Congrats to Dr Shonagh Joice who today defended her excellent PhD dissertation on 'Resilience, Adaptability and Anxiety: Women’s experiences of shipbuilding deindustrialisation in Glasgow and Belfast, 1970-2000'.
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Congrats to Dr Shonagh Joice who today defended her excellent PhD dissertation on 'Resilience, Adaptability and Anxiety: Women’s experiences of shipbuilding deindustrialisation in Glasgow and Belfast, 1970-2000'.
26.02.2026 16:41 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Unfortunately the recording didn't quite work this time but it *was* great (apologies). Hopefully Neil will be popping up again soon!
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Our next USIHS seminar will be on Thursday 5th March (next week!) when we'll welcome Antonia Hart to speak on Ulster Women in Business & Bankruptcy, 1888-1922. All welcome!
www.eventbrite.ie/e/usihs-ulst...
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...
Our Irish Studies seminar programme for Spring 2026 www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
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Our Annual MacCurtain/Cullen prize is now open for entries. The competition is open to current or recent BA or MA/MPhil students. closing date for entries is 1 March 2026.
womenshistoryassociation.com/grants-prizes/
Susan Flavin gave us a sneak peek of this film and her research last year - and it was excellent! Get along to Dublin Castle on 6 February if you can!
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19 Feb: Neil Murphy on 'Violence, colonialism and the mid-Tudor monarchy: Ireland in context' 5 March: Antonia Hart on 'Ulster women in business and bankruptcy, 1888-1922' 23 April: David Dickson on 'The Foyle, the Chesapeake, and a fifty-year transatlantic conversation'
Our spring 2026 seminar series programme is here! We'll be adding eventbrite links soon so you can join us online or in person - all are welcome!
First up we have Neil Murphy on 19 February at 6pm. Neil will speak on 'Violence, colonialism and the mid-Tudor monarchy: Ireland in context'.
We are delighted this afternoon to announced the CFP for the 36th annual WHAI conference 2026. The conference will be held at Mary I Limerick on 29 & 30 May 2026. Closing dates for submissions on the theme of 'Gain' is 31 Jan. 2026.
sites.google.com/view/whai202...
We are delighted to announce that we'll be hosting the SSNCI conference in Maynooth next June. Call for papers attached. Please spread far and wide!
08.12.2025 08:52 — 👍 36 🔁 41 💬 3 📌 5Just a reminder that this seminar is tonight! You are very welcome to join us in person in 27 University Square, Queen's University Belfast, or online by signing up to the link below!
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Our next seminar will be on 4th December when we are really looking forward to hearing Henry Jefferies speak on Irish women and the Reformation! If you'd like to join us for this (Christmassy?) talk, you can sign up for online or attend in person. More 👇
www.eventbrite.ie/e/usihs-semi...
If you missed Sophie's talk last week, just head to our website and you can catch up! @sophcocooper.bsky.social
19.11.2025 09:04 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
NEW QUEER HISTORY ARTICLE from me & @charlielynch.bsky.social!
muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...
In a change to our planned seminar series, our next seminar will be Sophie Cooper speaking on 'Building to feel ‘at home’: Embedding/embedded memory in the built environments of Belfast and the diaspora'. Thursday 13 Nov, *online* at 7pm. @sophcocooper.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.ie/e/sophie-coo...
Exciting news! Filming will soon start on a Bad Bridgets film, inspired by Elaine Farrell & Leanne McCormick's great book. We're delighted to have both Elaine & Leanne on our USIHS Committee (for many reasons, this is just today's extra one) @badbridgetbook.bsky.social
deadline.com/2025/10/dais...
An important contribution on metal detecting & archaeology in England and Wales.
(N.B.: Metal detecting is illegal in Ireland, & subject to fines & even imprisonment, under the National Monuments Acts)
#MedievalSky
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On Monday 17 November we'll be joined by Luca Bertolani Azeredo (Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples), who will speak on 'The Enniskillen Horse: illegality, legitimacy and the birth of Irish paramilitarism'. All welcome, in-person or online. Registration is at: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
27.10.2025 19:11 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0If you missed Seán's talk the other week, the recording is now on our website! usihs36.com
27.10.2025 15:56 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1Thanks so much to Dr Seán Ó Hoireabhárd for such a fascinating (and beautifully illustrated!) paper to USIHS last night. It was an excellent way to begin this year's seminar series. The recording will be up on the website soon! @hoireabhard.bsky.social
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Our first seminar will be Seán Ó Hoireabhárd (Maynooth University), When Ulster became Ulster and Meath became Meath: The divorce of the Northern and Southern Uí Néill in the Central Middle Ages.
Sign up here! www.eventbrite.ie/e/usihs-semi...
@hoireabhard.bsky.social @irishhistsoc.bsky.social
Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies Seminars, Autumn 2025 Seminars usually take place in hybrid format on Thursdays at 6pm. In person seminars are hosted in the Institute of Irish Studies, 27 University Square, Queen’s University Belfast. Please sign up to the Eventbrite for a link to the Teams meeting – these will be circulated to the USIHS mailing list and on the USIHS Bluesky. Thursday 16 October: Seán Ó Hoireabhárd (Maynooth University), When Ulster became Ulster and Meath became Meath: The divorce of the Northern and Southern Uí Néill in the Central Middle Ages Thursday 13 November: Bridget Keown (University of Pittsburgh), title TBD Please note this seminar will be online only and will take place at 7pm (GMT). Thursday 4 December: Henry Jefferies (UU), Irish women and the Reformation All are welcome to join us! If you would like to join the USIHS mailing list, please get in touch – details can be found on the USIHS website (www.usihs36.com)
This semester's seminar series will begin in a few weeks!
All are very welcome to join us in person (27 University Square, QUB) or online. For more information, stay tuned to the USIHS Bluesky or head to our website usihs36.com
Programme and registration is now available for the 35th Irish Conference of Historians - Inner Lives and Outer Realities. Maynooth university, 12-13 September.
Please share widely.
stylised drawing of an hour glass attached to a microphone with A Historian's Life written underneath. Below is the logo of the Institute of Historical Research School of Advanced Study University of London
Even historians have a history. @lisapine.bsky.social launches her new @ihr.bsky.social podcast A Historian's Life, where historians talk about the histories they’ve explored and the lives they’ve lived. Listen to series 1 now.
www.history.ac.uk/podcasts/a-h...
This is a fantastic tour, highly recommend it #speirgorm #pride2025
26.06.2025 09:30 — 👍 25 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0Oein DeBhairduin's (@nmireland.bsky.social) talk 'Challenging the Narrative: Reclaiming Traveller Heritage in Ireland's National Collections' is now available to watch on our YouTube channel here: youtu.be/yhIroMkqoAw
26.06.2025 13:30 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Congratulations to Dr Ruth Duffy, @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social who is awarded an honourable mention in the Irish Historical Studies First Book Prize 2024 for her @livunipress.bsky.social book, 'Healthcare and the Troubles: the conflict experience of the Northern Ireland Health Service, 1968–1998'
28.05.2025 16:19 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1The board of Irish Historical Studies are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2024 First Book Prize is @hoireabhard.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie for his book 'The Medieval Irish kings and the English invasion', published by @livunipress.bsky.social. Congratulations Seán!
28.05.2025 16:16 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Delighted that The Medieval Irish kings & the English invasion has been chosen for the IHS first book prize for 2024!
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We are delighted that Dr Ruth Duffy has been awarded an honourable mention in the Irish Historical Studies First Book Prize 2024 for Healthcare and the Troubles! Congratulations, Ruth 🎉
Discover more about the book here:
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....