For the day that's in it, remembering the three Sheehan brothers, from Fermoy, #Cork, who lost their lives in seperate missions over Europe while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force. vancouversun.com/news/local-n...

If confrmed, this sounds pretty dire indeed given the importance and the location of the three clusters of power stations. What can the West do quickly to help?

Really important reporting by Anthony Loyd. The identities of those who led this mass murder of minorities in Syria are well known. If Syria won’t bring them to justice, the ICC should.

We all know the difficulty the HE sector is in. But let’s work together to come up with solutions. The nuclear option damages our students & the reputation of our institutions. @ucflangs.bsky.social & @artsandhums.bsky.social are supporting colleagues www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The quote tweets largely consist of an exercise in demonstrating nobody reads past the clickbait headline, maybe three paragraphs in at most.

More excellent research on Republican internees in NI in the early 1920s by Patrick Mulroe theborderkitchen.blog/letters-of-p...

The spike in terrorism cases in Ireland continues. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

If we are willing to pay lots of money to have a super capable machine in our homes controlled by Elon Musk we actually don’t deserve to survive as a species.

New job opportunity at @ucddublin.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG078/t...

The temperature is warming and there is little movement from the 🐸

Big story from Sky news. It is a mistake to think the DSA alone is going to fix this. This requires more, including and most particularly enforcement of GDPR Art 9 news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Hegemonic suicide

We are co-hosting on 3 Dec. a conference on 'From Boundary Commission to Border Poll? A Century of the Irish Border'. This is a free event, but registration is required (by 26 Nov.). Info at: www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...

Another very good read from @edwardluce.bsky.social 👇

I love this…

Looking forward to Dr Selena Daly’s book launch @ucddublin.bsky.social War Studies tomorrow. All welcome.

Heavy Chinese investment in lots of Irish universities as well, a subject both universities, and some activists, are pretty coy about

One of two new vacancies at the Quill Project. www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/writ...

Coming next year - Empires at War Conference, September 2026 - @ucddublin.bsky.social Centre for War Studies in partnership with the Royal Military College of Canada. CfP and registration will open soon. www.ucd.ie/warstudies/c...

I am very much looking forward to reading this by @ucddublin.bsky.social 's Jack Kavanagh. www.routledge.com/The-Irish-Fr...

I am so pleased that I managed to get a reference to the 'Battle of Ross' - a faction fight between Orangemen and Catholics in Rowry / Rosscarbery (my homeplace) in West Cork in 1800 - into a chapter in a forthcoming edited collection. www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4798...

This is great stuff from Labour! Transformative policies put into action for military homes following years of neglect. Never again say the Tories stand up for our forces. They failed to act for 14 years. Only Labour will deliver these plans in full & give our forces the homes they deserve.

There are quite a few PMs in the 20th century who would not have survived if they had been judged on the first + year in office. Get on with the work of legislating and stop the click bait plots and intrigue.

Appalling. And a warning.

The generation that experienced WW2 knew how bad things could get. The horrors that they had directly experienced in Coventry, on Omaha, at Belsen, Bastogne, Dresden, Nanjing & Tokyo meant that they understood how dangerous THIS was. This is where all that started.

One of my more interesting recent research locations.

Here's another section of my Irish peasantry book, 'At the Rising of the Moon', summarised. This began as a quick comparator, but turned into an essay on English social history and a neo-Marxian revisionist account of its 'bourgeois revolution' . www.abebooks.co.uk/products/isb...

Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

And yet one of these speakers, Eva Illouz - an outspoken advocate for Palestinian rights and against the occupation for years - has just had an invitation withdrawn to speak at Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, because she works at the Hebrew University.

European democracy: Regulate or die? "Many of our European partners look askance at our soft-touch regulation of big US tech and finance. They see a state profiting from EU membership while bending the rules to accommodate Washington’s corporate giants." www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Karoline Leavitt officially announced the "Launch of a large-scale investigation to find the people behind 'No Kings.'" I've saved her some time.

'Ireland will need help policing its extensive marine territory, and there are some encouraging signs that Dublin is building the partnerships to deter future hostile state activity in Irish waters.' Writes Dr Edward Burke in the latest RUSI Commentary.

My piece for RUSI on Ireland‘s defence dilemma

In 1948 Seán Ó Faoláin wrote about the partition of Ireland.

Gross factual error @irishtimes.com Ireland has NO ‘opt out’ from the EU’s common security and defence policy. None. Ireland is fully engaged and fully participates in same basis as all other member states Headline spelling errors are one thing. Substantive clangers like this are in another league.

Late. Should have said this weeks ago. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

"My family and I, but especially my family, were subjected to some absolutely awful sectarian abuse and I was disappointed because, as a country, I thought we had moved on from that” www.rte.ie/news/preside...

I always find this gravestone for John Duggan, in St Mary's Drogheda, incredibly moving. One of the '600' who rode into the 'Valley of Death' as a 17th Lancer #otd 1854, he survived - but only just. John fought throughout #CrimeanWar & ended his days as Sexton of St Mary's, dying in 1881, aged 67.

Read every word! "You say you hate empire, but you only ever mean one. You rage at U.S. hegemony while excusing Russian conquest. You romanticize “multipolarity,” as if choosing a different empire were the same as dismantling one... dumplingradical.substack.com/p/a-letter-t...

This is just sectarianism against Irish Protestants dressed up in academic jargon

This is no fault of Catherine Connolly - but I am ashamed of the slew of sectarian abuse out there regarding the Humphreys family and the inability of some in leadership positions in our society to draw attention to to it / ostracise those who spew it. www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

we have a way for guys like this to fund the military it’s called “taxes” and clearly they should go up

New blog post. Almost a thousand men from Belfast, former IRA and Fianna members as well as non-republicans, enlisted in the National Army during the Civil War. Who were they and what did they experience in that conflict? thebelfastpogrom.com/2025/10/25/b...

This is a really exciting French-Irish dialogue on European maritime security at @ucddublin.bsky.social Please register below if you wish to attend. Many thanks to the French Embassy in Ireland. @bentonra.bsky.social @ucdpolitics.bsky.social

Just read the truly incredible headline: "Reform is no longer Starmer's only problem". Yes, until Plaid Cymru won a by-election, Farage was literally all the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland had to worry about.

This is a really exciting French-Irish dialogue on European maritime security at @ucddublin.bsky.social Please register below if you wish to attend. Many thanks to the French Embassy in Ireland. @bentonra.bsky.social @ucdpolitics.bsky.social

🇬🇧🇺🇦 UK calls for Ukraine to be armed with long-range weapons ahead of 'Coalition of the Determined' meeting. London is also calling for a ban on Russian oil and gas from global markets, the use of frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine and increased military aid.