Full house in Upstairs Books last night for launch of @bryanfanning.bsky.social academic memoir "Ideologies Are Not Your Friends." Bryan is a Professor of Sociology at UCD and a former board member of @studiesirishreview.bsky.social
Bryan Fanning
@bryanfanning.bsky.social
Full Professor of Migration and Social Policy, student of intellectual history #author: Public Morality and the Culture Wars: The triple divide (2023), and those in the above picture.
Thanks to everyone who came to my book launch last night.
A book launch, like an Irish funeral, is a chance to meet people and exchange a bit of gossip.
Looking at a contentious issue today that is likely to grow in salience @bryanfanning.bsky.social @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social @valescal.bsky.social theweekinhousing.substack.com/p/social-hou...
Social housing allocation & immigration
The Week in Housing 18/09/26
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A memoir of a quarter of a century researching immigration, trying to make sense of Irish intellectual history, arguments in Irish Studies and culture war stuff
This should read: Data centre expansion threatens energy affordability for households and national decarbonisation plans. www.irishexaminer.com/business-col...
John Whelan: High electricity costs threaten Irelands data centre and AI expansion
Ireland lags behind in the total number of data centres and is likely to continue to fall behind if the cost of electricity is not brought down
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I feel a lot of David Attenborough's hard work with nature preservation is to cover for how much of a mess his brother made of that dinosaur theme park.
When slavery was abolished in Jamaica in 1834, the following Irish surnames were present in the long list of compensated slave-owners: Barry, Bourke, Boyle, Brady, Brennan, Broderick, Buckley, Burke, Byrne, Carey, Carroll, Codd, Coleman, Collins, Conway, Corbett, Costello, Cowan, Creighton, Crowley
Went on Inside Politics podcast yesterday talking about fuel protests, populism & liberalism. I tried to add nuance without appearing as an apologist for populism. Not sure how succesful I was! @bryanfanning.bsky.social @eoghandalton.bsky.social @lizcarolan.com www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/ins...
What the fuel protests meant
Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan
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‘Someone might die’ – Mother of Kildare girl (11) with rare bone cancer said fuel protests are putting lives at risk www.independent.ie/irish-news/s...
‘Someone might die’ – Mother of Kildare girl (11) with rare bone cancer said fuel protests are putting lives at risk
The mother of a young girl with a rare type of bone cancer has warned that “someone might die” as a result of the fuel protests.
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One of mine, secondhand, at Oxfam on Parliament Street Dublin
It’s easy (more easy than accurate) to dismiss academic critics of generative AI as uninformed or emotive, which is often anyway code for “moralizing.” But it’s remarkable how much gen AI boosterism requires feigning ignorance that theft and impersonation are widely seen as wrong, for good reasons.
Like, "take an unexpected interruption, comment on it, weave it into what you were going to say anyway, continue unflustered" is a skill that most people with a teaching role pick up fairly quickly, out of necessity. While impressive from a politician, it's not *supernatural* communication skills.
It's 1998. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
A bunch of my books on sale in Chapters on Parnell Street
Inviting submissions for this Special Issue on ‘Preparing Social Workers For Global Practice’ , guest edited by Dr Beverly Wagner @umaine and I. Details can be found here www.mdpi.com/journal/socs...
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'It all boils down to a simple credo: people should stay where they are, and who they are'. 1st in a series on far/populist right housing politics looks at the recent book Vanadalising Ireland @bryanfanning.bsky.social @hlinehan.bsky.social @shamimmalekmian.bsky.social tinyurl.com/52dctvdm
So I have a book out about the challenges and dilemmas arising from large-scale immigration. Of course I look at the benefits of integrating and incorporating migrants (and how social policy can help) but I also focus on the political obstacles that play out in many countries.
Looking forward to the launch tonight of our first new book of 2026! 'Waterford and the Wider World', edited by John Breslin, David Dickson, Ivar McGrath, Thomas O'Connor and Rosemary Ryan. Available now from The Book Centre, Waterford, and all good bookshops!
Four of my books with Manchester University Press. I have another with MUP out in the new year.
This is what is going to happen. There will be a thin top layer of non-digital universities — and all the tech billionaires will send their kids to those places.
Christopher Howell@chrishowell.com · 10mo agoTotal success to the first college/university that pledges to be AI-free and brand it as an opportunity to receive a real education.
My kids woke up so excited this morning for the first night of Hannukah and now yet again we have a festival where I’m very conflicted about whether it’s safe to take them to synagogue to celebrate. Communities shouldn’t have to live like this.
Have an article on the role of faith-based supports for migrants and diasporas in the current issue of Studies: Catholic, Jewish, Muslim and evangelical Christian. It ties in with a book I have coming out in the new year.
Work by Eilis Fanning to see Friday 5 December to Sunday at the Spacecraft Gallery Limerick Eircode V94 HH 34