Emso Apples @emso-apples.bsky.social Spanish Water Dog fan girl. Music, books, hills in no particular order. Always hopeful for a better planet. Forever European.
BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social British International Studies Association - Engaging the global international studies community. We're known for our working groups, journals, postgraduate network, funding, conference and more!
Website: www.bisa.ac.uk
Simply Photos @simplyphotos1791.bsky.social Sam Hanna.
Co Derry, N Ireland.
Just phone photos of scenery, flowers, trees & clouds taken on my walks
Other accounts:
Books: @simplybooks1791.bsky.social
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William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK.bsky.social podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.
ultima thule @thethousandthpart.com C18-19 British/Irish history | RN/polar exploration | Photographer; librarian; independent researcher of life and career of Capt. Francis Crozier. www.thethousandthpart.com
Phelim Kelly, London @phelimkellycom.bsky.social 😍: 🇪🇺 HowToEnjoy.eu
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Oftenwright @oftenwright.bsky.social Irish. Left-handed. Can use apostrophes. 
Stephen Drennan @stephen1958.bsky.social From Norn Irn. Happy with complex national identity, unhappy with Brexit.
Engineering degree, Product Management & 12 yrs as MD.
Also BA & MA History, just because: decolonisation in Africa, nationalism, Ireland/UK
Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social Books Editor of The Irish Times; author of Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place (Merrion Press)
Claire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social writer, mamaí, history and politics, Belfast/County Down, she/her.
📖 The Ghost Limb: Alternative Protestants and the Spirit of 1798
www.clairemitchell.net
Séamus Ó hAimheirgín @aimheirgin.bsky.social James Bergin. Irish in Aus. Eco-socialist 🌱💚 Gaeilge. Sé/É. He/Him.
🇮🇪🇵🇸🇱🇧 Saoirse don Phailistín🍉
Aboriginal Land ❤️💛🖤
🏳️⚧️Trans Rights = Human Rights🏳️🌈
No Pasarán🚩🏴Antifascist. ↙️↙️↙️
Matt Fitz @matt-fitzpatrick.bsky.social Plastic Paddy, Eastleigh breed, Fermanagh/Dublin kin.
Galway now.
@cathalc.bsky.social @cathalc.bsky.social Belfast based, not sure how active I'll be but need an alternative to the bad place
Paul Bloomer @bloomeroid.bsky.social Twitch Streamer 🎮 Queer bear🐻🏳️🌈
Trans ally🏳️⚧️
Born of two sides of Northern Ireland 🕊️🤝
He/they 🕺🏋️♂️
https://linktr.ee/bloomeroid
Any views are my own and not of my employer.
Walking tour of Belfast's slavery past @antislaverybelfast.bsky.social Guided walking tour that explores the history of Belfast’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and its abolition. www.antislaverybelfast.com Run by drtomstours.bsky.social and Mark Doherty
RobH @robhilken.bsky.social Artist based at Vault Artist Studios in Belfast.
Jamie-Lukas Campbell @jamielukas.bsky.social Fueled by iced coffee ☕ and #Corrie | NYC roots🗽, Belfast living | Passionate about inclusion and conversations that matter
Linda Máire @lindamaire.bsky.social Documentary filmmaking / books / learning Irish / poetry / cinema / art / cats / music / gardening / border collies / politics / yoga / Punjana tea / corvids / the sea
“If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.” — Agnès Varda
JourneyDude in Scotland @scottishinsider.org 🪬🧿 Freemason | Traveller | Historian | Novel Author | Filmmaker & Photographer
www.youtube.com/c/journeydude
www.weescotland.com
www.sendmeonadventure.com
🇸🇰 living in 🏴
🕊️ Love you all!, Photos taken by me - NO AI!
I follow people who love art & nature
VegPlotter: Online Vegetable Garden and Allotment Planner @vegplotter.com The best online Vegetable Garden & Allotment planning software to get you organised in the garden.
Fully featured garden planner vegplotter.com
Frost dates and growing zone calculator frostdates.com
Timothy J. White @whitetimothyj.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Xavier University
Irish Politics, Northern Ireland, the Irish Diaspora in the US, Political Culture, US Foreign Policy, and the Politics of War and Peace
Currently working on power transition theory in Northern Ireland
Inish View @inishview.bsky.social Scenic photography from North West Ireland 🌊
Donegal coastlines, weather & light 📸
Support my work ☕ buymeacoffee.com/inishview
Gleb @mreroots.bsky.social urbanism🏙️, photography📸
Avid geocacher.🌍
Northern Ireland.
