Norma Owens

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Galway Talks with John Morley (Wednesday, 5th November 2025)

Very grateful to John Morley at Galway Bay FM for interviewing me about my upcoming lecture for the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, and my thanks to the society for organising it. You can listen back here:
open.spotify.com/episode/2e2H...

Delighted to be presenting some new research on the Headford Lace industry to the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society next Monday (10 November) at 8pm in the Harbour Hotel. All welcome!
gahs.ie/next-lecture/

#fridayfinds from the archives: 'Many people are of the opinion that it never yet rained toads or frogs, but ...' (Saunders's News-Letter, Dublin, January 06, 1778). 🐸🐸🐸

Congratulations!

A lovely way to start the academic year!

Poster for Dr Ciaran McCabe's seminar paper entitled 'Privacy, respectability and working class domestic spaces in Dublin's tenements, c.1910-60'. Wednesday 10 September at 4pm in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

Delighted to share our Research Seminar Series for this semester! We're starting off next Wed 10 Sept @ 4pm by welcoming our new colleague, Dr Ciarán McCabe, who will be speaking on 'Privacy, Respectability, and Working-Class Domestic Spaces in Dublin's Tenements, c.1910-c.1960'!

Delighted to be in Dublin for THREADS: Stitching Together the History of Irish Dress ##THREADS2025

Huge thanks to @erinannmcc.bsky.social for the invitation to join the @stemma.bsky.social hackathon last week, which finished on a high with our team's proposal winning the prize for Most Potential (details in thread). Grateful to team mates John Lavagnino, Julian Neuhauser, and Akash Ragupathi.

What a privilege to participate in this innovative research collaboration. Working with these amazing people from such diverse backgrounds has been a truly rewarding experience. @stemma.bsky.social

Another wonderful #networkanalysis presentation at today's #STEMMAhackathon from Prof. Jing Chen on a co-citation network of early modern Chinese poetry.
@stemma.bsky.social

Really wonderful to hear @ruthahnert.bsky.social speak about her research process and trajectory at the #STEMMAhackathon @stemma.bsky.social #digitalhumanities #networkanalysis

Kicking off the STEMMA hackathon here at The Portershed in Galway with a Design Thinking talk for our hackers! @erc.europa.eu @researchireland.ie @portershed.bsky.social #STEMMAhackathon #DH #ERCfunded

YouTube video by Bernadette Banner Who Was Greensleeves? An Extraordinary Reconstruction of Her Clothes

What an extraordinary collaboration and delightful historical reconstruction!

@historyatgalway.bsky.social

Looking forward to attending the @whaireland.bsky.social conference this weekend. As well as numerous interesting papers, I am particularly looking forward to the ECR/PGR workshop, which was really excellent last year, and also to the publishing workshop.

It is so annoying! Even when you close it, it keeps re-opening.

What a surprise I got while studying some lacemaking literature: I opened a second-hand book purchased online and found an old piece of lace between the pages!

Imirce imirce.universityofgalway.ie/p/ms is an archive History students can examine at the University. Containing letters of Irish emigrants, here is our colleague Breandán MacSuibhne accepting a grant of $300,000 from Carnegie Corporation @uniofgalwayasc.bsky.social @uniofgalwayasc.bsky.social

There is a special place in hell for people who do this to books. Especially library books. 😭

Looking forward to this ...

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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A flyer offering details of digital humanities seminars to be held on 24 March, 2 April, and 8 April 2025.

Spring 2025 #DH seminars at the University of Galway. Join us in person or online! Register for remote access here: forms.office.com/r/pSBmNN2TFU.

We are very excited to officially announce that the University of Galway will host the DH2027 conference in Ireland from June 28 to July 3, 2027. More information will be coming soon.

Congratulations to the Galway team! We look forward to joining you in 2027!
#DH2027 #digitalhumanities #Galway

Thank you!

Any chance a different day and time will be added to the schedule? Unfortunately, I can't make these due to a schedule clash and it's running the same day and time most weeks. :(

Fabulous talk by our colleague Shannon Devlin at history seminar today followed by wonderful celebration and launch of Shannon's monograph Sociability in Nineteenth-Century Ulster (LUP, 2025) @shannondevlin.bsky.social

Decolonising the Curriculum in the Humanities - Workshop 1 Keynote speakers: Dr Evelien Geerts, University College Cork Dr Ciarán O'Neill, Trinity College Dublin AS203 (the River Room), Arts/Science Concourse, University of Galway Monday, 10 February 2025 Full programme and registration details available at: https://tinyurl.com/decolworkshop This workshop is organised by the School of History & Philosophy. For further details, contact Professor Alison Forrestal (alison.forrestal@universityofgalway.ie)

We're running a workshop @historyatgalway.bsky.social next week (10 Feb) on 'Decolonising the Curriculum', featuring contributions from @ciaranon.bsky.social and @egeertsphd.bsky.social. It's in person, but all are welcome to Galway. Seems like a pretty good time to be having these conversations.

Reminder History Seminar is by our colleague Shannon Devlin tomorrow Wednesday, 5 Feb at 4pm in Room GO10 the Hardiman Research Building. The launch of Shannon's monograph Sociability in Nineteenth-Century Ulster (LUP, 2025) follows. For those on Zoom universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi...