Occam’s Razor, I know, but the impact of the BBC’s editorial choices has certainly been that the censorship of Free Palestine has gone relatively undiscussed. When an organisation’s blunders somehow miraculously only BENEFIT them, it starts to look like deliberate deflection

One funny thing learning Arabic has made me realise is that when Israeli pundits go out of their way to say KHAMASSSSS to up the threat level to the Western ear, it just sounds like they’re mixing it up with the word for ‘five’

Why autistic people are often BETTER at tolerating ambiguity + my thoughts on Assimil’s Arabic course that I’m halfway through naoise.substack.com/p/autistic-a...

Tabhair dom an treo ceart - @naoisedolan.bsky.social Sanremo, @realt.bsky.social agus Nuala Rua, i measc rudaí eile. Grean séimh, léargas eile. naoise2.substack.com/p/tabhair-do...

Ban on Palestine Action ruled unlawful. There are few clearer examples of how no one is free until Palestine is free: if unchallenged this ban would have destroyed civil liberties across the board. Solidarity with everyone who risked years of incarceration to fight it

Rinne mé iarracht an fhéile fonnadóireachta Iodálach Sanremo a mhíniú trí Ghaeilge naoise2.substack.com/p/tabhair-do...

The jury has thus far refused to convict the Filton 24 for the majority of their charges. Keir Starmer will be remembered as a war criminal

Join us as we explore some of the brilliant retellings and reimaginings in the new anthology Banshee: Mythological Irish Women Retold, with editor Ailbhe Malone and contributors Naoise Dolan and Anne Griffin ➡️ bit.ly/49X3fCN @nlireland.bsky.social

New Substack newsletter: what I read in January, thoughts on tracking things, and my criteria for whether or not I enjoy people naoise.substack.com/p/to-track-o...

Umer Khalid’s water strike starts tonight if the UK government does not enter negotiations with Prisoners for Palestine. The human body can survive, on average, 3 days without water. The genocide in Gaza continues, solidarity with a comrade risking his own life to oppose it

When ‘unfriend’ was a noun in English, my quest to learn 3,000 Arabic lemmas, and other language things naoise.substack.com/p/unfriend-n...

‘Hands off Greenland because it belongs to Denmark’ is not the one. Denmark colonised Greenland, suppressed the language and culture, and forcibly sterilised indigenous Greenlanders for decades

naoise2.substack.com/p/dialann-le... Ní deir aon Ghearmánach ‘Tá an iomarca canúna Bheirlín in Berlin Alexanderplatz’; b’fhéidir nach n-aithneoidh duine as München gach téarma ann, ach ní bheadh aon fhadhb ag cainteoir dúchais Gearmáinise é a thuiscint ~ @naoisedolan.bsky.social faoi Cré na Cille

The UK has declined a new Elbit Systems contract, leading Palestine Action prisoners to end the hunger strike that had three of them on the brink of death. The Tesco worker suspended for refusing to handle Israeli goods has been reinstated and will no longer have to handle them. We can and will win

Smaointe fánacha faoi na leabhair a bhí mé ag léamh le déanaí i bPáras, i mBeirlín agus i bPalermo naoise2.substack.com/p/dialann-le...

This is Heba Muraisi’s 70th day on hunger strike. Bobby Sands died on his 66th day. I’m not privy to UK government meetings, I don’t have the pleasure of seeing inside their minds, but their behaviour is empirically indistinguishable from that of people who want her dead

I wrote on Substack about how to draft a book piece by piece when you don’t have much time, like I’m currently doing for my first Irish-language novel naoise.substack.com/p/just-write...

As the New Year rings in, Palestine Action prison hunger striker Heba Muraisi will cross over into her 60th day without food. This is often the threshold where sudden death becomes imminent. Her government knows and is wilfully proceeding, just as it has with the genocide in Gaza

naoise2.substack.com/p/an-gallant... cuireann sé frustrachas orm nach aistrítear sleachta Béarla go Gaeilge agus an Ghaeilge mar theanga oibre in aistí srl., mar sin déanfaidh mé mo sheacht ndícheall ~ @naoisedolan.bsky.social Rud inmholta!

Mo chuid smaointe faoin scríbhneoir Ceanadach Mavis Gallant, a bhí an-dian maidir le caighdeáin aistriúcháin (rud is annamh) naoise2.substack.com/p/an-gallant...

My last Substack of 2025 naoise.substack.com/p/assorted-m...

Letting hunger strikers die, arresting Greta Thunberg — this is not incompetence or even indifference. The UK state is deliberately making examples of people to ramp up the crushing of basic civil liberties and silence opposition to genocide

‘There are young people dying in ­British jails again’ — Kneecap say what the world is ignoring m.independent.ie/opinion/naoi...

