Queens R U.S.

Two 2024 books available on history in the headlines… available from Amazon

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We are delighted to introduce our official Facebook account.

We hope to reach as many people as possible who have been affected by Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries, and Workhouses in NI, and their associated pathways and practices.

Professor Jonathan Lande at the organization of American historians in New Orleans

Shared Future News — A NI Troubles peace museum for ‘a new lease of life’ A NI Troubles peace museum for ‘a new lease of life’by Caoimhe McGONIGLE26 February 2024 A conversation on the need for a museum commemorating the Troubles was facilitated by author and former BBC …

It’s that time in Texas

This Is Where New Ph.D.s Find Jobs
By Audrey Williams June
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Where do new doctoral-degree holders choose to work? A growing number of them are finding work in industry, according to federal data.

Of the 21,450 Ph.D. recipients in 2022 who said they had accepted jobs in the United States, 48.1 percent were headed to jobs in industry — which has absorbed an increasing share of Ph.D.s over time. That’s up from 20.9 percent in 1992, according to the most recent Survey of Earned Doctorates, an annual census of doctorate holders.

During that 30-year period, industry was the only one of the five employment sectors tracked by the survey whose share of Ph.D.s grew. The other sectors were academe, government, nonprofit organizations, and “other” (which is mainly elementary and secondary schools). The share of degree holders planning to work in academe fell during that period from roughly half to about a third.

Congratulations to all our new who graduated yesterday - including all our prize winners pictured! We are so proud of you all, and can’t wait to see what you do next! 🎓🏆

Opinion | Is Ireland Headed for a Merger? Have demographics and Brexit made unification inevitable?

The ties between Ireland and the US remain strong

The 343 Reasons a Small Town in Ireland Mourns on Sept. 11 Kinsale, an Irish fishing village, is home to a 9/11 memorial honoring the firefighters who were killed in New York that day.

I adore sharing this poetic love letter to New York City. It's an excerpt from an essay Dorothy Parker wrote for McCall's in 1928. Enjoy!

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/30/opinion/finucane-assassination-northern-ireland.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Opinion | He Was Shot 14 Times at the Dinner Table. His Children Want to Know if Britain Ordered the Hit. Proposed legislation may keep them from ever finding out.

True events led to revised, reinspired ‘Cherokee Rose’ Tiya Miles’ research on Cherokee slaveholding sparked her first novel. A recent tribal reckoning led her to revisit it.

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Why Americans Are So Awful to One Another — The Atlantic In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.

https://www.cntraveler.com/story/new-national-monument-meaning-indigenous-tribes

The US Has a New National Monument Near the Grand Canyon—And It Has Special Meaning for Native American Tribes Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni covers nearly 1 million acres near Grand Canyon National Park.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-66358247

Frederick Douglass: Belfast statue of black anti-slavery activist unveiled Life-size bronze statue celebrates the anti-slavery activist who visited the city during the 1840s.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2023/06/21/titanic-wreck-history-public-obsession/

A century later, the Titanic still fascinates. Here’s why. The unique circumstances of the Titanic's shipwreck and its passengers' stories have inspired books, films, video games, musicals, endless debate — and exploration.

This years Wiles lectures at QUB will be given by Professor Barbara Savage, University of Pennsylvania, on the topic:
'Uncharted Territory: The Future of African American History'
These four public lectures are free and open to all.
More info at: https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ/Events/annual-lectures/wiles-lecture-series/

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/05/books/stinging-fly-irish-literature.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

How a Tiny Literary Magazine Became a Springboard for Great Irish Writing The Stinging Fly has helped launch several of Ireland’s most promising writers. How has a publication with 1,000 subscribers carved a niche in the Irish canon?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2023/03/23/slavery-un-rijksmuseum-worldfair/

Perspective | Our planet needs a World’s Fair focused on slavery and colonialism An exhibition about slavery at the U.N. shows the need for an international reckoning.

The chancellor of QUB… Advising America to do what’s right: stop legislative suicide… Good advice on both sides of the ocean!

Opinion | Hillary Clinton: Republicans Are Playing Into the Hands of Putin and Xi The former secretary of state on why the Republicans’ game with the debt ceiling is landing at a particularly perilous moment for the economy and for global security.

Have a great visit, President Biden!

Hume, Heaney, Harvard—and Peace in Northern Ireland In life and literature, living “dangerously out between” opposing factions while seeking common ground

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Staging History to Make History: Theater and the Road to the Good Friday Accords | History News Network Marilynn Richtarik is a Professor of English at Georgia State University in Atlanta and the author of books on the Field Day Theatre Company and writer Stewart Parker. Oxford University Press published her book Getting to Good Friday: Literature and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland in February....

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What Should Museums Do With the Bones of the Enslaved? (Published 2021) As one museum has pledged to return skulls held in an infamous collection, others, including the Smithsonian, are reckoning with their own holdings of African-American remains.