@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
Mark Pote @marksky86.bsky.social Medievalist specialising in Irish genealogy & manuscript tradition.
Postdoc Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (from 2026)
PhD Ulster University (2021-2025)
BA & MA University College Cork (2017-2021)
Stephen R. Millar @stephenrmillar.bsky.social Anthropologist in Belfast working on music, power, and conflict. 🚨NEW BOOK: ‘Performing Paramilitarism: Loyalist Songs, Conflict, and Culture War in Northern Ireland’.
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.
Sarah Roddy @seroddy.bsky.social Social historian of modern Ireland based at Maynooth University.
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
Lynsey Black @lynseyblack.bsky.social Doing history, gender, punishment, postcolonialism, borders at Maynooth University. PI on Research Ireland Laureate Award, CONSPACE - Contested Space: Penal Nationalism & the Northern Ireland Border.
☕️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
Seán Ó Hoireabhárd @hoireabhard.bsky.social Historian of Medieval Ireland
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
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.
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.
Oral History Network Ireland @oralhistoryie.bsky.social OHNI is an organisation with charitable status that aims to promote oral history in Ireland and to provide a network and training for oral historians.
Sam Agbamu @samagbamu.bsky.social Latin literature and Roman history. Problematically keen on the humanist tradition. he/him
Bexley Archives @bexleyarchives.bsky.social Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre holds historic materials for the London Borough of Bexley
Dr Jérémy Filet @drjeremyfilet.bsky.social Lecturing @manmetuni.bsky.social
Grand Tourist myself and Jacobite scholar.
FrHist/ SFHEA / PGCert
"The Jacobites and the Grand Tour" now out with Manchester University Press:
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179920/
🏳️🌈 & good theatre!
Catriona Mackie @cmackie.bsky.social Lecturer in History & Heritage at University College Isle of Man. Doesn't fit neatly into disciplinary boxes.
Jordan S. Sly @jordanssly.bsky.social Historian of Seventeenth Century Europe and the Global Atlantic. My specialisations are the intellectual, religious, and cultural histories of Stuart Britain and the Interregnum with a primary focus on the 1650s.
"Dulce bellum inexpertis" -Erasmus
Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social Writes about old, unhappy, far-off things. Late museum curator. Shows polite interest. FRHistS. https://simonjoneshistorian.com/
Dr Robyn Atcheson @robyninpink.bsky.social Historian & history communicator - modern, social, medical, women's & Irish.
Feminist. Headstrong, obstinate girl.
Probably wearing pink.
Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social Historian of medicine and gender in modern Ireland. Professor at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. I work on #histmed, reproductive health, and activism. Cat lover. 🐈 she/her. Personal views. 🇮🇪🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/proflaurakelly/
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.
Keira Gomez @keiragomez.bsky.social Birkbeck PhD student - The Narrative Inheritance of the "Ceasefire Babies": An Oral History of Conflict-Era Family Storytelling in Northern Ireland
Paul O'Leary @paulaber.bsky.social Hanesydd / Historian. Emeritus prof.
Interested in ideas and practices of freedom in 19th century Atlantic world, transnational journalism, Wales, Ireland and France.
Co-edited Gender in Modern Welsh History (2023) with Drs Beth Jenkins and Stephanie Ward
Olwen Purdue @olwenpurdue.bsky.social Historian of the urban poor, children & welfare, migration, difficult public histories. Director, Centre for Public History Queen’s University Belfast . Happy in the forest with the pup or in front of the fire with a glass of something red
Trisha Ward @trishaward.bsky.social Derry woman, lover of language and books, my family and a dog. Interested in public services (esp. libraries) and politics
Síobhra Aiken @siobhraaiken.bsky.social Léachtóir Sinsearach/ Senior Lecturer @ Ollscoil na Banríona, Queen's University Belfast. Member of Young Academy Ireland. Legacies of Irish revolution | modernist & contemporary Irish literature | ✍🏼📖 on urban Gaeltacht communities in US at turn of 20c
Brian Casey @briancasey123.bsky.social Historian of the Victorian countryside, agrarian radicalism. and 20th Century global Catholicism and female religious. Hon. Fellow Durham University Theology and Religion.
