Leanne McCormick @leannemccormick.bsky.social Professor of Modern History, Ulster University. Co-chair Truth Recovery Independent Panel. Bad Bridget Project | Queer NI.
Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social A trilogy of books about the dark pop culture of the 1970s and 1980s, from public information films to nuclear war!
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
Andy Zaltzman @zaltzcricket.bsky.social Comedian, Cricket Statistician, Podcaster. Host of The Bugle podcast and BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz. Taskmaster champion. Test Match Special statsmonger. Live shows: andyzaltzman.co.uk
Sophie Heawood @heawood.bsky.social Journalist, including property for the FT. Wrote a bestselling memoir for Penguin Random House about the time I moved to Hollywood and accidentally became someone’s mother. heawood.substack.com
The Irish News @irishnews.com The Irish News is the UK and Ireland’s top selling regional daily newspaper. We've been telling the full story since 1891.
www.irishnews.com
Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social Professor of History. Historian of Science.
New Humanist @newhumanist.bsky.social Free thinking in an age of extremes. Follow for independent journalism on ideas, culture, politics and science. Published since 1885.
www.newhumanist.org.uk
Keith Adams @keithadams.bsky.social Kept around by Irish Jesuits to think about prisons and punishment
Colin Harvey @cjharvey1.bsky.social Professor, QUB | Belfast via Derry
Views personal | Reposts are not an endorsement
https://go.qub.ac.uk/charvey
Dr Emma J McAlister @emmajmca.bsky.social Belfast-based scholar & curator. APRIL 2026 Fellow. Researches sacred spaces, material religion and ritual in museums. Interested in Ireland’s cultural industries.
Distracted by the casualised job market.
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/
Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social Premier research library @ria.ie. Manuscript, book, pamphlet & drawings collections, outreach programmes, master classes & visits, exhibitions & lectures.
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.
Andy Smyth @antisyzygy.bsky.social 
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy
Dr Paul Mullan MRIA @pauljmullan01.bsky.social Heritage professional, QUB,TCD, and UU, Royal Irish Academy, weakness for books and Leica cameras.
Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social Author of RAINBOW TRAP and QUEER DATA 🌈 Researching LGBTQ data at the University of Edinburgh 📊 he/him/his ➡️ linktr.ee/kevinguyan
Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social Historian of the Family @UL Like dogs? Meet Frank 🐶 Belfast 🔁 Tipperary
Out Now! *Pious & Promiscuous. Life, Love & Family in Presbyterian Ulster* https://shop.ria.ie/products/pious-and-promiscuous
Dagsson @dagsson.bsky.social stick figure joke things
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
Pic: J. Kovalík
The Royal Mint @theroyalmintuk.bsky.social The Royal Mint is a British maker of thoughtfully designed products and services as well as being the home of precious metals.
https://www.royalmint.com/
Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social I’m not terrific but I’m competent
All bookings via website www.jancarson.co.uk
The Northern Ireland Place-Name Project @placenamesni.bsky.social Researching local place-names and providing councils with authoritative Irish forms for signage. Funded by DfC and based in Irish & Celtic Studies at QUB.
Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Professor of Astrophysics, Edinburgh University. Author of How to Design a Universe. @astronomerroyal on insta (She/her)
Tim Hayward @timhayward.bsky.social Hack. Mainly food.
https://linktr.ee/tim.m.hayward
@historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social Historian- E Ella Al-Shamahi @ellaalshamahi.bsky.social
David Gordon @davidgordonmedia.bsky.social NI Broadcaster with a face you won’t know, but a voice you will - mainly making sure you know whats coming up next on your TV
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.
