Huge congrats to the brilliant Leanne McCormick on promotion to prof! Beyond deserved💕

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!!

📢📢 #PhD Opportunity Collaborative Doctoral Partnership National Museums NI & Queen's University Belfast 🎓 (@CDPConnect Arts and Humanities Research Council) on 'Conflict and Creativity in young people' supervised by Liam O'Hare & #LouiseRice deadline 16/5/24. qub.ac.uk/social-charter… Please share! Dr Emily MarkFitzGerald Olwen Purdue (olwenpurdue.bsky.social) Heritage&MuseumStudies@Ulster

Exciting news! 🤩 In partnership with School of Museum Studies we have a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship available funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council examining the establishment of Ulster Folk Museum! Application deadline 20th May 2024. Further details here: le.ac.uk/rcmg/current-n…

Prepping for an upcoming event exploring the lives of women Ulster Folk Museum on Saturday 20th April, followed by an all-female trad session in the pub! 🍻

'...am glad your mother and sisters are still here to comfort and help each other...' ❤️

Tickets: ulsterfolkmuseum.org/whats-on/women…

Some book suggestions for International Women's Day! Happy reading! And have a lovely day...men & women!

2024 theme 'Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress!' Martina Devlin Columba Books #IrishHistory #herstory #IWD #IWD 2024 #InternationalWomensDay #InternationalWomensDay 2024 📚♀️

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I know many people who might like a job in Gender Studies in the lovely Vienna! See here: h-net.org/jobs/job_displ… #jobfairy

We are recruiting for a full-time permanent lecturer in the history of race and ethnicity in a region not limited to Europe, for the early modern or modern era. Details here: universityofgalway.ie/about-us/jobs/. Deadline is 2 April 2024. Spread the word! #twitterstorians

Today is the anniversary of the Weaver Street bombing in Belfast in 1922, when a Catholic street full of children was bombed. 20+ were wounded (mostly children), 6 died of wounds. My article about the bombing just came out in Irish Historical Soc
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Looking forward to our first USIHS of the semester. Stephen Scarth will speak on 'From the Ashes: A history of the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland' on Thu 15 Feb at 6pm. Join us in person Irish Studies QUB or online eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-the-ash…

Very excited to announce that our next seminar speaker is HAPP at Queen's Queen's University Belfast 🎓 visiting researcher Dr Arunima Datta Dr. Arunima Datta UNT History Dept. who will speak on her latest research: Travelling Ayahs in Britain. Fri 23 Feb, 4pm All welcome. Register here eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

a real privilege to be invited to ⁦DkIT⁩ to deliver the annual Dorothy Macardle lecture - I’ll be taking a look at ‘writing the women back in? revolutionaries women’s histories and the decade of centenaries’. All welcome #irishwmnhist dundalkdemocrat.ie/news/local-new…

What a wonderful #StBrigidsDay weekend we've had in #NewYorkCity ! Huge thanks to the amazing team at the Irish Consulate for hosting us, & to the fab audience who turned up to hear about #BadBridget on a Fri morn. So lovely to meet you all🥰
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Thanks to all who joined our packed First Friday Networking Breakfast in honor of St Brigid – a true Irish icon!

A massive thank you to Elaine Farrell and @leannemcck for their captivating discussion of their book “Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem & The Lives of Irish Emigrant Women'

Happy Brigid’s Day / Imbolc. Treat yourself to a fantastic,authoritative read from Elva Johnston 🌻 on the histories of St. Brigit the woman, ‘pushing against the grain of an elitist and patriarchal society’ for Brigid’s Day. muse.jhu.edu/article/918428… #Brigid1500 #Imbolc #Brigit

Happy St Brigit’s Day! Her feastday has been celebrated for 1500 years. Here’s my article in @riadawson’s PRIA arguing for reclaiming a radical historical Brigit who runs against the grain of a patriarchal elitist society. Free to read at doi.org/10.3318/priac.…

Solidarity to all the unions taking action in a bitterly cold Northern Ireland today.

The Queen's University Belfast 🎓 campus is consequently shut today - though not, as BBC News NI erroneously implied last night, because of UCU at Queen's (we are not on strike).

Our MacCurtain/Cullen Essay Prize is open for submissions! The prize is offered for the best original essay in the field of Irish women’s or gender history by a current or recent BA or MA/MPhil student. Visit our website for more information: womenshistoryassociation.com/grants-prizes/

We are now accepting applications for our Anna Parnell Travel Grant! Be sure to send them in by 9 February. See our website for more information on eligibility and how to apply: womenshistoryassociation.com/grants-prizes/