Georgina Laragy
@geolug.bsky.social
Historian @Trinity College Dublin and Dublin Cemeteries Trust / Glasnevin Cemetery since 2015. Researching 19th and 20th century Irish history especially death, burial and poverty. Also Public History
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Anyone who buys clothes from Tesco, M&S, Dunnes or Penneys/Primark (Dunnes in particular) should watch @rte.ie Primetime's meticulously researched expose of forced labour in cotton production in China and how it gets into Irish and UK shops. You'll find it on RTE player.
September 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Anyone who buys clothes from Tesco, M&S, Dunnes or Penneys/Primark (Dunnes in particular) should watch @rte.ie Primetime's meticulously researched expose of forced labour in cotton production in China and how it gets into Irish and UK shops. You'll find it on RTE player.
Delighted to see this new publication released today. I know what a labour of love and care this was for my Donegal friend and historian @angela-historian.bsky.social . Congratulations!!
September 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Delighted to see this new publication released today. I know what a labour of love and care this was for my Donegal friend and historian @angela-historian.bsky.social . Congratulations!!
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It was good to co-author alongside @clarekelly.bsky.social & Caitríona Leahy & with the input from Harun Šiljak & Norah Campbell. We are clearly not the only ones thinking like this, both within Trinity & beyond, so let's build community to #resistAI
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI
Even if all the known issues were magically resolved, we would still not want our students to use GenAI
www.irishtimes.com
September 4, 2025 at 8:33 AM
It was good to co-author alongside @clarekelly.bsky.social & Caitríona Leahy & with the input from Harun Šiljak & Norah Campbell. We are clearly not the only ones thinking like this, both within Trinity & beyond, so let's build community to #resistAI
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Wonderful piece by colleagues in @historytcd.bsky.social and @tcdpsychology.bsky.social
Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.
Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI
September 5, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Wonderful piece by colleagues in @historytcd.bsky.social and @tcdpsychology.bsky.social
great piece by colleagues @kbruisch.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @historytcd.bsky.social on GenAi and high Ed. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI
Even if all the known issues were magically resolved, we would still not want our students to use GenAI
www.irishtimes.com
September 5, 2025 at 8:35 AM
great piece by colleagues @kbruisch.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @historytcd.bsky.social on GenAi and high Ed. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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With many thanks to @degruyterbrill.bsky.social and all our contributing authors
August 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
With many thanks to @degruyterbrill.bsky.social and all our contributing authors
Really delighted to see this out. Great work by colleagues and alumni of @historytcd.bsky.social #publichistory masters programme. #openaccess as well. Thanks to everyone involved. @smythh.bsky.social @richardlegay.bsky.social @ciaranon.bsky.social
🔊 Very pleased our book about public history is out and gold open access: Public History in Global Perspective
Inquiry, Exchange and Practice. @ciaranon.bsky.social @geolug.bsky.social @richardlegay.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/mafs2wrx
Inquiry, Exchange and Practice. @ciaranon.bsky.social @geolug.bsky.social @richardlegay.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/mafs2wrx
Public History in Global Perspective
Where should public history sit within the matrix of global, international, (trans-)national, and more local histories? Since its emergence in the 1970s, Public History has typically been read as comm...
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August 11, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Really delighted to see this out. Great work by colleagues and alumni of @historytcd.bsky.social #publichistory masters programme. #openaccess as well. Thanks to everyone involved. @smythh.bsky.social @richardlegay.bsky.social @ciaranon.bsky.social
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Delighted to see our (Brendan Twomey and myself) new Curated Collection on the Registry of Deeds up on @virtualtreasury.bsky.social virtualtreasury.ie/curated-coll.... @historytcd.bsky.social
Virtual Treasury
Virtual Treasury
virtualtreasury.ie
June 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Delighted to see our (Brendan Twomey and myself) new Curated Collection on the Registry of Deeds up on @virtualtreasury.bsky.social virtualtreasury.ie/curated-coll.... @historytcd.bsky.social
Applying for this job was one of the best decisions I've ever made!
