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mellonmigration.bsky.social @mellonmigration.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Fascinating talk at the Cardinal Tomas O Fiaich Memorial Library & Archive in Armagh on Wednesday 20th May at 7.30pm on the subject of the Migration of Ulster-born soccer players by Dr Conor Curran. Looks to be a really interesting lecture.

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Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies @usihs.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Looking forward to Roisín's Beckett Lecture tonight! A reminder that this is an in-person event and there will be a drinks reception just before (after our AGM which is at 5pm).

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Irish Committee of Historical Sciences - ICHS @irishhistorians.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Should be an excellent lecture by Prof. Roisín Higgins, Department of History @maynoothuniversity.ie

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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Our final Irish Studies seminar this semester will be on Monday 27 April at 4.30, when Enda Delaney will talk on 'The Cognitive Revolution in Modern Ireland, 1850-1920'. All welcome in-person or online. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

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Irish Studies Seminar - Enda Delaney, The Cognitive Revolution in Modern Ireland, 1850-1920

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Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies @usihs.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Our annual J.C. Beckett Lecture will be held on 14 May at 6pm. Please do join us at PRONI for Prof. Roisín Higgins' lecture on 'Embodied Conflict: Sensory Histories of the Troubles'! This will be an in person event and will no doubt be fascinating! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/roisin-hig...

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Roisín Higgins, 'Embodied Conflict: Sensory Histories of the Troubles'

You're very welcome to join us for the annual USIHS J.C. Beckett Lecture by Professor Roisín Higgins. This will be held at PRONI.

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Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies @usihs.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

This promises to be a great talk. Please join us on Thursday - in person or online!

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EFACIS @efacis.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Join our PhD Representatives this Friday 3 April at 10 am CET for some focused writing time and/or a casual Lunch Break! Register at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

If you’re Belfast-based, there are paperback copies of my book already on sale in the brilliant indie shop No Alibis!

A copy of Belfastmen: an intimate history of life before Gay liberation

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Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies @usihs.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

We're really looking forward to our April USIHS seminar! Prof. David Dickson @historytcd.bsky.social will speak on Thurs 23 April on The Foyle, the Chesapeake, and a fifty-year transatlantic conversation: Getting the measure of the Moore family archive, 1798-1847 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1986210363...

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USIHS Seminar: Prof. David Dickson (TCD) on 23 April, 6pm

‘The Foyle, the Chesapeake, and a fifty-year transatlantic conversation: Getting the measure of the Moore family archive, 1798-1847′

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History at Queen's University Belfast @qubhistory.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Congrats to Dr Shonagh Joice who today defended her excellent PhD dissertation on 'Resilience, Adaptability and Anxiety: Women’s experiences of shipbuilding deindustrialisation in Glasgow and Belfast, 1970-2000'.

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Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies @usihs.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Our next USIHS seminar will be on Thursday 5th March (next week!) when we'll welcome Antonia Hart to speak on Ulster Women in Business & Bankruptcy, 1888-1922. All welcome! www.eventbrite.ie/e/usihs-ulst...

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USIHS: Ulster women in business & bankruptcy, 1888-1922

Dr Antonia Hart (TCD) will speak at USIHS on 5 March. All are welcome - in person and online.

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Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies @usihs.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

A reminder that our first seminar of 2026 is on Thursday! Neil Murphy @northumbriauni.bsky.social will speak on 'Violence, colonialism and the mid-Tudor monarchy: Ireland in context'. If you can't join us in person @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social join online 👇 www.eventbrite.ie/e/violence-c...

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Violence, Colonialism and the Mid-Tudor Monarchy: Ireland in Context

Our first USIHS seminar of 2026 will be Professor Neil Murphy (Northumbria) who will speak on Thursday 19th February at 6pm.

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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Our Irish Studies seminar programme for Spring 2026 www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

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Women’s History Association of Ireland @whaireland.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Our Annual MacCurtain/Cullen prize is now open for entries. The competition is open to current or recent BA or MA/MPhil students. closing date for entries is 1 March 2026. womenshistoryassociation.com/grants-prizes/

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Grants & Prizes

The MacCurtain/Cullen Essay Prize in Irishwomen’s History The Women’s History Association of Ireland awards an annual MacCurtain/Cullen Prize in Irishwomen’s History in recognition of the outstandi…

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Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies @usihs.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Susan Flavin gave us a sneak peek of this film and her research last year - and it was excellent! Get along to Dublin Castle on 6 February if you can!

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Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies @usihs.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Our spring 2026 seminar series programme is here! We'll be adding eventbrite links soon so you can join us online or in person - all are welcome! First up we have Neil Murphy on 19 February at 6pm. Neil will speak on 'Violence, colonialism and the mid-Tudor monarchy: Ireland in context'.

19 Feb: Neil Murphy on 'Violence, colonialism and the mid-Tudor monarchy: Ireland in context'
5 March: Antonia Hart on 'Ulster women in business and bankruptcy, 1888-1922'
23 April: David Dickson on 'The Foyle, the Chesapeake, and a fifty-year transatlantic conversation'

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Women’s History Association of Ireland @whaireland.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

We are delighted this afternoon to announced the CFP for the 36th annual WHAI conference 2026. The conference will be held at Mary I Limerick on 29 & 30 May 2026. Closing dates for submissions on the theme of 'Gain' is 31 Jan. 2026. sites.google.com/view/whai202...

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WHAI2026

Welcome to the homepage for the next Women's History Association of Ireland conference. Our next annual conference will take place 29-30 May 2026 at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. The conferenc...

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Sarah Roddy @seroddy.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

We are delighted to announce that we'll be hosting the SSNCI conference in Maynooth next June. Call for papers attached. Please spread far and wide!

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Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies @usihs.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Just a reminder that this seminar is tonight! You are very welcome to join us in person in 27 University Square, Queen's University Belfast, or online by signing up to the link below!

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Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies @usihs.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Our next seminar will be on 4th December when we are really looking forward to hearing Henry Jefferies speak on Irish women and the Reformation! If you'd like to join us for this (Christmassy?) talk, you can sign up for online or attend in person. More 👇 www.eventbrite.ie/e/usihs-semi...

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USIHS seminar: Irish women and the Reformation

Dr Henry Jefferies on Irish women and the Reformation

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Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies @usihs.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

If you missed Sophie's talk last week, just head to our website and you can catch up! @sophcocooper.bsky.social

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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

NEW QUEER HISTORY ARTICLE from me & @charlielynch.bsky.social! muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

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Project MUSE - Queer Men and Networks of Communication in Northern Ireland Before the 1970s

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Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies @usihs.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

In a change to our planned seminar series, our next seminar will be Sophie Cooper speaking on 'Building to feel ‘at home’: Embedding/embedded memory in the built environments of Belfast and the diaspora'. Thursday 13 Nov, *online* at 7pm. @sophcocooper.bsky.social www.eventbrite.ie/e/sophie-coo...

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Sophie Cooper: USIHS seminar - Building to feel ‘at home’

USIHS Seminar. Online, Thursday 13 November at 7pm.

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Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies @usihs.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Exciting news! Filming will soon start on a Bad Bridgets film, inspired by Elaine Farrell & Leanne McCormick's great book. We're delighted to have both Elaine & Leanne on our USIHS Committee (for many reasons, this is just today's extra one) @badbridgetbook.bsky.social deadline.com/2025/10/dais...

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Daisy Edgar-Jones And Emilia Jones To Star In ‘Bad Bridgets’ From LuckyChap

Daisy Edgar Jones and Emilia Jones are set to star in 'Bad Bridgets', from 'Kneecap' director Rich Peppiatt.

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

An important contribution on metal detecting & archaeology in England and Wales. (N.B.: Metal detecting is illegal in Ireland, & subject to fines & even imprisonment, under the National Monuments Acts) #MedievalSky 👇🏻

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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

On Monday 17 November we'll be joined by Luca Bertolani Azeredo (Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples), who will speak on 'The Enniskillen Horse: illegality, legitimacy and the birth of Irish paramilitarism'. All welcome, in-person or online. Registration is at: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

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Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies @usihs.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Thanks so much to Dr Seán Ó Hoireabhárd for such a fascinating (and beautifully illustrated!) paper to USIHS last night. It was an excellent way to begin this year's seminar series. The recording will be up on the website soon! @hoireabhard.bsky.social

Seán stood at the lectern while Simon introduces him

Seán stands at the lectern. The slide on the wall says Gaelic Politics and the Gaelic Polity and it has a Medieval illustration of a man hitting another man in the head with an axe

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Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies @usihs.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

This semester's seminar series will begin in a few weeks! All are very welcome to join us in person (27 University Square, QUB) or online. For more information, stay tuned to the USIHS Bluesky or head to our website usihs36.com

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Irish Committee of Historical Sciences - ICHS @irishhistorians.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Programme and registration is now available for the 35th Irish Conference of Historians - Inner Lives and Outer Realities. Maynooth university, 12-13 September. Please share widely.

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Even historians have a history. @lisapine.bsky.social launches her new @ihr.bsky.social podcast A Historian's Life, where historians talk about the histories they’ve explored and the lives they’ve lived. Listen to series 1 now. www.history.ac.uk/podcasts/a-h...

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

This is a fantastic tour, highly recommend it #speirgorm #pride2025

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Dublin City Heritage Office @dublincityheritage.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Oein DeBhairduin's (@nmireland.bsky.social) talk 'Challenging the Narrative: Reclaiming Traveller Heritage in Ireland's National Collections' is now available to watch on our YouTube channel here: youtu.be/yhIroMkqoAw

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Challenging the Narrative: Reclaiming Traveller History in Ireland’s National Collections | ORT 2025

YouTube video by Dublin City Heritage

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Irish Historical Studies @irishhiststudies.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Congratulations to Dr Ruth Duffy, @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social who is awarded an honourable mention in the Irish Historical Studies First Book Prize 2024 for her @livunipress.bsky.social book, 'Healthcare and the Troubles: the conflict experience of the Northern Ireland Health Service, 1968–1998'

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Irish Historical Studies @irishhiststudies.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

The board of Irish Historical Studies are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2024 First Book Prize is @hoireabhard.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie for his book 'The Medieval Irish kings and the English invasion', published by @livunipress.bsky.social. Congratulations Seán!

