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Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland
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The Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland promotes an inter-disciplinary approach to Irish studies.
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The Catholic Historical Society of Ireland Annual Conference on 'O'Connell and his Legacy' takes place on Saturday 22 November 2025 at the St Patrick's campus @dublincityuni.bsky.social
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November 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Another VPFA Study Day: 'The Critical Age in Victorian Popular Literature'
❓literary representations of the (peri-) menopause
🌏 online
📅 19th May 2026
💰 free for VPFA Members/ £5 for non-members
Send proposals (250) to
jessica.cox@brunel.ac.uk and siobhan.smith@tees.ac.uk by 19th February 2026
This one-day symposium seeks to explore representations of the ‘critical age’ – the (peri-) menopause – in Victorian popular literature. The peri-menopausal and menopausal experiences of Victorian women have to date been overlooked or underrepresented in scholarly discussions of the period. Victorian popular literature, from novels to periodicals to advice books, provided an essential forum for discussing and shaping the public understanding of women’s bodies, even as much of it sought to obscure the female body. The (peri-) menopausal experience was often framed in terms of illness, excess, and degeneration, or, conversely, was relegated to silence. Women at the ‘critical age’ are frequently marginalised and associated with a range of negative stereotypes in literary and cultural narratives. This call for papers invites exploration of how this phase of women’s lives was constructed in the Victorian imagination, in medical discourses and advice literature, and in women’s lived experiences. We invite 20-minute papers exploring any aspect of the critical age in Victorian popular literature. Topics for exploration include but are not limited to: • Representations of the critical age in Victorian popular fiction • The medicalisation of (peri-) menopause • Cultural constructions of middle-aged women • Class and (peri-) menopause • (Peri-) Menopause in Victorian advice literature • Motherhood and (peri-) menopause • Experiences of the critical age in Victorian women’s life writing • Myths and popular misconceptions The event will also include a Digital Humanities Research Skills Workshop, with an emphasis on making digital methods more accessible. We invite short papers or workshop proposals that showcase how digital tools can be used to research women and their bodies in Victorian literature. Possible topics include data creation/cleaning/visualisations, textual, quantitative or statistical analysis, using AI or specific tools (such as Voyant or Power BI).
November 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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If you missed Ian d'Alton's talk yesterday about '1932: Seeing the same world differently: Irish Catholics and Protestants a decade after independence', it's now available online at youtu.be/9oxWs0PTA1Y
Irish Studies Seminar: Ian d'Alton
YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies
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October 21, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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@ucddublin.bsky.social @ssnci.bsky.social The book might have dropped during the summer, but we only got to have a celebratory coffee today. My thanks again to the Society for the opportunity to do this book, to the contributors and referees, and to my two excellent (and chuffed) co-editors #ssnci
October 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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We've just issued our monthly newsletter, a round-up of news, events and opportunities of interest to Ireland’s Digital Arts and Humanities community. Check it out on our website
dariah.ie/newsletter/ and while you're there, why not sign up to receive it directly to your inbox each month !!
DARIAH-IE October 2025 Newsletter
Monthly round-up of news, events and opportunities for Ireland’s Digital Arts and Humanities community
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October 17, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Our next vol contained some timely reflections Peter Gray (ed.), Victoria's Ireland? : Irishness and Britishness, 1837-1901 www.edepositireland.ie/collections/...
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October 15, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Next revisit the Irish Revival! Betsey Taylor FitzSimon and James H. Murphy (eds), The Irish Revival Reappraised www.edepositireland.ie/collections/...
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October 15, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Friends & Followers in Dublin! I'll be giving the annual Edmund Burke Lecture at TCD today 18:30, at the Edmund Burke Lecture Theatre. All most welcome (but do register)

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence & the Pillage of an Empire share.google/Yxfq3IMYhcKd...
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire - Trinity Long Room Hub Annual Edmund Burke Lecture 2025
The Trinity Long Room Hub Annual Edmund Burke Lecture 2025 will be delivered by author and historian William Dalrymple.
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October 15, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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We are delighted to share our programme of seminars for Michaelmas Term 2025 🍂

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October 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Over 9,000 specimens safely tracked & stored as the National Museum of Ireland refurbishes the Dead Zoo. Faith Nolan shares how location control supports conservation, research & exhibitions. #Museumology #RegistrationCorner #NMIBlog #NaturalHistory www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...
