Gerard McCarthy's reposnse to Maureen Lipman's accusations and attack in The Telegraph is an absolute masterpiece. He totally dissects her statement line by line. Just brilliant. This mic drop of a closing statement too.
Stephen O'Neill
@oneillsb.bsky.social
Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955 (Liverpool University Press, April 2026)
it is incredible that discussions about partition in the 'south' are still dominated by Michael Laffan and Clare O'Halloran, books which may have been foundational at the time but whose limitations have long been evident
Diarmaid Ferriter: One significant block to unity hasn’t changed: apathy and ignorance south of the Border
A Border poll was never really on the table, and that is where there is considerable Anglo-Irish agreement
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First review of Irish Culture and Partition is in from polymath Harun Šiljak: 'As the obfuscation by “realism” makes rounds in the public sphere in Ireland, and revisionist takes on Irish history dominate the ether, a clear analysis such as the one presented in this book is much needed'.
Culture and Partition
A lot has been written and said over the past month about Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in Belfast, culture, and partition. While being able to somewhat accurately report on the effects of the Fleadh, …
socialistvoice.ie
No, everyone, we did not wake up to hundreds of opinion pieces about this Cambridge academic's multiple integrity scandals yesterday.
Peter Jukes@peterjukes.bsky.social · yesterdayJust a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI
#DIBLives “September has come, it is hers Whose vitality leaps in the autumn, Whose nature prefers Trees without leaves and a fire in the fireplace." (Louis MacNeice, 'Autumn Journal') Poet, critic, dramatist and broadcaster Louis MacNeice died #OTD 1963. www.dib.ie/biography/ma...
Nice to see a reference to my book 'Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955' here in Daragh Fitzgerald's Bookworm in @historyireland.bsky.social. 'O’Neill convincingly argues that culture was not a logic of partition but that partition itself provided a basis for culture'. Sin é.
BOOKWORM - History Ireland
By Daragh Fitzgerald Gladys Hynes: radical lives seeks to restore a forgotten artist to her rightful place in the pantheon of the Modernist movement. Gladys Hynes was born in India to an Anglo-Irish f...
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If you're not using asbestos yet, you are being left behind. Everyone is using asbestos, there's no point in trying to fight it. Asbestos is the future.
I see that academic who spends a lot of time interviewing friends of his father as part of his research and regularly evokes his own family experiences in interviews to publicise his work or in his newspaper column critiquing others for citing their "lived experience"...
Record Uptake In CAO Course ‘How To Dismantle Capitalism So I Can Afford Rent’ https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2024/08/29/record-uptake-in-cao-course-how-to-dismantle-capitalism-so-i-can-afford-rent/
Record Uptake In CAO Course ‘How To Dismantle Capitalism So I Can Afford Rent’
WITH THE first round of CAO course offers out, some key trends are emerging with noticeable trends including a serious surge in popularity for a degree in How To Dismantle Capitalism So I Can Afford …
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from a longview the fact that the British PM is saying this clearly demonstrates that it is about to be on the table
RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · last wk.British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said a referendum on a united Ireland is 'off the table'
the idea that people from Gaza shouldn't claim asylum is utterly absurd. The same people thinking we shouldn't offer asylum to them are those claiming that the majority of asylum claims are bogus
Laura McAtackney@lauramca.bsky.social · last wk.I sometimes laugh with the bitter irony of the far right claim the university sector is filled with left wing ideologies when you see letters like this to the paper of record. Begrudging a messily €4m to assist students from Gaza.
I sometimes laugh with the bitter irony of the far right claim the university sector is filled with left wing ideologies when you see letters like this to the paper of record. Begrudging a messily €4m to assist students from Gaza.
This was a joy to work on. From Tennessee to Tallaght - looking at the remarkable legacy of Dolly Parton.. 5,000 kids in Tallaght get books sent to them every month because of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library 📚
'The Rest is History' podcast on the origins of the Troubles using a fake image- a photo actually taken in 1991 with a slogan supposedly written all over west Belfast in August 1969 (but inconveniently that no actual photo exists of) photoshopped onto it. Classy lads.
‘The former principal of Holy Cross girls’ primary school in north Belfast has said migrant families are being subjected to the same fear and intimidation that her pupils and their parents experienced during an attempted loyalist blockade of the school 25 years ago. Anne Tanney, in the midst..[1/2]
Former Holy Cross principal says migrant families are facing the same fear and intimidation as pupils and parents did 25 years ago
Anne Tanney comforted a child who was afraid to go to school in the midst of June’s racist riots
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I am looking for someone to go or who is planning to go to the Irish National Archives in Dublin and take a photograph of some records they hold in the outrage papers. Not urgent at all, and I will pay, of course. #spéirghorm #speirgorm
the whole 'veterans are victims too' propaganda that has been put forward here is utterly shocking in the context of the comparative conviction rates for the soldiers and intelligence assets who occupied the six counties www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
Bryant concerned that Troubles Bill is 'misunderstood'
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Chris Bryant has said that a strong relationship between the Irish and British Governments is vital.
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nothing will ever beat the Glaswegian Celtic fan whose specialist subject was the Easter Rising, but this is close
Qagggy!@qagggy.bsky.social · 2w agoUK transit nerds are next level.
Today is (online) publication day for Contested Histories: Global Perspectives on the Past, Present and Future of Public Monuments, a volume edited by me, @simonajohn.bsky.social and Hannah Lyons. We're so proud to have this volume out in the world! More info here: www.bloomsbury.com/us/contested...
Contested Histories
Examining case studies from Asia, Africa, North America, and Europe, this book explores the debates around the past, present and future of public monuments. Thr…
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Ireland long a province be, a tax haven once again
Adrian Weckler@adrianweckler.bsky.social · 2w agoIreland, corp tax received: 2015: €5bn 2025: €33bn
From 'MacDara', 'The Irish Boundary Settlement', in The Fortnightly Review, April 1926. Plus ça change
