Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social academic/freelance writer, on Gothic, Horror film, Science Fiction. Latest: Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead (2025). Next 2 books: a taxonomy of the undead and a biography of H P Lovecraft
VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND @voicestcd.bsky.social ERC Advanced Grant Project at Trinity College Dublin
PI Jane Ohlmeyer. Harnessing #knowledgegraph, #semanticweb and #AI technologies to tell the hidden stories of women in #earlymodern Ireland voicesproject.ie
Frank @frankvaladez.bsky.social Director, ABA Division for Public Education. Skeptical of everyone, cynical about everything, but not without hope.
Curious Travellers @curioustravellers.bsky.social ‘Curious Travellers 2: Digital Editions of Thomas Pennant’s Tours of Wales and Scotland’. An AHRC-funded research project (CAWCS, University of Glasgow, Natural History Museum London)
Histories of Enlightenment Travel
https://curioustravellers.ac.uk/en/
Victoria Anne Pearson @vapearsonduffy.bsky.social PhD candidate, Ulster University
researching the life & work of Dr Francis Moylan, RC Bishop of Kerry & Cork, 1735-1815
https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/persons/victoria-anne-pearson/
Emmy @msquinnhistory.bsky.social History lead for Years 5-8. Passionate about primary history, Irish history, teaching empire among other things. I post photos of bread and Yorkshire puddings and I’m not sorry.
Colin McCormick @colinmccormick.bsky.social Co author of a school textbook on Transatlantic Slavery. SLT, Teacher Trainer, HoD, History teacher
@padraigkirwan.bsky.social @padraigkirwan.bsky.social
Will Derham @willderham.bsky.social Would-be architect, printer, gym-goer, baker... actual curator & author, among other things. Currently working in a castle. Views are my own.
RTÉ Brainstorm @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social New ideas, insights & thinking on Ireland & the world. From @RTE.ie with @ucc.ie @dublincityuni.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @tudublin.bsky.social @researchireland.ie & @teagasc.bsky.social
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
Greg O'Brien @profobrien.bsky.social Historian. I research and teach about the Native South and environmental history. Opinions/posts mine. Belgian and craft beer fan. Anti fascist. ☮️
https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9780803296909/the-native-south
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
Chris Hall @chrishall.bsky.social Education
Knowledge
Pilgrimage
Walking
Not here for politics (unless it's the study of)
Member of 'no false lemmas' http://nofalselemmas.co.uk.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7189-2980
https://medium.com/@chris_hall
Dr Laura Gillespie @drlauragillespie.bsky.social Researcher of Black and Indigenous US History. Lecturer in Modern American History at Liverpool John Moores University.
Irish Film Institute @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social The Home of Film in Ireland.
A historic 3-screen cinema in the heart of Temple Bar, with Ireland's only 70mm projector 🎞
Visit http://ifi.ie + watch online via http://ifiarchiveplayer.ie and https://www.ifihome.ie
Charity Number: 20021429
Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social Neurodiversity, disability, access, medical humanities, genre fiction. "Divergent Minds in the Archive" project PI.
Disability, Literature, Genre book (Liverpool UP, 2019) #OpenAccess at https://shorturl.at/5ykqk
Matthías Aron Ólafsson @matthiasaolafsson.bsky.social Icelander in Ireland. Imperial and global history. PhD Candidate @historytcd.bsky.social & Early Career Research Fellow @tlrhub.bsky.social. Researching the commissioning of governance and policymaking in the Danish Oldenburg Empire in the long 18th c.
Máiréad Enright @maireadenright.bsky.social Irish academic (@lawatloughborough.bsky.social) living in Birmingham. Working on women, law, religion (Catholicism mostly) and reproduction broadly understood. Often legal history, sometimes just law.
Dr Angela Byrne FHEA FRHistS @angela-historian.bsky.social Historian, editor
Migration, women, exploration, travel, Donegal
Editor at Dictionary of Irish Biography
www.historianka.com
Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social Official account for the Joint Center for History and Economics at Harvard University, University of Cambridge and Sciences Po.
https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/
https://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/
https://histecon.fr/en/
Caitlín Rankin-McCabe @rankinmccabe.bsky.social All Things Early Modern Literature • Honorary Fellow at University of Melbourne • UKRI funded PhD from Durham • Bodies human/non • Angels • Marlowe • Milton • Maps • EM Encounters with the Islamic world •
Rebecca Graff-McRae @poliscirish.bsky.social Political researcher. Deconstructor of discourses. Dancer of jigs. Spectator of spectres. Herder of hooligans.
PhD in Irish political history. QUB alum. Research manager at Parkland Institute
Dig It Dan @digitdan.bsky.social Uncovering history across Maine. I detect properties for owners to showcase their history by finding items lost by past inhabitants. Credited with discovering a Militia/Civil War muster field in ME. Posts about Maine history and things that interest me.
