next time you watch Blue Lights, please remember this

Last year it was revealed that MI5 broke into a safe being used by investigators examining the activities of Stakeknife (an British agent in the IRA involved in multiple murders and abductions)

A part of Akinola Davies Jr's speech the BBC decided not to air

an historian claiming that nationalists from the six counties were only demonised since the 1960s is quite the take

I am once again asking Irish journalists to look at a map

Once more: Omar El Akkad: "One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this." Bono: Have you heard my new EP

Glad that the Daily Mail finally addressed this global crisis on this slow news day

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

The Swiss commentator is telling viewers about Israel’s war crimes that the team’s pilot has openly supported while the Israeli bobsleigh team is racing.

Peadar Tóibín's constituents come to his office for help. He goes to the Minister and the press to complain about them not being deported. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202... #speirghorm

delirious indexing

the gender balance of this upcoming conference on the Irish border in Maynooth is pretty baffling

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 🇮🇱

Next week, #BCIrishStudies will host a symposium highlighting the 15 interdisciplinary essays in the fully illustrated catalog (edited by Marjorie Howes) accompanying the 'Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family & The Public Arts' exhibition currently at the McMullen Museum

as they say in the movies, talk's cheap but it takes money to buy hotdogs www.channel4.com/press/news/c...

We shouldn't play Israel. Its not complicated, the FAI rightly called for Israel to be banned from FIFA, we have a chance to walk the walk. Refuse to play.

Martin O'Neill, Eoin MacNeill, the drunken vainglorious lout of 'Easter, 1916', and the priest who wrote 'The Foggy Dew' (also called O'Neill)

Growing up in NI during the Troubles involved turning on the news most days with trepidation but i especially remember how the murders of ‘troublesome’ nationalist HR lawyers - inc also Rosemary Nelson - made us feel particularly vulnerable and not only unprotected but targeted by the state.

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

When you're an educator and this is your first reaction to a massacre at a school, there's something fundamentally wrong with your moral compass... I suppose when you are the scion of a political dynasty, everything is just a game to you.

really is quite the thing to use British collusion to try settle scores with Sinn Féin

🗣️ “Surely nobody should be in a condition described like that?” — guest presenter @newschambers.bsky.social 🗣️ “They shouldn’t,” — Fianna Fáil TD Paul McAuliffe 🗣️ “Sorry, that’s actually a description of the Knockalisheen Centre,” — @newschambers.bsky.social #TonightVMTV #SeamusCulleton #ICE

Macbeth: SHIT

Many thanks to Dr. Patrick Doyle for delivering this week’s LCIS lecture on the conception and reform of capitalism by the Catholic Irish diaspora!

Forget 'reprehensible'; this is a stain on the Irish state. Of course, the issue is not new, but if we are serious about human rights, we need to stop the use of Shannon for these flights. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Would it be a sunday morning without the Irish Times doing a puff piece on how great the Brits were in the North? Today we have ex-SAS saying they did nothing illegal, talking about govt betrayal. Oh the mirth, the numerous books, interviews, dogs on the streets etc were all imagining it!

Outrage as some decent adverts are interrupted by rugby

the use of 'our' by unionist politicians usually excludes me too

And for Dublin friends I’ll be having a launch for Late Heaney in conversation with John Brannigan on Tuesday 3 March at 6pm in Hodges Figgis. It would be good to see you, discounts for Bohs fans.

One of several scholarships for Palestinian students available at the University of Liverpool. This one is for the MRes in Irish Studies. Please share to relevant circles. www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

James Joyce - born on this day #botd 1882: “Write it, damn you, write it! What else are you good for?”

Remember them. Murdered by the forces of the British state in Derry on this date in 1972.

I sat down with Brian Hanley a few years ago to discuss the reaction to Bloody Sunday south of the border soundcloud.com/stories-from...

Extended CFP - Legal-Literary Imaginaries across the Ireland–India Nexus - really looking forward to this online symposium. We've extended the CFP - so please do circulate to anyone for whom this may be of interest www.irishhumanities.ie/news-events/...

I would like everyone smugly saying 'we don't do gcses in Ireland' to read a) A map and b) The Apprentice Mage

This definitely sounds like a witch hunt alright

Calling transphobia a 'gateway drug' to the far right undersells it. It's pure accelerant. Grimly fascinating to guess what crankery becomes any famous transphobe's secondary obsession, cos they all have one: 15 minute cities are fascism! Grok noncing is cool! ICE are good! We should kill all dogs!

Once again the Government demonstrates remarkable ability to achieve things that nobody wanted and many are actively against.

It is publication today for Late Heaney I am told, although I imagine it’ll be a while before I see it between ice storms and the broad Atlantic. I thought I’d share a few thoughts about it, as it’s a different kind of book for me in form and style. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

vital reading here about the ways that the British state and current government continues to cover up its collusion with loyalist paramilitaries (as well as Scappaticci), but also a salient reminder of the limits of the ongoing 'official' history project www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#Celtic fans, today in Bologna for a Europa League match, paid homage to the shrine of the Bologna partisans, singing "Bella Ciao". 👇

Ziva was diagnosed with breast cancer aged just 21 and became a campaigner for young women affected by the disease

I am assigning the Basque country to Antrim

Can someone please call the reconciliation police

The two upcoming speakers for this year’s LCIS lecture series will be arriving at the Irish College soon! More (practical) information on both speakers and their research can be found on our website: tinyurl.com/5audtm6x. Be minded that for Dr. Patrick Doyle's lecture, preregisteration is required.

I wrote this blog piece on colonial veterans at the 1931 Colonial Exhibition. I fell down many rabbit holes while researching so I'm not sure how coherent the story is but hopefully still of use and interest. colvet.eu/exhibiting-i...

the linguistic gymnastics of partition