Kristen Egan @kristeneganart.bsky.social full-time artist / part-time bagpiper
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Haunted Futures @hauntedfutures.bsky.social Haunted Futures Conference, University College Cork 29th โ 30th September 2026.
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbtโฌ | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
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Ellen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social Book history, disability studies, and digital humanities. Specialty in tactile reading. Certified braille transcriber. she/they. ocd & chronic pain & cane user.
Lisa D : Naturally Different @leeceedee.eurosky.social Freaky Deaky Arty Speaky : http://ayeaye.uk
Arts PhD researcher at LJMU. 'The Uncertain Human : Agency and the Technological Gaze'.
Side Hustle: Antiquarian Book Seller on ebay
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Neurodivergent Humanities Network @ndhumanities.bsky.social NDHums is a safe and generative research network and space that accomodates the diverse, individual needs of scholars working in the humanities | https://ndhumanities.com | Funded by the Wellcome Discovery Platform https://medhumsplatform.org |
Emma Weird Wiltshire @weird-wiltshire.bsky.social ๐ฒ๐ง๐ป Writer of strange & unusual tales. Ghosts, folklore & history from Wiltshire and beyond. Earth & nature lover. ๐ป๐ง๐ฒ โ www.weird-wiltshire.co.uk
Mรกirรฉad Casey @maireadcasey.bsky.social Research interests: horror, gender, genre, sexuality onscreen, representations of sexual violence, demon possession
Dr Maria Butler @mariabbutler.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at the Centre of Cultural Analytics, UCD. Other research interests include Irish studies, commercial fiction and literary activism
Ginevra Bianchini @bianchiniginevra.bsky.social PhD Student at Trinity College Dublin | Gender Studies | Critical Race Studies | Dog mum ๐ถ | LOTR enthusiast | (she/her) ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ | Funded by @researchireland.bsky.social
Dr Rebecca Williams @augustaquarius.bsky.social Associate Professor / Creative Industries R&I Lead @ University of South Wales. @fanstudies.bsky.social Board Member. Transmedia Tourism โข Theme Parks โข Disney โข Participatory Cultures โข Media Endings
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Dr. Melanie A Marotta @melanieamarotta.bsky.social Visiting Instructor, English at Georgia Southern University | Monograph: African American Female Heroes: 21st c YA Neo-Slave Narrative #upmiss | Researching YA and Women's Horror | VP of Carson McCullers Society
Prof Katherine Schofield ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฆ๐บ๐ช๐บ @katherineschof8.bsky.social Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk ๐ฆ๐ซ Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Immigrant. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofield
WitchLit Podcast @witchlitpod.bsky.social A place to talk about the craft of writing and writing the craft. Weekly conversations with witchcraft and occult authors. Main account: @vvitchtoria.bsky.social
White Rose Witching @wrwitching.bsky.social โจ Gay Hispanic hedge priest in MD
๐ Social justice necromancer
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Pippin Lenoir ๐ฆโ๐ป @pippinlenoir.bsky.social An aspiring author inspired by 18th-century Gothic literature, magical realism, and high fantasy. Horror cinephile. I like to go to abandoned places & ruins just to vibe. She/Her. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
Sara Hakim @sarahakim.bsky.social Inclusion / Anti-racism/equality | Marmite | She/Her | Mixed/Other | Immigrant | currently Director of @SofSIreland ๐ต๐ธ
UCD Archives @ucdarchives.bsky.social We curate private paper collections documenting the modern Irish State; UCD; and many elements of the Franciscan manuscript patrimony. www.ucd.ie/archives
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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social Author, editor, and teacher of creative writing, speculative fiction, and comics. Thinker of strange thoughts. Member of Cloudscape Comics. MFA in Creative Writing from UBC.
Emily Gale @sentimentemily.bsky.social Pop scholar. Writer. Educator. โMusic is life, and life is not a businessโ (Iggy Pop).
