Mary Gilmartin
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Geographer, Sligo Rovers fan, writes books, union member
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Eamonn Sweeney
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Someone told me the other day they missed late eighties Ireland because there wasn't so much immigration. I couldn't really share this nostalgic viewpoint as I was in England at the time.
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"It was considered unlucky to dust the house" in May: an early workers' protest? Happy May Day/Lá Bealtaine shona daoibh go léir. May your houses remain happily undusted.
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Bealtaine traditions in Ireland: fire, water, light and luck
Our ancestors engaged in a wide range of rites and rituals on May 1st which were believed to bring good luck
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2026/0501/1046282-bealtaine-may-01st-traditions-folklore-history-ireland/
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A fantastic piece by Denis Linehan. This is why
#GeographyMatters
- careful, critical analysis of the differences between places that matter
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Daniel Trilling
10 days ago
IF WE TOLERATE THIS is out today! These are worrying times politically but if there's one thing I want to get across, it's that the slide into far-right nationalism is not inevitable. Please help me spread the word.
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...
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I loved 'Home Economics' by Caitriona Lally - read it in a day. It's observant, clear-sighted, insightful, and really funny. Get it from New Island, the publisher, or from your local bookshop or library.
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Home Economics — New Island Books
by Caitríona Lally An honest and forward look at the pile-up which is the colliding parts of selfhood: the mother who is a cleaner so that she can be a writer. ISBN: 9781835940358...
https://www.newisland.ie/shop/p/home-economics
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Sam Tranum
16 days ago
Amazing how they find an extra €100 million or so when they need it.
www.dublincity.ie/sites/defaul...
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This, by
@oliviamason.bsky.social
, is powerful and insightful. Our places of work are exploiting people, and work is worse for all of us as a consequence.
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Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
Precarity is shaping what it means to do geography, who can do geographical research, and how we do geographical research. In this short intervention I reflect personally on the relationship between ...
https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/area.70109
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@ULGeog
20 days ago
Applications are invited from excellent candidates to pursue a PhD project in Geography with the School of History and Geography
@unioflimerick.bsky.social
#StudyAtUL
Deadline: 29th May 2026. For more information, please see:
www.ul.ie/artsoc/histo...
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PhD Bursary available in Geography
Applications are invited from excellent candidates to pursue a PhD project in Geography, for which one bursary will be awarded. Interested candidates may apply to undertake PhD research in the followi...
https://www.ul.ie/artsoc/history-geography/geography/news/phd-bursary-available-in-geography
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Please support our colleagues in Ulster University, facing 450 redundancies
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Happening in Ireland too.
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‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a foreign student in the UK
The long read: Universities in Britain rely on overseas applicants paying full fees, which has given rise to some unscrupulous recruiters and left many hopefuls and their families deep in debt
https://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2026/apr/07/brutal-reality-of-life-as-a-foreign-student-in-the-uk
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Carolyn Gallaher
about 1 month ago
It's kind of cool to see your work with your favorite co-author show up in a newspaper!
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How the Irish American lobby re-emerged during Brexit
In "Building a Green Wall: Irish American Resurgence Post-Brexit," two professors examine how Irish America helped prevent a hard land border on the island of Ireland during Brexit, the UK's withdrawa...
https://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/others/irish-american-foreign-policy-brexit
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Emma Evans
about 1 month ago
What the average person thinks HR is supposed to do for them at a job is what unions are actually for.
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Ilias Alami
about 2 months ago
Reviewing yet another academic paper full of hallucinated references, odd citation practices, and improperly attributed material. To all academic colleagues out there, literally ruining our profession: thanks for nothing.
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Northumbria UCU Branch
about 2 months ago
Another
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
picket line today. We never stop!
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Research Professional News
2 months ago
Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years. Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
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Job losses at research-intensive universities double in two years - Research Professional News
Exclusive: Scale of redundancies revealed branded a “disaster” for UK research capacity
https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-universities-2026-2-job-losses-at-research-intensive-universities-double-in-two-years/
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Space and Political Agency Research Group
3 months ago
Migration: A Critical Introduction, by
@marygilmartin.bsky.social
, Malene Jacobsen and Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto, 'offers a fresh and accessible framework for understanding migration through a distinctly geographical lens':
www.wiley.com/en-us/Migrat...
