
Sensing the Troubles
@sensingtroubles
Collecting stories of Northern Ireland's Troubles using sensory history. Run by Roisín Higgins. Funded by the Leverhulme Trust.
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#CaravaggioInBelfast opened today Ulster Museum on #NG200 the 200th Birthday of the National Gallery with the amazing support of National Gallery of Ireland & Caroline Campbell Quite simply breathtaking Entry is free


Prospect of an ‘official’ British history of the Troubles is hurtful Karl O'Hanlon MU English Dept The Irish Times irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0…



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)

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 Maynooth History & Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies



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


Catch Dr Michael Potterton Maynooth History appearing on the first episode of 'Invasion: The Normans', this Sunday RTÉ One at 6.30pm. #InvasionTheNormans #NormansinIreland Tile Films Tourism Ireland


The wonderful documentary about my Dad, Gerald Dawe - Out of the Ordinary, made by the brilliant DoubleBand Films, will be on BBC Northern Ireland again tonight. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

📘From our latest issue! Clodagh Tait (@tait_clodagh) (History at MIC) 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/…


I made this short animation durning my artist in residence with @VirtualTreasury and Trinity Long Room Hub The story comes from records from a medieval Irish manuscript from 1341. It will premiere New York City Indie Film Fest in a shorts programme. More info here.

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…

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



From Big Tom to John McGahern: New digital archive celebrates Border’s artistic legacy – The Irish Times Trinity Long Room Hub Seamus Heaney Centre Orla Fitzpatrick Garrett Carr SharedIsland TCD School of English irishtimes.com/politics/2024/…

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 Dr. Jennifer Redmond and examiners @opurdue & Ciarán Reilly


Today at 12 noon I’ll be chatting to William Crawley BBC Radio Ulster if you happen to be scooting about or just chilling bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…