Drop me a message if you're interested and want to learn more about our current team and how it all works.
Drop me a message if you're interested and want to learn more about our current team and how it all works.
📣 call for applications 📣
Two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop.
Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
Please share widely!
www.historyworkshop....
Two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop.
Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
Please share widely!
www.historyworkshop....
July 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Great work by one of our @historytcd.bsky.social #publichistory students Morgan Hansen as part of her internship with the excellent @virtualtreasury.bsky.social thanks for facilitating our students on your project, helping them do public history.
What began as a simple search in the archives led our @historytcd.bsky.social intern Morgan to the rediscovery of Mary Molesworth’s tragic life, her enduring legacy, and the vibrant community efforts to remember her today.
Read more in Morgan's hidden story here: virtualtreasury.ie/hidden-stori...
Read more in Morgan's hidden story here: virtualtreasury.ie/hidden-stori...
July 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Great work by one of our @historytcd.bsky.social #publichistory students Morgan Hansen as part of her internship with the excellent @virtualtreasury.bsky.social thanks for facilitating our students on your project, helping them do public history.
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Check out #ThePeoplesDispensary – our free new online resource about charitable medicine in Edinburgh. It includes a fully transcribed and digitised archive of over 10,000 pages of Georgian patient case notes from the Edinburgh Public Dispensary
👉 www.rcpe.ac.uk/peoplesdispe...
👉 www.rcpe.ac.uk/peoplesdispe...
July 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Check out #ThePeoplesDispensary – our free new online resource about charitable medicine in Edinburgh. It includes a fully transcribed and digitised archive of over 10,000 pages of Georgian patient case notes from the Edinburgh Public Dispensary
👉 www.rcpe.ac.uk/peoplesdispe...
👉 www.rcpe.ac.uk/peoplesdispe...
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🧑🏽🏫 Inclusive history in the classroom means acknowledging previously excluded voices and empowering teachers to share them.
We're fundraising for a GRT Teacher Fellowship in memory of Helen Snelson, who advocated for inclusive, rigorous history.
💛 Support us here: shorturl.at/2wGcW #HACommunity
We're fundraising for a GRT Teacher Fellowship in memory of Helen Snelson, who advocated for inclusive, rigorous history.
💛 Support us here: shorturl.at/2wGcW #HACommunity
July 10, 2025 at 9:02 AM
🧑🏽🏫 Inclusive history in the classroom means acknowledging previously excluded voices and empowering teachers to share them.
We're fundraising for a GRT Teacher Fellowship in memory of Helen Snelson, who advocated for inclusive, rigorous history.
💛 Support us here: shorturl.at/2wGcW #HACommunity
We're fundraising for a GRT Teacher Fellowship in memory of Helen Snelson, who advocated for inclusive, rigorous history.
💛 Support us here: shorturl.at/2wGcW #HACommunity
Good to chat with Ciara Doherty about a women's museum for Ireland.
www.newstalk.com/podcasts/new... Does Ireland need a national women’s museum?And should we put it in the GPO? excellent points from my women’s museum advocate colleague @geolug.bsky.social -what can I say about Finn (‘women’s history is boring’)McRedmond but how banal & silly can you be! #speirgorm
Does Ireland need a national women’s museum? And should we put it in the GPO? | Newstalk
Politicians are fighting over the future of the GPO on Dublin’s O’Connell Street, now that An...
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July 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Good to chat with Ciara Doherty about a women's museum for Ireland.
Anna Collins @glasnevincemetery.bsky.social tour guide and @historytcd.bsky.social public history student is leading a new #pride #LGTBQ tour in Glasnevin cemetery this weekend for @dublinpride.bsky.social . More info here. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2...
