We’re so proud of our very own Hayley Brabazon, whose blog post on LibFocus was highly commended in the CONUL 2025 Library Assistant Blog awards.
A brilliant example of insight and creativity in library engagement 🎉
10.10.2025 09:10 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
‼️🚨 one week left! 🚨‼️
Don’t forget folks, abstracts for SHoW 2025 are due on 30 June!!
All the details can be found here:
www.show.org.uk
23.06.2025 20:18 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A photo of a smiling Joe Rodgers with text that reads: Due to the sad loss of our friend and colleague Joe Rodgers, our three libraries will be closed on Friday 13th June.
Due to the sad loss of our friend and colleague Joe Rodgers, our three libraries will be closed on Friday 13th June.
09.06.2025 11:44 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Really enjoyed @hayleybrabazon.bsky.social paper for @whaireland.bsky.social #WHAI2025 conference which asked key questions about #archives & capturing history of emotions & often hidden gendered experiences of trauma esp. re poorer women activists in Irish Revolution. Fascinating project.
27.05.2025 17:37 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
Thank you so much for your kind words Caitríona! that’s made my day 😊
27.05.2025 17:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks so much to @nearfm.ie for having me in this morning to chat about my PhD research @dublincityuni.bsky.social, all things women in war, and the character of the knight in the Canterbury Tales! A really enjoyable conversation with Berni Dwan and Dr Jackie Uí Chionna!
21.05.2025 12:36 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Happy History in Your Hands Awards day!
With three winners from each school, and renowned Irish footballer Niall Quinn handing out the awards we're so excited to celebrate everyone involved in the project - especially the brilliant students!
Stay tuned for updates..
@dculibrary.bluesky.com
15.05.2025 13:30 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 2
Remember to get those abstracts in for SHoW 2025!
14.05.2025 11:39 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Catching up on reading is infinitely better with a bit of sun. Finally making a dent in the stack ☀️
13.05.2025 14:37 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📣 Spotted! It’s great to see Mary MacSwiney by Leeann Lane (@lloislanel.bsky.social) on display in Cork city.
Thank you to the Waterstones Cork team for the gorgeous table.
#MaryMacSwiney #LeeannLane #IrishHistory #WomensHistory #WomensBiographies #Cork @waterstones.bsky.social
29.04.2025 14:00 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Ohhh this looks brill!!
28.04.2025 19:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dr Leeann Lane and David McCullagh in conversation.
Delighted to celebrate the launch of Mary MacSwiney by my brilliant supervisor and dear friend, Dr Leeann Lane, this evening. A powerful and nuanced biography of a formidable and often misunderstood woman.
Congratulations, @lloislanel.bsky.social — so well deserved! @ucdpress.bsky.social
14.04.2025 22:07 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Two great opportunities for researchers interested in global wartime history!
The ERC Synergy project BLOCKADE is hiring:
🔹 1 Postdoctoral Researcher (3 years)
🔹 1 PhD (4 years)
More details here: www.blockades.eu
#AcademicChatter #Postdoc
09.04.2025 13:12 — 👍 6 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks so much for coming along 😄
09.04.2025 13:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Thanks so much for coming and presenting Lynsey, it was fascinating
06.04.2025 20:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks so much Frank!! And thank you for coming along and presenting, it was great to meet you! (A dark night in foxford is on the listening list next)
06.04.2025 15:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On behalf of the organisers, we want to thank all of our speakers, attendees, chairs, keynotes, and the DCU School of History and Geography for supporting our conference. It was an absolute highlight of our PhD experience to have the pleasure of organising and hosting this event. Now, to the pub!
05.04.2025 19:18 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
Thank you to you and Séamus for coming along!! I’m so glad we could make his first conference such a good experience! Academia should have more babies in attendance as standard 😂
05.04.2025 19:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you Leeann! ❤️
05.04.2025 14:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
He absolutely is!
05.04.2025 09:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A photo of Fredrika and Hayley.
SHoW's @ikapika.bsky.social is presenting today's keynote for the Navigating War and Violence in twentieth-century Ireland conference ( @nwavc2025.bsky.social), which is co-organised by @hayleybrabazon.bsky.social. Fredrika's paper is titled 'Colourising Conflict'.
04.04.2025 11:12 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Our opening addressed have begun by @hayleybrabazon.bsky.social and Professor James Kelly! @dublincityuni.bsky.social
04.04.2025 09:10 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We’re all set and ready to go at DCU for today’s event on war and violence in 20th-century Ireland!
