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Aidan Beatty

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History Lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University and President of the American Conference for Irish Studies Current research: Capitalism and Irish nationalism Old research: aidanbeatty.com/books/

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Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com · Mar 20

For the last year @brian-hanley.bsky.social and I have been working on a proposed edited book on the global history of the Irish far-right. Today we are signing a contract to publish this with NYU Press and their Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series

Screengrab of a contract for the upcoming book "Ireland First?: Tracing the Global History of the Irish Far-Right"

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Irish Studies at Boston College @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social · 1d

BC Ireland is now accepting applications for the Neenan Fellowship in Irish Studies!

Interested scholars should submit all necessary application materials to Professor Mike Cronin by November 17.

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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 4d

As the History Representative for ACIS, I have the distinct privilege to chair the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book. If you, or someone you know, has a book copyrighted in 2025 in Irish Studies please do consider submitting! Details here. 🗃️ #speirgorm

Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book | American Conference for Irish Studies – An Chomhdháil Mheiriceánach do Léann na hÉireann

Don Murphy, husband of ACIS Past President Maureen Murphy, was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, and died in New York on March 2, 1986. He received his bachelor of electrical engineering degree and his…

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brian-hanley.bsky.social @brian-hanley.bsky.social · 23d

dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/specia...

Special Event To Mark Publication Of 50th Volume Of Saothar – Dublin Festival of History

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 28d

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning

The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

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Averill Earls @aearls.bsky.social · Sep 11

Fun to chat with Aidan for the channel!

New Books in Irish Studies @leabhairnua.bsky.social · Sep 10

Talking about police surveillance, archives and queer lives with @aearls.bsky.social

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White and purple cover of Averill Earls' book "Love in the Lav"

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New Books in Irish Studies @leabhairnua.bsky.social · Sep 10

Talking about police surveillance, archives and queer lives with @aearls.bsky.social

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Averill Earls @aearls.bsky.social · Sep 2

Join me on Thursday for my official book launch virtual event! Free & open to the public

TheNACBS @thenacbs.bsky.social · Aug 28

📢Book Event📢

Join us next Thursday for a discussion with @aearls.bsky.social and @jaretthenderson.bsky.social about Earls' latest work Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Same Sex Desire in Ireland, 1922-1972

📅Thursday, Sep 4
⏰9amPT/12pmET

Free and open to the public
Info and RSVP at the link!

Love in the Lav with Averill Earls | NACBS

Join NACBS to celebrate the publication of Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Same-Sex Desire in Ireland, 1922-1972.

www.nacbs.org

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Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com · Aug 25

Happy to have a chapter about the Workers Revolutionary Party in this upcoming edited collection

Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · Aug 24

Final cover proof!

Pre-order the hardback edition for your institutional library now: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/

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Camilla Fitzsimons @camillafitz.bsky.social · Aug 11

all welcome :-)

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New Books in Irish Studies @leabhairnua.bsky.social · Aug 5

Talking about feminism, radicalism and neoliberalism with @camillafitz.bsky.social

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Green book cover with multi-coloured letters of "Rethinking Feminism in Ireland" by Camilla Fitzsimons

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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · Jul 29

Taner Akçam, Marianne Hirsch, and I introduce the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network and call for immediate concrete measures to prevent further atrocity crimes and to protect civilians in Gaza.

As scholars of genocide, we demand an end to Israel’s atrocities | Open letter

Within weeks, 400 colleagues joined our organization. We say: it is not too late to save lives. End the genocide now

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Deirdre Flynn @deirdreflynn.bsky.social · Jul 4

Call for reviewers!!
#IrishStudies #AcademicSky
Looking for reviewers for Irish Studies books from around the world for ESTUDIOS IRLANDESES - Irish Studies Around the World

Some of the books I'm hoping to get reviewed below - email me if you are interested!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

ESTUDIOS IRLANDESES - Irish Studies Around the World

If you wish to add your book to this list please contact me _________________________________________________________________________ The Irish Bildungsroman Edited by Gregory Castle, Sarah L. Townse...

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New Books in Irish Studies @leabhairnua.bsky.social · Jun 24

Talking about Christian Zionism, Messianic Christians and Northern Ireland with @valtglas.bsky.social on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

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Blue and green cover of the book "Judaizing Christianity and Christian Zionism in Northern Ireland" by Véronique Altglas

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Averill Earls @aearls.bsky.social · Jun 16

Um they’re real 🥹
#LoveInTheLav

So thankful for all the people who made this book possible, from the @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social PhD program to research support from the NEH & St Olaf, to many friends & colleagues who read chapter drafts & cheered me on.

12 years in the making

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Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com · Jun 5

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Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com · May 15

We mostly won’t go back that far chronologically, but we do have a couple essays planned on the memory of that period and how it used in later far-right politics

Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com · May 9

Had a great conversation with the new podcast run by Hegel Haus in Stuttgart

deadbeatphilosophy.substack.com/p/ideologies...

Aidan Beatty is a historian at Carnegie Mellon University and the current president of the American Conference for Irish Studies. Aidan is author of the books Masculinity and Power in Irish Nationalism, 1884-1938 (2016), Private Property and the Fear of Social Chaos (2023), and, most recently, The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism (2024).

Aidan and Dave chat about Irishness, ideology, whiteness, stereotypes, the history of private property, Marx & Engels, the Russian Revolution, Jewish history and identity, martyrdom, disciplinary divergences and overlaps between history and philosophy, and much else besides.

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Carnegie Mellon University @cmu.edu · May 6

Dr. Edda Fields-Black has been awarded the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History! 👏

She was awarded for her book "COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid and Black Freedom during the Civil War,” which recounts the most successful slave rebellion in U.S. history.

➡️ cmu.is/Pulitzer-2025

"COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid and Black Freedom during the Civil War"

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Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social · Apr 22

Amazing history PhD opportunity at Trinity College Dublin to work on women’s experiences of maternity care in Dublin, 1950-2020. Dream supervisory team of @drdeefoley.bsky.social and @earner.bsky.social. 🤩Closing date 23 May. #histmed

Women’s History Association of Ireland @whaireland.bsky.social · Apr 22

PhD opportunity at TCD under the supervision of Dr Deirdre Foley and Dr Lindsey Earner Byrne.

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Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com · Apr 15

Talking about Andrew Hartman’s (@andrewhartman.bsky.social) new book in Jacobin this morning

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Andrew Hartman @andrewhartman.bsky.social · Apr 14

"Recent books on Marx have oscillated between presenting him as a singularly nineteenth-century figure or as a timeless savant whose ideas are applicable across all of the spaces and times of capitalist modernity."

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · Apr 14

In the United States, like in most countries, critics of Marxism present it as a rootless foreign import.

Yet both American admirers of Karl Marx and conservatives’ attacks on him have granted Marxism a distinctive place in US public life.

Marxism, an American Tradition

In the United States, like in most countries, critics of Marxism present it as a rootless foreign import. Yet both American admirers of Karl Marx and conservatives’ attacks on him have granted Marxism...

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Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com · Apr 14

My review of Michael Braddick's great new @versobooks.bsky.social biography of Christopher Hill

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Christopher Hill: The Life of a Radical Historian by Michael Braddick – A sometimes dry but sensitive account of Hill’s political developments

This new biography represents a robust synthesis of the life and ideas of one of Britain’s finest historians

www.irishtimes.com

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New Books in Irish Studies @leabhairnua.bsky.social · Apr 14

Talking about civil rights, Northern Ireland and African-American comparisons with @forestissacj.bsky.social

@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

newbooksnetwork.com/good-trouble

Cover of "Good Trouble: The Selma, Alabama and Derry, Northern Ireland Connection 1963-1972"

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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · Apr 11

🚨FT Permanent Job 🚨
My department is hiring a lecturer (B/B) in 18th-c. Irish history, with the desire for someone whose research and teaching pertains to the Irish 'long eighteenth century (1690-1830)...and broader international, political and intellectual context of the period.' 🗃️

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