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@petergray47.bsky.social
@earner.bsky.social
Professor of Contemporary Irish History, Trinity College Dublin She/her
@leannemccormick.bsky.social
Professor of Modern History, Ulster University. Co-chair Truth Recovery Independent Panel. Bad Bridget Project | Queer NI.
@briancasey123.bsky.social
Historian of the Victorian countryside, agrarian radicalism. and 20th Century global Catholicism and female religious. Hon. Fellow Durham University Theology and Religion.
@usihs.bsky.social
Promoting Irish History in Ulster since 1936. https://usihs36.com/
@ciaranmcasey.bsky.social
Economic historian at UL. Author of 'The Irish Department of Finance, 1959-1999' and 'Policy Failures and the Irish Economic Crisis'.
@shahmimaakhtar.bsky.social
Historian. Exhibiting Irishness: Empire, race and nation, c. 1850-1970 out now with @ManchesterUP Studies in Imperialism Series. 30% discount code: EVENT30
@lloislanel.bsky.social
School of History and Geography, Dublin City University. Corgis 🦊
@rachael-young.bsky.social
Modern Irish & British History post-doc at Boston College. Interested in the merging of community art, protest, and policing in marginalized communities. she/her
@dihall.bsky.social
Victoria University, Melbourne. Historican of Ireland and the Irish diaspora. Interested in gender, violence, religion, race and memory
@mof1916.bsky.social
Amateur historian, 1916 author. Keeper of world’s largest private collection of Easter Rising-related publications. #MOF1916 Got any rare 1916 publications?
@elvabjohnston.bsky.social
Historian at University College Dublin | late antique & early medieval Ireland: literacy, gender, saints | posting in a personal capacity | she/her
@seanoconnellqub.bsky.social
Professor of Modern British and Irish Social History at Queen’s University Belfast. Co-Chair of the Truth Recovery Independent Panel on Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses in Northern Ireland, 1922-1995.
@sarahkerr.bsky.social
Lecturer in Radical Humanities & Archaeology at UCC, Ireland. Reviews Editor Medieval Archaeology @socmedarch.bsky.social Former MSCActions Fellow at Aarhus University. Feminist, mother, she/her.
@melissabaird.bsky.social
Assistant Editor, Documents on Irish Foreign Policy, Royal Irish Academy | Historian of modern Irish and American history.
@kateom.bsky.social
Mam, historian, northsider. 🏸🏃♀️🤘🌱 co-host RTÉ #IrishImperialLives https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/irish-imperial-lives/
@decomon.bsky.social
Historian of 19th and 20th century Ireland. Author of the forthcoming book with Palgrave Macmillan in 2025: The Irish National Stud 1900-2021: Horses, Politics and Elitism.
@candlelitink.bsky.social
Irish women’s history, letters, memoir, creativity & writing. Norn Iron cutty. Ready for the hills. Associate Prof of English, University of South-Eastern Norway.
@physcstudy.bsky.social
Lecturer At Ulster University. Historian of health, fitness and physical culture. Co-host of Boys We've Seen podcast. I also run history of fitness website, physicalculturestudy.com
@cliochris.bsky.social
Reader in Economic History, Queen's University Belfast @quceh.bsky.social | Associate Editor, Business History @businesshistory.bsky.social | Website: https://www.chriscolvin.nl/
@adriankirwan.bsky.social
Historian of Science and Technology. Mostly talking about history of telecommunications, Irish history, radium and technology in teaching and learning. Teaches Critical Skills Maynooth University.
@paulhuddie.bsky.social
ERC Project Manager @absolute_erc @ansoc_erc @civilwars_erc | Historian | Coordinator of @milwelfhist.bsky.social and @crimeanwar.bsky.social | also studies Royal Naval reserves 🇪🇺🇺🇦 For more about me see: http://irishhistorians.ie/members/phuddie/
@brendamalone.bsky.social
Brenda Malone, historian, Curator of Irish Military History at the NMI, into social justice and cultural heritage. Blogger. Easily distracted by dogs. Not actually a cricket bat. All tweets my own. thecricketbatthatdiedforireland.com
@marg50.bsky.social
Feminist historian. Latest book ‘Rebel Women: Cumann na mBan in Belfast and the Glens of Antrim 1914-1924’ - contact publishers info@beyondthepalebooks.com.
@ianmillerhistor.bsky.social
Author of eight books, most recent "History of Ireland in 10 Body Parts" shortlisted for An Post Irish Book Awards. Senior Lecturer/Historian Ulster University PI Epidemic Belfast Reviews Editor Social History of Medicine www.ianmillerhistorian.co.uk
@jcrangle.bsky.social
Lecturer in Contemporary British History at Queen’s University Belfast. Historian of migration and diversity in Britain and Ireland.