Learning Irish to expand the list of languages I speak.☘️🇮🇪
Jacqueline @jac-wac.bsky.social Belfast native, biology teacher, mother of boys.
AustinfromHere @austinhere.bsky.social Belfast guy who will ramble on about movies, games & videos. Started learning Irish and will be trying use it more as I go.
Apologies for the bad grammar.
Ian Rankin @ianrankin1.bsky.social Author, Inspector Rebus (and other stuff). Edinburgh-based. More usually pub-based.
Sarah Baccianti @sarahbaccianti.bsky.social Research Manager @NatMuseumsNI - Heritage|Museums|Research / Former academic-Medieval Scandinavia:Science|Medicine|Food/RT≠endorsements/Opinions all mine/Swiss
Richard Gallagher @richardgallagher.bsky.social Sinn Féin. PhD from Queens University Belfast. Book: Screening Ulster: Cinema and the Unionists. Donegal. Email: drrichiegallagher@gmail.com
Dr Lauren Smyth @laurensmytg.bsky.social Historian of child welfare and poverty in early 19th Century Belfast. PhD from QUB and currently working as the historian of Clifton House.
Kelly Creighton @kellycrimebooks.bsky.social Northern Irish author. DI Harriet Sloane series, State of Fear, Souls Wax Fair, Unbecoming, The Bones of It, etc.
I don't respond to anonymous accounts.
@thedetailtv.bsky.social @thedetailtv.bsky.social The Detail is an award winning investigative news and analysis website
https://thedetailni.substack.com/
Christine Wade @cjwade.bsky.social Professor. 🖊of Captured Peace, Understanding Central America, Latin American Politics and Development, Nicaragua: Emerging From The Eagle’s Shadow. Shih Tzu mom. Saor Alba 🏴
Joe O’Brien @pnamblath.bsky.social
Husband, Father, Son, Brother. Kilgobinet GAA, LFC, Munster/Ireland rugby, Déise Hurling/Football & Donegal GAA Fan
Tea addict - history nerd and taphophile
Occasional Guinness drinker
• Ballinroad, Contae Port Láirge
#SpéirGhorm #speirgorm #IrishNews
Mark @suburbanbhoy.bsky.social Celtic FC, Irish Politics, Music and lots inbetween.
Laurence Cooley @lpcooley.bsky.social Politics lecturer, University of Birmingham
Work on the politics of deeply divided societies (mostly Northern Ireland these days), including power-sharing, demography and the census. Recently also thinking about Lough Neagh. UCU rep. #firstgen
Roisin @rois653.bsky.social Antrim woman living in Kildare
Enjoying life , family and fun .
Irish unity 🇮🇪
Irish Committee of Historical Sciences - ICHS @irishhistorians.bsky.social The Irish Committee of Historical Sciences is the national committee for history in Ireland.
Further details: http://www.historians.ie/
@brian-hanley.bsky.social @brian-hanley.bsky.social Historian, podcaster 'Dirty War in Dublin' & 'Brothers in Pain'; it is possible to disagree in good faith, but let's be honest we won't do it.
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.
Alastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social Writer, strategist, co-presenter the U.K. No1 podcast The Rest Is Politics … love Britain hate Brexit, loved Twitter loathe Musk n Trump 
BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Welcome! Find us weekdays 10:30pm on BBC Two, BBC News, iPlayer with Victoria Derbyshire, Paddy O'Connell & Matt Chorley - plus Katie Razzall, Nicholas Watt and Faisal Islam
Hugh Odling-Smee @smeeho7.bsky.social 'You never saw so many phonies in all your life'
Cinema/history/books.
Dundela Loyal.
Belfast.
https://smeeho7.substack.com/
Document Belfast @documentbelfast.bsky.social Belfast: We've got you covered
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💻Email: documentbelfast@gmail.com
Book A Tour Via Link Below 👇👇
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Belfastpast @belfastpast.bsky.social Passionate about equal rights. Wicklow native living in Belfast via London. Lifelong Arsenal FC supporter, curious about history and genealogy.
Sorcha Eastwood MP @sorchaeastwood.bsky.social Proud to be your Alliance MP for Lagan Valley
Mark Carruthers @markcarruthers7.bsky.social Personal account | Presenter of The View, #SundayPolitics & #BBCRedLines for BBC News NI | Author | Visiting Professor of Media at Ulster University |
On Twitter @markcarruthers7
Vicki Hawthorne @vickiutv.bsky.social #UTV Political Correspondent
Jayne McCormack @bbcjaynemcc.bsky.social BBC News NI Political Correspondent 📺 📱 📻 Part-time fringe.
