Lecturer in Irish History @uniofgalway | Researching siblings, the Irish family, networking & sociability in 19th-C Ireland | she/her | All views my own.
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10 Apr 2024
Happy #SiblingsDay 👫🎉 delighted to say that my first monograph will be out later this year. It’s on the website, so it must be real!!
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12 Dec 2024
#spotted out in the wild (west) [insert wicked reference here] Delighted to get my hands on this gorge updated copy in a v cosy Galway @SnedAndrew
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2 Dec 2024
Important article on the pervasive nature of precarious labour in Universities in Ireland - published today when all of our hourly colleagues are no longer in contract but expected TO WORK FOR FREE for the next 6-8 weeks until exams and grading is over
irishexaminer.com/opinion/co…
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8 Nov 2024
Nearly 70% of Gaza war dead are women and children, UN says bbc.in/4fH3RfP
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34 years ago today, Ireland went to the polls & elected our 1st female President, Mary Robinson. Her extensive archive is housed here @UniOfGalwayASC & we're delighted to release 1st tranche of material today.
Read more from archivist @niamhnicharra
nuigarchives.blogspot.com/20…
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At 12pm today, 30th October, we celebrate 𝟏𝟕𝟓 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 since our first 𝟔𝟖 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 began their education here. 🎓📜🙌
Thanks to @irelandincolour for adding some flair to this beautiful sepia pic 📸🎞️
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28 Oct 2024
Today's @RoyalHistSoc briefing, 'The Value of History', now available bit.ly/4fl6lQD #twitterstorians
28 Oct 2024
Cuts to history departments – particularly in post-92 universities – risk making the subject the “preserve of elite institutions” in the UK, warns @RoyalHistSoc report
timeshighereducation.com/new…
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21 Oct 2024
✍️Our Co-Chair, Sean O’Connell explains why every piece of information about the institutions and their practices, no matter how small, is important for the Independent Panel’s work.
If you have information you would like to share, please get in touch.
tinyurl.com/33h23yrs
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21 Oct 2024
That’s the proofs done then! The new expanded second edition of Possessed by the devil about the #islandmageewitches trial of 1711 will in bookshops/online at the end of next month, November 2024
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21 Oct 2024
We really would! Lots of appointments are still available in our D'Olier Street Clinic this week. #WeCountOnYou #GiveBlood 🩸
21 Oct 2024
One of the best views in #Dublin City centre, comes with free crisps and soft drinks! @Giveblood_ie would love to see you in D'Olier Street #GiveBlood
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21 Oct 2024
Another call for papers here on the theme of 'Play in the Long Nineteenth Century'.
Some interesting History of Education links here!
Deadline: 18th November 2024
#histed #cfp #history #education #research
21 Oct 2024
We’re delighted to announce that the Call for Papers for the annual RRR conference is now live!
‘Play in the Long Nineteenth Century’ will take place on 17 January 2025 @UniKent.
CfP closes Monday 18 November 2024.
Please share widely!
rrrjournal.com/_files/ugd/d4…
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18 Oct 2024
We will be hosting both an afternoon and an evening drop-in session at the City Hotel for anyone who is interested in speaking with one of our Panel members about the testimony process or how to approach getting access to your personal records. #SeekingTheTruth
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18 Oct 2024
💡The Network for the Study of Resilient Women, led by early career researchers at @tcddublin will bring together the lived experiences of Irish women throughout history from the 1840s – 1980s.
📖Read more here: tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/ne…
#HubMatters #ResilientWomen
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17 Oct 2024
Delighted to have received funding from the @RIAdawson for a project that will look at the aftermath & emotional trauma of the 1926 Dromcollogher cinema fire on the people of the town, Ireland and the Irish diaspora. Need the publics help - see below. Retweets appreciated.
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17 Oct 2024
📢 Calling all O NEGATIVE donors!
We urgently need YOU to help boost our lifesaving O Negative blood stocks before the weekend!
Book now or simply walk in to any of our sessions this week:
📍 - Belfast HQ
📍 - Comber
📍 - Maghera
📍 - Donaghmore
👉bit.ly/GiveBloodNI
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16 Oct 2024
Ghost Conference Alert!! @SnedAndrew @tait_clodagh and myself are delighted to be organising a conference on historical representations of ghosts at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick in June 2025. CFP attached! Please share! #earlymodern #twitterstorians #emotions #emostorians
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14 Oct 2024
Another week, another book-related seminar! Can't wait to speak at the New Voices in Irish & Scottish Studies webinar. Happening tomorrow at 4pm!
#EdinburghsUnrulyWomen @AbdnRiiss
In under a week, we'll be welcoming @DrClaireMcNulty to the New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies webinar series. Dr McNulty will be talking about gender in early modern Edinburgh. Please get in touch if you'd like the link.
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12 Oct 2024
It is fantastic to see this piece on the Carrigan Committee by Emma Quinn in the most recent issue of History Ireland @HistIreHedge! This is an edited version of Emma's @IrLegalHist prize-winning essay: historyireland.com/the-sover…
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11 Oct 2024
Last call! APPLY NOW
Tenure-track Assistant Professor of 19th Century US Immigration & Labor history at @BostonCollege History Dept, with a preference for Irish diaspora scholar to be affiliated with #BCIrishStudies
Deadline for applications Oct. 15!
h-net.org/jobs/job_displ
ALT "The Mortar of Assimilation and the One Element that Won't Mix", Puck, June 26, 1889
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10 Oct 2024
✨ECRs working on Irish gender and women's history✨ The new WHAI Emerging Scholars' series is a great way to promote your excellent new work! Deadline extended to 31 Oct.🧙♀️
29 Jul 2024
Delighted to open the call for our new Emerging Scholars' Blog series.... see the call below ⬇️⬇️⬇️
We're eager to promote some of the newest cutting edge research and to provide the space for ECRs to showcase their work.
Please RT widely!
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