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@irishtimes.com
Official account of The Irish Times. Diverse opinion, thorough reporting and outstanding writing from http://irishtimes.com .
@liamhogan.bsky.social
Librarian & Historian. Twitter migrant. Researching Slavery - Memory - Power. Blog > https://medium.com/@Limerick1914/ hcommons > https://hcommons.org/members/liamhogan/
@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
@irishlittimes.bsky.social
Promoting Irish writers and writing - maintained by Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social
@kevinkenny.bsky.social
Historian of US immigration | 19th-century | race | labor | slavery | global migration | diaspora
@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
@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
@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
@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
@aidanosullivan.bsky.social
Head of School/Prof at UCD Archaeology; Early Medievalist; Director @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social Member @RIADawson & FSA Dad of boys; Dog Dad, Hurling/Camogie, IC Member, Own Opinions
@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
@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
@williamcrawley.bsky.social
BBC presenter. @BBCNIreland, @BBCNewsNI. @BBCR4Sunday. #BBCTalkback. Member @RIADawson. @EF_Fellows. Cynophilist. Talking on-air against my better judgment. Check my List for: Northern Ireland https://go.bsky.app/VGXofMD
@nwhyte.bsky.social
He/him. International affairs strategist & expert, science fiction fan, psephologist; posts personal. Will block rude people and bigots. http://fromtheheartofeurope.eu
@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.
@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
@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
@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.
@historiankarol.bsky.social
▪︎ Cultural, Social, Public Historian ▪︎ Associate Professor @unioflimerick.bsky.social, Ireland 🇮🇪 ▪︎ #IrishCulturalHistories #SocialHistories #MusicHistories #MusicalCulture #PublicHistory #CulturalPolitics #CulturalHeritage
@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
@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/
@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..
@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/
@aearls.bsky.social
Historian of sexuality and Ireland at St Olaf College. Executive Producer digpodcast.org. Layout Editor nursingclio.org. (3rd place) Winner of the 2024 MN State Fair Gingersnap competition. SPIRITUALISM'S PLACE out now. LOVE IN THE LAV coming soon
@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
@charlielynch.bsky.social
Social Historian | Glasgow, Irish Adjacent | Humanist | Writes about sex, religion, queer lives, moral panics.
@dphinnemore.bsky.social
Professor of European Politics, Queen's University Belfast. EU politics, treaty reform, enlargement, Brexit/Protocol/Windsor Framework
@tomhulme.bsky.social
Reader in History based at Queen's University Belfast. Interested in queer Irish history, 1880-1960s. PI of AHRC-funded “Queer Northern Ireland: Sexuality before Liberation”. Secretary of local UCU branch. 🏳️🌈 https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/tom-hulme
@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.
@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
@nlireland.bsky.social
Sharing Ireland's stories through our unique collections/ Ag roinnt scéal na hÉireann tríd ár mbailiúcháin uathúla. Explore our collections: https://www.nli.ie/collections/our-collections
@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
@matthewjkelly.bsky.social
Historian of Britain & Ireland at Northumbria University. Beginning new work on the history of ornithology in twentieth-century Britain.
@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
@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
@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
@gwendalpiegais.bsky.social
Post-Doc @ucddublin.bsky.social • Dr. @univbrest.bsky.social • Historian #Russia #Ukraine #WW1 #CivilWar • Publisher Éd. Codex & Éd. Plein Jour Ongoing project: The Age of Civil Wars in Europe, c. 1914-1949 (https://civil-wars.eu/members/paul-huddie-2/)
@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'
@ucdpress.bsky.social
Publish the best contemporary non-fiction writing. Peer-reviewed. Representation US @UChicagoPress Australia @WileyGlobal www.ucdpress.ie https://linktr.ee/ucdpress
@nadiadobrianska.bsky.social
🇺🇦 in Ireland. Modern Irish History, Ukrainian politics Tá Gaeilge agam. Mo thuairimí féin / My own thoughts
@peelersandsheep.bsky.social
New documentary short ‘Land and Revolution’ out now - https://youtu.be/9KUqvXjlHts?si=Dhn-BXZTHQHbF51v New edited volume ‘Spirit of Revolution’ - https://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2022/spirit-of-revolution
@whaireland.bsky.social
The Women's History Association of Ireland (WHAI) has been promoting research into women's history in Ireland since 1989.
@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&
@burnslibrary.bsky.social
Boston College Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books. Irish studies, Jesuitica, British Catholic authors, Boston history, and more
@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.
@drciaranmcdonnell.bsky.social
Historian: 18thC war & society (Jacobites, French Revolution & Napoleonic Wars), Irish in foreign armies (Wild Geese), Medieval history (Crusades). Also interested in archaeology & heritage management. https://ciaranmcdonnell.weebly.com/
@erikahanna.bsky.social
Historian of Ireland, cities, folklore, photographs, bicycles, raindrops and other ephemera. Associate Prof Modern History at University of Bristol. I blog about weather and urbanization here: https://rainandtheirishcity.com/
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@nwavc2025.bsky.social
Bluesky page for the 'Navigating War and Violence in Twentieth Century Ireland' 2025 academic conference, organized by Dublin City University's School of History and Geography.