Margaret Kelleher @mgtkell.bsky.social Prof and Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature, University College Dublin
Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org King’s Counsel. Serious about Law, but only about Law.
General Editor of Tolley’s Employment Handbook.
Trustee of FRU
Member of Chelsea Pitch Owners board
Co-founder of Billable Hour Appeal.
Fergal @fergalor.bsky.social Librarian at the National Library of Ireland, Literary and Historical Research, Psychedelia and the esoteric.
Sharon Greene @shazarch.bsky.social Archaeologist, historian, writer, mother etc. Interested in early medieval Ireland and beyond, the Atlantic coast, south Kildare, Shackleton’s sisters and more. She/her
Martin Nutty @nuttyinnyc.com Wannabe polymath and podcaster, cohost of the IrishStewPodcast. Dublin-born New York resident
IrishStewPodcast.com
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….
Sarah Dougherty @flubber.bsky.social Int’l human rights lawyer (JD/MPH). Health, detention, torture, natsec, medical ethics & medical complicity. Prior: Physicians for Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, GlobalPost/PRI, DC Courts, American Political Science Association
Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social Historian | Writer | Curator
Not often here. Insta below...
Insta: https://tinyurl.com/3byn6z6n
Rep: @donaldwin.bsky.social
More: www.matttellsstories.co.uk
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.
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.
Editor of @elsewherejournal.bsky.social
https://www.marcelkrueger.eu/
Alex Coupe @accoupe.bsky.social Lecturer in theatre and performance. Currently working on Ireland and the English literary imagination from post-war to Brexit. @ucu.org.uk rep. ‘Views own'. he/him
Shamrock Roots @shamrockroots.com Discover the people and places that matter to you. Hire Ciara Chivers, Qualified Genealogist, to research your family tree or house history: http://shamrockroots.com- Y Eugene McNulty @yesthewholebook.bsky.social Prof @DCUSchoolofEng. Irish literature; Law and Lit (co-founder Irish Network for Legal Humanities @legalhumanities). Chair (2019-20) IHA @IrishHumanities
Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social UVA's Library research center+community lab for practicing interdisciplinary+experimental scholarship around creative+critical tech—informed by digital humanities, spatial tech, SJ, & more
💜🏳️🌈 People > projects.
📚💻 Research blog & more at ScholarsLab.org!
Dr. Jacob Flaws @jacobflaws.bsky.social Assistant professor of history, author of Spaces of Treblinka: Retracing a Death Camp (2024, U of Nebraska Press), historian of the Holocaust, modern Europe, and genocide. www.jacobflaws.com
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)
- Nothing here represents views of any employer or organisation, past or present -
Georgina Laragy @geolug.bsky.social Historian @Trinity College Dublin and Dublin Cemeteries Trust / Glasnevin Cemetery since 2015. Researching 19th and 20th century Irish history especially death, burial and poverty. Also Public History
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/
Rob B @bobjit65.bsky.social West Ham and Harlequins S/T holder. Currently loving being a mature student at Uni of Greenwich studying history BA.Passion for live music and vinyl - particularly reggae, ska, soul and many things mod.
Centre for Irish-German Studies @ulcigs.bsky.social Centre for Irish-German Studies, University of Limerick, Ireland. Encouraging and supporting research in Irish-German relations since 1997.
Feargus Dunne @feargusd.bsky.social Lecturer in event management & tourism studies at Munster Technological University (Kerry). Partial to a good bassline.
💙 The Chronic Pain 💙 @thechronicpain.bsky.social I have Chronic Pain and am working hard to be a Chronic Pain to those trying to overthrow Democracy. #Resist #Unite #StrongerTogether #ChronicPainSux
Doctor Killdont @killdont.bsky.social Mental Health Worker
Joyful Sceptic
Supports Univeral Basic Income
Dr. Conall Ó Fátharta @ococonuts.bsky.social Ex-hack now PhD. Adoption/M+B institutions/Laundries.
Fulbright Scholar @Fulbright_eire @Glucksman Ireland House NYC
@IrishResearch Scholar
John Hume Scholar @maynoothuni
'Oh Conall is on, the bee in Conall’s bonnet'
Trisha Ryan @trisharyan.bsky.social Archaeology Museum Educator. Interested in archaeology, history, museums, and honestly, a little bit of everything else!
Dr Helen Yates @helenyates.bsky.social Thesis title - Staying Alive: Crime, Trauma, and Agency during the Irish Famine of 1845-52. Research is my happy place!
Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery @cslbs.bsky.social Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery
Department of History, University College London
ucl.ac.uk/history/cslbs
QMUL Centre for 19C & Legacies @c19qmul.bsky.social Centre for the Study of the Nineteenth Century and its Legacies - QMUL Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/arts/research/19th-century-centre/
Eighteenth Century Worlds Liverpool @ecwliv.bsky.social Research centre for all things Eighteenth Century Worlds at the University of Liverpool.
Centre for Research in History, Heritage and Memory Studies NTU @crhhms.bsky.social The Centre for Research in History, Heritage and Memory Studies at Nottingham Trent University. Making the past meaningful in the present.
People's History Museum @phm.org.uk Explore the UK’s national museum of democracy. Open every day (except Tues). Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3ER.
phm.org.uk
Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social An archive of everyday life, thought and feeling in the UK. Based at The Keep in East Sussex. Find out more at massobs.org.uk
Find out more: massobs.org.uk
Sign up to our mailing list: https://subscribe.emailblaster.cloud/MjEyMjQ/122.html
The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790: a Leverhulme Trust funded project using digital tech & volunteers to transcribe 30,000 wills.
Visit our website: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/
Centre for the History of People, Place & Community @chppc.bsky.social Based in @ihr.bsky.social, @sasnews.bsky.social. Engaged, outward-facing and co-produced research into place and history: rural to urban & parish to metropolis. Home to Victoria County History & Layers of London. Posts by team.
Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social A unique residential library in North Wales with beautiful Reading Rooms, Food for Thought restaurant, accommodation and more.
Read, write, rest!
linktr.ee/gladlib
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.
Sign up for our quarterly newsletter here: https://mailchi.mp/d44f57115e53/royal-irish-academy-communications-sign-up
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
Sandra Collins @collinssandra.bsky.social Loving being back at UCD as University Librarian 📚
Caroline Koegler @carolinekoegler.bsky.social Chair of English Lit / Global Literature and Its Media
@ Freie Universität Berlin (FU)
Empire/post/colonial/18C/19C/affect/queer & gender stds/maritime fictions/lit&Economics/book stds
Website: https://tinyurl.com/bddnpakt
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Regina Dunne Midlands History @midlandshistory.bsky.social Historian of Rural women's histories.
Genealogist 🧬
Day job - Regenerative Tourism Activator, supporting businesses to provide a net positive benefit for their business and the community.
Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social Lecturer in Literature & Culture at University of Vienna│Leader of Irish Research Council project 'Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing 1860-1950s'│Co-Founder of @flannobriensoc.bsky.social and @theparishreview.bsky.social
Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social Eamon Cleary Chair of Irish Studies, U. Otago | President International Flann O’Brien Society & ISAANZ | PI Marsden Project ‘Modern Immunity’ | co-author w/ Matthew Hayward of The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonisation, Radical Campuses and Modernism
Jill Cousins @jillcousins.bsky.social Walking towards the horizon
Will Peters @mrwillpeters.bsky.social Lecturer at Technological University of Dublin. Interests include: access to education, digital threats to democracy, social inclusion and equality
Sissel Undheim @unsissel.bsky.social Religious studies professor @University of Bergen, studying religion in Late Antiquity, Lego, pop culture and public schools.
https://www4.uib.no/en/find-employees/Sissel.Undheim
Colin Wrafter @wraftercolin.bsky.social Retired Irish diplomat. Interests include foreign policy, Northern Ireland, human rights, development, philosophy, history.
Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social Research Ireland postdoc @ UCD in contemporary literature, affect, and late capitalism | Previously postdoc @ JLU Giessen | PhD @ Trinity College Dublin | Tuirseach, traochta agus cáite amach | Free Palestine
Work @ https://orlaithdarling.com
Micks @michaelcosgrove.bsky.social Environmental educator, working in the Foyle catchment in Ulster, Ireland. Geriatric millennial, LGBTQ (bi), a massive nerd and a trans ally.
Nitasha Sharma @nsharma100.bsky.social Geographer|DarkTourism| Rituals|Authenticity|Sacred Spaces|Folklore|MagicalTourism|Pilgrimage| Sustainability| ailurophile. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110792072/html
Aimée Walsh @thereadparts.bsky.social Irish writer. Author of Exile (a novel) & Writing Resistance (a monograph)
Commentator of the Year finalist 2025 @ Media Freedom Awards.
Columnist and U35 Deputy Editor @ the Mirror.
