Clare Moriarty @quiteclare.bsky.social History and Philosophy of Maths and Science, and philosophy of parenthood. Mariah-Carey/Denis-Irwin-admirer. UCD Philosophy & National Library of Ireland
-she- 🏊♀️
Ramblings &c. : claremoriarty.com
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social HISTORIAN of 19th CENTURY REFORM CROWDS
Focus on mismatch between crowd size, reputation & power
Warwick Thesis: bit.ly/-PhD
Working on chapter in 2026 Parl. Hist. Sp. Ed.
& Editing Routledge Collection on 19th C. Sedition
Academic profile: bit.ly/ds-1-
Dublin Book Fair @dublinbookfair.bsky.social Next fair: Sun 6th Sept 2026,
St Thérèse Parish Centre, Mount Merrion.
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/
Prof Linda Connolly @lindaconnolly.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, author
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 🏳️🌈🇪🇺🇮🇪
Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social Historian of 19th-20th c Ireland & the British Empire. Faculty at Marquette University (WI, USA). Researching national identity, empires, decolonization, popular culture, especially religion.
Centre for the Study of Religion, University of Galway @csrgalway.bsky.social The Centre for the Study of Religion was established in 2022 at the University of Galway. It aims to support interdisciplinary scholarship in this subject area within the University and to promote public engagement in Ireland and abroad.
Ruth Atherton @ruthatherton.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History at USW. Deputy Editor of Reformation & Renaissance Review. Interested in 16C apocalypticism, religion, and emotions. Mum to 2 rascals and 1 excitable spaniel.
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 -
William Sheehan @willsheehan.bsky.social Historian of Empire, War, and Crime. Passing interest in public policy and politics. A few books! May possibly like Sci-Fi.
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
The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social Theatre actor, bookstore connoisseur, autumn enthusiast, cat rescuer, educator, explorer of cobblestone streets, and defender of the Oxford comma.
Daniel Carey @danielmcarey.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher. Former journalist. Media history. Oral history. Currently researching the (Catholic) Standard newspaper (1928-1978). Funded through the Research Ireland Government of Ireland scheme. Based at Dublin City University
Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social Professor of Modern Irish literature and program director, Le Moyne College. Irish lit/trauma scholar, mom, wife, friend, ally, and former Dean (nobody’s perfect). Past President of ACIS; current series editor, Irish line, Syracuse UP.
Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social Environmental historian, Trinity College Dublin. Author of "Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy" (CUP 2025) & "Als das Dorf noch Zukunft war: Agrarismus und Expertise zwischen Zarenreich und Sowjetunion" (Böhlau 2014).
Aoife O'Leary McNeice @aoifeolearymcneice.bsky.social History postdoc at University of Galway/Ollscoil na Gaillimhe
Working on a more-than-human history of hydro-electricity on the Rivers Lee, Erne & Liffey. Finishing a book on global giving & the Irish Famine.
she/they
https://aoifeolearymcneice.com/
Claire Dagger @clairedagger.bsky.social Historian with interests in;
Women’s & Gender History 🙋🏻♀️
Family History and Genealogy 🌳
Irish History
Cultural History also…..
Part time runner, full time talker ☕️
Institute of Historical Research Wohl Library @ihrlibrary.bsky.social The Wohl Library of the @ihr.bsky.social is a national resource for everyone researching or writing history. Membership is free to everyone and we are an open access, reference library holding over 200,000 books and journals.
@acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social
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.
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.
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
Huw Bennett @bennetthuw.bsky.social Professor of International Relations, writing on British defence since 1945. In south Wales, an archive or a military museum. Permanently grateful to archivists and librarians.
Dr Caitlín Smith @caitlin-smith.bsky.social PhD from Ulster University | Historian of women, gender and medicine
Researching maternal and infant welfare in Belfast during the 20th century
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.
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
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
Eoin McLaughlin @eoinaldo.substack.com Econ Prof at Heriot-Watt University, interested in #econhist, #landreform, #microfinance, #sustainabledevelopment, #health, #nufc & #Seinfeld (not necessarily in that order)
www.eoinmclaughlin.ie
Seán Ó Hoireabhárd @hoireabhard.bsky.social Historian of Medieval Ireland
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
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
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
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
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
Alexia Yates @ayates.bsky.social Historian of modern Europe, global urban history, history of economic life. Florence/Manchester/Paris/Toronto/St.John’s.
Beth Kitson @drbethkitson.bsky.social Research Associate, Bennett School of Public Policy, University of Cambridge.
Public Policy | Economics and History | Knowledge and Engagement
Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social director @CREMS-York.bsky.social ~ advocacy & public engagement @royalhistsoc.org ~ writing on early modern religion & culture: music, language, sound, travel, women ~ reviews editor: sonancejournal.com ~ views mine ~ www.york.ac.uk/history/people/murphy/
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)
Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
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
Thomas Paster @thomas77.bsky.social Associate Professor in Business and Public Policy at Roskilde University
https://thomaspaster.wordpress.com/
Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social We are Enterprise and Society: the International Journal of Business History.
Shaun McDaid @drshaunmcd.bsky.social Criminology lecturer. Research interests in history of violence, terrorism/extremism (including Ireland/Northern Ireland), especially far-right. Former Hillsborough independent panel researcher.
Economic & Social History Society of Ireland @eshsi.bsky.social Promoting the study of economic and social history in Ireland since 1970.
www.eshsi.org
Chris Colvin @cliochris.bsky.social Reader in Economic History, Queen's University Belfast @quceh.bsky.social | Associate Editor, Business History @businesshistory.bsky.social | Website: https://chris-colvin.github.io/
QMCBS @qmcbs.bsky.social Queen Mary Centre for British Studies
Website being developed at: https://projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/
Aidan Mullett @aidanmullett.bsky.social Historian of Modern Irish History. Particularly interested in religious and cultural history.
Martin Hewitt @vicmanch.bsky.social Victorianist. President of the British Association for Victorian Studies, and Editor of the Curran Index for the RSVP. Author: Darwinism's Generations. The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859-1909 (2024). Check me out at profmartinhewitt.com
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.
Benjamin Casey @benjamin-casey.bsky.social PhD candidate @Maynooth University - Picturing the Irish Professions, 1760-1830
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
Mary Breen @mabreen.bsky.social 19th century history. Author of ‘Waterford port & harbour:1815-1842’ (Four Courts Press,2019). Researching the Fanning Institution (1843-1970), Waterford. #institutions
Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies @ndirishstudies.bsky.social Research institute dedicated to the study and understanding of Irish culture — on the island of Ireland and around the world. Part of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.
@keoughglobalnd.bsky.social
@notredame.bsky.social
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.
Mary Mullen @marymullen.bsky.social Yesterday's pickles
Dr Diane Ranyard @dianeranyard.bsky.social Historian researching marriage & divorce @ Northumbria Law School working on ESRC funded @divorcehistory.bsky.social. Interested in social, cultural, legal, gender, class & emotions history
Maria Mulvany @mariamulvany.bsky.social Assistant Prof in UCD School of English, Drama, Film & Creative Writing.
Trying to write things!
she/her
(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
Kristina Decker @kristinadecker.bsky.social 📚Eighteenth-Centuryist
🖋️18thC history, literature, material culture & country house studies, animal histories
✉️ Secretary, Women’s History Association of Ireland
🏠 Ireland
Gwyn McClelland @gwynjapan.bsky.social 🐨 oral historian of Asia and 🗾Japan. Born🇵🇬Raised🇧🇩 Works@UNE Anaiwan Country. Working on a Goto Islands oral history. Lives Wurundjeri/Kulin Nation.
Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki 2020; Aromas of Asia 2023. 🏀 🏃♂️
Marc Mulholland @marcmulholland.bsky.social - U Ultán Gillen @ultan1793.bsky.social Interested in counter-revolution, but also Wolfe Tone. And Robespierre
Anthony @noluckst2.bsky.social 🇫🇷🇬🇧
Toulousain/Godon
PhD student at Homerton College, Cambridge
(Working) Thesis Title:
'The Varying shore o’ th’ world’: Differing purposes of classical exempla in early modern French and English literature'
Cardiff University Alum '19
UCL Alum '20
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.
Catherine McCullough FRHistS @catherinemuseum.bsky.social Museums, maps, social history are my thing! PhD Researcher at Ulster University: EU-funded cross-border museum projects in Ireland. Author: Irish Historic Towns Atlas, Armagh. Sailor and 'enthusiastic maverick' (apparently). Life interrupted/Long Covid
Donal @donalhist.bsky.social Irish History Postgrad 🇮🇪
☕️Research&Coffee☕️ @drjbw.bsky.social Social scientist. ❤️s coffee, F1, 80s🎵, UK crime dramas, podcasts. Academic focus on history, policing, & conflict in U.S. & N. Ireland; also International Humanitarian Law. Posts my own personal & professional ideas; not connected to any employer.
She/her
Irish Historical Studies @irishhiststudies.bsky.social The official page of the joint journal of the Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies and the Irish Historical Society. Published by Cambridge University Press.
Jack Crangle @jcrangle.bsky.social Lecturer in Contemporary British History at Queen’s University Belfast.
Historian of migration and diversity in Britain and Ireland.
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/
Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies @usihs.bsky.social Promoting Irish History in Ulster since 1936.
https://usihs36.com/
Orla Egan she/her @orlaegan1.bsky.social Founder Cork LGBT Archive http://corklgbtarchive.com
Author: Diary Of An Activist http://diaryofanactivist.com
and Queer Republic of Cork Books
Director: LOAFERS Documentary and I'm Here, I'm Home, I'm Happy documentary
Armin Ganguly @arminganguly.bsky.social German-Brit rebel made in the 60s, RIBA architect & designer by trade. Mentor & writer by passion. Building dreams, breaking pencils. Living proof that realistic optimism is structurally sound 👍 Motto: 👉 #alwayslookup
Ruth Karras @rmkarras.bsky.social Lecky Professor of History, Trinity College Dublin. She/her. Medievalist, grandparent, knitter, immigrant. Arsenal. 🐕
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/
Trevor Joyce @trevorjoyce.bsky.social 'Poet' from central Dublin, now Shandon, Cork.
Co-founder New Writers' Press, Dublin & SoundEye Festival, Cork.
Language, climate, history, art, music, travel, China, hist. of science, hist. of photography.
Two cats, many thousand books, small garden.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Torkil Sørensen @torkilsoerensen.bsky.social Historian interested in #Worldcommunism esp. in Germany and Denmark.
Danish Refugee Council 1986-2000. Nordic Council 2000-2017.
(Re-)posting about history-in-the-making and #history. Now and then photos. Posting in (not perfect) English / German / Danish
HSTM Network Ireland #HSTM @hstmnetworkireland.bsky.social History of Science, Technology & Medicine Network Ireland fosters research, teaching & engagement in #HistMed #HistSci #HistTech #HistSTM #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HSTM #MedHums #Science #Tech #Medicine #Health #Speirgorm Managed by @chendirl.bsky.social
Richard Gallagher @richardgallagher.bsky.social Sinn Féin. PhD from Queens University Belfast. Book: Screening Ulster: Cinema and the Unionists. Donegal. Email: drrichiegallagher@gmail.com
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
Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social Historian of economic life, emotions & the everyday. Living in Copenhagen, going swimming, being vegan.
Stefan Hanß @stefanhanss.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester
#materialculture #globalhistory #earlymodern
Dragoman’s Self @routledgehistory.bsky.social
In-Between Textiles @amsterdamupress.bsky.social
@uomhistdept.bsky.social @bemccollective.bsky.social
Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955 (Liverpool University Press, April 2026)
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.
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.
Róisín Nic Cóil @roisinnc.bsky.social Surveyor of land and buildings. Churches. Local food. Gaeilge. Craft and creativity.
Michelle McCann, PhD. @mcgoffmccann.bsky.social Professional Historian - Researching historical crime and murder in 19th and early 20th c.; The Bath Estate (1750-1900) and artist and inventor John Bedell Stanford MacIlwaine (1857-1945) - looking for an AMAZING new opportunity in research :)- P Peter Gatrell @pwgatrell.bsky.social Historian - mainly researching refugee history in the 20c. … but it’s not just about refugees… oh, and still learning about what’s at stake then and now. Funded generously in the past by AHRC and Leverhulme Trust and enabled by UNHCR Records and Archives
@marinakts.bsky.social @marinakts.bsky.social Dark skies, forests, cats and dogs, rain and snow.
Kindness matters.
@horhpodcast.bsky.social @horhpodcast.bsky.social Hollywood or History? Unpack fact vs. fiction in film. Great for teachers, trivia buffs, and history fans. New episodes every other week.
Available on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube
https://youtube.com/@hollywoodorhistorypodcast?si=gNOPQUnVXde2_NZz
Dr Gillian Jack @drgillhistory.bsky.social Historian of women in late medieval/early mod Italy. Open University. Feminist. UCUCommons & NEC. She/her. Strong words; weak tea.
Book out in October: https://uolpress.co.uk/book/prostitution-repentance-and-social-welfare-in-renaissance-florence/
Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social Lecturer at Goldsmiths. Contemporary historian of British, US and global politics and culture. Writing a book on progressive politics, culture, and memory. Made in North London from working Cypriot parts. 🔴⚪️
Newsletter: https://academicbubble.substack.com
Zara @zarasaunders.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Australian Media, Gender & Cultural History | Researching print media representations of sexual assault | Reader 📖
Dr Aimée Fox @draefox.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in IR at University of St Andrews | Historian of war | Award-winning author | Series editor, War & the British Empire (McGill-Queen's UP) | I research the First World War, military innovation & learning, and gossip in the armed forces.
Dr Jo Edge 🏴 @hagenilda.bsky.social historian of medicine & the occult 1200–1700 | FRHistS | palaeography & editing | convenor @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social | neurodivergent | co-chair UCU Anticasualisation Committee | @ucucommons.org | https://joanneedge.co.uk | agent: @knifewitch.bsky.social
Edmond Smith @edmond-smith.bsky.social Historian of globalisation, capitalism and economic cultures | Professor at The University of Manchester | Director of the Centre for Economic Cultures