Jon Sopel @jonsopel1.bsky.social Host of daily podcast The News Agents. And author of Strangeland. Available at all good bookshops….
Stephen Fry @stephenfry.bsky.social Grazer and nibbler at the outer edges of new social media platforms
Slugger O'Toole @sluggerotoolepols.bsky.social Dumping politics out of boxes | Provocative conversation
TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social Author and podcaster #ActuallyAutistic
James E @jamese1967.bsky.social Product of Belfast’s Holylands, Methody and QUB. Flippant and immature always.
Graham Brownlow, FREcon @grahambrownlow.bsky.social Reader in Economics (since August 1 2025) at QBS. Appointed Fellow of the Royal Economic Society December 2025. Recovering journal editor. Perhaps best known - if at all- for writing about De Lorean? Fan of Bangor FC and low brow cinema.
Huw Bennett @bennetthuw.bsky.social Professor of International Relations, writing on British defence since 1945. In south Wales, an archive or a military museum. Permanently grateful to archivists and librarians.
Eoin McFadden @eoinmcfadden.bsky.social Husband, dad and best bud of Trent the Lurcher. R&D Policy, @matrixni.bsky.social, Innovation (especially public sector), open data, History, Archaeology, and food. https://wordpress.com/post/eoinmcfaddenwordpress.wordpress.com/4
Hannah Crowdy @hannahcrowdy.bsky.social Brighton (from), Belfast (here now) and Berlin (one day..) Head of Curatorial at National Museums NI but all views my own. Trustee at the Museums Association and Lyric Theatre Belfast.
Emma Desouza @emmadesouza.bsky.social Civic Innovation Specialist | Civic Initiative Founder & Co-facilitator | Director NI Emerging Leaders, National Committee on American Foreign Policy | Journalist & Commentator | Bylines: Guardian, Irish Times/Examiner, Byline Times, Journal.ie
Desouza.ie
John J Baucher @moochinphotoman.bsky.social Artist, photographer and part time vexillologist . Just a bloke trying to look and see.
Gail Ritchie @ritchieart.bsky.social Visual Artist. PhD International Relations. Sometimes writing, always thinking - usually about dogs and monuments. Based at QSS Studios and Gallery Belfast.
Www.gailritchie.com
Victoria Millar @vmillar.bsky.social Senior Curator of History, National Museums NI @ulsterfolkmuseum.org and @ulsteramericanfolkpark.org. Northern Ireland Representative @museumsassociation.org. Committee Member @ruralmuseums.bsky.social. Views my own.
FGB @fgb.bsky.social Artist based in Belfast
Email enquiries: fgbpaints@gmail.com
Shop: FGB.bigcartel.com
Vault Artist Studios @vaultartiststudios.bsky.social Artist led studios ✏️ Inhabiters of unused buildings *until we get our own!* 🏚 140+ strong 💪 Bedford St, Corporation St, Shankill & East Belfast
www.vaultartiststudios.com
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
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. 
Wheeker Books | Clara Ministral @wheekerbooks.bsky.social 📚 Literatura norirlandesa / Northern Irish literature
🖋 Clara Ministral, traductora editorial
📧 hola@wheekerbooks.com
www.wheekerbooks.com
Margaret Ward @marg50.bsky.social Feminist historian. Latest book ‘Rebel Women: Cumann na mBan in Belfast and the Glens of Antrim 1914-1924’ - contact publishers info@beyondthepalebooks.com.
James Hennessey @jameshennessey.bsky.social Urbanist, Landscape Architect, Placemaker.
Vicky Cosstick @cosstickv.bsky.social Author E Sussex and Donegal. Belfast: Toward a City without Walls (2015). "Elegy for Echo" to be published Fall 2026. "Zones of Transformation: Change and Resistance on the Belfast Interfaces" (tbc March 2027). www.vickycosstick.co.uk
☕️Research&Coffee☕️ @drjbw.bsky.social Social scientist. ❤️s coffee, F1, 80s🎵, UK crime dramas, podcasts. Academic focus on history, policing, & conflict in U.S. & N. Ireland; also International Humanitarian Law. Posts my own personal & professional ideas; not connected to any employer.
She/her
Seán William Gannon @swgannon.bsky.social Irish Historian.
Twentieth-Century Ireland: Ireland and Empire: Irish Revolution: Royal Irish Constabulary: Irish Jewish History.
https://independent.academia.edu/Se%C3%A1nWilliamGannon
https://irishhistorians.ie/members/seanwgannon/
Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival @cqaf.bsky.social Organisers of not one, but two unimaginably good Belfast arts festivals (plus a mini music film fest!)
