Ciaran O'Neill
@ciaranon.bsky.social
Historian at TCD, interested in Ireland and Empire, Public History, and lots of other things. Co-lead for Trinity's Colonial Legacies.
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There’s an online event today about SEEING IRELAND, an edited collection inspired by the centennial of the 1922 Paris Exposition d'Art Irlandais. #Ireland #Art @ciaranon.bsky.social
This #Dublin Festival of #History event begins at 6 PM in Dublin (1 PM Eastern): dublinfestivalofhist...
This #Dublin Festival of #History event begins at 6 PM in Dublin (1 PM Eastern): dublinfestivalofhist...
October 6, 2026 at 12:07 PM
There’s an online event today about SEEING IRELAND, an edited collection inspired by the centennial of the 1922 Paris Exposition d'Art Irlandais. #Ireland #Art @ciaranon.bsky.social
This #Dublin Festival of #History event begins at 6 PM in Dublin (1 PM Eastern): dublinfestivalofhist...
This #Dublin Festival of #History event begins at 6 PM in Dublin (1 PM Eastern): dublinfestivalofhist...
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Tonight the @ria.ie jointly awarded the Michel Déon Prize to John Waddell for his book the Celtic World and me for Hotel Lux. A real honour.
Congrats also to my fellow shortlisted authors, including fellow veteran of the Irish History Twitter trenches @gerardshannon.bsky.social
Congrats also to my fellow shortlisted authors, including fellow veteran of the Irish History Twitter trenches @gerardshannon.bsky.social
October 1, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Tonight the @ria.ie jointly awarded the Michel Déon Prize to John Waddell for his book the Celtic World and me for Hotel Lux. A real honour.
Congrats also to my fellow shortlisted authors, including fellow veteran of the Irish History Twitter trenches @gerardshannon.bsky.social
Congrats also to my fellow shortlisted authors, including fellow veteran of the Irish History Twitter trenches @gerardshannon.bsky.social
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Dear all, a chairde,
Please find here the programme of the Paris Lille Irish Seminar for 2026–2027.
PLIS is the joint seminar organised by the ERIN team at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and the Aire Irlande team at Université de Lille, previously known as the Irish Thursdays / Aire Irlande seminars.
Please find here the programme of the Paris Lille Irish Seminar for 2026–2027.
PLIS is the joint seminar organised by the ERIN team at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and the Aire Irlande team at Université de Lille, previously known as the Irish Thursdays / Aire Irlande seminars.
September 29, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Dear all, a chairde,
Please find here the programme of the Paris Lille Irish Seminar for 2026–2027.
PLIS is the joint seminar organised by the ERIN team at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and the Aire Irlande team at Université de Lille, previously known as the Irish Thursdays / Aire Irlande seminars.
Please find here the programme of the Paris Lille Irish Seminar for 2026–2027.
PLIS is the joint seminar organised by the ERIN team at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and the Aire Irlande team at Université de Lille, previously known as the Irish Thursdays / Aire Irlande seminars.
Sorry to read this. Nini was researching Irish connections to enslavement and abolition long before anyone else in the field and we all owe her such an enormous debt for doing all that foundational work. It was one of the great, not-heralded-enough, contributions to modern Irish history.
We have heard the very sad news that Nini Rodgers died yesterday, after a period spent in a nursing home. Her former colleagues in the School remember her fondly, while others will have known Nini through her ground-breaking research on the history of slavery and Ireland.
September 30, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Sorry to read this. Nini was researching Irish connections to enslavement and abolition long before anyone else in the field and we all owe her such an enormous debt for doing all that foundational work. It was one of the great, not-heralded-enough, contributions to modern Irish history.