@homespunhistory.bsky.social
Historian Dr Gavin Hughes and Musician/Storyteller Anne Harper explore the hidden people, places and landscapes of Ireland. Expect a smattering of folklore, bad jokes & occasional spooky moments!
@heleneokeeffe.bsky.social
PhD, historian of 19th & 20th century Irish History. Research Officer, University College Cork. Researcher #AtlasIrishRev, co-editor 'Atlas of the Irish Civil War: New Perspectives'.
@ulsterhistory.bsky.social
We are a leading Irish family history research organisation and book publisher. www.ulsterhistoricalfoundation.com
@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
@caitbeaumont.bsky.social
Prof Social History LSBU | Female activism, gender equality & women's social movements Britain & Ireland | History of Experience | Council @royalhistsoc.bsky.social | PI #womensgrassrootsactivism & #Afterlives | Visiting full Prof @ucddublin.bsky.social
@morganjohn.bsky.social
Historical Memory | Law | Politics | Sport | Travel | Hiking | Culture | Curious….. (Co-author of new book, The Irish in the Resistance…)
@drgavinhughes.bsky.social
Short misadventurer in archaeology, mischievous military historian, author, broadcaster, relentless miniature painter & wargaming collector. Follows cricket but doesn't understand it. Looks a little like Asterix 🙂 Rep @Pastpreservers; CMRS TCD, NI , Wales
@sarahannebuckley.bsky.social
Associate Professor in History @universityofgalway. Vice-Dean for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in CASSCS. Gender, childhood, institutions. Co-author @irelandincolour books. Co-PI Tuam Oral History Project.
@patrickjmahone1.bsky.social
Staraí/Scríbhneoir - Historian/Writer Scoláire iardhochtúireachta IRC in Ollscoil na Gaillimhe / iarscoláire Fulbright 19th c. US history; Fenianism; Irish language in the US; Irish folklore
@siobhraaiken.bsky.social
Léachtóir Sinsearach/ Senior Lecturer @ Ollscoil na Banríona, Queen's University Belfast. Member of Young Academy Ireland. Legacies of Irish revolution | modernist & contemporary Irish literature | ✍🏼📖 on urban Gaeltacht communities in US at turn of 20c
@pconn99.bsky.social
Local historian, editor of Ríocht na Midhe, journal of the Meath Archaeological and Historical Society, research interests - history of public housing, labour history, Great Famine, Irish towns and local government in the 19th and early 20th century,
@ellenmcwilliams.bsky.social
Writer and Academic West Cork to Blame for Any Views New Book: RESTING PLACES: ON WOUNDS, WAR AND THE IRISH REVOLUTION (Beyond the Pale Books) https://www.ellenmcwilliams.com/ Lecturer in English, University of Exeter https://english.exeter.ac.uk/staff/
@cwallacedublin.bsky.social
Historian of Urban 19-20th c. Ireland/UK. Deputy director @VirtualTreasury Views are all my own.
@ciaranon.bsky.social
Historian at TCD, interested in Ireland and Empire, Public History, and lots of other things. Co-lead for Trinity's Colonial Legacies.
@archiseek.bsky.social
Irish architecture history https://www.archiseek.com since 1996, football fan (all strains), drinker of tea (all strains), likes beer (all strains). Also likes strainers. #YNWA
@idamilne.bsky.social
Historian unashamedly obsessive about anything to do with 1918-19 flu pandemic. Or weissbier. Also interested in history ofepidemics, vaccination, southern Irish Protestant identity, newspapers, oral history, current affairs…and I love good company.
@jhallgenie.bsky.social
I am an Irish American expat living in County Clare, working as a professional genealogist (APG) with a PhD in Irish American Studies (MIC) and an M.A. in Local History (UL). Fairfield U (CT) graduate. Sea swimmer. Let me research your family history!
@mcgoffmccann.bsky.social
Professional Historian - Researching the Bath Estate in nineteenth century Ireland - author of Melancholy Madness: A Coroner's Casebook and The Irish Coroner, Death, Murder and Politics in Co. Monaghan, 1846-78
@kristinadecker.bsky.social
Historian & Writer • PhD on Mary Delany and the culture of Improvement at University College Cork • 18thC cultural history, country house & material culture studies, animal histories • Secretary Women’s History Association of Ireland • West Cork
@msp-archive.bsky.social
Military Service Pensions Archive. The largest collection in the Military Archives in Ireland. Director MSPA: @cecilearchives.bsky.social www.militaryarchives.ie www.militarypensions.wordpress.com
@cecilearchives.bsky.social
Senior Archivist at Military Archives of Ireland Director Military Service Pensions Archive (1916-1923) @MSP-Archive.bsky.social 🇨🇵🇮🇪 🇪🇺 Blue Shield Ireland @blueshield-ireland.bsky.social Linguist | ISL 👋🏽 and Arabic learner 🇸🇾 | Archives for Democracy |🌱🌿
@timtimothy87.bsky.social
Historian of 19th-20th c Ireland & the British Empire. Faculty at Marquette University (WI, USA). Researching national identity, empires, decolonization, popular culture, especially religion.
