Ciarán Wallace

Are you researching your Irish roots? 🇮🇪

The @nlireland.bsky.social welcomes queries from the diaspora. Our free #familyhistory service is on hand to assist you, and to provide advice on family history research.

➡️ Learn more: www.nli.ie/family-history

Public History in Global Perspective Where should public history sit within the matrix of global, international, (trans-)national, and more local histories? Since its emergence in the 1970s, Public History has typically been read as comm...

🔊 Very pleased our book about public history is out and gold open access: Public History in Global Perspective
Inquiry, Exchange and Practice. @ciaranon.bsky.social @geolug.bsky.social @richardlegay.bsky.social
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CLICKHOLE LIFESTYLE Groundbreaking Discovery: Paleontologists Have Agreed To Start Saying That Stegosauruses Had Beautiful Singing Voices Because It's A Nice Thought And It's Not Like They're Hurting Anyone OCTOBER 16, 2017

this is where i'm at mentally these days

Felt cute! Please do not touch the statues.

📣 We’re recruiting!
• Bookseller/Barista position available
• 3-5 days a week
• Bookshop experience essential
• Email CVs and cover emails to shop@booksupstairs.ie by 15th August

We're thrilled to see our Digital Preservation Terminology: An Irish language glossary for Repositories and Archivists has been profiled in the @araireland.bsky.social summer newsletter.

View this landmark publication and the 49 new digital preservation terms: repository.dri.ie/catalog/cr57...

name of the day from eighteenth-century Irish history - Marmaduke Coghill

for more on Marmaduke see Hayton, ed., Letters of Marmaduke Coghill, 1722-38 (Dublin, 2005).

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

Photograph of a book entitled A History of Treason. The Bloody History of Britain through the Stories if its Most Notorious Traitors. Foreword by Diarmaid MacCulloch.

Today has been pondering treason A LOT, and I'm greatly enjoying the recent article by Sophie Ambler in A Journal of Legal History and this fab book 'A History of Treason' by Chris Day, @thegozfather.bsky.social, Neil Johnson and @euanroger.bsky.social - highly recommend both!

IGRS Top Research Tip #166: Your ancestor’s farm may have overlapped townlands. First note all plots with your ancestor’s name in Griffith’s PV, then check against the numbered plots on corresponding valuation maps for any that adjoin or are in close proximity: www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-val...

IGRS Top Research Tip #165: Found reference to an Irish grant of probate (a will) which was destroyed in the 1922 PROI fire? Try checking the same records for England & Wales which contain many re-grants of Irish wills: www.gov.uk/search-will-...

How millions of priceless words lost in a fire were painstakingly recovered The essential mission of anyone who takes the past seriously is “to make human understanding more profound”

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Three old maps of the Rockwell demesne and Rockwell townland published in 1850, 1862 and 1898 @virtualtreasury.bsky.social @tippstudies.bsky.social @ucdlibrary.bsky.social

British Library, London WC1 Looking across the piazza towards the entrance to the British Library. Christine Matthews / British Library, London WC1 / CC BY-SA 2.0

Today, Collecting Ireland's History (curated by our colleague @spchendriks.bsky.social) opens at @britishlibrary.bsky.social, exploring the diverse approaches to collecting Irish historical manuscripts of the last 700 years and the role of libraries in preserving and recovering lost materials.

IGRS Top Research Tip #164: Ever searched the Fiants? These were orders to issue letters patent recording a right, pardon, pension, grant, title etc. Surrogates for about 8000 records for the period 1521-1603 survive in calendared form. Search or read more here: virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/f...

Collecting History Exhibition - Virtual Treasury Virtual Treasury

Great virtual exhibition on collecting Irish history records here virtualtreasury.ie/collecting-h... #skystorians #history #ireland

Performer in glitter-ball costume lit up by spotlights

No photo can do justice to the 😳😆🙃😍🤩 experience that is RIOT @thisispopbaby

📻 Tomorrow! OHNI's Elizabeth Kiely on Connemara Community Radio's 'Great Outdoors' show with host, Breandan O'Scanaill. 📻Tune in at 7:50 PM and hear about OHNI's work & oral history training! 87.8FM/106.1FM

📻 Tomorrow! OHNI's Elizabeth Kiely on Connemara Community Radio's 'Great Outdoors' show with host, Breandan O'Scanaill. 📻Tune in at 7:50 PM and hear about OHNI's work & oral history training! 87.8FM/106.1FM

📻 Tomorrow! OHNI's Elizabeth Kiely on Connemara Community Radio's 'Great Outdoors' show with host, Breandan O'Scanaill.

