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Daniel O’Connell would have enjoyed his life being celebrated 250 years on, says historian The Liberator’s ancestral home in Kerry will hold a number of events from Wednesday to mark his anniversary

“I think O’Connell would love the attention.”

Our director, Prof Patrick Geoghegan, reflects on Daniel O’Connell’s enduring legacy in the @IrishTimes.

Read the full article:
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

#OConnell250 #IrishHistory #CivilRights

O’Connell 250 Symposium O’Connell 250 Symposium: Liberty, Democracy, and the Struggle for Human Rights

🇮🇪 O’Connell 250 Symposium: Liberty, Democracy & the Struggle for Human Rights

Join leading voices as we reflect on O’Connell’s legacy and today’s human rights challenges.

📍 Trinity College Dublin
🗓️ 29–30 July

🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/1383923655...

#DanielOConnell250 #HumanRights #HubMatters

Joe Humphreys: You can win at life by being a good loser Unthinkable: Toxic positivity may be exacerbating a sense that we’re losing in life

“You can win at life by being a good loser.”

Joe Humphreys (@irishtimes.com) talks to Dr Krzysztof Rowiński (School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies) & others on how toxic positivity, redemptive failure myths & inequality distort how we see failure.

Read now: bit.ly/4lDRVP7

Throwback to an inspiring day at @tlrhub.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social for the “Stone Industry in Britain and Ireland, 1700–1800” conference!

So excited to see the feature of From That Small Island at the Galway Film Festival. Thanks to the great audience who joined us on such a sunny afternoon for our screening & Q&A. ☀️🤩☀️
@voicestcd.bsky.social
@galwayfilm.bsky.social
@tlrhub.bsky.social
@tcddublin.bsky.social

Finished! A big thank you the speakers, chairs, Rob Shields @ualberta.bsky.social for his keynote, Prof Joseph Clarke and @historytcd.bsky.social for their support, Rike and the team @tlrhub.bsky.social for their help and @researchireland.ie for their support of @pduffy1.bsky.social's research.

Members of the Board of the International T. S. Eliot Society and Professor Philip Coleman. Back row: Ronald Schuchard, Megan Quigley, John Morgenstern. Middle row: David Chinitz, Ria Banerjee, John Whittier-Ferguson, Patrick Query. Front row: Vincent Sherry, Philip Coleman, Anthony Cuda, Frances Dickey.

We were honoured to host the 46th International #TSEliot Society Conference this July — the first time the event was held in Ireland!

Scholars gathered to explore Eliot’s legacy, including his links to Ireland, poetry, performance & AI.

Learn more here: www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...

#TSEliot

A digital collage featuring five 19th-century women composers in grayscale, positioned in front of a pink and lavender watercolour background. Each woman is dressed in period clothing and holding or positioned near musical items such as sheet music or instruments. The title The Expansive Canvas appears on the left in white serif font.

🖌️ Submissions are open for The Expansive Canvas: Creative Palette!

Artists, writers, musicians, & dreamers of all ages are invited to respond to the music of 19th-century women composers.🎶

Deadline: 31 July 2025

www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...

@nicoleegrimes.bsky.social @sminews1.bsky.social

Make sure to book your tickets before Friday! fixr.co/event/fronti...
#frontiers #boundaries #borders #history #geography #anthropology #sociology #literature @tlrhub.bsky.social @historytcd.bsky.social @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social @langslitscultures.bsky.social @tcdsociology.bsky.social

🎨 🎼 The Expansive Canvas is more than a conference — it's a celebration! We're calling artists, musicians, poets, and creators of all kinds to respond to the music of women composers of the long 19th century. Submit to The Creative Palette! 🎨
📣 Open to all!
🔗 expansivecanvas.com/call-for-par...

YouTube video by Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities The Creative Palette – An Invitation to Imagine, Create, and Connect through Music

🎼 The Expansive Canvas is a 3-day international conference celebrating music by women composers of the long 19th century, and it’s inviting creative responses from beyond the concert hall.

📽️ Learn more in this short explainer: youtu.be/BSSRXfW_Rx0

@nicoleegrimes.bsky.social @sminews1.bsky.social

Three people smiling and examining historical documents at a table, surrounded by shelves of archival books and manuscripts. The atmosphere is warm and collaborative, highlighting the team effort behind the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland.

📜 Just launched: 175,000 new historical records are now available on the @virtualtreasury.bsky.social, including 60,000 names for family historians to explore in the new Population Portal.

Read more: www.tcd.ie/news_events/...

#IrishHistory #VirtualTreasury #DigitalArchives #VRTI #TrinityResearch

Blog 8: Signed with her mark: Women’s wills in local history journals - VOICES By Ella Mae Cromie In 1733, Catherine Deane left £2 to ‘the roman poor of the parish’ and £6 to her parish priests in her will (1). Fifty-five years before writing her final bequest, Catherine had bee...

🚨 New VOICES blog! Our intern Ella Mae Cromie reflects on her search for women's wills in local history journals and the discoveries it revealed.

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Frontiers before borders tickets on Friday, 11 Jul | Frontiers before borders | FIXR Buy tickets to Frontiers before borders on Friday, 11 Jul at Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute | FIXR

Online and in-person tickets for the Frontiers before borders conference at @tlrhub.bsky.social can be booked here: fixr.co/event/fronti... #frontiers #boundaries #identity #territory #rhetoric #borders

(PDF) Abstracts for Frontiers before borders conference, Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute, 11-12 July 2025 PDF | On Jun 20, 2025, Patrick Barry Duffy published Abstracts for Frontiers before borders conference, Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute, 11-12 July 2025 | Find, read and cit...

