Kelly Fitzgerald
kellyfitzgerald.bsky.social
Kelly Fitzgerald
@kellyfitzgerald.bsky.social
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Amárach! Fáilte roimh chách!
October 30, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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An online lecture series promoting the principles of diversity & inclusion across archival collections and the wider record-keeping community will kick off on Oct 22nd at 1pm.

1st talk will be about Preserving Records in support of Truth Recovery in Northern Ireland

@araukie.bsky.social

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October 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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In the last few months, bands including Hotline TNT and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have pulled music from Spotify in a new wave of artist-led protests against the platform. n.pr/4p9uwXX
Musicians keep leaving Spotify in protest of CEO's defense investments
In the last few months, bands including Hotline TNT and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have pulled music from Spotify in a new wave of artist-led protests against the platform.
n.pr
September 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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It's very sad to have the news of Bríd McGrath's death. She was an indefatigable editor for @irishmanuscripts.bsky.social

See our tribute to her here:

www.irishmanuscripts.ie/brid-mcgrath/
Bríd McGrath - Irish Manuscripts
Bríd at the launch of her edition in Clonmel in June 2006. It is with great sadness that we have learned of the death of Dr Bríd McGrath, editor of four IMC editions. On behalf of the Chair and member...
www.irishmanuscripts.ie
August 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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We are delighted to announce that a full programme and registration for the 35th Irish Conference of Historian is now available. Maynooth University, 12-13 September.

Please share widely.

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 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Required by Congress, the reports no longer single out things like rigged elections or sexual violence against children as human rights violations.
State Department slashes its annual reports on human rights
Required by Congress, the reports no longer single out things like rigged elections or sexual violence against children as human rights violations.
n.pr
August 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Writing this piece about blackberries brought back memories, memories that many of us remember almost as a collective, but alongside the familiar are the less well-known worlds of the blackberry. See link below 👇🔻
All you need to know about the blackberry season. The blackberry is a plant of notable cultural significance in Ireland, not least in its ability to evoke all sorts of emotional memories and nostalgia, writes @culinaryireland.bsky.social @ucc.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
All you need to know about the blackberry season
The blackberry is a plant of notable cultural significance in Ireland, not least in its ability to evoke emotional memories and nostalgia
www.rte.ie
August 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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My latest, from the Israel-Gaza border, where I listened in as tour groups came to view the ruins of Gaza: www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...
July 27, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Disturbing news. @araukie.bsky.social absolutely right in its call for better protection for police records. These are important historical documents.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Orgreave papers destroyed by police thought to include report on notorious truncheon beating
Miner who was seen on TV being beaten by officer said he was not aware of report’s existence before it was destroyed
www.theguardian.com
July 19, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Congratulations to Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, the new Laureate for Irish Fiction

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Éilís Ní Dhuibhne is new Laureate for Irish Fiction
The writer takes over the laureateship from author Colm Tóibín
www.irishtimes.com
July 15, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, the full documentary is now available on our Channel 4 Documentaries YouTube. youtu.be/iv3wpeJ6Oco?...
Gaza: Doctors Under Attack | Channel 4 Documentaries
YouTube video by Channel 4 Documentaries
youtu.be
July 5, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Interesting Read for a Quiet Sunday - It is critical to ensure public schools teach students how to think, not what to think. Indoctrination is the goal of authoritarians. That is UnAmerican.
www.indexoncensorship.org/2024/12/acad...
Can academic freedom survive Donald Trump’s plans for thought control?
The president’s aim to remove power from universities and punish so-called “woke” ideology has chilling implications for free speech globally
www.indexoncensorship.org
March 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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America’s unions celebrate today’s anniversary of President FDR signing the Fair Labor Standards Act into law, which established the 40-hour workweek, child labor protections, minimum wage and more.

These protections were won because workers organized and demanded better.
June 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Bengt af Klintberg, folktale researcher, speaking at the ISCLR conference in Stockholm, Sweden. #ISCLR2025
June 23, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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🚨 Celtica is now available open-access! This is the result of painstaking work going on behind the scenes since 2022. Issues 33 to 36 (2021–24) are now online, and future issues will appear online & in print. We will also digitize the back issues of the journal.
🔗 journals.dias.ie/index.php/ce...
June 23, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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The Folklore and the Senses conference has come to an end 🥲 Thank you to everyone for making it so fantastic: the speakers, attendees, and in particular to Department of Folklore & Ethnology @ucc.ie for organising and keeping things running smoothly and hosting us at your beautiful campus!
June 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Irish is no longer just the language of saints and scholars, but of queer poets and writers who are sharing their stories.
Piece by Dr Seán Mac Risteaird @seanmacristeaird.bsky.social of @fsg-dcu.bsky.social for @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social.
Read here: launch.dcu.ie/3SZePUv
#RTEBrainstorm
June 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Deadline is this Friday!
FOLÚNTAS | VACANCY
Scoláireacht Uí Dhonnabháin
O'Donovan Scholarship
#DIASdiscovers
www.dias.ie/2025/05/20/v...
Vacancy for a 3-year postdoctoral O'Donovan Scholarship @scs-dias.bsky.social @dias.ie: application deadline 20 June 2025!

www.dias.ie/2025/05/20/v...
June 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Fintan O’Toole: Official documents are quietly disappearing from departmental websites. Why?
Fintan O’Toole: Official documents are quietly disappearing from departmental websites. Why?
The range of departments engaged in this alarming disappearing act suggests it is not accidental
www.irishtimes.com
June 17, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Have just received hard copies of my book from Cambridge UP. It's about the ordinary people who funded the Irish Catholic church between the end of the Famine and independence. It takes in social, economic, religious, emotions history and much else besides...
June 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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‘R&D is a long-term source of prosperity, and an area of UK competitive advantage… but to maximise the impact on UK productivity, innovation policy needs to link more strongly with industrial strategy for a services based economy.’ Me in CityAM ahead of the SR
www.cityam.com/dont-forget-...
Don't forget the arts when it comes to R&D spending
The UK's creative economy is worth more than our life sciences, aerospace and automotive industries combined
www.cityam.com
June 3, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Business group Ibec has warned that Ireland's current public investment model for research and innovation does not match the country’s ambition to become a European Innovation Leader
Ibec calls for more investment in research, innovation
Business group Ibec has warned that Ireland's current public investment model for research and innovation does not match the country's ambition to become a European Innovation Leader.
www.rte.ie
June 3, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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In an era of higher education cuts, especially in Languages and History, here is a rather touching death notice of the Welsh scholar Rhygyfarch of St David's. He composed a number of works including a Latin Life of St David (Quote from Brut y Twysogyon or ... 1/4 #wales #history
June 2, 2025 at 9:51 AM