📻Tune in at 7:50 PM and hear about OHNI's work & oral history training! 87.8FM/106.1FM

connemarafm.com

#OHNI #OralHistoryNetworkIreland #Connemara #Ireland #IrishRadio

NLI Manuscripts Collection; Call Number D.10,015.

This Thursday @nlireland.bsky.social: A Scandal at Mass
The Eyewitnesses to a Fourteenth Century Controversy. Dr. @patrickmcdonagh98.bsky.social, Research Studentship, Dept of Manuscripts & Special Collections (& previous VRTI Researcher!) on political scandals of the late 14th century in Ireland!

An alert to all creatives using #WeTransfer. Basically, stop immediately! As of August, they will begin scraping everything you send for AI purposes (see the new paragraph in their Terms and Conditions below).

If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.

PUB PARL/Reg/13/2/1: p. 38 ''With respect to the French revolution, the overthrow of despotism, was to eery honest man an object of admiration; but how, or why, should it be with us an object for imitaiton? The poorest peasant of the poorest soil in this kingdom enjoyed more liberty than the Prince of Conde possessed under the French monarchy; he enjoys more than his own prince, for the heir apparent submits for the public good...'

In Volume 13 of the Irish House of Commons Parliamentary Register, politicians grappled with the events in France and what they might mean for Ireland’s future.

Read the document here 👉 virtualtreasury.ie/item/PUB-PAR...

"The History of the French Revolution, 1789 to 1795; or a country without a God". Image taken from page 22 of 'The History of the French Revolution, 1789 to 1795; or a country without a God', The British Library

Happy #BastilleDay! 🇫🇷

Discover how the French Revolution echoed in Ireland through the parliamentary debates in our Irish House of Commons Gold Seam, curated by @joelherman.bsky.social.

virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/i...

🤔 I suspect "Thoughts and prayers" may not be the appropriate response?😁🕯️🙏

IGRS Top Research Tip #163: The latest edition (July 2025) of the List of Church of Ireland Parish Registers includes hyperlinks to detailed lists of the many collections of parish records now held by the RCB Library: shorturl.at/B7wXC

"Not many people know that" ... We have an extensive archive of material relating to the O'Connells of Derrynane and the great Liberator himself, Daniel O'Connell.

Welcome to #FiantFriday, our new series highlighting items in the Fiants of Tudor Monarchs Gold Seam we released at the end of 2024. This series (along with the Gold Seam) was curated by our Data Steward, Sadhbh Dunne.

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Lovely to find evidence of family ties across the (porous) borders of English and Gaelic Ireland.

Anne de la Roche fosters Cormac MacCarty, her grandson. Both his parents, Katherine and Dermot, are still alive and she may sent him back to them in Gaelic Ireland.

virtualtreasury.ie/item/CIRCLE-...

Dublin minted silver coin of King John, Lord of Ireland
1205/1207-1211

(Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Münzkabinett / Lutz-Jürgen Lübke (Lübke und Wiedemann))

Call for papers for the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, taking place at the University of Exeter on 30-31 October. We are exploring early modern conflict in all its forms. We particularly seek to unpack the interactions between the more traditional aspects of conflict, such as the political, tactical and strategic, with the more human side of it, including sociocultural approaches that explore experiences, representations and impacts of violence. As such, we particularly welcome proposals that look beyond purely military history and break chronological, geographical and disciplinary boundaries. We welcome proposals for individual papers of up to 20 minutes, or full panels of three to four papers, on any aspect of conflict, war and violence in the early modern period. Speakers might consider, but are not limited to, the following themes: Physical, tactical, operational and strategic aspects of warfare. Martial identities, values and motivations. Notions of gender, race, class and religion. Remembering, (re)imagining and representing violence and/or conflict. The experience of violence, its impact and the everyday at war. Popular allegiance in early modern conflict. Maritime violence and naval warfare. The bureaucracy of conflict, finance and the law. Abstracts of up to 300 words, along with a biographical note, should be sent to earlymodernwar@gmail.com by Friday 5th September.

We are thrilled to announce that the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, with a keynote address by Professor Mark Stoyle, will be held on 30-31 October at the University of Exeter.

Please help us spread the world, and consider submitting a proposal!🗡️

A map showing South West England and Wales, labelled "Graph of British Rivers". Two river courses are shown, labelled 'Wye axis' and 'Exe axis'. Does anyone read these descriptions, or am I wasting my time?

Graph of British Rivers