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a job! in the 18thcentury! and in IRELAND 💚🍀💚@bsecs.bsky.social @asecsgradcaucus.bsky.social @asecsoffice.bsky.social
Congratulations Gerry! Will there be a Belfast launch?
A selection of books form the Fagel Collection
TCD Library is recruiting a Senior Bibliographer to help catalogue the Fagel Collection! This is a fabulous professional opportunity to work on one of Europe's great early modern private libraries. Closing 10 March at noon. Full details available at www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies
Anyone else hoping to attend this talk? Looks interesting
On Thursday 5 March at 4.30 our visiting Boston College Irish Studies scholar, Marcus Breen, will be speaking about 'The Struggle for Meaning in Irish Cultural Studies: Kneecap and Sinners'. All welcome in-person (Lanyon 01/052) or online. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
Tomorrow evening. In Chapters. All welcome. See you there!
If you missed Robin Usher’s talk on Sir Arthur Chichester and Dublin’s architecture c.1605-15, a recording is available at: m.youtube.com/watch?v=-5nX...
Registration is now open for our joint event with the Seamus Heaney Centre on 2 March: LATE HEANEY: NICHOLAS ALLEN IN CONVERSATION WITH MARK CARRUTHERS (available online and in-person) www.qub.ac.uk/schools/seam...
Open to any discipline. 'Call for Speakers' for the conference 'Hidden Histories' organised by the amazing Andie Kristina and myself. It will take place on the 21st of May 2026 online. Please share with anyone who may be interested in submitting an abstract. All information is below 👇 #conference
Why did a riot happen at the Abbey Theatre 100 years ago today? @yesthewholebook.bsky.social @dublincityuni.bsky.social writes that the negative audience reacton to Sean O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars was very much rooted in the political anxieties of 1926 www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Our next seminar is on Monday 16 February at 4.30. Dr Robin Usher (QUB) will speak about 'Sir Arthur Chichester and Dublin's official architecture, c.1605-15'. All welcome in-person and online. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
During the War of Independence in 1921 the authorities raided a Belfast hotel and triumphantly arrested “Michael Collins”only to discover he was a barman from Mayo. The press had to clarify he wasn’t the real Michael Collins at all. The Irish Times, 18 Jan 1921
During the War of Independence in 1921 the authorities raided a Belfast hotel and triumphantly arrested “Michael Collins”only to discover he was a barman from Mayo. The press had to clarify he wasn’t the real Michael Collins at all. The Irish Times, 18 Jan 1921
Link below will work without an X account. A very informative discussion!
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Thanks
Check out this recording of my discussion on Michael Collins and the UK media
Was great to discuss on Michael Collins and his portrayal in the UK media hosted by TheBikeShed last Thursday
Our Irish Studies seminar programme for Spring 2026 www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
Got some History related news coming soon…👀
#CasimirMarkiewicz: A Polish Artist in Bohemian Dublin (1903–1913), a touring panel exhibition produced by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Dublin was launched in the @ria.ie last night.
The Irish Revolution: How the diaspora helped make independence an international affair
Daniel Mulhall reviews Professor Dermot Keogh's final book, co-edited with Dr Mervyn O’Driscoll and Owen McGee. @corkup.bsky.social
A Library Lunchtime Lecture by one of the exhibition's curators, Dr @emilymfg.bsky.social , will take place on Tuesday, 20 January 2026 at 1pm.
More information about this lecture and booking details are available on the RIA website: www.ria.ie/events/libra...
Open to anyone from any discipline from anywhere around the world. Please share with anyone interested ❤️
On Friday 16 January we will be hosting a one-day conference on LABOUR POLITICS IN WEST BELFAST, 1918-83. Free event - all welcome (in-person and online). www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...
QUB this morning ❄️
Sorry to hear this Gerry. My sympathies.