Historian at TCD, interested in Ireland and Empire, Public History, and lots of other things. Co-lead for Trinity's Colonial Legacies.
Ciaran O'Neill
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What great news! Congratulations Leanne and Elaine! www.irishnews.com/entertainmen...
Clodagh Tait
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"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?
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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.
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...
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...
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:
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Ancient History on jobs.ac.uk!
Congratulations to the 2025 Book Prize & Fellowship recipients! Special thanks to the book prize and fellowship committees for your work and dedication!
Open 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
New podcast episode: Irish Writers and Literary Institutions
feat. Suad Aldarra, Kevin Power, and Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe, with @molimuseum.bsky.social
This was a great conversation!
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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.
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
So far, they have confirmed that at least 259 Harvard officials enslaved people — and they are still digging through records.
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
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The Boston Globe
Daniella M.
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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.
