@lynseyblack.bsky.social
Maynooth University, School of Law & Criminology - doing history, gender, punishment, postcolonialism, borders. PI on Research Ireland Laureate Award, CONSPACE - Contested Space: Penal Nationalism & the Northern Ireland Border.
The first writing from this strand of the Research Ireland CONSPACE borders project. Thank you so much to Niamh Keady-Tabbal for being amazing and pulling everything together! Our piece on the Northern Ireland/Ireland border, questions of immigration, and how it impacts asylum seekers and refugees.
a bit of Andor cosplay
And in the darkness bind them.
@esmoriemiller.bsky.social @lizzieseal.bsky.social and I have out a call for abstracts/titles for the Routledge International Handbook of Historical Criminology - if you're interested take a look here: www.linkedin.com/posts/lynsey...
The State of the Union, but in a Cork accent: the staaaate of the Union, like.
A bit of a long shot, but I’m looking to pay someone to photograph some archival documents for me in Amsterdam in the next 6 months. If you know any PhD students based there etc who might be interested pls do send me a message. #historians #paidresearcher
The Digital Film Archive had our 25th birthday party last night. Music, poetry and some very, very good film.
Local filmmaker Colm Laverty is genius at using the archives to amazing effect. This went down a storm at the event.
The Hard Border by Seamus O'Rourke
🔊Call for Abstracts for a special issue
🔸Gendering Postcolonial Punishment – Guest Editors @lynseyblack.bsky.social Lucia Bracco
#prisons #incarceration #patriarchy #gender #sexuality#GlobalSouth #criminology
🔸Abstract submission deadline: 30 March 2026
www.crimejusticejournal.com/genderingpos...
📣Apply for Small Grants Funding!
Are you looking to conduct research into social or cultural history? Do you need support with archival visits, organising a conference, or buying specialist equipment?
⏰Our next funding deadline is 1 March
socialhistory.org.uk/funding/smal...
Call for Abstracts | Gendering Postcolonial Punishment - Special Issue in @crimjustjournal.bsky.social - guest edited by Lucia Bracco and me: www.crimejusticejournal.com/genderingpos...
Ah thank you Jill!
I think that RTÉ should continue to exist and that BBC Northern Ireland become BBC Ireland, giving us all access to the iPlayer.
jrnl.ie/6925139
The Irish Legal History Society is now on LinkedIn (21st century, you what!?) #legalhistory www.linkedin.com/company/iris...
When everyone’s off to wash the dishes but you say you’re joining the army to get out of it
📣The special issue is out! for a global, anti colonial criminology of war, genocide and resistance - with @hannahwilkinson.bsky.social 🌸 thanks to @mattiasdebacker.bsky.social and Ana Gabriela Perez for the editorial guidance and support ✨✨
www.criminologicalencounters.org/index.php/cr...
We are delighted to share the programme for our upcoming conference!
We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.
Dr Megan Coghlan, Assistant Professor of Criminology in the School of Law and Criminology has been awarded a research grant as part of the North East Inner City’s (NEIC) strategy to improve community health, wellbeing and recovery.
See: tinyurl.com/ahthzytj
Opportunity to work with other me on a funded PhD at Queens - may suit anyone interested in gender, history of the child and family in 20thC Ireland. Happy to chat to anyone thinking of it!
Since Palestine Action was banned, the PSNI has targeted more than a dozen people for showing support - an offence under the Terrorism Act - but has taken no similar action against displays of support for paramilitaries thedetail.tv/articles/pal...
With apologies to those whose yoga classes were disrupted by the 1916 Rising, Bolands Mills is back open again.
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
Colours on Parnell Square this morning.
The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is hiring!
Applications are invited for the position of Research and Engagement, Senior Programme Manager as part of the DRI team headquartered at the Royal Irish Academy.
Apply by 27.11.2025 at 3pm.
www.ria.ie/about/career...
🎓 PHD FUNDING OPPORTUNITY 🎓
We now have a range of funding opportunities for postgraduate research students. Please reach out to me if you're interested in a PhD in:
>Counter-Terrorism
>Emergency Powers
>Human Rights
>Constitutional Theory
>Public Law
www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola...
There's been a great deal of debate about how safe Dublin city centre is, but when we @dublininquirer.com looked for data to resolve this, we couldn't find much useful – so we commissioned a survey to try to add some facts/data to the debate. Today we've published five articles about the results. 1/
"The stories of sex and surveillance that are captured in Presbyterian church records reveal much about how communities attempted to monitor one another's behaviour."
In RTÉ Brainstorm, UL's Dr Leanne Calvert shares a selection of stories from her new book.
Read on: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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I ❤️ Viz
The schedule for the Donegal County Museum and County Donegal Historical Society 'Borders and boundaries' conference has been announced! @cormacmoorehist.bsky.social @lynseyblack.bsky.social
Looking forward to speaking at this Dublin County Council event 'Borders & Boundaries', although mostly looking forward to hearing these people speak: @cormacmoorehist.bsky.social @pduffy1.bsky.social, Kieran Rankin, Niamh Brennan, Liam Campbell and Jim McBride: www.donegalcoco.ie/en/news/2025...
Well if you decide to, I'd love to read it.