Dr Emma J McAlister
@emmajmca.bsky.social
Scholar and Museum Professional based in Belfast.
Researches colonialism and Eurocentrism in relation to religion and ritual in museums and Irish cultural industries.
Researches colonialism and Eurocentrism in relation to religion and ritual in museums and Irish cultural industries.
A selection of objects from the 'Changing Ireland, 1900-2020' I digitally curated are available now:
Changing Ireland Gallery Highlights | National Museum of Ireland share.google/L0x6DEq3SnxR...
Changing Ireland Gallery Highlights | National Museum of Ireland share.google/L0x6DEq3SnxR...
December 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
A selection of objects from the 'Changing Ireland, 1900-2020' I digitally curated are available now:
Changing Ireland Gallery Highlights | National Museum of Ireland share.google/L0x6DEq3SnxR...
Changing Ireland Gallery Highlights | National Museum of Ireland share.google/L0x6DEq3SnxR...
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Funded PhDs at QUB:
'Belfast’s ‘bad girls’ and gender-based discrimination, c.1870-1920'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
'Belfast’s ‘bad girls’ and gender-based discrimination, c.1870-1920'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
REF: CSHIS01 - HIS-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast
www.qub.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Funded PhDs at QUB:
'Belfast’s ‘bad girls’ and gender-based discrimination, c.1870-1920'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
'Belfast’s ‘bad girls’ and gender-based discrimination, c.1870-1920'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
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Opportunity to work with other me on a funded PhD at Queens - may suit anyone interested in gender, history of the child and family in 20thC Ireland. Happy to chat to anyone thinking of it!
Funded PhD opportunities at QUB:
'Childcare provision in late twentieth-century Northern Ireland (1960s-1990s)'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
'Childcare provision in late twentieth-century Northern Ireland (1960s-1990s)'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
REF: DfEHIS - HIS-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast
www.qub.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Opportunity to work with other me on a funded PhD at Queens - may suit anyone interested in gender, history of the child and family in 20thC Ireland. Happy to chat to anyone thinking of it!
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How do young people across the UK experience the spaces, services & relationships that shape their social and cultural lives?
We wanted to find out. 🧵
As part of our policy programme on social and cultural infrastructure, we commissioned London Development Trust to explore this question.
We wanted to find out. 🧵
As part of our policy programme on social and cultural infrastructure, we commissioned London Development Trust to explore this question.
November 21, 2025 at 10:39 AM
How do young people across the UK experience the spaces, services & relationships that shape their social and cultural lives?
We wanted to find out. 🧵
As part of our policy programme on social and cultural infrastructure, we commissioned London Development Trust to explore this question.
We wanted to find out. 🧵
As part of our policy programme on social and cultural infrastructure, we commissioned London Development Trust to explore this question.
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Really enjoyed the new ‘Changing Ireland’ exhibition at the @nmireland.bsky.social - Collins Barracks! Lovely integration of commissioned poems by Paula Meehan; fascinating selection of objects, beautifully curated and displayed.
November 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Really enjoyed the new ‘Changing Ireland’ exhibition at the @nmireland.bsky.social - Collins Barracks! Lovely integration of commissioned poems by Paula Meehan; fascinating selection of objects, beautifully curated and displayed.
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"Starter homes" only exist if you view houses as financial investments and nothing else
To everyone else they are just "homes"
To everyone else they are just "homes"
November 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"Starter homes" only exist if you view houses as financial investments and nothing else
To everyone else they are just "homes"
To everyone else they are just "homes"
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Grateful for an awfully slow news day to share my newly published article.
What else would you be reading today?
muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/arti...
What else would you be reading today?
muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/arti...
muse.jhu.edu
November 13, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Grateful for an awfully slow news day to share my newly published article.
What else would you be reading today?
muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/arti...
What else would you be reading today?
muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/arti...
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Very happy with this cover for ‘Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955’, which features a detail from Evie Hone’s stained glass window 'Four Green Fields'. This window was originally shown at the New York's World Fair in 1939, but is now found in Government Buildings on Merrion Street
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Very happy with this cover for ‘Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955’, which features a detail from Evie Hone’s stained glass window 'Four Green Fields'. This window was originally shown at the New York's World Fair in 1939, but is now found in Government Buildings on Merrion Street
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What does the history of the potato tell us about nationhood and identity?
Professor Rebecca Earle FBA explores what the story of this humble crop reveals about nationhood and identity .
Watch the full video here: https://bit.ly/43nRkKm
Professor Rebecca Earle FBA explores what the story of this humble crop reveals about nationhood and identity .
Watch the full video here: https://bit.ly/43nRkKm
November 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
What does the history of the potato tell us about nationhood and identity?
Professor Rebecca Earle FBA explores what the story of this humble crop reveals about nationhood and identity .
Watch the full video here: https://bit.ly/43nRkKm
Professor Rebecca Earle FBA explores what the story of this humble crop reveals about nationhood and identity .
Watch the full video here: https://bit.ly/43nRkKm
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“France mourns its stolen crown jewels as their uncomfortable colonial past returns to view”
apnews.com/article/jewe...
apnews.com/article/jewe...
France mourns its stolen crown jewels as their uncomfortable colonial past returns to view
The theft of the Louvre's crown jewels has increased calls for the museum to be more transparent about the colonial origins of the treasures it displays.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM
“France mourns its stolen crown jewels as their uncomfortable colonial past returns to view”
apnews.com/article/jewe...
apnews.com/article/jewe...
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Did medieval nuns care for their appearance? Rings, brooches, combs, manicure sets all found on the site of Barking Abbey.
November 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Did medieval nuns care for their appearance? Rings, brooches, combs, manicure sets all found on the site of Barking Abbey.
