Ciaran O'Neill

Ciaran O'Neill

@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.

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Marc Scully
@marcscully.bsky.social

A thought-provoking new publication from Mairtin Mac an Ghaill, tracing intersections between multiple diasporas and the category of Irishness: who gets included in the latter, and who gets erased: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... (Declaring an interest, I'm cited in it a few times).

tandfonline.comThe epistemology of erasure from Irishness: from Plastic Paddies, children of not real emigrants, to not real nationals and Ireland is fullPlastic Paddy, an epithet of derision and subjugation emerging during the 1980s/1990s, attained an international iconic representational status. In response, the paper suggests a critical intervent...

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Margot Finn
@eicathomefinn.bsky.social

'The head of the Caribbean’s reparations commission has appealed to King Charles III as a “human brother” whose family he said had benefited from slavery to support reparations talks at next month’s Commonwealth leaders meeting in the Caribbean.'

theguardian.comKing Charles urged ‘as human brother’ to support reparations talks at Caribbean summitCaricom commission chair Hilary Beckles wants king to ensure Commonwealth becomes a ‘moral institution committed to human justice’

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Catherine Healy
@catherine-healy.bsky.social

Delighted to see this very kind review of my book by @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social in @irishhiststudies.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

cambridge.orgIrish domestic servants in transatlantic culture, c.1870–1945: intimate connections. By Catherine Healy. Pp ix, 201. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 2025. €149.79 hardback; €117.69 ebook. | Irish Historical...Irish domestic servants in transatlantic culture, c.1870–1945: intimate connections. By Catherine Healy. Pp ix, 201. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 2025. €149.79 hardback; €117.69 ebook.

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Kevin O'Sullivan
@kevinkosullivan.bsky.social

"The Irish experience of colonisation influences how we feel about our ancestral heritage ... Our British neighbours may not quite grasp this because they do not share our experience of colonisation." From my @historyatgalway.bsky.social colleague Chris Doyle: www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

irishtimes.comOpinion: The Annals of Inisfallen are part of Irish history. They don’t belong in a British libraryFormer colonies are increasingly seeking the return of their ancestral heritage. The Annals of Inisfallen are part of ours – a reminder of a thriving, independent civilisation that existed before colo...

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ERIN Sorbonne Nouvelle
@erin-paris3.bsky.social

Dear all, a chairde, Please find here the programme of the Paris Lille Irish Seminar for 2026–2027. PLIS is the joint seminar organised by the ERIN team at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and the Aire Irlande team at Université de Lille, previously known as the Irish Thursdays / Aire Irlande seminars.

Ciaran O'Neill
@ciaranon.bsky.social

Sorry to read this. Nini was researching Irish connections to enslavement and abolition long before anyone else in the field and we all owe her such an enormous debt for doing all that foundational work. It was one of the great, not-heralded-enough, contributions to modern Irish history.

History at Queen's University Belfast@qubhistory.bsky.social

We have heard the very sad news that Nini Rodgers died yesterday, after a period spent in a nursing home. Her former colleagues in the School remember her fondly, while others will have known Nini through her ground-breaking research on the history of slavery and Ireland.

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Jay Roszman
@jayroszman.bsky.social

If you are a first-time author of a book published in 2026 in Irish Studies (broadly conceived) do consider submitting it to the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Books. acisweb.org/murphy-prize/ Happy to answer any questions. #IrishStudies 🗃️

acisweb.orgDonald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book | American Conference for Irish Studies – An Chomhdháil Mheiriceánach do Léann na hÉireannDon Murphy, husband of ACIS Past President Maureen Murphy, was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, and died in New York on March 2, 1986. He received his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and Bachelor of...

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Caitríona Beaumont
@caitbeaumont.bsky.social

📣 Excellent new resource for academics, ECRs, PGRs & students interested in #historyofexperience. Fully OA & drawing on rich experience of colleagues in @hexhistory.bsky.social it includes oral history, ego documents, institutional records, fiction & photos. #skystorians 📣

link.springer.comSources and Methods for the History of ExperienceThis open access book explores what kinds of sources and methodologies are needed for a history of experience.

