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Brian Hanley appeared on RTE's Nationwide on Monday 17th discucssing the first years of the Troubles in Northern Ireland

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Nationwide 2025-11-17
Nationwide reflects on the remarkable journey of Project Children, fifty years of hope, leadership, and cross-community friendship. Presented by Anne Cassin. Watch Nationwide 2025-11-17 on RTÉ Player ...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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I have studied much about Edward Lucas for my PhD research, particularly his role as MP for County Monaghan from 1834 to 1841. For anyone in Dublin today and free, I'll be mentioning him in my talk at @historytcd.bsky.social seminar in @tlrhub.bsky.social at 2.30pm
November 12, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Great to have these videos up for those interested who weren't able to attend the conference. Keynotes by Prof. Eliga Gould and Prof. Nicholas Canny and a @virtualtreasury.bsky.social panel. Please share widely.

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November 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Launch details for Catherine Healy’s excellent new monograph, based on her brilliant @historytcd.bsky.social PhD: happening tomorrow evening in Dublin

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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
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Dr Annabel Hancock has just published, together with Prof Ian Forrest, a new edited volume on Trust and Mistrust in Premodern Europe and the Mediterranean.
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Trust and Mistrust in Premodern Europe and the Mediterranean - Arc Humanities Press
This volume uncovers the ways in which trust and mistrust affected people’s lives in premodern Europe and the Mediterranean. Trust is a fundamental part of...
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November 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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'Augustine vs Wodan. Notker Labeo, Wednesday, and Irish Intellectual Influence at St Gall in the Early Middle Ages.'
New #OA article by Immo Warntjes @historytcd.bsky.social in 'Frühmittelalterliche Studien':
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Augustine vs Wodan
The change of the weekday terminology for Wednesday from ‘Wodan’s day’ to ‘middle of the week’ in Old High German around the year 1000 is commonly explained through a rejection of the Germanic god Wod...
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October 31, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Dr Katja Bruisch, who recently published a book with a major university press, wrote about the relation of AI to academic publishing.
kbruisch.bsky.social Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 26d
We need a critique of AI in academic publishing. Following my decision not to sign an AI addendum to my contract with Cambridge University Press, I wrote this short essay which is now out in the Dublin Review of Books.
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Move over for AI - DRB
Katja Bruisch writes: I recently completed a scholarly monograph – an environmental, economic and energy history of peat in imperial and Soviet Russia. After years of thinking and writing, I approache...
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October 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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jmarshallmed.bsky.social
It was a pleasure to collaborate with Paul Dryburgh (TNA, UK) on this blog on the fascinating life of H.S Sweetman. More to come so watch this space! @historytcd.bsky.social @virtualtreasury.bsky.social

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Henry Savage Sweetman: the man who uncovered Ireland’s medieval history
Henry Savage Sweetman published the Calendar which translated over 8,000 Irish medieval records. But who was Sweetman and why did he complete this project?
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October 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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A night to remember. Delighted to welcome @willdalrymple.bsky.social to Trinity for our annual Edmund Burke Lecture on the East India Company in a packed Edmund Burke theatre. 🤩🤩🤩

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October 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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New: Meath: The Irish Revolution, 1912-23, by Dr. Ciáran Wallace.
As politics, war and revolution intruded on daily routine, some embraced change, risking life and livelihood for a chosen cause; others resisted. Gradually, violence affected the regular round of shopping, sport and socializing. 1/2
Book cover: Meath: The Irish Revolution, 1912-23, by Ciarán Wallace. Cover is grey with a sepia photo of a group of men and women .
October 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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A packed house in TCD’s Emmet Theatre for the Friends of Medieval Dublin Symposium on Saturday 4 October. Congratulations to colleagues from History, Sparky Booker, Peter Crooks, Seán Duffy, and others on drawing a great crowd to a very successful symposium.
A group of people sitting in an auditorium.
October 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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What a privilege to screen From that Small Island at the iconic Cine Brasilia designed by Oscar Niemeyer. It was simply fabulous. 🤩
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September 27, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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One week until our Symposium, looking forward to seeing you all there!
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September 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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50th anniversary issue of Saothar, the journal of the Irish Labour History Society, featuring articles by TCD staff members Carole Holohan, Lindsey Earner-Byrne, Deirdre Foley and Brian Hanley. The back cover has a photograph of the late Jack McGinley, long time Trinity librarian and union activist.
September 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Big congratulations to Katja Bruisch on the publication of her book! Relevance not only to Russian history but also to Ireland given the focus on peat extraction.
kbruisch.bsky.social Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · Sep 25
📣 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
Book cover of "Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy" by Katja Bruisch. A black and white photograph shows a woman with a headscarf stacking peat
September 26, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Dan Geary in the Irish Times on Trump and historical US contempt for the UN:

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Daniel Geary: Trump’s contempt for the United Nations builds on a long American tradition
Trump’s speech can be seen as a kind of unintentional parody of the contempt with which previous US leaders have treated the UN and world opinion
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September 25, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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kbruisch.bsky.social
Exciting list of speakers presenting in our Environmental History Research Seminar this term. If you happen to be in Dublin, come along. We'll meet on Mondays at 1 PM in the Trinity Long Room Hub #envhist

Thanks to @tlrhub.bsky.social for hosting us!
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September 17, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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The Department of History at Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social hosts Dr. Uğur Zekeriya Peçe @ugurpece.bsky.social for a talk titled "Bury the Hatchet: Civil War and Peace in Ottoman Crete" on September 30 (Tuesday), 18.00-20.00.
For more information, see www.tcd.ie/ahss/news-an...
September 17, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Great to see a good turnout at @tcdunit18.bsky.social for @cwallacedublin.bsky.social's talk on Wed 17th titled "30 June 1922 – Dublin’s biggest explosion? Recovering the lost Public Record Office of Ireland”. @historytcd.bsky.social
From left to right: Holly Ritchie, PhD researcher, Department of History TCD, Ciarán Wallace, Mary Colclough, Community Engagement Manager, Unit18.
September 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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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
Oak Room talk on Trinity’s Colonial Legacies in Dublin’s Mansion House 24 September
September 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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New article in the Dublin Review of Books by @speakerconolly.bsky.social on @tcddublin.bsky.social's forgotten tenantry: drb.ie/tcds-forgott...
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 1:28 PM
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Always good to receive proofs - forthcoming with Cambridge Press as part of the Thirteenth Century Conference series @historytcd.bsky.social
September 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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The event is free and all are welcome - no registration is necessary. For further details and a programme visit dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/26th-m...
We look forward to seeing you there! [3/3]
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26th Medieval Dublin Symposium – Dublin Festival of History
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September 8, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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30 Sept talk by Uğur Zekeriya Peçe,
Lehigh University. In the 1890s, conflict erupted on the strategic Ottoman island of Crete and devolved into civil war between Christians and Muslims. 1/4 chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.tcd.ie/history/assets/pdf/news/ottoman.pdf
September 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Our colleague @kbruisch.bsky.social co-wrote this piece for the @irishtimes.com about AI's role (or lack thereof) in education. While this represents Dr Bruisch's individual view, not as a representative of the department, it's safe to say that many of us agree. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI
Even if all the known issues were magically resolved, we would still not want our students to use GenAI
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September 5, 2025 at 11:13 AM