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Tomás Finn
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Historian of Modern Ireland and Britain at the University of Galway
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Interested in doing a MA in History? Find out more at University of Galway's Postgraduate Open Day on Tues., 11 Nov. 4-6pm in Bailey Allen
www.universityofgalway.ie/postgraduate... For a preview our exciting MA, take a look here youtu.be/SIKBbxm0K1o
MA History | College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies
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November 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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The Founding of the Wexford Festival Opera in the town of Wexford on October 21, 1951 | seamusdubhghaill.com/2025/10/21/t... via @seamusdubhghaill.bsky.social | #IrishHistory #3584
The Founding of the Wexford Festival Opera
Wexford Festival Opera (Irish: Féile Ceoldráma Loch Garman), an opera festival that takes place in the town of Wexford in southeastern Ireland, first takes place on Oc…
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October 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Congratulations to our PhD student Kieran Devenish on the successful launch of his book on an important aspect of the economic and social history of Bray and an article in the 50th issue of Saothar @historyatgalway.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Congratulations to our fantastic students, Caden Casey and Aoibhín Ní Gleasáin, on their success at the Global Undergraduate Awards in Dublin last night! Their prize-winning essays are now available to view on the GUA Library: gua.soutron.net/Portal/Defau...
October 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Delighted Caden Casey and Aoibhín Ní Gleasáin received awards at the Global Undergraduate Awards at the Royal Irish Academy undergraduateawards.com/regional-win... Their essays at the @universityofgalway.bsky.social have been recognised as among the very best of those sent from across the world
October 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Call for participants! Spread the word and get in touch with our PhD researcher, Elliot, if you are interested in being interviewed for his exciting PhD project!
Hi everyone! I'm currently looking for participants for interviews for my PhD research. I'm working on the history of the LGBT+ community in rural Ireland, the way being in rural Ireland impacted the community and how the community impacted rural Ireland, 1970-2000.
September 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Reminder that our Research Seminar Series is kicking off tomorrow 🎉
Delighted to share our Research Seminar Series for this semester! We're starting off next Wed 10 Sept @ 4pm by welcoming our new colleague, Dr Ciarán McCabe, who will be speaking on 'Privacy, Respectability, and Working-Class Domestic Spaces in Dublin's Tenements, c.1910-c.1960'!
September 9, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Aoibhín's essay was entitled 'Ireland's Missed Opportunity; The 1951 Mother and Child Scheme in Comparative Context' and Caden's essay was entitled 'The Transformation of Education in Ireland in the 1950s'. Well done on all your hard work 👏🥳
September 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Delighted to share our Research Seminar Series for this semester! We're starting off next Wed 10 Sept @ 4pm by welcoming our new colleague, Dr Ciarán McCabe, who will be speaking on 'Privacy, Respectability, and Working-Class Domestic Spaces in Dublin's Tenements, c.1910-c.1960'!
September 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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The Charlie Byrne's team know how to do bookshops....

#supporttheindies #visit Galway 👌📚🇮🇪

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July 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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The @difp-ria.bsky.social is hiring! See the link below for details of an assistant editor position on the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy team - to cover a career break until July 2028.

Please spread the word. DIFP is a very exciting project to work on. 🗃️

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Vacancy: Assistant Editor, Documents on Irish Foreign Policy - Royal Irish Academy
Applications are invited for the position of Assistant Editor, Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) at the Royal Irish Academy.
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June 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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⭐️ UCD Press recently published titles ⭐️

We may be a bit biased, but we think our recent books look pretty good together. Cover and spine designs by the wonderful and talented Fiachra McCarthy

Browse all of our books at www.ucdpress.ie or find them in stores nationwide
June 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Thanks so much to the Irish Ambassador and Embassy in Prague for hosting my talk. So many fascinating insights from so many people into how modern Ireland has emerged and evolved @historyatgalway.bsky.social @uniofgalwayasc.bsky.social @uniofgalwaylib.bsky.social @uniofgalwaycasscs.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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If you're in Prague this Thursday, catch Tomás Finn @finnuniofgalway.bsky.social speaking at the Irish Embassy on his brilliant recent research on the transformation of post-WWII Ireland!
June 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Thanks to the Irish Ambassador and the Irish embassy in Prague for the opportunity this Thursday 5 June to speak on the transformation of Ireland from WWII to today @historyatgalway.bsky.social @uniofgalwayasc.bsky.social @uniofgalwaycasscs.bsky.social
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Lecture on Modern Irish Political and Social Transformation by Dr. Finn
Tomás Finn is a Lecturer in History at the University of Galway.
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June 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Powerful account by our colleague @sarahannebuckley.bsky.social and Elaine Feeney of the importance of the decision by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment to publish modules addressing the history, legacy and literature of Ireland’s institutions www.thejournal.ie/readme/mothe...
Opinion: To learn the lessons of Ireland's institutional past, we must teach it in schools
Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley and Elaine Feeney welcome plans to teach the history, legacy and literature of Ireland’s dark past at Junior Cert level.
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May 19, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Book Launch Details for
Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way

21.5 Foyles Charing Cross Road
23.5 London Irish Centre, Hammersmith

27.5 Kenny’s Bookshop
29.5 Books Upstairs

Tickets online via each venue! Love to see you! 🍷
May 1, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Returning to Tipperary and this Friday Clonmel to revisit Pawel Paul Strzelecki, the Polish humanitarian and explorer, and how his idea saved more than 200,000 children during the Great Famine in Ireland strzelecki.ie/51194-2/
April 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Looking forward to working with Carrick-on-Suir Library and once again with the Polish embassy in highlighting in talks at the library the role of Paul Strzelecki as a humanitarian, explorer and migrant and how ours has been a Global world for a very long time
Carrick-on-Suir Library is delighted to host 'A Forgotten Polish Hero of the Great Irish Famine: Paul Strzelecki's Struggle to Save Thousands', an exhibition presented by the Polish Embassy in Dublin.

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March 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Delighted to have presented my books on Tuairim and with Tony Varley that on Rural Ireland to the @president.ie and Mrs Higgins at Áras an Uachtaráin manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719095436/ www.ucdpress.ie/page/detail/...
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March 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Call for papers is open #irishhistory
March 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Next week Shauna Mulligan will compare “The Plantation and the Concentration Camp: Slave labour and racism during the American Civil War (1861-1865) and the Second World War (1941-1945)” in GO10 HRB, 4pm, Wednesday 26 February, and via Zoom webinar at universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
February 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Really enjoyed talking about Rural Ireland book with Patrick Geoghan on newstalk's talking history @ucdpress.bsky.social @historyatgalway.bsky.social
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Best of January Books
In this episode: the unhappy early life and dangerous ambition of Eamon De Valera, with Colum Kenny; power and change in Rural Ireland, with editor Tomás Finn; and The Language Puzzle: How We Talked O...
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February 22, 2025 at 10:47 AM
@biblioraphic.bsky.social Hi. My name is Tomás Finn. I am an historian at the university of Galway. Can you please add me to your starter pack?
February 22, 2025 at 6:58 AM