@RIFNET_

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

The History of the Family

RIFNET. A New Agenda for the Irish Family: Messy Realities and Messier Lives. Volume 29, Issue 1 of The History of the Family

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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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Congratulations Shannon 🎊🎊
Dr Shannon Devlin@shan_devlin2 Sep 2024
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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Replying to @Linda__Connolly @academia @MaynoothUni @MU_Sociology
Thanks for tagging us Tom! Yes, as Linda says, lots of well established work on diverse family forms by sociologists. In our issue, we're pushing these ideas back as far to the 18th century & forward to the more recent past to stimulate these conversations among historians too.
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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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With thanks to our contributors, @ISS21UCC @dri_ireland @NMIreland @hisfam_journal for all their help & support!
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& our digital exhibition of LGBTQ+ Family Life in Ireland here: rifnet.org/ #IrishFamily #Family

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ReCollecting the Irish Family ReCollecting the Irish Family RIFNET (Reconstituting the Irish Family Network) have teamed up with the National Museum of Ireland to host a digital storytelling event,...

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This special issue grows out of the RIFNET project, which was generously funded by @ESRC & @IrishResearch #LoveIrishResearch You can check out our website here: ucc.ie/en/iss21/researchproj…

RIFNET: Reconstituting the Irish Family Research Network | University College Cork

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@DrLeanneCalvert ends our issue with a methodological think piece on #QueerHistory & #IrishFamily '‘Came to her dressed in mans cloaths’: transgender histories and queer approaches to the family in eighteenth-century Ireland' tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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@hammock_tussock explores pets, animal companions & queer kinship in their piece 'Dogs in the picture: restoring the queer history of the Irish family' #Kinship #Family #IrishFamily #Family tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Dogs in the picture: restoring the queer history of the Irish family

Taking the Irish pianist and music teacher Dorothy Stokes as a case study, this article explores alternative formulations of kinship in independent Ireland. It analyzes Stokes’s family life from tw...

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@TomHulme87 is the first of the next three pieces to explore #queerlives in Ireland, focusing on same-sex relationships between men & their families 'Queering family history and the lives of Irish men before gay liberation' tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… #HistFam #HistSex

Queering family history and the lives of Irish men before gay liberation

Historians of sexuality commonly ‘read against the grain’ of the criminal archive as a way to reconstruct both the pitfalls and possibilities of queer cruising cultures. One of the drawbacks of thi...

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@shan_devlin is next on '‘Glad to the heart to see any of my brothers’: exploring Irish family life through sibling relationships' #Siblings #Family #IrishFamily #Migration tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

‘Glad to the heart to see any of my brothers’: exploring Irish family life through sibling relati...

This article proposes using the sibling relationship as an historical lens into nineteenth-century Ireland. Often taken for granted in historiography, brothers and sisters influenced family financi...

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Our first piece is by @DeirdroFoley on 'The Irish family, marital breakdown and the Josie Airey case, c. 1974-1981' #HistMarriage #HistSex #IrishFamily #Family tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

The Irish family, marital breakdown and the Josie Airey case, c. 1974-1981

Centring the role of women, particularly Josie Airey, this article outlines the activism and legal process that led to improvements in family law and the provision of civil legal aid for the first ...

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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

RIFNET. A new agenda for the Irish family: messy realities & messier lives

This special issue introduces new research on historical approaches to the Irish family. The articles in this collection have grown out of the Reconstituting the Irish Family Research Network (RIFN...

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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.

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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.

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