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Georgina Laragy

@geolug.bsky.social

Historian @Trinity College Dublin and Dublin Cemeteries Trust / Glasnevin Cemetery since 2015. Researching 19th and 20th century Irish history especially death, burial and poverty. Also Public History

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Pourquoi l'Irlande ferait une proie de choix dans la guerre hybride menée par la Russie Faible militairement, non membre de l'OTAN mais stratégique pour les communications en Europe, l'Irlande semble le maillon faible de l'UE face aux tentatives de déstabilisation orchestrées par Moscou. Alors que Dublin s'apprête à occuper la présidence de l'UE, la classe politique irlandaise sonne le rappel des troupes. 

Pourquoi l'Irlande ferait une proie de choix dans la guerre hybride menée par la Russie

01.12.2025 17:14 — 👍 1    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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Book launch: Intimate Connections Join us at EPIC to celebrate the publication of a new book on Irish female migration

Launch details for Catherine Healy’s excellent new monograph, based on her brilliant @historytcd.bsky.social PhD: happening tomorrow evening in Dublin

www.eventbrite.ie/e/book-launc...

18.11.2025 13:34 — 👍 11    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
Encountering modern Irish history: historiography, archives and imagination in the twenty-first century | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core Encountering modern Irish history: historiography, archives and imagination in the twenty-first century

Required reading of the most welcome sort in IHS this morning.

'It is in the space between our divining and conjuring that the argument lies, the debate happens, history is written and the story gets its endless quality.'

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

01.12.2025 08:51 — 👍 24    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 2

Anyone who buys clothes from Tesco, M&S, Dunnes or Penneys/Primark (Dunnes in particular) should watch @rte.ie Primetime's meticulously researched expose of forced labour in cotton production in China and how it gets into Irish and UK shops. You'll find it on RTE player.

24.09.2025 21:07 — 👍 21    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 1
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Delighted to see this new publication released today. I know what a labour of love and care this was for my Donegal friend and historian @angela-historian.bsky.social . Congratulations!!

19.09.2025 16:42 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI Even if all the known issues were magically resolved, we would still not want our students to use GenAI

It was good to co-author alongside @clarekelly.bsky.social & Caitríona Leahy & with the input from Harun Šiljak & Norah Campbell. We are clearly not the only ones thinking like this, both within Trinity & beyond, so let's build community to #resistAI

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

04.09.2025 08:33 — 👍 30    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 2

Wonderful piece by colleagues in @historytcd.bsky.social and @tcdpsychology.bsky.social

05.09.2025 08:36 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI Even if all the known issues were magically resolved, we would still not want our students to use GenAI

great piece by colleagues @kbruisch.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @historytcd.bsky.social on GenAi and high Ed. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

05.09.2025 08:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

With many thanks to @degruyterbrill.bsky.social and all our contributing authors

11.08.2025 15:13 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Really delighted to see this out. Great work by colleagues and alumni of @historytcd.bsky.social #publichistory masters programme. #openaccess as well. Thanks to everyone involved. @smythh.bsky.social @richardlegay.bsky.social @ciaranon.bsky.social

11.08.2025 23:36 — 👍 12    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
Virtual Treasury Virtual Treasury

Delighted to see our (Brendan Twomey and myself) new Curated Collection on the Registry of Deeds up on @virtualtreasury.bsky.social virtualtreasury.ie/curated-coll.... @historytcd.bsky.social

19.06.2025 21:35 — 👍 19    🔁 11    💬 3    📌 0

@shelbyzimme.bsky.social

17.07.2025 22:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Great work by one of our @historytcd.bsky.social #publichistory students Morgan Hansen as part of her internship with the excellent @virtualtreasury.bsky.social thanks for facilitating our students on your project, helping them do public history.

17.07.2025 22:43 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Promotional image. Text reads: The people's dispensary digitised archive

Promotional image. Text reads: The people's dispensary digitised archive

Check out #ThePeoplesDispensary – our free new online resource about charitable medicine in Edinburgh. It includes a fully transcribed and digitised archive of over 10,000 pages of Georgian patient case notes from the Edinburgh Public Dispensary

👉 www.rcpe.ac.uk/peoplesdispe...

11.07.2025 08:54 — 👍 48    🔁 25    💬 1    📌 3

I recognise that beach I think!!

10.07.2025 09:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🧑🏽🏫 Inclusive history in the classroom means acknowledging previously excluded voices and empowering teachers to share them.

We're fundraising for a GRT Teacher Fellowship in memory of Helen Snelson, who advocated for inclusive, rigorous history.

💛 Support us here: shorturl.at/2wGcW #HACommunity

10.07.2025 09:02 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 1

Good to chat with Ciara Doherty about a women's museum for Ireland.

03.07.2025 13:12 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Glasnevin Cemetery’s Queer History Tour: ‘If you’re here for the drama, you’ll get it’ Guide Anna Collins on the radical characters who feature on a tour introduced to mark Dublin Pride

Anna Collins @glasnevincemetery.bsky.social tour guide and @historytcd.bsky.social public history student is leading a new #pride #LGTBQ tour in Glasnevin cemetery this weekend for @dublinpride.bsky.social . More info here. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2...