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📚New book!!! So happy to share that ‘Why Historic Places Matter Emotionally’ has just been published by Cambridge University Press.
Outlines a conceptual framework for ‘emotion’ comprised of responses, attachments, and communities built from evidence from places across England and Scotland.
Outlines a conceptual framework for ‘emotion’ comprised of responses, attachments, and communities built from evidence from places across England and Scotland.
Why Historic Places Matter Emotionally
Cambridge Core - Archaeology: General Interest - Why Historic Places Matter Emotionally
www.cambridge.org
October 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
📚New book!!! So happy to share that ‘Why Historic Places Matter Emotionally’ has just been published by Cambridge University Press.
Outlines a conceptual framework for ‘emotion’ comprised of responses, attachments, and communities built from evidence from places across England and Scotland.
Outlines a conceptual framework for ‘emotion’ comprised of responses, attachments, and communities built from evidence from places across England and Scotland.
Fascinating research! Looking forward to reading 🙂
Looking forward to being in conversation with @niamhroisin.bsky.social on my new book Money and Irish Catholicism: An Intimate History, 1850-1921 in Maynooth next week - all welcome!
Thursday November 6 18:00-19:00 Iontas Building, First Floor, Room 1.33.
Thursday November 6 18:00-19:00 Iontas Building, First Floor, Room 1.33.
October 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Fascinating research! Looking forward to reading 🙂
Love this piece
It's #AugustCraftMonth!
'Bird' (2018) by Bruce Marks is on display in 'Art of the Possible'.
With 'Bird', Marks has stripped back the form of a bird to its essentials, where it retains its undeniable bird-like quality. The bright red opening of the glass sculpture mimics the gaping beak of a bird.
'Bird' (2018) by Bruce Marks is on display in 'Art of the Possible'.
With 'Bird', Marks has stripped back the form of a bird to its essentials, where it retains its undeniable bird-like quality. The bright red opening of the glass sculpture mimics the gaping beak of a bird.
October 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Love this piece
Another fabulous RUA exhibition at the @ulstermuseum.org an absolute highlight of the cultural calender ✨️
October 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Another fabulous RUA exhibition at the @ulstermuseum.org an absolute highlight of the cultural calender ✨️
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If you missed Ian d'Alton's talk yesterday about '1932: Seeing the same world differently: Irish Catholics and Protestants a decade after independence', it's now available online at youtu.be/9oxWs0PTA1Y
Irish Studies Seminar: Ian d'Alton
YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies
youtu.be
October 21, 2025 at 11:18 AM
If you missed Ian d'Alton's talk yesterday about '1932: Seeing the same world differently: Irish Catholics and Protestants a decade after independence', it's now available online at youtu.be/9oxWs0PTA1Y
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Saw this pic in Emma’s post below, and it’s always lovely to see my dress (designed by James Davis Seaver) in the museum, and now it’s in this new exhibit. But I also love that the woman in the pic is checking out my frock in the touchscreen too. She’s got good taste!
October 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Saw this pic in Emma’s post below, and it’s always lovely to see my dress (designed by James Davis Seaver) in the museum, and now it’s in this new exhibit. But I also love that the woman in the pic is checking out my frock in the touchscreen too. She’s got good taste!
A fun and emotional evening returning and seeing my team for the opening of @nmireland.bsky.social Changing Ireland exhibition - the exhibition showcases around 300 objects connected to Ireland's history from 1900-2020. Exciting to see years of hard work come to life!
October 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
A fun and emotional evening returning and seeing my team for the opening of @nmireland.bsky.social Changing Ireland exhibition - the exhibition showcases around 300 objects connected to Ireland's history from 1900-2020. Exciting to see years of hard work come to life!
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Useful thoughts on kneecap and anti-colonialism, esp generational diff in attitudes to Ireland’s past (and present). Of the difficult issues that prevent deeper examination: who benefited from colonialism and the role whiteness has always played in denial of the colonial? www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Why Kneecap have become poster boys for Irish anti-colonialism
'They represent the new symbols and soundtrack of Irish anti-colonial resistance for a generation that aren't actually evoking violent nationalism'
www.rte.ie
September 27, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Useful thoughts on kneecap and anti-colonialism, esp generational diff in attitudes to Ireland’s past (and present). Of the difficult issues that prevent deeper examination: who benefited from colonialism and the role whiteness has always played in denial of the colonial? www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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Bumping this up again. Deadline for applications is October 3rd.
🚨JOB Alert🚨 We are looking for another postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans in the British colonies of Southern and/or East Africa in the interwar period. 24 month contract, deadline October 03. Please share widely. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...
Post-Doctoral Researcher, Specified Purpose, Department of History and the Arts and Humanities Institute | University Vacancies Ireland
universityvacancies.com
September 18, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Bumping this up again. Deadline for applications is October 3rd.
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Most recently, we ran a workshop with participants at the @qubhistory.bsky.social Centre for Public History annual conference. Here are some of the results. Thanks @emmajmca.bsky.social, @alexjioannou.bsky.social and others for sharing your work.
September 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Most recently, we ran a workshop with participants at the @qubhistory.bsky.social Centre for Public History annual conference. Here are some of the results. Thanks @emmajmca.bsky.social, @alexjioannou.bsky.social and others for sharing your work.
Looking forward to my holiday read! @mauricejcasey.com
September 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Looking forward to my holiday read! @mauricejcasey.com
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As part of our Network Northern Ireland 2025 event @mauricejcasey.com will be hosting our latest History Open Mic Night w/ special guests at The Pavillion pub in Belfast. Open to all.
September 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
As part of our Network Northern Ireland 2025 event @mauricejcasey.com will be hosting our latest History Open Mic Night w/ special guests at The Pavillion pub in Belfast. Open to all.