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
The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writes about law and policy at The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
www.theemptycity.com
Mansfield College, University of Oxford @mansfieldoxford.bsky.social An inspiring education. A community where you belong. 📚🎓 For our People. For our Place. For our Culture. For Mansfield. Forever. ♥️
https://linktr.ee/mansfieldcollegeoxford?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=604fb7ca-da7f-40e0-8a51-45095d7cfe55
Imagine! Belfast @imaginebelfast.bsky.social Imagine Belfast Festival of Ideas & Politics
Thou Shalt N*O*T Have No Idea
23-29 March 2026
Gillian Shorter PhD @gwshorter.bsky.social Reader in Psychology @QUBelfast
President @kettilbruunsociety.bsky.social
Alcohol/other drugs, #HarmReduction, drug consumption rooms, OPCs, SCS #AddictionSci
Loves: dogs, dance, run, sea, joy
Views own (she/her) bi #BeMoreLyra
In my own time and space
Mary Cahill @auireland.bsky.social Archaeologist - all about the gold and archaeology
https://independent.academia.edu/MaryCahill
NewsThump @newsthump.com Topical satire from the UK and around the world. You're not supposed to believe what we write, you idiot.
Cormac Kehoe @coramazov.bsky.social Investigative Correspondent at The Fence
Investigative Reporter for London Centric & BBC Radio 4 - "The Naked Week."
Fellow Centre for Investigative Journalism 23'.
The Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social Cartoonist and creator of The Oatmeal and Exploding Kittens https://linktr.ee/theoatmeal
Bad Gays @badgayspod.bsky.social a podcast about evil and complicated queers in history. in our eighth season.
listen at badgayspod.com or wherever you find podcasts
subscribe to our monthly chat and advice show at patreon.com/badgayspod
Dr Andrew Sneddon @drandrewsneddon.bsky.social Historian of medicine, religion, and the supernatural. Joint editor, Irish Historical Studies. Senior Lecturer in History at Ulster University. Research profile: https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/persons/andrew-sneddon
Co PI Islandmagee Witch Project: w1711.org
Flashes App 🌩️ @flashes.blue A photo viewing client for u from the creator of @skeetsapp.com & @bluescreen.blue
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Cuyote @cuyote.bsky.social Hawaii
Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social Callipygian statues 👍🏛🍑
'Cheeky, Witty, Funny' - The Bookseller;
'Crude' - Daily Express 🤣
(curated by @thehistoryboy.bsky.social & @jackshoulder.bsky.social)
Buy our book here:
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Chris Page @chrispagejourno.bsky.social BBC News Ireland Correspondent.
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
Letters of Note @lettersofnote.com Professional letter nerd since 2009. Buy the books (https://books.lettersofnote.com), read the newsletter (https://news.lettersofnote.com/), come to the live shows (https://www.youtube.com/@LettersLive). Or don't. It's your choice. 
Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social Author of Chaos Walking, Monster Calls, More Than this, Burn, Different For Boys. Won a couple Carnegies and an Olivier. Four wins away from an EGOT.
John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com Magic Hours - Malick
Visible Darkness - Glazer
Variety/Sight&Sound/The New World
Cinema Italia&Writers On Film podcasts
Connery A Novel
https://linktr.ee/writersonfilm
StareBear @starebear10.bsky.social Don’t ask me, I’m irrelevant !
Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social Technology, Parkinson’s, #sophiefromromania
Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com #Archaeologist🏺, got a hat (no whip though). Once known as "Yunus" among Bedouins. Demanding a revival of the venerable profession of the #ExpeditionPainter👨🎨.
🔗 jensnotroff.com
🔗 trowelandpen.com
David Ryan @ryangenealogy.bsky.social Historian/genealogist. APG board member. Recently completed MA Public History and Cultural Heritage in University of Limerick. Passionate about heritage, oral history and anything that connects to our past https://ryangenealogicalresearch.com/
Paul Rowley @paulrowleyradio.com Freelance Journalist / Broadcaster.
Ex BBC Political Correspondent. Radio documentary maker, Wigan Athletic reporter. Ex IRN, LBC, ITN, Radio City, Bootle Times, Southport Visiter.
Twitter/X: @PaulRowleyRadio
J.E. Curie @scrabopower.bsky.social Newtownards, County Down.
Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social Talking about museums and galleries and archives and museums and culture and my dog Keith and sometimes other stuff. Did absolute unit sheep. Accept money for labour etc.
https://www.adamkoszary.co.uk/
Sam McBratney @cassowary-eu.bsky.social Irish in exile 🏳️🌈☘️🇪🇺
Husband, dad, Methodist clergy, #ADHDer
@communityunion, Labour🌹, SDLP, fabian
Love politics, preaching, travel, Sri Lanka, reconciliation, @corrymeela, social justice,
📖 📽️ 📺 🐘🦭 🦅🦆🐧🧶
ALL VIEWS MY OWN.
Https://cassowary.eu
Dr Joby Razzelliot @jobium.bsky.social Bioinformatician at the Natural History Museum, previously studied microplastic pollution on Earth and looked for life on Mars. opinions are my own. he/him 🏳️🌈
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.
Simon Brown @nisnaps.bsky.social Love Jesus & Family. Live in Insurance world. Passionate about Photography, Travel, and lots of things…
Jess Lowe | Belfast Photographer @jesslowephoto.bsky.social Relaxed headshot photographer based in Ireland | Published NYT, Observer, Reuters, Telegraph and many more.
Get in touch hello@jesslowephotography.com
https://www.jesslowephotography.com
Steve Stockman @stocki61.bsky.social writer (books & blog), minister (Fitzroy), music fan, Man City fan, theo-musicologist, MBE for dabbling in peace building and organising 4 Corners Festival...
Jonathon Catlin @joncatlin.bsky.social Intellectual history, German & Jewish studies, climate catastrophe | Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester | PhD from Princeton | Edits @jhideas.bsky.social | Rochester • NYC • Berlin 🏳️🌈
https://rochester.academia.edu/JonathonCatlin
Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social Half man, half-wit.
Dublin, Ireland.
I have a book.
https://linktr.ee/richycraven
Kelvin Holdsworth @thurible.net Provost of St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow. Scottish Episcopalian Chaplain at Uni of Glasgow. LGBT & other human rights/rites. Anglican, Opera etc. Especially etc.
President of Ireland @president.ie Updates on the work of Uachtarán na hÉireann Catherine Connolly
https://linktr.ee/PresidentIRL
Adam Jowett @dradamjowett.bsky.social Social psychologist | Academic | LGBTQ+ Research | EDI Advocate | Views my own | he/him
Prof. Chris Ashford @lawandsexuality.bsky.social Professor of Law + Society Northumbria University. Deputy Faculty Pro Vice Chancellor R&KE. Queer theorist. Research: sex, sexuality and law. Also interested in HE policy & strategy. 🏠/🏢 Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. 🏳️🌈He/Him.
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
Writers’ HQ @writershq.bsky.social Stop fucking about and start writing.
Online courses | workshops | writing retreats | community | tea | biscuits | swearing | gold stars ⭐️
Tuatha @tuatha.ie Explore Ireland with us! Visitor guides, itineraries, courses, events — created by archaeologists for people who really want to get under the skin of Ireland.
Start your Irish archaeological adventure:
https://www.tuatha.ie/
(pics all our own work)
Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social Durham University Classics Prof keen on Aristotle, visual art, Greek theatre/pots, labour/anti-racist history, prison education, Parthenon reunification. All views my own. Also on Twitter @edithmayhall
Mark Oakley @deanoakley.bsky.social Dean of Southwark
Poetry • Human Rights • A Questioning Faith
Chris 🎬🎧 @raidercast.bsky.social Dog Dad
Video Producer
Tomb Raider Podcaster
London-based Welshman
https://youtube.com/raidercast
🏴👾🐾🏳️🌈
🚫Anti Gen-AI
The Elders @theelders.bsky.social Founded by Nelson Mandela, we are independent global leaders working together for peace, justice, human rights and a sustainable planet.
linktr.ee/theelders_org
Helen O’Rahilly @helenorahillytv.bsky.social Former telly executive in BBC & RTÉ. Live central Dublin after 30 years London. Politics, books, gardens, art, cats, travel, poetry. Friendly & approachable unless riled. No bots/trolls/MAGAs/Fascists/Anti-Vaxx please.
