@iaphistorians.bsky.social
The IAPH is the organisation for professional & graduate historians within and outside the academy. The #IAPH directory lists #historians and their related subject areas #Skystorians #History #AcademicSky #Speirgorm #Ireland #Research
Many thanks to brilliant @clodaghfinn.bsky.social in @irishexaminer.bsky.social for highlighting our #womensgrassrootsactivism project on eve of #IWD2026. Great to have work of @soroptimistgbi.bsky.social & #ICA acknowledged & remembered @whaireland.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
and though #IHSA now in its 77th year is organised for students by students, as a peer support, it always has some of the most interesting and intesectional #IrishHistory so watch out for 2027! Thanks to our organisers @maynoothuniversity.ie for hosting this year, a lovely event with great keynotes
After many years of service to #IHSA Executive Committee 1950ihsa.jimdosite.com our wonderful colleague & Chair has stepped down. Wishing @sarahannebuckley.bsky.social our sincere thanks 4 encouraging & supporting next gen #Irish #historians #skystorians. We will miss you! #IrishStudies #Speirgorm
TCD Library is recruiting a Senior Bibliographer to help catalogue the Fagel Collection! This is a fabulous professional opportunity to work on one of Europe's great early modern private libraries. Closing 10 March at noon. Full details available at www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies
📢 Free online teacher CPD!
Join our Digimap for Schools session with Ordnance Survey on 16 June 🗺️
Whether you’re a new or experienced user, we’ll show you how to use data collection and tables to bring this versatile tool into your classroom.
🔗 Book your place: bit.ly/3OAUvtC
UCD School of Archaeology supports an SEO for commercial archaeology in Ireland. It would support better employment conditions for young archaeologists and be of benefit to our discipline
On Thursday 5 March at 4.30 our visiting Boston College Irish Studies scholar, Marcus Breen, will be speaking about 'The Struggle for Meaning in Irish Cultural Studies: Kneecap and Sinners'. All welcome in-person (Lanyon 01/052) or online. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
The Edward Worth Library, Dublin, is offering two short-term research fellowships of between 1 week and 1 month between Jun and Nov 2026 to encourage research relevant to its collection of c. 4,300 books, left to Dr Steevens’ Hospital by Dublin physician Edward Worth (1676-1733).
#histmed
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...
A reminder that our 2026 PGR Bursary and Essay Prizes are currently open for submission - you can read reports from our 2025 Bursary awardees now on our website:
irishstudies.co.uk
An exhibition on the early years of Fianna Fáil in Co. Kerry and supported by a Commemorations Bursary from the RIA will go on display at Kerry library branches during February and March.
Find more on this exhibition: https://owenoshea.ie/new-exhibition-on-early-years-of-fianna-fail-in-kerry/
The roof timbers in Saint Mary’s Collegiate Church Youghal which have been carbon dated to 1170. Likely built by shipwrights so essentially an upside down boat. www.patrickcomerford.com/2021/08/sain... #speirgorm
'Here in Ireland, in Europe and further afield, we are witnessing a deregulatory agenda cloaked in the language of simplification. Across the world, right-wing political forces are working to dismantle decades of environmental and social progress.'
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
'These vast and oppressive buildings, designed to isolate as much to treat, remain among the most imposing architectural relics of the State ... It is this uneasy inheritance that underpins Killeen's exhibition.'
📰Our thanks to Enniscorthy Guardian for this beautiful spread on Walls of Containment.
"Munsther Irish"
One for @darach.bsky.social
Restored Peatlands Could Become Carbon Sinks Within Decades eos.org/articles/res...
RIP Jesse Jackson.
Please do share this doctoral opportunity with MA/MSt students - four years of AHRC funding to work on the history of children's play in Wales, supervised by me and the lovely and brilliant Dr Jacky Tyrie. Any questions get in touch! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Explore the AHA’s Resource Library, with hundreds of resources developed or vetted by the AHA and our partners. Our resources range from classroom syllabi, to archival documents from the Civil War, to standards and guidelines for the discipline, and more.
Great to see a new tranche of records has been published on
on www.irishgenealogy.ie, so you can now access the following:
Birth records – 1864 to 1925
Marriage records – 1845 to 1950
Death records – 1864 to 1975
#IrishGenealogy #IrishFamilyHistory #Genealogy #FamilyHistory
👀Funding available for #Humanities research and engagement.
📣 We’re #hiring! AK1 Photographic Collections 📸
The National Library of Ireland is recruiting an Assistant Keeper Grade 1 to help care for and develop our Photographic Collections.
🗓️ #Apply by 3pm, 27 Feb 2026 via our website: https://www.nli.ie/about-us/working-national-library-ireland
Friends! Do you teach/ design assessments in humanities subjects that tend to engage writing as a form of assessment? Have you been exploring new ways of doing this in an age of ChatGPT rather than returning to exams? If you would like to share your experiences in UL in April, please let me know!
The new issue of Labour History Review is out now, online and in print
@livunipress.bsky.social
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Date for your diary - join us Join us for this online training session on 28th April, hosted by the @ihrlibrary.bsky.social team, which will bring together a panel of historians, librarians and subject specialists to discuss the History of Emotions
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Just a week left to apply for our Members Bursary Fund - details below
Our @glasnevincemetery.bsky.social @historytcd.bsky.social Spring Lecture Series is live. Theme is 'Work and working in 19th & 20th century #Dublin' - please RT. Speakers @antoniahart.bsky.social @dublincity.bsky.social @drdeefoley.bsky.social & Conor Dodd formerly Glasnevin.
Digital Archivist at Assistant Keeper Grade 2 Level,
Digital Collections Department,
in the National Library of Ireland www.nli.ie/sites/defaul... #JobFairy #Speirgorm #Archives #Skystorians
Assistant Keeper Grade 1 Level,
Photographic Collections, of the National Library of Ireland www.nli.ie/sites/defaul... #JobFairy #Speirgorm #Skystorians #Archive
Need help submitting your paper for our ARA 2026 conference? Here it is - a webinar on Wed 28 January at noon and/or a step by step tutorial video - details here www.archives.org.uk/training-eve...
Deadline for submissions is 13 Feb 2026