There's been a great deal of debate about how safe Dublin city centre is, but when we @dublininquirer.com looked for data to resolve this, we couldn't find much useful – so we commissioned a survey to try to add some facts/data to the debate. Today we've published five articles about the results. 1/

Later today, the @jcfjustice.bsky.social launch a report that demonstrates Irish society has moved decisively into a post-secular stage and it's past time for us all to leave our 20th century kneejerk nu-atheist tendencies behind

Reliance on Chinese students and Chinese campus for university income creates strategic vulnerabilities which Chinese State is wiling to use to suppress academic freedom. Who’d have thought it?! Shocking. Not www.theguardian.com/education/20...

We are a f***ing class country, let it be said.

My colleagues and I have launched a report looking at the religious diversity in Dublin's north-east inner-city, demonstrating beyond doubt that these communities are integral to the life of the city. It really presses DCC to stop overlooking religious practice www.jcfj.ie/research/fai...

If you missed Ian d'Alton's talk yesterday about '1932: Seeing the same world differently: Irish Catholics and Protestants a decade after independence', it's now available online at youtu.be/9oxWs0PTA1Y

Hundreds of people would love to work for you in the Dail. Would you hire somebody who was caught with a gun used to commit a murder perhaps planning to kill somebody, who never expressed remorse for this. CC is not the best of us.

Would you pretend to have a monopoly on virtue opposing repossessions as a councillor whilst facilitating these in you day job? CC is not the best of us.

Artist’s photoshop reconstruction image of an early medieval cashel settlement with small fields at Cahercommaun, Co. Clare. (Photoshop reconstruction by Conor McDermott, UCD School of Archaeology, based on an aerial photograph by National Monuments Service, Dept of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht)

Great writing that strives to make sense our troubled times.

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Registrations are open for this month's #SimonTalks We are excited to be joined by Michelle Norris and Altaf Hossain from UCD's Geary Institute for Public Policy. Join us as we discuss Housing Precarity and Migrants in Dublin! Register 👇 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Guess what!? My biography of Henri Bergson will be available in paperback NEXT WEEK (June 19th)! John Banville called it "the most intellectually stimulating book I read this year" and the NYT called it "lively and deft". Get your copy here (or don't I'm not a cop): linktr.ee/eherring

🧵To mark the publication of "Rituals of Migration" @kevinkenny.bsky.social & @irpinaingiro.bsky.social 👏 to the Bluesky contributors @hidehirota.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @appalachianphilly.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social nyupress.org/blog/2025/05...

My first time in Bilbao

Loki ten years ago. Never look down.

This is a really beautiful piece worth seeking out.

BIG BIG news for us - this is a former hardware shop ( O'Doherty's in Patricxk Street, Templemore town Tipperary. The new home of our much larger warehouse for @thebookshopie.bsky.social , AND.. a used bookshop in the two story part - called 'The Book Temple' ( see what we did there? #templemore

Pleased to say that my book - Ulster's Lost Counties: Loyalism and Paramilitarism since 1920 - is available to pre-order in Paperback (delivery from 22 May) via Cambridge University Press. www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...

🚨FT Permanent Job 🚨 My department is hiring a lecturer (B/B) in 18th-c. Irish history, with the desire for someone whose research and teaching pertains to the Irish 'long eighteenth century (1690-1830)...and broader international, political and intellectual context of the period.' 🗃️

Stock market crashed Dictators appeased Liberals censored Maybe Trump is a Tanky?

Outside, it's a florist's. Inside, it's a stark reminder of women killed violently in Ireland #speirgorm jrnl.ie/6622859

It has been brought to my attention that one of my books is available for free in PDF format through the National Academic Digital Library of Ethiopia, so have at it if you are interested in 1930s constitutionalism in Ireland: ndl.ethernet.edu.et/handle/12345...

At The Brutalist. There’s an intermission. Only another few hours to go. This is what cinemas are for.

🤰🇺🇸 “What these things have in common with each other is that basic anxiety over rapid social change and the feeling of not being in control of change.” - Professor @bryanfanning.bsky.social , UCD Professor of Migration and Social Policy www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/m...

So I asked The AI on X whether Elon Musk posts untrue statements on his platform

Ego-bruised genocide scholars squabble while world burns: a tragic farce. It matters not a jot if Gaza situation is or is not declared a genocide coz that brings no relief for obvious suffering of people - which is what is urgent & should consume all our energy www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

I'd fought a hard FOI battle to access one batch of documents used for this article, which was finally released by IPAS following a release order from the Info Commissioner. This is really nice 💚💚

"Ar Ais chuig an Am atá le Teacht le Beo agus Raja: Scéal ón mBithgheilleagar Fadó: Aistear Ama in lonad na Seandálaíochta Turgnamhaí agus an Chultúir Ábhartha, UCD" By N. Wright, L. Ní Chléirigh, M. Nic an Bhaird, A. Radini, B. O’Neill, A. O’Sullivan, and T. P. Curran hdl.handle.net/10197/25437

Tomorrow at 3.00pm. I’m really pleased to have a chapter in this excellent book

Reminder this free Dublin event is coming up this week in EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum!

To understand Cork SW, you need to know that the constituency has a deeply conservative streak, but also a deeply bohemian streak, and crucially that both ‘sides’ get along with each other famously. #GE24

This week's Ó Cléirigh seminar in @ucddublin.bsky.social at 4pm on 29 Nov is Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh (Edinburgh), ‘The visuality of Irish manuscripts in the age of print’ Fáilte roimh chách /all welcome. And feel free to re-post.

You can read the paper here: ideas.repec.org/p/ucd/wpaper/2…

Tomorrow at 12.00 at UCD

🗃️ Historians of migration, empire, and diaspora, and readers of global Irish history in particular, may be interested in the Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series, a series I edit for @nyupress.bsky.social nyupress.org/search-resul...

Sunday reading

Lesson 1: Do not obey in advance. Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.

Gordon Brown writes from deep personal experience of tragic death and why it formed his *opposition* to assisted dying www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“BlueSky will need to add staff and improve its automated systems as its user base continues to grow. It needs to learn from the mistakes of platforms like Facebook, which did not add sufficient moderation capacity as they grew exponentially." www.logicallyfacts.com/en/article/b...

Is any party proposing to reform local government? I.e. to democratize it, devolve more powers, and give it some revenue raising powers

I’m going to be on sabbatical in the new year and, after the grim years of lockdown and some health problems, need to engage with the wider world. If anybody wants to invite me to something get in touch.

Update: We have now converted and added the following #GE24 manifestos: ✅ Fine Gael ✅ Fianna Fáil ✅ Sinn Féin ✅ Green Party ✅ Social Democrats ✅ Labour ✅ S-PBP Dashboard: irishpoliticsdata.shinyapps.io/manifestoexp... Download all manifestos: github.com/stefan-muell...

X is too important a battleground of ideas to be abandoned. Bluesky is a refuge but should not become a retreat.

Ten years ago, published by Bloomsbury. An intellectual history of Ireland through 12 thinkers.

Currently reading Cormac Ó Gráda’s ‘The Hidden Victims’ - a humane and ethically informed attempt to quantify the civilian dead of WW1 and WW2, by the doyen of Irish economic historians #IrishResearch

Great to see so many journalists transitioning to BlueSky. I’ve tried adding Irish journalists to the Starter Pack on Irish Politics. Let me know if you’d like to be included. ➡️ go.bsky.app/QezocFF