@sarahanaphora.bsky.social @sarahanaphora.bsky.social Litríocht na Gaeilge, Léann na hÉireann, early modern Irish (as in Gaelic) literature, activism, LGBTQIA, teaching Irish to the Fighting Irish, feminism...founder-member of the soon-to-be-dissolved Department of Irish Language and Literature, Notre Dame
Anna Walsh @annaannawalsh.bsky.social Contemporary historian. Interested in migration, cities and towns, visual and material cultures, 20th century buildings, photography, leisure centres, pubs, creative methodologies, Irish and British history and oral history. Liverpool.
Ciara Breathnach @ciarab.bsky.social Professor of Irish Gender History, scholar of modern Irish socio-economic, cultural and health history. Recent book https://global.oup.com/academic/product/ordinary-lives-death-and-social-class-9780198865780?cc=ie&lang=en& 
@acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social 
Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social Author and critic | Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University | Host, Irish Books Podcast | FRAS
Cambridge Group for Irish Studies @irishstudiescam.bsky.social Cambridge Group for Irish Studies | Seminar group exploring all aspects of Irish culture, literature and history based at the University of Cambridge | Account run by the CGIS secretary
@kristinmahoney.bsky.social @kristinmahoney.bsky.social Professor, Dept. of English, Michigan State University. Aestheticism, Decadence, modernism. Editor, with Kate Hext and Alex Murray, of Cusp: Late 19th-/ Early 20th-Century Cultures.
Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland @ssnci.bsky.social The Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland promotes an inter-disciplinary approach to Irish studies.
ssnci.org
Dr. Kersti Powell @kerstipowell.bsky.social Associate Professor of English & Director of Irish Studies at SJU. Contemporary Irish Literature, although occasionally also dabbles in science and lit. Trying to keep a basil plant alive. she/si/tema 
Young Academy Ireland @yai.ie Young Academy Ireland (YAI) is an interdisciplinary all-island network of early career researchers and innovators (ECRIs) who work collaboratively for the benefit of society. Supported by @RIA.ie
https://www.ria.ie/young-academy-ireland/
Mark Doyle @markdoyle.bsky.social Historian & writer. Britain, Ireland, empire, music. Latest book is on John Cale's Paris 1919 for 33 1/3. Next: histories of African people/music in Ireland. “Pipe-sucking radical” --Mail on Sunday. Views here are my own: my employer has no views.
Dr. Barry Houlihan @barryhoulihan.bsky.social Archivist at University of Galway.
Research on Irish theatre, memory, conflict, and digital cultures.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-74548-6
Centre for Cross Border Cooperation @crossborder.bsky.social Armagh, Northern Ireland. Promoting research, information and support across borders on the island of Ireland, Europe, & beyond. Our Border People FLOW project is supported by PEACEPLUS, a programme managed by the Special EU Programmes Body. crossborder.ie
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.
Native Dialogs in Irish @nativedialogsga.bsky.social Practice your #Gaeilge by chatting to virtual humans.
Center of Irish Studies in Cáceres @cirishcaceres.bsky.social Irish Studies Center from the EFACIS network established at the University of Extremadura.
https://ciscaceres.weebly.com
https://x.com/cirish_caceres?s=21&t=mSZafaZRsiw_6zj-ekPNug
SOFEIR @sofeir.bsky.social Société Française d'Etudes Irlandaises - French Society for Irish Studies. La SOFEIR fédère les chercheur·euses qui travaillent en France sur l’Irlande.
Irish Studies Würzburg -ISWÜ @irishstudieswue.bsky.social News on upcoming events by Irish Studies Würzburg - Irish literature, language, history and culture
More info: https://www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/irish-studies/
@uniwuerzburg.bsky.social
EFACIS @efacis.bsky.social The European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) seeks to promote interest in and support the expansion of Irish Studies throughout Europe.
https://www.efacis.eu/
AEDEI @aedei.bsky.social Cuenta oficial de la Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses / Official account of the Spanish Association of Irish Studies 🍀
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
Fionn Folklore Database @fionnfolklore.bsky.social The biggest online repository of the Fenian folklore of Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man.
https://fionnfolklore.org
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.
Magdalene College @magdalenecollege.bsky.social Official account of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. We are a vibrant, supportive and diverse academic community founded in 1542!
https://linktr.ee/magdnificent
Sarah Roddy @seroddy.bsky.social Social historian of modern Ireland based at Maynooth University.
Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History @historytcd.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social | Historian of the news, press, political cultures, and popular politics in Ireland, America, Britain, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955 (Liverpool University Press, April 2026)
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
Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social Professor of Modern English @ucc.ie | Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Secretary @ria.ie | Irish Romanticism: a Literary History @universitypress.cambridge.org
https://research.ucc.ie/en/persons/claire-connolly/
Conchúr Ó Giollagáin @conchurog.bsky.social Minority language academic. Link to Gaelic Crisis book: https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/research-enterprise/res-themes/humanities-and-arts/language-sciences-institute/news/free-online-access-to-gaelic-crisis-book.html
Elisa Cozzi @elisacozzi.bsky.social Irish Romanticism, Italy, the Byron-Shelley Circle, manuscripts, literary coteries.
https://irishstudies.nd.edu/scholars/neh-fellows/elisa-cozzi/
Simon Robins @simonrobins.bsky.social Researcher and practitioner: transitional justice, human rights and humanitarian protection; Urban naxal. simonrobins.com
The International Flann O’Brien Society @flannobriensoc.bsky.social The International Flann O’Brien Society
Organising conferences, books, readings, screenings, events dedicated to the life & works of Brian O'Nolan
Profile pic by David O'Kane
Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap @engagedroadmap.bsky.social Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
Prof Deirdre Raftery @draftery.bsky.social University College Dublin | Full Prof of the History of Education | FRHistS | Affls.: University of Cambridge & Trinity College Dublin | author | mother | gardener | sailor | book collector. Writes about 19thC schools/childhood/convents/Irish diaspora.
Eilís Smyth @eilissmyth.bsky.social W.B. Yeats Fellow in Irish Literature @ The Keough-Naughton Institute, Notre Dame | Writing about the politics of performing Shakespeare at Dublin’s Theatre Royal, Smock Alley in 17c-18c and all things Smock Alley promptbooks
Dr. Hilary Lennon @hilarylennon.bsky.social Literary historian, teacher of literature, working on a cultural history of Irish letter writing.
Ivana Bacik @ivanabacik.bsky.social TD for Dublin Bay South 🌹
Labour Party Leader | Long-term activist on #RepealThe8th, human rights & civil liberties.
Claire Hanna MP @clairehanna.bsky.social MP for South Belfast & a social democratic, anti-sectarian, new Ireland. Leader of @sdlp.Bluesky Like arts, sustainability, Europe. Mum of 3 great girls Claire.Hanna.MP@parliament.uk.
Gary Gannon TD @garygannontd.bsky.social Social Democrat TD for Dublin Central 💜
Sorcha Pollak @sorchapollak.bsky.social Irish Times journalist specialising in immigration.
Co-host of Irish Times In The News podcast.
sorcha.pollak@irishtimes.com 
Carolina Amador-Moreno @linguistonbike.bsky.social Professor of English Linguistics. Research on #IrishEnglish. Interested in #HistoricalSociolinguistics, #Pragmatics, #CorpusLinguistics, #DiscourseAnalysis, #Ecolinguistics.
Fintan O'Toole @fotoole.bsky.social Writer, Irish Times columnist, New York Review of Books contributor, We Don't Know Ourselves author.
Sam McBride @sjamcbride.bsky.social Northern Ireland Editor of the Belfast Telegraph & Sunday Independent. Author of Burned: The Inside Story of the Cash-for-Ash Scandal. Any views mine alone.
Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (LCIS) @lcis-leuven.bsky.social LCIS is a research centre which aims to foster, promote and disseminate research on Ireland in a European context. The manifold relations between Ireland and the rest of Europe are investigated by researchers from different disciplines.
Ulster Museum @ulstermuseum.org A place to inspire wonder, spark creativity, and explore our shared humanity.
🌍 Art, nature, and history to make sense of the past, present & future.
📍 Part of National Museums NI | 🔗 ulstermuseum.org
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 ✍️ 
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
Abbey Theatre - The National Theatre of Ireland @abbeytheatre.bsky.social Ireland's national theatre. Proudly funded by the Arts Council. RCN:20038984
🎭Up Next: ANIMALS, visions
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
Anne Stewart, Senior Curator of Art, Ulster Museum, Belfast @annemillarstewart.bsky.social 
Billy Shortall @billyshortall.bsky.social Art, history, theatre, and football. www.seeingireland.ie
Kate Antosik-Parsons @drartypants.bsky.social Post-Doc Research Fellow #HEA North-South #ReproCit SWSP @ TCD (http://ReproCit.Wordpress.com); Interdisciplinary Scholar & Art Historian; Feminist; she/her
Elisabeth Ansel @elisabethansel.bsky.social Art Historian at @uni-jena.de | Art & Politics, Irish & British Art, Transcultural Romanticism, Art & Blindness, Postcolonial & Gender Studies, Epistemic Images | Berlin, Jena
Michael Waldron @michaelwaldron.bsky.social curator @crawfordartgallery.bsky.social,
art historian, writer, cat dad
curious about collections, mad about modernism
my own views and musings
he/him 🏳️🌈🇪🇺🇮🇪
Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social Cultural historian. Associate Professor, School of History & Geography, University of Limerick. Current book project -the development of Catholic architecture in Ireland, 1780s-1950s. #CeaseFireInGaza https://pure.ul.ie/en/persons/niamh-nicghabhann-coleman
Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review @studiesirishreview.bsky.social Studies is a cultural journal of the Irish Jesuit province, founded and in continuous publication since 1912. It examines Irish social, political, cultural and economic affairs.
www.studiesirishreview.ie
Instagram: @studiesirishreview
Journal of Disappearance Studies @jdsjournal.bsky.social The Journal of Disappearance Studies focuses on the collective dimensions of human disappearance, especially enforced disappearance. 1st issue publishing in 2025
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/jds
Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies @krocinstitute.bsky.social Focused on understanding the causes of violent conflict and strategies for building peace. Part of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.
(THIS IS A PLACEHOLDER ACCOUNT AND CURRENTLY INACTIVE)
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.
An tOllamh Brian Ó Broin @brianeanna.bsky.social Ollamh le Teangeolaíocht agus Litríocht, WPUNJ
Professor of Linguistics and Literature, WPUNJ
Brian Ó Raghallaigh @oraghalb.bsky.social Lecturer DCU. PI Logainm. Co-PI Decoding Hidden Heritages.
Brian rhymes with Cian :)
Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh @pomuirch.bsky.social Àrd-òraidiche | Senior Lecturer @ University of Edinburgh | Historical (sometimes socio-)linguistics of Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx | manuscripts and literature | dialectology | Gaelic Caribbean | Maigh Eoch #siaradcymraeg
Brendan Kane @brendankanect.bsky.social Historian of early modern Ireland and England; part of léamh.org team (Learn Early Modern Irish); co-director of Democracy and Dialogues at UConn Dodd Human Rights Impact 
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)
Irish Literary Society @irishlitsoc.bsky.social Established in London in 1892 and meeting since. Founders: Yeats and other leaders of the Literary Revival. Open to all, come along. Tá fáilte roimh chách!
International Yeats Society @intyeatssociety.bsky.social The International Yeats Society unites scholars, students, and readers of W.B. Yeats from around the world. Become a member today!
https://internationalyeatssociety.org/
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.
MacGill Summer School @macgillschool.bsky.social The MacGill Summer School is Ireland's international forum for thought leaders to discuss the critical issues facing our world, in association with @NotreDame. July 23rd-25th 2026. #MacGill26
www.macgillsummerschool.com
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.
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
Anelise Hanson Shrout @anelisehshrout.bsky.social #DH, digital historian, data humanist. #Philanthropy, #Atlantic, Ireland, North America. From NJ. On occupied Wabanaki land. Opinions mine. She/her. Pro-worker.
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
Damian Shiels @irishacw.bsky.social Historian & Archaeologist.
Website: https://shielsheritage.com
Celtic FC & FF Jaro
Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com History Lecturer, Carnegie Mellon University // President, American Conference for Irish Studies @acirishstudies.bsky.social
Current research: Capitalism and Irish nationalism
Old research: aidanbeatty.com/books/
Marion McGarry @marionmcgarry.bsky.social Irish heritage, folklore, vernacular architecture and landscape. Author of books. Contributor to RTE Brainstorm. Lecturer ATU. Views my own.
https://www.rte.ie/author/1241485-marion-mcgarry/
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
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!
Karol Mullaney-Dignam @historiankarol.bsky.social ▪︎ Cultural, Social, Public Historian
▪︎ Associate Professor @ulhistory.bsky.social
▪︎ Ireland 🇮🇪
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
Aran Ward Sell @aranws.bsky.social Contemporary Irish lit, modernism, weird fic, environmental lit. "Streams of Damaged Consciousness" @syracuseup.bsky.social 2027.
Writer & critic. Music: Writhe & Succumb, Prophet Rossi. Cite as Ward Sell, not Sell.
Pauric Dempsey @pauricdempsey.bsky.social co-director www.Arinsproject.com; Dublin Director of irishstudies.nd.edu at nd.edu; Member of the MacGillSummerSchool.com Programme Committee 2025
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
Robert O'Sullivan @rosulli.bsky.social British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Oxford and Jesus College
Historian of Immigration, Race and Nationalism in 19th Century USA.
Finishing book on Irish-American views on imperialism and anti-slavery 1840-1865- C Chanté Mouton Kinyon @chantemk.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English at Notre Dame
National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social Ireland’s premier cultural institution and home to the greatest collection of Irish heritage, culture and history. Free admission.
Lia Brazil @liabrazil.bsky.social Leverhulme Fellow, Uni of Manchester, on sexual violence and humanitarian actors. Interested in histories of international law, humanitarianism and imperialism.
Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann @poetryireland.bsky.social Connecting Poetry and People. Proudly funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland National Lottery Funding. www.poetryireland.ie
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 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/
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
Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh OMN | School of Celtic Studies MU @ceilteachomn.bsky.social Tá Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge, Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge, Lárionad na Gaeilge, agus Oidhreacht Chultúrtha na hÉireann sa Scoil.
The School contains the Department of Early Irish, Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge, Lárionad na Gaeilge and Irish Cultural Heritage.
UCD Scoil na Gaeilge, an Léinn Cheiltigh agus an Bhéaloidis @ucdscoilglcb.bsky.social UCD School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore
Shelley Deane @shelleydeane.bsky.social 
Emma Murphy @emmamurphy.bsky.social Assistant professor, Keough School, University of Notre Dame. Researching transitional justice, agonistic peace, gender, identity, politics of divided societies. she/her
Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies @usihs.bsky.social Promoting Irish History in Ulster since 1936.
https://usihs36.com/
School of Irish Studies, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec @canadianirish.bsky.social Learn about contemporary world issues through the lens of Ireland & the Irish in this multidisciplinary program in Montréal. Major, minor, double-major, certificate & graduate programs offered with unique funding opportunities & research in Ireland.
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
British Association for Irish Studies (BAIS) @bairishstudies.bsky.social BAIS is the national network for those with an interest in the study of Ireland. Posts by our comms team and council members.
https://irishstudies.co.uk/