Kelly Fitzgerald @kellyfitzgerald.bsky.social 
araireland @araireland.bsky.social Official account for Archives and Records Association, Ireland. Cuntas oifigiúil Cumainn Cartlann agus Taifead, Éire.
Ireland / Northern Ireland
#IrishArchives #ExploreYourArchive #CuardaighDoChartlann
https://araireland.ie/
Paula Jones @paulamjones.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher, History with Genealogical Studies, University of Strathclyde; late 19th-early 20th century Irish urban fertility, population history, history of family. Grower of vegetables. Irregular painter. Domestic librarian.
Dr Carol Baraniuk @carolbaraniuk.bsky.social Writer and reader of Scottish and Irish literature, and of poetry and history generally. Also enjoy crime fiction with strong regional settings.
Looking to find a publisher for a 3 vol family saga set mainly in Scotland and Co Down
Matthías Aron Ólafsson @matthiasaolafsson.bsky.social Icelander in Ireland. PhD Candidate @historytcd.bsky.social and Fellow @tlrhub.bsky.social. Social and political history of global Scandinavia and the Nordic region. Researching governance and policymaking in the Danish Oldenburg Empire in the long 18th c.
History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
Niamh Howlin @niamhh.bsky.social Associate Professor, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin.
Researching legal history, legal professions and trials
Leanne McCormick @leannemccormick.bsky.social Professor of Modern History, Ulster University. Co-chair Truth Recovery Independent Panel. Bad Bridget Project | Queer NI.
Margaret O Sullivan @mudderofpearl.bsky.social MA in Local History. Interests Landed estate and 19th century Irish social history. PhD researcher MIC. Part time tutor MIC and UL.
John Brady @john-brady.bsky.social 
Jennifer McLaren @histmcjen.bsky.social School Archivist/Historian/Governance/Laughs
Foyle Local History @foylelocalhistory.bsky.social Local Historian. 
Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
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
Ciaran O'Neill @ciaranon.bsky.social Historian at TCD, interested in Ireland and Empire, Public History, and lots of other things. Co-lead for Trinity's Colonial Legacies. 
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)
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.- U Ultán Gillen @ultan1793.bsky.social Interested in counter-revolution, but also Wolfe Tone. And Robespierre
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.
National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social Sharing Ireland's stories through our unique collections/ Ag roinnt scéal na hÉireann tríd ár mbailiúcháin uathúla.
Explore our collections: https://www.nli.ie/collections/our-collections
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
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
Dr Gavin Hughes FRHistS FRGS @drgavinhughes.bsky.social Short misadventurer in archaeology, mischievous military historian, author, broadcaster, relentless miniature painter & collector. Follows cricket but doesn't understand it. Looks a little like Asterix 🙂 Rep @Pastpreservers; TCD, SDUC, NI, Wales, Co. Down!
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
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 ✍️ 
University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social University of Illinois Press / Publisher of scholarly and regional trade books and journals since 1918
Fingal O'Flahertie @fingaloflahertie.bsky.social Blogger - Free Irish eBooks - History Biography, Genealogy.
Built heritage, EU, rugby, photography, humour, cúpla focal, classical music, gardening. BSc (OU)
Gillian O'Brien @gillianobrien.bsky.social Professor of Public History. Author of 'The Darkness Echoing'. Public History/Museums/Heritage/Memory/Death/Dark Tourism/Spies/Nuns/ Board member Irish Museums Association
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social Associate Professor of eighteenth century Irish History, co- director Trinity Colonial Legacies Project. All views my own and not of those my employer.
Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social Institute of #irishstudies @liverpooluni.bsky.social: world-leading research & teaching in peace & conflict, women's studies, literature & history.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/irish-studies
Cormac Keenan @cormac-keenan.bsky.social PhD student at DCU researching the post-conflict lives of the dependants of the Irish Revolution
Mayo College of FET @mayocollegefet.bsky.social Mayo College of FET provides a range of full and part-time courses including QQI, ITEC, CIDESCO, BTEC and Apprenticeship courses. See our full list of options at www.mayocollege.ie.
