'History and Archives in Practice' 2027: call for participation now open for our annual gathering of historians and archivists, co-hosted with @ihr.bsky.social and TNA. HAP27's theme is connecting past and future with sessions on advocacy, value and applied history bit.ly/3RGHbWy #Skystorians

'History and Archives in Practice' (HAP), 2027. Call for participation now open - RHS

History and Archives in Practice (HAP) is an annual partnership event, co-hosted by the Royal Historical Society, The National Archives, and the Institute of Historical Research. Now in its fifth year...

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"Given the racial tensions that often existed between Irish and Black Americans, why would Black veterans volunteer to join the fight for Irish freedom?"

Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna@patrickjmahone1.bsky.social · 2w ago

160 years ago this summer, a group of Black American Civil War veterans gathered in New York's Washington Square Park to offer their services to the cause of Irish freedom - their story is recalled in my 'From the Square' blog for @nyupress.bsky.social nyupress.org/blog/2026/07...

160 years ago this summer, a group of Black American Civil War veterans gathered in New York's Washington Square Park to offer their services to the cause of Irish freedom - their story is recalled in my 'From the Square' blog for @nyupress.bsky.social nyupress.org/blog/2026/07...

Forgotten Black Fenians – New Research Reveals Post-Civil War Solidarity by Patrick J. Mahoney, author of The Fenian Empire - NYU Press

This summer marks 160 years since the Battle of Ridgeway, the definitive event of the Fenian raids on Canada. Fought on June 2, 1866, near Ridgeway, Ontario, it pitted hundreds... READ MORE

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In RTÉ Brainstorm, Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna (Patrick J. Mahoney), author of "The Fenian Empire," recovers the little-known history of Fenian solidarity with Cuba's 1868 revolution and its echoes in today's geopolitics

A short history of Irish Fenians and the Cuban revolution

When revolution swept Cuba in autumn 1868, Fenian leaders developed an intense interest in the island

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📢 Book news!! My new book, Revolutionary Connections: Russia and Ireland, 1905-1923, with Oxford University Press is now out online & open access ahead of print! doi.org/10.1093/9780... This image comes from the final chapter on Bolshevik and early Soviet attitudes to Ireland @leverhulme.ac.uk

Post mar léachtóir/ léachtóir sinsearach in Ollscoil na Banríona. Sprioc: 20 Iúil 2026.

A short history of Irish Fenians and the Cuban revolution. When revolution swept Cuba in autumn 1868, Fenian leaders developed an intense interest in the island, explains @patrickjmahone1.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

A short history of Irish Fenians and the Cuban revolution

When revolution swept Cuba in autumn 1868, Fenian leaders developed an intense interest in the island

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Yesterday evening, the Society was delighted to announce the winners of its 2026 First Book and Early Career Article prizes: bit.ly/44HbAH2 Many congratulations to the winners of the 2026 RHS Early Career Article Prize: Dr Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh and Dr Stephanie Wanga 1/4 #Skystorians

"The Fenian Empire" by Patrick J. Mahoney reframes the Fenian story as a web of alliances, ambitions, and collisions with race and colonialism across the Civil War-era Americas. Now available everywhere.

The Fenian Empire

A bold new exploration of Fenian revolutionary activity across the AmericasIn the aftermath of the American Civil War, the Fenian movement stood at a crossro...

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So this was a nice surprise to wake up to, thanks to all Cambridge University Press & Assessment and series editor @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social Delighted that it is Open Access doi.org/10.1017/9781... @researchireland.ie @ucc.ie

Absence in the Archives

Cambridge Core - Global History - Absence in the Archives

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Fin Dwyer invited me to make a series on Ireland's global revolution. There's been nine episodes, final one coming next Friday. So far race, religion, antisemitism, India & Egypt, smuggling, the Bolsheviks, activity in America and Britain ... shows.acast.com/irishhistory...

Brothers in Pain: New Series Preview | Irish History Podcast

The IRA in a Revolutionary World

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Saothar nua filíochta ó Róise Ní Bhaoill, foillsithe go slachtmhar ag @eabhloid.bsky.social

Not to mention the many (hundreds?) of people who have had to evacuate their homes due to threats or fear. I hope there are some journalists tracking this.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 2mo ago

27 people were made homeless after Tuesday night's violence in Belfast, including children.

Check out @fergallenehan.bsky.social’s article on the Irish revolution in Nazi Germany. Part of a forthcoming special edition on multilingual responses to revolutionary Ireland that interrogates questions of translation, language ability, and transnational appropriations and solidarities.

Fergal Lenehan@fergallenehan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Why would some German authors writing in the Nazi period in the 1930s about Ireland be pro-treaty & others anti-treaty? Check out my article on representations of the Irish Civil War in Nazi Germany. Part of a special issue edited by @siobhraaiken.bsky.social. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Why would some German authors writing in the Nazi period in the 1930s about Ireland be pro-treaty & others anti-treaty? Check out my article on representations of the Irish Civil War in Nazi Germany. Part of a special issue edited by @siobhraaiken.bsky.social. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Representing the Irish Civil War (1922–23) in Nazi-Era German ‘Ireland Books’: Hermann Harder’s Irische Heimkehr (Irish Journey Home) (1937) in Wider Context

This article examines representations of the Irish Civil War (1922-1923) in Nazi Germany, centring specifically on Hermann Harder's episodic work Irische Heimkehr (Irish Journey Home), published or...

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Hot off the press! Patrick Mahoney's @patrickjmahone1.bsky.social new book Fenian Empire, available now: lnkd.in/eW3FFERw "Teeming with individual Fenians, splits, spies, and swagger, it is a captivating read contending with ideas which are at once both historical and contemporary." Ú Ní Bhroiméil

new edition of 19thc Irish-language stories about the American West! Ed/trans @patrickjmahone1.bsky.social

An incredible day yesterday, spent with a major U.S. collector of stereoscopy who is downsizing. He has generously donated four full travel sets of Irish stereoviews (totalling 400 images), plus c100 more, to University College Dublin. These are extraordinary photos, dating from the 1880s-1900s.

Colleagues might consider signing this petition against the downgrading of AHSS research by Research Ireland openletter.earth/concern-abou...

Concern about Research Ireland’s Strategy and Programme Plan

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It was a pleasure & privilege to chair this year’s Wiles Lectures by Sunil Amrith on ‘Towards a History of Repair’, responding to the planetary environmental crisis. Thanks to Sunil, academic guests Glenda Sluga, Prashant Kidambi, Laura Martin, Patricia Clavin, Kiran Kumbhar & trustee David Armitage

Final spaces available for our ‘Locating Loss: histories of infertility in landscapes and spaces’ conference next week @unioflimerick.bsky.social - 27 May. Free, all welcome (booking required) - we have a wonderful line-up of speakers on the day - www.irishhumanities.ie/news-events/...

Irish Humanities Alliance | Locating Loss

Locating Loss: Histories of Infertility in Landscapes and Spaces conference, University of Limerick on 27 May 2026.<br /> <br /> The aim of the Locating Loss project is to explore the spaces…

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Scoláire Gaeilge á lorg le cuidiú le leabharliosta IASIL (International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures)

Rydym nawr yn cloi ein diwrnod @aberuni.bsky.social gyda darlith wadd gan yr Athro Miri Rubin (QMUL). Mae darlith Miri, ‘Du/Prydferth: Ystyron Duwch mewn Adnod Feiblaidd’, yn cyflwyno themâu o’i llyfr sydd ar ddod trwy sylwebaeth ar Gân y Caniadau 1:5: ‘Rwy’n ddu a/ond yn brydferth’.

Míle buíochas le @nosanseo.bsky.social as aiste phearsanta liom a fhoilsiú inniu ar m'eispéireas le M.E. #ME #MECFS nos.ie/news/ag-mair...

Ag Maireachtáil le M.E. - NÓS

Mí an Einceifealaimiailítis Mhiailgigh é mí na Bealtaine. Scríobhann Gearóidín Nic Cárthaigh faoina heispéireas agus í ag maireachtáil leis an tinneas.

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Great to get hands on the first print copies of our new book, the product of many "notions", edited by @ionaburnellreilly.bsky.social @stephenbaker.bsky.social and yours truly. Official launch 8 May at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

Pribhléid iomlán a bhí ann a bheith i láthair ag seoladh thuairisc taighde Róisín Nic Liam, ‘Éire aontaithe: Deis chlaochlaitheach don Ghaeilge agus don Ghaeltacht’, in Ionad Séamus Heaney in Ollscoil na Banríona inniu. Is féidir an tuairisc a léamh ar shuíomh @cnagaeilge.bsky.social.

Dr @siobhraaiken.bsky.social speaking at Queen's at the launch of Róisín Nic Liam's important report, 'A United Ireland: A Transformative Opportunity for the Irish Language and Gaeltacht'. Comhghairdeas Róisín agus gach duine a cabhraigh leis an taighde tábhachtach seo.

“Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation” @cornellupress.bsky.social featured in the Guardian! 🥹 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

‘Live and let live’: Northern Ireland historian uncovers surprising era of tolerance of gay men

Public records and private papers reveal compassion and tacit acceptance before ‘moral panic’ took hold in the 1950s and 1960s

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If you missed Enda Delaney's talk last week on 'The cognitive revolution in modern Ireland, 1850-1920', there's a recording available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pDc...

Irish Studies Seminar: Enda Delaney (27.4.26)

YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies

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so. My monograph IRISH SHAKESPEARES is finally coming out this autumn 💚 not available to preorder yet but get your libraries to order!!

Irish Shakespeares: Gender, Sexuality, and Performance in the Twenty-First Century

Irish Shakespeares explores performances, adaptations, and appropriations of Shakespeare in Irish theatrical contexts, and how they articulate concerns and conversations about gender and sexual politi...

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