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The Irish Committee of Historical Sciences is the national committee for history in Ireland. Further details: http://www.historians.ie/
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We are delighted to release the call for Papers for the 35th Irish Conference of Historians 'Inner lives and outer realities' @iaphistorians.bsky.social @hstmnetworkireland.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @whaireland.bsky.social @araukie.bsky.social

HSTM Network Ireland Webinar, 6 March 2025, 1-2 pm Dr Sorcha O’Brien (Lecturer in Design History & Theory , IADT) 'Kitchen Power: Rural Electrification, Women and Electrical Appliances in 1950s and 1960s Ireland' www.historians.ie/hstm-network...

CFP. 35th Irish Conference of Historians, 'Inner lives and outer realities', 12-13 September, Maynooth University www.historians.ie/cfp-35th-iri...

Glasnevin Spring Lecture Series: Sugar, Food, Beer and Beaches in Irish History. (March 12 Máirtín will be discussing the making of Irish Food History: a companion).

🚨Check out the Call for Papers for the Irish Conference of Historians to be held in Maynooth 12-13 September 2025 on the theme of 'Inner Lives and Outer Realties'. Deadline 31 March. We have two wonderful keynotes, Prof Lindsey Earner-Byrne (TCD) and Prof M'hamed Oualdi (EUI)🚨

Reminder Shauna Mulligan will compare “The Plantation and the Concentration Camp: Slave labour and racism during the American Civil War (1861-1865) and the Second World War (1941-1945)” in GO10 HRB, 4pm, Wednesday 26 February, and via Zoom webinar at universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

We are increasingly concerned about the crisis in UK Higher Education. Read our joint statement with @royalhistsoc.bsky.social , History UK and the @histassoc.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4hSg16N #history #skystorians

We are delighted to offer 12 PGR and ECR bursaries for people presenting at our 2025 conference! ⏰Deadline to apply: 31 March 2025 🌟Bursary: Free registration and £220 towards costs of accommodation & travel For more information and to apply: socialhistory.org.uk/events/bursa... 🗃️

Interested in researching migration and refugee narratives? This online research training session will introduce participants to a wealth of resources and is free to attend. 🗓 20 March 2025 🕰 14:00-15:30 BST 🖥 Online Register today via: https://buff.ly/3ZgvjdC

What's the value and use of history in contemporary society and culture? We're very pleased 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

Webinar #hstm Dr Sorcha O’Brien (Lecturer in Design History & Theory , IADT) ‘Kitchen Power: Rural Electrification, Women and Electrical Appliances in 1950s and 1960s Ireland’ 6 March 2025. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Association of Research Libraries Calls for Protection of US National Archives and Records Administration 📜 www.arl.org/news/associa...

Free oral history workshop, Tue 25th at the Linen Hall Library, Belfast. Plenty of participation, and I'll definitely be available to chat. Made possible through a @qubhistory.bsky.social Centre for Public History comment project Sign up via Eventbrite www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-...

How Ian Paisley was viewed by Irish Government at start of the Troubles, written by John Gibney, Assistant Editor with the Royal Irish Academy's Documents on Irish Foreign Policy programme and is one of the editors of Documents on Irish Foreign Policy Vol. XIV: 1969-1973. www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

There's still time to apply for the position of Training Manager and Digital Archivist. Lead our training programme and work with DRI members to preserve and publish their collections in the DRI repository! Find out more and apply by 20 Feb 2025: www.ria.ie/about/career...

Coming Summer 2025! Courtesy of @ssnci.bsky.social and three exceptional (if I do say so) staff from ucddublin.bsky.social and a dozen of their genius peers #ssnci #ireland #conflict www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Spring School 2025 gets underway at the end of next week. Non members welcome. Presentations recorded and available for 28 days. www.nifhs.org/courses/ Anyone who wants to attend Larne's talk and is not a member of their Branch, please request the link before Monday. www.nifhs.org/events/

The next meeting of the Irish Historical Society will be 7pm Tuesday, 25 February. It will be the out-going presidential address from Prof Lindsey Earner-Byrne ''I have not been to the doctor yet as I am ashamed to go': The gendered implications of change in Ireland, 1960s-1980s'.

Last week @davidolusoga.bsky.social gave the annual National Humanities Lecture at the University of London. This was a superb account of how public history promotes and communicates academic research beyond HE. David's lecture is now available and is highly recommended bit.ly/3Qd1x5i #skystorians

HSTM Network Ireland Conference 2025 Submissions of papers on any theme relating to HSTM are welcome. Abstracts (no more than 300 words) and a short biography (no more than 100 words) should be submitted by 21 March 2025 using this Google Form: forms.gle/bn5G8K3m8chDUj…

Thanks to @nlireland.bsky.social for hosting the launch of our exhibition "RePEAT: Reimagining Ireland's Peatlands in Precarious Times" last night. The exhibition can be seen at the NLI for the next few weeks before going on a tour across the country. #envhist #peatsky www.nli.ie/news-stories...

