Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social Retired teacher of English & French Onetime art historian. Books. Dogs. Gaeilge. Latin. Born 1948. From Tipperary. Lives in
Clontarf, Dublin. Used to blog at bellitumsblog.wordpress.com
Kelly E. Sullivan @real-immirage.bsky.social Writes poetry, fiction and academic-y things. PhD. modernism, Irish Literature. kellyesullivan.com.
Toledo Blade (poems) with DGP; Moose Lottery(novel) with https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/the-moose-lottery
Frontiers before borders conference 2025 @frontiers2025.bsky.social Interdisciplinary conference on #frontiers, 11-12 July 2025 @tlrhub.bsky.social, @tcddublin.bsky.social. Organised by @pduffy1.bsky.social. Enquiries to pduffy1@tcd.ie. Book tickets here: https://fixr.co/event/frontiers-before-borders-tickets-166477930
Fionnuala Walsh @fionnualawalsh.bsky.social Associate Prof of Irish History at University College Dublin, interested in women’s history, and WWI. Enjoy film, fiction and fun. Always looking for fiction recommendations!
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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Canadian Association for Irish Studies @cais-irish1973.bsky.social The Canadian Association for Irish Studies has been promoting the study of Irish society, politics, history, literature, and culture since 1973.
Dr Catherine Bateson @catbateson.bsky.social American History Lecturer/Ithaca College London/ British Online Archives Academic Liaison Manager/Associate Editor http://irishamericancivilwar.com / FRHistS/“Irish American Civil War Songs” https://lsupress.org/books/detail/irish-american-civil-war-songs/
Martin Maguire @martinmaguire.bsky.social Working on the history of the Irish state and the civil service; writing on civil service trade unions. Fond of hill walking, weissbier, red wine….
Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins.bsky.social CNN's Chief White House Correspondent, 9 p.m. Anchor and diehard Alabama fan.
abbysbender.bsky.social @abbysbender.bsky.social Teaching literature and Irish Studies at Sacred Heart University; writing about breastfeeding in Irish culture. Author of Israelites in Erin (Syracuse UP).
William Jenkins @wmmjenkins.bsky.social Associate Professor of History, York University, Toronto.
President, Canadian Association for Irish Studies (2024-2027).
Dubliner. Long-suffering Gooner.
University of Galway Library Heritage Collections @uniofgalwayasc.bsky.social Archives, Special Collections and Digital Collections at the University of Galway Library
Colin Wrafter @wraftercolin.bsky.social Retired Irish diplomat. Interests include foreign policy, Northern Ireland, human rights, development, philosophy, history.
🌎 Darragh Gannon 🌍 @dgannon2016.bsky.social Director of Global Irish Studies / Assistant Prof. of Irish History @Georgetown University
@IrelandFunds Princess Grace Fellow Monaco 2024-25
#IrishHistory #GlobalHistory
gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/0031Q00002eZ2CHQA0/darragh-gannon
Doc Martin (Martin G Molony) @mgmolony.bsky.social Irish Academic (DCU), Genealogist & Puppeteer. Social Historian. Thurles native, living in Clontarf, Dublin.
Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social "Race Politics & Irish America" (Oxford UP bit.ly/3XKj0nn) Winner: 2025 Sharon Harris Book Award. Excerpt: bit.ly/3FuH1sa Podcast: bit.ly/3ZT7pnW Juanita Casey "Horse of Selene" Afterword: bit.ly/3QTOlSo Page: https://english.uconn.edu/person/mary-burk
Nadia Dobrianska @nadiadobrianska.bsky.social 🇺🇦 in Ireland. Formerly Belfast and Cork, exiled to Dublin.
PhD candidate at UCL, Modern Irish History, Ukrainian politics.
Tá Gaeilge agam.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/social-historical-sciences/history/people/postgraduate-research-community/nadia-dobrianska
Mark Henry @drmarkhenry.bsky.social Insight into progress and well-being in Ireland and around the world from the author of ‘In Fact: An Optimist’s Guide to Ireland at 100’. Optimism and positivity abound.
Marguérite Corporaal @mcorporaal.bsky.social Full Professor of Irish Literature in Transnational Contexts, Radboud University. Coordinator of RICH. Redefining the Region. Heritages of Hunger.
University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social University of Illinois Press / Publisher of scholarly and regional trade books and journals since 1918
Caroline B. Heafey @carolineheafey.bsky.social Assistant Director @GIHNYU.bsky.social. Doctoral Candidate in English at UMass Amherst.
