Irish Historical Studies @irishhiststudies.bsky.social The official page of the joint journal of the Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies and the Irish Historical Society. Published by Cambridge University Press.
National Monuments Service @nationalmons.bsky.social Promotion, Preservation and Protection of Ireland's archaeological heritage.
#ProtectOurPast #CheckBeforeYouDig #ClimateActionIRL #UCHIreland #WorldHeritage #CMF #MonumentMonday #HeritageIreland
www.archaeology.ie
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Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social Writer of short story collections Multitudes, Intimacies, Openings, Devotions and novels inc. These Days. Regular masterclass series at Faber Academy.
Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org Matrix address: @eibhear:matrix.gibiris.org
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Dictionary of Irish Biography @dib.ie An authoritative reference work of nearly 11,000 lives for scholars of Irish history, society and culture from the Royal Irish Academy.
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Matthew O'Toole MLA @otoolematthew.bsky.social Now:
SDLP MLA for South Belfast | Leader of the Opposition
Former: civil servant & journalist.
Future: A social democratic new Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe @praddenkeefe.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer. Author of Rogues, Empire of Pain, Say Nothing. Podcast: Wind of Change. Producer of FX series Say Nothing, now streaming on Hulu (in the US) and Disney+ (everywhere else).
New book coming April 7, 2026: London Falling.
Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social Ireland's premier review of intellectual inquiry for two decades. Published quarterly (www.drb.ie), entire archive since 2007 available. Everything on totally free access but donations of course welcome to keep us going.
Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social Devoted to vintage Ladybird books and the other work of their artists. My exhibition The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Artists has been travelling since 2018. Twitter: @lbflyawayhome
Jen Cummins TD @jencummins.bsky.social TD for Dublin South Central. Social Democrats. Doctor of Education.
Spokesperson Education; Further & Higher Education; Research, Innovation & Science
Emma Rothwell @rothweeee.bsky.social Assistant Librarian @rialibrary.bsky.social. Libraries, history, art, theology, music and all that good stuff.
Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕 @liao.shen-yi.org Taiwan enthusiast. Philosophy professor. Intellectual omnivore. Humean supertaster. https://liao.shen-yi.org/
Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social "The shitposting will escalate as the deadline encroaches".
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Internet Governance, Tech Policy & Human Rights.
Would honestly rather be talking about movies.
(He/Him)
Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social writer
Dooneen - out now from Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions
previously - A Shock / Hawthorn & Child / Animals / etc
emer @emer.bsky.social writer, professional shakespeare opinion haver, shoegaze fan, film dyke. she/her. my book is called IRISH SHAKESPEARES: GENDER, SEXUALITY, & PERFORMANCE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (out Oct). all my opinions are great actually x
Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955 (Liverpool University Press, April 2026)
Nic (complimentary) @nicweyand.com • #1 Kyojuro Rengoku stan 🔥
• I have never misunderstood anything in my life.
• I have never told a joke. Everything I post is deadly serious.
• he/they • Somerville, MA • born 1993, making me younger than Taylor Swift (late 1980s, I think?)
Drivetime RTÉ radio 1 @drivetime.bsky.social Award winning current affairs radio show on RTE Radio 1
Dr Gillian Kenny @medievalgill.bsky.social Historian | Medieval and early modern Ireland and its women | Writing a new biography of Gráinne O Malley/Granuaile aka the Pirate Queen | Adjunct assoc prof @ucd | Repped by Watson Little
Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com Linguist, writer, broadcaster, language fanatic. Author of 'Why Q Needs U', bestseller and Economist book of 2025. Host of 'ALILI...' podcast. ČR/UK.
Website: dannybate.com
Inquiries: jaime@jpmarshall.co.uk
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Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social Parent. Gardener. Anti-fascist. Historian of Modern France, North Africa, Counterinsurgency, Migration. Trade unionist. Assoc. Prof. No Tyrants/No Kings.