@delayedscholar.bsky.social
Historian of class, labor, and gender in Britain, Ireland, and Empire. First-gen, non-traditional, advocate in Equity initiatives. Old-school D&D nerd. 🏳️🌈
@gerardshannon.bsky.social
Public historian of the Irish revolutionary period of 1912-23. Author of 'Liam Lynch: To Declare a Republic' published by Merrion Press. MA in History from DCU. More can be found here: https://gerardshannon.com/
@leabhairnua.bsky.social
An author-interview #podcast channel in the NewBooksNetwork Email us: NewBooksInIrishStudies@gmail.com Listen to us: https://t.co/gdzOPcRwse Hosts: Meg Smith - Danica Ramsey-Brimberg - Averill Earls - Bridget English - Colleen English - Aidan Beatty
@nornirongirl1981.bsky.social
Teenage angst, boys and hunger strikes. The life of a 13 year old in N Ireland. My 1981 diary entries tweeted daily. Contact: @BeebsyMcA
@pjmartin.bsky.social
Stay at home Dad. Fan of NFL, GAA & other footballs. Irish, living in Belfast. Historian and gamer. Christian internationalist.
@niamhh.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin. Researching legal history, legal professions and trials
@voxhib.bsky.social
Archaeology, History, Hagiography, Folklore & Landscapes of Early Irish Christianity & Early Medieval Ireland. Includes thinly veiled but good-natured irreverence, outrageous puns and irregular posts.
@drjohnborgonovo.bsky.social
Historian, Sr Lecturer UCC Revolutionary Ireland, WW1, Californian in Cork Swaps stories around the campfire
@womenof1000.bsky.social
Art & research project illustrating the lives of women from around the world 1000 years ago: https://womenof1000ad.weebly.com/ PhD student at Edinburgh Uni in Celtic & Scottish Studies, researching herring gutters & their music. she/her, disabled 🏳️🌈
@grahambrownlow.bsky.social
Academic economist. Recovering journal editor. Perhaps best known - if at all- for writing about De Lorean? Fan of Bangor FC and low brow cinema.
@lauramca.bsky.social
Irish Academic, archaeologist, heritage, memory, creative at UC Cork. Interest in post/conflict and post/colonial contexts inc fieldwork in Ireland and Caribbean.
@conorreidy.bsky.social
Professional Historian | Author | Copy Editor | Indexer | Social, Gender & Penal History | Former M&B Commission Researcher | Tipp FM Contributor www.silverviewediting.com
@tmartinwalsh.bsky.social
20th century Social & Gender Historian | Ireland & England| FRHistS | Web Officer WHAI| Co Treasurer IAPH | Member OHNI | Project Officer Oral History Project UL https://repository.dri.ie/catalog/hh646r35d
@samuelguthrie.bsky.social
Public/oral historian, working with community & placemaking in Belfast. Former projects inc. British Red Cross, Ionad na Fuiseogie, St Matthew's 150th, & Mid Ulster Council. Currently researching & writing about postmemory & identity thru rugby league.
@susiedeedigan.bsky.social
ARINS Programme Manager, University of Notre Dame Based @ Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, QUB ——— Historian: gender & politics modern Ireland and Britain. PhD from QUB. Formerly: Oxford, TCD, UC Berkeley.
@pduffy1.bsky.social
@researchireland.bsky.social PhD candidate @historytcd.bsky.social. O'Connellite politics and the emergence of a north-south frontier, 1823-45. Opinions mine. pduffy1@tcd.ie orcid.org/0000-0002-6049-1089 irishhistorians.ie/members/patrick-barry-duffy/
@gmulvenna.bsky.social
Researcher, author, listener. Co-host of Shrapnel podcast. Good listener. Trying to figure out this place we call home.
@janegvmcgaughey.bsky.social
Johnson Chair of Quebec and Canadian Irish Studies | Host of The Irish in Canada Podcast |
@salvadorryan.bsky.social
Native of Moneygall. Professor of Ecclesiastical History at St Patrick's Pontifical University Maynooth. Loves teaching & writing, and has published widely on social, cultural and religious history, medieval to modern. Editor, Irish Theological Quarterly.
