Our big day!
The workshop to launch VOICES was so productive. A huge thank you to colleagues who contributed & the amazing VOICES team.🙏 🤩European Research Council (ERC) Dr Amanda Capern 🇪🇺💙 Dr Clodagh Tait Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland Dr Bronagh Ann McShane TCD History The ADAPT Centre

🧵Exciting news from the vital CAIN Web Service. They have added papers related to the Mitchell Talks, which culminated in the B/GF Agreement (26 years ago yesterday). Info below. Those teaching/researching the period should consult their entire site. American Conference for Irish Studies

Historian Mary Muldowney will discuss the historical background of the plays and Sean O’Casey’s activities, particularly his membership of the Irish Citizen Army.

Cabra Library, Saturday 20 April, 2.30pm

Booking essential:
T. 01 222 8317
E. [email protected] Dublin City Libraries

Library Assistant // RCSI (Dublin 2) RCSI RCSI Library #LISjobsIE #libraryjobs #jobfairy libraryjobs.ie/item/library-a…

Happy #SiblingsDay 👫🎉 delighted to say that my first monograph will be out later this year. It’s on the website, so it must be real!!

I will be giving a talk on the Life of Countess Markievicz at Pembroke Library on Wednesday, 24th April at 1pm. Registration details attached.

We are very happy to announce that Prof Emma Hart will deliver this year’s Nicholas Canny lecture. This is a hybrid event. The paper will be delivered in-person at 4pm, Tues, 14 May 2024, Room G010, Hardiman Building, and via Zoom. Register for the link: forms.office.com/e/ETNB3wA7MU

Our Arts and Humanities Research Council Women's Grassroots Activism Research Network public lecture at National Museum of Ireland (in person) with Prof Linda Connolly might interest Maynooth University MU Social Science Institute University College Dublin WHAI Clodagh Finn West Cork Hist Fest Ivana Bacik Royal Irish Academy Dublin City University Trinity Long Room Hub London South Bank University - LSBU London South Bank University - LSBU_LSS Womenscouncilireland Irish Countrywomen's Association SI Dublin Soroptimists Bray Soroptimists.

‘Servants in the Big House in Ireland’

A talk by historian Elizabeth 🇺🇦🇺🇦💛💙🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 on how big houses depended on a workforce to cook, clean, serve tables, run baths, manage the demesne, and raise children.

Charleville Mall Library / Sat 20 April at 2:30pm.

Free admission Dublin City Libraries

Historical photographs query 📸 #archives

Are original (or digital) images from the 'Irish Press' newspaper (1931-1995) available in any library/archive?

The photographs, not the newspaper!

Irish Association of Professional Historians

🚨Event Alert 🚨
Next month Maynooth University will host the 22nd Annual Historic Houses International Conference. This promises to be a wonderful few days of talks and discussions on estate villages and towns.

Link to register below :)

eventbrite.ie/e/outside-the-…

Online Book Club | Station Island

Join us on Zoom for a chat about this month's poetry collection, Station Island, by #SeamusHeaney Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again

This book club is for everyone, you don't need to be a poetry expert!

🎟️ Friday, 26th April at 1pm:
nli.ie/exhibitions-ev…

Deeply saddened to hear of the death of our colleague Chris Williams. Chris made invaluable contributions to the IHA, in particular when serving as vice-chair & chair 2020-22. A distinguished scholar & much-loved colleague. Our sincere condolences to Chris's family & colleagues.

Ahead of FAI Women v #ENG ... the cover of the programme from first international between two in Dalymount Park. And a summary of the match here - womensfootballarchive.org/2016/05/04/mat…

Forthcoming this autumn -⁦ Dr. Jennifer Redmond⁩ & ⁦Dr Mary McAuliffe⁩ (eds) ‘The Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland’-new & original research in often marginised,hidden & contested areas of Irish gender / LGBTI histories-pre order now fourcourtspress.ie/books/2024/the…

We have 2 vacancies for Bibliography of British and Irish History ( #BBIH ) section editors buff.ly/4aiAD48 We’re seeking historians with expertise in post-1783 Imperial, Colonial, Commonwealth, Indigenous histories, and post-1960 British history. Closing date: 31 May 2024

I'll be talking about radium therapy and The RDS Radium Institute on 15 April

'Home” addresses one of the darkest aspects of Ireland’s culture of concealment: the legacy of mother and baby homes in Ireland.'
‘It’s time it was taught, however dark it is’: Educating students about mother and baby homes.
Abbey Theatre

irishtimes.com/ireland/educat…

2 days left to apply for the Nowlan Digitisation Grants scheme closing 11 April, which aims to expand the range of digitised historical & archaeological sources available through open & free access. Projects will be ingested in the Digital Repository of Ireland.

Apply: ria.ie/nowlan-digitis…