Lynsey Black
@lynseyblack.bsky.social
Maynooth University, School of Law & Criminology - doing history, gender, punishment, postcolonialism, borders. PI on Research Ireland Laureate Award, CONSPACE - Contested Space: Penal Nationalism & the Northern Ireland Border.
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It’s all ‘Mesearch’ - DRB
Imperial policing, extreme force and the supposed perils of ‘mesearch’
drb.ie
Puff Daddy, the 1798 United Irishmen rebellion, knowledge hierarchies and the militarisation of policing... I am over the moon to see this essay published. Thank you so much to the Dublin Review of Books and to @juliango.bsky.social for writing such a thought-provoking book. drb.ie/articles/its...
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
Colours on Parnell Square this morning.
November 13, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Colours on Parnell Square this morning.
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The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is hiring!
Applications are invited for the position of Research and Engagement, Senior Programme Manager as part of the DRI team headquartered at the Royal Irish Academy.
Apply by 27.11.2025 at 3pm.
www.ria.ie/about/career...
Applications are invited for the position of Research and Engagement, Senior Programme Manager as part of the DRI team headquartered at the Royal Irish Academy.
Apply by 27.11.2025 at 3pm.
www.ria.ie/about/career...
November 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is hiring!
Applications are invited for the position of Research and Engagement, Senior Programme Manager as part of the DRI team headquartered at the Royal Irish Academy.
Apply by 27.11.2025 at 3pm.
www.ria.ie/about/career...
Applications are invited for the position of Research and Engagement, Senior Programme Manager as part of the DRI team headquartered at the Royal Irish Academy.
Apply by 27.11.2025 at 3pm.
www.ria.ie/about/career...
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🎓 PHD FUNDING OPPORTUNITY 🎓
We now have a range of funding opportunities for postgraduate research students. Please reach out to me if you're interested in a PhD in:
>Counter-Terrorism
>Emergency Powers
>Human Rights
>Constitutional Theory
>Public Law
www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola...
We now have a range of funding opportunities for postgraduate research students. Please reach out to me if you're interested in a PhD in:
>Counter-Terrorism
>Emergency Powers
>Human Rights
>Constitutional Theory
>Public Law
www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola...
College of Arts and Law Doctoral Scholarships - University of Birmingham
Fully-funded and partially-funded scholarships for doctoral research students studying in the College of Arts of Law in the 2026/27 academic year onwards
www.birmingham.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 9:07 AM
🎓 PHD FUNDING OPPORTUNITY 🎓
We now have a range of funding opportunities for postgraduate research students. Please reach out to me if you're interested in a PhD in:
>Counter-Terrorism
>Emergency Powers
>Human Rights
>Constitutional Theory
>Public Law
www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola...
We now have a range of funding opportunities for postgraduate research students. Please reach out to me if you're interested in a PhD in:
>Counter-Terrorism
>Emergency Powers
>Human Rights
>Constitutional Theory
>Public Law
www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola...
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There's been a great deal of debate about how safe Dublin city centre is, but when we @dublininquirer.com looked for data to resolve this, we couldn't find much useful – so we commissioned a survey to try to add some facts/data to the debate. Today we've published five articles about the results. 1/
November 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM
There's been a great deal of debate about how safe Dublin city centre is, but when we @dublininquirer.com looked for data to resolve this, we couldn't find much useful – so we commissioned a survey to try to add some facts/data to the debate. Today we've published five articles about the results. 1/
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"The stories of sex and surveillance that are captured in Presbyterian church records reveal much about how communities attempted to monitor one another's behaviour."
In RTÉ Brainstorm, UL's Dr Leanne Calvert shares a selection of stories from her new book.
Read on: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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In RTÉ Brainstorm, UL's Dr Leanne Calvert shares a selection of stories from her new book.
Read on: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
1/3
November 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
"The stories of sex and surveillance that are captured in Presbyterian church records reveal much about how communities attempted to monitor one another's behaviour."
In RTÉ Brainstorm, UL's Dr Leanne Calvert shares a selection of stories from her new book.
Read on: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
1/3
In RTÉ Brainstorm, UL's Dr Leanne Calvert shares a selection of stories from her new book.
