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Niall Herron

@niallherron.bsky.social

PhD anthropology student @ Queen’s University Belfast. Interests: social movements, assemblage, queer oral history, the everyday, space, and my cats and bees. Researching queer experiences in the north of Ireland during the Troubles.

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Kieran Connell@kieranconnell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I have a piece in today’s Irish Examiner about a new AHRC project I’m proud to be involved in with @jcrangle.bsky.social & @tortietabby.bsky.social on a hundred years of diversity in Ireland www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Kieran Connell: Ireland has a long multicultural history. It's time to tell that story

Refugees from Hungary and Belgium; migrant workers from Poland and Germany; doctors from Africa and Asia — over the last century, Ireland was far more diverse than many of us seem to realise

irishexaminer.com

Niall Herron@niallherron.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I’m delighted to share that my first journal article has been published in Ethnos, entitled ‘Liberation Past, Present Stagnation: Queer Nostalgia and Memories of the Northern Irish Troubles’.

Liberation Past, Present Stagnation: Queer Nostalgia and Memories of the Northern Irish Troubles

The troubled past looms large in Northern Ireland decades after the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement. This article examines how queer memories of the Troubles mobilise nostalgia to contest linear narr...

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Dr Mary McAuliffe@drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 5mo ago

CFPs open for the Gender & Sexuality PGR Conference 12 June 2026, Queen's University Belfast, ‘CRITICAL ENOUGH? Orientations of Authority and Resistance’ … delighted to be the keynote speaker. Abstracts due by 15 April 2026

CFPs open for the Gender & Sexuality PGR Conference 12 June 2026, Queen's University Belfast, ‘CRITICAL ENOUGH? Orientations of Authority and Resistance’ … delighted to be the keynote speaker. Abstracts due by 15 April 2026
NOTCHES Blog@notchesblog.bsky.social · 11mo ago

New on NOTCHES 🚻✨ “Dolled up to the nines to go to a flippin' public toilet!”: Cruising in Belfast During the Troubles by Niall Herron. How did queer cruising unfold during the Troubles, and what can it teach us about sexuality, space, and conflict? Read the full feature here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Pq

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End Deportations Belfast@enddbelfast.bsky.social · last yr.

Again we urgently call on ALL MLAs to go to their communities under threat at locations where far-right actions are being announced. With confirmed paramilitary involvement, they must be on the ground tonight as observers or in solidarity. enddeportationsbelfast.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/u...

Urgent: A Call For MLAs To Stand With Their Communities.

On the third day of far-right racist violence across Northern Ireland, tonight we urgently require that all MLAs attend the pre-notified far-right protest locations to act as observers at the least…

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Raise Your Voice@raiseyourvoiceni.bsky.social · last yr.

We must first acknowledge the girl whose violation sparked the chain of events. We stand in solidarity with her and with her family now and always. Instead, ostensibly because of the ethnic background of the boys accused of carrying out this attack, the vigil was hijacked by people intent on harm.

Violence in Ballymena text above WRDA RTA WSN NIRWN logos We must first acknowledge the girl whose violation sparked the chain of events. She and her family will have to navigate her trauma and grief from this incident as well as to engage with the criminal justice system, which is challenging for any survivor, and particularly for one so young. We stand in solidarity with her and with her family now and always. Her family called for a peaceful and inclusive vigil to draw attention to the epidemic of violence against women and girls, and this could have been a moment for the community to come together on this issue that plagues every part of our society and impacts such a huge number of women and girls across our lifetimes. Instead, ostensibly because of the ethnic background of the boys accused of carrying out this attack, the vigil was hijacked by people intent on harm. Their actions harmed families and individuals and left many without shelter, including women and girls who were removed from their homes by this destruction. They have also left people in fear for their safety, particularly people from an ethnic minority background. None of this helps the victim in this case. None of this will address the broader issue of VAWG. Most gender-based violence and most sexual violence is carried out by people known to the victim. In the reporting year 2023/24, 1,681 files were sent to the PPS regarding sexual crimes. Many of these were not prosecuted, and many, many more were never reported. We do not usually see vigilante actions in response to incidents of rape, and in this case it is clear that these actions, which defied the family’s wishes, were motivated by racism. We welcome outrage at the trauma that this girl has suffered, but this outrage can and must be channelled correctly. We need reform within the legal system, we need to address the culture that makes these incidents so common, we need to tackle prejudice and racism, and we need to redouble our efforts to achieve the goal of ending violence against women and girls.
Patrick Corrigan@patrick-corrigan.bsky.social · last yr.

It is good to tell our stories. For this museum to be most educationally useful, it must go beyond tales of derring-do and also address the huge role Irish soldiers played in the brutal and racist colonial expansion and exploitation of the British Empire. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/educati...

New £13.6m museum to tell story of Irish soldiers in British Army

The history of Irish involvement in the British Army will be told in a new museum planned across two sites in Belfast and Enniskillen.

belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Nicola Pratt 🇵🇸✌️@nicolapratt.bsky.social · last yr.

On International Women’s Day, solidarity with the women of Palestine, Sudan, Congo and all others living under bombs, bullets and forced displacement. No feminism without peace, justice and freedom from imperialism and colonialism ✌️✊🇵🇸 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Why Palestine is a feminist issue: a reckoning with Western feminism in a time of genocide

Published in International Feminist Journal of Politics (Vol. 27, No. 1, 2025)

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Dr Matthew A. L. Gault@malgault.bsky.social · last yr.

A thread worth considering in light of some of our politicans deciding now is the time to boycott the White House St Patrick's Day party over Palestine. Why now and not before? How "principled" can the stance be if explusions under Biden weren't enough, but under Trump they are...

Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · last yr.

Joe Biden spent eighteen months enabling a genocide in Occupied Palestine. That's a fact. And saying that we must ignore that fact is saying the people murdered *with our American weapons, paid for by our American tax dollars* don't matter. Saying people should have ignored a genocide is monstrous.

Alliance for Choice Derry@a4cderry.bsky.social · last yr.

Our Shá is fundraising to get a mural of Nell McCafferty in the Bogside. Nell was a daughter of Derry. She was an incredible journalist and a women's right activist. We would appreciate your help in making this happen! www.gofundme.com/f/mural-for-...

Donate to Mural for Nell - Peaball will be painting the mural, organized by Sha Gillespie

Hi, my name is Shá and I'm fundraising to get a mural of Nell McCaff… Sha Gillespie needs your support for Mural for Nell - Peaball will be painting the mural

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Anthropology of Work Review@anthropologyofwork.bsky.social · last yr.

"... people are slowly becoming tools, machines in sync, bodies in motion, but rarely minds." @jamescuffe.bsky.social & @fionamur.bsky.social in @allegralab.bsky.social on the emergence of the 'fungible subject' under the drive for automation allegralaboratory.net/being-fungib...

Being Fungible - They Only Want Us from the Neck Down - Allegra Lab

They Only Want Us from the Neck Down Across the airport car park, a figure in a mad dash—a sprawl of limbs in motion, with bags flapping like the wings of

allegralaboratory.net

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · last yr.

"When it mattered most, Long sided with cis power over trans survival" - My meeting with Northern Ireland Justice Minister Naomi Long to discuss why they backed a puberty blocker ban - open.substack.com/pub/hleehurl...

Exclusive: Naomi Long tries to explain why Alliance backed puberty blocker ban

After a month of anticipation, I left my meeting with Northern Ireland’s Justice Minister Naomi Long feeling deeply frustrated and ultimately deflated.

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