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Dr Leeann Lane
@lloislanel.bsky.social
School of History and Geography, Dublin City University.
#SighleHumphreys #MaryMacSwiney #DorothyMacardle #RosamondJacob
Corgis 🦊
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My exhibition on the afterlives of Cork republican women who did not go on to marry is now up in the O’Reilly Library, Dublin City University @dculibrary.bsky.social
Weekend sorted
February 6, 2026 at 7:35 PM
No @johncreedon.bsky.social show on @rteradio1.bsky.social tonight - how less than good!
February 5, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Living with a recalcitrant corgi in these days of endless rain is a constant series of negotiations re the necessity to go outdoors 😩
February 5, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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⭐️ Today marks the birthday of Irish writer and republican activist Dorothy Macardle.

On this bank holiday Monday in honour of St Brigid, browse a variety of biographies about women in Irish history under the Gender Studies category on www.ucdpress.ie
February 2, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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Remembering Ann Lovett who tragically died 42 years ago today after giving birth alone in a grotto in Granard.

The Statue of the Virgin at Granard Speaks -Paula Meehan

"and though she cried out to me in extremis
I did not move,
I didn’t lift a finger to help her,
I didn’t intercede with heaven
January 31, 2026 at 2:14 PM
The best gang.
January 29, 2026 at 8:48 PM
What a joy it is to be in the National Library of Ireland. It lifts my spirit.
January 28, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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'All the best spies eat at Gaj's'.
B. #OTD 1919, Margaret Gaj’s eatery in the heart of 'Baggatonia' welcomed a diverse clientele. Garda special branch often dropped in to check who was there, leading the restaurant to advertise 'All the best spies eat at Gaj's'. www.dib.ie/biography/ga... #DIBLives
January 28, 2026 at 8:52 AM
A sign that January is finally coming to an end- @johncreedon.bsky.social is back on @rteradio1.bsky.social 🙌
January 26, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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The Long Valley on Wintrop Street many years ago.
January 18, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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Teresa Deevy, the playwright once described as 'the Irish Chekhov', died #otd in 1963. Teresa lost her hearing when she was 19 but learned to lip-read in the theatres of London. She returned home to write plays that gave voice to women in the margins.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
Clodagh Finn: Why Abbey playwright Teresa Deevy deserves to be a household name
Teresa Deevy's plays about people on the margins looking for a voice were out of favour in the conservative Ireland of the 1930s, writes Clodagh Finn
www.irishexaminer.com
January 19, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Reading Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth for a module I am teaching: her memory of the road to World War I is rather horrifyingly analogous to present day uncertainties.
January 19, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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“I’m a remarkable woman..always was, though none of you seemed to think so.”May Morris, English artist embroiderer, designer, feminist and socialist, dismayed by the lack of support for women artists founded the Women’s Guild of Arts, 1907 #womensart
January 18, 2026 at 5:20 AM
Really looking forward to the new novel from @louisekennedy.bsky.social
The best fiction of 2026 to look forward to: Books from Louise Kennedy, Donal Ryan, Sebastian Barry, Maggie O’Farrell, Keith Ridgway, Danielle McLaughlin, Louise Nealon, Sarah Gilmartin, Patrick Freyne, Liz Nugent, Jan Carson, Tana French, Kathleen MacMahon & more

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
The best fiction of 2026 to look forward to: Books from Louise Kennedy, Donal Ryan, Sebastian Barry and more
A comprehensive round-up of fiction from Irish and international authors due out this year
www.irishtimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 10:21 PM
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🔔 TONIGHT 🔔

Exhibition Panel Discussion | Walls of Containment

📅 Friday 16 January 2026
⏰ 7:30pm
📍 Presentation Arts Centre
🎟️ Free – booking required at wexfordartscentre.ie

Get the book:
Walls of Containment by Patrick Quinlan with photography by David Killeen at ucdpress.ie/page/detail/...
January 16, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Brilliant @mcculld.bsky.social show on history of Irish radio on @rteradio1.bsky.social
January 15, 2026 at 9:51 AM
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It is an honour to have the brilliant activist, campaigner and academic Ailbhe Smyth launch my book on Thursday 5 February at 7pm in the Irish Film Institute #booklaunch
January 14, 2026 at 5:53 PM
When you go to the NLI to check some references to finish a chapter for an edited collection and you discover one such reference is your father’s article …
January 14, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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🗃️ "Tenement Talk Preparing for the Immigration Journey": @irpinaingiro.bsky.social & @kevinkenny.bsky.social in conversation about "Rituals of Migration" @nyupress.bsky.social Jan 28, 6:30pm at the Tenement Museum, 103 Orchard Street NYC, also on YouTube Live: ⬇️⬇️⬇️
www.tenement.org/events/tenem...
Tenement Talk: Preparing for the Immigration Journey
On Wednesday, January 28 join a conversation with historians Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari about Irish and Italian rituals of migration.
www.tenement.org
January 13, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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Sean O Riada , Sean O Se , Niall Tobin , Eamon De Valera and Ruth O Riada. Sean O Se passed away earlier today.
January 13, 2026 at 9:09 PM
When your dog 🦊is unwell …😱😱
Waiting to see the vet
January 9, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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Born #OnThisDay 1893 in #Dublin Leslie Price De Barra, Director of Cumann na mBan & later Chairperson & President of @irishredcross 'A Woman Of Great Perseverance' married to Tom Barry - www.glowred.org/100-voices/l...
January 9, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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Happy New Year(from 1912 Votes for women)
@lse.library Joan of Arc "May the new year bring votes to women and may the old sex inequality be altogether swept away!"

@scotsuffragette.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @womenslibrary.bsky.social @lsesu.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social
January 2, 2026 at 8:32 AM
Approaching the centenary of the establishment of Fianna Fáil it might be interesting to try to understand the viewpoints of those who ultimately were left behind as the fourth Sinn Féin party calcified after 1926.
January 3, 2026 at 9:12 PM
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