Terrencepeterson.com
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501776960/revolutionary-warfare
Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social Irish Science Communicator. Bleeding heart lefty.
Views are those of the parasitic alien attached to my brainstem.
I won't follow back if you're not using alt text.
Ece Temelkuran @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social How To Lose A Country — Together — and coming soon Nation of Strangers https://www.canongate.co.uk/nationofstrangers ecetemelkuran.iletisim@gmail.com
Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social ISW is a policy research organization focused on U.S. national security. Email: press@understandingwar.org. For more: https://linktr.ee/understandingwar
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
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Misha Ewen @drmishaewen.bsky.social Historian of gender & colonisation in the early modern British Atlantic world | Assistant Prof at University of Sussex | in Editor at English Historical Review | IG @mishaewen12
Sue Wilkes @suewilkesauthor.bsky.social FRHistS. Europhile. Author of Regency Spies, A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England, and more. Young Workers of the Industrial Age, out now! Please be kind. https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Sue-Wilkes/a/1893
Nuala O'Connor @nualaoconnor.bsky.social Writer. Irish. Autistic. Latest book: Menagerie (poetry).
https://nualaoconnor.com/
Zoë Comyns @zoecomyns.bsky.social Producer/Presenter/Writer:@keywordspod, BBC R3, BBC R4, BBC WS, RTÉ R1. Writing: John McGahern Lit Award 2019, RIA Podcaster in Residence 2022.
National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social Sharing Ireland's stories through our unique collections/ Ag roinnt scéal na hÉireann tríd ár mbailiúcháin uathúla.
Explore our collections: https://www.nli.ie/collections/our-collections
Graham Taylor @pottedhistory.bsky.social Potted History: Ancient maker of replica ancient pottery, shaper of clay, builder of kilns, maker of tools, Experimental archaeology: Ceramic Technology. Prehistory Neolithic, Bronze-Age, Iron-Age, Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Mediaeval.
Tiago Veloso Silva @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social 
John Cunningham @johnliamsheain.bsky.social Galway-based historian
Stairwell Books @stairwellbooks.bsky.social Stairwell Books: Based in York, tales from all over. A book for everyone! YA/Children’s books, novels, genre fic, nonfiction, history, poetry & story collections: a book for everyone. Delighted STRIKE shortlisted for Forward Prize 2024.
Tipperary Studies @tippstudies.bsky.social Tipperary Studies is the local studies branch of Tipperary County Council Library Service, and is dedicated to documenting and preserving the rich cultural, social, economic and sporting histories of the county
Jamie Guiney @jamesgwriter.bsky.social WRITER.
The Lightning (novel)
The Wooden Hill (stories)
Work Broadcast BBCRadio4
Nom 5 x Pushcart Prize
Judge 2025 Best in Rural Writing
L-list Irish SS of the Year
Husband. Dad. Tay drinker.
N Ireland.
www.jamieguiney.com
https://ko-fi.com/jamesgwriter
Gary Gannon TD @garygannontd.bsky.social Social Democrat TD for Dublin Central 💜
Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com 🌍 Historian | ✍️ Author | 🎤 Public Speaker | 🏆 National Heritage Hero Award | 🏳️🌈 Grand Marshal Limerick Pride | 🇵🇸 Free Palestine.
https://linktr.ee/limerickslife
Shane Wilson @shanew147.bsky.social Part-time Genealogist, I.T. Consultant, ex Bass player - Dublin, Ireland - other interests : Science, Maps, Photography, Astronomy, History, Archaeology, Computers &c
web: https://swilson.info
also mastadon.ie same username
Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com 🏳️🌈 Historical fiction | Queer history | Theatre history | Early modernist | USian in Spain. 💯 Human-made art or it isn't art.
Debut novel LIGHTBORNE
(LA TRAICIÓN DE CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE)
Rep: Brianlangan.bsky.social.