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Department of History, Trinity College Dublin
@historytcd.bsky.social

Dr @brian-hanley.bsky.social has published a new article in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, on Irish Republican Attitudes to Zionism and Palestine www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.com‘Muscle Memory’? Irish Republican Attitudes to Zionism and Palestine in Historical ContextThe belief in a ‘natural’ Irish sympathy with the Palestinian people, based on a shared history of colonisation, is a very widespread one. Indeed, many suggest that the legacy of resistance to Brit...

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Kieran Connell
@kieranconnell.bsky.social

Important new piece in @mbhjournal.bsky.social by my colleague @jcrangle.bsky.social on the experiences of Black and mixed race Irish immigrants in Britain 👇 academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...

academic.oup.com‘I felt like I just belonged’: urban multiculture and black Irish migrants in post-war BritainAbstract. This article reevaluates historians’ understanding of the Irish in post-war Britain from the perspective of a previously unresearched population,

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Tomás Irish
@tomasirish.bsky.social

Today is (online) publication day for Contested Histories: Global Perspectives on the Past, Present and Future of Public Monuments, a volume edited by me, @simonajohn.bsky.social and Hannah Lyons. We're so proud to have this volume out in the world! More info here: www.bloomsbury.com/us/contested...

bloomsbury.comContested HistoriesExamining case studies from Asia, Africa, North America, and Europe, this book explores the debates around the past, present and future of public monuments. Thr…

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Peter Gray
@petergray47.bsky.social

After 10 years at the helm of Irish Studies at QUB, with various ups and downs over the last decade, I’m handing over to our new leadership team from Monday. Many thanks to Peter and @siobhraaiken.bsky.social for stepping up to take forward Irish Studies in Belfast! www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

qub.ac.ukNew Irish Studies LeadershipAfter 10 years as Director of the Institute of Irish Studies, Prof Peter Gray is handing over to a new leadership team from the start of August 2026.

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Ciaran O'Neill
@ciaranon.bsky.social

What happens when historic human remains are returned to a community of origin? In this new co-authored article we compare recent reburials at Inishbofin in Ireland and Pälkäne in Finland: both controversial processes for reasons that overlap in fascinating ways. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comReturning the dead: the experience of repatriation and the heritage of racial science in Finland and IrelandThis article examines the contemporary return and reburial of human remains in two European contexts – Inishbofin, Ireland, and Pälkäne, Finland – to analyse how communities of descent experience, ...

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Mike Collins - Chair British Association for American Studies
@baaschair.bsky.social

Excited to offer a fully funded PhD with Maeve Ryan and I at KCL. Details below. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin...

kcl.ac.ukCRSW / AHRC Doctoral Studentship: Narratives of Enslavement and their Legacies | King's College LondonKing’s College London’s Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, jointly supervised by English and War Studies.

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Kim A. Wagner
@kimatiwagner.bsky.social

This piece by @joshcaress.bsky.social - published by @lukeoneil47.bsky.social - is by far the most perceptive take on American identity + myth + memory I've read this anniversary...

Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social

"There has never been a time in American history when our country was not mythologizing itself to cover atrocities.... More than any other nation, America is an idea. And that idea is a phantasm, a collective dream, or—more plainly—a fantasy." www.welcometohellworld.com/america-250-...

welcometohellworld.comAmerica 250: A ReckoningMythologizing ourselves to cover atrocities

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Ciaran O'Neill
@ciaranon.bsky.social

A new coauthored article just out on open access. Written with Finola O’Kane and Chris Nikkel, it looks at the ways that Irish families with connections to enslavement elide, remember, or forget those connections www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comRotten roots: the colonial genealogies of Irish enslaversThis article reinterprets Irish links to Atlantic slavery as a problem of kinship, inheritance, and family memory. It focuses in particular on genealogy as a technology of memory within enslaver fa...

