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.
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Opportunity to work with other me on a funded PhD at Queens - may suit anyone interested in gender, history of the child and family in 20thC Ireland. Happy to chat to anyone thinking of it!
Funded PhD opportunities at QUB:
'Childcare provision in late twentieth-century Northern Ireland (1960s-1990s)'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
'Childcare provision in late twentieth-century Northern Ireland (1960s-1990s)'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
REF: DfEHIS - HIS-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast
www.qub.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Opportunity to work with other me on a funded PhD at Queens - may suit anyone interested in gender, history of the child and family in 20thC Ireland. Happy to chat to anyone thinking of it!
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Job Klaxon:
Assistant or Associate Professorship in Public History with a specialisation in Modern History at Aarhus.
Assistant or Associate Professorship in Public History with a specialisation in Modern History at Aarhus.
Assistant or Associate Professorship in Public History with a specialisation in Modern History - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - History, subject, Aarhus University
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November 20, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Job Klaxon:
Assistant or Associate Professorship in Public History with a specialisation in Modern History at Aarhus.
Assistant or Associate Professorship in Public History with a specialisation in Modern History at Aarhus.
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Self-portrait of the artist in his room at the Villa Medici Rome 1817, by Léon Cogniet, French Romantic history painter, winner of Prix de Rome in 1817, friend of Géricault & Delacroix; appointed Professeur de Peinture à l’École des Beaux Arts from 1851; died #OTD 1880.
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland Museum of Art
November 20, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Self-portrait of the artist in his room at the Villa Medici Rome 1817, by Léon Cogniet, French Romantic history painter, winner of Prix de Rome in 1817, friend of Géricault & Delacroix; appointed Professeur de Peinture à l’École des Beaux Arts from 1851; died #OTD 1880.
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland Museum of Art
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The OPW has purchased 235 acres of historic lands at Castletown House, Celbridge, reuniting key parts of the estate and restoring long-term public access. This resolves the M4 access issue and supports the full reopening of the estate.
More: cutt.ly/dtri81m6
More: cutt.ly/dtri81m6
November 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The OPW has purchased 235 acres of historic lands at Castletown House, Celbridge, reuniting key parts of the estate and restoring long-term public access. This resolves the M4 access issue and supports the full reopening of the estate.
More: cutt.ly/dtri81m6
More: cutt.ly/dtri81m6
Launch details for Catherine Healy’s excellent new monograph, based on her brilliant @historytcd.bsky.social PhD: happening tomorrow evening in Dublin
www.eventbrite.ie/e/book-launc...
www.eventbrite.ie/e/book-launc...
Book launch: Intimate Connections
Join us at EPIC to celebrate the publication of a new book on Irish female migration
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November 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Launch details for Catherine Healy’s excellent new monograph, based on her brilliant @historytcd.bsky.social PhD: happening tomorrow evening in Dublin
www.eventbrite.ie/e/book-launc...
www.eventbrite.ie/e/book-launc...
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Very happy with this cover for ‘Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955’, which features a detail from Evie Hone’s stained glass window 'Four Green Fields'. This window was originally shown at the New York's World Fair in 1939, but is now found in Government Buildings on Merrion Street
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Very happy with this cover for ‘Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955’, which features a detail from Evie Hone’s stained glass window 'Four Green Fields'. This window was originally shown at the New York's World Fair in 1939, but is now found in Government Buildings on Merrion Street
A very interesting read here by Martin Jay in History and Theory. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/MFJQP8...
CAN HISTORY ABSOLVE? CAN HISTORY JUDGE?
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October 31, 2025 at 8:47 AM
A very interesting read here by Martin Jay in History and Theory. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/MFJQP8...
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Published today: 'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940', by Gareth Roddy bit.ly/4nwj9Y2
Gareth's book is the latest title in the Society's New Historical Perspectives series @uolpress.bsky.social. Available Open Access and in paperback print #Skystorians 1/2
Gareth's book is the latest title in the Society's New Historical Perspectives series @uolpress.bsky.social. Available Open Access and in paperback print #Skystorians 1/2
October 30, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Published today: 'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940', by Gareth Roddy bit.ly/4nwj9Y2
Gareth's book is the latest title in the Society's New Historical Perspectives series @uolpress.bsky.social. Available Open Access and in paperback print #Skystorians 1/2
Gareth's book is the latest title in the Society's New Historical Perspectives series @uolpress.bsky.social. Available Open Access and in paperback print #Skystorians 1/2
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It is a great honour to be selected for the NUI Publication Prize for Irish History! Many thanks to everyone for their continued support
🎉 @hoireabhard.bsky.social has been awarded the 2025 @nuimerrionsq.bsky.social Publication Prize in Irish History, for his book The Medieval Irish Kings and the English Invasion. Congratulations, Seán!
