DFAT Historian-in-Residence, EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum. No longer posting here. Find me on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/catherine-h…
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Catherine Healy retweeted
Jan 28
On the show today: @adrianweckler says travel to the US; @FlaithriNeff on are electric cars too quiet?; @SportPsych_AMK on displays of anger;
Firewood health warnings; @KelGalavan on financial illiteracy; @DrJoannaFortune with parenting; @Chealy_
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Jan 11
Well worth a visit: ‘Working Over By’, an exhibition on Donegal emigration to Scotland at @Donegalcomuseum, packed with amazing photos and personal histories of working life.
👏 @MellonMigration @donegalcouncil
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25 Nov 2025
Really enjoyed taking part in this new season of the @BadBridget podcast. Andy Urban (Rutgers University) and I spoke about the lives of servants in North America: open.spotify.com/episode/0mI…
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10 Nov 2025
Delighted to announce that my first book, Irish Domestic Servants in Transatlantic Culture, c. 1870-1945, is out now with Palgrave Macmillan. All welcome to the launch on November 19, 5.30pm, at @EPICMuseumCHQ. Register here: eventbrite.ie/e/book-launch-…
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Catherine Healy retweeted
5 Nov 2025
174,333 *people* intercepted trying to reach Europe & forced back to Libya since 2017, by my calculations, where crimes against humanity against them have been documented. x.com/IOM_Libya/status/19853…
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From 26 October to 1 November 2025, 436 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya.
👇IOM Libya's Maritime Update
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Catherine Healy retweeted
5 Nov 2025
I'm on Brainstorm this morning with a piece on sex & surveillance in 18th and 19th century Ulster. Read about how Presbyterians spied & gossiped to expose the naughty behaviour of their neighbours 👇 #HistFam #HistSex #PiousPromiscuous
5 Nov 2025
Keep the noise down! Sex and surveillance in 18th and 19th century Ulster: The stories captured in church records reveal much about how communities attempted to monitor one another's behaviour. By @DrLeanneCalvert @HistoryUL rte.ie/brainstorm/2025/1105/…
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26 Oct 2025
One of the great speeches of modern Irish politics: Michael D. Higgins speaking against a minimum wage cut in 2010
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17 Oct 2025
Great to be in Cabo Verde to share learnings from Ireland's experience of diaspora engagement. Spoke at the International Congress of Cabo Verdean Professionals alongside Minister of Culture and Creative Industries Augusto Veiga, Prof Manuel Brito-Semedo and Dr Filomeno Lopes.
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17 Oct 2025
Met yesterday with Minister Veiga and today with the Ministry of Communities and the Institute of Cultural Heritage of Cabo Verde to discuss our work at @EPICMuseumCHQ. Pico Lopes of Shamrock Rovers, of course, getting plenty of kudos. Thanks to @irlemblisbon for their support.
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17 Oct 2025
All welcome to @EPICMuseumCHQ next week for a talk on Irish connections to India. Delighted to be holding this event in collaboration with Desi Community Against Racism and @TheSCRedemption. @IrlEmbIndia @IndiainIreland epicchq.com/event/shared-his…
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Catherine Healy retweeted
10 Oct 2025
Des Mullan and the Irish foreign correspondents who took their lives into their own hands buff.ly/3m8KHVg
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7 Oct 2025
Good work being done by Liam Corry and @folkparkomagh to confront Irish roles in enslavement and settler colonialism. Learned a lot from Liam’s tour on Ulster migration and Black history. His next tour focuses on Irish interactions with Indigenous people: ulsteramericanfolkpark.org/w…
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Catherine Healy retweeted
8 Sep 2025
I wrote this from the heart. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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27 Aug 2025
RT @sallyhayd: Irish Times front page today. Tried to write instead of just screaming. irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/…
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Catherine Healy retweeted
25 Aug 2025
📢 #Listenback to #IrishImperialLives 🌎 Wherever you get your #podcasts 📻 We're joined by Ciaran O'Neill of @TCDHistHum who tells us about Lambert Blair & his role in the trade of #enslavedafricans, in what became #BritishGuyana
#transatlanticslavetrade #empire #Pirates
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15 Aug 2025
Great to see our exhibition on Irish connections to India on display in Indian schools. Thanks to @IrlEmbIndia for sharing these stories with students. @EPICMuseumCHQ
11 Aug 2025
Delighted to launch the Looking East Exhibition at St. Joseph’s Academy, Dehradun - founded by 🇮🇪 patrician brothers.
The exhibition highlights both the diverse range of 🇮🇪 people who went to 🇮🇳 as soldiers, civil servants, & educators, and the history of 🇮🇳migration to 🇮🇪.
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4 Aug 2025
A very enjoyable episode on Grace O’Malley kicks off the new season of Irish Imperial Lives @RTERadio1. Well done @medievalgill, @KOM_acc and @AbiePB rte.ie/radio/podcasts/225337…
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Catherine Healy retweeted
1 Aug 2025
Embassy of Ireland in India salutes @ShamrockRovers rovers for this great initiative. Indian people are welcome in Ireland!
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@MEAIndia @IndiainIreland @irelandinmumbai @AkhileshIFS @KellyinDelhi @dfatirl
1 Aug 2025
We were proud to welcome members of the Indian community to last night's UEFA Conference League qualification match as guests of the club.
The guests were invited in response to a recent assault in Tallaght on an Indian national. They were joined by local woman Jennifer Murray, who intervened to help stop the assault.
Shamrock Rovers opposes all forms of racism, bigotry, and discrimination and is strongly committed to supporting inclusion within the community.
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Catherine Healy retweeted
22 Jul 2025
A surgeon in Gaza on seeing the result of Israel's genocide: "nothing has prepared me for the sheer horror I’m witnessing now: the weaponization of starvation against an entire population." theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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#OTD in 1945 the Irish Women Workers’ Union began the Laundry Strike.
These women went on strike to win two weeks annual paid holidays.
After 14 weeks on the picket line the women won that right for all workers.
A right we all still enjoy today.
📸 @irishcongress
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