Bronagh Ann McShane @bamcshane.bsky.social women, gender, religion, digital humanities, AI | Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin @voicestcd.bsky.social | Fellow of the Royal Historical Society | President of the History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland | author ✍️
Glucksman Ireland House NYU @gihnyu.bsky.social Glucksman Ireland House is the center for Irish and Irish-American Studies at New York University.
Register for our fall 2025 events here: https://as.nyu.edu/research-centers/irelandhouse/events/fall-20250.html
Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie Fostering excellence and scholarship to enrich society, e. 1785.
Home to the RIA Library, 8 research programmes & a publishing house.
www.ria.ie
Reg. Charity No. 20003524 - Reg. Revenue No. CHY 2795
Irish Association of Professional Historians #IAPH #Skystorians @iaphistorians.bsky.social The IAPH is the organisation for professional & graduate historians within and outside the academy. The #IAPH directory lists #historians and their related subject areas #Skystorians #History #AcademicSky #Speirgorm #Ireland #Research
ARINS Project @arinsproject.bsky.social Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South.
Authoritative, independent & non-partisan research on constitutional, institutional & policy options for Ireland north & south. Neither pro or anti unification.
arinsproject.com
Charlotte Barcat @barcatcharlotte.bsky.social Lecturer at Nantes Université in UK history & politics
PhD in Irish Studies
My work focuses on Northern Ireland, legacy issues and representations of the past.
CEJM UniPaix
(The views expressed here are my own and not those of my institution.)
Dr. Morgan Wait @mwait13.bsky.social Historian of late 20th century Ireland. Interests in media, recreation, gender, and sexuality. Dog parent. Historian for the lols. They/them
Dr Deirdre Foley @drdeefoley.bsky.social Research Ireland Pathway fellow, Trinity College Dublin.
Researching pregnancy and maternity care in twentieth-century Ireland.
Membership Secretary, Women’s History Association of Ireland.
Previously: DCU, UCC, Oxford.
she/her
Peter Crooks @petercrooks.bsky.social Medieval Historian, Trinity College Dublin (@historytcd.bsky.social) | Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (@virtualtreasury.bsky.social) | Member IMC (@irishmanuscripts.bsky.social) |Lapsed violist 𝄡 |
Digging sentences, in archives, in gardens.
Alan Ford @alanford56.bsky.social Historian of religion, interested in Irish history, religious hatred (studying it, that is...), how you write Irish history, and St Patrick and how he has been used (and abused) by Irish historians. Oh, and also classical music.
Cian T. McMahon, PhD @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social Historian of Ireland and the Irish, at home and abroad. Currently working on a global history of Saint Patrick's Day.
*The Routledge History of Irish America* (2024)
*The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine* (2021)
Prof David Farrell, UCD @davidfarrell-ucd.bsky.social Full Professor UCD Politics. Member of the Royal Irish Academy. Member of the Academia Europaea. Representative politics, electoral systems, deliberative minipublics https://people.ucd.ie/david.farrell he/him. Personal account.
Síobhra Aiken @siobhraaiken.bsky.social 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
Irish Studies at Boston College @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social The Irish Studies program at Boston College offers a richly interdisciplinary study of Irish and Irish-American culture, history, and society.
https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/schools/morrissey/sites/irish.html
Claire Dubois @clairedubois.bsky.social Associate Professor University of Lille. Irish history, memory studies…
Currently working on the French representations of the Irish revolutionary period.
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland @virtualtreasury.bsky.social www.virtualtreasury.ie
An All-Island & International Legacy from Decade of Centenaries
Core partners: National Archives Ireland, The National Archives UK, Public Record Office Northern Ireland, Irish Manuscripts Commission, Library Trinity College Dublin
Dr Dawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado @drdawnmiranda.bsky.social Academic: Queen's University Belfast, Institute of Irish Studies & Ulster University, School of Law
Markievicz Award Winner https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/46faa-film-music-theatre-and-traditional-arts-represented-among-markievicz-award-2023-recipients
Sarah Roddy @seroddy.bsky.social Social historian of modern Ireland based at Maynooth University.
Kiara Gregory @kiaragregory.bsky.social PhD candidate in MIC, researching Guinness’s Dublin brewery and its employees during the First World War.
Authored, World War One Irish soldiers-Their final testament. CD-Rom.
(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social Lecturer, Centre for Adult & Continuing Education (ACE), UCC
PhD (UCC School of History) 2026
Foroige leader
All round procrastinator
Cat slave
Dr Emma Lyons @ehlyons.bsky.social Historian of c17th&c18th Ireland: female inheritance, Catholic landownership & education during the Penal Laws. Also Irish horse racing, and Irishwomen & WWI war effort.
Visiting Research Fellow, Dept of History, TCD.
Website: emmalyons.ie
David McCullagh @mcculld.bsky.social Journalist with RTE, presenter of the Today show, Springsteen and Leinster fan, views mine not RTE's. RTs are not an endorsement. Get my new book here linktr.ee/mcculld
Donncha O’Connell @donnchalaw.bsky.social Law academic living in the west of Ireland. Interested in law, politics, history, theatre, music, books, art, people and dogs…not in that order.
Brian Casey @briancasey123.bsky.social Historian of the Victorian countryside, agrarian radicalism. and 20th Century global Catholicism and female religious. Hon. Fellow Durham University Theology and Religion.
Sarah R Mac Donald @sarahrmacdonald.bsky.social Ireland Correspondent for The Tablet. Freelance Irish Independent, OSV News, NCR, Global Sisters Report. Documentary maker for RTE DoconOne, Producer of MaryWarddocumentary.com. CPA awards 2017/18.
Irish Historical Society @irishhistsoc.bsky.social https://www.irishhistoricalstudies.ie/irish-historical-society/
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/
Tomás Finn @finnuniofgalway.bsky.social Historian of Modern Ireland and Britain at the University of Galway
Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies @usihs.bsky.social Promoting Irish History in Ulster since 1936.
https://usihs36.com/
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/
Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social Economic historian at UL. Author of 'The Irish Department of Finance, 1959-1999' and 'Policy Failures and the Irish Economic Crisis'.
Kelly Fitzgerald @kellyfitzgerald.bsky.social - C @cathalcoleman.bsky.social @cathalcoleman.bsky.social
Rachael Young @rachael-young.bsky.social Modern Irish & British History post-doc at Boston College. Interested in the merging of community art, protest, and policing in marginalized communities. she/her
Dr Susie Deedigan @susiedeedigan.bsky.social ARINS Programme Manager, University of Notre Dame
Research Fellow @ Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, QUB
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Historian: gender & politics modern Ireland and Britain.
PhD from QUB.
Formerly: Oxford, TCD, UC Berkeley.
Roger O'Keeffe @rogerokeeffe.bsky.social Shooting the breeze on Irish, EU and world affairs, history, language(s). #speirgorm
A bit of a pedant, advocate of colonic irrigation of sentences.
Location: 🇺🇸 shitshow to the left of us< 🇮🇪 > 🇬🇧 shitshow to the right
Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com Historian of intimacy and revolution in 1920s-40s Europe. New project: anti-Nazi vegetarians.
Author of Irish Book Awards shortlisted HOTEL LUX — about a hotel in 1920s Moscow — and radical history newsletter Archive Rats:
archiverats.substack.com
Sacred Heart University History Department @shuhistorydept.bsky.social Explore, Discover, Learn, Become! Study abroad in Dingle, Ireland! ☘️ https://www.sacredheart.edu/academics/colleges--schools/college-of-arts--sciences/departments--schools/history/
Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social Author of The NGO Moment (http://cambridge.org/9781108708548). Associate Professor in History at University of Galway. Co-editor @difp-ria.bsky.social. Currently researching climate change and capitalism in c20th & early c21st Ireland
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.
The Irish Story @theirishstory.bsky.social Irish History Website, maintained and edited by John Dorney.
Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social ‘signs and characters from the type-case of forgotten things‘ Sebald
Late Heaney (https://bit.ly/40oRn76)
John Borgonovo @drjohnborgonovo.bsky.social Historian, Sr Lecturer UCC
Revolutionary Ireland, WW1,
‘Atlas of the Irish Civil War’,
‘Atlas of the Irish Revolution’
‘Dynamics of War & Revolution’
Californian in Cork
Tells stories around the campfire
Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social Colonial Historian, Interested in colonial veterans and all things Algeria. Proud Dub .
Lloyd Meadhbh Houston @lejhouston.bsky.social IRISH MODERNISM AND THE POLITICS OF SEXUAL HEALTH (OUP); Director and Qualitative Research Lead of Transnnual; BAIS and BSLS Executive; Co-host of 'Censored'; FRHistS and FHEA.
Dr Helene O'Keeffe @heleneokeeffe.bsky.social PhD, historian of 19th & 20th century Irish History. Research Officer, University College Cork. Researcher #AtlasIrishRev, co-editor 'Atlas of the Irish Civil War: New Perspectives'.
@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.
