Looking forward to returning to Dublin in November to speak at @historytcd.bsky.social seminar series & an honour to be in great company incl: @shannondevlin.bsky.social & @fionnualawalsh.bsky.social. Will be focussing on research emerging from @ukri.org #AHRC #womensgrassrootsactivism network.

Department of History, Trinity College Dublin@historytcd.bsky.social · 4d ago

This term's schedule for the Research Seminar in Modern and Contemporary Irish History is here www.tcd.ie/history/rese...

Thank you @shannondevlin.bsky.social for chairing the seminar & to @historyatgalway.bsky.social for having me. It has been a great week so far at @uniofgalway.bsky.social in my Visiting Fellow role. A brilliant scheme & looking forward to 2 more days of working in the archives on #ICA ❤️.

Shannon Devlin@shannondevlin.bsky.social · last wk.

Fantastic paper by @historyatgalway.bsky.social Visiting Fellow @caitbeaumont.bsky.social this afternoon full of family history, archival silences, tough ethical questions, and the myriad of amazing feats determined Irish women can achieve beyond that one moment of activism.

Fantastic paper by @historyatgalway.bsky.social Visiting Fellow @caitbeaumont.bsky.social this afternoon full of family history, archival silences, tough ethical questions, and the myriad of amazing feats determined Irish women can achieve beyond that one moment of activism.

Happy Week 1. Intro week means I’ve just attempted to teach Home Rule to the Civil War in 48 minutes. Don’t think I drew breath 🫨🫨 annnnd no one laughed at my Canvas buttons, a devo blow to morale 🫠😂

We're kicking off our Seminar Series this week with @caitbeaumont.bsky.social's paper, entitled 'The Wedding Photo, 22 August 1921: women's embodiment of lived citizenship in the wake of the Irish Revolution, 1920s-1970s'. All welcome. Hardiman Building, THB G011, Wednesday 9 Sept. at 4pm!

Real privilege to be here in Galway this week as Visiting Fellow in College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies (CASS). Thanks to @shannondevlin.bsky.social for supporting my visit & looking forward to meeting @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social again. Perfect start to week with swim at Blackrock 🏊‍♀️ ❤️

Today, the National Health Service (NHS) celebrates its 78th birthday. With the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), you can access hundreds of records on the history of the NHS and its evolution over the past eight decades.

This especially hurts to read in a world where people are still pushing the “historians will say they’re roommates” narrative. Total erasure of very, very hard work.

Rachel Hope Cleves@rachelcleves.bsky.social · 3mo ago

An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride

#DIBLives #OTD 1922 a huge explosion at the Public Records Office in the Four Courts destroyed centuries of Irish administrative, legal & genealogical records. @virtualtreasury.bsky.social has spent years recreating many of these records & made them freely available to the public. virtualtreasury.ie

This will get lost in today's national news, but the finding that Jeffrey Donaldson is guilty on all counts, only after decades of multiple people having concerns, speaks to how powerful abusers can use their status in a small society like NI to deflect attention: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

Jeffrey Donaldson: Found guilty of all sex abuse charges including one count of rape

Former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson faces 18 sex abuse charges, including one count of rape, all of which he denies.

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Off to @ssnci.bsky.social today! I’ll be speaking about single ‘spare’ siblings 👫, best friend roommates 👀, family intimacy, and what to do when all your sisters marry off and leave you at home ❤️‍🩹

Northern Ireland is considered one of the most dangerous regions in Europe for women. The ones getting all fizzed up about the North Belfast stabbing never question the culture here that they want people to assimilate to www.ulster.ac.uk/research/res...

Research uncovers eye-watering levels of violence against women and girls in NI

Based on responses from more than 540 women, the report also found seven out of 10 experienced some form of violence or abuse in the last 12 months.

ulster.ac.uk

I've never heard shaky-voiced angry speeches in the chamber about these murders, let alone demands to shut down cities and international attention.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 3mo ago

How many women in Northern Ireland have been stabbed to death in the last few years without loyalists needing to riot over it?

Happy #WorldBicycleDay. To protect his son from the jolting caused by the solid rubber tyres of his tricycle on the cobbled streets of Belfast, John Boyd Dunlop improvised an air-filled rubber tube tacked-on with linen cloth which became the basis of the Pneumatic Tyre. www.dib.ie/biography/du...

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...