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Sarah Roddy
@seroddy.bsky.social

A real honour to receive this prize for my book - the list of past winners includes some of my favourite people and some of my favourite books in Irish history.

acirishstudies.bsky.social@acirishstudies.bsky.social

Winner of the James S. Donnelly Prize for Books on History, Sarah Roddy's Mondy & Irish Catholicism develops an important interdisciplinary study that integrates social history with economics, religious studies, & diaspora scholarship

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Catherine Healy
@catherine-healy.bsky.social

Lovely to see my book has received an honourable mention for the Lawrence J. McCaffrey Prize, an @acirishstudies.bsky.social award for the best monographs on Irish America. Congrats to @irishacw.bsky.social on a well-deserved win for his work on Irish-American soldiers. acisweb.org/2025/05/2024...

acisweb.org2025 Book Prize Winners Announced | American Conference for Irish Studies – An Chomhdháil Mheiriceánach do Léann na hÉireannCongratulations to the 2025 Book Prize & Fellowship recipients! Special thanks to the book prize and fellowship committees for your work and dedication!

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Katja Bruisch
@kbruisch.bsky.social

"Bruisch’s book stands as a model of thoughtful, methodologically sophisticated historical writing—one that would serve both undergraduate and graduate students especially well as an example of how history can and should be written." So delighted! Wanna bring 🔥 Burning Swamps 🔥 into your classroom?

Daniella M.@farsouthhistory.bsky.social

Check out Maria Fedorova's review of Katja Bruisch's "Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy," published in 2025 by @universitypress.cambridge.org; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #energy www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

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sheila armstrong
@sheelanogig.bsky.social

*greatness not guaranteed, check T&Cs

Bloomsbury Books UK@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

We're thrilled to unveil the cover for The Red Mouth by Sheila Armstrong... From a rising star in literary fiction comes a story of two discoveries made deep in an Irish bogland, threading together four lives across time. The Red Mouth is out on July 2nd.

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Tom Hulme
@tomhulme.bsky.social

Note: relatively stable institution; HAPP's a supportive (even harmonious) School; there's another Ancient History colleague; and pay at Queen's is now relatively high (starting salary is junior; post confirmation-in-post, lecturer starts c. £52k, SL starts c. £66k). www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRP030/l...

jobs.ac.ukLecturer in Ancient History at Queen's University BelfastLooking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Ancient History on jobs.ac.uk!

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis
@caitlindeangelis.bsky.social

While I am glad that more people are acknowledging the scope of Harvard officials' enslaving and profiting from slavery (this database is a small part of a much larger history), I also hope that people will engage with the ongoing violence of this sort of data:

cambridge.orgOpen access violence: Legacies of white supremacist data making at the Penn Museum, from the Morton Cranial Collection to the MOVE remains | International Journal of Cultural Property | Cambridge CoreOpen access violence: Legacies of white supremacist data making at the Penn Museum, from the Morton Cranial Collection to the MOVE remains - Volume 30 Issue 2
The Boston Globe@bostonglobe.com

Harvard University's top leaders likely enslaved thousands of people between the founding of the school in 1636 and the defeat of the Confederacy, according to new research.

trib.alHarvard officials enslaved more than 1,600 people, new research reveals - The Boston GlobeSo far, they have confirmed that at least 259 Harvard officials enslaved people — and they are still digging through records.

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Deirdre Flynn
@deirdreflynn.bsky.social

Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Creative Writing (Permanent) Maynooth University www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRL937/a...

jobs.ac.ukAssistant Professor/Lecturer in Creative Writing (Permanent) at Maynooth University, National University of Ireland MaynoothSearching for an academic job? Explore this Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Creative Writing (Permanent) opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

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Journal of Art in Society
@artinsociety.bsky.social

This remarkable colour photograph of hot air balloons at the inaugural Paris Air Show was taken in 1909 by Léon Gimpel, using the Autochrome Lumière process, the first commercial process for colour photography

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Marc Scully
@marcscully.bsky.social

News from @michistory.bsky.social colleagues that should be of interest to #IrishStudies folk, and also 90s indie veterans. This does sound kind of amazing. #IrishDiaspora www.mic.ul.ie/news/2026/mi...

mic.ul.ieMIC historian teams up with Cranberries drummer to release new single inspired by 19th-century Irish History | Mary Immaculate CollegeA Mary Immaculate College (MIC) academic has teamed up with the Cranberries drummer, Fergal Lawler, and acclaimed musician and producer Bernard Butler to release a new single rooted in the history of the Irish diaspora.