NH:1892.49.1 being photographed as part of the Natural History Decant Project. Research image by Anna Massignan © National Museum of Ireland
October 3, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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If you need a pick me up this rainy afternoon, here's some colourful stories of sex & C18th Ulster Presbyterians to whet your appetite! #HistSex #HistFam @unioflimerick.bsky.social @ria.ie @theconversation.com theconversation.com/the-sex-live...
The sex lives of Presbyterians in 18th- and 19th-century Ulster were surprisingly colourful
The Presbyterian church closely regulated the intimate lives of its members through a system of church court discipline.
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October 2, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Our next volume explored issues of migration and diaspora from important perspectives Oonagh Walsh (ed.) Ireland abroad: politics and professions in the nineteenth century
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Ireland abroad : politics and professions in the nineteenth century [edeposit]
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September 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Join us for this week's History Research Seminar on Wednesday at 4pm! Our very own Dr Anita Rupprecht will be speaking on 'Out of Sight: the Narrative of the Slave-ship, Le Rodeur (1819)'. All welcome! Hardiman Research Building G011 or get in touch to join on zoom.
September 29, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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QUB History Seminar tomorrow at 4pm BST
September 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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For a different perspective see our next volume Leon Litvack and Glenn Hooper (eds), Ireland in the Nineteenth Century: Regional Identity
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Ireland in the Nineteenth Century: Regional Identity [edeposit]
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September 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Our next volume was Tadhg Foley and Seán Ryder (eds), Ideology and Ireland in the nineteenth century!
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Ideology and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century [edeposit]
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September 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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@ssnci.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social Finally got my own copies! Hard to think that this all started with a conference in June 2022! Thanks to Arlene and Cathal, all the contributors and to our top secret peer reviewers #ssnci #irishstudies #conflict #Ireland
September 9, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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niamhroisin.bsky.social
Just got mine yesterday! It looks like a marvellous volume as ever - thanks to the @ssnci.bsky.social team!
September 9, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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SSNCI members are now starting to receive their FREE copy of our latest conference volume: New Perspectives on Conflict and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century edited by Paul Huddie, Cathal Billings, Arlene Crampsie
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
New Perspectives on Conflict and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century | Home
Paul Huddie is an ERC Research Project Manager at the University College Dublin Centre for War Studies and a historical researcher interested in war and society, principally within the long nineteenth century.
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
September 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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SSNCI members are now starting to receive their FREE copy of our latest conference volume: New Perspectives on Conflict and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century edited by Paul Huddie, Cathal Billings, Arlene Crampsie
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
New Perspectives on Conflict and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century | Home
Paul Huddie is an ERC Research Project Manager at the University College Dublin Centre for War Studies and a historical researcher interested in war and society, principally within the long nineteenth century.
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
September 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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leannecalvert.bsky.social
If you're in Limerick on the evening of Thursday 25 September, I'll be sharing research from my upcoming book on pregnancy and paternity disputes in 18th/19th century Ulster as part of the Limerick History Festival. Be lovely to see folks there! #womenshist #histsex #histfam
Poster with details of my upcoming talk for the Limerick History Festival. Talk is titled '“She never knew any man on earth except [him]: Paternity disputes in eighteenth and nineteenth century Ulster.” My talk explores issues of paternity, pregnancy & sexual scandal. Thursday 25 September at People's Museum, No. 2 Pery Square, 7pm.
September 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Delighted to share our Research Seminar Series for this semester! We're starting off next Wed 10 Sept @ 4pm by welcoming our new colleague, Dr Ciarán McCabe, who will be speaking on 'Privacy, Respectability, and Working-Class Domestic Spaces in Dublin's Tenements, c.1910-c.1960'!
Poster for Dr Ciaran McCabe's seminar paper entitled 'Privacy, respectability and working class domestic spaces in Dublin's tenements, c.1910-60'. Wednesday 10 September at 4pm in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building
September 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Don't forget to submit for our essay prize! Deadline today 1 Sept!
ssnci.bsky.social Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland @ssnci.bsky.social · Jun 6
The SSNCI @ssnci.bsky.social is pleased to announce
its annual essay prize!! This prize aims to highlight the high quality research of an ECR or someone in a profession outside of the academy. Please spread widely!
September 1, 2025 at 5:36 AM
ssnci.bsky.social
Don't forget to submit for our essay prize! Deadline today 1 Sept!
ssnci.bsky.social Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland @ssnci.bsky.social · Jun 6
The SSNCI @ssnci.bsky.social is pleased to announce
its annual essay prize!! This prize aims to highlight the high quality research of an ECR or someone in a profession outside of the academy. Please spread widely!
September 1, 2025 at 5:36 AM