à la The Pet Shop Boys, let’s all drink more “tea like Tony Benn”.
28.02.2026 22:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0à la The Pet Shop Boys, let’s all drink more “tea like Tony Benn”.
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Every @johncreedon.bsky.social show is the best show ever. 🙌 so enjoying tonight - as always 🙏
27.02.2026 21:30 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0“Dry your eyes” - The Streets - on the @johncreedon.bsky.social - brilliant!
27.02.2026 20:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Nowhere is like Cork ❤️
27.02.2026 20:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Viva = defended 🍾 thank you @lloislanel.bsky.social
26.02.2026 19:50 — 👍 33 🔁 3 💬 12 📌 0
My wonderful PhD student @hayleybrabazon.bsky.social aced her viva today: beyond proud.
26.02.2026 19:19 — 👍 20 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 1
Was a Corkman first to use the phrase the 'United States of America'?
Delighted with my new RTÉ Brainstorm piece on Stephen Moylan. Read on to find out why a Cork person is always in the thick of it👇🏻
My thank to Jim Carroll and all at @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social
In DCU Sch of His and Geog @dublincityuni.bsky.social there is NO female historian employed above Assistant Professor level.
Figures for female historians in other Irish universities employed above Ass Prof level:
UCC 2
Maynooth Univ 6
UCD 5
UL 3
TCD 5
Univ of Galway 3
@ifut.bsky.social
In DCU School of History and Geography there is not one female historian employed above Assistant Professor level.
21.02.2026 09:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In DCU you can be deemed promotable but they may not promote you. If such is the case they offer you the option to enter the hunger games arena once again - “may the odds be ever in your favour” You have failed, try again, fail again, fail better. @ifut.bsky.social @dublincityuni.bsky.social
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The thanks is to all of you - getting in twice this week has been joyous.
19.02.2026 20:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Happiness is being in @ucdarchives.bsky.social
19.02.2026 16:41 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Thank you Margaret. All the NUI colleges now promote anyone deemed promotable to Associate Lecturer - not so @dublincityuni.bsky.social - it is beyond demoralising. But I am not going to be defined by their criteria- and am back to the archives tomorrow - for me.
15.02.2026 18:34 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Handing in three monographs re the promotion application, having successfully managed a programme stripped of staff, having an increasing number of PhD student - being deemed promotable but not promoted. This was so hard. But now I am just focusing on my teaching and the research I want to do.
15.02.2026 17:35 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 1*Humphreys
15.02.2026 16:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I am looking forward to going back to @ucdarchives.bsky.social tomorrow to continue my research for my biography of Sighle Hunphreys. My university does not rate the work I do in terms of promotion to Associate Professor but I am still going to enage in this type of long-term research. I value it.
15.02.2026 16:43 — 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 5 📌 1
Glowing review in today's Indo for @gerardshannon.bsky.social newly released Rory O'Connor : To Defend the Republic . Signed (via bookplate) copies available now at www.thebookdhop.ie €20 (delivery included)
14.02.2026 08:59 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
“Disapproval” - Paris (1969)
📷 by Henri-Cartier Bresson
Sighle Humphreys married Donal O'Donoghue on 19 February 1935. This writer wishes Donal had 'waited until this unfortunate country was free' before marrying, as many married patriots 'eventually ignored the ills of the Motherland in the tranquillity of the domestic hearth.' #ValentinesDay
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Next Friday, I will be speaking at the Ó Cléirigh seminar on my forthcoming article in the Proceedings of the RIA, which analyses surviving letters sent by Irish kings and provides a full edition and translation of them. All are welcome! @historytcd.bsky.social
13.02.2026 15:59 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
Graphic featuring Zoe and Nuala's portraits.
In this episode, NLI Podcaster in Residence @zoecomyns.bsky.social's guest is writer @nualaoconnor.bsky.social – they discuss writing historical fiction and specifically the case of An Cailín Bán – Ellen Hanley.
🎧 Listen here: on.soundcloud.com/pddR057jUPNu...
100 years ago today it all kicked off at the Abbey - enjoyed writing this for @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social 👇
11.02.2026 15:11 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
With the release of my new book 'Rory O'Connor: To Defend the Republic' the same day, tomorrow morning I will be discussing the book and Rory O'Connor on Today with David McCullagh on RTÉ Radio One at 10.30am. Do tune in! ... and available to listen on RTÉ website and streaming services thereafter.
11.02.2026 16:50 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
The old county gaol #Cork c1900 now part of the UCC Campus #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike B&W📸NLI www.irishfamilydetective.ie/colourisation
07.02.2026 08:01 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Weekend sorted
06.02.2026 19:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0No @johncreedon.bsky.social show on @rteradio1.bsky.social tonight - how less than good!
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Living with a recalcitrant corgi in these days of endless rain is a constant series of negotiations re the necessity to go outdoors 😩
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⭐️ Today marks the birthday of Irish writer and republican activist Dorothy Macardle.
On this bank holiday Monday in honour of St Brigid, browse a variety of biographies about women in Irish history under the Gender Studies category on www.ucdpress.ie