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Dr. Morgan Wait

@mwait13.bsky.social
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Historian of late 20th century Ireland. Interests in media, recreation, gender, and sexuality. Dog parent. Historian for the lols. They/them

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George Severs @georgesevers.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
My latest article has just been published in The Historical Journal. It looks at the ways in which HIV/AIDS was positioned as not just an urban problem, but one that was antithetical to rural spaces. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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HIV/AIDS and the English Countryside | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core
HIV/AIDS and the English Countryside
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Peder Clark @pederclark.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
did Ecstasy end football "hooliganism"? finally finally out OA, in time for the end of the season: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Hooligans, House and E: Too Drugged To Ruck
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
If you're a university researcher in Ireland, especially in humanities or social sciences, please consider signing this open letter: openletter.earth/concern-abou...
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Concern about Research Ireland’s Strategy and Programme Plan
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Martin O'Donoghue @martinodonoghue.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Currently en route to Cambridge and so looking forward to speaking at the Modern Irish History Seminar this evening @histcambridge.bsky.social www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series...
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Modern Irish History | Faculty of History University of Cambridge
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Peder Clark @pederclark.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Over the past couple of years I’ve been working w/ the artist Simon Bayliss on the unlikely intersection between Ecstasy and studio pottery. We’ll be discussing this on 9 May at Gwennap Pit near Redruth, to mark Bayliss’ exhibition “It’s Just a Feeling” www.tickettailor.com/events/creat...
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Select tickets – In Conversation – Simon Bayliss & Dr Peder Clark, hosted by Senara Wilson – Gwennap Pit, Busveal, Redruth
In Conversation – Simon Bayliss & Dr Peder Clark, hosted by Senara Wilson – Gwennap Pit, Busveal, Redruth, Sat 9 May 2026 - Artist Simon Bayliss and cultural and social historian Dr Peder Clark will b...
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
New in Irish Studies | @oneillsb.bsky.social's Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955, is the first book dedicated to examining culture and partition in Ireland. Discover more here ⬇️ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
Promotional graphic for the book Irish Culture and Partition, 1920–1955 by Stephen O’Neill. On the left is the book cover, with a dark green top section displaying the title and author, and a colorful stained-glass image below featuring a red hand and a sword among abstract shapes. On the right, yellow text on a blurred stained-glass background reads: “Comprehensively reinterprets the effect on culture of the continuing division of the island of Ireland.” The Liverpool University Press logo appears in the top right.
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History at Queen's University Belfast @qubhistory.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
There are two QUB History seminars on 24 April: Alice Mauger on drink and the late 20thC NY Irish at 2pm Li Na on Making Asian Public History at 4pm
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Georgina Laragy @geolug.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Ooh, Dr Morgan Wait @mwait13.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social speaking @glasnevincemetery.bsky.social this Thursday! Please come along to hear her research about women, work and @rte.ie this week. Places free, but booking advised! @historytcd.bsky.social #dublin #irishhistory #history #rtehistory
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Dublin City Heritage Office @dublincityheritage.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
We are delighted to announce the line up for the Spring/Summer Dublin City Heritage Talks 2026 @ the Wood Quay Venue, featuring talks from @drdeefoley.bsky.social, @aoifeb.bsky.social, Mícheál Ó hAodha and Anthony Delaney. All talks will be ISL interpreted. www.eventbrite.com/cc/dublin-ci...
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Dr. Morgan Wait @mwait13.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Looking forward to this event with @aoifeb.bsky.social in April!
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Georgina Laragy @geolug.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Our @glasnevincemetery.bsky.social @historytcd.bsky.social Spring Lecture Series is live. Theme is 'Work and working in 19th & 20th century #Dublin' - please RT. Speakers @antoniahart.bsky.social @dublincity.bsky.social @drdeefoley.bsky.social & Conor Dodd formerly Glasnevin.
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RTÉ Brainstorm @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Most read on #RTEBrainstorm: How the new Irish Free State counted the population in the 1926 census. Gregory Walls National Archives @tcddublin.bsky.social @researchireland.ie on what was involved in compiling the census 100 years ago www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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How the new Irish Free State counted the population in 1926
The first major administrative act by an independent Irish government, what was involved in compiling the census 100 years ago?
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Ciaran O'Neill @ciaranon.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Do go along to the launch of Antonia Hart's new monograph, The Commercial Lives of Irish Women, 1850-1922 (LUP). It is a brilliant piece of work, beautifully written, and well worth reading. Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street Thursday, 4th December | 7pm
Launch Details - The Commercial Lives of Irish Women, 1850-1922
Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street
Thursday, 4th December | 7pm
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Ciaran O'Neill @ciaranon.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Required reading of the most welcome sort in IHS this morning. 'It is in the space between our divining and conjuring that the argument lies, the debate happens, history is written and the story gets its endless quality.' www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Encountering modern Irish history: historiography, archives and imagination in the twenty-first century | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core
Encountering modern Irish history: historiography, archives and imagination in the twenty-first century
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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
We are delighted to welcome @susiedeedigan.bsky.social to Maynooth tomorrow evening for a research seminar entitled '"Hardly serious”: the detention of republican women in wartime Ireland, 1939-45'. The seminar is open to the public and will take place in Roque Lab, Rhetoric House 17:00-18:00.