‘How do you know someone used to live in Berlin? They’ll tell you — though I would never be so gauche as to bring up that time I got into Berghain on a guestlist without queuing.’ This week’s Sunday Independent column m.independent.ie/opinion/naoi...

Trí dhán faoi Bhleá Cliath a léigh mé os ard aréir ar ócáid Aerach Aiteach Gaelach naoise2.substack.com/p/tri-dhan-b...

I may not be able to pronounce her name but I could read her all day. @naoisedolan.bsky.social on marriage.

Palestine campaigning in Ireland and the UK has badly needed more union action and collective support of workers. That’s where the most power is, not with celebrity activists; the murder machine relies on labour. Stand with this Tesco worker who refused to handle Israeli goods

Jordan Devlin from Antrim is among the Palestine Action prisoners being horribly mistreated. His comrades’ hunger strike is now entering its fourth week, with dangerous negligence from authorities www.ontheditch.com/irishman-amo...

Palestine Action-linked prisoners have been on hunger strike for three weeks now, with hardly any media attention. We need to stand with them and amplify what’s happening m.independent.ie/opinion/naoi...

Israel has killed at least 280 people in Gaza since the ‘ceasefire’ took effect. ‘The fragile ceasefire’ is a hand-wringing euphemism. It’s not fragile. It’s broken.

Dlúthpháirtíocht ó Éirinn, is gá idirghabháil a dhéanamh i gcoinne cinedhíothaithe ⁊ ba cheart dúinn uilig a bheith buíoch go bhfuil daoine á dhéanamh

The class interests of billionaires are fundamentally opposed to climate justice. Until they and the politicians who support them are willing to betray those interests, climate conferences are mere theatre m.independent.ie/opinion/comm...

Palestine Action activists in the UK are coordinating what will soon be the largest rolling prisoners’ hunger strike since the 1981 Irish hunger strike led by Bobby Sands novaramedia.com/2025/11/11/p...

Anailís @naoisedolan.bsky.social , mar chléach: níl an rialtas ar tí aon rud suntasach a dhéanamh ar son na teanga gan a bheith fórsáilte. An rath is mó a bhí ar an ngluaiseacht na Gaeilge, tharla sé nuair a chruthaigh na Gaeil ... gan a bheith ag fanacht le cead open.substack.com/pub/naoise2/...

Aistín nua ar mo Substack Gaeilge naoise2.substack.com/p/caithfimid...

The Irish language is in an all-time underfunding crisis, with Gaeltacht housing ever more unaffordable and record secondary school exemptions. Rather than lowering our expectations, we need to fight for Irish and for everyone’s chance to access it m.independent.ie/opinion/naoi...

Apartheid, genocide and colonial occupation showed themselves out of the World Sailing Conference in Dún Laoghaire today due to the actions of ordinary people. We can win when we stop waiting for our useless government to stop supporting Israel and simply do it ourselves

Mí ó shin d’fhuadaigh Iosrael ó bhád mé, anois tá fáilte á cur roimhe go hÉirinn ag an gComhdháil Seoltóireachta Dhomhanda atá ar siúl i nDún Laoghaire. Scríobh mé faoi in Tuairisc tuairisc.ie/mi-o-shin-df...

Bíonn na daoine seo ag caint faoin nGaeilge mar a bheadh comhartha stádais inti. An fhírinne ná gur mionteanga í, agus nach bhfuil muid ag iarraidh ach na caighdeáin chéanna agus an meas céanna a thugtar d’aon teanga eile

Lots of flotilla people at today’s blocking of Dublin port. We sailed not as a once-off gesture, but to build on it with direct action at home. Israel does not care what we think; the only way to impact the situation is by directly challenging the blockade and disrupting the flow of money and arms

Pandering to the far-right is both dangerous and ineffective. We already know from Germany, France and the UK that it only legitimises fascists. We need a positive alternative vision instead m.independent.ie/irish-news/p...

At some point someone is going to get killed, and Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael’s response will be to bicker over who’s faster at deporting people (who were forced to leave their country by EU imperialism in the first place)

Amárach!

Maithigí dom é, le bhur dtoil, agus mise ag tabhairt unsa seratonin dom féin

🚨Joining us in Doyle's, Dublin 2 on Monday, 3 November at 6pm🚨 Eman Mohammed in conversation with The Ditch, Naoise Dolan and Liam Cunningham The evening before the trial of the Shannon Three in Ennis

I’ll be in conversation with Liam Cunningham this Monday 6pm in Doyle’s off College Green, Dublin in support of Palestine and the Shannon Three

Mass descent to block Dublin Port this Sunday. The genocide will continue for as long as it’s profitable, we need to shut down trade to see any change

For context we were seeing death tolls like this on the worse days in September, when anyone with any sense was up in arms about it

It’s almost like colonial occupation is inherently violent and the word ‘ceasefire’ is meaningless as long as it’s in place

Bomaite rights sa foclóir nua 😍