Ciara Breathnach

So this was a nice surprise to wake up to, thanks to all Cambridge University Press & Assessment and series editor @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social Delighted that it is Open Access doi.org/10.1017/9781... @researchireland.ie @ucc.ie

The Works Progress Administration was created in May 1935 as part of the New Deal to provide jobs to the unemployed during the Great Depression. One of the WPA’s most idealistic goals was to send books and librarians to areas where there were none. Read more: https://bit.ly/4hkgtNC #ALA150

Great fun to work with @heleneokeeffe.bsky.social and @csoireland.bsky.social colleagues on our Census 1926 event last May @ucc.ie and this series arising from it @amrcampop.bsky.social @stephenscarth.bsky.social among the authors #spéirgorm #irishhistory

Interested in a PhD in historical demography/population studies at @camunicampop.bsky.social, @camunigeography.bsky.social, Cambridge University? We have 3 suggested topics (see thread): contact me to discuss, or to suggest your own idea. Apply by early December for funded places.

Apologies to users in the US who are currently unable to access the DIB website. This is due to an ongoing layer 7 DDoS attack, and we hope to restore access as soon as possible.

Culture Night at Collins Barracks ✨ Join us for an evening of conversations, discoveries and the occasional moment that completely changes how you see Irish History. 📍 National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks 🎟️ Free admission www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum... #CultureNight #CultureNight2026

Very grateful to @aidanbeatty.com for his time and the enjoyable chat about the problem archival absence poses to historical research. Honourable mention to the fabulous series Editor @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social #spéirgorm

Does anyone have a subscription/access to ukpressonline and be willing to download for me ONE article? Please? I do not seem to have institutional access and do not wish to take out a whole year's subscription. Irony alert: the article is from The Daily Worker.

The Annals of Innisfallen, which chronicle life in Ireland from before the arrival of St Patrick until the 15th century, will go on public display in this country for the first time 40 years today, in an exhibition that will open at UCC

🎥 We are putting together a package to support and amplify every single dispute in the union. Today is our first ever local dispute video from the brilliant Glasgow Caledonian UCU Branch who are fighting to protect jobs. Please give it a watch and share.

Does a good job of documenting what many of us suspected: the media attention to Arday was simply disproportionate to his misdeeds.

The CSO has released data on metered electricity consumption for 2025. The extraordinary headline figures: - Electricity consumption from data centres grew by nearly 10% last year, and now accounts for 23% of Ireland's electricity demand.

Rhasidat Adeleke just after receiving her silver medal. #SpéirGhorm

This is awful.

📘From our latest issue! Ciara Breathnach @ciarab.bsky.social @ucc.ie on 'Newspapers as Surrogate Archives: A Case Study of the Early Twentieth-Century Dublin City Coroner’s Court' #Archives #Newspapers #Press #Ireland #Legal #History 20thc📰🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

So much happening for #HeritageWeek2026. The wonderful @louiseoc.bsky.social is giving a free talk on 15 August 12-1pm at UCC library. libcal.ucc.ie/event/4571491

I'm pleased to announce that @universitypress.cambridge.org has just published Antoon De Baets' Element "Censorship of History", no. 38 in the Elements in Historical Theory and Practice series. Downloadable free till Aug. 19. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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PwC (like, among others, KPMG before it) found to be producing 'thought leadership' advice promoting agentic AI use that is larded with AI hallucinations. Worth bearing in mind if they are, for example, one of your university's consultants.

“‘Cultural sensitivity concerning the Gaeltacht people of Ireland – A concept analysis’ is teideal don taighde úr.” Más maith is mithid.

If anyone is considering editing something from our collections, we will happily supply a digital copy at no cost. Please contact Kate (archives at ucd dot ie).

the other editors can't make it so it'll be just me but I'll try and adequately perform some magnetism for y'all next week

🚨We are hiring a two-year postdoctoral researcher (80%) at the University of Zurich within the new Horizon Europe project WELFAIR on the political implications of technological change, demographic ageing and rising inequality. The full job ad is here: tinyurl.com/3b6ddm25 Apply by August 9, 2026.

If art critics talked like football pundits.

Talks coming up peeps if anyone has an interest in witches and banshees? Cork on 13 July - the banshee - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-banshe... Dublin on 26 July - witches - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-histor... Cork on 17 August - witches - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-histor...

EThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come https://www.bl.uk/stories/news/ethos-records-restored

I am delighted to report that 'Making, Spending and Saving: Women and Money in Australasia', a special issue of the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review, is now live. Guest editor Cath Bishop organized the collection, which has six original research articles and a substantial introduction.

History of Medicine at UMN is hiring a one year Teaching Fellow for the upcoming academic year. Please share with anyone who may be interested! #histmed #histsci hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...

***Take action against NARA closure*** The federal government recently announced that it will be closing the National Archives and Records Administration branches in San Bruno, CA and Chicago, IL and move all their historical records to a site with no research. Write a letter! Thread - 1/2

A crucial report into gendered institutional abuse in Northern Ireland will be published today. Well worth reading for myriad reasons, not least because the independent panel was tasked with developing the kind of human-rights-centred approach survivors in the Republic have been denied.

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Delighted to see this OA output from @thegreatleap22116.bsky.social with @rachelmurphy.bsky.social Prof Tiziana Margaria and our talented PhDs Marco, Sami (Daniel) and Sebastian. Thanks to all hlcs.nl/article/view... @uccresearch.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social @researchireland.ie

Better rehire all those profs

Times are terribly tough for historians at the moment, but this is a wonderful scheme, a ray of light. #Skystorians

This is the way

Really helpful stuff from the brilliant @rachelmurphy.bsky.social on tracing your ancestry. #spéirghorm

❗TOMORROW❗ Join Liverpool University Centre for Archive Studies and us for a talk by Dr Elizabeth Mullins on "Preserving the records of a Travelling Community" 🗓️6:15 pm, 20 May 🧭Central Teaching Hub @liverpooluni.bsky.social FREE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/preserving... #SkyStorians

A reminder that our new funding programme for Fellows & Associate Fellows of the Society resident outside the UK & Ireland closes a week on Friday bit.ly/3PtDQZu Grants support research in UK/Irish archives for international historians. Deadline 8 May to allow research from summer 2026 #Skystorians

An updated version of Emma Diduch's WP is now available on CWPESH 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟏𝟗𝟏𝟏 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐅𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐲

A world where alcohol was good for you and dung was medicine… open.substack.com/pub/medieval...

Is mian le TG4 Eagarthóirí Coimisiúnaithe Ábhair a earcú! 📺 #SíógnabPost 🧚🏼 Tuilleadh eolais ⬇️ https://www.tg4.ie/ga/corporate/foluntais/