🎤 In Conversation: Exploring Travelling Culture & Craft
🗓️ Aug 7 | 6–7PM 📍 Collins Barracks, Dublin
Hear from Traveller artists & curators on heritage, craft & identity.
🎟️ Free – Book via www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
#TravellerCulture #IrishCraft #Mincéirí

National Museum of Ireland are hiring! www.museum.ie/en-ie/about/...

Chinese Welfare Association workshop at Mount Stewart with the Centre for Public History, Queen's University Belfast

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The mid-8th-century ‘Irish Gospels of St Gall’; the Evangelist Mark and the incipit/beginning of his Gospel. St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 51, pp 78–9. Photo: Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen

Ancient Manuscripts, Modern Science!
What links medieval monks, secret ink recipes & ancient cow DNA?
Learn how Scientists used X-ray technology and genetic sequencing to uncover the secrets of 1,200-year-old Irish manuscripts in Switzerland
Read more: museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...
#NMIBlog #MuseumBlog

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YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies Mark McGowan: Honouring Indigenous Aid for Famine Ireland from Canada, 1847

If you missed Mark McGowan's talk this week on 'Honouring Indigenous aid to Famine Ireland from Canada in 1847', co-hosted with @publichistoryqub.bsky.social, there is a recording available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHC3... #IrishHistory #CanadianHistory

Fantastic to celebrate with this year’s @publichistoryqub.bsky.social MA students as they share the great work they’ve been doing during their 30-day internships. And thanks as always to our many amazing partners who provide these wonderful opportunities

Mark the 10 year anniversary of the Marriage Equality referendum | National Museum of Ireland Welcome to the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin & Castlebar covering Archaeology, Decorative Arts, Folk & Country Life, & Natural History.FREE Exhibitions

Great initiative by @nmireland.bsky.social to mark the 10 year anniversary of the Marriage Equality referendum! www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/W...

On 27 May Irish Studies will be co-hosting with @publichistoryqub.bsky.social and @irishheritagetrust.bsky.social a talk by Prof Mark McGowan on 'Honouring Indigenous Aid for Famine Ireland from Canada in 1847'. All welcome: register at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mark-mcgow... @olwenpurdue.bsky.social

Join us on 27 May for a talk by Prof Mark McGowan, Uni of Toronto, on Indigenous aid to Ireland during the Great Famine. Cohosted with @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social and @irishheritage.bsky.social . Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mark-mcgow...

Teaching about the Holocaust in Northern Ireland

Interested in how your school might engage in teaching about the Holocaust? Sign up for this free one-day workshop for teachers with the Holocaust Educational Trust, 23 April. www.qub.ac.uk/research-cen...

@royalhistsoc.org announces its Scouloudi Public History Grants - 4 awards of up to £1000 each royalhistsoc.org/research_fun...

Eulalie Mandeville, Her Legacy, and the Legal Archive in Antebellum New Orleans

Join us Thursday at 4 to hear Kimberly Welch, Vanderbilt, talk about Eulalie Mandeville, her legacy and the the legal archive in Antebellum New Orleans www.qub.ac.uk/research-cen...

Three days left to submit your abstract. Public History in an Age of Anxiety conference, Belfast, 10-11 Sept 25. *Please repost*

All set for Prof Alex Lichenstein’s paper on his work with community museums to curate an anti-lynching exhibition

Interested in an MA in Public History? Where better to study than in Belfast! Want to hear more? Sign up now to join our information webinar this Monday at 5pm BST (noon EST)
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Unmasked: Curating a Public Anti-lynching Exhibition Centre for Public History seminar with Alex Lichtenstein, Professor of History, Indiana University

‘UNMASKED: Curating a Public History Anti-lynching Exhibition’. Join us this Friday for our 4pm seminar with Prof Alex Lichenstein, Indiana University. www.qub.ac.uk/research-cen...

YouTube video by National Museum of Ireland Join the Conversation at the National Museum of Ireland in 2025

Learn about the exciting plans across the National Museum of Ireland's locations in Dublin and Mayo for 2025. www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/J...

This fantastic new Public History grant has just been launched by the @royalhistsoc.org - four awards of £1K to support historians working with & for public audiences royalhistsoc.org/research_fun...

Images of the four National Museum of Ireland locations, with the text- Join our Team.

We're seeking applications from suitable candidates to
fill the post of Collections Assistant in the Registration Department- Closing Date for Applications- Friday, 28th March 2025- www.museum.ie/en-IE/About/...

Fantastic panel on difficult and entangled histories of the Holocaust, slavery, empire and the NI Troubles with a great paper by our own Dr Briony Widdis

Professor Margaret Topping, Professor Olwen Purdue, Gordon Lyons, Emma Little Pengelly and Anthea M. Hartig.

Professor Margaret Topping, Professor Olwen Purdue, Gordon Lyons, Emma Little Pengelly and Secretary Lonnie G Bunch III.

Professor Olwen Purdue.

Secretary Lonnie G Bunch III and Professor Olwen Purdue.

Yesterday, we co-hosted a symposium on ‘Different Communities, Difficult Histories’ in Washington DC.

This fascinating event highlighted the role NI can play in helping the world develop difficult shared narratives.

Find out more here: ow.ly/jALX50Vgxrc

Great start to our Divided Communities: Difficult Histories conference in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History as Secretary Lonnie Bunch reflects on the need for empathy and authenticity in museums

Tomorrow, 11th, in the National Museum of American History we’re hosting the ‘Divided Communities: Difficult Histories’ conference. Never been more relevant www.qub.ac.uk/research-cen...

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

Opening of a web page announcing the Society's election of 215 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Member following the latest meeting of the RHS Council on 7 February 2025.

Today we welcome 215 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and PGR Members who join @royalhistsoc.bsky.social: bit.ly/3EV5fhJ

The Society is an international membership and our new Fellows and Members practice #history in 15 countries. Applications to join are welcome 👇

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Divided Communities: Difficult Histories

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We’d love to join the list if there’s room for another?

Live in Belfast? Interested in doing some oral history with your community? Register now for our free workshop, Linen Hall Library, 25 February. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-...

Irish language heritage project to tell hidden history of Gaeilgeoirí in the 1970s Budding archivists from Queen’s University Belfast are delving into unseen documents, photos, and stories

Great work by some of our MA in Public History students and an amazing opportunity for them to experience working with local cultural heritage initiatives www.irishnews.com/news/norther...