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Migration: A Critical Introduction
<p><B>A CRITICAL, NUANCED, AND INTERDISCIPLINARY INTRODUCTION TO THE GEOGRAPHIES OF MIGRATION</B> <p><i>Migration: A Critical Introduction</i> offers a fresh and accessible framework for understandin...
https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Migration%3A+A+Critical+Introduction-p-9781394186761
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Jenny Pickerill
3 months ago
Our new piece out today in Times Higher Education about the threats to Geography in the UK - particularly fieldwork - please do share. It links to a recent snapshot survey on the challenges being faced in UK HE, which highlights the inequities of the challenges, but also fears of what is yet to come
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The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings
From climate change to geopolitics, the knowledge, skills and insights of geographers have never been more relevant, say five professors
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uk-universities-cutting-geography-have-lost-their-bearings
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Verso Books
3 months ago
On February 22nd the Verso Book Club will be hosting an online reading group with the legendary Marxist scholar
@davidharvey.org
to discuss his latest work, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works.
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David Harvey: The Story of Capital | The Verso Book Club Reading Group
On February 22nd at 2pm EST / 7pm GMT the Verso Book Club will be hosting an online reading group with the legendary Marxist scholar David Harvey to discuss his latest work, The Story of Capital:…
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/david-harvey-the-story-of-capital-the-verso-book-club-reading-group?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=verso_bookclub
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Even Pats' fans can be right on occasion 😉
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Dónal Hassett
3 months ago
Finding hard to swallow some Irish people saying politics should be kept out of sport when the British Army massacred players and spectators in the largest sporting ground in the country... It was political when IRFU refused to boycott apartheid SA, it is political when FAI refuses to do so for 🇮🇱
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Solidarity
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Shamim Malekmian
3 months ago
Refugees waiting on citizenship decisions find the rules have quietly changed. While they heard about harsher policies brought in last year, this change wasn't announced, and affects people who applied before then
www.dublininquirer.com/refugees-app...
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Jean Rhys
3 months ago
Outside does take a bit of getting used to - but what doesn't?? So damp.
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In addition to the urgent need to remediate, are we sure that similar levels of non-compliance with building standards can't happen again?
www.rte.ie/news/2026/02...
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Over 20,000 apartments waiting for fire safety grants
The owners of over 20,000 apartments and duplexes built during the Celtic Tiger years have been waiting over two years to receive grants for urgent fire safety works.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0210/1557586-apartments-fire-safety/
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨
3 months ago
Social media would be healthier if it fully shut down every evening after playing this, the Touch Grass video (Irish Edition)
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Joseph Cox
4 months ago
New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet
www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...
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‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activit...
https://www.404media.co/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/
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Elizabeth Boyle
3 months ago
Another day in the archive, reading the diaries of a 19th-century doctor at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. This Irish migrant's story was, I thought, heartbreaking: May 30 1877, "Yesterday I was called into a ward to interpret for an old man who had been knocked down by an omnibus. ... 1/2
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Haymarket Books
3 months ago
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition. We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:
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Free Ebooks: Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice an...
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/525-free-ebooks-abolish-ice-abolish-the-border
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Donal Coffey
11 months ago
A thread on the Irish triple lock. What is it/where did it come from/can it be repealed constitutionally?
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Sara Koopman
3 months ago
Geographers, in case you missed this detail, Alex Pretti graduated from the Minnesota Geography department in 2011.
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Our book is out in paperback shortly, and the publishers have made Ch 1 available. Have a read.
www.wiley.com/en-gb/Migrat...
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Migration: A Critical Introduction
<p><B>A CRITICAL, NUANCED, AND INTERDISCIPLINARY INTRODUCTION TO THE GEOGRAPHIES OF MIGRATION</B> <p><i>Migration: A Critical Introduction</i> offers a fresh and accessible framework for understandin...
https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Migration%3A+A+Critical+Introduction-p-9781394186754
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Stuart Elden
4 months ago
@marygilmartin.bsky.social
, Malene H. Jacobsen, Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto, Migration: A Critical Introduction - Wiley, January 2026
www.wiley.com/en-ie/Migrat...
