I am a very tedious man

No more census chat please

I think this means it's out, so it only remains to say yeooooo

New in Irish Studies | @oneillsb.bsky.social's Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955, is the first book dedicated to examining culture and partition in Ireland. Discover more here ⬇️ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Today is publication day for this beautiful book. Inspiration for it came from seeing @billyshortall.bsky.social talk about his brilliant PhD research at the IHSA in @tlrhub.bsky.social in 2017. One of those joyful collaborations that come along sometimes in academia. Cover is a Paul Henry painting

Back in 2013 Stormont had to give up its powers over Antarctica (bizarrely a product of devolution) so the imperial parliament could enhance wildlife protection. Jim Allister then came off with the most Jim Allister thing of all time

"Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation" is published TODAY by @cornellupress.bsky.social! I tell the story of how queer men didn't just exist in Belfast but could be accepted by friends, family & colleagues... at least until a moral panic about homosexuality in the 1950s. 🧵

Delighted that we will be welcoming the brilliant Prof Rashid Khalidi to Maynooth next Tuesday for a talk on the shared genealogies of colonial counter-insurgency in Ireland and Palestine. Follow this link to register. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

Catch @drdeefoley.bsky.social's talk on our YouTube channel now! youtu.be/a1ElI56O6Bc?...

The issue with infrastructure in the six countries is that much of it was (colonially) designed to be defensive and for the purposes of population control. So a small amount of people can park a relatively small amount of large vehicles across a few lanes in Belfast and it stops traffic for hours

The Feast of the Holy Tundish

The Government COULD have put together an innovative and progressive package of direct supports. It COULD have regulated prices and profit margins in the energy sector. INSTEAD, they opted for regressive tax cuts and subsidies to employers. Workers abandoned AGAIN by the Government

just been told that I didn't get a part time temporary job that I applied for in 2021. Disappointed but I will move on from this setback

Nice to be on the same credits page as Paul Mescal artsandculture.google.com/story/the-jo...

Please make this stop

If you think Zombie is a better song than Teenage Kicks (for a start) you are lying

Seeing as we are all sharing our 1916 work, here's my own from ten years ago, about ruin souvenirs and compensation claims www.rte.ie/centuryirela...

A thread on the reception of the Easter rising among Algeriam nationalists. Emir Khaled, grandson of resistance leader Abd al-Qadir, led a movement for change to the colonial system after WWI. For his supporters, the Rising was a cautionary tale for the French. The movement's newspaper L'ikdam...

Referee: “You know the rules, and so do I”

Happy (liturgical) 110th Anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising. Here is my back catalogue of publications concerning its commemoration which may be of interest 10 years on from the big roundy in 2016:

wow how embarrassing and evil that the americans are trying to abolish birthright citizenship. cant imagine any other country being stupid and racist enough to do that.

'This is not simply tragedy. It is colonial design.' adimagazine.com/articles/the...

Does feel odd that slugger o'toole's idea of an april fools is in fact more likely than any other I've ever read sluggerotoole.com/2026/04/01/u...

eel like compiling a list of things that people use to justify continuing partition. First up: Sarah Carey, because it's too hard to change. And because de Valera's constitution wasn't that bad. and because HSE

If you’re Belfast-based, there are paperback copies of my book already on sale in the brilliant indie shop No Alibis!

JK Rowling and the anti-trans movement is just straight-up evil. How can you read this story and be like, "This is good, actually"? www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

I would quite like Ireland to win tonight please

Palestine Scholars Murdered in the Gaza Genocide rememberinggazascholars.org

For my grandparents

Field Day x RyanAir collab

Really brilliant couple of days in Nicosia partly giving the annual lecture of the Irish Studies collective at @ucy1.bsky.social. Thank you to my friend Dr James Little for the invitation and wonderful hosting

Impunity in 'the only democracy in the Middle East': further proof that this is an apartheid state.

We are currently in the death grip of late capitalism and its fetish for pointless innovation

Walked into the UN buffer zone in Nicosia today only to be greeted by a Cypriot who asked me where I was from in Belfast, and then shouted 'Fucking BT9' and walked away

All I did during my PhD was read a few novels

Some 430 light years away from Earth - or, in km, four quadrillion, sixty-eight trillion - a new planet sits around a star named WISPIT 2. It is the second planet to be discovered around the young star, and was uncovered by a Galway PhD student jrnl.ie/6993194

The arson in London of the ambulances run by a Jewish community organisation is morally repugnant. There's no contextualisation or qualification possible of this hate crime. Just call it what it is- antisemitic violence.

the Dublin launch of my book: 22 April, 6.30 at Notre Dame Dublin, O'Connell House, 58 Merrion Square. Bígí Linn. www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

Byrne being removed for someone called 'Boycott' makes it seem like a provocation by the new US owners

Micheál Martin saying this is even more absurd than Bono claiming he grew up in a warzone. It's even more disturbing that he is using this to justify denying a unity referendum

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)

did they commission Jamie Heaslip to write this report

New blogpost from COLVET project postdoc Dr Anindita Bhattacharya based on her recent research in archives in Lucknow, Delhi and London. A fascinating and empathetic analysis of how Indian veterans and their families grappled with the bureaucratic obstacles to claiming compensation. colvet.eu/403-2/

My first poetry book. It explains a lot

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Nathan O'Donnell ( @pva-books.bsky.social) on the limitations on cultural infrastructure in Dublin artreview.com/after-the-co...