New short research article out in Urban Matters. It is a piece on thick mapping in North Belfast, drawing on ongoing research at the Oldpark Carnegie Library and local memories of regeneration. @slowmemo.bsky.social @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social urbanmattersjournal.com/thick-mappin...

To engage your mind, you sometimes have to engage your body! Slow Memory COST Action members have developed two walking journals for Prague, Czech Republic, and Prishtina, Kosovo, that help us think through the city, spatial relations, emotion and memory.

Fra Belfast til Blågården! - Glæder mig helt vildt til samarbejdet med Emergency Architecture og Nørrebros biblioteker i formidlingen af min forskning om biblioteker som kritisk social infrastruktur i konflikt og fred. Tak til @carlsbergfondet.dk for støtten! www.carlsbergfondet.dk/en/what-we-h...

The project to bring the Oldpark Library back to life is so intriguing, not least from a peacebuilding perspective. Across the Narrow Sea – early reflections by Chair of Trustees Brian J. Cavanagh on our #BackToLife project carnegieoldpark.org/2025/11/03/a...

50 years ago what became the worst feud between the Official and Provisional IRA's began in Belfast. Anthony McIntyre's article, written in 2002, is one of the best accounts of this tragic period. theblanket.library.indianapolis.iu.edu/sticks.html

This! I bought a refurbished 13 mini last year (to replace my ancient SE, which I didn't want to give up precisely because of the size).

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Unmissable exhibitions by Larissa Sansour and Aleksandra Domanović at Charlottenborg in Copenhagen. @slowmemo.bsky.social @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social

A superb “Peter Mair Lecture” by @caterinafr.bsky.social at the @psaireland.bsky.social just now presenting her path-breaking work on the continuing rise of the far right. As she noted, Mair’s “void” rather unfortunately is being filled

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Pretty disturbing times: “If I’m using a dating app,” he says, “I want to start a conversation that feels meaningful from the beginning so I can hook the other person in – but also I don’t want to spend too much time on it.” www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

In Irish Political Studies, Yvonne Galligan & I examine the electoral performance of women candidates in the 2024 general election and reflect back on the implementation of the legislative gender quota in three general elections - doi-org.ucc.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0790... & hdl.handle.net/10468/17999

A Danish parliamentarian, the MP Victoria Velasquez, has been abducted by the Israeli military this morning.

Once upon a time in Northern Ireland (fra 2023) ligger nu på DR - se den straks, den er fantastisk! Afsnit 1 er standardfortællingen, men afsnit 2, 3, 4 er anderledes skæve indblik i konflikterfaring og konsekvens (ikke bare de "to sider"). www.dr.dk/drtv/saeson/...

😊💪 „Bibliotekerne har gjort det igen: Udlånet af fysiske bøger er steget med 5,4 procent på et år. Og det er tredje år i træk.“

I dag var Laura Helene Hansen dagens sommergæst i P1 og det var intet mindre end forrygende! Hør hende dissekere operahistorien, anerkende hvorfor den er svær at ændre og foreslå måder man alligevel kan gøre det på - det var inspirerende. #dkmedier www.dr.dk/det-bedste-f...

Today I finally read "A Minor Detail" by Adania Shibli. An almost forensic narrative of how to access and uncover the past in a present context of near total restriction and destruction. One of many books that might help us make out what we are witnessing in Gaza. theconversation.com/minor-detail...

#MSA2025 had a great and timely roundtable on Memory and Peace. As part of @slowmemo.bsky.social I wrote this very basic working paper to start our discussions on the interfaces of (slow)memory/peace/conflict -might be of interest to @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social www.slowmemory.eu/publi/concep...

🚨We are so happy to announce that our Votes at 16 Campaign has been a success! Yesterday, the Government announced their plans to legislate for #votesat16 in all UK elections!🥳 A huge well done to our fantastic campaign group, who have worked so hard to make this a [email protected]

Home sought for massive knitted map of Ireland

Started MSA 25 with an excursion to Strahov Stadium. A space still in use but also out of time. #MSA25 @

The best history book I have read in years! Uplifting but never distracting.

