
ESRC-IRC funded interdisciplinary network working on the Irish Family. Led by @DrLeanneCalvert & @OR_Maeve
Joined January 2022
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Our special issue with @hisfam_journal is now officially published as the 1st issue of 2024! Many thanks & congrats to all our contributors @DrLeanneCalvert @OR_Maeve @DeirdroFoley @shan_devlin @hammock_tussock @TomHulme87 ⬇️ #HistFam tandfonline.com/toc/rhof20/2… @IrishResearch @ESRC
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On Monday 9th of September community members have an opportunity to talk to The Heritage Council, Traveller Networks, Organisations and NMI towards what the community would like in the first National Traveller Heritage Strategy.
We would love to hear your voice!
Congratulations Shannon 🎊🎊
A change of scenery 🍃 Thrilled to be joining @historyatgalway this new term! So excited to get stuck into some new teaching 🎉 but bittersweet to be leaving the wonderful @UUHistory. Two years went by in a flash✨
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Please consider sharing this. We are trying to seek the truth about mother and baby institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses in Northern Ireland. Read more about this here 👇
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Happy #SiblingsDay 👫🎉 delighted to say that my first monograph will be out later this year. It’s on the website, so it must be real!!
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Looking forward to bringing my autobiographical storytelling showing BORDER FAIRIES with @OutburstArts to my home town of CORK on Fri 8th- Sat 9th March corkartstheatre.com/event/bo… Expect cross-border love, faith, bandits and Protestant cars! xitter.cf/drpaulcolton?lang=en
We are delighted that our Special Issue is now available! The introduction by @DrLeanneCalvert & @OR_Maeve on family histories in Ireland & why "family" matters today can be read here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… #IrishFamily #Referendum @UCC @UniofHerts @UHertshistory
With thanks to our contributors, @ISS21UCC @dri_ireland @NMIreland @hisfam_journal for all their help & support!
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It is wonderful to see a @UCC collection from the Reconstituting the Irish Family Research Network - @RIFNET_ - featured in the @dri_ireland Friends August newsletter. I would highly recommend subscribing to the newsletter:
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"LGBTQ+ experiences are part of Irish history, and the history of the Irish family”. @RIFNET_
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The National Museum of Ireland seeks applications from suitable candidates to fill the post of Assistant Education Officer- Closing Date for Applications
is 17:00 Friday 11th August 2023 #JobFairy
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Online exhibition ‘ReCollecting the Irish Family’ launches 👩👩👦
@RIFNET_ explores the diversity and "messy realities" of LGBTQ+ family life in Ireland through interviews and objects, collected by @DrLeanneCalvert at @UHertshistory and @OR_Maeve at @UCC
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🚨The outputs from our pilot project on #LGBTQ family life in Ireland are now LIVE! @ESRC
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Listen/watch @DrLeanneCalvert @UHertshistory @uhcreatives introduce the collection 👇 rifnet.org/ #Family #IrishFamily #LGBTQ
There, you can also check out our Bibliography of work on the family by our network members, ucc.ie/en/media/research/iss…. With thanks to @Kristina_Decker who compiled this for us 😊 #Family #IrishFamily #HistSex #IrishHist #HistFam
Still to come is our special issue that sets a *New Agenda for the Irish Family*. We have articles to come on same sex relationships between men, transgender lives, pets, siblings, & marriage in Ireland, from the 18th to the 20th century #HistFam #HistSex #GenderHist #Family














