sarah field
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on public international law’s Yes to humanity through stories that echo its meaning fromsaltintears.com plus radical (root) justice for children and cahtreaty4kids.org #hope-walking
Aughinish Alumina: 'A ticking environmental time bomb' Irish Times investigation found: 🛑 Aluminium levels 4,700x safe EU limit 🛑 Arsenic levels 129x EU limit 🛑 Zinc levels 125x safe limit An Taisce calls for a full investigation by Government into plant www.antaisce.org/submission-o...
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Joy as Irish bird feared gone forever returns to Cork
Return of the corncrake gives hope for other native species
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Derry Soweto Gwangjo Daraa Yangon Jenin and Gaza City El Fasher… Proper nouns or common nouns for young age directed child killing? fromsaltintears.com/the-time-to-...
The Israeli army has set fire to vast olive groves in the village of Yaroun in southern Lebanon 🇱🇧
'I am now writing on Saturday, 2nd of August, seated quietly in Mr Curran’s bookroom in his rural retreat, 4 miles from Dublin… ' My co-authored piece on William Godwin’s six-week visit to Ireland in the summer of 1800, hosted by the Irish Patriot lawyer John Philpot Curran, is now on open access:
‘A nation in its last moments’: William Godwin’s visit to Ireland, 1800 - History Ireland
Godwin’s letters have left us an eyewitness account of aspects of Irish social and political life at a critical moment in the country’s history. In June 1800 the Irish ‘patriot’ MP and barrister John ...
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The Tour de France Femmes rolls off today + @clodaghfinn.bsky.social in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social has the story of Mayo's Millie Robinson 🇮🇪, 'The Greatest Woman Cyclist of Them All', who won a precursor of today's #TdFF2026, 1955's Tour Féminin aka 'the First Tour de France Femmes'. #SpeirGorm
Clodagh Finn: The Mayo woman who won the first Tour de France for women
The memory of the last time the Sam Maguire went west, 75 years ago, is etched in local consciousness, yet a remarkable international win by a Ballina cyclist just a few years later remains little-kno...
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‘Every story counts. Every perspective makes a difference. What happens when some voices simply aren’t heard?’
Raven Books@ravenbooks.bsky.social · 6d agoWhat is #WITmonth? #WITmonth is⤵️ Explore further here: www.womenintranslation.org
A consequence of EU policy…
Ernesto Castañeda@drernestocast.bsky.social · 5d agoTens of thousands have crossed from Morocco into Spain's Ceuta enclave. Many are minors, and while repatriation efforts are underway, the situation underscores broader European immigration policy challenges. Border externalization cannot work forever #Ceuta #Spain #Morocco #Externalization #NoCrisis
“We saw too much beauty to be cynical, felt too much joy to be dismissive, climbed too many mountains to be quitters, kissed too many girls to be deceivers, saw too many sunrises not to be believers....” Glen Hansard RIP
"A judicial review is any case taken against any public body that may have broken the law — it's the separation of powers working as intended". Thanks to @cathalmalone.bsky.social for writing this for us www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Judicial reviews are a fundamental part of democracy — not a dig at the Government by greedy lawyers
A judicial review is any case taken against any public body that may have broken the law — it's the separation of powers working as intended, writes Cathal Malone
irishexaminer.com
Moonwort and an orchid extravaganza. A short post about the latest goings on here on Red River Croft. Happy reading 🤗 notesfromasmallcroftbythesea.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/o...
Orchid dreams
We watch the summer solstice sunset from the Erradale shore. It is a peaceful and surprisingly midge-free evening. A gentle breeze lifts scents of seaweed and salt to mingle with the syrup, l…
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I thought The Citizen was one-eyed not no eyed.
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 2w ago‘If it’s easy to mistake this haughty young recusant for a critic of nationalism, it’s largely because, with the Parnellites plunged into division and disarray over the fate of their leader, Joyce was now politically homeless.’ Terry Eagleton on James Joyce’s politics. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘The most troubling ethical problem with Nolan’s Odyssey concerns the decision to film part of the movie in the occupied territory of Western Sahara, thus normalising the ongoing violence against the indigenous Sahrawi people.’
EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last wk.I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
"Given the racial tensions that often existed between Irish and Black Americans, why would Black veterans volunteer to join the fight for Irish freedom?"
Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna@patrickjmahone1.bsky.social · 2w ago160 years ago this summer, a group of Black American Civil War veterans gathered in New York's Washington Square Park to offer their services to the cause of Irish freedom - their story is recalled in my 'From the Square' blog for @nyupress.bsky.social nyupress.org/blog/2026/07...
One needs no, fictional, horror stories, in this life. In an exclusive extract from his memoir, Kiyoshi Tanimoto describes the terrifying trip across the city to locate his wife and child www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
