Tráthnóna inniu, d’óstáil an tUachtarán Connolly fáiltiú do mhic léinn as Gaza a tháinig chun staidéar a dhéanamh in ollscoileanna in Éirinn. ~~~ This afternoon, President Connolly hosted a reception for students from Gaza who have come to study at universities in Ireland.

new paper from Jonathan Arlow on the Irish left: Hot to Trot journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @UL @ulresearch.bsky.social

Maura Adshead launched her new book, Doing Community research, with @thewheelireland.bsky.social. The book is a practical guide on how to bridge the gap between universities and communities, offering a clear path toward meaningful, collaborative research. www.borupress.ie/bookshop/doi...

Lovely profile of Joshua Ryan, one of our former graduates, here: www.ul.ie/news/univers...

Want to know more about electoral politics in Ireland? Intrigued by the National Election and Democracy Study? Then come along to the ‘Assessing Irish Electoral Democracy’ event, part of UL’s ‘Research Week’, on Monday April 27, 4pm. Registration details: www.ul.ie/research/res...

New paper by Bernadette Connaughton and Karl O’Connor on public administration education on the island of Ireland in Gestión y Análisis de Políticas Públicas (with Spanish abstract!) revistasonline.inap.es/index.php/GA...

Recently published paper by @andrewshorten.bsky.social on the justification of self-determination powers. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Check out this new paper in Women's Studies International Forum by Emma Dolan, El Reid-Buckley & Kellie Morrissey on their @researchireland.ie and @unioflimerick.bsky.social Citizen’s Assembly funded project on safety and the city www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Check out this newly published research note by Frank Häge, presenting a new dataset of Roll Call Votes from the German Reichstag 1867-1918

Along with @ulceuros.bsky.social, we look forward to welcoming Nils Ringe (Wisconsin–Madison) to talk on "Coping with Europe: EU Membership and Party System Change". Wednesday Feb 25, 2pm, CG-054.

**PPA Seminar** Dr Sinead Walsh from @odi.global, talking on “10 Lessons in Localisation”. Wednesday, February 18, 14:00 Main Building, room CG-054. All Welcome!

New article by Emma Dolan about Universal Design for Learning

Department of Politics and Public Administration *Online* Research Seminar. Wednesday, October 15, 14:00 Dr Florence Ndagire (Makerere University/The Enablement Foundation) “Access to maternal, sexual, and reproductive health services by persons with disabilities in Uganda”

New chapter on Cultural Rights as Human Rights by @andrewshorten.bsky.social in The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Human Rights

New chapter by Bernadette Connaughton on developing optimal policy advisory systems in The Routledge Handbook of Policy Advisory Systems.

First PPA Research Seminar of 2025/26! @philip-warncke.bsky.social (UL Psychology / Freie Universität Berlin) presenting on “Boundless but Bundled: Modelling Quasi-infinite Dimensions in Ideological Space”. Wednesday, September 24, 2pm in ERB006 (Engineering Research Building). All welcome!

New book on What went wrong with Britain? featuring a chapter by Owen Worth about 'Covid, Brexit and the emergence of national populism' manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526170392/

And another recent paper from Bernadette Connaughton on policy advisory systems and crisis governance: www.emerald.com/ijpsm/articl...

New paper about policy advisory systems by Bernadette Connaughton: academic.oup.com/policyandsoc...

Department of Politics and Public Administration Spring 2025 Seminar Series Joseph Lacey (UCD) “Moral Agency in Election Campaigns: Preliminary Findings from Fieldwork” Wednesday, April 9, 15:00 on teams at eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/ap/t-59584e8...

Today - seminar Owen Worth (UL) “‘Mobilisation without Representation?’ The Far Right in Ireland”, 15:00, Lonsdale Building, Room LG011

Andrew Shorten’s new paper on Alienation, equality, and multifaith establishmentAmerican Journal of Political Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @andrewshorten.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social

How can liberal #democracies respond to the rise of right-wing #populism? Politicizing Political Liberalism: On the Containment of Illiberal and Antidemocratic Views by Gabriele Badano & @alasianuti.bsky.social (Oxford Academic) reviewed by @andrewshorten.bsky.social @politics-ul.bsky.social 👇

The gender divide in young Irish people’s political attitudes #Irishpolitics

Delighted to see my essay on the Enniscorthy Carol is the most read today on RTE Brainstorm. #Enniscorthy @unioflimerick.bsky.social

Congratulations to the HAPPEE project for UL Engage, School of Allied Health @unioflimerick.bsky.social and lots of Limerick schools, winner of the Innovation in Primary Healthcare award, Irish Healthcare Awards 2024

Initial comparison: first-preference vote shares (based on almost all tallies), Exit Poll (yellow dots) and Irish Polling Indicator estimates. Note: Subject to change! Source: work with @kevcunningham.bsky.social throughout the day #GE24

Wonderful resource here from @stefanmueller.bsky.social on all the polls in case you’re trying to get your head around them. #ge24 @irishpollingind.bsky.social pollingindicator.com

Still time to find out who to vote for or to change your mind

What might happen in #GE24 in Limerick. @unioflimerick.bsky.social

Who should you vote for in the 2024 general election? Use this tool to see which candidate matches your views www.irishtimes.com/politics/202... >>This is a great voter advice application run by Dr Rory Costello from @UL

New report by the smart people at ISD finds echoes of “stop the steal” before the the June euro and local elections in conspiratorial chatter about “voter harvesting”, “foreign interference”, and “polling station irregularities” www.isdglobal.org/isd-publicat...

A cool way of seeing how the vote went in the last GE in your constituency before #GE24

Coverage for Rory Costello’s Which Candidate voter app www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...

I found myself re-reading Richard Hofstader this morning and - sadly and once again - something written before I was born seems to sum up contemporary politics in the USA and Russia (probably also Hungary and Turkey and India and ... add your own cases) best.

Public Debate with Limerick City General Election Candidates

A really instructive tool in separating the political wheat from the chaff.

Rory Costello's which candidate voter app is now up and running for #GE24 www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...