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Kathryn Milligan (Katy) @katymilligan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you're in TCD at 16:00 next Monday, this is sure to be excellent. Dabhoiwala's LRB article on Williams is fantastic, and I'm raging that I'm teaching at the same time. (Of all things, my class is on postcolonial approaches to art history...)

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Kathryn Milligan (Katy) @katymilligan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Doing some research for a catalogue essay, and found this unannotated magazine cutting where Eavan Boland interviews Norah McGuinness. Would any #irishstudies / #irishpoetry people know when or where Boland edited an arts column? It is, of course, a brilliant exchange between these two women.

Newspaper Clipping reading 'The Arts, edited by Eavan Boland'

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acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The CFP for our 2027 National ACIS conference in Pittsburgh is now up on the website! The theme for the conference is 'Wrong Resilience: The Labor & Material of Irish Identities.' Submit paper proposals by December 1! acisweb.org/conferences/...

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ACIS National Conference 2027 | American Conference for Irish Studies – An Chomhdháil Mheiriceánach do Léann na hÉireann

Deirdre Cooper Owens, Professor of History at University of Connecticut; Organization of American Historians’ (OAH) Distinguished Lecturer; author of the award-winning Medical Bondage: Race…

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Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland @ssnci.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Calling all independent and early career scholars working on nineteenth-century Ireland! Submit your essay for the SSNCI essay prize! Deadline 30 Sept 2026

A document providing details of the SSNCI essay prize

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UCD Library @ucdlibrary.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

1/2 OPEN CALL: UCD Library seeks photographers and lens-based artists for a commission capturing the National Folklore Collection's move to its new home. Full details at www.ucd.ie/irishfolklor... Up next: site visits 31 Aug & 1 Sept Application deadline: 16 Sept @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social

Ediphone audio recording tool with box of wax cylinders. Photo by Dragana Jurišić.

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Kathryn Milligan (Katy) @katymilligan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Looks like today is when we find out if April's roof repairs hold up ☔

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton

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Kathryn Milligan (Katy) @katymilligan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Possibly very late to this, but what has happened to the BNA website/search?! The redesign feels awful.

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Swan River Press @swanriverpress.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

If you live in Dublin 8: There are plans to move the Dolphin's Barn sort hub to Lucan. This means that if you need to collect s package, it'll be quite a trek. And that's just for starters. Here's a petition to voice opposition. Please share. my.uplift.ie/petitions/sa...

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Save Our Postal Depots!

Local communities rely on An Post to deliver accessible services. Currently, there are three Delivery Service Units (DSUs) in Dublin South Central, located at Dolphin's Barn, Crumlin, and Ballyfermot...

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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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Kathryn Milligan (Katy) @katymilligan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Today: gave a paper at a fantastic Irish art history event, read in the sun, watched Wimbledon final, barbecue for dinner and now a walk into town to see Bell XI in the Iveagh Gardens. Summer (days and) Nights ✨ (Also, pink dahlias 💗)

Big pink, pom-pom dahlias with lots of green leaves, growing on a pot in a paved patio

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Mojito Fiend @ronronzo.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Either put your profile on private or Go into your share and reuse settings to turn off. It’s automatically put on.

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National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

📢 Applications are open for the National Library of Ireland’s 2026–2027 Studentships! ⭐ Library ⭐ Archival ⭐ Research A great opportunity to gain hands-on experience and develop your career. Learn more, and apply by 3pm, 17 July 2026: www.nli.ie/about-us/working-nationa…

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Kathryn Milligan (Katy) @katymilligan.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

(Art) library folks: after a very happy time in NCAD, I am moving on to a new position and my post is now advertised. A great opportunity to work with a fantastic collection, and will suit someone with a deep interest in art & design, + teaching, learning and research 📚🎨 www.rezoomo.com/job/99517/

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Assistant Librarian in Dublin | National College of Art & Design Jobs

National College of Art & Design is looking to fill the role of Assistant Librarian in Dublin. Apply today!

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

"...annihilating attention is a political project w/ clear benefits for the 💰 class: if we cannot attend the world, neither can we intercede in it. We become passive recipients of their worldbuilding, disenfranchised from our own responsibility to make sense of—and [to] remake—the 🌏 around us."

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Umyazu

Reading is the art of attention.

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Dublin Small Press Fair @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

We are now accepting applications for vendors for the 2026 Dublin Small Press Fair (Nov. 27/28 in Pearse Street Library, Dublin 2): forms.gle/Vhgo12K3wvYD...

text reads "...come make culture with us". under that, four photos: a table of books and magazines, a hand holding a button that reads "dublin small press fair", a table of zines and print ephemera, and people browsing.

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Kathryn Milligan (Katy) @katymilligan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

It was a pleasure to be on the judging panel for this prize: a really fascinating book that takes a creative approach to the material 📚

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Stephen Roddy @stephenroddy.bandcamp.com · 27/05/2026

Our Call for essays is closing on June 30th for volume 2 of Digital Art in Ireland. (Ireland being VERY broadly construed). If you've got something that you think could fit please do get in touch. www.blackwaterpublishing.com/digital-art-...

