Kelly Fitzgerald

Wonderful news to wake up to!

An online lecture series promoting the principles of diversity & inclusion across archival collections and the wider record-keeping community will kick off on Oct 22nd at 1pm.

1st talk will be about Preserving Records in support of Truth Recovery in Northern Ireland

@araukie.bsky.social

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Musicians keep leaving Spotify in protest of CEO's defense investments In the last few months, bands including Hotline TNT and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have pulled music from Spotify in a new wave of artist-led protests against the platform.

In the last few months, bands including Hotline TNT and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have pulled music from Spotify in a new wave of artist-led protests against the platform. n.pr/4p9uwXX

So would I!

Bríd McGrath - Irish Manuscripts Bríd at the launch of her edition in Clonmel in June 2006. It is with great sadness that we have learned of the death of Dr Bríd McGrath, editor of four IMC editions. On behalf of the Chair and member...

It's very sad to have the news of Bríd McGrath's death. She was an indefatigable editor for @irishmanuscripts.bsky.social

See our tribute to her here:

www.irishmanuscripts.ie/brid-mcgrath/

We are delighted to announce that a full programme and registration for the 35th Irish Conference of Historian is now available. Maynooth University, 12-13 September.

Please share widely.

www.eventbrite.com/e/35th-irish...

State Department slashes its annual reports on human rights Required by Congress, the reports no longer single out things like rigged elections or sexual violence against children as human rights violations.

Required by Congress, the reports no longer single out things like rigged elections or sexual violence against children as human rights violations.

Writing this piece about blackberries brought back memories, memories that many of us remember almost as a collective, but alongside the familiar are the less well-known worlds of the blackberry. See link below 👇🔻

My latest, from the Israel-Gaza border, where I listened in as tour groups came to view the ruins of Gaza: www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

Orgreave papers destroyed by police thought to include report on notorious truncheon beating Miner who was seen on TV being beaten by officer said he was not aware of report’s existence before it was destroyed

Disturbing news. @araukie.bsky.social absolutely right in its call for better protection for police records. These are important historical documents.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Celtic Hagiography Network The Celtic Hagiography Network is a professional scholarly network focused on the study of hagiography composed in Latin and the Celtic languages. It is intended to bring together members of the academic community with interests in hagiography, the cults of saints, and related topics for collaboration, conferences, new publications, and other opportunities. Membership and involvement is open to anyone, but early career scholars are especially welcome.

Please fill out the form at celtichagiography.org if you are interested in joining or would like to keep updated.

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Éilís Ní Dhuibhne is new Laureate for Irish Fiction The writer takes over the laureateship from author Colm Tóibín

Congratulations to Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, the new Laureate for Irish Fiction

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

YouTube video by Channel 4 Documentaries Gaza: Doctors Under Attack | Channel 4 Documentaries

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, the full documentary is now available on our Channel 4 Documentaries YouTube. youtu.be/iv3wpeJ6Oco?...

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Can academic freedom survive Donald Trump’s plans for thought control? The president’s aim to remove power from universities and punish so-called “woke” ideology has chilling implications for free speech globally

Interesting Read for a Quiet Sunday - It is critical to ensure public schools teach students how to think, not what to think. Indoctrination is the goal of authoritarians. That is UnAmerican.
www.indexoncensorship.org/2024/12/acad...

America’s unions celebrate today’s anniversary of President FDR signing the Fair Labor Standards Act into law, which established the 40-hour workweek, child labor protections, minimum wage and more.

These protections were won because workers organized and demanded better.

Bengt af Klintberg, folktale researcher, speaking at the ISCLR conference in Stockholm, Sweden. #ISCLR2025

🚨 Celtica is now available open-access! This is the result of painstaking work going on behind the scenes since 2022. Issues 33 to 36 (2021–24) are now online, and future issues will appear online & in print. We will also digitize the back issues of the journal.
🔗 journals.dias.ie/index.php/ce...

The Anglo-Saxon Fuller Brooch, depicting the five senses

The Folklore and the Senses conference has come to an end 🥲 Thank you to everyone for making it so fantastic: the speakers, attendees, and in particular to Department of Folklore & Ethnology @ucc.ie for organising and keeping things running smoothly and hosting us at your beautiful campus!

Photo by nito100 on iStock

Irish is no longer just the language of saints and scholars, but of queer poets and writers who are sharing their stories.
Piece by Dr Seán Mac Risteaird @seanmacristeaird.bsky.social of @fsg-dcu.bsky.social for @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social.
Read here: launch.dcu.ie/3SZePUv
#RTEBrainstorm

Deadline is this Friday!

Fintan O’Toole: Official documents are quietly disappearing from departmental websites. Why? The range of departments engaged in this alarming disappearing act suggests it is not accidental

Fintan O’Toole: Official documents are quietly disappearing from departmental websites. Why?

Have just received hard copies of my book from Cambridge UP. It's about the ordinary people who funded the Irish Catholic church between the end of the Famine and independence. It takes in social, economic, religious, emotions history and much else besides...

Don't forget the arts when it comes to R&D spending The UK's creative economy is worth more than our life sciences, aerospace and automotive industries combined

‘R&D is a long-term source of prosperity, and an area of UK competitive advantage… but to maximise the impact on UK productivity, innovation policy needs to link more strongly with industrial strategy for a services based economy.’ Me in CityAM ahead of the SR
www.cityam.com/dont-forget-...

Ibec calls for more investment in research, innovation Business group Ibec has warned that Ireland's current public investment model for research and innovation does not match the country's ambition to become a European Innovation Leader.

Business group Ibec has warned that Ireland's current public investment model for research and innovation does not match the country’s ambition to become a European Innovation Leader

In an era of higher education cuts, especially in Languages and History, here is a rather touching death notice of the Welsh scholar Rhygyfarch of St David's. He composed a number of works including a Latin Life of St David (Quote from Brut y Twysogyon or ... 1/4 #wales #history

In the latest UCD Library #CulturalHeritage Collections blog post, written by Simon O’Leary, explore the work of the Hans Hartmann, including a recently digitised collection of audio tapes which Hartmann collected in the West of Ireland throughout the 1960's. (1/2)

buff.ly/HGdzjRo

This is good news here, indeed. But the university sector is struggling through lack of funding, very poor staff/student ratios & road blocks preventing us from growing our staff. We're not quite at the crisis point like in the UK, but it wouldn't take much for us to tip over too.