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If you are a first-time author of a book published in 2026 in Irish Studies (broadly conceived) do consider submitting it to the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Books. acisweb.org/murphy-prize/
Happy to answer any questions. #IrishStudies 🗃️
Happy to answer any questions. #IrishStudies 🗃️
Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book | American Conference for Irish Studies – An Chomhdháil Mheiriceánach do Léann na hÉireann
Don Murphy, husband of ACIS Past President Maureen Murphy, was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, and died in New York on March 2, 1986. He received his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and Bachelor of...
acisweb.org
September 28, 2026 at 10:11 AM
If you are a first-time author of a book published in 2026 in Irish Studies (broadly conceived) do consider submitting it to the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Books. acisweb.org/murphy-prize/
Happy to answer any questions. #IrishStudies 🗃️
Happy to answer any questions. #IrishStudies 🗃️
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September 28, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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Don’t miss a discussion of SEEING IRELAND on October 6! This year’s Dublin Festival of History features an online event about @ciaranon.bsky.social and Billy Shortall’s edited collection on #Art, #Culture, and #Power in modern #Ireland.
Event details and Zoom link: dublinfestivalofhist...
Event details and Zoom link: dublinfestivalofhist...
September 27, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Don’t miss a discussion of SEEING IRELAND on October 6! This year’s Dublin Festival of History features an online event about @ciaranon.bsky.social and Billy Shortall’s edited collection on #Art, #Culture, and #Power in modern #Ireland.
Event details and Zoom link: dublinfestivalofhist...
Event details and Zoom link: dublinfestivalofhist...
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Was very happy to beam into QUB today to launch the Africans in Ireland website that I and a number of colleagues have been working on for years. Maps, database, & other resources documenting the African presence in Ireland from the late 16th to early 20th centuries.
africansinireland.com
africansinireland.com
September 17, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Was very happy to beam into QUB today to launch the Africans in Ireland website that I and a number of colleagues have been working on for years. Maps, database, & other resources documenting the African presence in Ireland from the late 16th to early 20th centuries.
africansinireland.com
africansinireland.com
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Submissions are now open for the 2027 National Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies, to be co-hosted by the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, 10-14 March 2027
acisweb.org/conferences/...
acisweb.org/conferences/...
ACIS National Conference 2027 | American Conference for Irish Studies – An Chomhdháil Mheiriceánach do Léann na hÉireann
Deirdre Cooper Owens, Professor of History at University of Connecticut; Organization of American Historians’ (OAH) Distinguished Lecturer; author of the award-winning Medical Bondage: Race…
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September 16, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Submissions are now open for the 2027 National Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies, to be co-hosted by the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, 10-14 March 2027
acisweb.org/conferences/...
acisweb.org/conferences/...
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📣 Excellent new resource for academics, ECRs, PGRs & students interested in #historyofexperience. Fully OA & drawing on rich experience of colleagues in @hexhistory.bsky.social it includes oral history, ego documents, institutional records, fiction & photos. #skystorians 📣
Sources and Methods for the History of Experience
This open access book explores what kinds of sources and methodologies are needed for a history of experience.
link.springer.com
September 15, 2026 at 7:41 PM
📣 Excellent new resource for academics, ECRs, PGRs & students interested in #historyofexperience. Fully OA & drawing on rich experience of colleagues in @hexhistory.bsky.social it includes oral history, ego documents, institutional records, fiction & photos. #skystorians 📣
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Dr @brian-hanley.bsky.social has published a new article in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, on Irish Republican Attitudes to Zionism and Palestine www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘Muscle Memory’? Irish Republican Attitudes to Zionism and Palestine in Historical Context
The belief in a ‘natural’ Irish sympathy with the Palestinian people, based on a shared history of colonisation, is a very widespread one. Indeed, many suggest that the legacy of resistance to Brit...
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September 8, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Dr @brian-hanley.bsky.social has published a new article in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, on Irish Republican Attitudes to Zionism and Palestine www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Important new piece in @mbhjournal.bsky.social by my colleague @jcrangle.bsky.social on the experiences of Black and mixed race Irish immigrants in Britain 👇
academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...
