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Tomás Finn @finnuniofgalway.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to our PhD student Kieran Devenish on the successful launch of his book on an important aspect of the economic and social history of Bray and an article in the 50th issue of Saothar @historyatgalway.bsky.social

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University of Galway - History @historyatgalway.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations to our fantastic students, Caden Casey and Aoibhín Ní Gleasáin, on their success at the Global Undergraduate Awards in Dublin last night! Their prize-winning essays are now available to view on the GUA Library: gua.soutron.net/Portal/Defau...

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Tomás Finn @finnuniofgalway.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks to History and archives and library and History and all at University of Galway @uniofgalwaylib.bsky.social @uniofgalwaycasscs.bsky.social @historyatgalway.bsky.social @kieran-hoare.bsky.social @uniofgalwayasc.bsky.social

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Tomás Finn @finnuniofgalway.bsky.social · 4d

Delighted Caden Casey and Aoibhín Ní Gleasáin received awards at the Global Undergraduate Awards at the Royal Irish Academy undergraduateawards.com/regional-win... Their essays at the @universityofgalway.bsky.social have been recognised as among the very best of those sent from across the world

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University of Galway - History @historyatgalway.bsky.social · 21d

Call for participants! Spread the word and get in touch with our PhD researcher, Elliot, if you are interested in being interviewed for his exciting PhD project!

Elliot @altirishhistorian.bsky.social · 21d

Hi everyone! I'm currently looking for participants for interviews for my PhD research. I'm working on the history of the LGBT+ community in rural Ireland, the way being in rural Ireland impacted the community and how the community impacted rural Ireland, 1970-2000.

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University of Galway - History @historyatgalway.bsky.social · Sep 9

Reminder that our Research Seminar Series is kicking off tomorrow 🎉

University of Galway - History @historyatgalway.bsky.social · Sep 3

Delighted to share our Research Seminar Series for this semester! We're starting off next Wed 10 Sept @ 4pm by welcoming our new colleague, Dr Ciarán McCabe, who will be speaking on 'Privacy, Respectability, and Working-Class Domestic Spaces in Dublin's Tenements, c.1910-c.1960'!

Poster for Dr Ciaran McCabe's seminar paper entitled 'Privacy, respectability and working class domestic spaces in Dublin's tenements, c.1910-60'. Wednesday 10 September at 4pm in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building

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University of Galway - History @historyatgalway.bsky.social · 27d

Aoibhín's essay was entitled 'Ireland's Missed Opportunity; The 1951 Mother and Child Scheme in Comparative Context' and Caden's essay was entitled 'The Transformation of Education in Ireland in the 1950s'. Well done on all your hard work 👏🥳

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University of Galway - History @historyatgalway.bsky.social · Sep 3

Delighted to share our Research Seminar Series for this semester! We're starting off next Wed 10 Sept @ 4pm by welcoming our new colleague, Dr Ciarán McCabe, who will be speaking on 'Privacy, Respectability, and Working-Class Domestic Spaces in Dublin's Tenements, c.1910-c.1960'!

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Irish Committee of Historical Sciences - ICHS @irishhistorians.bsky.social · Aug 25

Forthcoming publication based on papers from the 33rd Irish Conference of Historians editors @finnuniofgalway.bsky.social @kieran-hoare.bsky.social @uniofgalway.bsky.social @historyatgalway.bsky.social @uniofgalwaylib.bsky.social

Borders and Boundaries: Historical Perspectives

This book examines the making and remaking of borders and boundaries primarily relating to Ireland. Borders and Boundaries features selected papers from the 33rd Irish Conference of Historians held by...

www.routledge.com

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · Jul 23

The Charlie Byrne's team know how to do bookshops....

#supporttheindies #visit Galway 👌📚🇮🇪

@charliebyrne.bsky.social

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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · Jun 20

The @difp-ria.bsky.social is hiring! See the link below for details of an assistant editor position on the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy team - to cover a career break until July 2028.

Please spread the word. DIFP is a very exciting project to work on. 🗃️

www.ria.ie/about/career...

Vacancy: Assistant Editor, Documents on Irish Foreign Policy - Royal Irish Academy

Applications are invited for the position of Assistant Editor, Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) at the Royal Irish Academy.

www.ria.ie

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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · Jun 9

⭐️ UCD Press recently published titles ⭐️

We may be a bit biased, but we think our recent books look pretty good together. Cover and spine designs by the wonderful and talented Fiachra McCarthy

Browse all of our books at www.ucdpress.ie or find them in stores nationwide

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Tomás Finn @finnuniofgalway.bsky.social · Jun 5

Thanks so much to the Irish Ambassador and Embassy in Prague for hosting my talk. So many fascinating insights from so many people into how modern Ireland has emerged and evolved @historyatgalway.bsky.social @uniofgalwayasc.bsky.social @uniofgalwaylib.bsky.social @uniofgalwaycasscs.bsky.social

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University of Galway - History @historyatgalway.bsky.social · Jun 3

If you're in Prague this Thursday, catch Tomás Finn @finnuniofgalway.bsky.social speaking at the Irish Embassy on his brilliant recent research on the transformation of post-WWII Ireland!