19.06.2025 09:18 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
The image gives details for the talk on Wednesday 21st May from 6 to 7 pm in the Oak Room of the Mansion House, an abstract and a bio for the speaker, Oein DeBhairduin.

The image gives details for the talk on Wednesday 21st May from 6 to 7 pm in the Oak Room of the Mansion House, an abstract and a bio for the speaker, Oein DeBhairduin.

There are still tickets left for Oein DeBhairduin's (@nmireland.bsky.social) talk 'Challenging the Narrative: Reclaiming Traveller History in Ireland's National Collections' which will explore the importance of co-curation & community-led approaches. More info here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/reclaiming...

13.05.2025 09:18 — 👍 4    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

My open access article on the public history of allyship and solidarity between Native American and Irish people has just been published. It draws on thousands of comments published on a GoFundMe page between 2020 and 2024. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

14.04.2025 09:38 — 👍 19    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 1
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This Working Life: ‘I love doing the Glasnevin Cemetery tour – I get to add new elements to it’ So many go straight from school into college and hate it. I took some time out and did some work and then found out what I was interested in.

Our wonderful student Anna Collins works in @glasnevincemetery.bsky.social while also studying part-time on our M.Phil in Public History and Cultural Heritage programme @historytcd.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social . Her experiences are worth a read here. www.independent.ie/business/in-...

11.04.2025 12:28 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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#pubhist students from @historytcd.bsky.social took a fieldtrip to Belfast ysty. We enjoyed glorious sunshine, nuanced conversations with Rebecca Laverty from Ulster Museum & Paul Donnelly of @dctoursbelfast.bsky.social. Walking the ground is a great way to learn about Belfast's contested history.

09.04.2025 16:23 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Opening page for Natasha Hodgson's new RHS blog post 'Finding Women's History in Schools - challenges for the curriculum review'.

Opening page for Natasha Hodgson's new RHS blog post 'Finding Women's History in Schools - challenges for the curriculum review'.

Women's and gender history is thriving in HE, but very little of this new work appears in schools history.

Mid-way through the gov't's curriculum review, Natasha Hodgson considers the barriers to the take up of new work in schools, and how she seeks to overcome these bit.ly/4lf0Xm4 1/2 #Skystorians

31.03.2025 08:36 — 👍 90    🔁 41    💬 3    📌 4

From David Murphy @maynoothuniversity.ie on the historic and strategic reason for Vance's trip to Greenland tomorrow.

26.03.2025 16:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Poster for the LGBT activism workshop at UCD April 3rd - register using QR code in poster

Poster for the LGBT activism workshop at UCD April 3rd - register using QR code in poster

History of LGBT Activism in Ireland (3rd April,UCD) the @researchireland.bsky.social LGBT Activism in Ireland, 1973–2023 workshops
🔗 Register for Workshop 1 (April 3rd): lnkd.in/epC2rAwG
We’re looking forward to this important gathering of activists, advocates, and scholars. #speirgorm

26.03.2025 10:20 — 👍 102    🔁 42    💬 12    📌 4
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Witches of Islandmagee This site is dedicated to uncovering the importance of the witch trial that took place in 1710–1711 in Islandmagee, Ireland.

A wee reminder, if you want to know more about Ireland’s last witch trial, the #islandmageewitches, check out our (with Dr Victoria McCollum) website: links to books, podcasts, a free graphic novel, original documents, animation, VR app, and info about our play, exhibition and hub: w1711.org

23.03.2025 22:51 — 👍 26    🔁 14    💬 3    📌 0
Time for a Change Find out more about the work of our partners supporting One Parent Familes

To mark international Single Parents Day, One Family together with Trinity College Dublin and Glasgow Caledonian University launches new campaign highlighting the history, experiences and misconceptions facing one-parent families @onefamilyireland.bsky.social @mediacoops.bsky.social #singleparentday

21.03.2025 11:57 — 👍 10    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 0

One of our fabulous @bbkhistorical.bsky.social MA students, Laura Aitken-Burt, is a teacher & had been conducting research into the underrepresentation of women's history in schools. She's discovered that less than 10% of named individuals in school history courses are women!

She's founded...

18.03.2025 13:12 — 👍 20    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 1
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FoodCult – The FoodCult website Welcome to FoodCult, a five-year project funded by the European Research Council. This project brings together history, archaeology, science and information technology to explore the diet and foodways...

This Wednesday @ 7.30 @glasnevincemetery.bsky.social we have Dr Susan Flavin from @historytcd.bsky.social talking about her foodcult.eu project and making early modern beer. All are welcome @dublininquirer.com @tlrhub.bsky.social @dublincitylibs.bsky.social Please Repost..
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18.03.2025 09:23 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Project MUSE - The Women's Right to Choose Group and Abortion Rights Activism in Early 1980s Dublin This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Without cookies your experience may not be seamless.

New article by me on the Women's Right to Choose Group and abortion rights activism in 80s Dublin. I loved working on this. Thanks to my interviewees,reviewers & special issue editors Gayle Davis & Linda Bryder. Please DM if you'd like a copy. #histmed #reprorights muse.jhu.edu/pub/424/arti... [1/2]

17.03.2025 13:41 — 👍 58    🔁 27    💬 1    📌 0

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