More at hessephillips.com
fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social Confess your sins anonymously - will the internet absolve you?
Buy show tickets 2025/6: sites.google.com/view/fesshole
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David Flood @maoltuile.bsky.social Historical researcher into Dublin Corporation and the Irish revolutionary generation 1898-1923. See ‘Dublin City Council and the 1916 Rising’ (Four Courts Press, 2016)
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Aoife Barry @sweetoblivion.bsky.social Journalist, author of Social Capital, Corkonian in Dublin.
Kat @katinoxford.bsky.social Writer, musician, C.S. Lewis scholar, Fantastic Feministic, Heretic Autistic. Repped by Christi Cardenas. Knows the words to every Kate Voegele song.
Bernadette Kearns │Fiction editor @booknannyeditor.bsky.social Developmental editing, line & copy-editing for indie authors & publishers of historical and literary fiction. Love cats. Speak German. Wish I spoke better Irish. She/her.
Full member AFEPI Ireland.
Website: www.booknannyfictioneditor.com
Peter Farrelly @pfarrelly2025.bsky.social History PhD at QUB researching Thatchers Poll Tax | Irish | Content Creator - 300k TT followers (thedarkpete)|. Owner of 'TheUnchartedPast' website and podcast| Mental health awareness | LFC | Peace 💕
https://theunchartedpast.com/
Alison Martin @alisonmartin.bsky.social Writer and historian focusing on the Irish revolutionary period 📚✍️
Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social Hiker, backpacker, forager, fisher, gardener, fossil finder, iPhone nature pic taker, nature nerd. Retired (biologist, ec. dev. practitioner, entrepreneur). 🇨🇦
Renard Press @renardpress.com 🍃 An award-winning climate-positive indie publisher of classic & contemporary fiction, non-fiction, poetry & theatre. Also home to Hay Press.
renardpress.com
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Dublin Small Press Fair @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social celebrating all forms of small-scale publishing in Ireland (+ abroad)
call for 2026 vendors: June
2026 DSPF = 27/28 Nov., Pearse St. Library
info and mailing list sign-up: dublinsmallpressfair.com
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Peter Ross @peteralanross.bsky.social Author of Upon A White Horse: Journeys In Ancient Britain & Ireland. Also, Steeple Chasing: Around Britain By Church, & A Tomb With A View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards. Substack: https://smallfinds.substack.com
Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social The Boy From the Sea is out now and translated into over a dozen languages. “Full of lightly worn wisdom and wit. It is a joy" – Sunday Times. www.garrettcarr.net
Irish Society for Archives @irisharchives1970.bsky.social We exist to promote the place of archives in Irish society.
#IrishArchives #ExploreYourArchive
Find out more about the society: https://irishsocietyforarchives.wordpress.com
Áine Keenan @ainekeenan.bsky.social An Irish Woman In India
MsMc @msmcglencree.bsky.social Native of Glencree, work in healthcare research, love a good sunrise/sunset, recovered from breast cancer!
Teresa Collins @queen-crafty.bsky.social She/Her Dreamer of dreams, socialist and sociable. Nature, crochet, rewilding, history and animals hold my interest. Former migrant, now back in Ireland.
Truth is the daughter of time.
Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social When the revolution comes I'll be in bed reading or playing a video game. Lecturer in film & media, writer, editor, feminist (NOT a terf), UCU rep. She/her
#WIASN #WalkingSimulators 
Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist.
📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron
📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies
Alice-Mary Higgins @aliceeire.bsky.social Independent Senator on NUI Panel. Leader of Seanad Civil Engagement Group.
