Folklorist with Cork Folklore Project (@corkfolklore) and University College Cork. Audio-lover, accidental archivist. Mother of scallywags. She/her.
Cork, Ireland
Joined March 2012
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Sonia was a joy to work with on a grant application; enthusiasm, expertise, kindness and good cheer from her on every encounter. Congratulations!
Congratulations Dr Sonia Monteiro @eriucc @SEFSUCC on FINALLY winning Research Support Person of the Year 2023/24!
MASSIVELY well deserved (& overdue). Thank you for your leadership, encouragement, mentorship, hard work, positivity & friendship 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 #UCCresearchAwards
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Tá ár gCeann Roinne le clos ar an podcraoladh seo!
Thanks to @scienceirl for supporting the Circular Tales project; we had a great event with over 120 people this afternoon. @UCCFolklore @CACSSS1
Well done @corkfolklore @corktravellerw1 @eriucc on Circular Tales today. Powerful stories and song were shared about Cork’s sustainable past, the circular economy and the impactful role of the Travelling community. Delighted to have been able to attend 🌿
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#ThroughHerEyes
Great news.
Mother Jones, the Cork-born trade unionist who was known as the “most dangerous woman in America”, is to get a statue in her honour in Chicago.
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A lovely bunch of performers, with the late Jim McKeon on screen in the background. @scienceirel supporting multiple perspectives and conversations, stories and songs on #sustainability. @corktravellerw1 @eriucc @corkfolklore Thanks to all!
Inspiring @sustainability discussions @TriskelCork 'Circular Tales' L to R myself, Mags & Ellie-May O'Sullivan, Cork City Lord Mayor Kieren McCarthy Louise Harrington CTWN, James Fury Cliona O'Carroll (with flourbag) Paul Bolger @Corkfolklore @UCCFolklore & singer Thomas McCarthy
What lovely news.
Join @bealoideasucd at 7.30pm on Monday, 12 February 2024, here in MoLI for the launch of ‘Seal Stories’, a website created in partnership with the Irish Seal Sanctuary, showcasing material from the National Folklore Collection. moli.ticketsolve.com/ticketb…
Maith thú, a Chiaráin! #ComhghleacaíIldánach @UCCFolklore
Comhghairdeachas ó chroí le buaiteoir Chomórtas na bhFear 2023, Ciarán Ó Gealbháin. @uptheshocks
If you're in Cork, come join us tomorrow Thursday 3-4 for 'Circular Tales - Waste or Resource?' for a bit of theft, a bit of mending, and the folklore of urban thrift. All welcome. @scienceirl #oralhistory @ERIUCC @CACSSS1 @UCCResearch
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Delighted to see our Catching Stories exhibition and the #oralhistory of infectious disease continue life in ‘d’Orthopedic’ to mark the HSE’s Winter vaccination drive. @corkfolklore @scienceirl @UCCResearch @CACSSS1 @UCCFolklore catchingstories.org
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A reminder that there is just 3 weeks left to visit the wonderful ‘Catching Stories’ exhibition at The Boole Library.
Comhgháirdeachas lenár gcomrádaithe Clíona & Jamie @corkfolklore on a wonderful launch of their exhibition ‘Catching Stories’ today. The exhibition runs at the Boole until June. Call in!
This should be great tomorrow; I'll be along with @FurryJams
'Review, restrict, redact, release': Rachael Jones works through the possible pathways - and balancing acts - involved in Oral History online publication at #ICASUV23. A great start to the day.
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CTWN is appealing to the public to share any photos of barreltop wagons in the Black Ash area
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Léargas iontach ar Mhná na Feadóige Móire ó @aoifegranville
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A lovely way to kick off the Circular Tales project; pigs and jam were the most discussed topics, if you don't count the continuing slogging/slocking apples debate! @scienceirel @CACSSS1 It's going to be a great year with @eriucc @corktravellerw1 @corkfolklore and @FurryJams
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How, indeed, did the women working in McKechnie's Cleaners go to the dance in beautiful gowns? Listen below or join us tomorrow at 2pm in Tory Top Library @eriucc @scienceirel @CACSSS1 @learning_fest
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Join us @corkfolklore and @eriucc for talk of thrift and divilment in 1940s-'60s Cork; dyeing, stitching, eking out resources, and creative appropriation of chickens, rabbits, and chocolate crumb too.
Tory Top Library, Tuesday 28 March, 2-3.30pm. All welcome. @scienceirel
The ERI & @PaulTBolger are delighted to be partnering with Dr Cliona O'Carroll @OCarrollC & The Cork Folklore Project @corkfolklore & Department of Folklore and Ethnology @CACSSS1 to bring you:
'Circular Tales - a listening event' as part of @learning_fest
Full details👇
We're delighted to be collaborating with @corktravellerw1 and @eriucc here @corkfolklore, on one of the @scienceirl Discover awards here: Circular Tales of thrift and creativity, here we come!
Four @UCC projects awarded a combined €451,000 in @scienceirel funding.
Congratulations to @eoinlettice, @BarbaraDoylePre, @claireconnollys, @palaeomays, @aoife_odonoghue, @OCarrollC on their funding awards from the @scienceirel Discover Programme. 👇
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Honoured that @corkfolklore and @UCCFolklore
were just awarded a Traveller Ally award 2023.
@corktravellerw1 have given us generous peer support and friendship down through the years.
To mark Traveller Ethnicity day, @corktravellerw1 & @tvgcorkclg are delighted to announce the winners of our annual Traveller Ally Awards. Awards recognise Cork organisations & champions who have created welcoming spaces for Travellers & supported Traveller rights and culture.
