Irish Studies Starter Pack
Academic and related Irish Studies accounts - contact us if you want to be added! Part II is at https://go.bsky.app/Gw2A3Vm
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@irishstudiesqub.bsky.social
@whaireland.bsky.social
The Women's History Association of Ireland (WHAI) has been promoting research into women's history in Ireland since 1989.
@clairemitchell.bsky.social
writer, mamaí, history and politics, 1798 dissenter. Belfast/County Down 📖 The Ghost Limb: Alternative Protestants and the Spirit of 1798 www.clairemitchell.net
@jancarsonwrites.bsky.social
I’m not terrific but I’m competent All bookings via website www.jancarson.co.uk
@joelherman.bsky.social
Research Fellow @virtualtreasury.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social, Houses of Parliament | Historian of the press, publicity, and popular political action in Ireland, America, Britain, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
@emilymfg.bsky.social
Professor of Art History & Cultural Policy at University College Dublin (UCD). Irish studies; art history; museums; photography; cultural omnivore. Angeleno by birth, Dubliner by choice. Mildly interesting at times. https://people.ucd.ie/emily.mark
@sevenpaperclips.bsky.social
Gender & Science at Pitt Researching Gender & Trauma among WWI women veterans & queer kinship in Ireland ADHD Friend of Garden Gnomes Same SevenPaperclips from the other social media sites.
@fionnualawalsh.bsky.social
Associate Prof of Irish History at University College Dublin, interested in women’s history, and WWI. Enjoy film, fiction and fun. Always looking for fiction recommendations!
@isdoighliom.bsky.social
Reader, writer, teacher. Literature professor @unioflimerick.bsky.social. West Cork-based gardener and cat servant, with @siobhanodowd.bsky.social. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇮🇪
@clarerice.bsky.social
Research Fellow (Politics), University of Edinburgh @edinburghpir.bsky.social 📍 Northern Ireland / Edinburgh UK Politics | Northern Ireland | Brexit | Identity | Conflict | Gender | Territorial Politics | Institutions
@claireconnolly.bsky.social
Professor of Modern English, University College Cork, Ireland
@ssnci.bsky.social
The Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland promotes an inter-disciplinary approach to Irish studies. ssnci.org
@bridmcgrath.bsky.social
Historian of #earlyModern #Irish #parliaments and towns & palaeography. #Gaeilge agus fáilte. #Cyclist. Fellow Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.bsky.social ORCID ID 0000-0003-0636-0499
@jonathangheaney.bsky.social
Sociologist (mostly), Queen's University Belfast. Interested in social theory, emotions, power, politics, specfic/sf. RT≠E. Own views. Usually on a bus somewhere on the island of Ireland. 'Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: hail, horrors'
@mauricejcasey.com
Historian of intimacy and revolution in interwar Europe (think Marks & Engels meets Mills & Boon). Author of Irish Book Awards shortlisted HOTEL LUX — about a hotel in 1920s Moscow — and radical history newsletter Archive Rats: archiverats.substack.com
@katyhayward.bsky.social
As it turns out, a Professor of Political Sociology at Queen's University Belfast working in & on the island of Ireland. Own my own views. http://go.qub.ac.uk/hayward
@jayroszman.bsky.social
Historian of 19th-c Ireland, Britain, & Empire at University College Cork. An 🇺🇸in 🇮🇪. Book on agrarian violence and British policy w Cambridge (2022). Next project on Irishmen, education, and empire.
@charlielynch.bsky.social
Social Historian | Glasgow, Irish Adjacent | Humanist | Writes about sex, religion, queer lives, moral panics.
@matthewjkelly.bsky.social
Historian of Britain & Ireland at Northumbria University. Beginning new work on the history of ornithology in twentieth-century Britain.
@tortietabby.bsky.social
Historian of medicine and gender in modern Ireland. Professor at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. I work on #histmed, reproductive health, and activism. Cat lover. 🐈 she/her. https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/proflaurakelly/
@anelisehshrout.bsky.social
#DH, digital historian, data humanist. #Philanthropy, #Atlantic, Ireland, North America. From NJ. On occupied Wabanaki land. Opinions mine. She/her. Pro-worker.
