A huge thank you to Jay Roszman (UCC), who delivered the keynote at this year's #Comhfhios, titled "The Problem of Meaning: 'Outrages' & Violence in Pre-Famine Ireland"
An amazing lecture to end a captivating day of research on violence and its legacies in Ireland!
@jayroszman.bsky.social @ucc.ie
Even with the snow, we welcomed 30 scholars from around the world to Connolly House for the 9th #Comhfhios conference this past weekend!
Congratulations to all the students who joined us to share their work and to our graduate students for organizing another fantastic conference!
#Comhfhios year 9!
I’m so excited to hear what amazing projects the Irish studies grad students are currently working on.
Next Saturday, February 7, #BCIrishStudies is thrilled to host the 9th #Comhfhios conference - an event for grads, run by grads
This year's theme, "Violence: Legacies of Conflict in Ireland," has drawn grads from around the globe & we cannot wait to hear what they're working on!
I had a great time hearing really amazing work at #NACBS2025 in Montreal, especially regarding Balck British history.
There’s nothing more academically invigorating than leaving a conference full of excitement for future work. 🤓
THAT’S MY ADVISOR!!! 🍾🍾🍾
No kings, but yaaas queens. Happy Pride Boston.
🩷🤍🩵🤎🖤❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Trying to motivate your students to hand in that final paper…
On April 23, award-winning broadcaster & author
Emma Dabiri will deliver the 2025 Flatly Lecture
Her talk compares Yourba and Irish ontologies to discuss the Irish language conceptualization of duine gorm - 'blue person' - a term used to describe people racialized as Black individuals as Gaeilge.
It was an honor & a pleasure to be invited by the MIT Coalition for Palestine to speak about the historic connections and continued solidarity between Ireland and Palestine alongside @rachael-young.bsky.social Perfect way to end the long St. Patrick’s weekend ☘️🇵🇸
Why attend a parade when you can attend a protest? It’s what St Patrick would have wanted
#FreeMahmoudKhalil #freepalestine #bostonPSL
@tiffthompson.bsky.social
How to celebrate St. Patrick’s weekend as an Irish historian: drink while you make protest signs with your academic bestie @rachael-young.bsky.social ☘️🇵🇸
An insightful and thought provoking discussion on
the gendered nature and impact of violence and forced displacement from Tiffany Thompson at a packed @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social seminar.
@bc-irish-studies.bsky.social
GO BEST FRIEND
GO BEST FRIEND GO
Had a really great time at #ACIS2025 in Savannah, but I was so distracted by the sunshine I didn’t take any photos inside at the actual conference…
#Comhfhios year 8 is here!
I cannot wait to once again be dazzled by the work of Irish Studies grads from the US, Ireland, and the UK!
Book covers from the Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series
🗃️ Historians of migration, empire, and diaspora, and readers of global Irish history in particular, may be interested in the Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series, a series I edit for @nyupress.bsky.social nyupress.org/search-resul...
Moo Deng the baby pygmy hippo, on the ground and screaming
Towards the end of the most difficult semester of my entire career, this is how your email finds me
Our next #IrishStudies seminar will be Máire McCafferty (UCD), on '"The flower of the Gaelic League endeavour"? The Irish language summer colleges, 1904-1940'. Mon 2 Dec at 4.30pm (in-person and online). All welcome. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris... #IrishHistory #Gaeilge
"People of northern #Gaza transform the walls of their destroyed homes into murals of resilience, showcasing their strength and hope in the face of adversity."
#Palestine #Nakba2024
It seems there has been a new X-odus?
A good time to remind you all of @petergray47.bsky.social ‘s Irish History starter pack:
go.bsky.app/TQ96Hoe
New books on race in modern Ireland.
Needed to rethink a lecture on race in modern Ireland this term and these are some of the books that helped me enormously. It’s a really vibrant area at the moment.
Was talking with our MA History students about Radden Keefe’s book earlier in the week. Interested to see whether it works as dramatisation.
Four people sitting at a table, reading papers to a room of people.
Had a great time at #NACBS2024 in Denver. I always leave this conference amazed by all the great work being done!
Still a little academically star struck at being on a panel with Judy Walkowitz, Kieran Connell, and Stephen Brooke…
