33 Irish Conference of Historians

The 33 Conference of Irish Historians, 21-23 May 2020 at NUI Galway

[33 Irish Conference of Historians @3Historians]

Visit our website at https://t.co/2ySzTGprC7 - for programme and registration details.

[History at MIC @HistoryatMIC]

Congratulations to Dr Brendan Scott @CavanLibrary @cavancoco & all the contributors on the publication of County Cavan and the revolutionary years, 1918-22. Featuring an essay by Brian Hughes @MICLimerick.

[IMC @irishmanuscript]

All set up and excited to start filming for #HistFest21, @ColemanDennehy you're up!

[Dr. Sinead McCoole @sinead_mccoole]

You will be soon about to find out more about Edith and her life and work as an intelligence officer. Hopefully finishing manuscript @TyroneGuthrie later this month. I wish I knew what I know now when I interviewed her in the 1990s! Copy of this picture in @OPWKilmainham.

[SEGAHS @SEGAHSIreland]

Heritage Week has begun and it’s your chance to purchase the limited edition booklets on Loughrea town in 1846 and on the monuments of Clostoken-Kilconieron. All proceeds are donated to Loughrea Community Radio and Kilconieron Camogie Club. To order, email [email protected].

[EHS @EcclesHistSoc]

Starting our second plenary of #EHSConf2021!

'Rites of Passage and the re-writing of early Christian history' with Prof Thomas O'Loughlin

#churchhistory #religioushistory

[Victoria Anne Pearson @vpearsonduffy]

One from the Vault! Dad has quite a collection of pristine Irish Labour Party & ITGWU/SIPTU pamphlets from the 1960s-2000s. I was really taken by the snazzy cover of this 1972 reprint.

[Sean O'Connell @seanoconnellQUB]

Opportunity for a funded PhD studentship. Working with me on an aspect of the cultural politics of deindustrialisation in Northern Ireland. Candidates need to be UK residents for three years +. Please consider retweeting.

https://t.co/qWXXsoqLFo

[National Archives, Ireland @NARIreland]

#OTD in 1921 Michael Collins wrote to Éamon de Valera discussing his visit to Cork and the behaviour of the British forces with regard to the truce. 'They are trying to regard the position not as a truce but as a surrender on our part.' #Truce1921 #DecadeOfCentenaries

[Four Courts Press @FourCourtsPress]

Seán Ó Cuirreáin has done a TV interview for Nuacht TG4 for 7pm tonight with drama clips from the forthcoming film included @TG4TV @ROSGtv @MartinHealy7 @samtranum @NBurgessDFAT @DeptCulturelRL @ImeachtaiTG4 @booksirelandmag
https://t.co/WGbBAWQcxP

[Galway Heritage @HeritageGalway]

Slater’s Dunmore
To mark the 175th anniversary of Slater’s directory, a limited edition booklet on Dunmore in 1846 has been produced for @HeritageWeek. All proceeds go to @GalwayHospice. To book your copy [€5 plus postage], email [email protected].
https://t.co/xrRhd7C2Bv

[Dictionary of Irish Biography @DIB_RIA]

Constance Markievicz, revolutionary, nationalist, labour activist, suffragist & politician died #OTD 1927. She was the first woman elected to the British parliament & was the first and only female cabinet minister in the first Dáil Éireann. https://t.co/vML10xMOlj #DIBlives

[HSTM Network @HSTMNetwork]

The HSTM Network Ireland reading group has started! Our first meeting is on Fri 16th July, 1-2:30pm. More info and details on how to join are below 🤓 #twitterstorians #histSTM #irishhistory #scihist #histmed #histtech

https://t.co/TT5Cyi2EGI

[History at UCC @UCCHistory]

"Teaching the truth is not radical or wrong. Distorting history and threatening educators for teaching the truth is what is truly radical and wrong."

[National Archives, Ireland @NARIreland]

Marking the centenary of the Truce today @MichealMartinTD @LeoVaradkar @cathmartingreen @LordMayorDublin view documents from the National Archives of Ireland on display at the Mansion House in Dublin

[National Archives, Ireland @NARIreland]

A document from the Truce in focus, here is a handwritten draft by Michael Collins of proposed truce terms 9 July 1921, NAI ref: DE/2/247/17

[Shane McElhatton @s_mcelhatton]

⁦@morningireland⁩ 100 years ago tomorrow, the War of Independence was ended in this very room in Dublin’s Mansion House. Join me for a special broadcast on Morning Ireland/News Channel from 8:30 am. With me will be Historians John Dorney, Padraig O’Ruairc and Cormac Moore.

[Blue Shield Ireland- CLOSED ACCOUNT @IrishNCBS]

When was the committee established? September 2012 saw the ratification of the Irish National Committee of the Blue Shield (INCBS).
Website: https://t.co/zSTMrRWJJU
Facebook: https://t.co/RhRipsZTDG
Twitter: @IrishNCBS

[This Day in Irish History @ThisDayIrish]

This day 118 years ago – 7 July 1903 – Cork-born union organiser Mary Harris Jones, better known as Mother Jones, began the March of the Mill Children from Kensington, Pennsylvania to Oyster Bay, New York.

The march was spurred by the child labour breaches she had witnessed.

[Dictionary of Irish Biography @DIB_RIA]

Mary Anne McCracken was born #OTD 1770. She argued that the liberty & equality sought by the United Irishmen should be extended to women; she also campaigned for the abolition of slavery & aided famine victims and the destitute sick. https://t.co/nscONPi2WK #DIBlives