Another great conference is on the horizon! 🗺️
We are really looking forward to #OS200 here in the Royal Irish Academy with OS200 on 21 June 2024.

This is going to be a really interesting conference on the history, legacies & digital futures of the first Ordnance Survey in Ireland - OS200 History at UL Royal Irish Academy - book your ticket below!

Going through Carrigan’s Diocesan History of Ossory atm & struck by his inclusion of the locations of the cilliní in each parish

I'll be giving the J.C. Beckett Memorial Lecture next Thursday in Belfast on ‘Margaret Isabella and the fairy in the churn: Women’s folklore and girls’ histories’. Do come along to PRONI on 9 May at 6pm! usihs36.com/2024/04/12/usi…

#CeaseFirelnGaza

I have trespassed in peaceful protest.
I have shutdown govt offices in civil disobedience.
I have made the powerful uncomfortable in their routines as I’ve dissented in peaceful but committed disorder.
Those are the American traditions of Thomas Paine, David Thoreau, Rosa Parks

Applications are now open for the 2024 Camerata Ireland Academy which will take place from 15th-20th Aug 2024. Find out more at camerata-ireland.com/academy

I'm very excited to share the front cover of Designed for Play, my book on the convoluted history of the playground, due out in July with University of London Press. It will be free to read online #playgroundhistories

This is a landmark study of Traveller experiences in education, difficult reading, but with clear recommendations for addressing inequities in educational provision at all levels. Congratulations Hannagh Mc Ginley and all involved in supporting the project.

Try to take in, I mean really *absorb*, what this means.

It means we're living like there's no tomorrow. 🌏

🎸 The music of Pussy Riot
🎻 An augmented symphony orchestra
📄 Anarchist Munich text
🎵 Operatic soloists
📽 A massive video installation in the Ulster Hall | Live Entertainment Belfast

✅ For fans of all music, theatre and film.

🗓️ Friday 10 May, 7:45pm

🎟 ulsterhall.co.uk/what-s-on/the-…

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HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY TO ME 📚💫

Today I officially became a book author! My book is now available to the world 🌍

To celebrate I'm giving away TWO copies to those that retweet this tweet! My daughter will randomly pick on Sunday evening 🗓

#BookTwitter #AcademicTwitter

Great to hear the great Sonja Tiernan speaking about the contribution of great Irish women to workers rights on #mayday . WHAI WomenWorkersUnion Women's History Network

So I was supposed to deliver the keynote at a @columbia symposium on climate and language this Friday, but I have informed the organizers that, with true sorrow, I am pulling out because I will not be associated with this university at this political moment.

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[G] Déardaoin! Beimid sa Dead Centre Brewing, @ 21:00 😁😃🎻 Beimid sa spás thuas an staighre den teach tábhairne 🍻 Tá fáilte roimh tosaitheoirí, saineolaithe agus ceoltóirí sa chruinniú cairdiúil seo! 😁✨

'It's important to me that others see something of themselves in me.'

Tomorrow we celebrate Professor Lesley Lokko, our Royal Gold Medallist 2024, at our medal ceremony and celebration.

📽️ Watch our #RoyalGoldMedal film: ow.ly/ZkIt50Rtzal

36 inquests involving 74 deaths during Troubles halted after Legacy Act takes effect

irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/0…

We are very sad to hear of the death of Booker Prize shortlistee Paul Auster, whose work touched readers and influenced writers all over the world, and whose generosity was felt in just as many quarters. We extend our condolences to his wife Siri Hustvedt and his family