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Seán Ó Hoireabhárd @hoireabhard.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Delighted that The Medieval Irish kings & the English invasion has been chosen for the IHS first book prize for 2024!

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

We are delighted that Dr Ruth Duffy has been awarded an honourable mention in the Irish Historical Studies First Book Prize 2024 for Healthcare and the Troubles! Congratulations, Ruth 🎉 Discover more about the book here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

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Healthcare and the Troubles | Home

The Conflict Experience of the Northern Ireland Health Service, 1968–1998

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Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies @usihs.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Thank you to @tortietabby.bsky.social for an excellent J.C. Beckett Lecture last night - what a brilliant way to round off the 2024/25 year of talks! We'll be back in the autumn with more.

A woman (with a great dress and earrings) standing behind a PRONI lectern. The title slide behind her reads The Anti-Abortion Movement in Ireland

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Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I’m delighted to be giving the J.C. Beckett lecture for the @usihs.bsky.social at PRONI in Belfast on 22 May. I’ll be talking about the history of the anti-abortion movement in Ireland, c.1972-92. Do come along if you’re in Belfast that day.

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Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

'Ti's far from it I was reared etc etc, but delighted to celebrate Jackie Hill's retirement after an uparalleled 45 years of service as secretary to the Irish Historical Studies editorial board! @irishhistsoc.bsky.social @usihs.bsky.social

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Sophie Cooper @sophcocooper.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

A reminder that the final @usihs.bsky.social event of the year is tomorrow! Prof. Laura Kelly will speak on The Anti-Abortion Movement in Ireland, c.1972-92. This will take plqce at PRONI at 6pm. More information below. www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-anti-a...

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The Anti-Abortion Movement in Ireland, c.1972-92

Prof. Laura Kelly will deliver the J.C. Beckett Annual Lecture on 22 May at 6pm. This *in person* event will be held at PRONI.

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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Our #IrishStudies seminar on Mon 31 March will be given by Dr Colleen Taylor of @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social on 'Tales of seals and shipwrecks: Irish new materialism goes to sea’. All welcome, in-person or online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/irish-stud...

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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Our #IrishStudies International Lecture this year will be given by Prof David Wilson (U of Toronto) on ‘Parallels and patterns: Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Conor Cruise O’Brien and Edmund Burke’, 20 May at 5pm (in person and online) #IrishHistory #CanadianHistory

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Irish Studies International Lecture: David Wilson - ‘D’Arcy McGee, Cruise O'Brien and Burke'

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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

A recording of Frank Rynne's talk on ‘The Most Wanted tourist, the Invincible Frank Byrne in France, 1883’, is now available at youtu.be/bHdPG4JPGZ8

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Frank Rynne 24.3.25

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Adrian Kirwan @adriankirwan.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

This should be a great conference with keynotes by Professor Lindsey Earner-Byrne (Trinity College Dublin) and Professor M’Hamed Oualdi (European University Institute)

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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Bill Kirk / Belfast Archive Project photography exhibition opening at Ulster Museum on 28 March #Belfast

Photomontage of Belfast photographs by Bill Kirk

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Ciaran O'Neill @ciaranon.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Next week, through the magic of the internet, I'll appear simultaneously at the Uni of Texas (Austin) as part of their Second Books Series, at 11am local time, and at 5pm Irish time. I'll talk about my new book, and I'll also talk about the (sometimes tortuous) process of writing it. Join us!

The Program in British, Irish, and Empire Studies (BIES) at the University of Texas at Austin invites you to the final talk in the Second Books series: Ciaran O'Neill (Trinity College Dublin):
Power and Powerlessness in Union Ireland: Life in a Palliative State
Ciaran O'Neill (Trinity College Dublin)
Wednesday, April 2 at 11:00 am CT / 5:00 p.m. IST (UTC +1)
Zoom Registration required: https://utexas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMuc--hrT4tGtXpLQ5459tCOzdufmxsAup-

The Second Books series host virtual sessions with the authors of new academic monographs. Please join us to hear about these extraordinary books as well as the stages of creation and development that brought these authors' second monographs into print. This event is free and open to the public.

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Ciara Nic Ionnraic PhD #Health #Research #SciComms @chendirl.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

#WHAI2025 Registration opens April. Delighted to welcome Prof Caitríona Beaumont as our keynote. @caitbeaumont.bsky.social is an expert on Female Activism in the early 20th century so you won't want to miss it 😎 #SaveTheDate 23 -24 May 2025 #Skystorians #Historians #GenderHist #WomensHist #History

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Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies @usihs.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

If you missed Prof. Cara Delay's excellent paper on transnational mothering in the era of the Famine last week, a recording is now on our website! usihs36.com

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Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies

Promoting Irish History in Ulster since 1936

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