Jack Shoulder @jackshoulder.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Writer, historian, wants to make the world a better place
#TodayInQueerHistory
Hotties in Art out in Autumn
Co-writer and Co-Curator of @museumbums
For events and books check out:
https://linktr.ee/jackshoulder
Kevin Roose @kevinroose.com NYT tech columnist, Hard Fork co-host, best at 0.8x speed
Joris Minne @jorisminne.bsky.social PR man glad to be in Belfast. Also food writer for Belfast Telegraph and Belfast Fantasy Menu. Fourth Baron of St Martens Latem.
Cúpla focal ag fhoghlaim. joris.minne@jcomms.co.uk Www.jcomms.co.uk
Jonny Clark @jonnyrclark.bsky.social I work for Corrymeela, Ireland’s oldest peace centre, doing Public Theology. I produced guardiansoftheflame.org documentary and podcasts. Northern Irish Kiwi. #BorderlandsBelfast
Jean-Philippe SanGiovanni @jpisangio.bsky.social Public historian and incoming PhD candidate @dublincityuni.bsky.social, studying the effects of Irish Partition for rural communities, 1925-1937.
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
The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social Home of Henry VIII's favourite ship, the Mary Rose, which sank off the English coast in 1545 after a 34 year long career.
#Portsmouth's top visitor attraction on TripAdvisor. Part of Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
Archaeology Ireland Magazine @archiremag.bsky.social Established in 1987, Archaeology Ireland magazine is Ireland’s leading archaeology magazine, published quarterly.
Editor: Grace O'Keeffe
Subscriptions can be taken out here: https://archaeologyireland.ie/
A Wordwell Group publication
@fryrsquared.bsky.social @fryrsquared.bsky.social 
Eve Rosato @everosatotv.bsky.social Broadcast journalist, reporter and presenter at BBC NI | eve.rosato@bbc.co.uk | Journalistic focus on violence against women and girls
David Cleland @davidcleland.com Documentary Photography. Photos and film from Northern Ireland http://www.davidcleland.com
Grace Dent @gracedent.bsky.social * BBC Masterchef UK 🇬🇧
*Comfort Eating- Ep 1 Russell T Davies
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/comfort-eating-with-grace-dent/id1571446706?i=1000525534334
* Restaurant Critic for The Guardian 🇬🇧
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/gracedent
TH @tylerhower.bsky.social Some guy
Dogs, philosophy, books, house music, opera, musicals, theater, gym, (there's a conclusion to be drawn), horror, a few other things
ND, OSU, now teach at a liberal arts school
Hoosier living in southernmost California
Etiam si omnes ego non
Orla lynch @orlalynch-ucc.bsky.social Psychologist working on extremism, CVE, victimology and other stuff - Prof of Criminology - UCC - Cork Ireland
Harriet Fitch Little @harrietfl.ft.com FT Magazine Food and Drink editor 
Sonja Tiernan @sonjatiernan.bsky.social President Women’s History Association of Ireland. National Coordinator Irish Humanities Alliance, RIA. Fellow Royal Historical Society.
Author books including Eva Gore-Booth biography
She/Her
ORCID: 0000-0003-2409-311X
tiernansonja@gmail.com
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/
Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~ Author of 8 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
~ BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES (2008-19)
📺🤣
~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
🌱 🪴 🌳
Declan Curry @declancurry.com Biz journalist for 25+ yrs. Thanks for following! Might amuse or inform. If you don’t like whimsy or sarcasm, look away now. No one else wants these views. 👬
RTÉ News @news.rte.ie RTÉ News and Current Affairs - Irish and International News
Sara Gunn-Smith @gunnsara.bsky.social Irish mammy.
Film biz:
BFI Film Hub NI (at QFT) by day
Documentary producer (Quiet Child Films Ltd) by night
Belfast head.
Devotee of cinema | The National | Fontaines D.C. | gardening | gigs | Portugal and stuff like that. Middle aged cliché.