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Dr Susie Deedigan

@susiedeedigan.bsky.social
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ARINS Programme Manager, University of Notre Dame Research Fellow @ Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, QUB ——— Historian: gender & politics modern Ireland and Britain. PhD from QUB. Formerly: Oxford, TCD, UC Berkeley.

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Dr Susie Deedigan @susiedeedigan.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Very much looking forward to chairing this on Thursday. Do come down if you're in Dublin!
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Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies @ndirishstudies.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Congrats to @susiedeedigan.bsky.social of @arinsproject.bsky.social on joining Young Academy Ireland! She is one of 21 new members from Ireland and Northern Ireland who were selected to join @yai.ie through a competitive process launched by @ria.ie. 👉 Read more: irishstudies.nd.edu/news/arins-s...
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ARINS Programme Manager Susie Deedigan joins Young Academy Ireland
Young Academy Ireland is an all-island network of early-career researchers and innovators. Deedigan is one of 21 new members from Ireland and Northern I...
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ARINS Project @arinsproject.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
This event is almost fully booked, don't miss out on attending. Register here: www.ria.ie/events/arins... @ihrec.bsky.social @nihrc.bsky.social @cjharvey1.bsky.social @ria.ie @ndirishstudies.bsky.social
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ARINS Project @arinsproject.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
New #ARINS research asks a simple but important question: Who is Better Off? Updated cross-border analysis by the @esri.ie finds widening gaps in income, education, health outcomes, and overall quality of life, North and South. Read the research here: bit.ly/4nlm8UP
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UCU @ QUB @ucuatqub.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
In response to the news that @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social has cut ties with Senator George J. Mitchell, following new information that suggests he remained in contact with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, we have released the following statement. 1/5
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ARINS Project @arinsproject.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
🎧 New #ARINSPodcast out NOW! Beyond Identity and Ideology: How Deliberation Can Reframe Constitutional Debate 🔗 Listen now: Spotify: bit.ly/44XSsW2 SoundCloud: bit.ly/3L5HYx7 @ria.ie @shelleydeane.bsky.social @dcuresearch.bsky.social @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social
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ARINS Project @arinsproject.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
🍾Our Spotify wrapped most listened to episodes of the year: For My Identity, the ever wonderful and dearly missed @manchanmagan.bsky.social For The ARINS podcast, @idamilne.bsky.social and Ian d'Alton Follow and subscribe for next year: www.ria.ie/research-pro...
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ARINS Project @arinsproject.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Fascinating insights at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social and Hume Foundation's Anglo-Irish Agreement conference. Earlier @susiedeedigan.bsky.social chaired a panel on historical context, now Rory Montgomery discusses the political & diplomatic journey to the AIA. @ria.ie @ndirishstudies.bsky.social
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ARINS Project @arinsproject.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
We are thrilled that our publication For and Against has been shortlisted! 🗳️ Vote here: www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/ @fotoole.bsky.social @ndirishstudies.bsky.social @ria.ie #APIBA #ReadersWanted #StoriesMakeUs
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Dr Susie Deedigan @susiedeedigan.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Thank you so much to @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social and particularly @donalh.bsky.social for the invite to present to the seminar this evening. Great to catch up and to meet some new faces. Always lovely to be in Maynooth in Autumn.
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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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ARINS Project @arinsproject.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
🎧 Sneak peek: Tomorrow on the #ARINSProject Identity Podcast, Leo Varadkar joins Colin Graham to discuss national identity, religion, family, and his book Speaking My Mind. Stay tuned for the full episode available soon on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & SoundCloud. #MyIdentityPodcast #LeoVaradkar
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Dr Susie Deedigan @susiedeedigan.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
The wisdom that goes with Manchán is an immeasurable loss. Thoughts with all who loved him.
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Dr Susie Deedigan @susiedeedigan.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Convening this series is such an interesting part of my role @arinsproject.bsky.social and this seminar is set to be especially interesting! Book now @ ARINSproject.com !
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ARINS Project @arinsproject.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Yesterday at the NI members’ lunch in Belfast, Dr Susie Deedigan shared an update on the ARINS project with the RIA North-South Committee. RIA President Pat Guiry also presented Ulster University VC Prof Paul Bartholomew with a copy of For and Against a United Ireland 📘 Pre-order👉 arinsproject.com
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Dr Susie Deedigan @susiedeedigan.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Thrilled to be invited to speak to the Maynooth seminar and even more so to be in such good company on this term card 🥳
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ARINS Project @arinsproject.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
A vital conversation ahead: For and Against a United Ireland, chaired by Sarah Carey. Experience the book brought to life at the National Concert Hall, November 30th. 👉 bit.ly/4p6klU8 @fotoole.bsky.social @sjamcbride.bsky.social
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NCH | Live Music & Events | The Home of Music in Ireland
The National Concert Hall is a national cultural institution and the designated home of music in Ireland.