Agent: Eleanor Birne @ RCW
Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) @dri.ie The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is a CoreTrustSeal-certified digital repository, or online archive, for the long-term preservation of Ireland's social and cultural digital legacy. Explore the Repository: https://repository.dri.ie/
@sharinglands.bsky.social @sharinglands.bsky.social Sharing Lands I 3-year, AHRC-funded project examining legacies of the Choctaw-Irish Gift | LeAnne Howe (International Co-Investigator), Gillian O'Brien (Co-I), Padraig Kirwan (Principal Investigator) & Shelley Angelie Saggar (Postdoctoral Researcher)
Lauren Arrington @laurenarrington.bsky.social NEH Public Scholar (2023). Bylines @ LitHub, LARB, TLS, Irish Times, Public Books
New book publishes 8 Dec
www.Laurenarrington.com
Amanda Madden @amandamadden.bsky.social Asst Prof of History/affiliate fac @chnm and GMU. Author of Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy (Cornell UP, 2025). Co-PI of Mapping Violence in EM Italy and La Sfera. Rock climber, heavy metal enthusiast, KPop fan
@mvandenh.bsky.social @mvandenh.bsky.social
Sally Williams @sallywilliams.bsky.social Freelance Journalist and TV Producer. Avid gig goer. Loves living in Liverpool.
Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social Military Historian
-NatSec & Strategy
-Logistics
-Geopol Risk
-Urban Warfare
-LOGPOWER
-Rapid Analysis
Ukraine Adventure: https://www.patreon.com/TheAdventurousHistorian?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator
At the Junction: https://jsargentr.substack.com/
Irish Humanities Alliance @irishhumanities.bsky.social A joint initiative of humanities researchers within universities across the island of Ireland.
Based @ria.ie
Posts by IHA coordinator @sonjatiernan.bsky.social
www.irishhumanities.ie
AHA (Australia) @austhistassoc.bsky.social The Australian Historical Association was founded in 1973 and is the peak national organisation of historians working in all fields of history.
https://theaha.org.au
British Association for Local History @balhnews.bsky.social The British Association for Local History is the national charity which promotes local history and serving local historians throughout the UK #WeAreLocalHistory
McNeil Center for Early American Studies @mcneilcenter.bsky.social Facilitating scholarly inquiry into the histories and cultures of North America/Atlantic world before 1850
https://www.mceas.org/
Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social Books, radio, music, newspapers, magazines; all as consumption.
Not posting is the shorter route to the same result. (Only nineteen non-muting followers left.)
Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities is a research center at University of Stavanger, Norway.
- Webpage: https://www.uis.no/en/greenhouse
- Weekly book talks: https://newnatures.org/greenhouse
Lorraine @wolfq4.bsky.social Historian | Archivist | Taphophile | Architecture | Built Heritage | 16-17th century witchcraft in the west of Scotland |
Music fan with wanderlust. Personal acct, so views my own! Occasionally random posts
https://archivisthistoryblog.wordpress.com/home/
Dead Good Reading @deadgoodreading.bsky.social Death Scholar. Book Blogger. Co-host the Death Studies Podcast. I review books on death, dying and the dead. Dutchie 🇳🇱 living in Finland 🇫🇮 See: deadgoodreading.com
🪦𝕮𝖊𝖒𝖊𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖞 𝕮𝖑𝖚𝖇🪦 @cemeteryclub.bsky.social Cemeteries are museums of people! Exploring places of rest as social history. By public historian Sheldon K. Goodman (he/him). ⚰️ 🏛💀 🏳️🌈
Old Weird Scotland @weirdscotland.bsky.social Forgotten Stories, Science, Language, History, Art, People, Poetry.
https://linktr.ee/weirdscotland
Old Weird Scotland supports trans rights.
Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery (KAVS) @listerlanecem.bsky.social In collaboration with Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council, the Friends maintain this Grade II listed, significant cemetery; the final resting place of some 20,000 individuals. Location: Halifax, England.
https://www.listerlanecemetery.co.uk
Friends of Warriston Cemetery @fowarristoncem.bsky.social The Friends of Warriston Cemetery was founded in 2013 to safeguard the heritage of the first garden cemetery in Edinburgh. We always welcome new volunteers. www.friendsofwarristoncemetery.com
Dr Anna Fairley Nielsson @annaandthedead.bsky.social Archaeologist and photographer. Found in cemeteries or near water.
🪦 Home of #31DaysOfGraves
📍Liverpool, UK 🏳️🌈 She/her
https://linktr.ee/annafn
Dr J. M. Wall @cemeteryresearcher.bsky.social Cemetery Researcher. Proud Brummie. Never clocking out of Coffin Works, usually found in the JQ Cemeteries. #BLM🖤 🏳️🌈 🩷💜💙she/her
Wardsend Cemetery Heritage Park @wardsendcemetery.bsky.social A long term project to engage the community and sensitively conserve the previously neglected Victorian Wardsend Cemetery, on the banks of the River Don.
Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social Award-winning Historian & Genealogist ✍️🏻
Death, Wales and Psychiatry 💀
Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum 🧠
Workhouses | Poor Law | Lunacy 🧠
🥇BBC History Extra '30 under 30' 📚
📍Cardiff | views are my own • she/her
🔗 www.linktr.ee/louvainrees