The #Frontiers before #borders conference on 11 and 12 July at @tlrhub.bsky.social and online is fast approaching. Keep tune for in-person and online tickets coming next week! Check out some of the abstracts of the exciting papers at the conference! www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Black and white portrait of James Joyce seated on a wooden chair. He is wearing a suit, a wide-brimmed hat, round glasses, and a striped tie. He gazes slightly away from the camera with a composed expression.

📚 Looking for a #Bloomsday listen? 🎧

In 'Correcting Joyce', Dr @samslote.bsky.social (School of English) explores James Joyce as editor, archivist, and "corrector" of his own work.

🎙️ Listen now: soundcloud.com/tlrhub/corre...

#JamesJoyce #TrinityLongRoomHub

Northside Today: “Trinity Talks” and “Hidden History” – Near FM – Listen Again

Ciarán speaks to Donie about the recent series of Trinity Talks “Dublin’s Hidden Histories”. Produced with @tlrhub.bsky.social and supported by @cnam-ie.bsky.social listenagain.org?p=55991

Image attached of writer and producer Bríona Nic Dhiarmada with series’ historical consultant and associate producer Jane Ohlmeyer and the wider production team

VOICES PI Jane Ohlmeyer was delighted to host the pre-screening of From That Small Island in TCD on June 6th. Tune in to the 4 part series on RTE 1 Sunday nights at 6:30.
@adaptcentre.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @tlrhub.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @rte.ie

Blog 7: From Handwritten Funeral Entries to Machine-Readable Texts – An internship opportunity using Transkribus to perform HTR - VOICES By Robin Dresel With increasing digitisation, more content becomes available to be processed through computational means. Regardless of how expansive the information on the internet is, a large amount...

Explore the latest VOICES blog by our intern Robin Dresel: he shares a guide on using Transkribus to turn handwritten Funeral Entries into digital texts.
@adaptcentre.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @tlrhub.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @transkribus.bsky.social

Trinity Talks: Dublin’s Hidden Histories, the full series produced with @tlrhub.bsky.social and funded by @cnam-ie.bsky.social can be heard here: listenagain.org?cat=20601

And we are done! Two fantastic days of Eighteenth Century papers and conviviality at @tlrhub.bsky.social. Finished up with a great keynote on political caricature by James Kelly.

ECIS conference all done until next year @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social Another fabulous day of papers, with my own personal highlight of chairing the wonderful @drtinamorin.bsky.social for today’s brilliant plenary @tlrhub.bsky.social

Women in red dress and white runners points at a screen on which a book is displayed.

It was a real pleasure to deliver a plenary lecture at this year’s ECIS conference held @tlrhub.bsky.social. Having completed my PhD at Trinity and later organised the 2012 ECIS conference there as a postdoc, it felt like a homecoming of sorts!

(Photo by @amyprendergast.bsky.social)

Delighted to be at the 40th annual eighteenth-century Ireland society conference today at @tlrhub.bsky.social Great programme and great sense of community!

Don’t forger to register for my Shakespeare and Ireland Symposium on June 14 @tlrhub.bsky.social. Of interest to scholars of the theatre, 18th century Ireland, the history of the book, and Shakespeareans alike! www.eventbrite.ie/e/hibernian-...

Today at 6pm

Off to @tlrhub.bsky.social where Aileen Douglas, @amyprendergast.bsky.social and myself will be welcoming delegates to the 40th(!) annual conference of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Conference this morning. www.ecis.ie/annual-confe... @historytcd.bsky.social

‘We Irish were never homogeneous. Always hybrids, always mongrels’ - VOICES New RTÉ TV series tells the story of the island over thousands of years in a way that both informs and challenges Mark Hennessy Courtesy of the Irish Times, Sat May 31 2025 – 17:57 From That Small Isl...

VOICES PI Prof Jane Ohlmeyer is historical consultant and associate producer for From That Small Island: The Story of the Irish. The series is narrated by Colin Farrell and begins on RTÉ on Sunday 8th June.

@janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @tlrhub.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @rte.ie

Dr Ciaran O’Neill (left) and Ciarán Murray (right) standing side by side in front of a Trinity Long Room Hub banner. Both are wearing clip-on microphones, following their recorded conversation for the Trinity Talks: Dublin’s Hidden Histories series.

🎧 Tune in to @nearfm.ie tomorrow (June 5th) at 6pm for a compelling conversation with Dr Ciaran O’Neill (@historytcd.bsky.social), uncovering the city’s hidden ties to the transatlantic slave economy.

Supported by @cnam-ie.bsky.social.

🔗 nearfm.ie/trinity-talk...

Illustration of a Viking-style longship with oars and a single sail on a pale blue background. Bold white text over the sail reads: “NORTH AT 50.”

A conference (5–7 June) at the Seamus Heaney Centre at QUB, co-hosted with the School of English TCD, will bring together leading poets & scholars, including Trinity’s Dr Stephen O’Neill, Prof @evepatt.bsky.social & more.

🔗 www.tcd.ie/news_events/...

#NorthAt50