@katymilligan.bsky.social
Assistant Librarian, Edward Murphy Library, NCAD | Also Art Historian 📚
@dphinnemore.bsky.social
Professor of European Politics, Queen's University Belfast. EU politics, treaty reform, enlargement, Brexit/Protocol/Windsor Framework
@marionmcgarry.bsky.social
Irish heritage, folklore, material culture, design. Author: Irish Customs and Rituals. Lecturer ATU. Views my own. https://www.rte.ie/author/1241485-marion-mcgarry/
@davidstifter.bsky.social
Ollamh le Sean- ⁊ Meán-Ghaeilge, BARE Ceann Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh in Ollscoil Mhá Nuad 🇮🇪 Taighdeoir ar ᚑᚌ(ᚆ)ᚐᚋ OG(H)AM ⁊ DiAgnostic ⚫️⚪️ https://maynoothuniversity.ie/faculty-arts-celtic-studies-philosophy/our-people/david-stifter
@acidrains.bsky.social
Mainly politics and cute animals, with occasional images from the archives. For the day job, follow the Irish Cultural and Media History blog at irishmediahistory.com
@aoifeb.bsky.social
Swears, writes, Gaeilge is fáilte. She/í Makes Censored, a podcast about dirty books and films https://shows.acast.com/censored Research interests: sex and death
@historytcd.bsky.social
@neiljackman.bsky.social
Archaeologist at Abarta Heritage & Tuatha Ireland. Author of guidebooks to the #WildAtlanticWay & #IrelandsAncientEast Passionate about public archaeology and enthusiastic about old ruins (even Twitter). Explore Ireland with me @tuatha.ie
@maryburke.bsky.social
"Race Politics & Irish America" (Oxford UP bit.ly/3XKj0nn) Winner: 2025 Sharon Harris Book Award. Excerpt: bit.ly/3FuH1sa Podcast: bit.ly/3ZT7pnW Juanita Casey "Horse of Selene" Afterword: bit.ly/3QTOlSo Page: https://english.uconn.edu/person/mary-burk
@historiankarol.bsky.social
▪︎ Cultural, Social, Public Historian ▪︎ Associate Professor @unioflimerick.bsky.social, Ireland 🇮🇪 ▪︎ #IrishCulturalHistories #SocialHistories #MusicHistories #MusicalCulture #PublicHistory #CulturalPolitics #CulturalHeritage
@vgravey.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in European Politics, Queen's University Belfast - #Brexit #Environment #Devolution #Agriculture #Trade #EuropeanStudies and #teaching polsci/EU Secretary @uaces.bsky.social Co-chair @brexitenv.bsky.social Also music, knitting and cats..
@kevinkosullivan.bsky.social
Author of The NGO Moment (http://cambridge.org/9781108708548). Associate Professor in History at University of Galway. Co-editor @difp-ria.bsky.social. Currently researching climate change and capitalism in c20th & early c21st Ireland
@nadiadobrianska.bsky.social
🇺🇦 in Ireland. Modern Irish History, Ukrainian politics Tá Gaeilge agam. Mo thuairimí féin / My own thoughts
@ciarab.bsky.social
Professor of Irish Gender History, scholar of modern Irish socio-economic, cultural and health history. Recent book https://global.oup.com/academic/product/ordinary-lives-death-and-social-class-9780198865780?cc=ie&lang=en&
@maireadenright.bsky.social
Irish academic living in Birmingham. Working on women, law, religion (Catholicism mostly) and reproduction broadly understood. Often legal history, sometimes just law.
@thecelticist.bsky.social
Historian/writer • Maynooth University • Fierce Appetites (Penguin, 2022) • History and Salvation in Medieval Ireland (Routledge, 2021) • rep'd by Robert Caskie • extreme metal fan • she/her.
@irishlittimes.bsky.social
Promoting Irish writers and writing - maintained by Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social
@clodaghtait.bsky.social
Historian at MIC, Limerick, of women, men, children, emotion, death, violence, ghosts, cursing, folklore. Joint editor IHS. https://www.mic.ul.ie/staff/283-clodagh-tait
@niamhroisin.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Department of History at the University of Limerick. Researching religious architecture, histories of public space. Interested in books, new music, design. #CeaseFireInGaza https://pure.ul.ie/en/persons/niamh-nicghabhann-coleman
@kevinkenny.bsky.social
Historian of US immigration | 19th-century | race | labor | slavery | global migration | diaspora
@justrena.bsky.social
Archaeologist. Research Fellow. Iron Age and early medieval material culture .Horses and sharp pointy things, mostly. "Ain't nothin' like me - except me" (Raccoon, 2014). Usually optimistic even if cynical. She/her/thon wan. Personal views only
@aoifemod.bsky.social
Law Prof QUB| Tyranny & Global Legal Order | Utopia | International Law | Feminism | Feminist Constitutionalism | Brexit & Northern Ireland | History | Law & Humanities | Cork & Belfast & Ireland | She/Her Sí/í
@drreznicek.bsky.social
Health Humanities at University of Minnesota, Health, Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in 18th/19thC British and Irish literature. Must love dogs. https://experts.umn.edu/en/persons/matthew-reznicek
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
Author of award-winning bestseller 'An Irish Atlantic Rainforest'. Almost 16 years living with 73 acres of wildland in Beara, West Cork. #Rewilding.
@nwhyte.bsky.social
He/him. International affairs strategist & expert, science fiction fan, psephologist; posts personal. Will block rude people and bigots. http://fromtheheartofeurope.eu
@liamhogan.bsky.social
Librarian & Historian. Twitter migrant. Researching Slavery - Memory - Power. Blog > https://medium.com/@Limerick1914/ hcommons > https://hcommons.org/members/liamhogan/
@markdoyle.bsky.social
Historian & writer. Britain, Ireland, empire, music. In Nashville. Wrote a book-and-a-half on Belfast & one on the Kinks. Latest is John Cale's Paris 1919 for 33 1/3. Next: histories of African people/music in Ireland. “Pipe-sucking radical”-Mail on Sunday
@drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social
Historian,Director of UCD Gender Studies. Research-gendered & sexual violence in the Irish revolutionary wars / afterlives of Irish revolutionary women / Irish sexualities /feminist & queer histories / she/her / Ireland 🇮🇪 Dublin via north Kerry/ views mine
@irishstudiesqub.bsky.social
Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. An interdisciplinary research institute for all aspects of Irish culture, history, politics and society. See 'Lists' for more info. Find us at https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/