Justin Carville @justinmcarville.bsky.social Photography Historian | Researcher | Writer | Academic | Public Sector Worker | The Ungovernable Eye | Currently writing on photography, racialization and Ireland | Values and Opinions my own
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
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
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
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/
Anastasios Vavalis @avavalis.bsky.social PhD student in early modern Irish history. Dublin-based. Researching 17th century Irish petitions. 
Stephen Scarth @stephenscarth.bsky.social Archivist, Historian, Family History Enthusiast, Media Contributor, Cardplayer, Magician, Explorer, Adventurer, Stargazer & other stuff. Views my own.
B. Cunningham @b7cunningham.bsky.social Historian of early modern Ireland, former librarian.
Dr Éimear O'Connor @artanddiaspora.bsky.social Art Historian, author, artist, gardener.
Into wildlife, plants, archaeology, music, glass & research. Biographer of Irish artist, Seán Keating (1889-1977). Hon.member of the RHA & RUA. Acting Director & Director of Collections @ NMI. All opinions my own.
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
Hannah Brown @hannahbrown98.bsky.social PhD Researcher - History of Polio Survivors Experiences in NI.
📍 Derry
Museum Guide @museumoffreederry
Social Media/PR @hstmnetworkireland
#FreePalestine 🇵🇸
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
@rebeccaoneill.bsky.social @rebeccaoneill.bsky.social Archivist at PRONI ~ ARA Ireland (araireland.bsky.social) Communications Officer ~ Opinions are my own ✨️
Museum of Medical Heritage, Trinity College Dublin @oldanatomytcd.bsky.social 
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
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
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.
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Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social Historian at MIC, Limerick, of women, men, children, emotion, death, violence, ghosts, cursing, folklore.
https://www.mic.ul.ie/staff/283-clodagh-tait
Derek Brauders @derekbrauders.eurosky.social Explorer of new horizons. Irish, EU, Retd Irish Military. Interests in politics, wine, photography, and really anything else of interest. On Mastodon, Threads, IG. Same name.
Ciara Nic Ionnraic PhD #Health #Research #SciComms @chendirl.bsky.social #Stillbirth #Perinatal #DeathStudies | #Grief #Bereavement | #Qualitative #SocialScience #Skystorian #Interdisciplinary | #EuroHistHealth Science Officer | #TCD #ASDS #IAPH #IHS #RHS #HSTM | #HistMed #History #MedHum #Maternity #Cillíní #DigitalHumanities
Hayley @hayleybrabazon.bsky.social Historian 📚
Conflicts & aftermaths
Professional overthinker ✨✨
Conor McCormick @conormccormick.bsky.social Academic lawyer at Queen’s University Belfast
abbysbender.bsky.social @abbysbender.bsky.social Teaching literature and Irish Studies at Sacred Heart University; writing about breastfeeding in Irish culture. Author of Israelites in Erin (Syracuse UP).
Doc Martin (Martin G Molony) @mgmolony.bsky.social Irish Academic (DCU), Genealogist & Puppeteer. Social Historian. Thurles native, living in Clontarf, Dublin.
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/
Fergal @fergalor.bsky.social Librarian at the National Library of Ireland, Literary and Historical Research, Psychedelia and the esoteric.
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….
Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social Irish 🇮🇪 / gender Historian, feminist, academic (UCD), lefty / 2 cat 🐈⬛ Mom / Research-gendered & sexual violence in the Irish revolutionary wars / afterlives of Irish revolutionary women / Irish sexualities / she/her / Dublin via north Kerry/ views mine
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/
Chris Cusack @fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social Reader | writer | teacher. Been there, done that, got the T. rex.🦖 Researching death, famine, and apocalypse. Irish Studies and beyond. Reviews books. Also writing about Moomins, because why not. Asst Prof at Radboud University, NL. He/him.
Dr. James Meighan @jkmeighan.bsky.social Lawyer and Historian (with a particular interest in legal and constitutional history)
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)
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Studia Celtica Posnaniensia @celticapoznan.bsky.social An international journal of Celtic Studies appearing once a year in paper and electronic format. Published by the Faculty of English/Adam Mickiewicz University
https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/scp
https://sciendo.com/journal/SCP
Tony Craig @tonycraig.bsky.social Associate Professor Modern History, Intelligence and Security, Diplomacy, Northern Ireland and Britain's End of Empire.
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!