B. Cunningham @b7cunningham.bsky.social Historian of early modern Ireland, former librarian.
Erskine @erskinechilders.bsky.social
Father, husband, son, truthseeker. Family historian. Yes, he was my great-grandad and grandad.
https://linktr.ee/erskinechilders
@fin9bar.bsky.social @fin9bar.bsky.social
Chris Cusack @fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social Reader | writer | teacher. Been there, done that, got the T. rex.🦖 Researching death, famine, and apocalypse. Irish Studies and beyond. Reviews books. Also writing about Moomins, because why not. Asst Prof at Radboud University, NL. He/him.
Sandra Scanlon @sandrascanlon.bsky.social Historian of the US at University College Dublin
Social Movements, Cold War, Vietnam, Iraq, History of American Conservatism, author The Pro-War Movement
http://umasspress.com/9781625340184/…
Tina Morin @drtinamorin.bsky.social Assistant Dean of Research and Professor in English at the University of Limerick. Fan of all things Gothic. Views mine. She/her.
Cormac Moore @cormacmoorehist.bsky.social Founder and director of history consulting company, History Link, http://historylink.ie. Columnist and editor of 'On this Day' with
The Irish News.
Mary Trotter @smaryt.bsky.social Wow. Just wow.
Karol Mullaney-Dignam @historiankarol.bsky.social ▪︎ Cultural, Social, Public Historian
▪︎ Associate Professor @ulhistory.bsky.social
▪︎ Ireland 🇮🇪
Yale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social Yale University Press in London https://yalebooks.co.uk/
Publishing books that champion arts & humanities 🏰 home of history!
⭐️ For book updates & UK OFFERS join the Yale in London newsletter: bit.ly/YaleBookNews ⭐️
@publichistoryqub.bsky.social @publichistoryqub.bsky.social
Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social Historian interested in O'Connellite politics and the emergence of a north-south frontier, 1824-44. Former @researchireland.ie Scholar, @historytcd.bsky.social. pduffy1@tcd.ie
orcid.org/0000-0002-6049-1089
irishhistorians.ie/members/patrick-barry-duffy/
University of Galway - History @historyatgalway.bsky.social Official page of the Department of History, University of Galway. https://www.universityofgalway.ie/history/
History at Queen's University Belfast @qubhistory.bsky.social History in the School of HAPP and adjacent historians at Queen's University Belfast. Find the QUB Historians and projects under ‘Lists’. We are at https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ/
Dr Rachel Murphy @rachelmurphy.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Irish History @unioflimerick.bsky.social | Landed estates, history of family, local history, digital humanities | Historical GIS | Genealogist | Learning about biodiversity | Thurles, Co. Tipperary. 🇪🇺🌍🌳
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.
Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social Boston College Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books. Irish studies, Jesuitica, British Catholic authors, Boston history, and more
Lindsey Earner-Byrne @earner.bsky.social Professor of Contemporary Irish History, Trinity College Dublin
She/her
Ida Milne @idamilne.bsky.social Historian unashamedly obsessive about anything to do with 1918-19 flu pandemic. Or weissbier. Also interested in history ofepidemics, vaccination, southern Irish Protestant identity, newspapers, oral history, current affairs…and I love good company.
Jennifer Wellington @jenniferwellington.bsky.social Modern History, University College Dublin. My book: Exhibiting War. Researching war trophies and trophy-taking.
Prof Linda Connolly @lindaconnolly.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, author
Niamh Howlin @niamhh.bsky.social Associate Professor, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin.
Researching legal history, legal professions and trials
Salvador Ryan @salvadorryan.bsky.social Native of Moneygall. Professor of Ecclesiastical History at St Patrick's Pontifical University Maynooth. Loves teaching & writing, and has published widely on social, cultural and religious history, medieval to modern. Editor, Irish Theological Quarterly.
Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social Full Professor of Migration and Social
Policy, student of intellectual history #author: Public Morality and the Culture Wars: The triple divide (2023), and those in the above picture.
Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social Institute of #irishstudies @liverpooluni.bsky.social: world-leading research & teaching in peace & conflict, women's studies, literature & history.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/irish-studies
Gillian O'Brien @gillianobrien.bsky.social Professor of Public History. Author of 'The Darkness Echoing'. Public History/Museums/Heritage/Memory/Death/Dark Tourism/Spies/Nuns/ Board member Irish Museums Association
Sophie Cooper @sophcocooper.bsky.social Social historian of gender, migration & public space | Nuns | Ireland & its diaspora | Senior Lecturer @QUBLiberalArts | Forging Identities in the Irish World @EdinburghUP 2022 | She/her.