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Call for Submissions Digital Art in Ireland — Blackwater Publishing

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 22/05/2026

This. God, this. It is such a manufactured panic and it started the moment they lost the fight over gay marriage. Support trans rights because it’s the right thing to do and also because this is all just a fascist push

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Kathryn Milligan (Katy) @katymilligan.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Always nice to see one of Evelyn Hoffer’s Dublin photographs pop up somewhere unexpected 📷

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

The reactions of some researchers on Twitter finally being held responsible for not having read the very paper they submitted are... something. Mainly, they don't think they should have to check every citation or make sure the data is real and accurate. Because it's too hard, I guess.

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Aoife Bhreatnach @aoifeb.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Grim

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Kathryn Milligan (Katy) @katymilligan.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

(This librarian says, quietly but repeatedly: if you can, disable the AI tools in databases, ebook platforms, whatever)

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Kathryn Milligan (Katy) @katymilligan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Delighted to receive my contributor copy of “Seeing Ireland: Art, Culture and Power in Modern Ireland”! Huge thanks to editors @ciaranon.bsky.social and Billy Shortall for inviting me to be involved 📚

Hand holding a book titled “Seeing Ireland” against a backdrop of flower pots with pink and blue flowers

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UCD Library @ucdlibrary.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

UCD Library is looking for the next Director of the world-class National Folklore Collection. The new Director will ensure the ongoing delivery of services for students, faculty, & researchers in an exciting time of change. Full details & apply by 12 noon, 21 May, 2026 at www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs

Pastoral scene with hills and rocks and a farmer tending and herding sheep

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Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Sharing again for the morning Bluesky! Our conference programme - Locating Loss: histories of infertility in landscapes and spaces is now available & booking is open. All are most welcome @unioflimerick.bsky.social on 27 May #histmed #skystorians

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Kathryn Milligan (Katy) @katymilligan.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Delighted to have an essay in this new volume!

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Kathryn Milligan (Katy) @katymilligan.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Four days of Roman sunshine: just what was needed ☀️

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Kathryn Milligan (Katy) @katymilligan.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

“Strip away the high-vis, strip away the diesel fumes, strip away the carefully filmed sandwich distribution, and what was this week, really? It was a stress test. It was the international far right discovering that the same playbook that worked in Paris…works just as well in Cork and Dublin.”

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Kathryn Milligan (Katy) @katymilligan.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

The MOSÉ do great work: I’ve upped my occasional donations to a monthly one. Easy to do on their website!

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Benjamin Casey @benjamin-casey.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Excited to announce that my journal article on women printsellers in early nineteenth-century Dublin has been published in @eshsi.bsky.social It explores the gendered dynamics of the family print shop and how labour was divided in these domestic and commercial spaces.

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Thomas Duffy @taesaveslives.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Right folks as one of the few farmers on here let me explain something really simple. We're currently in the busiest time of year, calving & lambing is ongoing and crops need tending The awful weather means contractors are also flat out So how representative do you think this lad is? #speirgorm

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Kathryn Milligan (Katy) @katymilligan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Might anyone have access to this chapter, and be able to share a copy with me? Please and thanks! Clarke, M. (2022). Liberating the library: What it means to decolonise and why it is necessary. Narrative Expansions, 127-138. doi.org/10.29085/978...

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

the wasteful wanton destruction of cultural heritage is a crime against the whole world

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Kathryn Milligan (Katy) @katymilligan.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

If anyone has hotel/food/drinks recommendations for Rome, please send them my way! A long overdue return visit it happening soon ✈️

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Stuart McCloskey gets a statue, a bridge and a petrol station for that tackle.

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Kathryn Milligan (Katy) @katymilligan.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ Who TF is working in the advertising regulator? Buying a house is hard around without this BS.

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Kathryn Milligan (Katy) @katymilligan.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

This was on the cataloging shelf this morning, and the amount of whoops and cheers I’ve let out just reading the introduction and skimming chapters! A really important book for Irish visual and material culture, and much needed in the broader Irish Studies field 📚

Hand holding a hardcover book with a black and white illustration and the text “Performing Modernity: Culture and Experiment in the Irish Free State” by Elaine Sisson.

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Kathryn Milligan (Katy) @katymilligan.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

(Also cheering for Italy 🇮🇹, just a lil bit)

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Kathryn Milligan (Katy) @katymilligan.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

In this house, we’re mainly cheering for Hollie Davidson. #IRLvITA

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Uplift Ireland @uplift.ie · 05/02/2026

''Acadian Seaplants, a massive Canadian corporation and owner of Arramara Teoranta, has put in an application to harvest tens of thousands of tons of wrack from huge swathes of the west coast.'' Sign the petition and lets stop this from happening ✊️ #SpeirGorm my.uplift.ie/petitions/st...

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Stop a Canadian corporation harvesting huge forests of seaweed from the west coast

There should be a public consultation on this plan opening soon but lets gather signatures to demonstrate the fact that up and down the west coast, thousands of people don't want our seaweed rights gi...

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