Róisín Leggett Bohan @leggettbohan.bsky.social Writer💥
Patrick Kavanagh Award 2025
Fool for Poetry Prize 2025
'We Fall We Carry' Chapbook (Southword Editions, 2026)
Ed. at HOWL New Irish Writing ✍️
Website: https://inkstainedwings.com/
History Hub at UCD @historyhub.bsky.social History Hub is based at the School of History, University College Dublin. Our ambition is to make the most recent academic research available on-line to everyone who loves history.
https://historyhub.ie
Jane Clarke @janeclarke.bsky.social Poet: 'The River', 'When the Tree Falls', 'A Change in the Air', 'Coracle' (Bloodaxe 2015, 2019, 2023 &2026) https://www.janeclarkepoetry.ie/
Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social A cook who writes.
Observer columnist. Author. Gardener.
Books: The Kitchen Diaries,
The Christmas Chronicles, A Cook’s Book,
A Thousand Feasts.
Instagram.com/nigelslater 
Robbie Richardson @londonmikmaq.bsky.social Oinpegitjoig Mi'gmaw.
Wrote The Savage and Modern Self: North American Indians in 18th-Century British Literature and Culture. Next book on Indigenous material culture in the 18thc.
https://robbierichardson.net
Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social Cork-Donegal migrant blend. Knows some law.
Eoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social Irish writer, Brussels based.
Writes on food and drink, travel, keeps an urban diary at Brussels Notes
https://www.brusselsnotes.substack.com
Evan Bourke @evanbourke.bsky.social Early modernist. GOI Postdoc at Maynooth University. Women's writing, epistolary culture, DH, network visualisation, reception studies. Formerly RECIRC and MACMORRIS. 
Neil Johnston @nejohnst.bsky.social Historian. Cyclist. Runner. Professional Irishman. Head of Early Modern Records at The National Archives, Kew. Working on the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland too
Sylvia Leatham @sylvialeatham.bsky.social Award-winning author. Debut spec-fic romcom ‘Chaos Theory’ with Storm Publishing. Rep’ed by Liverpool Lit. Silver at Farnham Lit Audiobook Awards; SL'ed for The Letter Review, Watson Little Indie Novella; LL’ed for Mslexia. https://linktr.ee/SylviaLeatham
Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social Illustrator, performer, walker of the hills at dusk, lunatic. Hooklander.
Pro EU, anti fascist. https://thomassbrown.com/ Store here https://thomas-brown-1.sumupstore.com/ and also here https://www.redbubble.com/people/TattercatStudio/shop
Cath Hodsman @cathhodsman.bsky.social Ret'd entomological artist, illustrator & teacher. Active conservationist & wildlife gardener, No pesticides, no-mow, no dig. Green voter. UK based.
Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social bad news from the zone, tumbleweeds
catholic socialist & smalltown journalist
in the valley near Slievenamon, Co. Tipperary
leftinthelurch.net | thesundae.net
@logainm.bsky.social @logainm.bsky.social Bunachar Logainmneacha na hÉireann, arna fhorbairt ag Gaois, Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge (DCU) i bpáirt leis an mBrainse Logainmneacha.
Placenames Database of Ireland, developed by Gaois, Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge (DCU) and The Placenames Branch.
IrishPhilosophy @irishphilosophy.bsky.social Blog: IrishPhilosophy.com
Catherine Barry, Hume Scholar, working on a PhD at Maynooth University on religious toleration in 18th century Ireland.
#EarlyModern, with a broad interest in Irish intellectual thought.
Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social Washed-up translator
Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social Cultural theory, political analysis, dance party politics.
Latest book: Hegemony Now (Verso, 2022). https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/494-hegemony-now?srsltid=AfmBOoqJNrqKZ8ydc63_O5y4SrzNyv9lpYrFBw3P-Bs4O0Y-tEdJft1u
www.jeremygilbert.org
Kate Bielinski @katebielinski.eurosky.social Book lover, food lover, wine lover but also partial to a good g&t, pedant, cynic. Personal account - mostly lighthearted, occasionally serious.
