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St Matthew applying a scribal knife or scraper to a page and dipping his pen in an inkwell (Cod. Sang. 1395, p. 418). © Stiftsbibliothek, St. Gallen Atop this a purple banner bears the Amplify Archaeology logo of a trowel, and the text Words on the Wave with Maeve Sikora and Matthew Seaver, Amplify Archaeology Podcast

New episode of Amplify Archaeology Podcast!

In this episode I visit the @nmireland.bsky.social, where Maeve Sikora & Matthew Seaver discuss the wonderful Words on the Wave exhibition and the incredible Irish manuscripts from the Abbey of St Gall

#Ireland #Archaeology 🏺 #AncientBlueSky #SpéirGhorm

The Sensational Museum’s Art of Multisensory Storytelling The Sensational Museum, a UK-based, multi-institution research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), aims to challenge ableist biases in heritage sectors. The project expl...

Multisensory approach for museums and exhibitions Displaying the past through sounds, smells, touch and not simply texts and visuals
Open access article in International Public History journal @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
#Museum #PublicHistory
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The Irish Journal of Anthropology (IJA) has just released its special issue on "Islandness", which will be of interest to all scholars of Ireland, and of islands more broadly. The IJA is open access and hosted by University College Cork on behalf of the Anthropological Association of Ireland (AAI).

Polaroid print of a woman gardening

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It's fantastic! So exciting to finally see all the hard work come to life 🌟❤️

Hello! Quick question - planning a research trip & wondering if anyone knows whether the Catholic parish church in Youghal tends to be open on a Sunday afternoon (I know some churches close up now after Mass) - parish office is closed for 2 weeks so I can’t ask them directly! Might any locals know?

On not Collecting Religion by Lieke Wijnia For the last six years I worked in a museum of Christian art and heritage in the Netherlands, with a collection of almost 80,000 objects. The collection consists of several sub-coll…

i wrote a little something.

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This month in #HiddenCatholicCollections, we spotlight the Spiritan General Archives in Chevilly Larue, France. To read more, go to achahistory.org/hidden/.

It takes a twisted sense of humour to charge someone for displaying a terrorist flag and then schedule their court appearance for mid summer in Belfast where the flags of terrorist organisations (with whom parts of the British state colluded in crimes) will bedeck the streets, as they do every year.

Words on the Wave: Ireland and St. Gallen in Early Medieval Europe | Archaeology | National Museum of Ireland Discover how science, art, archaeology and the study of script help reveal the links between Ireland and Europe

‘Words on a Wave’ at the @nmireland.bsky.social from May 30th - this promises to be one hell of a show! 🤓
#History #Heritage #Ireland #Europe #WordsOnAWave
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'Carbon colonialism' by Laurie Parsons exposes how rich countries cook the books on climate change - by outsourcing it to poorer ones in the global South.

Pre-order the paperback edition now, publishing May 2025.

#EarthDay #greenwashing #climate #booksky

Great to see colleagues work and research 🤓

Millennium-old monks’ manuscripts return to Ireland for exhibition Books include religious scriptures and scribbled jokes, giving glimpse of daily lives of early medieval Irish monks

Millennium-old monks’ manuscripts return to Ireland for an exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland
Books include religious scriptures and scribbled jokes, giving a glimpse of the daily lives of early medieval Irish monks.
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📢 An exciting opportunity for conservators & archivists!

UCD Library is seeking a Book and Paper Conservator to establish a Conservation Laboratory, part of a new Cultural Heritage Centre to be developed in the James Joyce Library.

Full job description➡️ www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo...
#jobfairy

First talk about my upcoming monograph at the university of Groningen. Come if you are around! #Sociology #Religion #NorthernIreland #AcademicRe @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

The University of London Press is now accepting for new proposals for short-form books (20,000–30,000 words) on Digital Cultural Heritage on themes of use, access, value(s) and ephemerality uolpress.co.uk/book-series/... #BDCAM25

Why do we need the Humanities and how they should transform? A very timely article from Robert Newman
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@zoebulaitis.bsky.social #PublicHumanities #Humanities #Academia #POublicHistory Thread of extracts below

Museum panel explaining how praying a painting revealed a secret

An object label in a museum describing a painting called 'Allegory of Faith'

A painting displayed in the Ashmolen Museum in Oxford. It shows a woman holding a chalice and a cross or crucifix.

An xray of this painting reveals that it was originally painted with the eucharist - a reference to Catholic beliefs - but was then painted over perhaps to appeal to a Protestant buyer...
@ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social

A museum panel explaining how touching objects causes material damage

A museum panel explaining how scientific research can determine whether objects are fake or forgeries

Really great exhibition on museum conservation work at the @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social in Oxford - the amazing work of conservators and heritage science is often hidden from visitors

View across museum gallery with densely packed display cases towards wooden crest pole carved with faces.

Final few days to book for 'Who Owns Museum Collections? And what should we do with them?' with Prof Laura Van Broekhoven (Pitt Rivers Museum), Dr Nicholas Cullinan OBE (British Museum), Mr Neil Curtis (University of Aberdeen), Dr Errol Francis (Culture&) & Dr Xa Sturgis (Ashmolean).

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Excited to be at the @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social today to learn about their current professional museum practice concerning global material culture and decolonisation.

**Call for Papers** Public History in an Age of Anxiety CPH Annual Conference, Belfast, 2025

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Our latest survey on the Conditions for North-South and East-West Cooperation is open and we need your views! We're inviting civic society organisations and local authorities in NI and ROI to get involved.
crossborder.ie/news/we-need...
@benrosher.bsky.social @anthonysoares.bsky.social
#research

'A flukey purchase': the curious story of the Fonthill vase Here's how one of the rarest pieces of Chinese porcelain in the world ended up in the National Museum of Ireland

'A flukey purchase': Siobhán Doyle on how the Fonthill vase, one of the rarest pieces of Chinese porcelain in the world, ended up in @nmireland.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

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We need to be cautious about culture.
While inequalities of workforce & audience remain unaddressed, the positive contribution culture makes to society can never be fully realised.

An up-to-date look at the precarious situation of art workers today.
Out now!
#creativeindustries #booksky

Looking forward to this timely conference on Saturday -

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Our next MCHRI seminar (Material & Cultural Heritages of Religion in Ireland - snappy, I know) is on 1 April, online via MS Teams, from 5pm-6.30pm. All are most welcome! Please RT & share! @catholicrs.bsky.social @catholicismsem.bsky.social @jdmccafferty.bsky.social forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Image of four copies of Siblinghood and Sociability in Nineteenth-Century Ulster by Shannon Devlin and some lovely flowers.

A copy of Siblinghood and Sociability in Nineteenth-Century Ulster by Shannon Devlin against a blue sky.

Happy publication week! Delighted (& slightly terrified) my first book is out in the wild for everyone to read 😂 Had so much fun going down the rabbit hole researching these families and hope that’s evident on the page #histfam