Read on: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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The schedule for the Donegal County Museum and County Donegal Historical Society 'Borders and boundaries' conference has been announced! @cormacmoorehist.bsky.social @lynseyblack.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The schedule for the Donegal County Museum and County Donegal Historical Society 'Borders and boundaries' conference has been announced! @cormacmoorehist.bsky.social @lynseyblack.bsky.social
Looking forward to speaking at this Dublin County Council event 'Borders & Boundaries', although mostly looking forward to hearing these people speak: @cormacmoorehist.bsky.social @pduffy1.bsky.social, Kieran Rankin, Niamh Brennan, Liam Campbell and Jim McBride: www.donegalcoco.ie/en/news/2025...
Commemorative Conference - 'Borders & Boundaries'
Commemorative Conference - 'Borders & Boundaries'
www.donegalcoco.ie
November 3, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Looking forward to speaking at this Dublin County Council event 'Borders & Boundaries', although mostly looking forward to hearing these people speak: @cormacmoorehist.bsky.social @pduffy1.bsky.social, Kieran Rankin, Niamh Brennan, Liam Campbell and Jim McBride: www.donegalcoco.ie/en/news/2025...
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Me too, babe. Me too.
November 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Me too, babe. Me too.
Puff Daddy, the 1798 United Irishmen rebellion, knowledge hierarchies and the militarisation of policing... I am over the moon to see this essay published. Thank you so much to the Dublin Review of Books and to @juliango.bsky.social for writing such a thought-provoking book. drb.ie/articles/its...
It’s all ‘Mesearch’ - DRB
Imperial policing, extreme force and the supposed perils of ‘mesearch’
drb.ie
October 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Puff Daddy, the 1798 United Irishmen rebellion, knowledge hierarchies and the militarisation of policing... I am over the moon to see this essay published. Thank you so much to the Dublin Review of Books and to @juliango.bsky.social for writing such a thought-provoking book. drb.ie/articles/its...
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Somehow the “spoil your vote” vote has been split. Incredible stuff happening
October 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Somehow the “spoil your vote” vote has been split. Incredible stuff happening
My fantastic colleague Prof Claire Hamilton is recruiting a research assistant for her project FEELING POLITICAL, which looks at populist politics, emotions and feelings of in/security in Europe. Details here, closing 2nd Nov and position is for 23 months: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...
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October 14, 2025 at 9:02 AM
My fantastic colleague Prof Claire Hamilton is recruiting a research assistant for her project FEELING POLITICAL, which looks at populist politics, emotions and feelings of in/security in Europe. Details here, closing 2nd Nov and position is for 23 months: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...
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Me in conversation with the incomparable Diane Keaton from 2017. It really does feel as if the evening is drawing in.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...
Diane Keaton: ‘Where would I be without Woody? I wouldn’t be here’
An Oscar-winning performance in Woody Allen’s ‘Annie Hall’ changed everything for Diane Keaton
www.irishtimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Me in conversation with the incomparable Diane Keaton from 2017. It really does feel as if the evening is drawing in.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...
CONSPACE comes to the archives!
Kicking off sabbatical with some diplomatically tricky border incidents, filed by MOD under 'navigational error, relax, nobody tell Ireland'.
Kicking off sabbatical with some diplomatically tricky border incidents, filed by MOD under 'navigational error, relax, nobody tell Ireland'.
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
CONSPACE comes to the archives!
Kicking off sabbatical with some diplomatically tricky border incidents, filed by MOD under 'navigational error, relax, nobody tell Ireland'.
Kicking off sabbatical with some diplomatically tricky border incidents, filed by MOD under 'navigational error, relax, nobody tell Ireland'.
Event on EU Border Violence - Maynooth University @mu-ssi.bsky.social October 9th. How EU border violence—including violent pushbacks and other violations against racialised and irregularised migrants—is recorded, represented, and contested.
September 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Event on EU Border Violence - Maynooth University @mu-ssi.bsky.social October 9th. How EU border violence—including violent pushbacks and other violations against racialised and irregularised migrants—is recorded, represented, and contested.
