@donalhassett1 She is a keynote at this year's Women's History Association of Ireland conference at Carlow College just in case you want to see her speak
#OpenAccess: ‘Alice Diamond, giant—queen of the terrors’: female gangsterism, violence and criminal mythmaking in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century London ‘underworld’ by Emily Jane Burgess can be accessed here:
https://t.co/DhhFVRgZAc
A powerful reflection on progress and where we still need to get to. Let's keep moving all my wonderful colleagues in @HIDDEN_CA21120 , we are lucky to have a truly wonderful group of women involved #IWD2025
In 2025, we mark 30 years since the Beijing Declaration—30 years of championing the rights, equality, and dignity of women and girls.
Turning our hopes to action #ForAllWomenAndGirls to create the future we want—and humanity deserves.
#IWD2025
"We are the darkest page of history" Afghan women sing in protest. This #IWD is another day of erasure for us Afghan women. Under 126 Taliban edicts, our faces are banned, our voices silenced, our dignity stolen. This is gender apartheid. Do not look away.
Join us in @MaynoothUni this Monday 3rd March from 9.30am to 4pm for our Introduction to Oral History: The Life Cycle Approach workshop https://t.co/VSxbeSWrnk #OralHistory#Maynooth
Thank you to my wonderful colleague Prof Michael Geary who went to this training in my place on behalf of @HIDDEN_CA21120 . We will definitely be working on future collaborations after our wonderful network is officially over
Thank you all for joining us today for the #COSTAcademy Sustainability of #COSTactions networking event! 😊 Hope you got a lot of ideas for the future and please keep us updated on your future Action continuations. 👏
"From 1935, prescriptive control of women's reproductive bodies becomes very much part of the Irish Free State."
On @_TalkingHistory this week, we mark the 40th anniversary of the legalisation of the sale of contraceptives in Ireland.
📻7pm Sunday @NewstalkFM or on podcast
On Friday 21st of February I’ll be speaking at this amazing event in the National Library of Ireland titled: Transforming the Canon: Diverse Perspectives in Literary Studies 📖 I was invited to this event to talk about my work on Black writing in Irish Studies ✍🏻
Read the new policy brief published in Current Issues in #Migration#Research by Brigitte Suter and @kmozetic. Migration redistributes the responsibility for care between family members, and can increase the care load for children and young people: https://t.co/Ydj7wLCVGy
#HolocaustMemorialDay During WW2, Rivesaltes near Perpignan became the main holding centre for Jews in the French 'free zone'. Cork woman Mary Elmes saved at least 70 children from deportation to the camps, smuggling some out in her car boot. https://t.co/JZ3ZoPUOPp #DIBLives
Today is International Day of Education — let’s not forget Afghanistan—the ONLY country in the world where girls education is banned.
1224 days since teenage girls were barred from school and 764 days since women were shut out of universities by Taliban. This injustice must end.
Women and girls in Afghanistan have no rights, no voice, no education, no healthcare, no safety or liberty.
But Jos Butler says cricket players "haven't really worried too much about it"
He has two daughters, but no shame
https://t.co/J16NgqQtai
Beckham got paid millions to promote tourism for a nation where women still need permission from men to study or marry, travel and pursue higher education or make decisions about their own children… but still picks up an award for "extraordinary leadership and humanitarianism".
Digital Humanities scholars who are eligible to apply for the British Academy International Fellowship scheme - and would like to work with us - are invited to send proposals by 7 February.
Read more and apply below:
https://t.co/zK7jmIKAVB
These have arrived! - the finished, hardback copies of a little book I've written about the joyfully unpredictable experience of producing Father Ted.
Publication is Feb 20th but I'd like to give away two copies early - RT by Saturday 6pm and my dog Watson will pick the winners.