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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 3h

2 doctoral positions on the '(Dis)Empowered Communities: A Comparative Study of Decommissioning Nuclear Sites' project led by Davide Orsini at the @carsoncenter.bsky.social

Deadline: 30 November

#histtech #envhist #energyhistory #nuclearhistory

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Two Funded Doctoral Positions: Project on Nuclear Decommissioning - Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society - LMU Munich

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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 1d

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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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 1d

Last day to apply! Applications must be submitted online by 5 pm Irish time.

Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 21d

Join the @stemma.bsky.social team! We've just advertised a two-year postdoc on WP2, "Networking Early Modern Poems." Apply by 30 September; details at link below. #earlymodern #dh #postdoc #jobfairy

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011345 - University of Galway

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Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social · 2d

Join us tomorrow for our first research seminar of the year! Our very own Prof Mary Fairclough will be presenting a paper titled ‘Mary Wollstonecraft: Apostrophe, Prayer and Voice’.
🗓️ Tuesday 7 October, 5pm
📍 HG/09, Heslington Hall
More info: www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

Mary Wollstonecraft: Apostrophe, Prayer and Voice - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York

Mary Fairclough develops a new approach to Mary Wollstonecraft's rhetoric of devotional feeling.

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2d

It’s real!!
I just got my first copy of Ghosts Behind Glass and it is beautiful. You all really need to order your copies. You will not regret it. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Double page spread with a photo of diorama

Chapter 3 Cursed treasures on left, lion on right

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 1d

Looks gorgeous! And will order pronto.

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Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social · 2d

Auckland university is hiring a Lecturer (that’s Assistant Prof for all you Americans) in English, specialising in the long nineteenth century, to a permanent position commencing before Semester 1, 2026 (or by negotiation). Focus is nineteenth century fiction - details below!

Lecturer - English

Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandThe University of Auckland is New Zealand’s pre-eminent University, with a turnover of $1.1bn, including research revenue of over $...

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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 20d

📣 Announcing the publication of BARS review Issue 61, my first issue as editor!

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Vol. 61 (2025) | The BARS Review

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 4d

It’s a great exchange. Andrews later published his ‘Notes for a future edition of Brian Friel’s Translations’ in The Irish Review, listing more errors.

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Dorothy Cashman @irishcookbooks.bsky.social · 5d

It being National Potato Day per Bord Bia, a recipe courtesy of a Scot, Elizabeth Craig, and her Art of Irish Cooking.
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A recipe for Irish Potato Mash which adds in apple sauce, and cloves if liked, at the end.

Cover image of Craig’s Art of Irish Cooking.

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Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · 5d

Listen in to a discussion about Ireland and the American Revolution on @newstalkfm.bsky.social featuring Patrick Geoghegan, Finola O’Kane, Eliga Gould, and Patrick Griffin. The episode airs this Sunday at 7PM, ahead of our conference next week. It was a privilege to take part in the conversation.

Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · 22d

Excited to release the conference programme for 'Ireland and the American Revolution: 250th Anniversary Perspectives'. There are only a few tickets left, so if you would like to attend I would suggest getting one as soon as possible. Attendance is free but booking is essential.

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 6d

Today’s Greenhouse lunch was packed! The main event was to celebrate our colleague Marie-Theres Fojuth, who was just awarded funding from the Research Council of Norway for her project «Into the Fjords: Blue Museums as Arenas of Learning about Vulnerable Ecosystems». Congratulations!

Woman holding a plant standing in front of bookcases full of books

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Paul O'Donovan @paulodonovan.bsky.social · 7d

After a lot of heat and pressure against the measure in Wales, it has proven to be a major success. Needs political leadership and bravery.

Kevin Burke @kevburkeie.bsky.social · 8d

Ciaran Ferrie's piece in @irishexaminer.bsky.social nails the Govts capitulation on the Speed Limit Review. Identifying the urban roads that should be 50km (arterial) and 30km (everywhere else) is a relatively simple technical exercise with a small bit of guidance. Absolute cowardice.

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 7d

More here: www.ria.ie/blog/two-wom...

Two women and the Royal Irish Academy - Royal Irish Academy

In this month’s Library Blog post, Turlough O’Riordan of the Dictionary of Irish Biography, looks at the issues surrounding the election of women to the Royal Irish Academy in the nineteenth and twent...

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 7d

Clare O’Halloran gave an @ria.ie talk in 2018 which explained the implications of the 1919 Sex Disqualification Act for the Academy’s slow willingness to admit women members m.soundcloud.com/the-royal-ir...

‘Learned societies and the problem of women’

Listen to ‘Learned societies and the problem of women’ by The Royal Irish Academy playlist on desktop and mobile.

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Women's Studies, UCC @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social · 8d

Do check out this wonderful UCC event on Global & Comparative Perspectives on Gender-Based Violence on October 15!

Poster of UCC event with QR registration code

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 9d

Join us at the Royal Irish Academy on 2 and 3 October for a two-day conference exploring all aspects of the Book of Lecan.

Book your tickets now: www.ria.ie/events/libra...

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 9d

I hope I can get to see this !

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 9d

Boston-area friends, if you're in the vicinity of Harvard tomorrow, please come to @harvardbookstore.bsky.social for a conversation about novels, LLMs, public opinion polls, collages, cut-ups, and patchwork with me and @tomcomitta.bsky.social. It will be a wild ride--hope you can join us for it!

Poster showing Tom Comitta (big photo) and Deidre Lynch (smaller one) and the covers of their two new novels: Patchwork and People's Choice Literature. Monday, September 29th, 7 p.m., Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, MA

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 10d

I saw Poor Things in that cinema - had the screen entirely to myself.

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Godwin_lives @pamelaclemit.bsky.social · 11d

On the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway (#OTD 1825), here’s my memoir of growing up on the East Coast Main Line, where I witnessed of the demise of the steam age. #Railway200

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New Post: A Railway Memoir in Archipelago

This piece by Pamela Clemit was first published in Archipelago, 2.2 (Spring 2023), 152-61. The essay is a recollection of her early childhood years as a station master’s daughter, and an eleg…

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Irish Humanities Alliance @irishhumanities.bsky.social · 12d

A strong start to our Irish Scottish Cultural and Diplomatic Relations event @ria.ie with Prof @murrayp.bsky.social of @sahavoice.bsky.social

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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 29d

@bethlcampbell.bsky.social reviews Kerri Andrews’ ambitious edited collection, Nan Shepherd’s Correspondence 1920-1980 (Edinburgh University Press, 2024):
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Book Review: Nan Shepherd’s Correspondence 1920-1980

9th September 2025 Beth Campbell, King’s College, London Nan Shepherd’s Correspondence 1920-1980, ed. Kerri Andrews (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) Whilst it is often a reader’s primary pr…

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 12d

Excellent, will email

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 12d

@paulodonovan.bsky.social and I are going in February!

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