Next up: Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, 1-11 May
Tomás Finn @finnuniofgalway.bsky.social Historian of Modern Ireland and Britain at the University of Galway 
Aoife O'Donoghue @aoifemod.bsky.social Law Prof QUB| Tyranny & Global Legal Order | Utopia | International Law | Feminism | Feminist Constitutionalism | Brexit & Northern Ireland | History | Law & Humanities | Cork & Belfast & Ireland | She/Her Sí/í
William Crawley @williamcrawley.bsky.social BBC presenter. @BBCNIreland, @BBCNewsNI. @BBCR4Sunday. #BBCTalkback. Member @RIADawson. @EF_Fellows. Cynophilist. Talking on-air against my better judgment.
Check my List for: Northern Ireland https://go.bsky.app/VGXofMD
Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social DMV 🦀
academic grumpy cat, member AAUP.
Research US militias, Christian Right, Northern Ireland, & #DC metro. words in Political Research Associates/Public Eye, Greater Greater Washington, and Streetsense DC.
Love ocean creatures 🐳🦈🐙
Frank McNally @frankie49.bsky.social Chief writer of An Irish Diary, The Irish Times
Paddy Hoey @paddyhoey.bsky.social Craigavon/ Lismore Comprehensive/ Armagh GAA/ Celtic FC. 'Top tier tarrier'. Media/ Politics and football activism scholar. Adopted Scouser - pronouns: lid/ la.
http://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526114259/
Women’s History Association of Ireland @whaireland.bsky.social The Women's History Association of Ireland (WHAI) has been promoting research into women's history in Ireland since 1989.
Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies @usihs.bsky.social Promoting Irish History in Ulster since 1936.
https://usihs36.com/
Planet Belfast @planetbelfast.bsky.social Politics | Culture | Randomness | Sarcasm | Social Media Stuff | Liberal Lefty | Pancreatic Cancer Awareness advocate | Tweets from Gary Kirby
Feargal Cochrane @feargalc.bsky.social Professor (Emeritus) University of Kent. Also Prof at University of Warwick.
Have taught & written about political conflict & peacebuilding for last 30 years. Still learning. Living in Peak District England but FROM Belfast in NI.
Politics nerd
Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social Historian of modern cultural history, primarily Britain & Ireland
Author of Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation (Cornell, 2026) & After the Shock City: Urban Culture & the Making of Modern Citizenship (Boydell, 2019)
Niall Stanage @niallstanage.bsky.social White House Columnist at The Hill, TV with “Rising,” NewsNation and elsewhere, product of Ireland.
Gregory McCann @elgregz.bsky.social Dad, Husband, Armagh GAA, Carryduff GAC, Liverpool FC, DJ who’s been Spinning Sounds since 89, Love not Hate.
Stuart Bailie @stubailie.bsky.social Author: The Song is Nearly Over (2025), Terri Hooley: 75 Revolutions (2023), Trouble Songs (2018) and 75 Van Songs (2020).
Music journalist. Editor, Dig With It. Ex NME.
https://stuartbailie.bandcamp.com/
Cllr Brian Smyth @briansmyth99.bsky.social Green Party Group Leader and Cllr in Belfast City Council for the Lisnasharragh DEA. In it to build a Greener Cleaner Fairer City. Often grumpy Manchester United and Cliftonville fan.
Smythbrian@belfastcity.gov.uk
Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie North Belfast woman. Freelance journalist c2010. NUJ member. Writer. Talker. Events. Consultant. Reasonable. A wee bit fancy.✌🏻❣️#BeanUltach Also Director @wimbelfast.bsky.social And everywhere else: https://linktr.ee/amanda.ie
Colin Harvey @cjharvey1.bsky.social Professor, QUB | Belfast via Derry
Views personal | Reposts are not an endorsement
https://go.qub.ac.uk/charvey
Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸🚴♀️ @beebsymca.eurosky.social Cycling. Public Historian.
On the border.
www.digitalfilmarchive.net
A piece of archive film for every occasion.
https://bsky.app/profile/digitalfilmarchive.eurosky.social
And NornIronGirl1981
https://bsky.app/profile/nornirongirl1981.eurosky.social
Cllr. Séamas de Faoite @seamasbelfast.bsky.social Belfast City Councillor | Lisnasharragh | SDLP Belfast Group Leader | New Irelander | Atlanticist | LGBT+ | San Diego Democrats Alum | YIMBY | defaoites@belfastcity.gov.uk