Dr Shannon Devlin

Lecturer in Irish History @uniofgalway | Researching siblings, the Irish family, networking & sociability in 19th-C Ireland | she/her | All views my own.

[Dr Shannon Devlin @shan_devlin]

Happy #SiblingsDay 👫🎉 delighted to say that my first monograph will be out later this year. It’s on the website, so it must be real!!

[Dr Shannon Devlin @shan_devlin]

#spotted out in the wild (west) [insert wicked reference here] Delighted to get my hands on this gorge updated copy in a v cosy Galway @SnedAndrew

[deirdre flynn @deirdre_flynn]

Important article on the pervasive nature of precarious labour in Universities in Ireland - published today when all of our hourly colleagues are no longer in contract but expected TO WORK FOR FREE for the next 6-8 weeks until exams and grading is over

https://t.co/r3OeOFn4cl

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Nearly 70% of Gaza war dead are women and children, UN says https://t.co/4f30gQ1zRw

[University of Galway Library Archives @UniOfGalwayASC]

1/5
34 years ago today, Ireland went to the polls & elected our 1st female President, Mary Robinson. Her extensive archive is housed here @UniOfGalwayASC & we're delighted to release 1st tranche of material today.

Read more from archivist @niamhnicharra

https://t.co/N0owejFu84

[Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway @uniofgalway]

At 12pm today, 30th October, we celebrate 𝟏𝟕𝟓 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 since our first 𝟔𝟖 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 began their education here. 🎓📜🙌
Thanks to @irelandincolour for adding some flair to this beautiful sepia pic 📸🎞️

[Royal Historical Society @RoyalHistSoc]

Today's @RoyalHistSoc briefing, 'The Value of History', now available https://t.co/gtNQQ3p88p #twitterstorians

[Truth Recovery Independent Panel @TruthPanel_NI]

✍️Our Co-Chair, Sean O’Connell explains why every piece of information about the institutions and their practices, no matter how small, is important for the Independent Panel’s work.

If you have information you would like to share, please get in touch.

https://t.co/gk7oDHqFGU

[Dr Shannon Devlin @shan_devlin]

@SnedAndrew Congrats Andrew!

[Dr Andrew Sneddon @SnedAndrew]

That’s the proofs done then! The new expanded second edition of Possessed by the devil about the #islandmageewitches trial of 1711 will in bookshops/online at the end of next month, November 2024

[Giveblood @Giveblood_ie]

We really would! Lots of appointments are still available in our D'Olier Street Clinic this week. #WeCountOnYou #GiveBlood 🩸

[History of Education @HistEdSocUK]

Another call for papers here on the theme of 'Play in the Long Nineteenth Century'.

Some interesting History of Education links here!

Deadline: 18th November 2024

#histed #cfp #history #education #research

[Truth Recovery Independent Panel @TruthPanel_NI]

We will be hosting both an afternoon and an evening drop-in session at the City Hotel for anyone who is interested in speaking with one of our Panel members about the testimony process or how to approach getting access to your personal records. #SeekingTheTruth

[Trinity Long Room Hub @TLRHub]

💡The Network for the Study of Resilient Women, led by early career researchers at @tcddublin will bring together the lived experiences of Irish women throughout history from the 1840s – 1980s.

📖Read more here: https://t.co/AeQ9sVRVBG

#HubMatters #ResilientWomen

[Dr Martin Walsh FRHistS @tmartinwalsh]

Delighted to have received funding from the @RIAdawson for a project that will look at the aftermath & emotional trauma of the 1926 Dromcollogher cinema fire on the people of the town, Ireland and the Irish diaspora. Need the publics help - see below. Retweets appreciated.

[NI Blood Transfusion @GiveBloodNI]

📢 Calling all O NEGATIVE donors!

We urgently need YOU to help boost our lifesaving O Negative blood stocks before the weekend!

Book now or simply walk in to any of our sessions this week:

📍 - Belfast HQ
📍 - Comber
📍 - Maghera
📍 - Donaghmore

👉https://t.co/tlVCbYnhOu

[CharlotteRose Millar @drcmillar]

Ghost Conference Alert!! @SnedAndrew @tait_clodagh and myself are delighted to be organising a conference on historical representations of ghosts at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick in June 2025. CFP attached! Please share! #earlymodern #twitterstorians #emotions #emostorians

[Dr Claire McNulty @DrClaireMcNulty]

Another week, another book-related seminar! Can't wait to speak at the New Voices in Irish & Scottish Studies webinar. Happening tomorrow at 4pm!
#EdinburghsUnrulyWomen @AbdnRiiss

[Lynsey Black @blalygamal]

It is fantastic to see this piece on the Carrigan Committee by Emma Quinn in the most recent issue of History Ireland @HistIreHedge! This is an edited version of Emma's @IrLegalHist prize-winning essay: https://t.co/PdYrWlBfRz

[Irish Studies at Boston College @BCIrishStudies]

Last call! APPLY NOW
Tenure-track Assistant Professor of 19th Century US Immigration & Labor history at @BostonCollege History Dept, with a preference for Irish diaspora scholar to be affiliated with #BCIrishStudies
Deadline for applications Oct. 15!
https://t.co/N9qwTmckNZ