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The Irish Naturalists’ Journal Ltd is a not-for-profit company, limited by guarantee, producing a journal and occasional publications on Irish natural history since 1925.
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📖 Volume 42 – Nigel Monaghan, INJ Editor, reflects on The Irish Naturalists’ Journal 1925–2025, celebrating 100 years of Irish natural history publishing. Subscribe: irishnaturalistsjournal.org
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January 23, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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🚨 Last chance to subscribe before Volume 42 drops! 🚨

See what you’re missing for just £25/€29/year. Full contents here: irishnaturalistsjournal.org/back-issues/...

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January 16, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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INJ in the News: A 7-year-old boy in Cork found one of the world’s rarest minerals near his home. Irish Times: www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
#INJCentenary #Geology #Science
January 10, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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Volume 41 – Markey et al. investigate Alpine Newts (Ichthyosaura alpestris) using farmland
troughs in an agricultural landscape in Ireland. For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org

#IrishNaturalistsJournal #Zoology #Amphibians #InvasiveSpecies
January 9, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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Volume 41 – Levesque et al. share strandings records from the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group for 2023. For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org

#IrishNaturalistsJournal #Zoology #Cetaceans
January 2, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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🎄 Volume 41 ⛄ – Ryan and Foote solve a decades old mystery: Matched images of a lone Killer Whale in the Foyle Estuary in 1977 gives clues to its origins and fate. Subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org 🎁

#IrishNaturalistsJournal #HappyChristmas #Zoology #Orca #Orca #KillerWhale
December 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Volume 41 – Adriano Pittini reveals a specimen of Merocanites subapplanatus, an extinct ammonoid cephalopod from the Carboniferous of Co. Dublin. For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org

#IrishNaturalistsJournal #Zoology #fossil #cephalopod
December 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Volume 41 – Eamonn O’Donnell reports Chrysocharis purpurea, a sawfly parasitoid new to Ireland. For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org

#IrishNaturalistsJournal #Zoology #Wasps
December 12, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Volume 41 – Aidan O’Hanlon explores Irish exotic ants: a checklist, and a historical first interception of the New York Carpenter Ant (Camponotus novaeboracensis) in Dublin . For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org

#IrishNaturalistsJournal #Zoology #Ants
December 5, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Volume 41 – Power and Hamilton report the discovery of Notoxus monoceros an ant-like flower beetle new to Ireland, from Co. Kerry. For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org

#IrishNaturalistsJournal #Zoology #Beetles
November 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Volume 41 – Gammell and O’Brien report the First record of the Thrift Clearwing moth (Pyropteron muscaeformis) from Co. Galway. For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org

#IrishNaturalistsJournal #Zoology #Moths
November 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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🪲 Freshwater Insects of Ireland - Join Dr Helen James, Senior Curator at National Museums NI and Belfast Naturalists Field Club for a special INJ Centenary talk!

📅 Tues 11 Nov 2025, 7:30 pm
📍 Ulster Museum (Lecture Theatre) or online
💻 Bookings: IrishNaturalistsJournal@gmail.com
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November 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Volume 41 – Ciarán Byrne reports on Microterys seyon, a parasitoid wasp new to Ireland from Co. Carlow, and comments on the genus . For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org

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November 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Volume 41 – Byrne and Clarke report on Tropidosteptes pacificus, a mirid bug new to Ireland from counties Carlow and Antrim. For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org

#IrishNaturalistsJournal #Zoology #Insects
October 31, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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🪲 Freshwater Insects of Ireland - Join Dr Helen James, Senior Curator at National Museums NI and Belfast Naturalists Field Club for a special INJ Centenary talk!

📅 Tues 11 Nov 2025, 7:30 pm
📍 Ulster Museum (Lecture Theatre) or online
💻 Bookings: IrishNaturalistsJournal@gmail.com
#INJCentenary
October 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Volume 41 – Power et al. report on Nephus quadrimaculatus a ladybird new to Ireland from Counties Carlow, Kilkenny and Wexford. For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org

#IrishNaturalistsJournal #Zoology #Ladybirds
October 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Volume 41 – Spaans et al. report on the Bark Beetles Pityogenes trepanatus new to Ireland and records of Polygraphus poligraphus. For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org

#IrishNaturalistsJournal #Zoology
October 17, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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🌿 Celebrate 100 years of the Irish Naturalists’ Journal! Join Dr Rory Hodd & the Irish Bryophyte Group for a bryophyte walk/talk in Killarney NP, Sun 12 Oct 2025, 10:30–13:30. Free but booking essential: christina.campbell@opw.ie
October 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Volume 41 – Joshua Clarke shares notes on two recently-established non-native harvestmen in Ireland: Platybunus pinetorum and Opilio canestrinii. For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org

#IrishNaturalistsJournal #Zoology #Invasives
October 10, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Volume 41 – Rosell et al. report an observation of predation of the invasive New Zealand Flatworm (Arthurdendyus triangulatus) by a larva of the Black Snail Beetle (Phosphuga atrata). For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org

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October 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Volume 41 – Power and Doherty report on Bilobella braunerae, a springtail new to Ireland from Counties Wicklow and Tipperary. For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org

#IrishNaturalistsJournal #Zoology #Springtails
September 26, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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🌿 Celebrate 100 years of the Irish Naturalists’ Journal! Join Dr Rory Hodd & the Irish Bryophyte Group for a bryophyte walk/talk in Killarney NP, Sun 12 Oct 2025, 10:30–13:30. Free but booking essential: christina.campbell@opw.ie
September 24, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Volume 41 – Ciarán Flynn reports Sphagnum platyphyllum and Sarmentypnum sarmentosum in a flush on the Cooley Mountains, Co. Louth. For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org

#IrishNaturalistsJournal #Botany
September 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Volume 41 – Daunt et al. examine a Historic algal herbarium at University College Cork, part of the of the original Queen’s College Cork (QCC)/University College Cork (UCC) herbarium. For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org

#IrishNaturalistsJournal #Marine #Algae #Seaweed
September 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Volume 41 – Patrick Smiddy looks at the Thorn-apple (Datura stramonium) in the East Cork flora. For subscription details visit: irishnaturalistsjournal.org

#IrishNaturalistsJournal #Botany
September 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM