Two Irish artists quit Ed Sheeran’s tour citing Ireland’s history of colonisation and famine - live illustration of the “long shadow of the past” at work in a new @bjpir.bsky.social paper with @canmc.bsky.social : the same lens can lead others with a different past to read events the opposite way

Dr @liamkne.bsky.social and Dr @canmc.bsky.social recently joined Hugh Linehan on the Inside Politics podcast to discuss why Ireland cares so much more about Israel–Palestine than almost any other country in the West? You can listen to the full interview on the Irish Times: tinyurl.com/5fm2z35t

📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'The long shadow of the past: How Irish history shapes attitudes towards the Israel–Palestine conflict' by Miceal Canavan & Liam Kneafsey 🔗 buff.ly/GzlW7JY @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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New paper, open access, in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, with @canmc.bsky.social Why is Ireland such an outlier on Israel–Palestine — not just in policy, but in public opinion? We surveyed 1,547 people in the Republic to find out. 🧵

Does an interest in Gaelic games predict how you will vote? Analysis by @stefanmueller.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social and Liam Kneafsey @tcddublin.bsky.social @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Does an interest in Gaelic games predict how you will vote?

Income levels, education and gender may not predict an interest in the GAA, but it's different with voting intentions and left-right positions

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Article on RTÉ Brainstorm with @liamkne.bsky.social ahead of the All-Ireland Finals: we find that GAA interest cuts across income, education and gender, but not politics: Fianna Fáil voters are keenest, left-wing voters least interested. ➡️ www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2... @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social

RTÉ Brainstorm@rtebrainstorm.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Does an interest in Gaelic games predict how you will vote? Analysis by @stefanmueller.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social and Liam Kneafsey @tcddublin.bsky.social @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

My favourite description of Christmas and the reason it matters so much, written by Dickens in 1843, and still holds today

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry merry christmas xx

A real Good Samaritan

One act of kindness that befell Leeds writer Bernard Hare in 1982 changed him profoundly. Here he tells his story.

bbc.co.uk

Thank you everyone for the kind messages re ‘journalist of the year’ at the Irish Journalism Awards. Here is a link to what I said in the acceptance video they played there: www.instagram.com/p/DQ97qCSjvQv/ (video too long for Bluesky). 🙏🙏 www.irishtimes.com/media/2025/1...

The Irish Times secures eight wins at 2025 Irish Journalism Awards

Sally Hayden, Róisín Ingle, Ian O’Riordan, Rosita Boland and Chris Maddaloni among winners announced at Dublin ceremony

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“Committed acts of caring let all students know that the purpose of education is not to dominate, or prepare them to be dominators, but rather to create the conditions for freedom.” bell hooks, Teaching Community

Marcos Gonsalez@marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · last yr.

“The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy.” bell hooks’ fantastic, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. Providing a necessary reminder of the power of teaching, how teaching transforms us all.

“The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy.” bell hooks’ fantastic, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. Providing a necessary reminder of the power of teaching, how teaching transforms us all.

Please dm me if you can help.

Sally Rooney understands exactly what is required from someone of her profession and social standing in this moment. We've seen so much cowardice from so many quarters in recent times that it's almost a shock to be reminded what a person of conscience acting with true integrity looks like.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.

Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | Sally Rooney

Full article: Witnessing silence: the Palestinian genocide, institutional complicity, and the politics of knowledge www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Witnessing silence: the Palestinian genocide, institutional complicity, and the politics of knowledge

This paper examines the complicity of academic institutions in the ongoing Palestinian genocide, arguing that silence actively sustains settler colonialism, erases Palestinian narratives, and infli...

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The Free Speech Warriors are mysteriously silent when it comes to the rights of Palestinians protesting against genocide. By @nicemangos.bsky.social

Palestine and "Free Speech" Hypocrisy

The right and so-called moderate center have framed trigger warnings, the deplatforming of far right speakers, and peaceful protests as urgent free speech crises, but now they downplay the actual stif...

liberalcurrents.com

Its not post modern to supprt trans liberation-Judith Butler writes ‘if you think of rights stripping as a form of state repression, on a spectrum with detention & deportation, then you see that authoritarian powers include all three kinds of legal destitution’ socialistworker.co.uk/lgbt/judith-...

Judith Butler: It’s not ‘post-modern’ to support trans+ liberation

It was heartening to see your cover (see below). Let’s remember that trans men are also losing legal status and health care rights. If you think of rights-stripping as a form of state repression, on a...

socialistworker.co.uk

if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.

I just cried in my office after having another student in here talk about precautions they're taking about their status. I have received calls all week from people who need their names removed off publications or letters I was part of organizing. I feel sick and helpless and so so angry.

27th consecutive year of watching Mayo in championship. Hope is the thing with feathers. #mayogaa

One of the deepest shames of this period is how little attention has been paid to the Islamophobia at its heart.

talia jane@taliajane.bsky.social · last yr.

The prayer room at NYU — accessibly only via NYU ID — was vandalized with islamophobic graffiti and prayer mats were reportedly urinated on. NYU didn’t address the incident for several hours. Elected officials quick to condemn antisemitism have said nothing.

Evidence of ‘execution-style’ killings of 15 Palestinian aid workers by Israeli forces, doctor says

Evidence of ‘execution-style’ killings of 15 Palestinian aid workers by Israeli forces, doctor says

Forensic consultant says multiple bullets were used from short range in attack that has caused global outrage A forensic doctor who examined the bodies of some of the 15 paramedics and Palestinian rescue workers shot dead by Israeli forces and buried in a mass grave in southern Gaza has said there was evidence of execution-style killing, based on the “specific and intentional” location of shots at close range. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society, the Palestinian Civil Defense and UN employees were on a humanitarian mission to collect dead and wounded civilians outside the southern city of Rafah on the morning of 23 March when they were killed, and then buried in the sand by bulldozer alongside their flattened vehicles, according to the UN. Continue reading...

theguardian.com

My students are amazing, part 512 (right took me a second but is just spectacular)

Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:

Erica Chenoweth@chenoweth.bsky.social · 2y ago

@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, and I draw on our research through the Crowd Counting Consortium to show that there is far more protest happening in the US than is commonly understood, and that the shift to economic noncooperation shows powerful potential for future collective action.

fix your heart or die www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2017/09/25/f...

Fix Your Heart or Die: The Startling Empathy of David Lynch

The films of David Lynch are strange creatures, but to focus only on their most ungainly appendages is to willfully ignore their equally beautiful qualities.

brightwalldarkroom.com

Feels like the glory days of, *checks notes*, 2009 all over again here.