Glasnevin Cemetery’s Queer History Tour: ‘If you’re here for the drama, you’ll get it’
Guide Anna Collins on the radical characters who feature on a tour introduced to mark Dublin Pride
www.irishtimes.com
June 19, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Anna Collins @glasnevincemetery.bsky.social tour guide and @historytcd.bsky.social public history student is leading a new #pride #LGTBQ tour in Glasnevin cemetery this weekend for @dublinpride.bsky.social . More info here. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2...
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There are still tickets left for Oein DeBhairduin's (@nmireland.bsky.social) talk 'Challenging the Narrative: Reclaiming Traveller History in Ireland's National Collections' which will explore the importance of co-curation & community-led approaches. More info here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/reclaiming...
May 13, 2025 at 9:18 AM
There are still tickets left for Oein DeBhairduin's (@nmireland.bsky.social) talk 'Challenging the Narrative: Reclaiming Traveller History in Ireland's National Collections' which will explore the importance of co-curation & community-led approaches. More info here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/reclaiming...
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My open access article on the public history of allyship and solidarity between Native American and Irish people has just been published. It draws on thousands of comments published on a GoFundMe page between 2020 and 2024. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com
April 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
My open access article on the public history of allyship and solidarity between Native American and Irish people has just been published. It draws on thousands of comments published on a GoFundMe page between 2020 and 2024. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Our wonderful student Anna Collins works in @glasnevincemetery.bsky.social while also studying part-time on our M.Phil in Public History and Cultural Heritage programme @historytcd.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social . Her experiences are worth a read here. www.independent.ie/business/in-...
This Working Life: ‘I love doing the Glasnevin Cemetery tour – I get to add new elements to it’
So many go straight from school into college and hate it. I took some time out and did some work and then found out what I was interested in.
www.independent.ie
April 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Our wonderful student Anna Collins works in @glasnevincemetery.bsky.social while also studying part-time on our M.Phil in Public History and Cultural Heritage programme @historytcd.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social . Her experiences are worth a read here. www.independent.ie/business/in-...
#pubhist students from @historytcd.bsky.social took a fieldtrip to Belfast ysty. We enjoyed glorious sunshine, nuanced conversations with Rebecca Laverty from Ulster Museum & Paul Donnelly of @dctoursbelfast.bsky.social. Walking the ground is a great way to learn about Belfast's contested history.
April 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
#pubhist students from @historytcd.bsky.social took a fieldtrip to Belfast ysty. We enjoyed glorious sunshine, nuanced conversations with Rebecca Laverty from Ulster Museum & Paul Donnelly of @dctoursbelfast.bsky.social. Walking the ground is a great way to learn about Belfast's contested history.
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Women's and gender history is thriving in HE, but very little of this new work appears in schools history.
Mid-way through the gov't's curriculum review, Natasha Hodgson considers the barriers to the take up of new work in schools, and how she seeks to overcome these bit.ly/4lf0Xm4 1/2 #Skystorians
Mid-way through the gov't's curriculum review, Natasha Hodgson considers the barriers to the take up of new work in schools, and how she seeks to overcome these bit.ly/4lf0Xm4 1/2 #Skystorians
March 31, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Women's and gender history is thriving in HE, but very little of this new work appears in schools history.
Mid-way through the gov't's curriculum review, Natasha Hodgson considers the barriers to the take up of new work in schools, and how she seeks to overcome these bit.ly/4lf0Xm4 1/2 #Skystorians
Mid-way through the gov't's curriculum review, Natasha Hodgson considers the barriers to the take up of new work in schools, and how she seeks to overcome these bit.ly/4lf0Xm4 1/2 #Skystorians
From David Murphy @maynoothuniversity.ie on the historic and strategic reason for Vance's trip to Greenland tomorrow.
How JD Vance's visit reflects decades of US interest in Greenland. There's a long and contentious history of US interest in the Arctic island, but it seems to have entered a new phase under Donald Trump, writes David Murphy @maynoothuniversity.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
How JD Vance's visit reflects decades of US interest in Greenland
There's a long and contentious history of US interest in the Arctic island, but it seems to have entered a new phase under Donald Trump
www.rte.ie
March 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
From David Murphy @maynoothuniversity.ie on the historic and strategic reason for Vance's trip to Greenland tomorrow.
