Max as always the most popular visitor to @uniofgalwaylib.bsky.social - he's kind of a big deal.
04.12.2025 14:02 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
#IreVPor #ronaldo
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Out of the Western World: 50 Years of the Druid Theatre Archive
Barry Houlihan, Druid archivist and co-editor of Druid Theatre 1975-2025: 50 Years of New Irish Plays, on preserving the past
Writing in the Irish Times today about preserving and sharing the work of @druidtheatre.bsky.social over 50 years and as documented through it's archive. Always a real privilege to work on.
Out of the Western World - 50 Years of the Druid Archive
www.irishtimes.com/culture/stag...
07.11.2025 16:02 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Out of the Western World: 50 Years of the Druid Theatre Archive
Barry Houlihan, Druid archivist and co-editor of Druid Theatre 1975-2025: 50 Years of New Irish Plays, on preserving the past
Writing in the Irish Times today about preserving and sharing the work of @druidtheatre.bsky.social over 50 years and as documented through it's archive. Always a real privilege to work on.
Out of the Western World - 50 Years of the Druid Archive
www.irishtimes.com/culture/stag...
07.11.2025 16:02 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
βOne of the oldest urban centres on the planetβ: Gazaβs rich history in ruins
The territoryβs ancient heritage has too often been ignored. As we mourn incalculable human losses, learning about its past can help us better understand the present
βOne of the oldest urban centres on the planetβ: Gazaβs rich history in ruins.
My @guardian piece on the erasure of Gaza's past. As we mourn incalculable human losses, learning about its past can help us better understand the present
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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The things you find! South Limerick Jnr A hurling champs 2008.
#throwback
12.10.2025 21:16 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
How Brian Friel's work went from Ballybeg to the world
The great gift in Friel's writing is its ability to resonate with audiences across generations and borders
Remembering Brian Friel on his 10th Anniversary - I wrote about his great works and legacies in this new article on
@rtebrainstorm.bsky.social @rte.ie
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
10.10.2025 13:40 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
How Brian Friel's work went from Ballybeg to the world
The great gift in Friel's writing is its ability to resonate with audiences across generations and borders
How Brian Friel's work went from Ballybeg to the world. The great legacy of Friel's writing is its ability to resonate with audiences across generations and borders, writes @barryhoulihan.bsky.social @uniofgalwaylib.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
10.10.2025 13:43 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
How Brian Friel's work went from Ballybeg to the world
The great gift in Friel's writing is its ability to resonate with audiences across generations and borders
Remembering Brian Friel on his 10th Anniversary - I wrote about his great works and legacies in this new article on
@rtebrainstorm.bsky.social @rte.ie
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
10.10.2025 13:40 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Lea Ypi goes in search of lost dignity
After an image of her grandmother triggered an online firestorm, the political philosopher sought answers in Albaniaβs state archives. She tells us wh...
One photograph. A honeymoon in 1941. And a firestorm that tore through Albanian social media.
@leaypi.bsky.social tells Pete Hoskin why she spent years hunting for the truth about her grandmother:
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How to Shape a Story with Felicity Hayes-McCoy
Finding the right form can make or break even the best writing. Explore new creative directions in this relaxed and practical workshop.
So pleased to have been invited to give this workshop at the Dingle Literary Festival on Sat Nov 22nd. It's going to be a wonderful weekend. There's a link in the post if you'd like to book your ticket to join us
dinglelit.ie/news/event/h...
#SpΓ©irgorm #books #writingcommunity #Irish #writing ππ
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So great to see this in print! A real pleasure to work on this book with @druidtheatre.bsky.social @methuendrama.bsky.social and of course with the best of co-editors of Patrick Lonergan and MΓ‘irΓ©ad NΓ ChrΓ³nΓn.
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So great to see this in print! A real pleasure to work on this book with @druidtheatre.bsky.social @methuendrama.bsky.social and of course with the best of co-editors of Patrick Lonergan and MΓ‘irΓ©ad NΓ ChrΓ³nΓn.
19.09.2025 08:17 β π 14 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0
New collection of Druid plays | Druid Theatre
Marking Druid's 50th anniversary, this new book collects six of the company's most impactful plays together in one volume for the first time.
The book is now available to order in a variety of formats.
We recommend ordering direct from Methuen or via Galway's wonderful booksellers, @kennysbookshop.bsky.social or Charlie Byrne's Bookshop.
Find out more about the book on our website: tinyurl.com/mwtvnmx5
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Edited by Barry Houlihan, Patrick Lonergan, and MΓ‘irΓ©ad NΓ ChrΓ³inΓn, each play is accompanied by a short introduction and production images (many of them never published before) from Druid's archive at @uniofgalway.bsky.social / @uniofgalwaylib.bsky.social.
Published by @methuendrama.bsky.social.
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A copy of the book stacked on some other copies of the book. Behind are some show posters.
It's publication day of our new book!
Druid Theatre 1975-2025
50 Years of New Irish Plays
Marking our 50th anniversary, this new book collects six of Druid's most impactful plays together in one volume for the first time.
17.09.2025 15:43 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 1 π 1
From the recent launch of the Paddy McMenamin archive of Long Kesh prison journals from the 1970s, all now digitally available online
digital.library.universityofgalway.ie/p/ms/categor...
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Long Kesh - what was life in a 1970s internment camp like? | Newstalk
The University of Galway has unveiled a new digital archive revealing what life was like in an in...
Great to have been on the @seanmoncrieff.bsky.social
Show on @newstalkfm.bsky.social this week talking about our new archive of Republican Prisoners in Long Kesh in the 1970s - The Paddy McMenamin archive.
Link to audio: www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...
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Our medieval curator Alison Ray introduces Rawlinson Bodleian Library MS. Rawl. D. 252...a 15th Century necromancer's journal.
This manuscript contains spells written in Latin and Middle English, and would have served as a reference for a professional sorcerer.
#MedievalMonday
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On the show today: What now for the Occupied Territories Bill?; @henrymckean.bsky.social on early days in school; Love in the workplace; @kristin-hannah.bsky.social ; @jamesproclaims.bsky.social reviews 'The Girlfriend' 'Task' &
'The Paper'; @barryhoulihan.bsky.social on a Long Kesh journal...
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University of Galway launches digital archive of Long Kesh journals - an amazing archive of photos and prison journals from inside Long Kesh of the mid 1970s.
www.universityofgalway.ie/about-us/new...
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University of Galway launches digital archive of Long Kesh journals - an amazing archive of photos and prison journals from inside Long Kesh of the mid 1970s.
www.universityofgalway.ie/about-us/new...
09.09.2025 14:26 β π 7 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
Oral History of Ireland's travelling circus
Dr Barry Houlihan of University of Galway is collecting stories from Ireland's travelling circuses and listeners flood in with their stories.
Joe Duffy may have retired but still fun to be interviewed on RTΓ Liveline today talking about our oral history archive of the Irish Show People. Link to audio at link below:
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
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Oral History of Ireland's travelling circus
Dr Barry Houlihan of University of Galway is collecting stories from Ireland's travelling circuses and listeners flood in with their stories.
Joe Duffy may have retired but still fun to be interviewed on RTΓ Liveline today talking about our oral history archive of the Irish Show People. Link to audio at link below:
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
03.09.2025 19:47 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
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all opinions my own, not my employer's
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Bingham Early Career Fellow in Constitutional Studies at Balliol College, University of Oxford | Researching Irish, UK, & EU politics focusing on Northern Ireland | Usual disclaimer
From Donegal. Profile: https://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/person/conor-j-kelly
Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955 (Liverpool University Press, April 2026)
Historian & writer. Britain, Ireland, empire, music. Latest book is on John Cale's Paris 1919 for 33 1/3. Next: histories of African people/music in Ireland. βPipe-sucking radicalβ-Mail on Sunday. Views here are my own, not my employer's.
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Public historian #IrishSlaveholders, genealogist, lover of justice, neurodiversity, an teanga, planting trees & music. https://irishhistorians.ie/members/martine-brennan/ https://tinyurl.com/4t76e8ep
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Founded in 1973, the Oral History Society is dedicated to collecting, preserving and promoting the use of recorded memories. Run by volunteers, the OHS plays a key role in supporting and developing oral history practice in the both the UK and abroad
Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at Maynooth University
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Researching the relationship between architecture, war, and national belonging, writing about Jewish architects during the Holocaust
