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Ciara Breathnach

@ciarab.bsky.social
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Professor of Irish Gender History, scholar of modern Irish socio-economic, cultural and health history. Recent book global.oup.com/academic/product/ord…

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Works Progress Administration was created in May 1935 as part of the New Deal to provide jobs to the unemployed during the Great Depression. One of the WPA’s most idealistic goals was to send books and librarians to areas where there were none. Read more: bit.ly/4hkgtNC #ALA150
Sepia tone photo of factory workers standing around a rolling book cart at the National Cash Register Company in Dayton, Ohio, circa 1915. Text over photo reads "Libraries During the Great Depression". American Library Association logo
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Ciara Breathnach @ciarab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Great fun to work with @heleneokeeffe.bsky.social and @csoireland.bsky.social colleagues on our Census 1926 event last May @ucc.ie and this series arising from it @amrcampop.bsky.social @stephenscarth.bsky.social among the authors #spéirgorm #irishhistory
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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Interested in a PhD in historical demography/population studies at @camunicampop.bsky.social, @camunigeography.bsky.social, Cambridge University? We have 3 suggested topics (see thread): contact me to discuss, or to suggest your own idea. Apply by early December for funded places.
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Dictionary of Irish Biography @dib.ie · 17/09/2026
Apologies to users in the US who are currently unable to access the DIB website. This is due to an ongoing layer 7 DDoS attack, and we hope to restore access as soon as possible.
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Danté Banks @dantebanks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Oh no. We've lost another icon. 😕 Bonnie Greer, writer and cultural commentator, dies aged 77
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Bonnie Greer, writer and cultural commentator, dies aged 77
The British-American novelist and playwright who regularly appeared on current affairs shows will be remembered for her ‘warmth, humour and generosity’, says her husband
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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Culture Night at Collins Barracks ✨ Join us for an evening of conversations, discoveries and the occasional moment that completely changes how you see Irish History. 📍 National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks 🎟️ Free admission www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum... #CultureNight #CultureNight2026
Lavender promotional poster featuring the text “Culture Night at Collins Barracks, Friday 18 September.” Event advertisement for the National Museum of Ireland at Collins Barracks, Dublin 7, highlighting free admission and Culture Night activities celebrating Irish history, heritage, and museum collections.Black-and-white historic photograph of Ellis Court in Dublin showing a red-brick tenement building with shopfronts and several children standing outside an archway entrance. Promotional graphic for “Echoes Through the Hallway: The Story of Ellis Court,” a Culture Night event at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, exploring 140 years of Dublin city life and social history.Historic wooden suffrage sign reading “Votes for Women” displayed on a lavender background. Promotional graphic for “A Changing Ireland: People, Protest and Progress,” a Culture Night event at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, examining social movements, protest, and change in Ireland over the past century.Promotional poster for an LGBTQIA+ tour at Collins Barracks during Culture Night. The poster features a modern upholstered chair with a chrome frame on a lavender background. Text invites visitors to explore hidden histories through museum objects on Friday 18 September, with tours from 17:30 to 18:30 and 19:00 to 20:00. Free admission, booking required. National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks.
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Ciara Breathnach @ciarab.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Very grateful to @aidanbeatty.com for his time and the enjoyable chat about the problem archival absence poses to historical research. Honourable mention to the fabulous series Editor @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social #spéirgorm
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Ciara Breathnach @ciarab.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Gurab amhlaidh duit.
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Ciara Breathnach @ciarab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Richly deserved.
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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Does anyone have a subscription/access to ukpressonline and be willing to download for me ONE article? Please? I do not seem to have institutional access and do not wish to take out a whole year's subscription. Irony alert: the article is from The Daily Worker.
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Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira @mausellmoli.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Georgetown University professor Jordan Sand: "AI Is an Anti-Primary Source Machine. Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room." www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/ai-i...
I try to teach my students that primary sources allow them to make new discoveries and offer new historical interpretations. AI chatbots present a problem for the teaching of history not only because they hallucinate, nor simply because they threaten to make even conscientious students’ writing less original, but because they thwart the process that might lead students toward original interpretations in the first place. No matter how you refine your questions, the chatbot will generate responses reflecting what the greatest number of users are likely to want to hear, which tends to be close to what they think they already know.
