Last call! APPLY NOW Tenure-track Assistant Professor of 19th Century US Immigration & Labor history at Boston College History Dept, with a preference for Irish diaspora scholar to be affiliated with #BCIrishStudies Deadline for applications Oct. 15! h-net.org/jobs/job_displ

It is fantastic to see this piece on the Carrigan Committee by Emma Quinn in the most recent issue of History Ireland History Ireland! This is an edited version of Emma's Irish Legal History prize-winning essay: historyireland.com/the-sovereignt…

Another week, another book-related seminar! Can't wait to speak at the New Voices in Irish & Scottish Studies webinar. Happening tomorrow at 4pm! #EdinburghsUnrulyWomen Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies

Ghost Conference Alert!! Dr Andrew Sneddon @tait_clodagh and myself are delighted to be organising a conference on historical representations of ghosts at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick in June 2025. CFP attached! Please share! #earlymodern #twitterstorians #emotions #emostorians

📢 Calling all O NEGATIVE donors! We urgently need YOU to help boost our lifesaving O Negative blood stocks before the weekend! Book now or simply walk in to any of our sessions this week: 📍 - Belfast HQ 📍 - Comber 📍 - Maghera 📍 - Donaghmore 👉bit.ly/GiveBloodNI

Delighted to have received funding from the Royal Irish Academy for a project that will look at the aftermath & emotional trauma of the 1926 Dromcollogher cinema fire on the people of the town, Ireland and the Irish diaspora. Need the publics help - see below. Retweets appreciated.

We will be hosting both an afternoon and an evening drop-in session at the City Hotel for anyone who is interested in speaking with one of our Panel members about the testimony process or how to approach getting access to your personal records. #SeekingTheTruth

💡The Network for the Study of Resilient Women, led by early career researchers at Trinity College Dublin will bring together the lived experiences of Irish women throughout history from the 1840s – 1980s. 📖Read more here: tcd.ie/trinitylongroo… #HubMatters #ResilientWomen

✍️Our Co-Chair, Sean O’Connell explains why every piece of information about the institutions and their practices, no matter how small, is important for the Independent Panel’s work. If you have information you would like to share, please get in touch. tinyurl.com/33h23yrs

We really would! Lots of appointments are still available in our D'Olier Street Clinic this week. #WeCountOnYou #GiveBlood 🩸

Another call for papers here on the theme of 'Play in the Long Nineteenth Century'. Some interesting History of Education links here! Deadline: 18th November 2024 #histed #cfp #history #education #research

I've just begun a new research project called 'Cassette Tape Practices in the 21st Century' and am looking for interviewees . If you're interested, please reach out, and please do share widely! #popularmusic #cassettes #research

That’s the proofs done then! The new expanded second edition of Possessed by the devil about the #islandmageewitches trial of 1711 will in bookshops/online at the end of next month, November 2024

NEW: Royal Historical Society out this morning with a report on the devastation being wrought on the History subject area in Britain's universities. Likely to lose 25% to 35% of all posts in this discipline I think.

Today's Royal Historical Society briefing, 'The Value of History', now available bit.ly/4fl6lQD #twitterstorians

At 12pm today, 30th October, we celebrate 𝟏𝟕𝟓 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 since our first 𝟔𝟖 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 began their education here. 🎓📜🙌 Thanks to Old Ireland in Colour 3 for adding some flair to this beautiful sepia pic 📸🎞️

1/5 34 years ago today, Ireland went to the polls & elected our 1st female President, Mary Robinson. Her extensive archive is housed here University of Galway Library Archives & we're delighted to release 1st tranche of material today. Read more from archivist Niamh Ní Charra nuigarchives.blogspot.com/2024/11/mary-r…

Nearly 70% of Gaza war dead are women and children, UN says bbc.in/4fH3RfP

Important article on the pervasive nature of precarious labour in Universities in Ireland - published today when all of our hourly colleagues are no longer in contract but expected TO WORK FOR FREE for the next 6-8 weeks until exams and grading is over irishexaminer.com/opinion/commen…

#spotted out in the wild (west) [insert wicked reference here] Delighted to get my hands on this gorge updated copy in a v cosy Galway Dr Andrew Sneddon