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Lorraine Mulholland @lorraineelizab6.bsky.social Ex-teacher! Author! Paperback of my book, St Brigid & Other Amazing Irish Women can be ordered through Columba Books or bookshops! I write about early medieval Irish saints & their monasteries/convents! Next book progressing well!
Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social Run out the boat, my broken comrades. Books & essays on memory and place, especially about Ireland, Germany, Poland. Walter Benjamin Ultra, has friends everywhere. I live in Berlin.
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Steph Dawn @stephdawnwriter.bsky.social Intersectional feminist, anti-racist, LGBTQIA+ member and advocate, AuDHD and disability advocate, sex and SW positive, kink positive. Anti-fascist, anti-capitalist, anti-monarchy.
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Colin Wrafter @wraftercolin.bsky.social Retired Irish diplomat. Interests include foreign policy, Northern Ireland, human rights, development, philosophy, history.
Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social Early Modernist, Prof UEA; Historical Lead, Gloucester Project & Co-Director, Hakluyt Project; Chair of Society for Nautical Research; Director Shipwrecks & Maritime Heritage Research Centre
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Michael Gallagher @michaelgtcd.bsky.social Emeritus professsor political science Trinity College Dublin. Co-editor How Ireland Voted 2024 (Springer 2025) and of Politics in the Republic of Ireland 7th ed
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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
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Ciarán Wallace @cwallacedublin.bsky.social Historian of Urban 19-20th c. Ireland/UK.
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Dublin, Ireland.
Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social Historian of 19thC Ireland, QUB. Last book: William Sharman Crawford and Ulster Radicalism (2023); working on politics of Irish land reform and the Tenant League(s). Chair of @Irishhistorians.bsky.social There may also be cats.
EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social Writer, editor, researcher.
Newsletter amplifies women leading the church around the world, throughout history. Master of Arts.
Living bonus days.
Celebrating organic intelligence.
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Morgan Nash @morgannash.bsky.social Wargamer, history lover, increasingly left-wing
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 💕
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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social Sex Historian. Writer. Presenter. Columnist. Host of (award winning) Betwixt the Sheets Podcast. FLICK: A History of Female Pleasure, Out Now https://linktr.ee/drkatelister
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Sabine Egger @sabineegger.bsky.social Associate Professor of German Studies, MIC, University of Limerick | Irish Centre for Transnational Studies | Interested in Literary & Cultural Studies, Memory, Borderlands, Europe, Contested Spaces, Embodiment, Technology/Media
Irish Sex Work Research Network (ISWRN) @iswrn.bsky.social We are a platform for those interested in sex work and sexual governance scholarship within the island of Ireland.
Maeve O'Sullivan @maevedos.bsky.social Dublin-based poet, educator and mentor who also likes to sing & travel. My sixth collection of poetry is ‘Where All Ladders Start’ (Alba Publishing, Nov 2024). Haiku nerd / ninja. Website URL (incl. current book info & sales): www.maeveosullivan.com
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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.
Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social Lecturer Geography // political ecology, green transition // From the Bog to the Cloud. Dependency and Eco-modernity in Ireland (2025)
Theresa O'Keefe 🍉 @treesaw.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology. I write on feminism and conflict, state violence, gender and social movements, and academic precarity. She/her. 🍉
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One Family @onefamilyireland.bsky.social Ireland's national organisation for people parenting alone, sharing parenting and separating. CRA No. 20012212
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Megan Smolenyak @megansmolenyak.com Lifelong genealogist & stubborn solver of history mysteries. Don't try to hide from me. I *will* find you.
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Irish Genealogical Research Society (IGRS) @igrs1936.bsky.social We are the “Great Granddaddy of all Irish Family History Societies”. Founded in 1936, we’re the world’s oldest society dedicated Irish family history - and now in our 90th year. 🎉☘️
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Orlaith Hickey @orlaithniici.bsky.social Corcaíoch i mBéal Feirste | Léachtóir le Gaeilge in Ollscoil na Banríona
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Fiona Buckley @fionamaybuckley.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Department of Government & Politics, University College Cork. Researching and teaching about #womeninpolitics and #irishpolitics https://research.ucc.ie/en/persons/fiona-buckley/
Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social Professor at ICREA, ICTA, and the Department of Political Science & Public Law at UAB • Author of THE DIVIDE and LESS IS MORE • Global inequality, political economy and ecological economics
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Katherine Ingram @kating03.bsky.social PhD in History from QUB | Researching conflict and cooperation in the UK women’s suffrage movement, 1900-1918 | Studying suffrage militancy, suffragists’ relations with political parties, and feminists’ responses to war
Gráinne McEvoy @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social Native of Newry | Interloper Hoosier | Assistant Director of Research Programs, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, Notre Dame | Historian of U.S. immigration
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