As it’s Friday, here’s your weekend mood setter, all the way from #Cork… #guinnesscorkjazzfest #itsjazztime

Finally finished this (hurrah for bank holidays!). Brilliant work, lots of fresh insights, and the photos and maps are stunning. Dr Helene O'Keeffe UCC Ireland

David Winfield Mick O'Farrell John Dorney The Lion and the Shamrock Dublin City Historians in Residence History Ireland Quincey Dougan History Hub Ulster All of the key work on women is referenced in this collection

'Undeservedly Forgotten: Gender-based violence, impunity, documents and testimony.' Keynote address by Prof Prof Linda Connolly now lindaconnolly.bsky.social, Professor of Sociology and Director, Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute is underway at the CSF symposium. #UCCFutures ISS21

Lovely day for keynoting in ISS21 with my former colleagues, thanks to Prof maggie oneill #CeaseFireNow for inviting me and John Borgonovo for introducing the talk, and audience for excellent questions

The WINNER of the 2024 Hodges Figgis History Book of the Year is... Atlas of the Irish Civil War: New Perspectives, Edited by Hélène O’Keeffe, John Crowley, Donal Ó Drisceoil, John Borgonovo and Mike Murphy (CorkUniversityPress) #APIBA #ReadersWanted #StoriesMakeUs

This is great news - delighted for the editorial team Dr Helene O'Keeffe John Borgonovo - and also Andy Bielenberg and The Irish Story for their work on the Civil War Fatalities index 👏🏼👏🏼

Incredible!!! Such an honour to have contributed to it on Liam Lynch. Congrats to the entire editorial team. Dr Helene O'Keeffe John h bojaca esp

Hurraah! Delighted to have been involved in this via the UCC Civil War Fatalities project! ucc.ie/en/theirishrev…

Lilly and Mary are in residence!

A magical special evening at the launch of Mercier Press Books new St Luke’s shop ✨📚 OPEN WEDS-SUNS Catching up with old friends & new. Míle Buíochas to Mary, Dee, Ronan for all their kindness & generosity. A special word of sincere thanks & deep appreciation to Cónal Creedon

So wonderful to be at the launch of a new bookstore today in St Lukes thanks to Dee & team Mercier Press Books has long been an established publisher, with some links to our family, speaker Cónal Creedon Cónal Creedon as always did a superb job and Mary Murphy was if course the star🌟

Jim O'Neill One could add Christabel and Peter Bielenberg were opposed to Nazism and, following Hitler's rise to power in 1933, participated in anti-Nazi activities. Christabel’s book “The Past is Myself” written in Co Carlow was an international bestseller and on the school curriculum.

Yaroslav Trofimov You live on an island continent far from Europe or any credible threat of invasion. Ireland opposes warfare in favour of neutrality and international law, and does so at some risk to its own interests and safety, and always has done (since at least 697 AD). What would you know?

President Higgins today received representatives of CorkUniversityPress and the editors of 'Atlas of the Irish Civil War: New Perspectives' on a courtesy call at Áras an Uachtaráin. Cork University Press this year celebrates its 100 year anniversary

New MU Social Science Institute working paper No. 26 (with some relevance to the current NUI/TCD Senate elections) - my reflections on: What Now After the March the 8th Referendums? The Future of Family, Caring and Women’s “Life in the Home” maynoothuniversity.ie/sites/default/…

What Now After the March the 8th Referendums? The Future of Family, Caring and Women’s “Life in the Home” New MU Social Science Institute working paper No. 26, January 2025, by Professor Linda Connolly Prof Linda Connolly now lindaconnolly.bsky.social Maynooth University maynoothuniversity.ie/sites/default/…

Review of “A Tract for Our Times: A Retrospective on Joe Lee’s Ireland 1912–1985: Reappraisal of a historic classic” ⁦Irish Times Culture⁩ irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

For anyone interested in learning more about the theory & impartial methods in genocide research, this was a masterpiece class also full of insight, humanity & some hope. Thanks to Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt especially MU School of Law & Criminology Fergus Ryan/Fearghus Ó Riain and John Reynolds Go raibh maith agat #ceasfirenow