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‘I felt like I just belonged’: urban multiculture and black Irish migrants in post-war Britain
Abstract. This article reevaluates historians’ understanding of the Irish in post-war Britain from the perspective of a previously unresearched population,
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September 1, 2026 at 10:48 AM
Important new piece in @mbhjournal.bsky.social by my colleague @jcrangle.bsky.social on the experiences of Black and mixed race Irish immigrants in Britain 👇
academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...
academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...
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I made it into today’s Irish Times with an essay about the Queen’s Colleges and Empire. Always exciting to see one’s name in print.
August 29, 2026 at 8:27 AM
I made it into today’s Irish Times with an essay about the Queen’s Colleges and Empire. Always exciting to see one’s name in print.
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Today is (online) publication day for Contested Histories: Global Perspectives on the Past, Present and Future of Public Monuments, a volume edited by me, @simonajohn.bsky.social and Hannah Lyons. We're so proud to have this volume out in the world! More info here:
www.bloomsbury.com/us/contested...
www.bloomsbury.com/us/contested...
Contested Histories
Examining case studies from Asia, Africa, North America, and Europe, this book explores the debates around the past, present and future of public monuments. Thr…
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August 20, 2026 at 9:51 AM
Today is (online) publication day for Contested Histories: Global Perspectives on the Past, Present and Future of Public Monuments, a volume edited by me, @simonajohn.bsky.social and Hannah Lyons. We're so proud to have this volume out in the world! More info here:
www.bloomsbury.com/us/contested...
www.bloomsbury.com/us/contested...
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New publication by @olwenpurdue.bsky.social
‘God-fearing citizens and Empire builders’: The Emigration of Belfast’s Workhouse Boys to Canada 1903–1917
This article examines the emigration of children from Belfast workhouse in the opening years of the twentieth century. Belfast, a thriving industrial city at the heart of empire and itself a produc...
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August 19, 2026 at 4:21 PM
New publication by @olwenpurdue.bsky.social
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After 10 years at the helm of Irish Studies at QUB, with various ups and downs over the last decade, I’m handing over to our new leadership team from Monday. Many thanks to Peter and @siobhraaiken.bsky.social for stepping up to take forward Irish Studies in Belfast!
www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
New Irish Studies Leadership
After 10 years as Director of the Institute of Irish Studies, Prof Peter Gray is handing over to a new leadership team from the start of August 2026.
www.qub.ac.uk
July 31, 2026 at 1:51 PM
After 10 years at the helm of Irish Studies at QUB, with various ups and downs over the last decade, I’m handing over to our new leadership team from Monday. Many thanks to Peter and @siobhraaiken.bsky.social for stepping up to take forward Irish Studies in Belfast!
www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
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What happens when historic human remains are returned to a community of origin? In this new co-authored article we compare recent reburials at Inishbofin in Ireland and Pälkäne in Finland: both controversial processes for reasons that overlap in fascinating ways. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Returning the dead: the experience of repatriation and the heritage of racial science in Finland and Ireland
This article examines the contemporary return and reburial of human remains in two European contexts – Inishbofin, Ireland, and Pälkäne, Finland – to analyse how communities of descent experience, ...
www.tandfonline.com
July 29, 2026 at 8:58 AM
What happens when historic human remains are returned to a community of origin? In this new co-authored article we compare recent reburials at Inishbofin in Ireland and Pälkäne in Finland: both controversial processes for reasons that overlap in fascinating ways. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Because you don’t save, Mr Deasy said, pointing his finger. You don’t know yet what money is. Money is power. When you have lived as long as I have. I know, I know. If youth but knew. But what does Shakespeare say? Put but money in thy purse.
July 30, 2026 at 7:55 AM
Because you don’t save, Mr Deasy said, pointing his finger. You don’t know yet what money is. Money is power. When you have lived as long as I have. I know, I know. If youth but knew. But what does Shakespeare say? Put but money in thy purse.
