@RIFNET_

ESRC-IRC funded interdisciplinary network working on the Irish Family. Led by @DrLeanneCalvert & @OR_Maeve

Joined January 2022
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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!
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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
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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_ gcn.ie/new-exhibition-lgbtq-…

New digital exhibition celebrates LGBTQ+ families in Ireland

The exciting new project aims to display the diversity of LGBTQ+ and non-traditional families throughout Ireland.

gcn.ie
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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 museum.ie/en-IE/About/Career…
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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 bit.ly/3rvMxqb

New exhibition celebrates LGBTQ+ families in Ireland

A new online exhibition highlighting the diversity of family life in Ireland launches today. The exhibition ‘ReCollecting the Irish Family’ shares the experiences of five LGBTQ+ families.

herts.ac.uk
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Skein Press@SkeinPress2 Jul 2023
We are excited to announce that @Oeiny will be on the @RyanTubridyShow on @RTERadio1 tomorrow morning, hosted by Oliver Callan, to talk about 'The Slug and the Snail', his beautiful children's book from ourselves & @LittleIslandBks. Tune in at 9 am!
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On this beautiful Solstice day the Snail and the Slug arrived! Thank you @LittleIslandBks, @SkeinPress & @Olya_anima - my hearts dancing with joy! littleisland.ie/products/the…
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What did you collect when you were a child? How did that collection shape who you are? How might a nation's collections shape how we think about childhood? Who gets to say what we collect and what we leave behind? Collecting Childhood aims to find out! eventbrite.ie/e/collecting-c…

Collecting Childhood -- Research Networking Event

Creating a new space to explore the role of collection in defining, imagining and constructing childhood in Ireland.

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Fascinated by #folklore? Want to turn that interest into a postgrad qualification? Sign up online to listen to @odavies9 talk about our Folklore Studies MA @UniofHerts today (20 June) 5-6pm: herts.ac.uk/about-us/news-an… (photo courtesy of our amazing student @mossgoblingrrl) 📷
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In case you missed it earlier, the latest issue of @IrishHistSoc is on the theme of Women’s & Gender History and is guest edited by me & @FrancesMNolan The issue covers a range of topics & spans the medieval to the modern. More details on our blog here👇🏻 cambridge.org/core/blog/2023…
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My book ✨📖The Literary Afterlives of Roger Casement, 1899–2016 📖✨is now available in paperback! Thanks so much to @xabelsc & @LivUniPress for all their work. To learn more, do take a look at the 🧵on the book from #StPatricksDay & #BAISDay2021... xitter.cf/notsecretgarden/status…
Liverpool University Press@LivUniPress24 Feb 2023
New in Paperback: The Literary Afterlives of Roger Casement, 1899–2016 by Alison Garden (@notsecretGarden) explores the literary and cultural afterlives of Ireland’s most enigmatic and controversial son. bit.ly/3IywVYQ
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Thanks to @Brigit_Dublin @ILFDublin for hosting #BadBridget, and to the brilliant @roisiningle who had everyone channelling their inner (Bad) Brigid/Bridget! And thanks to everyone who joined us! @PenguinIEBooks
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Fully-Funded Doctoral Studentship opportunity at the UCD School of History on "Mental Health and Irish Migrants in London since 1945". Please circulate to anyone who might be interested! ucd.ie/history/study/researc…
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Next in @RIAdawson's #Sisters series are Anna & Fanny Parnell. They established the Ladies' Land League in January 1881 & took responsibility for the land campaign when the LL was suppressed in October. dib.ie/biography/parnell-ann… dib.ie/biography/parnell-fan… #DIBLives #RIASisters
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A recording of my @LSBU inaugural lecture that looked back on my career as a social & feminist historian of Irish & British women & looks forward to my new project on uncovering lessor known female activism in the 1960s -1980s is available now 👇@LSBU_LSS youtube.com/watch?v=4eB_2Jm3…
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Join us on Saturday October 22nd for our half day online workshop on ethics and oral history. The workshop will run from 10am - 1pm via Zoom. Book your place at the link below oralhistorynetworkireland.ie… #OralHistory #Ethics
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We had a busy ol' summer with the conferencing. @elisabeth_coon kicked us off with a brilliant talk at a @RIFNET_ event, organised by @DrLeanneCalvert & @OR_Maeve 👇 xitter.cf/notsecretGarden/status…
Dr. Alison Garden 📚🫀🖊️@notsecretGarden15 Jun 2022
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and @elisabeth_coon is up! Very proud to see her discussing our @Acts_of_Union project. She's started by noted the central importance of the 'family' within Irish social and cultural life.
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