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Irish Committee of Historical Sciences - ICHS @irishhistorians.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Programme and registration is now available for the 35th Irish Conference of Historians - Inner Lives and Outer Realities. @maynoothuniversity.ie, 12-13 September. Please share widely.
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Jamie Banks @milkwknives.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Delighted that the CfP for the first @kthabitproject.bsky.social workshop is now live! Please do circulate freely, and consider submitting an abstract if of interest. Also more than happy to answer any queries you might have about the workshop, etc.
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
My @researchireland.ie project 'LGBT+ Activism in Ireland, 1973-2023: Looking Back, Going Forward'. Panels & podcasts from (1)History of LGBT Activism in Ireland (2)Where We’re Going – Backlash, Solidarity, and Mobilising 👉 historyhub.ie/lgbt-activis... #speirgorm #queerhistories #LGBTIQactivisms
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LGBT Activism in Ireland, 1973-2023 - History Hub
LGBT Activism in Ireland, 1973-2023: Looking Back, Going Forward is a UCD project which comprised of two workshops which were organised by Dr Mary McAuliffe (Director, UCD Gender Studies), in partners...
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Dr. Morgan Wait @mwait13.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
This is still one of my favorite research discoveries I've ever made. That said I won't be watching the Eurovision again this year for all the obvious reasons.
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Department of History, Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Recently published by @drdeefoley.bsky.social: how did the housewives of rural Ireland make money? www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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How did the housewives of rural Ireland make money?
Census categories camouflaged the multi-faceted and often profitable nature of many women's work within the home
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Fionnuala Walsh @fionnualawalsh.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I’m starting the week of 19 May with a paper to War Studies @ucddublin.bsky.social and finishing it on 24th with a paper to the @whaireland.bsky.social 2025 conference in Carlow College! Looking forward also to co-hosting papers by @caitbeaumont.bsky.social and Eilis ni Dhuibne in between!
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Trinity Long Room Hub @tlrhub.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
🎧Tune in to episode one of Trinity Talks: Dublin's Hidden Histories on @nearfm.ie, where Ciaran Murray interviews Dr Susan Byrne (@historytcd.bsky.social) about Mountjoy Prison and female prisoners of the Free State. 🇮🇪 🔊Listen now: listenagain.org?p=55214
Ciaran Murray interviews Dr. Susan Byrne from the School of Histories and Humanities in TCD, sitting on high wooden chairs and with a wooden wall background.
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Women’s History Association of Ireland @whaireland.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
PhD opportunity at TCD under the supervision of Dr Deirdre Foley and Dr Lindsey Earner Byrne.
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Dr. Morgan Wait @mwait13.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I am beyond delighted to share that my first book Rediscovering Women in Early Irish Television 1957-73 is officially under contract with @livunipress.bsky.social and will be part of the brilliant Reappraisals in Irish History Series. I am so excited to be able to get this work out in the world.
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Dr. Morgan Wait @mwait13.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Really looking forward to speaking at this at the end of the month.
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Dr. Morgan Wait @mwait13.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Looking forward to moderating a panel at this excellent event later in the week.
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Dr Shelby Zimmerman @shelbyzimme.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Honoured to have contributed to this volume on death and institutions. My chapter examines how the priorities of post-Famine Irish workhouse administration shaped institutional mortality Thanks to @cendeathsociety.bsky.social @brisunipress.bsky.social bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/death-and-in...
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hexhistory.bsky.social @hexhistory.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Wonderful Morning session @hexhistory.bsky.social Conferece. Gender, Sexuality, and in Modern Irish History by Susan Byrne, Deidre Foley & Morgan Wait.
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Alexandra Day @alexandradays.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Fascinating talks yesterday for the Modern & Contemporary Irish History seminar by @caitwhite.bsky.social and @lmcevoy.bsky.social on public commemoration in sculpture, and the legacies of post-war humanitarian hospitality. Left me with a lot of ideas. @historytcd.bsky.social
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Dr Shelby Zimmerman @shelbyzimme.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Looking forward to returning to Dublin to speak at the UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland’s seminar series on 6 Feb. My paper will discuss the institutional options for end of life in late 19th and early 20th century Dublin. #histmed #irishhistory #workhouse @tlrhub.bsky.social
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History at Queen's University Belfast @qubhistory.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
The spring series of CHOMI seminars begins with Dr Shelby Zimmerman on 6 Feb who will speak about: 'Who Cares for the Chronically Sick and Dying Poor?: The Role of the Dublin Workhouse as a ‘proto-hospice’ 1872-1920'
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Current Seminar Series - UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland
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Dr. Morgan Wait @mwait13.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
A link to my most recent article in case anyone missed it at the other place and is interested in women who worked at RTÉ. My free copies are used up but if you don't have access I can easily send a copy. doi.org/10.1080/0143...
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‘Well they Weren’t Married!’: The Marriage Bar at Radio/Telefís Éireann 1962–72
This article examines the use of the marriage bar at the Irish national broadcaster Radio/Telefís Éireann from 1962, when the station went to air, until 1972, when the station lifted the bar. The m...
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Dr. Morgan Wait @mwait13.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I can't believe I have to learn a new platform at this big age.
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