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Ciaran O'Neill
@ciaranon.bsky.social
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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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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 5h
Assistant Professor in Irish and/or European Medieval History
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!
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 2d
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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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 14d
📣 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
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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 15d
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
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Ciaran O'Neill @ciaranon.bsky.social · 16d
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...
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
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 22d
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...
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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 23d
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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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 23d
Ahhhhhhhhhhh look what just arrived in the post. My BOOK!! It exists 🥰🥰
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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 24d
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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Averill Earls @aearls.bsky.social · 28d
Fun to chat with Aidan for the channel!
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New Books in Irish Studies @leabhairnua.bsky.social · 28d
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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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 29d
New in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'

'Irish Catholic Recruitment into the British Army
during the American Revolution: A Case Study
of the 46th Regiment of Foot', by Sadie Sunderland bit.ly/4m80z84

What can Irish recruitment tell us about the complexity of the C18th military? 1/2
Article cover for Sadie Sunderland's new article in Transactions: 'Irish Catholic Recruitment into the British Army during the American Revolution: A Case Study of the 46th Regiment of Foot'. Abstract: This article looks at military history through a social lens, focusing on the identity and experiences of the Irish Catholics recruited for service in the British army during the American Revolution, a conflict which occurred before Catholics were legally permitted to serve, but during which significant numbers were recruited nonetheless. Using Irish Catholic recruitment and subsequent service in the 46th Regiment of Foot as a case study, this article will discuss the integration of this group into a regular regiment on the British establishment, arguing that despite contemporary anxieties to the contrary, the incorporation of Irish Catholics into the British army happened smoothly and without negative impact on regimental cohesion and discipline. They became well-integrated, and while their loyalty to the British state can never be definitively proven, they certainly became effective participants in its army and empire. This provides a compelling viewpoint from which to discuss the integration of ‘others’ into Britishness and the imperial apparatus during this period.
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University of Notre Dame Press @undpress.bsky.social · Sep 1
Enjoying our #IrishStudies recommendations? Stay tuned for SEEING IRELAND: ART, CULTURE, AND POWER IN MODERN IRELAND, edited by @ciaranon.bsky.social and Billy Shortall. #GoIrish #Art

Coming this spring–preorder today! undpress.nd.edu/9780...
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Ciaran O'Neill @ciaranon.bsky.social · Aug 26
If anyone wants to listen to me talking about a despicable little brat from Newry on RTE, you can listen back to this Irish imperial lives episode below. Lambert Blair rose from being a small time trader on St Eustatius to become one of the largest slaveowners in the Dutch empire.
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Kate O'Malley @kateom.bsky.social · Aug 25
📢 #Listenback to #IrishImperialLives 🌎 Wherever you get your #podcasts 📻
Ciaran O'Neill @tcddublin.bsky.social tells us about Lambert Blair's time as a teenage #pirate & his role in the trade of #enslavedafricans in what became #BritishGuyana
#transatlanticslavetrade #empire #ireland #pirates
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Ciaran O'Neill @ciaranon.bsky.social · Aug 19
He swaps out some scenes also. Race meeting can’t be punchestown I think as it’s 1824. Also wonder which stage is represented in the LOC version.

Scene 1 top right is a mystery to me as yet. Is scene 2 a ball in Dublin castle?
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Emily Mark-FitzGerald @emilymfg.bsky.social · Aug 19
More @librarycongress.bsky.social fun for Irish history folks: ‘A dream in Dublin or A night on Kilmainham Guard’ aquatint (1822) by IR Cruikshank (brother to George). A bored soldier at Kilmainham Gaol dreams of all the things he’d rather be doing; check out details!

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Vividly coloured aquatint caricature shows soldier in British uniform reclining in an interior with his hand over his face, surrounded by pigs, dreaming of all the leisure pursuits he’d rather be doing, instead of being stuck on guard at Kilmainham Gaol visible outside (with prisoners hanging on gallows). He holds a book entitled ‘Ennui’, with pigs snuffling at his face and hands, and a bottle labelled ‘poteen’ Dreaming of afternoons spent strolling in the park; with ladies and carriages; and a ball or dance in a palatial interior Meanwhile prisoners swing from the gallows outside the window; crude graffiti related to soldiering is scratched on the wall above the fireplace, with a piece of paper reading ‘Garrison Order’ with Masonic-looking symbols
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Ciaran O'Neill @ciaranon.bsky.social · Aug 19
So much detail! The novel is Edgeworth’s Ennui (1809)? Pigs are a nice touch. So much going on.
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Colleen @librarycolleen.bsky.social · Aug 19
"Following two years of community feedback, expert guidance, and comprehensive research and review, we have announced official policies that provide clearly defined guidelines for the Mütter Museum’s use, acceptance, and exhibition of human remains." 📜
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Emily Mark-FitzGerald @emilymfg.bsky.social · Aug 18
Irish history / photo nerd klaxon: thanks to dedicated archivists @librarycongress.bsky.social, I’ve reconstructed the 1907 ‘Ireland through the Stereoscope’ full 100-card set from their archives. It’s the only complete one I’ve found in a public collection - an amazing record of 19th/20th c Ireland
Ten stacks of stereographs in mylar protective sleeves, next to a 19th c stereoviewer, showing early 3D scenes of Ireland
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Ciaran O'Neill @ciaranon.bsky.social · Aug 12
The book asks 'where should public history sit within the matrix of global, international, (trans-)national, and more local histories?'

Many thanks to the publishers, my co-editors, and all of our brilliant contributors.
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Ciaran O'Neill @ciaranon.bsky.social · Aug 12
Best of all the book was chosen by a German library consortium for Gold Open Access support. This scheme is really wonderful, and we are grateful for the support. You can read the intro by myself and Hannah K. Smyth here uplopen.com/chapters/e/1...
The Radical Potential of Public History in Global Perspective | University Press Library Open
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Ciaran O'Neill @ciaranon.bsky.social · Aug 12
The book is composed of chapters written by scholar- practitioners who all graduated from our M.Phil in Public History and Cultural Heritage at Trinity over the past decade or so, based all over the world. It was edited by graduates and staff from the dept, working within the ethos of the workshop.
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Ciaran O'Neill @ciaranon.bsky.social · Aug 12
Nice to finally welcome a brand new #publichistory volume with De Gruyter Oldenbourg. It honours the long tradition of Trinity History Workshop books emerging from our dept as far back as 1985. The book is

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Public History in Global Perspective
Where should public history sit within the matrix of global, international, (trans-)national, and more local histories? Since its emergence in the 1970s, Public History has typically been read as comm...
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Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · Aug 3
Very powerful stuff from the President of Ireland on stopping the starvation in #gaza
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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · Jun 30
hello. if you work at a university please ask your library to buy my book. it is all about books and libraries and also plants, museums, the Royal Society, and the ways we learn. I think it will be interesting to lots of people, hopefully. thank you www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
Hans Sloane's Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · Jun 19
Delighted to see our (Brendan Twomey and myself) new Curated Collection on the Registry of Deeds up on @virtualtreasury.bsky.social virtualtreasury.ie/curated-coll.... @historytcd.bsky.social
Virtual Treasury
Virtual Treasury
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