Dr. Maria DeBlassie @mdeblassie.bsky.social Award-winning mestiza author & professor. Bruja. Believer in everyday magic. Lover of bodice rippers, HEAs for all, spooky stuff & witchy business. she/her
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Chloรฉ Griffin @chlogriffin.bsky.social Art Historian, Tour Guide, Digital Engagement Coordinator at Crawford Art Gallery
Cork, Ireland
I read, I drink wine, I live with existential dread
Louise Hauberg Lindgaard ๐๏ธโจ @lhlindgaard.bsky.social Danish #earlymodern historian. #witchtrials | #digitalhumanities. One of the people behind HEX! Museum in Ribe. PhD fellow at University of Southern Denmark, researching the nobility's role and agency in Danish witch trials (1584-1660). #skystorian
Peg Aloi @mediawitch.bsky.social film & TV critic, freelance writer, witchcraft scholar, aspiring screenwriter, nature worshipper, gardener, baker, animal lover,
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blog: The Witching Hour, https://themediawitch.substack.com/
Professor Marion Gibson @witchesetc.bsky.social Author of Witchland (coming 2026) and Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials. History, folklore, books, archives.
Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
@alternativehealers.bsky.social @alternativehealers.bsky.social "Healers, healing, and the unofficial medical economy in England and Wales, 1834-1948". ESRC funded 3-year project. Led by Owen Davies and Steven King.
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The Essex Witch Museum @essexwitchmuseum.bsky.social Help us to create a museum about the witch trials held in Essex during the 16th to 18th Centuries.
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Dr Miriam A. Bibby @drmabibby.bsky.social Horses, history, books, growing vegetables, reading, writing, editing, broadcasting. And a bit of sitting about. Equine historian and champion of the Galloway Nag. Co-editor Cheiron, the International Journal of Equine and Equestrian History.
William Kramer @witchhunthistorian.bsky.social Historian of Religion and Culture in 16th Century Ireland, the Witch-Hunts, and the Reformations. D&D/TTRPG nerd. Views are my own.
Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social Dr Sam George, Open Graves Open Minds Project. Gothic Enchantment. Books on Vampires, Wolves, Fairies, Unruly Plants, Shadows. https://herts.academia.edu/SamGeorge
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Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social Associate Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the Getty Museum, UPenn art history PhD; major nerd. Opinions, especially the spicy ones, my own.
Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social Historian of queenship in early medieval England. Based in York UK.
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Jennifer M. Hudak โฝ @jennifermhudak.bsky.social โ ๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ซ๐๐๐จ โฝ
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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social Baltimore-based indie bookstore. Currently online until we get a new space for the bookstore. Generally won't DM people, unless maybe you're a publisher and we need info to stock your books.
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Holly R. Valakresch @hollyvalakresch.bsky.social Author & Screenwriter | I ๐ฉถ Arts & Sciences, Sculpting, Cartography, Cooking, Baking, Fashion, Fitness, Fairytales, & Historical Things.
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Nightmare on Film Street - Horror Movie Podcast @nofspodcast.bsky.social Horror for the Casually Obsessed. Tune in for candid, comedic chats on our top-rated #horror movie #podcast!
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Simone Crowley @simonecrowley.bsky.social Cackling + moonbathing my way through life
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Ailbhe Kenny @kennyailbhe.bsky.social Academic
Tip: pronounced Alva
Little Island Books @littleislandbooks.bsky.social Independent press publishing the best new Irish writing for young readers. Supported by Arts Council Ireland. Repped in UK by Bounce Sales & Marketing.
Books create waves.
Frances Hardinge @franceshardinge.bsky.social Writer of downright odd children's/YA books. Hobbies include travelling, dressing in period costume and scuba diving. Addicted to volcanoes and trying new things.
Prof Janina Ramirez @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social Oxford historian, best-selling writer fiction & non-fiction, documentary maker, cat lover, vegetable grower, unrelenting optimist. https://lnk.to/LegendaPB
Doire Press @doirepress.bsky.social Award-winning publisher based in the west of Ireland.
Free worldwide shipping on all orders over โฌ60.
Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.
Sheelagh na Gig: Books Coffee Gifts Wholefoods in Cloughjordan @sheelaghnagig.bsky.social Independent book and wholefoods shop offering the best in fiction for all ages and nonfiction on permaculture, sustainability, activism. Local and organic foods too. Open 6 days 1pm to 6pm. Closed Tuesdays.
Tolka @tolkajournal.bsky.social Literary journal of formally promiscuous non-fiction. Publishing essays, memoir, autofiction and the overflow. Supported by the Arts Council.
tolkajournal.org
Nialler9 | Niall Byrne @nialler9.com Professional Listener.
New music on Nialler9, Ireland since 2005
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com Founder-Owner of @weareravenous.com
Series Editor at Best American Food and Travel Writing
Queens, NY
she/her
Tips to jaya@weareravenous.con
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.
MU LIbrary Cat @mulibrarycat.bsky.social Purring my way through life outside
MU Library. Unofficial account, kinda.
A&SL @aslibraries.bsky.social Academic & Special Libraries Section of @laibluesky.bsky.socialโฌ. No shushing around here! We do networking and events including the A&SL conference in March. More details at https://aslibraries.ie/
DCU Library @dculibrary.bsky.social Dublin City University Library based in three locations in Dublin, Ireland: O'Reilly Library (Glasnevin Campus), Cregan Library (St Patrick's Campus) and Woodlock Hall (All Hallows Campus)
Ellen Datlow @datlow.bsky.social Award-winning editor of short sf/f/h. I live & die by the Oxford comma & I skeet about my passions, take it or leave it. I block mooks-don't be one. she/her
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@RoryCorbett @rorycorbett.bsky.social Clawhammer banjoist and Travelling Doctoral Scholar
@IrishResearch
@NUIMerrionSq
Interested in the darker side of Irish American history.
Clรญona Doris @clionadoris.bsky.social Musician | Academic, TU Dublin | Ireland
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https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social Weโre the national library of the UK.
Musica Secreta @musicasecreta.bsky.social Early music group for the discovery and performance of music by and for women. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/musicasecreta Support: http://musicasecreta.org/support-us ๐ Listen: http://spoti.fi/3NHluOe
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Irish Historical Society @irishhistsoc.bsky.social https://www.irishhistoricalstudies.ie/irish-historical-society/
Contemporary Music for All @comanewmusic.bsky.social Our vision is for contemporary music to be open to everyone, celebrating participation in new music-making as a meaningful and essential part of our lives. Find a CoMA ensemble near you! https://linktr.ee/contemporarymusicforall
Campaign for the Arts @campaignforthearts.org We believe the arts make life better, and everyone should have opportunities to experience and take part in them. ๐ถ๐๐ญ๐จโ๏ธ๐ธ๐ฅ๐งต๐๏ธ
https://www.campaignforthearts.org/join/
Rรณisรญn Maher @roisinmaher.bsky.social Lecturer in Music at MTU Cork School of Music | Co-founder and Artistic Director of Finding a Voice | Clonmel native living in West Cork
Nicole Grimes @nicoleegrimes.bsky.social Musicologist & cultural historian | Assoc. Prof of Music
@tcddublin | General Editor: New Cambridge Music Handbooks | Current research 19C women composers
James Denis Mc Glynn @jdmcglynn.bsky.social Film Lecturer | Screen Music scholar | Research Fellow in Screen Studies, Trinity College Dublin | UCC Music alumnus
Conor Power @conorlpower.bsky.social Film musicologist at University College Dublin
Music Research Annual @mrajournal.bsky.social Music Research Annual is an open-access journal devoted to review essays that span the full breadth of music research across the humanities, social sciences, and beyond. Published by @mmap.bsky.social
https://musicresearchannual.org
UCD School of Music @ucdschoolofmusic.bsky.social UCD School of Music, Celebrating over 100 Years of Music at University College Dublin, Ireland
National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social Sharing Ireland's stories through our unique collections/ Ag roinnt scรฉal na hรireann trรญd รกr mbailiรบchรกin uathรบla.
Explore our collections: https://www.nli.ie/collections/our-collections
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
Mary (Mรกire) Nevin @mfnevin.bsky.social ERC PhD Candidate at Trinity College Dublin, researching collective and material agency in Anglo-Irish architectural production, 1700-1800.
Dabbler in art and photography.
