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Dianne Hall

@dihall.bsky.social

Victoria University, Melbourne. Historican of Ireland and the Irish diaspora. Interested in gender, violence, religion, race and memory

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Postgraduate essay 2026 POSTGRADUATE ESSAY PRIZE The Editors of the interdisciplinary Australasian Journal of Irish Studies (AJIS) and the Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand are pleased to announcโ€ฆ

Postgraduate essay competition in Irish Studies. Now open. isaanz.org/ajis/postgra...

16.01.2026 00:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Postgraduate essay 2025 POSTGRADUATE ESSAY PRIZE The Editors of the interdisciplinary Australasian Journal of Irish Studies (AJIS) and the Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand are pleased to announcโ€ฆ

Postgraduate essay prize in Irish Studies. Entries close 31 March. isaanz.org/ajis/postgra...

10.03.2025 22:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A beautiful peacock with a green head, multicoloured wings and a tail full of little colourful circles.

A beautiful peacock with a green head, multicoloured wings and a tail full of little colourful circles.

A peacock with a tail like a hundred worlds pecking on a page of Isidore's De Natura Rerum, made in Salzburg at the end of the 8th century.

BSB Clm 14300

01.03.2025 10:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 205    ๐Ÿ” 41    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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now wandering around churches in the Cotswolds. A blissful holiday for any historian

12.02.2025 08:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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the Medieval Women exhibition at the Britush Library is wonderful. As is the Great Mughals at the V & A.

12.02.2025 08:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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NGV exhibition of Kusama. Wonderfully immersive break from writing.

25.01.2025 23:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
BARTHร‰Lร‰MI HOPFER, PORTRAIT Dโ€™UNE FAMILLE STRASBOURGEOISE (C. 1660-1670). IMAGE VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS.

BARTHร‰Lร‰MI HOPFER, PORTRAIT Dโ€™UNE FAMILLE STRASBOURGEOISE (C. 1660-1670). IMAGE VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS.

A CABINET OF GRIEF: OR, THE FRENCH MIDWIFEโ€™S MISERABLE MOAN FOR THE BARBAROUS MURTHER COMMITTED UPON THE BODY OF HER HUSBAND (LONDON, 1688). ยฉ ADAM MATTHEW DIGITAL LTD. FURTHER REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMISSION.

A CABINET OF GRIEF: OR, THE FRENCH MIDWIFEโ€™S MISERABLE MOAN FOR THE BARBAROUS MURTHER COMMITTED UPON THE BODY OF HER HUSBAND (LONDON, 1688). ยฉ ADAM MATTHEW DIGITAL LTD. FURTHER REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMISSION.

To mark the #16Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, revisit a #VIDAblog about the long history of domestic and family violence and its legal institutionalisation in early modern European courts by @dihall.bsky.social.

#16DaysofActivism

Read here โฌ‡๏ธ
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/domesti...

04.12.2024 08:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Four Courts Press | The politics of gender and sexuality in modern Ireland A Reader by Jennifer Redmond & Mary McAuliffe, editors

Congratulations to @drdeefoley.bsky.social who has published a chapter on women's work, maternity leave and childcare in Ireland, 1969-81 in this book: www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2024/t...

15.11.2024 17:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 37    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Postgraduate essay 2025 POSTGRADUATE ESSAY PRIZE The Editors of the interdisciplinary Australasian Journal of Irish Studies (AJIS) and the Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand are pleased to announcโ€ฆ

Irish Studies Postgrad essay competition. Open now and closes 31 March 2025. isaanz.org/ajis/postgra...

18.11.2024 23:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Looking forward to finding tribes of those interested in history, kniiting and maybe some cats.

14.11.2024 06:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I too would love to be added

12.11.2024 07:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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