Virgin Media News @virginmedianews.bsky.social Ireland's national independent TV news service
📺 12:30pm, 5:30pm & 7pm on Virgin Media One & Virgin Media PLAY
🔗 https://t.mtrbio.com/virginmedianews
Ciara Murphy @ciaralynnmurphy.bsky.social Escaping from the other place…Lecturer in Drama at TU Dublin | Lead Researcher on Safe to Create (she/her)
Read my book: https://www.routledge.com/Performing-Social-Change-on-the-Island-of-Ireland-From-Republic-to-Pandemic/Murphy/p/book/9781032078151?srsl
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
An Clogán @ancloganmag.bsky.social A new Irish political magazine. Left Perspectives on Politics, Economics and Culture. First issue, The Republic, launching August/September 2025.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/anclogan/an-clogan-a-new-irish-socialist-republican-magazine
Ellen Coyne @ellenmcoyne.bsky.social Political correspondent at The Irish Times 📰 Part of the Inside Politics podcast 🎙️ author ✍🏻 Dirty Dancing
Caoilinn Hughes @caoilinnhughes.bsky.social Irish writer.
Novels: THE ALTERNATIVES, THE WILD LAUGHTER and ORCHID & THE WASP. Short stories about the place.
Shell @risu.bsky.social edtech and digital /cyber strategy/ advisor against tech enabled harm/ domestic abuse #edtech #education #harmreduction she/her
Tom Gleeson @tggleeson.bsky.social Datasmith (retired) same handle on the Bird Site.
Samhain’d Lad @keelanhothothot.bsky.social Screenwriter. Múinteoir. FilminDublin contributor. Let us celebrate our new arrangement with the adding of chocolate to milk.
Theresa Reidy @theresareidy.bsky.social Political scientist, University College Cork, Ireland.
emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social Coverage of American authoritarianism with a focus on legal cases. An American-Irish in Limerick, Ireland.
Legendary potty mouth! 
Sinead O'Shea @sineadoshea.bsky.social Filmmaker/Writer
ALL ABOUT THE MONEY - SUNDANCE 2026
BlUE ROAD - THE EDNA O'BRIEN STORY - TIFF 2024
PRAY FOR OUR SINNERS
A MOTHER BRINGS HER SON TO BE SHOT
Rory Gleeson @rorygleeson.bsky.social Writerfella: Rockadoon Shore | Blood in the Dirt | Psychic
Print, Screen & Audio stylings for BBC, Granta, RTÉ, Dublin Review.
I was on The Chase.
https://linktr.ee/rorygleeson
Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social Virgin Media News Correspondent but these are my own views and not those of my employer.
Ireland.
Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social Associate Prof @UoBrisEnglish 🏳️🌈 A FLAT PLACE (Hamish Hamilton/MHP 2023) HARD LANGUAGE (OUP 2022) 🐨 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 🐈⬛ rep: @mfredturner
Claudia Kinmonth MRIA FSA @claudiakinmonth.bsky.social Author of books with Yale University Press & of 'Irish Country Furniture and Furnishings 1700-2000' @corkup.bsky.social ... Board Member @nmireland.bsky.social ... @ria.ie ... green optimist
Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.eurosky.social Aerial photography | GIS | Sarsen stone | landscape archaeology | archaeological comics | archives | YAC Leader | MHFA | FSA | MCIfA | all my own views
Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social Chris Coates, purveyor of niche drivel: https://substack.com/@oddthisday
Eamon Ambrose @eamonambrose.bsky.social #Irish sci-fi/horror author of Amazon/Kobo best seller Zero Hour. Musician. Sound designer. #EV #renewables #Limerick #Ireland
LANKUM @lankumdublin.bsky.social GHOST TOWN…
https://lankum.ffm.to/ghosttown
Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social Writer
unamullally.com
www.sliverpress.com
Richard Seymour @leninology.bsky.social Author of many books, Salvage editorial collective. Find my writings at Guardian, New Statesman, NYT, Jacobin, TLS, LRB, etc. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/richardseymourwtf