarding experience. @stemma.bsky.social

RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · last yr.

Researchers are gathering in Galway this week for a 'hackathon' exploring how technology can be used in the study of ancient manuscripts

Another wonderful #networkanalysis presentation at today's #STEMMAhackathon from Prof. Jing Chen on a co-citation network of early modern Chinese poetry. @stemma.bsky.social

Really wonderful to hear @ruthahnert.bsky.social speak about her research process and trajectory at the #STEMMAhackathon @stemma.bsky.social #digitalhumanities #networkanalysis

Kicking off the STEMMA hackathon here at The Portershed in Galway with a Design Thinking talk for our hackers! @erc.europa.eu @researchireland.ie @portershed.bsky.social #STEMMAhackathon #DH #ERCfunded

What an extraordinary collaboration and delightful historical reconstruction!

Who Was Greensleeves? An Extraordinary Reconstruction of Her Clothes

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Looking forward to attending the @whaireland.bsky.social conference this weekend. As well as numerous interesting papers, I am particularly looking forward to the ECR/PGR workshop, which was really excellent last year, and also to the publishing workshop.

Women’s History Association of Ireland@whaireland.bsky.social · last yr.

Just a week to go before our annual conference. Looking forward to hearing so many great speakers and and a catch up with some many wonderful scholars. Thanks again to @caitbeaumont.bsky.social for agreeing to be our guest speaker this year.

What a surprise I got while studying some lacemaking literature: I opened a second-hand book purchased online and found an old piece of lace between the pages!

Imirce imirce.universityofgalway.ie/p/ms is an archive History students can examine at the University. Containing letters of Irish emigrants, here is our colleague Breandán MacSuibhne accepting a grant of $300,000 from Carnegie Corporation @uniofgalwayasc.bsky.social @uniofgalwayasc.bsky.social

There is a special place in hell for people who do this to books. Especially library books. 😭

Looking forward to this ...

CAMPS Galway@campsgalway.bsky.social · last yr.

We are looking forward to tomorrow's round table on ‘Future Days of Researching the Past’ with @erinannmcc.bsky.social (English; @stemma.bsky.social ), @padraicmoran.bsky.social (@galwayclassics.bsky.social), and @sarahannebuckley.bsky.social (@historyatgalway.bsky.social)!

We're hiring 2 new colleagues @historyatgalway.bsky.social - Lecturer A (.4FTE; 4-year post) in History (Ireland in Global Context) - Lecturer A (1FTE; 6-month post) in History (Irish Economy and Society, 1750-1900) Go here and click 'Academic Vacancies' www.universityofgalway.ie/about-us/jobs/ 🗃️

Spring 2025 #DH seminars at the University of Galway. Join us in person or online! Register for remote access here: forms.office.com/r/pSBmNN2TFU.

We are very excited to officially announce that the University of Galway will host the DH2027 conference in Ireland from June 28 to July 3, 2027. More information will be coming soon. Congratulations to the Galway team! We look forward to joining you in 2027! #DH2027 #digitalhumanities #Galway

Fabulous talk by our colleague Shannon Devlin at history seminar today followed by wonderful celebration and launch of Shannon's monograph Sociability in Nineteenth-Century Ulster (LUP, 2025) @shannondevlin.bsky.social

We're running a workshop @historyatgalway.bsky.social next week (10 Feb) on 'Decolonising the Curriculum', featuring contributions from @ciaranon.bsky.social and @egeertsphd.bsky.social. It's in person, but all are welcome to Galway. Seems like a pretty good time to be having these conversations.

Reminder History Seminar is by our colleague Shannon Devlin tomorrow Wednesday, 5 Feb at 4pm in Room GO10 the Hardiman Research Building. The launch of Shannon's monograph Sociability in Nineteenth-Century Ulster (LUP, 2025) follows. For those on Zoom universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Is this evidence of the earliest relic of St. Brigid? Follow the journey of her name from a Swiss abbey to a must-see exhibition in Dublin! Don’t miss this rare chance to see history up close. #CuratorBlog #MuseumBlog #NMIBlog Read more: 🔗 www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...

MA History graduate, Irene McGoldrick, will present to the Old Tuam Society tonight thursday 30 January on the 1814 collapse of Lord ffrench's bank in Tuam and Dublin. This free event takes place at 7pm in the Miller's Cottage on Shop St, Tuam @normaowens.bsky.social

womenshistoryassociation.com/grants-prizes/ The WHAI Anna Parnell Travel Grant & the McCurtain/Cullen Prize are now open. Closing date for the Travel Grant is 14 February. The Closing date for the Essay Prize 1 March.

Grants and Prizes

The WHAI offers important prizes in the field of Irishwomen’s/gender history 1. The Anna Parnell Travel Grant The Anna Parnell Travel Grant was established in 2011 to promote research among e…

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For this morning's workshop at 11am there are 2 in person seats still available and 22 online. Register here: universityofgalway.libcal.com/event/4275914

Data Visualisation: Tableau

Presenter: Dr. Heike Vornhagen (Data Science Institute) Learn the basics of Tableau and transform your data into effective visualisations. In this hands-on workshop, participants...

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University of Galway Library@uniofgalwaylib.bsky.social · 2y ago

The next workshop in our Digital Tools for Research series is Data Visualisaton: Tableau on Monday 20 Jan 11:00-13:00 - Register and find out more here: tinyurl.com/OpenandDigit... #Research #DigitalTools #DataVisualisation

"Workshop on 'Religion on the Ethnic Frontier' to take place in Galway on 28-29 April 2025 with deadline for paper proposals on 31 Jan. 2025."