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Department of History, Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social · 11d

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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Friends of Medieval Dublin @fmdmedievaldublin.bsky.social · 10d

One week until our Symposium, looking forward to seeing you all there!
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Department of History, Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social · 12d

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.

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Department of History, Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social · 12d

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.

Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 13d

📣 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

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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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Department of History, Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social · 13d

Dan Geary in the Irish Times on Trump and historical US contempt for the UN:

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

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

www.irishtimes.com

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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 21d

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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Ramazan Hakkı Öztan @roztan.bsky.social · 21d

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...

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Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland @virtualtreasury.bsky.social · 19d

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.

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 14d

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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Department of History, Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social · 23d

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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John Marshall @jmarshallmed.bsky.social · Sep 6

Always good to receive proofs - forthcoming with Cambridge Press as part of the Thirteenth Century Conference series @historytcd.bsky.social

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Friends of Medieval Dublin @fmdmedievaldublin.bsky.social · Sep 8

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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Department of History, Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social · 26d

Underlining the seeds of protest sown by violence and indignity of displacement, this talk explores how the failure of establishing a just peace perpetuated conflict in the Ottoman world. 4/4

Department of History, Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social · 26d

In a twist of history, after 1908, survivors of the civil war emerged as protagonists of a sweeping protest movement that threatened European economic presence in the Ottoman Empire. 3/4

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Department of History, Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social · 26d

Amid the environmental and human catastrophe of this strife, four European states intervened and occupied the island. The military intervention uprooted most of the native Muslims as the European coalition’s policy of pacification rested on this population’s removal from Crete. 2/4

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Department of History, Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social · 26d

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

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Department of History, Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social · Sep 5

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

www.irishtimes.com

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Department of History, Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social · Aug 28

Congratulations to History’s Professor Patrick Geoghegan on organizing the enormously successful O’Connell 250 Symposium at TCD on 29-30 July.
See alt-text for list of the pictured speakers.

A group of eight speakers from the symposium. Standing: History’s Professor Patrick Geoghegan, Professor Neville Cox, Professor Christine Kinealy, and Ukrainian human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Oleksandra Matviichuk.
Seated: An Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Provost Linda Doyle, Imogen McGrath SC, and Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin

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Department of History, Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social · Aug 28

One of our undergrads featured in Irish Times: www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

Meet Trinity College’s lifelong learner in his 70s: ‘I’ve made lots of new friends, young and old’

The early school-leaver is now pursuing a full time undergraduate degree in history

www.irishtimes.com

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Georgina Laragy @geolug.bsky.social · Aug 11

Really delighted to see this out. Great work by colleagues and alumni of @historytcd.bsky.social #publichistory masters programme. #openaccess as well. Thanks to everyone involved. @smythh.bsky.social @richardlegay.bsky.social @ciaranon.bsky.social

Hannah K. Smyth 🍉 @smythh.bsky.social · Aug 11

🔊 Very pleased our book about public history is out and gold open access: Public History in Global Perspective
Inquiry, Exchange and Practice. @ciaranon.bsky.social @geolug.bsky.social @richardlegay.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/mafs2wrx

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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Georgina Laragy @geolug.bsky.social · Jul 17

Great work by one of our @historytcd.bsky.social #publichistory students Morgan Hansen as part of her internship with the excellent @virtualtreasury.bsky.social thanks for facilitating our students on your project, helping them do public history.

Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland @virtualtreasury.bsky.social · Jul 17

What began as a simple search in the archives led our @historytcd.bsky.social intern Morgan to the rediscovery of Mary Molesworth’s tragic life, her enduring legacy, and the vibrant community efforts to remember her today.

Read more in Morgan's hidden story here: virtualtreasury.ie/hidden-stori...

An engraving of a woman posing for a portrait and wearing a ruffled dress, feathered hat, and holding a wreath of flowers. The only known portrait of Mary Molesworth, Lady Belvedere. Image: Wikimedia Commons.

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Department of History, Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social · Aug 1

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Isabella Jackson @isabellajackson.bsky.social · Jul 11

My PhD student Yuxuan Lang gave a great paper on photographs of Chinese slave-girls in Guangzhou at the fascinating Global Urban History Project in Berlin today ‪@globalurbanhistory.bsky.social‬
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Frontiers before borders conference 2025 @frontiers2025.bsky.social · Jul 12

Finished! A big thank you the speakers, chairs, Rob Shields @ualberta.bsky.social for his keynote, Prof Joseph Clarke and @historytcd.bsky.social for their support, Rike and the team @tlrhub.bsky.social for their help and @researchireland.ie for their support of @pduffy1.bsky.social's research.

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