Sensing the Troubles

Today at 12 noon I’ll be chatting to @williamcrawley @bbcradioulster if you happen to be scooting about or just chilling bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Congratulations to Dr Megan McAuley who successfully passed her viva voce this week for her thesis- A study of childhood, rurality and poverty in County Donegal, 1850-1950. Dr McAuley is pictured here with her supervisor @RedmondJennifer and examiners @opurdue & @ciaranjreilly

From Big Tom to John McGahern: New digital archive celebrates Border’s artistic legacy – The Irish Times ⁦@TLRHub⁩ ⁦@HeaneyCentre⁩ ⁦@orlaffitz⁩ ⁦@garrett_carr⁩ ⁦@IslandShared⁩ ⁦@TCDEnglish⁩ irishtimes.com/politics/2024/…

Shortly before his death earlier this year our friend & colleague, Prof Raymond Gillespie finished work on a book St Nicholas's Collegiate Church, Galway and the long reformation in Ireland. It will be launched in St Nicholas's Church Thurs 19 Sept at 6.00 pm. All are welcome

We're delighted at @UCCRadicalLab to host the Cork launch of the Routledge Handbook of the Northern Ireland Conflict & Peace, with @LMcAtackney, @Ocathainstarai, and Roisín Higgins. Thursday September 19th at 3pm, Aula Maxima, UCC. All welcome! Tickets: tickettailor.com/events/radical…

Are you joining us at one of our free regional meet ups? Did we mention that one attendee from each meet up will be entered into a free raffle to win their choice of an OPW Heritage Card, OHNI online training workshop, or a year’s membership to OHNI! oralhistorynetworkireland.ie/events/listeni…

The wonderful documentary about my Dad, Gerald Dawe - Out of the Ordinary, made by the brilliant @doublebandfilms, will be on @BBCnireland again tonight. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

📘From our latest issue! Clodagh Tait (@tait_clodagh) (@HistoryatMIC) on 'Phantoms in and of the Archive: Mary Cudmore’s Encounters with a Ghost in Cork in 1688 and 1689' #History #Belief #Supernatural #Religion 👻📜 🔓Read open access here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Our colleague Dr Michael Potterton will be appearing on the first episode of 'Invasion: The Normans', this Sunday, 2 June, on RTE One at 6.30pm.

Catch Dr Michael Potterton @MaynoothHist appearing on the first episode of 'Invasion: The Normans', this Sunday @RTEOne at 6.30pm. #InvasionTheNormans #NormansinIreland @tilefilms @TourismIreland

The ‘spongers’ address. This day 50 years ago. (Day 11 of Ulster Workers strike). Quite a moment …

Letter from @MarieMCole Governments can control the narrative of an official history irishtimes.com/opinion/letter…

Click here to access a copy of the Interim Report of the Independent Panel looking at Mother and baby institutions, Magdalene laundries and Workhouses (and related pathways and practices) in NI - published May 2024 independentpanel.truthrecoveryni.co.uk/publications/i…

It feels important to be inviting #LittleAmal to Colin Glen in my home turf…..once again collaborating with a brilliant local dream team. Please come tomorrow morning 11-12, the location alone is worth the trip! (BT17 0LR) artsekta.org.uk/events/do-not-…

Congratulations to our colleague, Dr Sarah Roddy on the launch of the website for the PARISH project (Preserving and Recording Ireland's Sacred Heritage) a collaboration between @MaynoothHist & @NDIrishStudies

Reminder to join us tomorrow 14 May at 5pm, when Sarah Mason @HCAatEdinburgh be speaking on 'Community Nostalgia and Transgenerational Trauma: Reconciling Dichotomies from a Women's Oral History of West Belfast, 1974-1995'. Seminar room 6 Chrysal Mac & online (via mailing list)

@Gail_McConnell_ @TheMACBelfast It was a great event, a really lovely atmosphere, and great to see young dancers perform. Your poetry got me to go along and I'm so glad I did!

@SensingTroubles @TheMACBelfast Thank you!

Going along to tonight to @TheMACBelfast to see this interpretation of @Gail_McConnell_ 's magnificent work.

Prospect of an ‘official’ British history of the Troubles is hurtful Karl O'Hanlon @MaynoothEnglish @IrishTimes irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0…

#CaravaggioInBelfast opened today ⁦@UlsterMuseum⁩ on #NG200 the 200th Birthday of the ⁦@NationalGallery⁩ with the amazing support of ⁦@NGIreland⁩ & ⁦⁦@campbell_c_m⁩ Quite simply breathtaking Entry is free