Learn more about the book here ⬇️
bit.ly/MedievalIris...
Learn more about the book here ⬇️
bit.ly/MedievalIris...
October 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
It is a great honour to be selected for the NUI Publication Prize for Irish History! Many thanks to everyone for their continued support
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New resource on BNA for people interested in 1890s Ireland - 'The Illustrograph' (1894-9)
Dubbed 'The Graphic of Ireland,' it was a monthly paper edited by H. Easom Hudson, printing a range of photographs celebrating Irish personalities & places.
www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/illus...
Dubbed 'The Graphic of Ireland,' it was a monthly paper edited by H. Easom Hudson, printing a range of photographs celebrating Irish personalities & places.
www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/illus...
October 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
New resource on BNA for people interested in 1890s Ireland - 'The Illustrograph' (1894-9)
Dubbed 'The Graphic of Ireland,' it was a monthly paper edited by H. Easom Hudson, printing a range of photographs celebrating Irish personalities & places.
www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/illus...
Dubbed 'The Graphic of Ireland,' it was a monthly paper edited by H. Easom Hudson, printing a range of photographs celebrating Irish personalities & places.
www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/illus...
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Here is my first publication from my new project on the history of colonial Newfoundland and the Beothuk people, and I'm rather nervous to put it out in the world. Genuinely, all thoughts on this work are welcome as I head into writing a book about it...
New in 'Transactions': 'Possible Maps: Newfoundland, 1763–1829' bit.ly/4oygf5V
@julialaite.bsky.social shows how overlapping maps highlight complexity of encounter with place over a coherence of colonial ideologies. What were peripheries of some people’s empires were centres of others' worlds 1/2
@julialaite.bsky.social shows how overlapping maps highlight complexity of encounter with place over a coherence of colonial ideologies. What were peripheries of some people’s empires were centres of others' worlds 1/2
October 23, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Here is my first publication from my new project on the history of colonial Newfoundland and the Beothuk people, and I'm rather nervous to put it out in the world. Genuinely, all thoughts on this work are welcome as I head into writing a book about it...
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The cfp for the 9th EFACIS PhD seminar in Irish Studies is now live! The seminar will take place at the Irish College Leuven from 24 to 28 August 2026.
You can find all the information and the full call for papers at www.efacis.eu/event/9th-ef.... Deadline for applications is 31 January 2026.
You can find all the information and the full call for papers at www.efacis.eu/event/9th-ef.... Deadline for applications is 31 January 2026.
October 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The cfp for the 9th EFACIS PhD seminar in Irish Studies is now live! The seminar will take place at the Irish College Leuven from 24 to 28 August 2026.
You can find all the information and the full call for papers at www.efacis.eu/event/9th-ef.... Deadline for applications is 31 January 2026.
You can find all the information and the full call for papers at www.efacis.eu/event/9th-ef.... Deadline for applications is 31 January 2026.
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Great 12-month opportunity for an historian. Salary: £36,799 (Grade 5: Development Worker grade). Edinburgh/hybrid. Closing date 21 October.
Vacancy: Legacy of Slavery Research Project Officer - The Scottish Episcopal Church
Salary: £36,799 (Grade 5: Development Worker grade)Contract: Fixed term for 12 months Hours: Fulltime, 35 hours a week (.8 FTE or 28 hours will also be considered). Some occasional evening or weekend ...
www.scotland.anglican.org
October 22, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Great 12-month opportunity for an historian. Salary: £36,799 (Grade 5: Development Worker grade). Edinburgh/hybrid. Closing date 21 October.
4x4-year, fully-funded PhD opportunities to work with an interdisciplinary group at Trinity College Dublin 2026-2030.
One of these is to work with me on a public history and cultural heritage PhD, in collaboration with one of Dublins most interesting neighbourhoods.
www.tcd.ie/graduatestud...
One of these is to work with me on a public history and cultural heritage PhD, in collaboration with one of Dublins most interesting neighbourhoods.
www.tcd.ie/graduatestud...
PhD Opportunity - Trinity East - Graduate Studies | Trinity College Dublin
Professor Timothy Stott and his team are inviting applications to doctoral research on the heritage of Trinity East in Grand Canal Dock, Dublin.
www.tcd.ie
October 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
4x4-year, fully-funded PhD opportunities to work with an interdisciplinary group at Trinity College Dublin 2026-2030.