En route to a hen night reading material
August 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
En route to a hen night reading material
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Green Grow the Rushes from sold-out Vicar Street in Dublin, final Fables show, just a great band, sounds, crowd. Always something super-special about Dublin for this music, since way back 🇮🇪 - Bertis
@jasonnarducy.bsky.social
@jasonnarducy.bsky.social
August 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Green Grow the Rushes from sold-out Vicar Street in Dublin, final Fables show, just a great band, sounds, crowd. Always something super-special about Dublin for this music, since way back 🇮🇪 - Bertis
@jasonnarducy.bsky.social
@jasonnarducy.bsky.social
Claire Hamilton, my brilliant colleague at Maynooth Law and Criminology, is series editor along with David Nelkin of Routledge's New Advances in Crime and Social Harm. If you have a proposal that might be a good fit and you'd like to chat, see below.
August 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Claire Hamilton, my brilliant colleague at Maynooth Law and Criminology, is series editor along with David Nelkin of Routledge's New Advances in Crime and Social Harm. If you have a proposal that might be a good fit and you'd like to chat, see below.
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Programme and registration is now available for the 35th Irish Conference of Historians - Inner Lives and Outer Realities.
@maynoothuniversity.ie, 12-13 September.
Please share widely.
@maynoothuniversity.ie, 12-13 September.
Please share widely.
We are delighted to release the full conference programme for the 35th Irish Conference of Historians. Full details and registration available here: www.eventbrite.com/e/35th-irish...
35th Irish Conference of Historians - Inner Lives and Outer Realities
The 35th annual Irish conference of historians hosted by the Irish Committee of Historical Sciences & Maynooth University Dept. of History
www.eventbrite.com
August 20, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Programme and registration is now available for the 35th Irish Conference of Historians - Inner Lives and Outer Realities.
@maynoothuniversity.ie, 12-13 September.
Please share widely.
@maynoothuniversity.ie, 12-13 September.
Please share widely.
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Announcing a PhD scholarship for a history project on imperialism and great power projection in the Pacific. Supervised by Prudence Flowers and I here at Flinders, Adelaide. It includes an international fee waiver and stipend. Start Jan 2026. www.flinders.edu.au/scholarships...
PhD Scholarship: Pacific Powers - Flinders University
www.flinders.edu.au
August 15, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Announcing a PhD scholarship for a history project on imperialism and great power projection in the Pacific. Supervised by Prudence Flowers and I here at Flinders, Adelaide. It includes an international fee waiver and stipend. Start Jan 2026. www.flinders.edu.au/scholarships...
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Interested in finding out more about 'Follies' and Sondheim's wider work in advance of our new production in Belfast? Come to our In Conversation event on 4th Sept with panel, Dr Richard Schoch, Stuart Pedlar and Cameron Menzies.
Full details and booking links here:
niopera.com/performances...
Full details and booking links here:
niopera.com/performances...
In Conversation: 'Follies' and Sondheim - N.I. Opera
niopera.com
August 13, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Interested in finding out more about 'Follies' and Sondheim's wider work in advance of our new production in Belfast? Come to our In Conversation event on 4th Sept with panel, Dr Richard Schoch, Stuart Pedlar and Cameron Menzies.
Full details and booking links here:
niopera.com/performances...
Full details and booking links here:
niopera.com/performances...
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My book is now available for pre-order on the @ria.ie website shop.ria.ie/products/pio... Isn't it beautiful 😍 #PiousPromiscuous #PromiscuousPresbyterians #HistFam #IrishHist #Family #HistSex
Pious and promiscuous
Pious and promiscuous – Life, love and family in Presbyterian Ulster will be published on 15 October 2025. Pre-orders will be sent out the week of publication. Step into the intimate worlds of Presby...
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July 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
My book is now available for pre-order on the @ria.ie website shop.ria.ie/products/pio... Isn't it beautiful 😍 #PiousPromiscuous #PromiscuousPresbyterians #HistFam #IrishHist #Family #HistSex
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If you are interested in applying for the position and want to discuss, please DM me or email!
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Law and History Review: A Call for an Editor
[We have the following announcement from the Publications Committee of the American Society for Legal History . DRE] After eight years of ...
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August 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
If you are interested in applying for the position and want to discuss, please DM me or email!
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