We have been in the local Woolworths and the pound shop, and had a nice meal of lasagne in Wetherspoons.
Lynsey Black
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Doing history, gender, punishment, postcolonialism, borders at Maynooth University. PI on Research Ireland Laureate Award, CONSPACE - Contested Space: Penal Nationalism & the Northern Ireland Border.
This year, we have demonstrated a deep commitment to public engagement, bridging academic research with advocacy, media, and policy influence. Read about this and more on our annual report here ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
Snippets from Peter Robinson's pamhplet 'The North Answers Back' (1969): He is writing at a time when 'the Ulster Loyalist gasps for breath', in a period of 'the poison of Papist propaganda' (nice bit of alliteration there). In the wake of the '69 'Uprising' which he deems a 'Plot'. ...
Saw this on the temporarily renamed Dawson Street yesterday.
An insight into how independent oversight of prisons is imagined in Ireland www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
Inspector of Prisons at loggerheads with prison service over issue of 'escorts' during visits
Escalating row over inspectors being escorted by prison officers during announced visits to Ireland's prisons has resulted in a breakdown of the relationship between the two bodies
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It brilliant to have Crime and Punishment in Irish History out now in the new Oxford Bibliographies in Legal History, shepherded through by Gautham, and thank you to the amazing Eleanor - an opportunity to do a bit of rereading and put together this guide: doi-org.may.idm.oclc.org/10.1093/9780...
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Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5)@gauthamrao.bsky.social · 2mo agoMy nine years editing my favorite journal, Law and History Review (@lawandhistrev.bsky.social), are coming to an end this summer. What's next? I'm thrilled to share my new multi-year initiative with Oxford University Press: Oxford Bibliographies in Legal History academic.oup.com/reference/62...
When all sides signed up to ceasefires, the Good Friday Agreement and paramilitary disarmament, demobilisation, and reintegration (DDR), loyalist paramilitary groups kept recruiting and tightening control. In 2020, the UDA was estimated to have 5000 members and the UVF, around 7,500. [2/n]
Loyalist paramilitary groups in NI 'have 12,500 members'
Briefings, based on PSNI and MI5 intelligence, have been obtained by BBC NI's Spotlight.
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The New IRA's no-star review for Disclosure Day was a bit harsh.
It was an emotional report launch for the Oireachtas joint committee on drug use, who called to decriminalise possession for personal use. "This is why I ran," Senator Lynn Ruane said. "While this committee was sitting, I lost more friends." jrnl.ie/7080292
'I've lost friends during this': Emotional scenes as committee backs radical drug law change
‘This is why I ran’ Senator Ruane said of the report’s recommendations.
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Following the 2026 Belfast pogroms, End Deportations Belfast were invited to write for the @ppr-org.bsky.social : We R.I.S.E. Together campaign. Our piece, ‘Pogroms, Paramilitarism and Policing’ offers analysis on years of abject failure to keep communities safe.
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The PSNI are failing in their duties of detecting and investigating crime online from known extremists, even when they lead to intimidation, violence and threats on life.
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‘Sad day for Ireland’s future’: In a letter to Higher Education Minister, 2,300 academics criticise Research Ireland’s strategy, saying it is an assault on Ireland’s research ecosystem, with too much focus on industry interests www.independent.ie/irish-news/e...
‘Sad day for Ireland’s future’: Academics and Research Ireland row over how to spend €4.55bn of taxpayers’ money
In a letter to Higher Education Minister, 2,300 academics criticise state agency’s strategy, saying it was an assault on Ireland’s research ecosystem, with too much focus on industry interests
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MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Jeffrey Donaldson found guilty in historical sex offences trial Read more: tinyurl.com/3wpzebcb
Jeffrey Donaldson found guilty in historical sex offences trial
Jeffrey Donaldson has been found guilty of 18 historical sex offences against two women when they were children, including one count of rape, 13 of indecent assault and four of gross indecency.
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Sharp criticism of BBC NI from an ex-insider: He says it has "sucked money away from" in-depth journalism to online stuff, much of which is "news generated from pressure groups...producing the ever-present headline of 'X has called on the Executive to’."
I once caused a ‘tumbleweed’ moment at a BBC NI strategy meeting... but now it’s time chiefs saw reality over future
Savings aren’t the answer, it’s the funding model that needs to change
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Treasure trove of these in Stokes Books, George's Arcade @historyireland.bsky.social, going back to at least 1999 (party like it's).
This is so timely. 'Within the heightened politicization of the 2020s debate on immigration, the role of non-state actors is clear... campaigning groups calling for the borders to be closed and equally in the role of activists in attempting to document and disrupt crossborder racial proling.'
Lynsey Black@lynseyblack.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis piece on the Northern Ireland border, past and present, is now published in Oxford Intersections: Borders academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
This piece on the Northern Ireland border, past and present, is now published in Oxford Intersections: Borders academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
Bordering a Contested State: Northern Ireland as the U.K.’s ‘Other’ Border
Abstract. From its inception, the Northern Ireland border delineated the limits of a contentious state. Marked by periodic violence, the border was heavily
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We need more mid-budget 90s style thrillers with titles like "Arousing Suspicion" or "Hostile Witness" where the female lawyers all talk like they're narrating an M&S Food ad and there's a judge who raises his eyebrow during testimony and Ashley Judd is in it and the soundtrack has saxophone
Dance first, think later? This is a project I have been working on for a while. If you have journeyed through clubs, raves, dancefloors, sounds and crowds of 1990s/early 2000s Northern Ireland I would love to chat!
Our key note speaker prof Sarah Richardson speaking now - on women and state and its challenges @womenshistnet.bsky.social
How has there not been an Irish horror film with this title yet
Neil Jackman@neiljackman.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe illicit rush of springing a "guess who's dead".
Thank you to Eoghan McNeill of @wereontheditch.bsky.social for speaking with humour and insight at our event on border violence this week AND for validating my life choices!
The Ditch@wereontheditch.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe liberal tendency is to mysticise the border, to take a day trip to Portrush, see an Orange hall or some baked goods, meet a man called Norman, and reflect, isn’t this mad, sure isn’t this a different country altogether, this isn’t Ireland. www.ontheditch.com/comment-that...
Thank you to everyone who took part, who came along to speak and listen, and thank you to @niamhkeady-tabbal.bsky.social and @mu-ssi.bsky.social @maynoothlaw.bsky.social for making it possible.
The Ditch’s Eoghan McNeill speaks at Maynooth University tomorrow, 20 May, at the event Ireland's Hidden Border Violence. From 12pm. More information here: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...
Ireland’s Hidden Border Violence
The border on the island of Ireland is often described as
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I will be speaking at Maynooth University tomorrow, 20 May, at the event Ireland's Hidden Border Violence. From 12pm. More information here: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...
Ireland’s Hidden Border Violence
The border on the island of Ireland is often described as
maynoothuniversity.ie
End Deportations Belfast will be on a panel at this very important event at @maynoothuniversity.ie on May 20th 2026. 28 years on from the Good Friday Agreement, the imposition of border controls undermines peace progress and the very idea of a shared island.