Estonia-Oxford Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship in Baltic Studies 2025-2026 University of Oxford - St Antony’s College, European Studies Centre #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLS502/e...

We will be releasing an expanded CFP for this academic conference in the next week or so, but I have gotten a number of inquiries so wanted to confirm that it will be held @tlrhub.bsky.social on the 9-10 October 2025.

Professor in History of Art University of Glasgow - College of Arts & Humanities - School of School of Culture & Creative Arts #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLR261/p...

Online HSTM Network Ireland webinar 6 Feb. 1-2pm (Irish Time). Elena Schaa via Zoom. Registration here: t.co/XcAgamnICK All Welcome.

Submissions are now open for the Irish Historical Studies First Book Prize 2024 - for an academic book on an Irish / Irish Diasporic historical subject published by an Irish resident in 2024 as their first scholarly book #IrishHistory. Closes 1 March. usihs36.com/2025/02/03/i...

Mary Immaculate College history academic, Dr Miriam Nyhan, publishes evaluation of renowned Irish historian’s work. A Tract for Our Times is available in bookshops nationwide and at ucdpress.ie www.ilovelimerick.ie/dr-miriam-ny...

It's nearly St Brigit's Day! So naturally we have an episode for you on ... the conquest of Ireland, 1169! Thanks to the brilliant (& patient!) @colinveach.bsky.social for explaining the English angle on the 'Anglo-Norman' Invasion. King Henry II, Strongbow & more. open.spotify.com/episode/1Gjz...

📢 We're seeking expressions of interest from members of the DRI to fill two vacancies on the DRI Board. Any staff member from a full member institution is eligible to nominate themselves for consideration. Find out more and apply by 21 Feb 2025: dri.ie/news/call-fo...

🚨The @ssnci.bsky.social has issued a CFP for their 2025 Annual Conference, on the theme of 'Universalism and Locality in Nineteenth-Century Ireland', to be held at the University of Aberdeen, 19-21 June 2025. 🗃️ The CFP is here, with a great set of keynotes: ssnci.org/annual-confe... #irishstudies

Research Associate- “Art and Inequality in the Shadow of the Black Death Century”), working with Principal Investigator, Professor Samuel Cohn - University of Glasgow - School of Humanities #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLP003/r...

🚨 WE'RE HIRING! 🚨 Looking to start your career in #publishing? We're hiring an Assistant Production Editor to join us at our Woodbridge office. For more information about the role and to apply, visit: https://buff.ly/3CdW2jG

#JOBKLAXON #histmed #histstm #envhist: the colleagues in the School of History at UCD are looking for candidates who can help develop a Humanities perspective in One Health, around the inter-dependence of animals, humans, microbes and environments in history. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN959/a...

Comrades! I'll be speaking about the world revolution's unique living situation with @lakirsch.bsky.social next Monday in a free online event hosted by the Wilson Center. Event starts at 4pm East Coast / 7pm Nuuk, Greenland / 9pm Dublin, London www.wilsoncenter.org/event/hotel-...

Just a gentle reminder that you have only a week to go to get those abstracts in! Click on the link below to submit. t.co/9SGDFDk2Ww

📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections." More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... #WomensHistory #GLAM

Minority Protestant Network's first newsletter @karinabwendling.com @minorityprotestant.bsky.social frenchwindows.hautetfort.com/archive/2025...

Registration open for what should be an excellent talk @hstmnetworkireland.bsky.social

Of interest to #hstm historians.

#IrishStudies people - we are 5 weeks away from Dr. Lindsay Jenssen's talk at @nlireland.bsky.social on Irish Memories of the Great Famine in Transatlantic News Media. The talk is sponsored by the @ssnci.bsky.social. Details can be found here, including booking info 🗃️: www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...

Irish Studies folks: Anyone have a beat on someone who might be interested in reviewing some contemporary fiction by female authors? Banshee Press have sent on 'Let's Dance' by Lucy Sweeney Byrne & 'Tenterhooks' by Claire-Lise Kieffer. #irishstudies

Please spread the word as we have opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships which enable researchers to work for two years at a UK institution. If you fancy being away from your country right now this could be an option! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

Delighted to announce the call for papers for this year’s Eighteenth Century Ireland Conference @tlrhub.bsky.social co-organised by Aileen Douglas, @amyprendergast.bsky.social snd myself. www.ecis.ie/annual-confe...

Cambridge Group for #IrishStudies programme

Very excited about this lecture from @caitbeaumont.bsky.social as part of our upcoming workshop on photography and war in Ireland and France @clairedubois.bsky.social

Boston College welcomes applications for Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies for a semester or academic year in 2026-28.

Some History humour is a must! Thank you @tomgauld.bsky.social