Tomás Finn @finnuniofgalway.bsky.social · Jun 2

Thanks to the Irish Ambassador and the Irish embassy in Prague for the opportunity this Thursday 5 June to speak on the transformation of Ireland from WWII to today @historyatgalway.bsky.social @uniofgalwayasc.bsky.social @uniofgalwaycasscs.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.com/e/lecture-on...

Lecture on Modern Irish Political and Social Transformation by Dr. Finn

Tomás Finn is a Lecturer in History at the University of Galway.

www.eventbrite.com

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Tomás Finn @finnuniofgalway.bsky.social · Jun 2

Thanks to the Irish Ambassador and the Irish embassy in Prague for the opportunity this Thursday 5 June to speak on the transformation of Ireland from WWII to today @historyatgalway.bsky.social @uniofgalwayasc.bsky.social @uniofgalwaycasscs.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.com/e/lecture-on...

Lecture on Modern Irish Political and Social Transformation by Dr. Finn

Tomás Finn is a Lecturer in History at the University of Galway.

www.eventbrite.com

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University of Galway - History @historyatgalway.bsky.social · May 19

Powerful account by our colleague @sarahannebuckley.bsky.social and Elaine Feeney of the importance of the decision by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment to publish modules addressing the history, legacy and literature of Ireland’s institutions www.thejournal.ie/readme/mothe...

Opinion: To learn the lessons of Ireland's institutional past, we must teach it in schools

Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley and Elaine Feeney welcome plans to teach the history, legacy and literature of Ireland’s dark past at Junior Cert level.

www.thejournal.ie

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Elaine Feeney @elainefeeney.bsky.social · May 1

Book Launch Details for
Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way

21.5 Foyles Charing Cross Road
23.5 London Irish Centre, Hammersmith

27.5 Kenny’s Bookshop
29.5 Books Upstairs

Tickets online via each venue! Love to see you! 🍷

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Tomás Finn @finnuniofgalway.bsky.social · Apr 2

Returning to Tipperary and this Friday Clonmel to revisit Pawel Paul Strzelecki, the Polish humanitarian and explorer, and how his idea saved more than 200,000 children during the Great Famine in Ireland strzelecki.ie/51194-2/

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Tomás Finn @finnuniofgalway.bsky.social · Mar 22

Looking forward to working with Carrick-on-Suir Library and once again with the Polish embassy in highlighting in talks at the library the role of Paul Strzelecki as a humanitarian, explorer and migrant and how ours has been a Global world for a very long time

Tipperary County Council Library Service @tipperarylibraries.bsky.social · Mar 19

Carrick-on-Suir Library is delighted to host 'A Forgotten Polish Hero of the Great Irish Famine: Paul Strzelecki's Struggle to Save Thousands', an exhibition presented by the Polish Embassy in Dublin.

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A poster showing the details of the exhibition.

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Tomás Finn @finnuniofgalway.bsky.social · Mar 18

Thanks Fiona. And thanks to all your and all @uniofgalwayasc.bsky.social work on the Muintir na Tíre archive. Without the archive none of this would have happened

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Tomás Finn @finnuniofgalway.bsky.social · Mar 18

Delighted to have presented my books on Tuairim and with Tony Varley that on Rural Ireland to the @president.ie and Mrs Higgins at Áras an Uachtaráin manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719095436/ www.ucdpress.ie/page/detail/...
@ucdpress.bsky.social @universityofgalway.bsky.social

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Irish Committee of Historical Sciences - ICHS @irishhistorians.bsky.social · Mar 13

Call for papers is open #irishhistory

Irish Committee of Historical Sciences - ICHS @irishhistorians.bsky.social · Feb 27

CFP. 35th Irish Conference of Historians, 'Inner lives and outer realities', 12-13 September, Maynooth University www.historians.ie/cfp-35th-iri...

CFP. 35th Irish Conference of Historians, 12-13 September, Maynooth University

Irish Conference of Historians CFPDownload

www.historians.ie

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University of Galway - History @historyatgalway.bsky.social · Feb 22

Next week Shauna Mulligan will compare “The Plantation and the Concentration Camp: Slave labour and racism during the American Civil War (1861-1865) and the Second World War (1941-1945)” in GO10 HRB, 4pm, Wednesday 26 February, and via Zoom webinar at universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Tomás Finn @finnuniofgalway.bsky.social · Feb 22

Really enjoyed talking about Rural Ireland book with Patrick Geoghan on newstalk's talking history @ucdpress.bsky.social @historyatgalway.bsky.social
www.goloudplayer.com/episodes/bes...

Best of January Books

In this episode: the unhappy early life and dangerous ambition of Eamon De Valera, with Colum Kenny; power and change in Rural Ireland, with editor Tomás Finn; and The Language Puzzle: How We Talked O...

www.goloudplayer.com

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Tomás Finn @finnuniofgalway.bsky.social · Feb 22

@biblioraphic.bsky.social Hi. My name is Tomás Finn. I am an historian at the university of Galway. Can you please add me to your starter pack?

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