Peter Gray

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Prof Eric Morier-Genoud will give his inaugural lecture on Thursday 19 November at 5pm: 'Africa in the Making of Modern Belfast'. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-...

Institute of Irish Studies Autumn Seminar Series Monday 9 November - 4.30pm (27 Univ. Sq. 01/003 and online) Stephen Kelly (Liverpool Hope University) The Broken Emerald: Edward Heath and the early years of the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1968-1975 Register: www.ticketsource.com/institute-of...

📢 The Judge Paul Carney collection of Berenger watercolours at the Royal Irish Academy Library is now available on the VRTI. How historic sites were seen in the past. 🖼️ 🙂 www.virtualtreasury.ie/news/the-jud... @rialibrary.bsky.social

Very sorry to hear of the death of Prof Chris Wickham. His 2021 Wiles Lectures at QUB were a highlight of the series and led to his final book, The Donkey and the Boat (2023). www.medievalists.net/2026/10/chri...

Delighted to have had the opportunity to contribute to Jimmy Kelly’s festschrift

If you missed the inaugural Seamus Deane Lecture last Wednesday by Malcolm Sen on 'Irish Anthropocene: Literary Ecologies and Political Geologies', at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social there's a recording at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlW4...

Institute of Irish Studies Seminar Series - Autumn 2026 Mon 12 Oct: 4.30pm (27 Univ. Sq. 01/003 and online) Natalie Boehmer (Ulster University, NMNI) ‘Beyond the Atalantic’s foam’: Transatlantic Perspectives in the Robert Huddleston Papers Register here: www.ticketsource.com/institute-of...

**OVER 1000 SIGNATURES** Friends, we have reached over 1,000 signatures - we are absolutely blown away! A huge thank you to everyone who has taken the time to sign the letter. We will be closing the link tomorrow evening, so if you haven’t signed yet, there’s still time. Blessings, Rev Karen

Congratulations @mauricejcasey.com !

🚨 Open letter from people of Protestant backgrounds concerning the Garvaghy Road 🚨 We feel compelled to speak publicly about what is happening in Portadown.  🚨Over the past few hours we have collected over 140 signatures. @RhonddaBryant @HMcEntee

We have heard the very sad news that Nini Rodgers died yesterday, after a period spent in a nursing home. Her former colleagues in the School remember her fondly, while others will have known Nini through her ground-breaking research on the history of slavery and Ireland.

Today at 5pm!

What a wonderful room

We're now accepting applications for the Hachey Professorship of Irish & Irish-American History! This is a tenured position in the History Department and the Irish Studies Program. Apply here apply.interfolio.com/194167 by November 13.

The History Seminar Series continues this Friday, 2 October, with Becca Mowbray (QUB) delivering her paper ‘Schools at the Crossroads: secondary education for girls in Northern Ireland, 1965-1972’ For more information, and to register for this event, please follow ow.ly/ZNKO50ZPIeM

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Crime scene, Dun Laoghaire style

Higher Education risks irreversible damage, says British Academy president Prof Susan Smith, with humanities and social sciences disciplines disappearing in many cold spots. BA is tracking subject provision & calling for a comprehensive review www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/stateme...

History and AI – A Survey of History Students in UKHE Our preliminary project report explores anonymous responses from more than 600 history students across all regions and types of institutions in the UK. @callingdrjones.bsky.social www.history-uk.ac.uk/projects/his...

Very excited to announce the @qubhistory.bsky.social seminars for the upcoming semester. Join us each Friday to hear about the great research being done at Queen’s & elsewhere. Online attendance by request via the email below. For updates on the seminars, sign up to mailing list: shorturl.at/igu1r

'The find has been described as a totally unique, with geologists and marine specialists trying to establish the fossil's story and the Natural History Museum in London helping to identify it.' 1/2

The legwork, and the sting, which seems to have caught out James Orr, Nigel Farage and Reform-UK was carried out by Verbatim Investigations who have dropped their own take on the story.

Andrew Holmes speaking at UTC on Friday about Irish Presbyterians in the 1920s

Chartism Day 19 Sept 2026 Warwick Chartism Day was launched in 1995 by Chartist historian Dorothy Thompson (1923–2011) This year's event is at the Friends Meeting House, Warwick Tickets £12 inc. refreshments and buffet lunch: tinyurl.com/chartismday

Mental map of the substrate of Lough Neagh as perceived by local fishermen. Some great names.

These are the pictures I wanted to use. 1) QCG graduate, Colman Macaulay, leading a delegation to open Tibet to trade with Britain 2) QCB graduate, William Hancock, who served in Hart’s Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service. He’s at the centre in the big hat.

Irish Studies Assistant Prof post available at @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social apply.interfolio.com/191724

Connemara day and night

Footsteps of St Feichin

The wait is over - ‘Our Cats’ (1904) has finally joined the BNA www.britishnewspaperarchive.com/blog/cats-co...

'A Russell Group university will no longer use ubiquitous anti-cheating tools provided by Turnitin because of concerns that the company might use students’ work to train artificial intelligence.' Maybe time for UK universities to develop and commercialise their own tools?

Potato vending machine - 24 hour potato access

Looks like the marketing team need to go an an AI awareness course

The Haywain 2026

Last week's Fleadh Cheoil in Belfast was a landmark in normalising the city. Spontaneous traditional music, dancing in the streets, feeling the centre belonged to all. Cross-community participation. 1.6M visitors, many from the South who'd rarely go North. A win all round. And it'll be back in 2027.

Turnitin has long used its end user licence agreement to use students' work for product devt. Now it's trying to update it to use essays for AI devt too! Prime example of academic content assetization - turning student IP into a source of value codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/a...

The Royal Irish Academy extends our deepest sympathies to the family, friends and former colleagues of Dr James Quinn, a valued former member of staff who served as managing editor of the Dictionary of Irish Biography @dib.ie Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam. May he rest in peace.

[Comic ] From a couple of weeks back #comic #tech #sciencefiction #comedy #sketch

Posing for International Cat Day (but sure, what day isn’t?)

Such a waste. Thinking of my friends & colleagues in History & across Hums. UH History is where I really learned *how* to teach & how to drive my teaching with my research. A dept that really cared about their students. So many brilliant & talented people in my old dept.

Tickets are now available for Chartism Day 2026. The £12 ticket price includes refreshments and a light buffet lunch (plus all the Chartism you can eat). All are welcome. #C19th #History #Chartism www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chartism-d...

A deeply destructive and inexpert management consultancy class has emerged whose sole purpose is to shrink Anglosphere universities and to undermine their future - all the better to secure more work. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...

After 10 years at the helm of Irish Studies at QUB, with various ups and downs over the last decade, I’m handing over to our new leadership team from Monday. Many thanks to Peter and @siobhraaiken.bsky.social for stepping up to take forward Irish Studies in Belfast! www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

We are very sad to learn of the passing of Don MacRaild. Don graduated from our predecessor institution Liverpool Polytechnic and went on to have a distinguished career as a historian and as a scholar supremely skilled in explaining theory and methodology. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

I'm calling on Jim O'Callaghan to approve visas for students from Gaza who have been granted scholarships to Irish universities. Will you add your name to the petition now? my.uplift.ie/petitions/vi... @uplift.ie