
Peter Hession
@PeterMHession
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Historian of famine and technology in Ireland, Assistant Professor Faculty Fellow @GIHNYU https://t.co/csZlWMLCCR
Dublin
Joined November 2014
Ag stocaireacht ar Sliabh Mór - Canvassing on Slievemore
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Promises to be a fascinating conference!
Check out "35th Irish Conference of Historians - Inner Lives and Outer Realities" @MaynoothHist @historians_ie 12-13 September https://t.co/QA097PiJRL Please share widely.
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Brilliant colloquium organized by Joseph Nugent and Patrick Mullen for Bloomsday in Paris, hosted at the Irish Embassy. The event featured engaging panels, lectures, and conversations, including a panel moderated by our own Kelly Sullivan! @IrlEmbParis
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Have just received hard copies of my book from @CambridgeUP. It's about the ordinary people who funded the Irish Catholic church between the end of the Famine and independence. It takes in social, economic, religious, emotions history and much else besides...
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The SSNCI will hold its 2025 Annual Conference at the @AbdnRiiss at the University of Aberdeen on 19-21 June 2025! To find out more see https://t.co/b7XUr4ND86
#irishstudies #19thcentury
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GIH faculty fellow @PeterMHession will lead a history workshop that explores the Irish Famine in a global context, adopting a comparative lens and drawing on parallels from across the field of contemporary famine studies. May 3rd at @IrishArtsCenter: https://t.co/wwq2Qv1Ekg
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Submit your abstracts by 20 April! @ssnci_tweets will hold its 2025 Annual Conference @AbdnRiiss on 19-21 June 2025. The theme for our 2025 Conference will be Universalism and Locality in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. For more details see
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Just one week to go! Don't forget to submit your abstract! #nineteenthcentury #irishstudies
Submit your abstracts by 20 April! @ssnci_tweets will hold its 2025 Annual Conference @AbdnRiiss on 19-21 June 2025. The theme for our 2025 Conference will be Universalism and Locality in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. For more details see
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HSTM Webinar, Dr Peter Hession 'Inventing the Soup Kitchen in 19th Century Ireland: Origin, Agency and Legacy' on the 3rd April 1-2 pm. Link: https://t.co/f5aBnd892L
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HSTM Webinar, Dr Peter Hession 'Inventing the Soup Kitchen in 19th Century Ireland: Origin, Agency and Legacy' on the 3rd April 1-2 pm. Link: https://t.co/f5aBnd892L
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A recording of my recent public talk at @GIHNYU 'Making Peace in the Shadows: Back channel Negotiation in Northern Ireland' & the Q&A https://t.co/Ex3ZqaczvN via @YouTube
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From all of us at Glucksman Ireland House NYU, we'd like to wish you a very happy Saint Patrick's Day! There is much to look forward to at GIH this spring, and we hope to see you soon. Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh!
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Thank you to Dr Lindsay Janssen for giving such a wonderful @ssnci_tweets annual lecture yesterday! We highly recommend her book 'Periodical Famines'!
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Honored to receive the Maureen Murphy prize for my paper at @ACIrishStudies 2024 on the ecocritical aspects of Brian Coffey’s poetry! Grateful for this academic community, and the terrific faculty and students at @GIHNYU who helped shape this paper into something presentable.
We are so proud of our alumni achievements at ACIS! @carolineheafey was awarded the 2025 David Krause Research Fellowship, @SeanIsaacO received the Maureen Murphy Postgraduate Award, and @samhaddprophet received the Emmet Larkin Research Fellowship. Comhghairdeas, all!
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We are so proud of our alumni achievements at ACIS! @carolineheafey was awarded the 2025 David Krause Research Fellowship, @SeanIsaacO received the Maureen Murphy Postgraduate Award, and @samhaddprophet received the Emmet Larkin Research Fellowship. Comhghairdeas, all!
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Congratulations to Marion Casey and Anelise Hanson Shrout for receiving honorable mention for the Lawrence J. McCaffrey and James S. Donnelly prizes at @ACIrishStudies for their books with the Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series!
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I'll be talking about links between the civil rights campaigns in the US and N. Ireland in the 1960s next Mon 24 Feb 6:30pm in City College New York Center for Workers Education @CCNYCWE All are welcome. https://t.co/M0ArAAfJCU
@Fulbright_Eire @galwayCASSCS @GIHNYU
ccny.cuny.edu
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Fabulous launch of the monumental Routledge History of Irish America at @GIHNYU with Prof Kenny, Con Gen Helena Nolan, editors Professors Cian McMahon and Kate Costello-Sullivan @IrelandinNY @CGNYIreland @kgmkenny @CianTMcMahon
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I'll be talking about Back-channel Negotiation during the Northern Ireland conflict on Thursday 13 February at 7pm in @GIHNYU where I am currently based as a @Fulbright_Eire visiting fellow. All are welcome. You can pre-register at this link below https://t.co/PaSqVTB3he
#NYUAS
as.nyu.edu
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