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Looks like even Simon Harris as Minister for Foreign Affairs is now using the term genocide. Well past time now for those who dismissed and, in some cases, denigrated those who raised the alarm to acknowledge this reality.

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Brian Eno calls on Microsoft to cease its partnership with Israel and pledges to donate the original fee for his Windows '95 chime to victims of Israel's genocide in Gaza

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'Minister Pablo Bustinduy said his goal was to end the general "lack of control" and "illegality" in the holiday rental business. "No more excuses. Enough with protecting those who make a business out of the right to housing in our country," he told reporters.' www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

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Every year on 18 May I post an Old Irish translation of a Joy Division song. This year: Ice Age, a song from 1977, recorded in 1979, but published only on the album Still in 1981, more than a year after the death of Ian Curtis (www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK-s...). An earlier recording from the... /1

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RIP Brian Glanville www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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In case anyone is still deluded enough to think FIFA will give a second thought to hosting the World Cup in the US. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Paul's Scarlet - in the ditch. (Best read in a Dublin accent.)

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Last chance to register for this evening’s in-person discussion on writing the history of the conflict in N Ireland @ihr.bsky.social. Panel includes the head of the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy project & both co-chairs of the UK Public History of the Troubles. www.history.ac.uk/events/eisen...

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Registration details for the ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference 2025 have now been added to our website: asle.org.uk/events/galwa...

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What a quote.

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A by-product of reading county council minutes from late c20th Ireland is that I also catch lots of day-to-day issues that councillors were concerned with. Unfortunately (though unsurprisingly), anti-Traveller discrimination is among the most prominent. See this from Tipperary South, 27 July 1987.

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New article! ‘“No race hate here”? Irish national identity and racism in the mid twentieth century’ just published online in Irish Historical Studies. Explores Irish attitudes to race and racism, including an ugly spate of racist attacks in Dublin during 1963-64. Open access: doi.org/10.1017/ihs....

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One for you and your peat crew, @kbruisch.bsky.social !

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Spent today in Clonmel, working at the Tipperary Council archives. A very fruitful journey, not least because I managed to also fit in a trip to see the site of the case study I'm working on, as well as the river (the Suir) and valley that are big characters in that story. More once I write it up.

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Ah, lads. A first Leinster championship in sixty-eight years. It's, well, emotional. And all the sweeter after being robbed by Meath in 2010. Louth were just immense.

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I was 16, doing an after-school class to prepare for the Leaving Cert oral French exam. My good friend Greg and I were going through the usual conversation themes with the tutor. When we moved to films, Greg mentioned The French Connection, and I misremembered the lead actor's name as Gene Pacman.

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Saturday morning listening = Darkside - SNC. Come for the groove, stay for the Stevie Wonder/Superstition-style keyboards. youtube.com/watch?v=fKiS...

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All set up now in the new exhibition space of the Lullymore Heritage & Discovery Park. Come for the RePEAT exhibition, stay to look at some former peat extraction technology, bog cotton and rewetting-in-progress. Our exhibition will be there until 30 May. #peatsky

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"Statistics released last year showed that 41 percent of young people aged 18 to 34 live at home with their parents. Meanwhile, as of October 2024, investment funds had acquired 46 percent of all apartments built since 2017 letting them at exorbitant prices." www.ontheditch.com/comment-bren...

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Tell you what, the @carsoncenter.bsky.social knows how to build anticipation. I'll be spending time there in June as a visiting fellow, and they've already added me to their mailing list, which has proven a very good way to build serious envy at all the great stuff I'm already missing out on...

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On Big Jack’s birthday, a reminder of one of the great football images of all time.

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One of the great privileges of being a middle-aged academic is to work with ECRs doing fantastic work. I've supervised some brilliant PhDs; now I'm lucky to work w/ @aoifeolearymcneice.bsky.social as mentor on a terrific project on hydro-power. Check it out: www.universityofgalway.ie/colleges-and...

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Tomorrow (8 May 2025) in Dublin: the annual @ria.ie international affairs conference. 'Reconstructing the Global Order: Imperatives and Possibilities for Cooperation in Turbulent Times' Browse the programme and grab one of the last remaining tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...

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"Everyone was dying, and yet somehow everyone had scarcely felt more alive: football played on the very edge of everything." Brilliant description of last night's match from Jonathan Liew. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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If you'd told ten-year-old me, back in the early 90s, that I'd be shouting for the Italian champions as an underdog, I wouldn't have believed you. Bloody hell, though, what a game of football.

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Hurtling towards dystopia.

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Tell you what - an hour-and-a-half dawn walk through woodland, where no one speaks but instead just tunes in to the sounds of the sun coming up, is a hell of a reason for a 4.30am start on a Sunday morning. Led by Basil Al-Rawi, as part of the This/OUR project at Greywood Arts Centre.

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One of the lesser known Enid Blyton novels.

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#EverydayWelfare co-ed collection by @ruthdav.bsky.social @evecolpus.bsky.social & me offers a renewed & revised history of welfare in modern Britain by focussing on how people sought to 'fare well'. Fully #OA join the 12k who have already taken a look. Enjoy! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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In Heathrow and this thing keeps telling everyone that it's an "intelligent inspection operation". Folks, I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but it's been going around in the same small circuit for the last 45 minutes. I'm beginning to doubt its claim.

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This is a super panel at the @qmcbs.bsky.social conference - on environmental history. Great paper by Harry Parker on historiography to start, and now @dudleymarianna.bsky.social giving a brilliant paper about renewable energy.

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A very positive step.

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Big thanks to the crowd that turned out for our panel at the @qmcbs.bsky.social conference yesterday and said such positive things about our work on Irish environmental history. Fascinating to follow the thread from that discussion to @julialaite.bsky.social's excellent plenary about 'nowheres'. 1/3

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This is a very difficult question, but I eventually found the right answer.

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