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Tickets are still available for our first event to celebrate the upcoming America250 celebrations next year. This event will host a range of expert speakers and will start at 6.15pm on Thursday 15th May. Booking essential bit.ly/3GQhAVk

Delighted to be involved with the second Brian Trainor Memorial Lecture hosted by Rosana Trainor and organized by the Ulster Historical Foundation, celebrating the remarkable work and legacy of Dr. Brian Trainor in the fields of history and archives. youtube.com/watch?v=Xuj0zO…

First event at PRONI with Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland to kick off Ireland and America 250th Anniversary Perspectives . Well done on stimulating debates especially with Ian, Sophie, Paddy, Joel and David . Great organising by Joel Herman from TCD and the PRONI staff. Thanks

Thank-you to Communities NI Minister Gordon Lyons MLA & to PRONI for hosting the first of many events marking our semi-quincentennial. The role that early emigrants from these shores played in our nation’s founding & evolution cannot be overstated. #America250

Honoured to be asked to speak at the Gathering/ Meitheal in Moville today about the Foyle on this National Famine Memorial Commemoration Day. Poignant to be in Moville where so many emigrated from. Water Guardians from as far as Columbia gave so much inspiration and hope

CALL FOR PAPERS - UHI Institute for Northern Studies 7th International St Magnus Conference UHI Perth campus 15-17 April 2026. Theme: “Borne on a Carrying Stream”: How Water has Shaped Heritage, Identity and Power. UHI Orkney institutefornorthernstudies.com/2025/05/22/the…

I normally deal with human migration but to turn to the other than human and birds - honoured to be at the launch of my good friend Ralph Sheppard's magisterial The Birds of Donegal in glorious Glenveagh. Ralph and Liz have taught me so much about ecology and connectedness

A great roundtable discussion in QUB about ecocentric structures to protect Lough Neagh. A complex problem but to quote the late great Edward Said, " Survival is about connections" Delighted that QUB gave a copy of my book to the Columbian delegation - well done Mo and Peter.

📢CALL FOR PAPERS: PRONI will host an Irish Studies conference on 7 November in Belfast, marking 100 years of the 1925 Irish Boundary Commission Report. The event will also focus on the topic of partition, its roots and its impact. Learn more below. nidirect.gov.uk/articles/1925-…

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There are Murphys, Grogans, Kellys: The forgotten Irish on a distant Bronx island – The Irish Times - another great article by Michael in yesterday’s Irish Times about this island of unclaimed and often unknown bodies - countless emigrants I’m sure irishtimes.com/life-and-style…

Wonderful to be with our good friends from the University of Minnesota in St Columb’s Park House for an evening of culture and exchange . Great to see Katie and Molly with their students and so much credit to Lorcan and Helen - all true warriors and such talented students

Great start to the discussions in QUB on the History of Emotions in the Built Environment Project. Important work looking at famine, workhouses, orphanages and migration. Huge thanks to Sophie Cooper QUB and Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman UL, RIA and brilliant contributors

Our very own intern and MA Public History student, William Anderson with our Dr. Paddy Fitzgerald at his poster presentation in the Great Hall, QUB. William was exploring the topic of W.F. Marshall and his writings.

I'm really excited to announce that my first novel will be published on 26 June. Detachment is set in Derry, Northern Ireland, on the eve of a referendum on Irish reunification. The novel is about the pull of place, the distance between who we were and who we’ve become, and the

Our meeting this week was hosted by National Museums NI in Cultra and members received an update about the current and future work of museums here. Members also had a chance to see how traditions, stories and skills are preserved and demonstrated during a tour of Ulster Folk Museum.

'From that small Island: The story of the Irish' continues on RTE One and on the RTE Player. Narrated by Colin Farrell, it features our colleagues Prof Marian Lyons, Prof Thomas O'Connor and Dr Jennifer Redmond.

Our new EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum exhibition, supported by Irish Foreign Ministry, is featured today on RTÉ News. Thanks to Evelyn O'Rourke for covering. I'll be talking to Morning Ireland about the project shortly after 8.30am. rte.ie/news/2025/0611…

Have just received hard copies of my book from Cambridge University Press. It's about the ordinary people who funded the Irish Catholic church between the end of the Famine and independence. It takes in social, economic, religious, emotions history and much else besides...

Great few days with our friends from East Tennessee State University exploring heritages, migration and connections in Dublin, Derry, Donegal and the north coast.