Georgina Laragy

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

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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.

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...

I recognise that beach I think!!

🧑🏽🏫 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

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

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...

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...

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....

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-...

#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.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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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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]

Oh well now he is a cutie!

Conor McGregor speaks for no one but himself. His views do not reflect Irish society or culture. #stpatricksday

No Time to Spare: Irish Defense and Security in 2025 - War on the Rocks Two years ago, we wrote in these pages about the sorry state of Irish defense and security that, we have on good authority, prompted a question on the

Why Ireland needs to consider our security and military capabilities. By @patrickbury.bsky.social & David Murphy @maynoothuniversity.ie @simonharrisireland.bsky.social warontherocks.com/2025/03/no-t...

We're hiring 2 new colleagues @historyatgalway.bsky.social

- Lecturer A (.4FTE; 4-year post) in History (Ireland in Global Context)
- Lecturer A (1FTE; 6-month post) in History (Irish Economy and Society, 1750-1900)

Go here and click 'Academic Vacancies' www.universityofgalway.ie/about-us/jobs/
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What a great cover. Congratulations Fionnuala

This week @glasnevincemetery.bsky.social we have Mairtin Mac Con Iomaire from @tudublin.bsky.social speaking about the making of @ria.ie 'Irish Food History: a companion' w/Dorothy Cashman. Winner of the @anpostcommerce.bsky.social Irish Book Award 2024, all welcome to Glasnevin 7.30 this Thurs!

French yogurt cake for a Sunday snack!

Finola O'Kane's 'Dublin's sugar landscapes' speaks this Thursday (6 March) @glasnevincemetery.bsky.social O'Kane #skyhistorian of design & architecture from @ucdengarch.bsky.social published by @corkup.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social with @ciaranon.bsky.social @historytcd.bsky.social #dublin

Yesterday I heard a woman on a street in Dublin curse a man out of it on the phone. She was a professional. It was a hex really. She got louder and louder after every semi-colon. She used the word 'pauper'; If the man hung up on her, he missed out. I should have written it down. It was magic.

Seagulls and Pigeons in Dublin go to war over @tayto crisps. Seagull wins.. #Dublin #tayto #crisps @lilliputpress.bsky.social