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History of LGBT Activism in Ireland (3rd April,UCD) the @researchireland.bsky.social LGBT Activism in Ireland, 1973–2023 workshops
🔗 Register for Workshop 1 (April 3rd): lnkd.in/epC2rAwG
We’re looking forward to this important gathering of activists, advocates, and scholars. #speirgorm
🔗 Register for Workshop 1 (April 3rd): lnkd.in/epC2rAwG
We’re looking forward to this important gathering of activists, advocates, and scholars. #speirgorm
March 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
History of LGBT Activism in Ireland (3rd April,UCD) the @researchireland.bsky.social LGBT Activism in Ireland, 1973–2023 workshops
🔗 Register for Workshop 1 (April 3rd): lnkd.in/epC2rAwG
We’re looking forward to this important gathering of activists, advocates, and scholars. #speirgorm
🔗 Register for Workshop 1 (April 3rd): lnkd.in/epC2rAwG
We’re looking forward to this important gathering of activists, advocates, and scholars. #speirgorm
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A wee reminder, if you want to know more about Ireland’s last witch trial, the #islandmageewitches, check out our (with Dr Victoria McCollum) website: links to books, podcasts, a free graphic novel, original documents, animation, VR app, and info about our play, exhibition and hub: w1711.org
Witches of Islandmagee
This site is dedicated to uncovering the importance of the witch trial that took place in 1710–1711 in Islandmagee, Ireland.
w1711.org
March 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
A wee reminder, if you want to know more about Ireland’s last witch trial, the #islandmageewitches, check out our (with Dr Victoria McCollum) website: links to books, podcasts, a free graphic novel, original documents, animation, VR app, and info about our play, exhibition and hub: w1711.org
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To mark international Single Parents Day, One Family together with Trinity College Dublin and Glasgow Caledonian University launches new campaign highlighting the history, experiences and misconceptions facing one-parent families @onefamilyireland.bsky.social @mediacoops.bsky.social #singleparentday
Time for a Change
Find out more about the work of our partners supporting One Parent Familes
www.vopfn.org
March 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
To mark international Single Parents Day, One Family together with Trinity College Dublin and Glasgow Caledonian University launches new campaign highlighting the history, experiences and misconceptions facing one-parent families @onefamilyireland.bsky.social @mediacoops.bsky.social #singleparentday
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One of our fabulous @bbkhistorical.bsky.social MA students, Laura Aitken-Burt, is a teacher & had been conducting research into the underrepresentation of women's history in schools. She's discovered that less than 10% of named individuals in school history courses are women!
She's founded...
She's founded...
March 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
One of our fabulous @bbkhistorical.bsky.social MA students, Laura Aitken-Burt, is a teacher & had been conducting research into the underrepresentation of women's history in schools. She's discovered that less than 10% of named individuals in school history courses are women!
She's founded...
She's founded...
This Wednesday @ 7.30 @glasnevincemetery.bsky.social we have Dr Susan Flavin from @historytcd.bsky.social talking about her foodcult.eu project and making early modern beer. All are welcome @dublininquirer.com @tlrhub.bsky.social @dublincitylibs.bsky.social Please Repost..
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FoodCult – The FoodCult website
Welcome to FoodCult, a five-year project funded by the European Research Council. This project brings together history, archaeology, science and information technology to explore the diet and foodways...
foodcult.eu
March 18, 2025 at 9:23 AM
This Wednesday @ 7.30 @glasnevincemetery.bsky.social we have Dr Susan Flavin from @historytcd.bsky.social talking about her foodcult.eu project and making early modern beer. All are welcome @dublininquirer.com @tlrhub.bsky.social @dublincitylibs.bsky.social Please Repost..
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