@sharinglands
Sharing Lands I 3-year, AHRC-funded project examining legacies of the Choctaw-Irish Gift | LeAnne Howe (International Co-Investigator), Gillian O'Brien (Co-I), Padraig Kirwan (Principal Investigator) & Shelley Angelie Saggar (Postdoctoral Researcher)
We're thrilled to be joined by Jay Wesley (Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians), Director of the Department of Chahta Immi and culture and language advisor (as well as actor!) in #Sinners this evening.
We're fully booked but keep an eye on our socials for last-minute spaces if you are in SE London!
Really looking forward to this screening of Sinners. We're at maximum capacity (not a spare seat in the house!)
There will be a waitlist, so if you're still hoping to join us, but don't yet have a ticket, please do come & see if there's room.
If we can, we'll 'let you in' 😉
We love public broadcasting! RTE is home to 'Nationwide', and will feature the Choctaw-Ireland Scholarship Programme at UCC tonight (Weds, Feb 18). You can watch internationally via the RTE Player @choctawnationOK #sharinglands @Choctaw_CC #chahtafoundation @ucc.ie
Join us for a special 'Sharing Lands' screening of 'Sinners', focusing on connections between African-American, Choctaw & Irish history.
🗓️Friday 27th February
🕕18.00-21.00
📍Goldsmiths, University of London, Richard Hoggart Building Cinema
Book your free tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/sharing-la...
We can't reveal too much for now, but the Sharing Lands team have been doing some filming in the West of Ireland for as part of their collaboration with the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. More news soon @ sharinglands.com #choctawgift #irishfamine @gillianobrien.bsky.social @padraigkirwan.bsky.social
Woven, handmade Choctaw basket that appears on Cedar Sapling website (the site run by Aliyah Meyers and her sisters).
Happy New Year! (It's getting a bit late for that line, but we're keen to spread as much post-holiday cheer as we can, this "Blue Monday"!)
We're delighted to say that the video featuring Aliyah, Colt, and Tom has just dropped: sharinglands.com/blog/
Enjoy & pls share!
We recently caught up with Choctaw artist Laura Huskey to hear how the history of the #ChoctawGift and Choctaw-Irish friendship inspires her practice.
Read more over on our blog: sharinglands.com/2025/11/14/s...
📢Tonight!📢
Join Choctaw and Irish weavers as they discuss and demonstrate their crafts. Free to attend:
www.eventbrite.com/e/weaving-to...
We recently caught up with Choctaw artist Laura Huskey to hear how the history of the #ChoctawGift and Choctaw-Irish friendship inspires her practice.
Read more over on our blog: sharinglands.com/2025/11/14/s...
Visited us at @beinghumanfest.bsky.social and want to know more about the Choctaw-Irish connection?
Join @padraigkirwan.bsky.social for a conversation with #Choctaw and #Irish weavers as they explore the resonances between their crafts.
Free, booking required.
www.eventbrite.com/e/weaving-to...
Massive thanks too to Jacob Sakil, who runs American Bites in Peckham, for his cooking, for sharing traditions & stories, & being a real friend to the project. Who else would have made the Choctaw dish bvnaha *&* Irish cornbread. Go raibh mile maith agat!
Sharing Lands was delighted with - and rather blown away by - the crowds, the energy, & the enthusiasm @ the Festival of Migration, held @TheAlbanySE8 on Saturday, November 18. Huge thanks to everyone who participated, & the organisers (especially @willcenci & our Goldsmiths' RKE colleagues).
Visit us *this Saturday!*
On 8 November, come down to @thealbanyse8.bsky.social to sample Choctaw and Irish foods and share your 🌽 recipes whilst thinking about the Indigenous origins behind everyday global foods.
On All Soul's Day, Irish people lit candles on graves, left food for the dead, & were in communication with the ancestors. Meanwhile, evil spirits were warded against (carved turnips being especially good guardians! Over time, pumpkins were used in the US). #interconnectedness #enduringtraditions
A picture of an ofrenda (altar) showing brightly painted skulls, pictures of deceased relatives & ansestors, and brightly coloured orange & red fabrics & flowers.
On Samhain, & ahead of Día de los Muertos, we wanted to share a picture of the ofrenda (altar) on show
@BriscoeMuseum. Complex, palimpsestic, layering's of pre-Christian & Catholic traditions are evident in both Irish & Indigenous cultures. Aztec culture honoured the dead in a month-long festival.
Everyone at Sharing Lands is truly excited about this upcoming event! Please do share details of this online event widely (& pop along if you can). Our thanks to Aliyah, Colt & Tom for their help, advice, & involvement so far.
A 1930 picture of the Cambridge Theatre, Seven Dials in Matt Houlbrook's book Songs of Seven Dials photographed in front of the Cambridge Theatre, Seven Dials in October 2025.
Interested in the history of Seven Dials or London or the 1920s and 1930s? I'm doing some walking tours of the Dials with @stanfordstravel.bsky.social on Sat 15 Nov.
There's loads to see, but Seven Dials is so small you don't need to walk far.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/songs...
Described by Graham Davis as "entrepreneurs and opportunists in search of land", & "early aggressors" by Harry Dunleavy, the lives of those men - & some other Irish/American settlers - warrants close re-examination & scrutiny by scholars studying Indigenous Removal, continuance, & resistance today.
Corpus Christi is a great place to consider the roles that Irish empresario's like James Power and James Hewetson played in US history after the passing of the "Law for Promoting Colonization in the State of Coahuila and Texas," March 24, 1825.
Corpus Christi: Irish children of the 1980s (ie some of the Sharing Lands team!) may associate Corpus Christi with something other than beautiful coastlines! (irishtimes.com/culture/heri...) Happily, our recent trip changed that, & immersed us in yet more fascinating, often challenging, histories...
Tomorrow (w ISS21 & @radhumslab.bsky.social)! Come join us!
The house needs some love today, & is currently for sale. Nevertheless, it stands as an intriguing & powerful reminder of the interwoven & rich histories found in Austin #irishaustin #blackhistory #sharinglands #thegift
A professor at Samuel Huston College, John was a prominent educator. He & Laura opened their home to travellers during the Jim Crow era, when white-owned lodgings turned Black customers away; their home featured in the Green Book. Laura continued the work after John's death.
We've lots to share about our recent trip to Texas, & want to start with the Limerick-Frazier house in Austin. Designed by Joseph Limerick, who was born in 1798 & left Ireland in 1850, the house was bought by John & Laura Allman Frazier in 1905.
It's just under 2 weeks until @beinghumanfest.bsky.social 'Festival of Migration'!
Come down to sample Choctaw and Irish recipes and discover the Indigenous histories behind everyday foods. @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social
250 years on from the signing of the Treaty of Doak's Stand, the Sharing Lands team reflect on this complex moment in Choctaw history, and the ways in which it represents tribal sovereignty and survivance today.
sharinglands.com/2025/10/20/t...
It's a busy week for our team!
Our postdoctoral researcher Dr Shelley Angelie Saggar wrote about her research on the culinary connections between Native American and Irish food cultures for @historyworkshop.org.uk 🌽
We caught up with Skylee Glass, a former Choctaw-Ireland scholar at @ucc.ie this summer to find out more about her experience of studying in Ireland.
Read Skylee's reflections on the future relationship between the Choctaw and Irish peoples over on our blog.
sharinglands.com/2025/08/20/r...
Great to see our research mentioned in July's issue of #Biskinik the tribal newspaper of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
Look out for our PI @padraigkirwan.bsky.social who is quoted in the article about his participation in this year's ride!
biskinik.com/news/choctaw...