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ARINS Project @arinsproject.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
📢 New #ARINS podcast out now! Host Rory Montgomery talks with Esther McGuinness, Desmond Ryan & Rory O’Connell about employment law North & South, 100 years after partition—shaped by Brexit & the Windsor Framework. 🎧 Episode 46 out now: Spotify: bit.ly/3VwvorZ Apple Music: bit.ly/3JLxx0u
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ARINS Project @arinsproject.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Write up of our recent Shared Media event, which you can also watch back. Thanks to Amanda Ferguson @eamonquinnnews.bsky.social Eoin Brannigan and @saraita101.bsky.social for participating and to our host Sarah Carey www.ria.ie/2025/07/25/s...
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Shared Media & A Divided Island - Royal Irish Academy
A century after partition, Ireland’s media still struggles to speak across borders. This July, five journalists asked whether it’s time to imagine a truly shared media landscape across the island, and...
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Dr Susie Deedigan @susiedeedigan.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I'm finally on Linked In should anyone wish to connect there! 🔗https://www.linkedin.com/in/susiedeedigan
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ARINS Project @arinsproject.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Our two incredible interns at the close of ⁦MacGill2025: Jane Palmer and Emmie O’Neill. 👏🤩 We have been very lucky to have you on the team this summer. Thanks for all your hard work and best of luck for your final year @notredame.bsky.social @ndirishstudies.bsky.social @macgillschool.bsky.social
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Dr Susie Deedigan @susiedeedigan.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
It's such a joy to work and collaborate with these wonderful women. It's been particularly fantastic to learn from our amazing interns Jane Palmer and Emmie O'Neill this summer.
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MacGill Summer School @macgillschool.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
This afternoon's final panel, chaired by Pariac O'Brien, discusses masculinity, media and power. Kate McDonald, journalist at RTÉ. EamonMcGee, Columnist, Father, and Donegal All-Ireland Winner. Prof. Ian Robertson, TCD Emeritus Professor of Psychology @ianhrobertson.bsky.social
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Dr Susie Deedigan @susiedeedigan.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Interesting discussion at MacGill on the toxic influence of social media on young men. 12 years ago at a centenary event of Emily Wilding Davison's death I first met reps from @ukfeminista.bsky.social who have amazing resources for teachers, students and parents - highly recommend for educators.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 16/07/2025
📣 call for applications 📣 Two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop. Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team. Please share widely! www.historyworkshop....
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Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025
History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.
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MacGill Summer School @macgillschool.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
‘What is beyond dispute is that the republic is the wealthy part of the island, astronomically so’ When asked how much they are willing to compromise economically to achieve unity 51% of tonight's audience says a little; 29% a lot; 10% nothing and 9% almost nothing. @arinsproject.bsky.social
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Dr Susie Deedigan @susiedeedigan.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Amazing to have NI children’s commissioner Chris Quinn and Ireland’s ombudsman for children Niall Muldoon discussing children’s rights, housing & education. From our first meeting months ago in our office to a huge and packed room listening today in Donegal - these conversations are vital.
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Dr Susie Deedigan @susiedeedigan.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Delighted to be at the MacGill Summer School in Glenties. Very much looking forward to the next panel on making Ireland a better place for all children, to Sam McBride discussing the upcoming For&Against book this evening and to many more panels over the next few days! @arinsproject.bsky.social
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Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies @ndirishstudies.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Mary Gallagher, dean of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs, kicked off the 45th @macgillschool.bsky.social this morning in Glenties, County Donegal. “Notre Dame has a long and special connection with Ireland. And today, Notre Dame is more committed than ever to that relationship.”
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ARINS Project @arinsproject.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Sarah Creighton: “Conflict is such a difficult subject and often not treated with the nuance it deserves.” LIVE from O'Connell House #ARINS #SharedIsland #sharedmedia @saraita101.bsky.social
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Dr Susie Deedigan @susiedeedigan.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Fascinating #ARINS discussion at O’Connell House this afternoon on shared media on the island of Ireland. @amandaferg.bsky.social talks about awareness of demographic change in the media and the need for nuanced coverage @arinsproject.bsky.social @ndirishstudies.bsky.social @ria.ie
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ARINS Project @arinsproject.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
🎤 Live at the National Concert Hall 30th November 19:00 Join Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride in conversation around their new book For and Against a United Ireland, exploring the questions, challenges, and hopes behind this pivotal topic. 🎟️ Secure your tickets: bit.ly/4nwI1A4 📘 Out this October
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ARINS Project @arinsproject.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
What do people in Northern Ireland really think about Irish unity, Brexit, and their political institutions? A landmark new survey by Professor Peter Shirlow & Professor Jon Tonge reveals surprising shifts in identity and attitudes. 📊 Read more: www.ria.ie/2025/07/04/n...
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Northern Ireland: What the numbers tell us - Royal Irish Academy
What do people in Northern Ireland really think about Irish unity, Brexit, and their political institutions? A landmark survey, conducted by Professor Pete Shirlow and Professor Jon Tonge of the Unive...
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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Brilliant new article out by @susiedeedigan.bsky.social in @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social & fully OA #Afterlives #womensgrassrootsactivism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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‘It is to be assumed that members of C. na m Ban cannot be kept out of such a body!’: women, Irish republicanism, and prisoner support work 1939–45
The historical consensus on Cumann na mBan, Ireland’s republican women’s organisation, suggests that by the period of the Second World War (or Emergency as it was known in independent Ireland) it w...
