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
Síobhra Aiken
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Check out @fergallenehan.bsky.social’s article on the Irish revolution
in Nazi Germany. Part of a forthcoming special edition on multilingual responses to revolutionary Ireland that interrogates questions of translation, language ability, and transnational appropriations and solidarities.
It was a pleasure & privilege to chair this year’s Wiles Lectures by Sunil Amrith on ‘Towards a History of Repair’, responding to the planetary environmental crisis. Thanks to Sunil, academic guests Glenda Sluga, Prashant Kidambi, Laura Martin, Patricia Clavin, Kiran Kumbhar & trustee David Armitage
Scoláire Gaeilge á lorg le cuidiú le leabharliosta IASIL (International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures)
new edition of 19thc Irish-language stories about the American West!
Ed/trans @patrickjmahone1.bsky.social
Hot off the press! Patrick Mahoney's @patrickjmahone1.bsky.social new book Fenian Empire, available now: lnkd.in/eW3FFERw
"Teeming with individual Fenians, splits, spies, and swagger, it is a captivating read contending with ideas which are at once both historical and contemporary." Ú Ní Bhroiméil
An incredible day yesterday, spent with a major U.S. collector of stereoscopy who is downsizing. He has generously donated four full travel sets of Irish stereoviews (totalling 400 images), plus c100 more, to University College Dublin. These are extraordinary photos, dating from the 1880s-1900s.
Final spaces available for our ‘Locating Loss: histories of infertility in landscapes and spaces’ conference next week @unioflimerick.bsky.social - 27 May. Free, all welcome (booking required) - we have a wonderful line-up of speakers on the day - www.irishhumanities.ie/news-events/...
Why would some German authors writing in the Nazi period in the 1930s about Ireland be pro-treaty & others anti-treaty? Check out my article on representations of the Irish Civil War in Nazi Germany. Part of a special issue edited by @siobhraaiken.bsky.social. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Colleagues might consider signing this petition against the downgrading of AHSS research by Research Ireland openletter.earth/concern-abou...
Rydym nawr yn cloi ein diwrnod @aberuni.bsky.social gyda darlith wadd gan yr Athro Miri Rubin (QMUL).
Mae darlith Miri, ‘Du/Prydferth: Ystyron Duwch mewn Adnod Feiblaidd’, yn cyflwyno themâu o’i llyfr sydd ar ddod trwy sylwebaeth ar Gân y Caniadau 1:5: ‘Rwy’n ddu a/ond yn brydferth’.
Síobhra Aiken
Peter Gray
Locating Loss: Histories of Infertility in Landscapes and Spaces conference, University of Limerick on 27 May 2026.<br />
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The aim of the Locating Loss project is to explore the spaces…
Why would some German authors writing in the Nazi period in the 1930s about Ireland be pro-treaty & others anti-treaty? Check out my article on representations of the Irish Civil War in Nazi Germany. Part of a special issue edited by @siobhraaiken.bsky.social. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Irish Committee of Historical Sciences - ICHS
Royal Historical Society
This article examines representations of the Irish Civil War (1922-1923) in Nazi Germany, centring specifically on Hermann Harder's episodic work Irische Heimkehr (Irish Journey Home), published or...
This article examines representations of the Irish Civil War (1922-1923) in Nazi Germany, centring specifically on Hermann Harder's episodic work Irische Heimkehr (Irish Journey Home), published or...
