Georgina Laragy
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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
Our @glasnevincemetery.bsky.social @historytcd.bsky.social Spring Lecture Series is live. Theme is 'Work and working in 19th & 20th century #Dublin' - please RT. Speakers @antoniahart.bsky.social @dublincity.bsky.social @drdeefoley.bsky.social & Conor Dodd formerly Glasnevin.
February 3, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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How did the US become the main threat to the future of NATO? America's departure from the multilateral principles that NATO was founded upon will force the organisation to redefine its future strategy, writes David Murphy @maynoothuniversity.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
How did the US become the main threat to the future of NATO?
America's departure from the multilateral principles that NATO was founded upon will force the organisation to redefine its future strategy
www.rte.ie
January 13, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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Launch details for Catherine Healy’s excellent new monograph, based on her brilliant @historytcd.bsky.social PhD: happening tomorrow evening in Dublin

www.eventbrite.ie/e/book-launc...
Book launch: Intimate Connections
Join us at EPIC to celebrate the publication of a new book on Irish female migration
www.eventbrite.ie
November 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Required reading of the most welcome sort in IHS this morning.

'It is in the space between our divining and conjuring that the argument lies, the debate happens, history is written and the story gets its endless quality.'

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Encountering modern Irish history: historiography, archives and imagination in the twenty-first century | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core
Encountering modern Irish history: historiography, archives and imagination in the twenty-first century
www.cambridge.org
December 1, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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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
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
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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...
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
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
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With many thanks to @degruyterbrill.bsky.social and all our contributing authors
August 11, 2025 at 3:13 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
August 11, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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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
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.
📣 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....
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...
July 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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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...
July 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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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
July 10, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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
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
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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
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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....
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April 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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
#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
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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
March 31, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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