One of these is to work with me on a public history and cultural heritage PhD, in collaboration with one of Dublins most interesting neighbourhoods.
www.tcd.ie/graduatestud...
One of these is to work with me on a public history and cultural heritage PhD, in collaboration with one of Dublins most interesting neighbourhoods.
www.tcd.ie/graduatestud...
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This collaborative PhD project with the LSE and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century, sounds amazing.
I’m sure many of you might be interested.
#STS #HPS #HistSci
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
I’m sure many of you might be interested.
#STS #HPS #HistSci
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
LSE Collaborative Studentship with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
LSE Collaborative Studentship with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
www.lse.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This collaborative PhD project with the LSE and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century, sounds amazing.
I’m sure many of you might be interested.
#STS #HPS #HistSci
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
I’m sure many of you might be interested.
#STS #HPS #HistSci
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
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Assistant Professor in Irish and/or European Medieval History
Dublin City University - School of History & Geography #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY744/a...
Dublin City University - School of History & Geography #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY744/a...
Assistant Professor in Irish and/or European Medieval History at Dublin City University
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Assistant Professor in Irish and/or European Medieval History at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
www.jobs.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Assistant Professor in Irish and/or European Medieval History
Dublin City University - School of History & Geography #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY744/a...
Dublin City University - School of History & Geography #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY744/a...
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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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October 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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
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📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5
#envhist #energysky
#envhist #energysky
September 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM
📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5
#envhist #energysky
#envhist #energysky
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Just finished preparing for this lecture tomorrow evening for Dublin City Council's 2025 Heritage series. I will be talking about 400 years of ‘cultivating virtue‘ in Trinity College Dublin @tcddublin.bsky.social. @historytcd.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Just finished preparing for this lecture tomorrow evening for Dublin City Council's 2025 Heritage series. I will be talking about 400 years of ‘cultivating virtue‘ in Trinity College Dublin @tcddublin.bsky.social. @historytcd.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social
Just in case there’s anyone out there who still thinks that statues are about ‘history’ rather than politics.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Oklahoma Republicans propose all state colleges must have Charlie Kirk statue
Schools would be required to build memorial plaza and describe slain activist as civil rights leader or face fines
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Just in case there’s anyone out there who still thinks that statues are about ‘history’ rather than politics.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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This Thursday, author #DarrenReid will be launching his new monograph 'Invoking Empire' with the #NACBS online.
Tune in from 12pm EDT / 5pm BST on 18th September 📅
RSVP here: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
Tune in from 12pm EDT / 5pm BST on 18th September 📅
RSVP here: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
September 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This Thursday, author #DarrenReid will be launching his new monograph 'Invoking Empire' with the #NACBS online.
Tune in from 12pm EDT / 5pm BST on 18th September 📅
RSVP here: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
Tune in from 12pm EDT / 5pm BST on 18th September 📅
RSVP here: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
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In 1843 71,000 people lived on the Trinity College Estates which covered 190,000 acres or 1.25% of Ireland. Most of them originated as land grants made as part of the colonial plantation of Munster and Ulster. The history of these lands and the people who lived on them is part of the TCD story
September 15, 2025 at 1:50 PM
In 1843 71,000 people lived on the Trinity College Estates which covered 190,000 acres or 1.25% of Ireland. Most of them originated as land grants made as part of the colonial plantation of Munster and Ulster. The history of these lands and the people who lived on them is part of the TCD story
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Ahhhhhhhhhhh look what just arrived in the post. My BOOK!! It exists 🥰🥰
September 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Ahhhhhhhhhhh look what just arrived in the post. My BOOK!! It exists 🥰🥰
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Thrilled to have this piece up on Dublin Review of Books today drb.ie/tcds-forgott... it brings together my own family history and the work we are doing as part of the Trinity Colonial Legacies project.
TCD’s Forgotten Tenantry - DRB
Patrick Walsh writes: 1923 was a significant year in the life of Thomas Horgan of Ballynaskreena, Co Kerry. His youngest surviving daughter, Bridget (known as Bridie), was born, and he became the firs...
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September 15, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Thrilled to have this piece up on Dublin Review of Books today drb.ie/tcds-forgott... it brings together my own family history and the work we are doing as part of the Trinity Colonial Legacies project.
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Fun to chat with Aidan for the channel!
Talking about police surveillance, archives and queer lives with @aearls.bsky.social
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September 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Fun to chat with Aidan for the channel!