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Women’s History Association of Ireland @whaireland.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Congratulations to our committee member @susiedeedigan.bsky.social on the publication of her first article.
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ARINS Project @arinsproject.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
LIVE: Happening now at O'Connell House: "Can our shared island have a shared media?" Join leading journalists, editors, thinkers as they explore how the border still shapes what we see, hear & read — 100 years after partition. 🎤 12:30–13:45 | Light lunch after 🎥 Report and Recording to follow
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Dr Susie Deedigan @susiedeedigan.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Serendipitous to be sitting in the final panel of the Future of Irish Studies conference and get the email that my first article has been published - open access - in Women’s History Review. 😍 @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social @ndirishstudies.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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‘It is to be assumed that members of C. na m Ban cannot be kept out of such a body!’: women, Irish republicanism, and prisoner support work 1939–45
The historical consensus on Cumann na mBan, Ireland’s republican women’s organisation, suggests that by the period of the Second World War (or Emergency as it was known in independent Ireland) it w...
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Dr Susie Deedigan @susiedeedigan.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Had a great first day at the Future of Irish Studies in Leuven! @emmamurphy.bsky.social @ndirishstudies.bsky.social @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social
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Dr Susie Deedigan @susiedeedigan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
My review of Oisín Wall’s, Prisoners’ Bodies: Activism, Health, and the Prisoners’ Rights Movement in Ireland, 1972-1985 is out today in Social History of Medicine - spoiler: it’s a great book. academic.oup.com/shm/advance-...
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Oisín Wall, Prisoners’ Bodies: Activism, Health, and the Prisoners’ Rights Movement in Ireland, 1972-1985
Histories of imprisonment in Ireland are surprisingly scarce given the centrality of political imprisonment to state formation. As a history of imprisonmen
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ARINS Project @arinsproject.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Pre-order now and book to attend our accompanying events with Fintan and Sam - 17 Nov in Belfast and 30 Nov in Dublin at arinsproject.com @ria.ie @ndirishstudies.bsky.social
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ARINS - Royal Irish Academy
ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South Authoritative, independent and non-partisan analysis and research on constitutional, institutional and policy options for Ireland, north and south. Coming soon: For and against a united Ireland by Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride. Pre-order now More about what we do Read the research Who we are
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ARINS Project @arinsproject.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
This afternoon’s event is underway with Profs Pete Shirlow & @jontonge.bsky.social discussing “The 2024 Northern Ireland General Election Survey” @ria.ie @ndirishstudies.bsky.social
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ARINS Project @arinsproject.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
This morning representatives from the ARINS project were invited to meet with the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee to discuss the project’s research Read our research: www.ria.ie/research-pro... podcasts: open.spotify.com/show/08pJYRf... @ndirishstudies.bsky.social @ria.ie
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
I won't give advice to Leaving Cert students this week, but that's mostly because I don't really know what the Leaving Cert is. On the invisible borders between north and south, and the eternal mystery of Peig. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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Séamas O'Reilly: Many of the tropes of standard Irishness are not universally applied both sides of the border
Every single pale and freckled ancestor of mine since 1800, Irish farmers to a soul, was born and raised in something called the United Kingdom. This is true for a large number of Irish people in the ...
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Dr Susie Deedigan @susiedeedigan.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
This is an excellent holiday read. Thanks to Sarah Mason for mentioning it in her @whaireland.bsky.social paper! Setting and spritz also not bad… 😏☺️
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ARINS Project @arinsproject.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
The latest #ARINS podcast is now available! Listen to Paul Anderson, Coree Brown Swan, and Rory Montgomery on European Perceptions of Scottish Independence Before and After Brexit. 🎙️ spoti.fi/3HsW0GG 🎙️ bit.ly/3FyMzFb arinsproject.com @ria.ie @ndirishstudies.bsky.social
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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Thanks again to everyone who supported our academic programme in #IrishStudies this year. You can find recordings of most of our events on our YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@QUBIrishStu...
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QUB Irish Studies
Posting talks, public lectures and other events given at the Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University Belfast.
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Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
My PhD student Monique Lerpiniere is looking for oral history participants for her @sgsah.bsky.social project on South Asian medical practitioners in Scotland. Please see the poster for info and share if you know anyone. Thank you! @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social @strathhumanities.bsky.social #histmed
Poster advertising an oral history project on South Asian Medical practitioners in Scotland. Please get in touch with monique.lerpiniere.2022@uni.strath.ac.uk if you know anyone who worked/studied in the medical field in Scotland who is of South Asian heritage.
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 02/06/2025
Housewife of the Year review: A reminder that Ireland of the 1970s and 80s was no country for women of any age
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Housewife of the Year review: A reminder that Ireland of the 1970s and 80s was no country for women of any age
Television: Contrast between picture the women presented beside ‘Uncle Gaybo’ and present-day selves is striking
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Dr Susie Deedigan @susiedeedigan.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Subjecting Dom to a treasure hunt for these Second World War signs around Bologna. US being “Uscita di Sicurezza”, safe routes and shelters 🤓
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