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Migration: A Critical Introduction
<p><B>A CRITICAL, NUANCED, AND INTERDISCIPLINARY INTRODUCTION TO THE GEOGRAPHIES OF MIGRATION</B> <p><i>Migration: A Critical Introduction</i> offers a fresh and accessible framework for understandin...
https://www.wiley.com/en-ie/Migration%3A+A+Critical+Introduction-p-9781394186754
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Jean Rhys
about 1 year ago
It was a joke. It was not a joke.
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Jason Dittmer
5 months ago
Having just received an excellent proposal, I am reminded that I should do more to advertise the Bloomsbury book series I co-edit: Geopolitical Worlds, Material Bodies
www.bloomsbury.com/ca/series/ge...
We would value some more excellent proposals to go with the one I just got!
#AcademicSky
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Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds: Bloomsbury Publishing (CA) - Bloomsbury
This series publishes studies that originate in a range of different fields that are nonetheless linked through their common foundation: a belief that the macro…
https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/series/geopolitical-bodies-material-worlds/
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Eugene McCann
5 months ago
Be our colleague… Hiring an Assistant Prof of Urban Geography & Climate Crisis.
www.sfu.ca/geography/ab...
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Assistant Professor of Urban Geography/Climate Crisis
https://www.sfu.ca/geography/about/work-with-us/faculty-hire-urban.html
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Eugene McCann
5 months ago
In what could plausibly represent a Christmas miracle* SFU Geography has two (2) new tenure track hires. One is urban/climate, which I will repost below. The other is a Landscape Ecologist. Please share ...
#academicsky
*actually just the good decisions of our new Dean
www.sfu.ca/geography/ab...
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Assistant Professor of Landscape Ecology
https://www.sfu.ca/geography/about/work-with-us/faculty-hire-landscape.html
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Jean Rhys
5 months ago
Every day is a new day. Every day you are a new person.
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Shamim Malekmian
5 months ago
Mourning the loss of Bill Abom, lifelong champion of justice for overlooked immigrant workers. Read more here:
www.dublininquirer.com/mourning-the...
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Mourning the loss of Bill Abom, lifelong champion of justice for overlooked immigrant workers
“We remember the work which you believed deeply in, and all of the people who were recipients of your efforts for change, one case at a time.”
https://www.dublininquirer.com/mourning-the-loss-of-bill-abom-lifelong-champion-of-justice-for-overlooked-immigrant-workers/
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Marc Scully
5 months ago
Really interesting CFP for
#IrishinBritain
scholars here from
@museumofthehome.bsky.social
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museumofthehome.org.uk/our-work/res...
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Call for Papers: ‘Irish Blood, English Hearth: creativity, identity and the migrant Irish home' - Museum of the Home
Call for papers for ‘Irish Blood, English Hearth: creativity, identity and the migrant Irish home’, a one-day symposium inspired by the Irish room that was launched at the Museum of the Home in 2024.
https://museumofthehome.org.uk/our-work/research/call-for-papers-irish-blood-english-hearth/
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Finally. Our book is on its way to the printer. Looking forward to seeing it in the flesh in early 2026. Order online at
www.wiley.com/en-ie/Migrat...
or through your local bookshop.
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Jean Rhys
6 months ago
It is cold and dark outside, and everything has gone out of me except misery.
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A movie that takes place where you're from.
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6 months ago
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Patrick Bresnihan
6 months ago
This was published in the Irish Times a week ago but re-sharing because it might be a while before there is another article supporting neutrality in the broadsheets.
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American Association of Geographers
6 months ago
The demand for geography and GIS skills has never been greater, and the intellectual approaches and conceptual tools of the discipline are more relevant than ever. Now, community college
#geography
programs are growing fast and changing the landscape of geography
#education
:
buff.ly/GLo0tWP
#GeoWeek
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Community Colleges Are Changing the Landscape of Geography Education | ArcNews | Fall 2021
While the relevance of geography is being challenged at the university level, the growth of the field at community colleges is promising.
https://buff.ly/GLo0tWP
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Love finding out what people with Geography degrees do next. Like Liam Scales, now a professional footballer (with Ireland and Celtic)
6 months ago
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Solidarity with all colleagues under threat in Dundee.
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨
6 months ago
Irish house, winter edition
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Alan Kelly
6 months ago
Amazing how different Sean Bean looks in real life to the movies (A joke that I accept will baffle many)
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