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 02/09/2026
The Annals of Innisfallen, which chronicle life in Ireland from before the arrival of St Patrick until the 15th century, will go on public display in this country for the first time 40 years today, in an exhibition that will open at UCC
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The Annals of Innisfallen exhibition to open at UCC
The Annals of Innisfallen, which chronicle life in Ireland from before the arrival of St Patrick until the 15th century, will go on public display in this country for the first time 40 years today, in...
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 29/08/2026
🎥 We are putting together a package to support and amplify every single dispute in the union. Today is our first ever local dispute video from the brilliant Glasgow Caledonian UCU Branch who are fighting to protect jobs. Please give it a watch and share.
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Naomi Rendina @naomirendina.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Hello, #historians and #science communicators! I’m applying for a fellowship to improve translating the science side of my historical research on Pitocin- but they want me to have a few thousand followers! Could you please help a scholar out by following and sharing with friends?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Does a good job of documenting what many of us suspected: the media attention to Arday was simply disproportionate to his misdeeds.
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 16/08/2026
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I found the racism of my black Irish childhood embarrassing, now it has given way to fear
Growing up in Waterford, I naively believed Ireland might sidestep the entrenched divisions of its near neighbours
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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 07/07/2026
The CSO has released data on metered electricity consumption for 2025. The extraordinary headline figures: - Electricity consumption from data centres grew by nearly 10% last year, and now accounts for 23% of Ireland's electricity demand.
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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Rhasidat Adeleke just after receiving her silver medal. #SpéirGhorm
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is awful.
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Jason Arday 'found dead after being found unresponsive at home'
FORMER Cambridge professor Jason Arday has been found dead at an address in south London, The Telegraph reports. Mr Arday, 41, was found “unresponsive” at a property in Battersea on Friday afternoo…
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Ciara Breathnach @ciarab.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Many thanks
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The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
📘From our latest issue! Ciara Breathnach @ciarab.bsky.social @ucc.ie on 'Newspapers as Surrogate Archives: A Case Study of the Early Twentieth-Century Dublin City Coroner’s Court' #Archives #Newspapers #Press #Ireland #Legal #History 20thc📰🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Newspaper reporters routinely occupied the galleries of the adversarial and inquisitorial courts at the beginning of the twentieth century but whether their shorthand progressed to publication and into the public domain was sensitive to many factors. Newsworthy cases were self-selecting; headlines could be quickly constituted from verdicts and riders, and the verbatim replication of proceedings provided editors with ready content safe from libel. Scholars of Ireland rely heavily on digitized newspapers as surrogate sources for legal records destroyed in 1922, but the extent to which they can be used in that respect merits further and detailed research. This article takes a case study approach to show the methodological challenges faced by historians dealing with partial archival pasts and why digitized newspapers should be used with great caution. Using a sample of cases from Irish coronial court registers, it traces newspaper coverage over the course of a census year to ascertain discernible patterns. With a particular focus on suicide, it exposes the problems associated with using digitized newspapers in historical research, the limitations of search engine capacities, as well as the necessity for more critical analysis of the embedded gender and class biases that influenced editorial decisions.
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Ciara Breathnach @ciarab.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
So much happening for #HeritageWeek2026. The wonderful @louiseoc.bsky.social is giving a free talk on 15 August 12-1pm at UCC library. libcal.ucc.ie/event/4571491
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Heritage Week 2026: 'Printed in Defiance- the making of the 1916 Proclamation' -
For Heritage Week 2026, step behind the scenes of Printed in Defiance: The Making of the 1916 Proclamation with UCC Library Conservator Louise O'Connor. This special Heritage...
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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I'm pleased to announce that @universitypress.cambridge.org has just published Antoon De Baets' Element "Censorship of History", no. 38 in the Elements in Historical Theory and Practice series. Downloadable free till Aug. 19. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Censorship of History
Cambridge Core - Global History - Censorship of History
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Dermot Lynott @dermotlynott.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
bsky.app/profile/chow...
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Ciara Breathnach @ciarab.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Comhghairdeachas leat Dr O'D.
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
From District Magazine. Grim.
Screenshot from District Magazine's Instagram post that reads "District.

