A huge THANK YOU to everyone who organised events for #HeritageWeek2024! With over 2,326 events across Ireland, it was a brilliant success. Your passion made it all possible! Here’s to preserving and celebrating our heritage together. #LoveYourHeritage #PassItOn

Rising student dropout rates may be linked to high rents and commuting, university chief warns There's no 'may' about it - students are commuting hours to college, working loads in part time jobs, or paying extortionate rents - it's unsustainable irishtimes.com/ireland/educat…

Happy to support candidates for PhD and postdoctoral awards who work on heritage and recent historical / contemporary archaeology who would like to join us at UCC, especially related to Ireland or the colonized and post/colonial Caribbean. Get in touch!

All articles published in the Society's journal, 'Transactions of Royal Historical Society' are now made available fully Open Access - with no charge to readers or any author: bit.ly/46Uf35j 'Transactions' welcomes articles from historians of all kinds #twitterstorians

17 years ago I started as a mature student Mary Immaculate College (MIC). Not for one minute did I think that all these years later, I’d hold a PhD, be working in 3rd level & have appeared on a BBC documentary. It just goes to show! Good luck to all incoming 1st years, especially mature students.

Grenfell Memorial Quilt, in memory of 72 lives lost - #GrenFell Tower fire, UK. The aim to complete the hanging for the 10th yr Remembrance,2027. GMQ will be the dimensions of Grenfell Tower 220ft x 72ft . Initiated by mother of survivor, Tuesday Greenidge #sewingforjustice 💚

Thomas McCann will become the first male Traveller in Ireland to graduate with a PhD, when he is conferred at a ceremony at Maynooth University this afternoon rte.ie/news/ireland/2…

Mansion House, Exhibition, 1883. Irish lace, a history of the industry with illustrations with a map showing the districts where the lace was made from Fonsie Mealy Facebook. Red- where lace was made Blue- areas where lacemaking had almost died out Missing headfordlaceproject

🥳Upcoming IAPH Event🥳 Join us on September 28 for an IAPH workshop on photography and historians. We have a star-studded event featuring Dr. Eve Morrison, Prof. Emily MarkFitzGerald Dr. Una Bromell. Free to IAPH members and only €5 for non-members! Link: bit.ly/4dQ8zXM

We are delighted to announce this year's public history lecture with Gresham College: gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/women… Join us in person in London/online on 5 November to hear Prof Janina Ramirez (author of the bestselling book 'Femina') speak on the importance of writing women into

Lovely new second-hand bookshop just opened in Waterford. Browse to the coolest music. Best of luck to them.

Assistant Lecturer Writing & Literature (Permanent Wholetime Contract) ATU Sligo atu.ie/academic-jobs

Two women with shawls late 19th century posing for a photograph on their way over the bridge to Dungarvan with Strandside north and the Pond in the background. #AbbeysideHistory #Upthevillage a social photographic history coming later this year 📖💙💛 #waterford

Our 6 year old keeps correcting my pronunciation of scone. He will not listen to reason, that scone rhymes with gone. He is a total scone = cone head. The isolation of being from deep red scone territory living in a deep greeny blue land. 😪

Emmet Taylor, our Gerard Wrixon Postdoctoral Fellow, has started a Podcast there they turn out of copyright translations of early Irish texts into audiobooks. There is a new episode each Monday until the end of the season! open.spotify.com/show/3sNnxgEjI… #Celt #Celtic #Irish #mythology

In 2021 Afghan women started an online campaign to protest the Taliban's female dress code by posting photos of what traditional Afghan clothes look like, sharing #AfghanistanCulture and #AfghanWomen tags. #WomensArt

#ThroughHerEyes ‘Sir, 'Now that the All-Ireland finals are at hand again, let’s hope the GAA will bar women from attending these games, taking up valuable space. 'To me there’s nothing more revolting or unnatural than to see a pleasure-bent woman up in the city for fun and

Free Conference 20th Sept in Co Galway Galway's Medieval Church Heritage – People, Places, Sacred Spaces - ATU Heritage Research Group B Doherty, Galway Community Archaeology National Monuments Service The Heritage Council Date: Fri, Sept 20 • 10:00 IST Location: Mullagh, Mullagh eventbrite.ie/e/galways-medi…

"The big picture outcome of the Decade of Centenaries is the idea that the vibrancy of the study of history is archival-based. The public response validates the study of history, the investment in collections and the employment of professional archivists" soundcloud.com/archive-nation…

A Walk through living history 😍 Really interesting event for #Culturenight Friday 20th September 6.30pm Culture Night Waterford at Waterford County Museum, St Augustine’s street, #Dungarvan #Waterford. Culture Night Waterford City & County Council Waterford Arts