'After the Train: Irishwomen united – a book to be passed down the generations, with future cultural insurgency in mind' Thank you @irishtimes.com @martindoyle.bsky.social for this generous review www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action". This is real police state behaviour.

Mette Frederiksen bliver interviewet i Britisk Vogue (August). www.vogue.co.uk/article/mett...

I'm very eagerly anticipating the start of our fourth and final @slowmemo.bsky.social COST Action conference at the University of Porto tomorrow. Judging by the prep done by the stellar team led by Prof Alice Semedo, it is going to be absolutely fantastic. #slowmemory

I should add the overall title of her work: Living and Dying in Transit - violence, bodies and survival in the Tunesian borderlands.

An absolute tour de force introduction to her PHD defense by @ahlamchemlali.bsky.social - eye opening, captivating - more magisterial than doctoral! . Replete with thick and fine tuned ethnography and new conceptual constructs. Deserved standing ovation at the end. @diis.dk @aau.dk

This looks very interesting! 👇👇👇 Free public talk: The Elephant of Revolutionary Forgetfulness: The Art of Commemoration. Monday, 16 June 2025 11:00 - 12:30 Doors at 10:40am Old Carnegie Library, Library Road, Dún Laoghaire, Dublin www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-elepha...

Wrote for @theguardian.com about Ballymena and Northern Ireland's long history of violence against women ⬇️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Historians of Ireland, Britain, the British Empire, Empires, Unions, Federalism, and those working in the history of ideas and political theory, this is definitely worth a look. Particularly the second debate, in which arguments are made about what form the Union should take.

New article alert! Some crazy stuff here 🔻 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Amnesty has documented scores of death threats, bomb threats and violent attacks against journalists in Northern Ireland. 🎬 Powerful testimony from Belfast journalists Allison Morris, Paula Mackin, Richard Sullivan, Martin Breen and Steven Moore. youtu.be/eXriDvx51mE?...

It’s not Denmark’s children who can’t handle debating Gaza. It’s our politicians | Rune Lykkeberg

Granta mourns Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. In memory of his life and work, we have lifted the paywall on his writing for the magazine.

If you were involved in any way in the Repeal campaign and would be interested in speaking with a US-based researcher who wants to understand the referendum--not just the simple narrative but inclusion/exclusion, pragmatism, pain, joy etc--please drop me a line here. All involvement is relevant.

Følg @real-kamransarwar.bsky.social det kommer du ikke til at fortryde!

The UK-EU summit was a key milestone in relations between the two sides, marking a new chapter of closer ties and cooperation 🤝 But what does this look like in practice? Sign up to our online event to get key insights from the 🇬🇧 & 🇪🇺 Ambassadors on what's next ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ukice...

It has been an absolute pulse of experience, to be part of the slow memory network. I really don't want it to come to an end (I am sure we will extend the collaboration in all sorts of ways) - before the project is formally over, we will meet in Porto for the final capstone conference. #checkitout!

She lives! My book published by @manchesterup.bsky.social ‘Women’s Troubles: Gender and Feminist Politics in Northern Ireland.’ Cover image kindly provided by @frecklescorp.bsky.social of her work ‘The Slapper’ www.emmacampbell.co.uk/emma-campbell @livunipol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social

Pat Brodie and I have a book coming out in September w/ @brisunipress.bsky.social Started with data centres and energy and turned into a story about monopoly tech, empire and Ireland's (under)development in the capitalist world system.

Vanvittigt spændende studiejob på @diis.dk : diis.career.emply.com/da/ad/studen...

Another permanent job going in Ireland, this time in European History at DCU History Department. It seems like a lovely department and you'd be joining a great community of scholars in the Dublin area and across the island. my.corehr.com/pls/dcurecru...

Very useful introductory overview

While visiting Albania for work, I've been reading the oral history book "Life is War" by Shannon Woodcock. Before that, the only thing I'd ever read about Albania was Lea Ypi's "Free" -there is much to know about how oppression and self-limitation/survival works prishtinainsight.com/pasts-unspok...

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.