In the Kerry Gaeltacht in August 2024, there were 543 properties listed on Airbnb and not a single house available to rent on Daft.ie at the same time.

Kerry has 30 short-term lets for every one long-term rental, this was the worst ratio in Ireland, according to renter charity Threshold.

Rents in Kerry rose 10.1% in the year to Q1 2025, almost double the national average of 5.5%."

#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
PwC (like, among others, KPMG before it) found to be producing 'thought leadership' advice promoting agentic AI use that is larded with AI hallucinations. Worth bearing in mind if they are, for example, one of your university's consultants.
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PwC published ‘thought leadership’ reports marred by AI hallucinations
Big Four consultant is latest firm found to have produced slapdash work while marketing expertise on the technology
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Ciara Breathnach @ciarab.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Thanks.
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Ciara Breathnach @ciarab.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Thank you Larry.
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Ciara Breathnach @ciarab.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
How sad, I had a wonderful visit last week to Kilkenny Castle, our guide Trish was simply superb. An AI could never replicate her astonishing knowledge and enthusiasm. @kilkennycoco.bsky.social @opwireland.bsky.social
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Ciara Breathnach @ciarab.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Very pleased to read this Ash, and best wishes for your paper.
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Cathal Mac Coille @cathalmaccoille.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
“‘Cultural sensitivity concerning the Gaeltacht people of Ireland – A concept analysis’ is teideal don taighde úr.” Más maith is mithid.
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‘Níor thuig mé i gceart riachtanais mhuintir na Gaeltachta sa tseirbhís sláinte go dtí go bhfaca mé féin iad’
Léiríonn taighde úr gur féidir cúram níos fearr a thabhairt do mhuintir na Gaeltachta nuair a thuigtear a gcultúr agus a dteanga dhúchais
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UCD Archives @ucdarchives.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
If anyone is considering editing something from our collections, we will happily supply a digital copy at no cost. Please contact Kate (archives at ucd dot ie).
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Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
the other editors can't make it so it'll be just me but I'll try and adequately perform some magnetism for y'all next week
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Thomas Kurer @thmskrr.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
🚨We are hiring a two-year postdoctoral researcher (80%) at the University of Zurich within the new Horizon Europe project WELFAIR on the political implications of technological change, demographic ageing and rising inequality. The full job ad is here: tinyurl.com/3b6ddm25 Apply by August 9, 2026.
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
If art critics talked like football pundits.
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Ciara Breathnach @ciarab.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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Woman's Hilarious Spit Take Drink Reaction
ALT: Woman's Hilarious Spit Take Drink Reaction
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Queen Medb of Connacht, famed for her role in the Táin Bó Cúailnge and flanked by bulls Finnbhennach and Donn Cúailnge - formidable warrior queen, shrewd leader, seductive beauty, and one of Ireland's most powerful, strong-willed, and legendary women 🐂 Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
Artwork of Queen Medb holding a spear in front of a blood-red oval, flanked by the heads of one dark and one light bull.

#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art #Mythology #Folklore
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Dr Gillian Kenny @medievalgill.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Talks coming up peeps if anyone has an interest in witches and banshees? Cork on 13 July - the banshee - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-banshe... Dublin on 26 July - witches - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-histor... Cork on 17 August - witches - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-histor...
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Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
EThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come www.bl.uk/stories/news/ethos-record…
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EThOS records restored
We are pleased to share that EThOS (E-Theses Online Service) is now available again following restoration work after the cyber-attack.
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Emily Higgs Kopin (spooky) @ehkopin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
If you’re concerned about the loss of digital historical materials over time, you can write a letter to your dean or president about the necessity of funding and sustaining archival labor. There are people who work towards mitigating digital ephemerality and they’re being laid off left and right.
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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I am delighted to report that 'Making, Spending and Saving: Women and Money in Australasia', a special issue of the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review, is now live. Guest editor Cath Bishop organized the collection, which has six original research articles and a substantial introduction.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Special Issue: Making, Spending and Saving: Women and Money in Australasia: Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review: Vol 66, No 2
Click on the title to browse this issue
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Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
History of Medicine at UMN is hiring a one year Teaching Fellow for the upcoming academic year. Please share with anyone who may be interested! #histmed #histsci hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...
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Careers
This position is based on campus. Per UMN policy, work may be done remotely when appropriate and approved by your manager.  All UMN employees are expected to follow applicable public health and safety procedures.
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
***Take action against NARA closure*** The federal government recently announced that it will be closing the National Archives and Records Administration branches in San Bruno, CA and Chicago, IL and move all their historical records to a site with no research. Write a letter! Thread - 1/2
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Máiréad Enright @maireadenright.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
A crucial report into gendered institutional abuse in Northern Ireland will be published today. Well worth reading for myriad reasons, not least because the independent panel was tasked with developing the kind of human-rights-centred approach survivors in the Republic have been denied.
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Ciara Breathnach @ciarab.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
😂
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Ciara Breathnach @ciarab.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I suspected there might be a German word for it!
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Fussballspielergebnisschadenfreude
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
In this era, I feel like I need to re-up this every few months.
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