Peter Hession

Historian of famine and technology in Ireland, current visiting O’Malley Fellow @UL and Adjunct Ass Prof @GIHNYU

[Peter Hession @PeterMHession]

Delighted to be joining @UL this semester as inaugural O’Malley Fellow: Advancing Irish Studies supported by Irish American Cultural Institute. Researching technology during the Great Hunger in relation to the many ‘famine roads’ built 1846-47

https://t.co/Y6o20HupoO

[Peter Hession @PeterMHession]

https://t.co/XVwjX8eomR

[Peter Hession @PeterMHession]

Enjoyed speaking to Limerick Live 95 FM earlier this week ahead of a public talk in delivering today at UL's Kemmy Business School at 6pm, '"From nowhere going nowhere'? The famine road in context" https://t.co/fEo59auDCs

[SSNCI: C19th Ireland @SSNCI_tweets]

We are delighted to announce that registration for our Annual Conference 2026 is now open. 'Intimacies in nineteenth-century Ireland' takes place @MaynoothUni https://t.co/uVEnlCIYfB
More information to follow soon!

[SSNCI: C19th Ireland @SSNCI_tweets]

As well congratulating our very worthy essay winner Dr Robert O'Sullivan, the SSNCI Committee also wished to acknowledge for special commendation two other submissions:

[SSNCI: C19th Ireland @SSNCI_tweets]

Just two days to go!

[SSNCI: C19th Ireland @SSNCI_tweets]

Just under a month to submit an abstract for our 2026 conference 'Intimacies in nineteenth-century Ireland'! For details see https://t.co/W3yebh2Y9z

[SSNCI: C19th Ireland @SSNCI_tweets]

CfP 'Intimacies in nineteenth-century Ireland' @SSNCI_tweets annual conference in June 2026. Deadline 1 Feb 2026! For details see
https://t.co/W3yebh2Y9z

[SSNCI: C19th Ireland @SSNCI_tweets]

Promises to be a fascinating conference!

[Glucksman Ireland House NYU @GIHNYU]

Brilliant colloquium organized by Joseph Nugent and Patrick Mullen for Bloomsday in Paris, hosted at the Irish Embassy. The event featured engaging panels, lectures, and conversations, including a panel moderated by our own Kelly Sullivan!
@IrlEmbParis

[Sarah Roddy @seroddy]

Have just received hard copies of my book from @CambridgeUP. It's about the ordinary people who funded the Irish Catholic church between the end of the Famine and independence. It takes in social, economic, religious, emotions history and much else besides...

[SSNCI: C19th Ireland @SSNCI_tweets]

The SSNCI will hold its 2025 Annual Conference at the @AbdnRiiss at the University of Aberdeen on 19-21 June 2025! To find out more see https://t.co/b7XUr4ND86
#irishstudies #19thcentury

[Glucksman Ireland House NYU @GIHNYU]

GIH faculty fellow @PeterMHession will lead a history workshop that explores the Irish Famine in a global context, adopting a comparative lens and drawing on parallels from across the field of contemporary famine studies.

May 3rd at @IrishArtsCenter:

https://t.co/wwq2Qv1Ekg

[SSNCI: C19th Ireland @SSNCI_tweets]

Submit your abstracts by 20 April!
@ssnci_tweets will hold its 2025 Annual Conference @AbdnRiiss on 19-21 June 2025. The theme for our 2025 Conference will be Universalism and Locality in Nineteenth-Century Ireland.
For more details see https://t.co/eV1FrvYkhF

[SSNCI: C19th Ireland @SSNCI_tweets]

Just one week to go! Don't forget to submit your abstract! #nineteenthcentury #irishstudies

[HSTM Network @HSTMNetwork]

Happening this Thursday! @milnem @AdrianJKirwan @Ianmillerhistor @PhysCstudy @hannahbbro

[HSTM Network @HSTMNetwork]

HSTM Webinar, Dr Peter Hession 'Inventing the Soup Kitchen in 19th Century Ireland: Origin, Agency and Legacy' on the 3rd April 1-2 pm.
Link: https://t.co/f5aBnd892L

[Niall Ó Dochartaigh @niallodoc]

A recording of my recent public talk at @GIHNYU 'Making Peace in the Shadows: Back channel Negotiation in Northern Ireland' & the Q&A https://t.co/Ex3ZqaczvN via @YouTube

[Glucksman Ireland House NYU @GIHNYU]

From all of us at Glucksman Ireland House NYU, we'd like to wish you a very happy Saint Patrick's Day! There is much to look forward to at GIH this spring, and we hope to see you soon.

Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh!

[SSNCI: C19th Ireland @SSNCI_tweets]

Remember to submit today!