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Grace Walsh @gracewalsh.bsky.social รireannach ๐ฎ๐ช. Council estate kid. Immigrant & settler on the unceded lands of Lutruwita. PhD Candidate. Mamaรญ. Community worker. Producer / grower.
๐ฃ๏ธ Diverse / Community economies. Agroecology. Participatory research. Community organising. ๐๐ต๐ธ
Betsy Cornwell @betsycornwell.bsky.social NYT bestselling author, teacher at U of Galway, Markievicz Award, IWC mentor. Immigrant single mother. Agents: Sara Crowe & Dara Kaye. BetsyCornwell.com / OldKnittingFactory.com
Holly Black @hollyblack.bsky.social Author of books involving folklore and bad decisions.
Folkloring Podcast @folkloringpodcast.bsky.social Welcome to 'Folkloring,' the podcast that invites you to actively engage with practical folklore in your daily life. Created by writer and folklore researcher Tracy Nicholas Find us online at: https://folkloringlife.com/ #folklore
Folklore Centre Todmorden @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social Arts, Film, Talks, Crafts, Library, Archive, Museum, Research, Education, Workshops, Exhibitions, Storytelling, Conferences, Local Folk History.
Currently hibernating except for events.
Hog And Dice ๐ฎ๐ช๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ @hoganddice.bsky.social Traditional Storyteller and Folklorist based in Ireland.
Beloved by corvids, friend to rats, anti colonialism.
Dyspraxic+visually impaired
They/Them
https://linktr.ee/Hogndice
Skulls and Sheets @skullsandsheets.bsky.social I am the flogger of undead horses. Specifically Welsh, undead, yuletide ones that eat cake, toast and cider. Otherwise known as the mari lwyd! Everyone is welcome here!
Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social Author A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death, The Victorian Book of the Dead, 10 books on ghostlore. Death, mourning, dress history, Forteana. No politics. Podcast: Boggart and Banshee
Blog: https://thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com
curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social โช๏ธFolkloreโช๏ธMythโช๏ธMagicโช๏ธArtโช๏ธ
Sharing Japanese and supernatural folklore, mythology, yokai, culture and art. Also love books, cats, crows and trees.
http://linktr.ee/curiousordinary
The Death Studies Podcast @deathstudiespod.bsky.social Podcast providing a platform for the diversity of voices in, around and contributing to the academic field of Death Studies. Hosted by Dr Bethan Michael-Fox & Dr Renske Visser
TheDeathStudiesPodcast.com
Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social Writer, editor, artist, folklorist. Winner of ten World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award (for The Wood Wife), the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFWA Solstice Award. Wanderer of the deep, dark forest of story in language and paint.
Dartmoor, Devon, UK
The Folk Archive @thefolkarchive.bsky.social Folk from the past, folk from the present, folk for the future
Hannah Priest @shewolfmanc.bsky.social Freelance Wondermonger & Heritage Manager at the Pankhurst Centre. Author of a book about Hannah Beswick, the Manchester Mummy.
My alter ego is Hannah Kate (North Manchester FM).
The Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social Based in London, The Folklore Society has been collecting, studying, publishing and promoting the study of folklore in all its forms since 1878. Visit our website: https://folklore-society.com
Tracey Norman Author @traceynormanauthor.bsky.social Dark Folklore -The History Press. Who Is Anna Stenberg? -Liminal Books. Author, historian, voice actor, creator of woolly things & art. Tutor Intro to British Witchcraft - Learn for Pleasure. Project Mgr - Folklore Library.
http://traceynormanauthor.com/
Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford.
Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Hags & Hares @hagsandhares.bsky.social โYou should never eat a hare in case itโs your grandmother.โ
Irish folklore, customs & traditions for modern life.
Hags & Hares UG | Berlin
http://hagsandhares.com
The New Folklore Theatre Company @thenewfolklore.bsky.social As a global collective, we reimagine folklore and history through experimental theatre, illuminating liminal spaces between perceptible and unseen worlds, weaving diverse cultural narratives into a shared human tapestry. www.Folklore.World
Tok Thompson @tokfreely.bsky.social Professor of Anthropology. Folklorist, mythologist, posthumanistโฆ. And in the summers, commercial fisherman.