We are delighted to announce the line up for the Spring/Summer Dublin City Heritage Talks 2026 @ the Wood Quay Venue, featuring talks from @drdeefoley.bsky.social, @aoifeb.bsky.social, Mícheál Ó hAodha and Anthony Delaney. All talks will be ISL interpreted.
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Looking forward to this event with @aoifeb.bsky.social in April!
Our @glasnevincemetery.bsky.social @historytcd.bsky.social Spring Lecture Series is live. Theme is 'Work and working in 19th & 20th century #Dublin' - please RT. Speakers @antoniahart.bsky.social @dublincity.bsky.social @drdeefoley.bsky.social & Conor Dodd formerly Glasnevin.
Most read on #RTEBrainstorm: How the new Irish Free State counted the population in the 1926 census. Gregory Walls National Archives @tcddublin.bsky.social @researchireland.ie on what was involved in compiling the census 100 years ago www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Launch Details - The Commercial Lives of Irish Women, 1850-1922 Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street Thursday, 4th December | 7pm
Do go along to the launch of Antonia Hart's new monograph, The Commercial Lives of Irish Women, 1850-1922 (LUP). It is a brilliant piece of work, beautifully written, and well worth reading.
Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street
Thursday, 4th December | 7pm
Required reading of the most welcome sort in IHS this morning.
'It is in the space between our divining and conjuring that the argument lies, the debate happens, history is written and the story gets its endless quality.'
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We are delighted to welcome @susiedeedigan.bsky.social to Maynooth tomorrow evening for a research seminar entitled '"Hardly serious”: the detention of republican women in wartime Ireland, 1939-45'. The seminar is open to the public and will take place in Roque Lab, Rhetoric House 17:00-18:00.
Congrats Michael!
Programme and registration is now available for the 35th Irish Conference of Historians - Inner Lives and Outer Realities.
@maynoothuniversity.ie, 12-13 September.
Please share widely.
Delighted that the CfP for the first @kthabitproject.bsky.social workshop is now live! Please do circulate freely, and consider submitting an abstract if of interest. Also more than happy to answer any queries you might have about the workshop, etc.
My @researchireland.ie project 'LGBT+ Activism in Ireland, 1973-2023: Looking Back, Going Forward'. Panels & podcasts from (1)History of LGBT Activism in Ireland (2)Where We’re Going – Backlash, Solidarity, and Mobilising 👉 historyhub.ie/lgbt-activis...
#speirgorm #queerhistories #LGBTIQactivisms
This is still one of my favorite research discoveries I've ever made. That said I won't be watching the Eurovision again this year for all the obvious reasons.
Recently published by @drdeefoley.bsky.social: how did the housewives of rural Ireland make money? www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
I’m starting the week of 19 May with a paper to War Studies @ucddublin.bsky.social and finishing it on 24th with a paper to the @whaireland.bsky.social 2025 conference in Carlow College! Looking forward also to co-hosting papers by @caitbeaumont.bsky.social and Eilis ni Dhuibne in between!
Ciaran Murray interviews Dr. Susan Byrne from the School of Histories and Humanities in TCD, sitting on high wooden chairs and with a wooden wall background.
🎧Tune in to episode one of Trinity Talks: Dublin's Hidden Histories on @nearfm.ie, where Ciaran Murray interviews Dr Susan Byrne (@historytcd.bsky.social) about Mountjoy Prison and female prisoners of the Free State. 🇮🇪
🔊Listen now: listenagain.org?p=55214
PhD opportunity at TCD under the supervision of Dr Deirdre Foley and Dr Lindsey Earner Byrne.
Thanks Martin!
I am beyond delighted to share that my first book Rediscovering Women in Early Irish Television 1957-73 is officially under contract with @livunipress.bsky.social and will be part of the brilliant Reappraisals in Irish History Series. I am so excited to be able to get this work out in the world.
Really looking forward to speaking at this at the end of the month.
Looking forward to moderating a panel at this excellent event later in the week.
Honoured to have contributed to this volume on death and institutions. My chapter examines how the priorities of post-Famine Irish workhouse administration shaped institutional mortality Thanks to @cendeathsociety.bsky.social @brisunipress.bsky.social
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Wonderful Morning session @hexhistory.bsky.social Conferece. Gender, Sexuality, and in Modern Irish History by Susan Byrne, Deidre Foley & Morgan Wait.
Fascinating talks yesterday for the Modern & Contemporary Irish History seminar by @caitwhite.bsky.social and @lmcevoy.bsky.social on public commemoration in sculpture, and the legacies of post-war humanitarian hospitality. Left me with a lot of ideas. @historytcd.bsky.social
Looking forward to returning to Dublin to speak at the UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland’s seminar series on 6 Feb. My paper will discuss the institutional options for end of life in late 19th and early 20th century Dublin. #histmed #irishhistory #workhouse @tlrhub.bsky.social
The spring series of CHOMI seminars begins with Dr Shelby Zimmerman on 6 Feb who will speak about: 'Who Cares for the Chronically Sick and Dying Poor?: The Role of the Dublin Workhouse as a ‘proto-hospice’ 1872-1920'
Thanks Conor!
A link to my most recent article in case anyone missed it at the other place and is interested in women who worked at RTÉ. My free copies are used up but if you don't have access I can easily send a copy.
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I can't believe I have to learn a new platform at this big age.