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reburial politics! I read the lit. on physicality w/ the dead when writing on Antigone: here, it’s the “‘reading of bones’, a ‘double-bodily engagement’ between the living & the dead, visible in…physical handling of the coffins, the carrying of remains through familiar landscapes” TRL great start!
What happens when historic human remains are returned to a community of origin? In this new co-authored article we compare recent reburials at Inishbofin in Ireland and Pälkäne in Finland: both controversial processes for reasons that overlap in fascinating ways. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Returning the dead: the experience of repatriation and the heritage of racial science in Finland and Ireland
This article examines the contemporary return and reburial of human remains in two European contexts – Inishbofin, Ireland, and Pälkäne, Finland – to analyse how communities of descent experience, ...
www.tandfonline.com
July 29, 2026 at 12:43 PM
reburial politics! I read the lit. on physicality w/ the dead when writing on Antigone: here, it’s the “‘reading of bones’, a ‘double-bodily engagement’ between the living & the dead, visible in…physical handling of the coffins, the carrying of remains through familiar landscapes” TRL great start!
What happens when historic human remains are returned to a community of origin? In this new co-authored article we compare recent reburials at Inishbofin in Ireland and Pälkäne in Finland: both controversial processes for reasons that overlap in fascinating ways. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Returning the dead: the experience of repatriation and the heritage of racial science in Finland and Ireland
This article examines the contemporary return and reburial of human remains in two European contexts – Inishbofin, Ireland, and Pälkäne, Finland – to analyse how communities of descent experience, ...
www.tandfonline.com
July 29, 2026 at 8:58 AM
What happens when historic human remains are returned to a community of origin? In this new co-authored article we compare recent reburials at Inishbofin in Ireland and Pälkäne in Finland: both controversial processes for reasons that overlap in fascinating ways. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Excited to offer a fully funded PhD with Maeve Ryan and I at KCL. Details below.
www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin...
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CRSW / AHRC Doctoral Studentship: Narratives of Enslavement and their Legacies | King's College London
King’s College London’s Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, jointly supervised by English and War Studies.
www.kcl.ac.uk
July 28, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Excited to offer a fully funded PhD with Maeve Ryan and I at KCL. Details below.
www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin...
www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin...
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The book is out and available, in full open access with @degruyterbrill.bsky.social 🚨
Thank you to the @c2dh.uni.lu for the open access.
11 chapters about the public fabric of history in Europe.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
@ncph.bsky.social @ifphexplorers.bsky.social
Thank you to the @c2dh.uni.lu for the open access.
11 chapters about the public fabric of history in Europe.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
@ncph.bsky.social @ifphexplorers.bsky.social
July 21, 2026 at 6:25 AM
The book is out and available, in full open access with @degruyterbrill.bsky.social 🚨
Thank you to the @c2dh.uni.lu for the open access.
11 chapters about the public fabric of history in Europe.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
@ncph.bsky.social @ifphexplorers.bsky.social
Thank you to the @c2dh.uni.lu for the open access.
11 chapters about the public fabric of history in Europe.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
@ncph.bsky.social @ifphexplorers.bsky.social
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Best Goodreads review of all time.
July 13, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Best Goodreads review of all time.
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This piece by @joshcaress.bsky.social - published by @lukeoneil47.bsky.social -
is by far the most perceptive take on American identity + myth + memory I've read this anniversary...
is by far the most perceptive take on American identity + myth + memory I've read this anniversary...
"There has never been a time in American history when our country was not mythologizing itself to cover atrocities.... More than any other nation, America is an idea. And that idea is a phantasm, a collective dream, or—more plainly—a fantasy." www.welcometohellworld.com/america-250-...
America 250: A Reckoning
Mythologizing ourselves to cover atrocities
www.welcometohellworld.com
July 5, 2026 at 6:53 AM
This piece by @joshcaress.bsky.social - published by @lukeoneil47.bsky.social -
is by far the most perceptive take on American identity + myth + memory I've read this anniversary...
is by far the most perceptive take on American identity + myth + memory I've read this anniversary...