The next of our Emerging Scholar's Blogs is now online. Thanks to Stella Billo for putting together this fascinating piece on Huguenot women and early modern Ireland. womenshistoryassociation.com/whai-emergin...

Forgotten Voices: French Huguenot Women in Early Modern Ireland

In 2022, an article written by Frances Nolan and Bronagh McShane in the Irish Historical Studies celebrated thirty years since the publication of ‘An Agenda for Women’s History in Ireland’ which in…

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Feeling a bit like Christmas morning but there’s a present missing. So excited for the release of the 1926 Census but will forever mourn the loss of the NI equivalent. No g-grandparents to find this morning. My gripe with the boundary commission lives on 😂 nationalarchives.ie/collections/...

Yep. In fact, the real failing of students was when we stopped requiring them to regularly search a library catalogue for their reading and instead produced lists with hyperlinks that students simply had to click. As soon as they have to go off list, they’re lost.

Lauren Fraser@walkyouhome.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Controversial but - students *perceive* they have been failed when what has happened is they have failed to understand information retrieval is a skill requiring effort. I don't believe a zero friction experience is realistic or desirable in learning, actually.

Attempting to track down the owner of 105 Union Street - where Sunday's city centre fire is believed to have started - has taken The Bell from Pollokshaws to South Lanarkshire, and given us insight into a retail sector regulated in the loosest sense of the word. But we think we've done it anyway.

Who owns 105 Union Street? A journey into the rabbit warren

As the smoke subsides, a complex picture of poorly regulated businesses emerges

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100,000 trans people & allies fill central London for Trans Pride. Mainstream media: nothing Thousands of trans people & allies fill Wembley Arena for pro-trans gig with massive names like Sophie Ellis-Bextor & Sugarbabes. Mainstream media: nothing. This is what extreme media bias looks like.

Would anyone have access to this and be willing to send me a copy? www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...

Lesbianism in/and the Family: Eva Gore-Booth and the Making of Feminist Modernism (Chapter 8) - Interrogating Lesbian Modernism

Interrogating Lesbian Modernism - June 2023

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1/2 The Archives Strategy Committee officially launched the NEW Archives Catalogue today! Discover a more user-friendly interface, bookmark your favourite records, search across physical & digital collections, & browse our collections with greater clarity. #archives @uniofgalwayasc.bsky.social

Honouring International Women’s Day with a look back at how far we’ve come. In 1922, Irish women finally won full voting rights—thanks to the tireless efforts of those who fought for equality and democratic participation. Their voices shaped our future and continue to inspire us today. #IWD26

#IWD2026 A nice find among the records in the Public Record Office of Ireland (before the fire of 1922!) Katherine Bayly's 'domestic accounts books'. Her daily life with her daughters in 18th-century Dublin. Read more 👇️ virtualtreasury.ie/hidden-stori... Help page👇️ virtualtreasury.ie/help

Well this is interesting news. ‘Women's museum planned to replace International Rugby Experience in Limerick’ #spéirgorm www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...

Women's museum planned to replace International Rugby Experience in Limerick

The six-storey building on O’Connell St, Limerick, has been donated to the State by billionaire businessman JP McManus

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Julia Varley, expert flipper of pancakes, was also a suffragette and trade unionist. She was active in the National Federation of Women Workers and the Workers' Union, serving as chief women's officer of the TGWU from 1929 to 1936. #ShroveTuesday #PancakeDay

Looking forward to speaking about one of my favourite families, the Taylors of Coleraine, tomorrow at the first Coleraine Museum Fireside Talk of the year! All online, get in touch for more details.

Bridget Arthur was one of nine children born to Barbara Cusack and alderman Edward Arthur. Bridget’s mother died and was buried in Saint Michael's Church in Dublin on 4 September 1643.Learn more about her story and others here: voicesproject.ie/impact/blog-...

We are delighted to announce the publication of our first quarterly newsletter LifeLines: News from the Dictionary of Irish Biography. You can read it here: mailchi.mp/ria.ie/grang... And sign up here: mailchi.mp/d44f57115e53...

Lovely to see so many abstracts winging in today for the @whaireland.bsky.social conference in Limerick in May 😍 cfp closes 30 January so keep em coming! #WomensHist #GenderHist sites.google.com/view/whai202...

WHAI2026

Welcome to the homepage for the next Women's History Association of Ireland conference. Our next annual conference will take place 29-30 May 2026 at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. The conferenc...

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