📢 Calling on all LC History teachers…Don’t let your students miss out! Our annual RSR workshop for students is taking place week where students will receive excellent guidance and brilliant insights into maximising their marks on the RSR #LCHist #histedchatie HTAI

▪️Today in 1798 Theobald Wolfe Tone dies in the Provost’s Prison, now part of the grounds of St Bricin’s military hospital. Like so much to do with 1798 there’s nothing there to mark the passing of one of Irelands greatest sons. His diaries give us insight into a young man who

Student RSR workshop getting under way here in the Teachers’ Club, Parnell Square. Great turnout from dedicated #LCHist students! HTAI Oide History Post-primary #histedchatie

This should be really useful for all teachers of history and geography…..tune in at 7pm.

We find out how Ireland was one of the first countries in the world to be mapped beginning 200 years ago in County #Donegal. Watch #RTÉNationwide, Monday 9th December on RTÉ One at 7pm. Visit Donegal Donegal Daily Donegal.ie Tailte Éireann Go Visit Inishowen, Donegal Noel Cunningham

In case you missed our colleague Brian Donnelly showing some of our wonderful Ordnance Survey maps like that for Templemore pictured here and our Valuation Office records RTÉ Nationwide last Friday, you can catch it on the RTE Player at bit.ly/3DVNgXV! Tourism-Culture-Arts-Gaeltacht-Sport-Media

All Welcome- Come along to the Spring Seminar organised by the History Teachers’ Association of Ireland in the National Library of Ireland on Saturday 1st March.

History teachers…well worth registering for this event in association with HTAI and Drumcondra Education Support Centre especially on the cusp of senior cycle redevelopment for History.

Honoured to be asked to address the History Teachers Association of Ireland National Library of Ireland - very grateful for the work they do to keep history alive & relevant today 🙏 Deirdre Mac Mathuna

Appreciative of this thoughtful piece from Hugh Linehan in today’s The Irish Times about The Irish Question - on release next Friday Irish Film Institute John Walsh Martin Mahon Global Irish Studies Irish Film & TV Net Chicago Irish Film Festival Solas Nua Yellow Asylum Films

And Winifred Carney and Ina Connolly from Belfast attended the inaugural meeting in Dublin.

I will be joined by my colleague in the History Teachers’s Association of Ireland (HTAI), Sean Delap to discuss Leaving Certificate History on ‘The History Show’ on Sunday 4th May. Tune in…..

RTE One's "The History Show" will be talking about the Leaving Cert History Exam 4th May. Deirdre MacMathúna and Seán Delap will offer their insights and advice on how to approach the exam.  Tune in to RTE One live this Sunday at 6pm, or listen back here: rte.ie/radio/radio1/t….

Attention History students and teachers……..

Very exciting arrival in the post this morning, my latest book, The Root of All Evil: The Irish Boundary Commission. Really happy with how it looks. ⁦Merrion Press⁩

The Book of Leinster is on display in the Old Library following a major conservation project. The 12th century manuscript is part of a new exhibition curated by the Library thanks to our wonderful Curator Caoimhe Ní Ghormáin & Senior Conservator, John Gillis.

‘Sheer utter heart’.

Self-promotion klaxon! Delighted that Gill Books will be publishing my new book, “From Crown to Harp”, in October… how the Treaty was undone in 34 episodes! Pre-order links here: linktr.ee/mcculld

dlr Libraries has officially launched a major new exhibition at dlr LexIcon, celebrating the legacy of the Yeats sisters and their influence on Irish design, identity, and cultural heritage. To find out more please visit our website: bit.ly/3ISUoqu