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Great to hear that @shahmimaakhtar.bsky.social ‘s Exhibiting Irishness has won the Michael J Durkan Prize for books on language & culture! Proud to be Co-editor of this wonderful series. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526157263/

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Louis Marcus became one of the most important and prolific Irish documentary directors throughout the 1960s. The Louis Marcus collection is now live globally on the IFI Archive Player. 🌍 #snag25 💻 ifiarchiveplayer.ie/louis-marcus/

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A bittersweet feeling receiving this beautiful book, edited by @fionnualawalsh.bsky.social. The contributors were asked by the late David Fitzpatrick to complete a companion vol for his project on the Americanisation of Ireland, so it is a second goodbye to a brilliant colleague. One for the guild.

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Next Wed 5 Feb 🚨 I’m speaking at the @historyatgalway.bsky.social Research Seminar Series at 4pm (in person and online) followed by the launch of my new book 🍾 Come along if you’re in Galway and fancy raising a glass 🥂

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Many thanks to the Irish Times for reviewing my recent book. We’re lucky that a national newspaper makes space for academic books in their review pages. Power and Powerlessness in Union Ireland www.irishtimes.com/culture/book... Library link: academic.oup.com/book/58980

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We’re hiring a medieval Irish historian!

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Amongst the bleak news from every which way, I'm celebrating my book coming out digitally today 🎉 Living with the Dead interrogates family histories and the way they shape our present. It's totally free to read/download academic.oup.com/book/59440?s... #skystorians #familyhistorians #genealogy

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What is the value and use of history in contemporary society and culture? We're delighted to launch a new OA short-form book series - 'Elements in History and Contemporary Society', with @cambridgeup.bsky.social - to explore this question. Proposals now invited bit.ly/4aqCiG4 1/2 👇 #Skystorians

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During 2025, I'm running a project on 'Rainfall and the Irish Urban Experience'. I've written something about it here: rainandtheirishcity.com/2025/01/14/a...

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I'm delighted to share the advert for a collaborative PhD which I'll be co-supervising with Dr Paddy Fitzgerald of the Mellon Centre for Migration Studies (Omagh). This project, 'Finding "home" in a cultural landscape of migration & belonging' has a deadline of 10 March www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...

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This is an extraordinary piece of writing. I’ll never understand how people can write with such clarity about subjects like this but I’m always grateful for it.

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Our spring 2025 History seminar is now available. Our first history seminar will be held on 22 January 2025 and delivered by Professor Deirdre Raftery (UCD) in collaboration with the Centre for the History of Religion. @sarahannebuckley.bsky.social

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Our Spring 2025 #IrishStudies programme is now available at: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

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Can’t recommend this highly enough! It’s a lovely community of people at BC and you get to live in a sort of comically enormous house right beside the campus. You should definitely apply.

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Exciting News! Our Annual Lecture will be given by Dr Lindsay Janssen, Radboud University, and is titled ‘Periodical Famines: Irish Memories in Transatlantic News Media, 1845-1919’. It will take place in-person @nlireland.bsky.social at 6.30pm on 28 Feb 2025. More details to follow!

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Really enjoyed this chat with @aidanbeatty.com for New Books Network newbooksnetwork.com/power-and-po...

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From the outbreak of the American War of Independence to the outset of the French Revolution, 1776-1789, the Cavendish Transcripts provide the only first-hand account of the debates of the Irish Parliament. And they are now available on the VRTI platform: virtualtreasury.ie/item/LOC-MSS.... (1/6)

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For the sake of Dublin-centric balance, here are a bunch of UCD students dressed up as the KKK in 1923. Your guess is as good as mine 🤷🏻‍♀️ www.britishpathe.com/asset/50447/

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Every now and then somebody sends us something for the Trinity colonial legacies project that genuinely stops us in our tracks. Exhibit A: (courtesy of Pathé reels) Trinity students dressed up in blackface and many other racial stereotypes (1926). www.britishpathe.com/asset/48367/

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Our open access article (with @ciaranon.bsky.social) is now formally published. Scottish Highland Settler Colonialism in British North America, 1770–1804 - open aAnd it’s free to all. #ScottishHistory #CapeBreton #colonization #catholicism www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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The Reappraisals in Irish History series I edit for LUP (with Enda Delaney and Maria Luddy) has now produced 21 brilliant volumes on modern Irish history and culture since 2012. We offer ECR authors a little extra in the way of review and support and hope that it pays dividends for them in the end.

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Applications are open for the 2025-27 Past & Present Fellowships @ihr.bsky.social are open Applications close on 31st Jan 2025 Fellows appointed will commence on 1st Oct 2025 and be tenable for 24 months Please share with your network www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

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Isabella Jackson is giving a keynote at a conference at the Cambridge History Faculty on'Diasporas, Diplomacy and Dreams of Modernity: Cultural Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century East Asia' and her keynote is 'Foreign Office Imperialism: China’s treaty ports and the British Foreign Office'.

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These are great scholarships - please spread the word. I'm very happy to chat to students about potential projects in histories of sustainability, global justice, human rights, and humanitarianism.

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Delighted to say my book has arrived (& ‘only’ took me 8 yrs!). Thx to my colleagues in TCD & to @conorjkelly.bsky.social @alanrenwick.bsky.social @alanwhysall.bsky.social Brendan O’Leary, Cathy-Gormley-Heenan, Chris McCrudden, for providing much to ponder @conunitucl.bsky.social refs working group.

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#LandBack is always a good thing.

submitted 91 days ago • 2 comments

Our book is out! Get your library requests in for Anti-racism in Britain: Traditions, histories and trajectories, c.1880-present & thank you to all who contributed to the volume, it was a pleasure working with everyone.

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🗃️ 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...

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