Name badges prepped, tote bags stacked, and great discussions ahead. Looking forward to welcoming everyone! @hayleybrabazon.bsky.social @avavalis.bsky.social
04.04.2025 07:32 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The calm before a day of civil war, revolution, and contested memory— excited to welcome everyone to @dublincityuni.bsky.social this morning for @nwavc2025.bsky.social
04.04.2025 06:38 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Only one more sleep!!
The final preparations are underway for tomorrow. We can’t wait to welcome friends and colleague from over 15 institutions across the island of Ireland, Britain and Europe!
For anyone who hasn’t registered and is interested in coming along, all the details are below
03.04.2025 14:31 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Honoured to have been nominated as part of the brilliant History in Your Hands team for the @dublincityuni.bsky.social
President’s Award for Engagement. Grateful to work alongside such dedicated colleagues. ✨
03.04.2025 10:26 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Really enjoyed contributing to the New Gendered Global Histories of Veterancy panel today @muahi.bsky.social!
Massive thanks to @donalh.bsky.social for the kind invitation and for introducing us to the brilliant work of the COLVET project.
Lots to digest now!
02.04.2025 19:11 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Participants today include our own @profalisonsfell.bsky.social @sdanisimova.bsky.social @hbuxton.bsky.social @jelenadj.bsky.social, soon-to-be member @hayleybrabazon.bsky.social and of course @donalh.bsky.social #milwelfhist #veteran
02.04.2025 09:59 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
🚨 4 days to go! 🚨
We have only 4 days until Navigating War and Violence at @dublincityuni.bsky.social St Patrick’s College!
Follow this link to register shorturl.at/CCFDJ.
Registration includes lunch on both days, as well as tea, coffee & refreshments.
See you all very soon!
31.03.2025 10:26 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Researcher, likes data, graphs, infographics and telling stories with data. PhD in political analysis from Sussex uni - like all social science subjects. Mainly post about political analysis and my research within the Hastings & Rye area. Fabian member.
A late night of FREE cultural discovery across Dublin on Fri 19 Sept 2025, brought to you by Dublin City Council.
Historian & history communicator - modern, social, medical, women's & Irish.
Feminist. Headstrong, obstinate girl.
Probably wearing pink.
Historian @Trinity College Dublin and Dublin Cemeteries Trust / Glasnevin Cemetery since 2015. Researching 19th and 20th century Irish history especially death, burial and poverty. Also Public History
British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own.
Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
Associate Prof in IR, DCU, research EU security & defence, occasional runner, dad of triplets, mo thuairim fèin
Community Radio for Northside Dublin. The official account for Near FM 90.3. Reposts are not an endorsement. nearfm.ie/livestream RCN: 20205453
Bringing together researchers in Dublin City University (Ireland) working on a wide range of subjects, including peace, security, migration, international law, and conflict resolution.
www.dcu.ie/conflict-institute
Co-Director, DCU Conflict Institute
@dcu-conflict.bsky.social
Dublin City University
Peace, conflict, development, and more
Queer Historian 🌈| PhD: Male Homosexuality and Irish Migration 1880-1960 @ QUB | Views expressed are not only my own, but are objectively correct 🇮🇪🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
Assistant Professor at DCU School of English working on Irish and Caribbean literature
ellenhowley.com
King's College London. Director, Freeman Air & Space Institute; military historian prone to talking about aeroplanes. Lapsed pianist & hockey player. Views here entirely my own.
Professor of Modern Irish literature and program director, Le Moyne College. Irish lit/trauma scholar, mom, wife, friend, ally, and former Dean (nobody’s perfect). Past President of ACIS; current series editor, Irish line, Syracuse UP.
Editor, Irish Studies Review. Emeritus Professor of English and Irish Literature.
Senior Lecturer Department of War Studies, King’s College London. Research interests: Russian foreign, security policy esp Russia-China. Nationalism. Genocide. International Law. Peacekeeping.
Reader in Defence Studies, King's College London, at the Joint Services Command & Staff College. Sometime writer on warfare and strategic thought, particularly Germany in the First World War. Occasional runner of longish distances. Views my own.
Professor, Irish and Victorian Studies, anticolonialism, internationalisms, the gothic. Director of the Weissman Center at Mount Holyoke College. New Yorker in Massachusetts. She/her.