@shannondevlin.bsky.social
Historian of siblings, the Irish family, networking and sociability in 19th-C Ireland. Belfast-Galway commute enthusiast. Lecturer in Irish History @ U of Galway
@railwayarch.bsky.social
Dr Siobhan Osgood. Historian of 19thC railway architecture/engineering/construction. Alum Trinity College Dublin, Dept. Art and Architectural History. @irishrailarch on Instagram www.railwayarchitecture.com
@jimoneillnyw.bsky.social
Historian of early-modern Ireland. Has a fondness for pillboxes and airfields that's not entirely healthy. Segued to WW2 somehow.
@notsecretgarden.bsky.social
Writing about love & politics at Queen's University Belfast 💘 | Writing in UKRI Future Leaders Fellow | PI on 'Acts_of_Union' | All views personal.
@bryanfanning.bsky.social
Full Professor of Migration and Social Policy, student of intellectual history #author: Public Morality and the Culture Wars: The triple divide (2023), and those in the above picture.
@timvrti.bsky.social
Research Fellow with the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland Based at Trinity College Dublin/PRONI Historian of 18th/19th century Britain and Ireland. Author of 'Irish Artisans and Radical Politics, 1776-1820' (Liverpool Uni Press, 2023)
@theirishstory.bsky.social
Irish History Website, maintained and edited by John Dorney.
@irishacw.bsky.social
Historian & Archaeologist. Digital Humanities, Public Engagement. Latest Book: lsupress.org/9780807183700/green-and-blue/ Transatlantic Podcast: shows.acast.com/transatlantic StoryMaps: storymaps.com/profile/irishacw www.shielsheritage.com
@shelbyzimme.bsky.social
Social historian of medicine, institutions, poverty, and death | PhD from Trinity College Dublin | Based in London
@irishinstitute.bsky.social
Institute of #irishstudies @liverpooluni.bsky.social: world-leading research & teaching in peace & conflict, women's studies, literature & history. https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/irish-studies
@saradm.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Aarhus University. Peace, Conflict, Memory, Northern Ireland. Here for politics and righteous indignation.
@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
@gillianobrien.bsky.social
Professor of Public History. Author of 'The Darkness Echoing'. Public History/Museums/Heritage/Memory/Death/Dark Tourism/Spies/Nuns/ Board member Irish Museums Association
@bairishstudies.bsky.social
BAIS is the national network for those with an interest in the study of Ireland. Posts by our comms team and council members. https://bairishstudies.wordpress.com/
@drnightdub.bsky.social
Researches the political/sectarian conflict in Belfast 1920-22. Author of "From Pogrom to Civil War - Tom Glennon & The Belfast IRA" and "Pogrom & Partition - Belfast's Market Area 1920-22." Blogs at www.thebelfastpogrom.com. Cooks fish, watches St Pats.
@ssnci.bsky.social
The Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland promotes an inter-disciplinary approach to Irish studies. ssnci.org
@melfarrell.bsky.social
Historian, mostly of Ireland,1912-37. New book, 'Vying for Victory', on the 1923 election, co-edited with Elaine Callinan & Thomas Tormey https://tinyurl.com/4jtm4ndb . Also a big Villa fan & music lover. Any views, are my own.
@speakerconolly.bsky.social
Associate Professor of eighteenth century Irish History, co- director Trinity Colonial Legacies Project. Procrastinator
@delaycara.bsky.social
Historian of reproduction and women's health studying abortion in Ireland and the American south. WGST professor at the University of South Carolina
@feargalc.bsky.social
Professor (Emeritus) University of Kent. Also Prof at University of Warwick. Have taught & written about political conflict & peacebuilding for last 30 years. Still learning. Living in Peak District England but FROM Belfast in NI. Politics nerd
@leannecalvert.bsky.social
Historian of the Family working on Sexualities, Religion, & Gender in Ireland & the Atlantic World. Like dogs? Meet Frank 🐶 Belfast 🔁 Tipperary
@draftery.bsky.social
University College Dublin | Full Prof of the History of Education | FRHistS | Affls.: University of Cambridge & Trinity College Dublin | author | mother | gardener | sailor | book collector. Writes about 19thC schools/childhood/convents/Irish diaspora.
@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/
@sophcocooper.bsky.social
Social historian of gender, migration & public space | Nuns | Ireland & its diaspora | Senior Lecturer @QUBLiberalArts | Forging Identities in the Irish World @EdinburghUP 2022 | She/her.
@martinodonoghue.bsky.social
Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt. Researching Ireland and India. Author - The Legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Independent Ireland, 1922-1949 https://shorturl.at/BNQNP Views own
@catherinemuseum.bsky.social
Museums, maps, social history are my thing! PhD Researcher at Ulster University: EU-funded cross-border museum projects in Ireland. Author: Irish Historic Towns Atlas, Armagh. Sailor and 'enthusiastic maverick' (apparently). Life interrupted/Long Covid
@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/