Prof Deirdre Raftery
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Prof Deirdre Raftery
@draftery.bsky.social
University College Dublin | Full Prof of the History of Education | FRHistS | Affls.: University of Cambridge & Trinity College Dublin | author | mother | gardener | sailor | book collector. Writes about 19thC schools/childhood/convents/Irish diaspora.
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24 hours to go for our crowdfunding campaign! Our final instalment in the MiniMotet series, this one is all about living together in peace and harmony, and burning all your vanities
#earlymodern #nuntastic #GirlsGotPolyphony
youtu.be/uyCejiKD1sE
Crowdfunder Week 8, MiniMotet 4 Ecce quam bonum
YouTube video by MusicaSecreta
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August 24, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Why did so many 19th century Irish women become nuns and head for missionary work overseas? By Deirdre Raftery
@ucddublin.bsky.social @researchireland.ie - The Last Irish Missionaries airs @rteone.rte.ie & RTÉ Player Monday 935pm www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Why did so many 19th century Irish women become nuns?
By 1901, there was one nun per 400 members of the Irish population and many of these women left the country for missionary work overseas
www.rte.ie
July 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
@ciaraioch.bsky.social arrived today - look forward to framing this… beautifully done. Thank you!
July 2, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Wonderful celebration of the late Michael Longley, and his legacy to poetry and to this island.
June 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Great to see @ucddublin.bsky.social Emily Pine hosting this evening’s wonderful interview with Judith Hermann & Katy Derbyshire at the International Literature Festival Dublin #ILFD
May 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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200 bottles of Gatorade. 300 bottles of water. 60 Clif bars. 500+ miles. 9 riders. 4 support crew. 3 tribal vehicles. ONE CHALLNGE. Choctaw Nation Trail of Tears Bike Team starts a huge ride from Missisissipii to Oklahoma tomorrow. Please help us to keep the cycle going. #choctawgift #sharinglands
Donate to Honouring Choctaw & Irish Ancestors (Official Team Cycle), organised by Padraig Kirwan
The remarkable and ongoing connection between the citizens of… Padraig Kirwan needs your support for Honouring Choctaw & Irish Ancestors (Official Team Cycle)
www.gofundme.com
May 17, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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The UCD Trad Group were welcomed to the Irish Traditional Music Archives this week.
The group had a great time browsing the archive.

The visit finished up with a couple of tunes in the library while the archives secretary Bridie Flaherty danced a jig!
A great day 😄
April 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
March 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Some fantastic news. Irish Dry Stone Construction (walls) has just been added to the UNESCO representative list of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Ireland now has five inscribed ICH practices.
December 5, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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We need more book announcements on the timeline. For eye-cleansing, heart-cleansing. Book releases, book announcements, with cover page photos and short summaries, that's top escapism, I crave it!
November 19, 2024 at 3:01 PM
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Everybody, please put up a profile picture, even if it is only a picture of your cat. And write at least a few words in your bio. It is hard to distinguish people from bots otherwise. Thank you. And thanks to those who follow me.
November 15, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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So because it is Saturday I created this. Feel free to get in touch if you want to be added - or removed! go.bsky.app/8FJAkMG
November 16, 2024 at 8:10 PM
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ICHS Seminar 2024, Remember Professor Raymond Gillespie, 11.30am Saturday 23rd, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland www.historians.ie/ichs-seminar... #irishhistory
ICHS Seminar 2024, Remember Professor Raymond Gillespie, 11.30am Saturday 23rd
The Irish Conference of Historical Sciences will hold it’s biennial symposium on the topic of Professor Raymond Gillespie’s impact on local history. Prof. Gillespie’s 1998 book co-authored with Myr…
www.historians.ie
November 15, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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To celebrate the new thread feature & because it's a good time to remember that doing small things is better than doing nothing, here's my only thread from Old Twitter that went viral.

Seven years ago, when I moved in, I inherited what I thought was an overgrown tip at the bottom of my garden...
November 9, 2024 at 11:06 AM
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It was during the height of the pandemic and the nicest person from NPR was like “we want to interview you about your tweet.”

She didn’t have to say which one. It’s the cheese tweet.
This is by far the weirdest thing that’s ever happened to me. (Yes, that’s me in the interview.)

www.npr.org/transcripts/...
www.npr.org
October 13, 2024 at 8:39 PM
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Hello blue sky land. Still trying to find my way to my #histmed #histsci #envhist peeps. Follow me for research, writing and curating - mostly sleep and the Victorians but sometimes also empire and museums!
January 8, 2024 at 9:02 PM
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It's a warm sunny day in Blackrock Village and we are open for business
December 10, 2023 at 12:08 PM
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Colleagues at History UK have put together this report on EDI, History and Pedagogy - it will be useful reading for anyone involved in UKHE History teaching (and possibly others too). An initial step, not the end point, but lots on things we can do & fight for.

www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-uk-h...
History UK: History, Pedagogy and EDI project report
EDI is integral to the teaching and making of history. Between Spring 2021 and Autumn 2023, History UK undertook an EDI pedagogy project including focus groups and contextual literature review work…
www.history-uk.ac.uk
December 7, 2023 at 11:05 AM
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The CfP for the next ISCHE conference is online now. En Brasil !!
www.ische.org/ische-confer...
December 7, 2023 at 8:02 PM