King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social Ex-Interim Chair. Free puns. Historian. Books: Slave Country, Beyond Freedom's Reach. More: https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RXHCAA4/adam-rothman
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Julia Boechat @juliaboechat.bsky.social PhD Candidate @historicalstudies.bsky.social researching Soviet #BookHistory | Bibliography Editor @sharpnews.bsky.social | from 🇧🇷 lived in 🇮🇹🇧🇾🇦🇹🇸🇪🇩🇪| Passionate about books, traveling and swing dancing
(she / her)
@jamooremoody.bsky.social @jamooremoody.bsky.social NHS worker, Belfast. Mum. European/Irish 🇪🇺 ☘️Hoping for a calmer, kinder world for all. Judge a government on how they look after their poor, sick and elderly. 🧐 #equality #nobillionaires
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com Belfast writer. He/him. NUJ. I mostly moan about the media, politics & Arsenal. "Big beast transgender activist" [The Telegraph].
The Trans Agenda [on a break] reports on anti-trans media coverage in UK papers, subscribe here transagenda.info
Ben Rogers @brogers1721.bsky.social Research Fellow at The History Of Parliament Trust | House of Lords (1660-1832)
Dilek Ozturk @dilekozturk.bsky.social Istanbul Technical University/Postdoctoral Research Fellow at School of English, Trinity College Dublin.
Contemporary Irish Drama, theories of space and place ❤️
Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social Critical histories of science and medicine, science studies, postcolonial endeavours. New book on modern excrementalities: Spectacles of Waste (Polity). Writing mostly on disease ecologies and planetary health now. Living on Wangal country.
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Melissa Mark, PhD @1birdnerd.bsky.social Scientist, Environmental Non profit Leadership, Ornithologist, working from social justice and equity frameworks.
Dr Edwin Coomasaru @ecoomasaru.bsky.social Historian of modern and contemporary British, Irish, and Sri Lankan art. Research on gender, sexuality, race, empire, and ecology.
William Orpen @williamorpen.bsky.social Fan account of William Orpen, an Irish artist who worked mainly in London.
1878-1931
Automated thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social I was that @theirishfor guy on Twitter.
"Calling 353" on @thejournal.ie
Author of Motherfoclóir & Craic Baby. He/Him. Wink in bio 😉
Kiran Mehta @kiranmehta.bsky.social Historian researching prison labour and citizenship in Britain & British Empire, 1750-1895. Leverhulme ECF & University of Leicester.
ERIN Sorbonne Nouvelle @erin-paris3.bsky.social Centre de recherche en Études et Recherches Irlandaises et Nord-irlandaises de la Sorbonne Nouvelle / Centre for Irish Studies @sorbonnenouvelle.bsky.social
https://www.youtube.com/@IRISHTHURSDAYAIREIRLANDESEM
Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social Ireland's premier review of intellectual inquiry for two decades. Published quarterly (www.drb.ie), entire archive since 2007 available. Everything on totally free access but donations of course welcome to keep us going.
Jonathan Boff @jfb1066.bsky.social Military Historian. Author, ‘The Age of Mammon and Mars: Money and War in the Twentieth Century’ (OUP, March 2027). IEconomic Statecraft; Strategy; Money.
Author of 2 award-winning books on the First World War. Professor at University of Birmingham.
Thomas Leahy @thomasdmleahy.bsky.social Senior Lecturer British/Irish Politics & Contemporary History, Cardiff Uni. Research Irish Republicanism, Irish Gov & conflict legacy. Also have RR Multiple Sclerosis and Cardiff/Vale MS Society group organiser. Mavenclad since 2025. Views own.
Kathryn Laing @kslaing.bsky.social Co-founder and curator of the Irish Women’s Writing Network
Maggie Gaffney @mghistorical.com Family and local historian: https://mghistorical.com Web geek. Traveller. Gamer. Perpetual student. Wellington, NZ. Voyage of the Mermaid to NZ project: https://mermaid1864.org iwiKiwi blog: https://www.iwikiwi.com/
Lauren Jean @laurenjean1693.bsky.social PhD in Irish History attempting to pivot to academic librarianship. Research on social capital, honor, shame, and gender in Gaelic Ireland. DC based for the moment.
Wolfson History Prize @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social The #WolfsonHistoryPrize is the most prestigious history writing prize in the UK.
LJMU History @ljmuhistory.bsky.social The account of the History Department at Liverpool John Moores University. A small but lively modern history department situated in the heart of Liverpool. We teach and research modern history with a global outlook. https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/academic-uni
Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social Academic and climate activist, born 325 ppm, flight free since 2018. Fighting for a free press: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/760061 -- https://mediasovereignty.org/
Dr_F_Stewart (She/her) @drfstewart.bsky.social Sociologist of Religion: punk rock and anarchist subcultures; sXe punk; sound, music and orality; identity in Northern Ireland; sociology of disability; religion and popular culture. Implicit Religion.
An Taisce @antaisce.bsky.social An Taisce — the National Trust for Ireland
Heritage | Nature | Climate | Community
www.AnTaisce.org
Donations: https://www.antaisce.org/donate
Membership: https://membership.antaisce.org
For more: https://linktr.ee/AnTaisce
Registered Charity: 20006358
Elaine McGoff @elainemcgoff.bsky.social PhD. Head of Advocacy for An Taisce. Water floats my boat. 🚲 powered. Views are my own.
Ciaran McDonough @metamedievalist.bsky.social Postdoc on ‘Classical Influences and Irish Culture’ ERC project @clic-erc.bsky.social, Aarhus University
Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. I wrote Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025). Now working on MANUFACTURING LITERATURE and a few smaller projects. https://sarahbull.me/
Mairéad Nic Craith @maireadnc.bsky.social Irish, Gaeilgeoir, writer, academic, interested in folklore, nature and environmental humanities. Love reading, playing the piano, Tai ‘Chi
@acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social
Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social Policy economist, here for methods/cultural updates
Ex-Sheffield Methods Institute; U. Bristol; U. Manchester; HMT
Former V. Prof, Policy Institute, KCL
Honorary SL, U. Sheffield
Maigh Eo
Ag atosú
Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social Passionate about archives, archaeology and the medieval past.
Oliver Skånberg-Tippen @oskanberg.bsky.social Machine learning engineer, decarbonising the grid
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Reform Watch @reformwatch.org Reform Watch monitors Reform UK party officials, providing independent oversight to ensure accountability and transparency. https://www.reformwatch.org/
Tom Richmond @tom-richmond.com Education policy analyst. Host of 'Inside Your Ed' podcast (www.insideyoured.com). Former teacher, think tank director and government advisor. Follow my work here: https://linktr.ee/tomrichmond
Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social Journalist at Ars Technica focused on deep tech reporting. Also keen on history and climate issues. On Signal at sciencehsu.22
Frank McDonald @frankmcdonald60.bsky.social Former Irish Times Environment Editor and author of several books, including A Little History of the Future of Dublin. Interests include climate, housing, architecture, politics and Palestine.
Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.
On Humans Podcast @ilarimakela.bsky.social Human origins | Global history | Econ history | Anthropology | Archaeology
Covering the story of humanity, from the evolution of apes to the making of the modern economy.
Posting as Ilari Mäkelä, host of On Humans.
https://onhumans.substack.com/about
Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social Politics Professor, University of Manchester. Sky News Elections Analyst
Author of "The British General Election of 2024" & "Brexitland". All takes are mine only.
"The Swingometer", is here: https://swingometer.substack.com/
https://www.robertford.net/
The Statutes Project @statutes.bsky.social Opening up Historic British Law and Legislation and digitally deforming it
Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social Project directors: Aidan O'Sullivan & Brendan O'Neill, Taighde Éireann/Research Ireland COALESCE project; UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture; TII Archaeology; NMI Dept Antiquities & NMI Education; AMS Ltd
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
Tom Scriven @pigsmeat.bsky.social Historian of C19th politics, Chartism, socialism, Radicalism. Currently working on working-class Radical ideas about chattel slavery and wages-slavery. Bye-Fellow at Homerton College Cambridge.
Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social Nature, land, food
On windy Achill island 🏝️
John Walsh @nuachainteoir.bsky.social Sociolinguist at University of Galway:
language policy, Gaeilge, Cymraeg, language revitalisation, multilingualism, media, archives, politics. Posts/reposts in GA/CY/ES/CA/GL/EN. See @pirate.ie for radio history project.
Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social Writer of short story collections Multitudes, Intimacies, Openings, Devotions and novels inc. These Days. Regular masterclass series at Faber Academy.
Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social History Prof @ Durham University | Historian of Britain and the Atlantic world | w/ special interests in the global history of science, medicine and technology (including AI).
Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social Historian of UK and ROI politics and political economy. Senior Lecturer at QMUL and Deputy Director of Mile End Institute (https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/staff/profiles/murphycolm.html). Book on Labour and 'modernisation' (https://tinyurl.com/37tzatvk).
Emma Blackman @emma-blackman.bsky.social Finding my love of Northern Irish history.
Current focus: protesting women in Armagh Gaol in 1980-1
Juggling demands from two mini-me’s alongside
@ijhs.bsky.social @ijhs.bsky.social
@dmuhistory.bsky.social @dmuhistory.bsky.social The account of the History team at De Montfort University, Leicester.
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) 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
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
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irishstudies.bsky.social @irishstudies.bsky.social Unsettling Irish Studies Program at Saint Mary's University, Kjipuktuk (Halifax). Landback, diaspora, decolonialism, critical race, critical terrorism, queer & crip, class and gender abolition, psychoanalysis, politics, Irish language.
Northern Ireland Moving Image Archive @digitalfilmarchive.eurosky.social A repository of moving image made in and about Ulster and Northern Ireland.
Over 13000 films going back to 1897 including broadcast media, home movies, independent film and much more.
www.digitalfilmarchive.net
Sarah Roddy @seroddy.bsky.social Social historian of modern Ireland based at Maynooth University.
Dr Duncan Berryman @dberryman.bsky.social Medieval archaeologist
Editor of the Castle Studies Journal • Secretary of the Historic Farm Building Group • Vice President of the Ulster Archaeological Society
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.
Economic & Social History Society of Ireland @eshsi.bsky.social Promoting the study of economic and social history in Ireland since 1970.
www.eshsi.org
A Cat A Day @acataday.bsky.social from the archives of my cats lifes and sometimes guestcats from other countries while traveling, former cats: Gaston and Fantasia (brother and sister), then Clovis and Grisou. Right now Rosie (white, odd eye), Lucy (black and white) and Bruno (white grey)
Historic Southampton @historicalsoton.bsky.social I’m Russell and local history is my hobby.
Patrick Gleeson @papgleeson.bsky.social Archaeologist and Deputy Head of School Natural and Built Environment, Queen’s University Belfast. Munster fan, coffee enthusiast.
New book with FCP: Landscapes of Kingship in Early Medieval Ireland
https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/patrick-gleeson
QMCBS @qmcbs.bsky.social Queen Mary Centre for British Studies
Website being developed at: https://projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/
Dr Taylor Follett @taylorfollett.bsky.social Tutor & Occasional Lecturer in English @ UCD
Contemporary Irish literature, trans novels, and general tomfoolery
He/him/sé
Connal Parr @parrconnal.bsky.social Associate Prof in History, Northumbria University
Amy Woodson-Boulton @amywb.bsky.social History prof at LMU in LA, CA: author of Transformative Beauty, working on museums, anthropology, art, & empire. I teach about these & global environmental history. Activist for reality + democracy—& against climate change + single-use plastics + GenAI
Benjamin Casey @benjamin-casey.bsky.social PhD candidate @Maynooth University - Picturing the Irish Professions, 1760-1830
Donie O’Sullivan @donie.bsky.social CNN Senior Correspondent
www.instagram.com/doniecnn/
Long Nineteenth-Century Network @ Manchester Met @l19cmanmet.bsky.social Showcases research in long nineteenth-century studies. Housed in the School of English @ Manchester Metropolitan University.
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
ihta_ria.bsky.social @ihtaria.bsky.social The IHTA is a research programme of the Royal Irish Academy & produces historic atlases of towns on the island of Ireland from earliest times to 1900
Go deeper: https://www.ria.ie/research-programmes/irish-historic-towns-atlas//
Glenn @glennvotesblue.bsky.social I Didn’t vote for the 🍊Felon Pedophile. 💯 ANTIFA , Maine🦞 Social Democrat, we’re all immigrants, MAGA is a cult, Oligarchs are destroying Democracy and our quality of life. Social worker, ASL 🤟 is my second language, I work with the Deaf community.
@clairemcnulty.bsky.social @clairemcnulty.bsky.social
Shane Lynn @shane-lynn.bsky.social Historian of the global Irish diaspora. Assistant Professor, McMaster University.
Author, Ireland's Opportunity: Global Irish Nationalism and the South African War (NYU Press, 2025)
https://experts.mcmaster.ca/people/lynns2
Alcohol Action Ireland @alcoholireland.ie The national independent advocate for reducing alcohol harm. Host of 'Alcohol Uncovered’ podcast. CHY: 15342. Reg Charity No: 20052713. Media query: 0879950186
https://alcoholireland.ie/
Irish Family History Society @ifhs.bsky.social The Irish Family History Society (IFHS) is a voluntary non-profit making organisation, established in 1984. We are based in Ireland, but open to anyone who is interested in looking to trace their Irish roots, wherever in the world they are based.
@mellonmigration.bsky.social @mellonmigration.bsky.social Specialist expertise in the story of the migration of the peoples of the island of Ireland across the globe.
https://linktr.ee/MellonCentreMigrationStudies
Dr Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social New here: Historian of 18th-century politics, Empire, and ideas | Edmund Burke | Whig culture.
Think tanker, Demos | Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen | Adviser, House of Lords.
Words: Engelsberg Ideas, The Critic, The London Magazine.
Emily Jane Rothwell 🖤🌸🖋️ @emjanerothwell.bsky.social PhD candidate/historian/writer•♥️ history+art history, literary childhoods, intellectual pasts, books, prints, myths, maps, fairy tales, old sites, the cozy+kind• Canadian🍁 #ElbowsUp• #GoSensGo #BlueJays50• (my other account is hacked)•♥️ kindness🍃•
Martin Tyrrell @outsidewriters.bsky.social Author of From Class War to Cold War: Orwell’s Enduring Socialism, forthcoming from Athabasca University Press, Fall
2026. Editorial Board, George Orwell Studies. Joint editor of forthcoming (2026) reissue of Mairin Mitchell’s Storm Over Spain.
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Carnegie Oldpark Library @carnegieoldpark.bsky.social An abandoned heritage asset amongst the jagged peace lines of North Belfast - support our #BackToLife efforts as Carnegie Centre for Weaving!
Gareth Mulvenna @gmulvenna.bsky.social 🔍 Troubles researcher
✍️ Author of Tartan Gangs and Paramilitaries (Liverpool University Press, 2016); working on a new book due out in 2028
🎙️ Co-host of Shrapnel podcast
📩 Updates on my research and writing on the Troubles
The Stinging Fly @stingingfly.bsky.social Literary magazine established in 1997 to publish & promote the very best new Irish and international writing. Stinging Fly Press was launched in 2005. Summer 2026 Issue #54 available to buy now:
https://stingingfly.org/product/summer-2026/
The Dublin Review @thedublinreview.bsky.social Essays, memoir, reportage, short fiction.
https://linktr.ee/thedublinreview
thedublinreview.com
Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie Author of Nature’s Acre. Founder, Gardeningwell.ie — wildlife gardening in Ireland (Stamullen, Co Meath).
Walled garden + school/community projects.
Peat-free, pesticide-free. Native plants, pollinators. Media: gardeningwell.ie/press/media
Patrick Mulroe @paddymulroe.bsky.social Teacher. PhD in Politics. Research interests: Political violence, the Troubles & civic education.
@stephendouds.bsky.social @stephendouds.bsky.social Here at last • Media prof (ex-BBC) • Art/Culture • Politics • Ormeau
Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social Swimming in Glasgow 1850-1950 PhD http://stir.ac.uk/people/1844166 Archives, heritage, history, books, Mongolia, China, movies. She/her http://lucyjanes.blog
Emily Robinson @emilyrobinson.bsky.social History, politics. Usually modern Britain. Currently taking a detour to the lost medieval island of Ravenser Odd (and, relatedly, Humberside). Professor at Sussex.
@lucynoakes1.bsky.social @lucynoakes1.bsky.social Historian. University of Essex, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies. President of the Royal Historical Society
Mary @maryrca22.bsky.social She/her. Mom. LGBTQ+ rights. Women's rights.
Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie.
https://eleanorjanega.com/
Elaine Doyle @laineydoyle.bsky.social I read things, I write things; often found in the sea, sometimes found splashing about with paints. Not usually at the same time.
Mark @markglover.bsky.social Heritage, mental health, media, and community development. Trustee of Belfast’s Oldest Charity @cliftonhousebelfast Belfast Charitable Society
Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social Tan Smith.
Political Commentary.
Pisstaking.
Satire.
Dystopia Warner.
Writer.
Hate Tories? You’ll love me.
Woke as fuck.
YouTube https://youtube.com/@supertanskiii?si=4VUI_s-l7bfc1obT
You can shout a coffee here https://ko-fi.com/supertanskiii
Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social Irish writer. Leonard and Hungry Paul, Panenka, Ghost Mountain. Richard Heart Julianne out in summer 2027
www.ronanhession.com
Music as Mumblin' Deaf Ro https://mumblindeafro.bandcamp.com/