Really enjoyed speaking at the Marxism Festival 2025, at UCD, on Sunday. I discussed Sinéad O'Connor and feminism in Irish music, with a lovely audience. #SinéadOConnor

All welcome to my talk on feminism and music in Ireland, at the Marxism Festival in UCD tomorrow afternoon. It'll be way less stressful than watching Ireland play Hungary!

The destruction of fertility clinics in Gaza has to be one of the IDF's most egregious acts of genocide. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

So much talk about spoiled votes, but virtually zero about the 900,000+ Irish citizens who voted for Connolly and the 15,000 volunteers who campaigned for her - nothing about what they want and represent and hope for. No, Irish media and politics insist you engage with those who can't be bothered.

Saying that it's "too hard" to get on the Irish president ballot when an independent woman got the entire Irish left to back her, got the biggest vote ever and beat two historically dominant parties is not just wrong - it is breathtakingly offensive and outrageously dishonest. #Aras25 #Speirgorm

Get out and vote if you've yet to do so. Voting rights were hard won for ordinary people, especially women. #ConnollyforPresident #CatherineConnolly #Aras25 #Áras25

Voted for Catherine Connolly! #ConnollyforPresident #Áras25 #Aras25

🗣️ "Are we going to have a conversation, on the level that you are about deportations here, about the crisis of male violence against women in this country?” - News Correspondent, The Journal Eimer McAuley #TonightVMTV

Obviously #CatherineConnolly is a brilliant presidential candidate anway for #Áras25 #Aras2025; her support for the arts is another reason to vote for her. @journalofmusic.bsky.social journalofmusic.com/opinion/cath...

#Endometriosis really challenging to live with lately. #endo

Reposting to fix the link: www.rte.ie/culture/2025... My review of a Sinéad O'Connor book is now available on RTÉ. @muahi.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie #spéirghorm

Don't normally publish twice in two weeks, let alone on the same topic, but happy to share another piece on Sinéad O'Connor. My review of a new essay collection is free to read in @journalofmusic.bsky.social journalofmusic.com/book-reviews... . #spéirghorm #womeninmusic #musicology #sineadoconnor

Reposting for the morning crowd. I discuss Sinéad O'Connor's history with Israel and #Palestine; how her song 'Famine' resonates today; how censoring #Kneecap & other pro-Palestinian artists echoes the way O'Connor was treated when she protested injustice. #Gaza #sineadoconnor #speirghorm #speirgorm

rebelnews.ie/2025/09/02/s... My article on Sinéad O'Connor and Palestine has just been published on Rebel. I discuss her song 'Famine' and some links with music activism and censorship today. #gaza #sineadoconnor #speirghorm

After months of the Israeli government manufacturing a starvation crisis in Gaza, famine has officially set in.

Our pals The Mary Wallopers have just been pulled off stage and the PA shut down at VictoriousFest in Portsmouth for taking out a 🇵🇸 flag and saying Free Palestine Speak up against genocide in England and you're treated like a criminal Up the Mary Wallopers 💚🤍🧡 Free Palestine! Free the 6 counties!

www.rte.ie/news/middle-... This is unspeakable. Man-made famine in 2025. #Gaza

Red wine from Wales. In rondo form too!

Sally Rooney on Palestine Action www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Out socialising two nights in a row with friends and comrades - and on school nights. Triggering vague memories of being young.

A glimpse of the stunning scenery in North Wales: we stayed in Nant Gwrtheyrn first and then Port Meirion, the Italian-style village where The Prisoner was filmed in the 1960s. Surreal to stay in #PortMeirion after having watched #ThePrisoner!

Sad to hear about the sudden death of Seán Rocks. Loved listening to Arena and was fortunate to be interviewed by Seán for it in 2018, about the Sounding the Feminists/NCH chamber series. He was very welcoming and so knowledgeable. Huge loss to arts broadcasting in Ireland.

Mass starvation spreading across Gaza, aid agencies warn, as pressure on Israel grows – Middle East crisis live

Huge turnout for #Palestine solidarity march in Dublin today.

Looking forward to presenting at #IASPM in Paris today!

So proud of my cousin Fatima for writing this piece on racism in Ireland, and always proud to stand with her. www.thejournal.ie/readme/anti-...

Did a live TV guest slot today with Ireland AM @virginmediatv.bsky.social. Welcomed the chance to discuss music, politics, and Kneecap and Bob Vylan controversies at Glastonbury last weekend. The segment from 8.15 - 8.27am can be seen on the VM player. @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social

The death toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is now estimated at 100,000 The list is 1,227 pages long. The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months. The first 381 pages are all children. archive.is/2025.06.28-0...

The Journal of Music has published my review of Linda Coogan Byrne's fearless book. #speirgorm #musicology #womeninmusic

Say it loud, say it clear: refugees are welcome here. #Dublin #speirgorm

Looking forward to speaking at the Prof. Harry White Farewell Symposium at UCD School of Music today. Wonderful to celebrate a brilliant colleague alongside so many other fantastic colleagues! @ucddublin.bsky.social #speirgorm #musicology

I am looking to speak with founders/members of feminist music collectives in Ireland (past or present) for my PhD research. If you are building feminist music spaces, workshops, forums, campaigns, festivals, gigs, parties etc. please get in touch for more info (email in photo). Shares appreciated! 🎶

Appalling. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Neither of us has played for over 15 years but husband and I just started playing chess and talk about bringing out our competitive sides...😆

Minister for Higher Education has laudable goals, but disappointing to read a statement that plays down research for its own sake: 'To be clear, this is not about funding science for its own sake...research also drives massive economic growth.' No mention of the humanities either.

Refugees welcome. #Dublin #speirgorm

Refugees are welcome here. #speirgorm #Dublin

Good to hear Mary Lou McDonald mention #endometriosis and the need for more health funding, on @latelateshow.rte.ie.

60% discount on all @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social hardbacks until 5 May! Sale includes PAUL DUKAS: COMPOSER AND CRITIC and WOMEN AND MUSIC IN IRELAND. Promo code: BB600. boydellandbrewer.com/978178327755...

Last night i spoke of the afterlives of Irish revolutionary women in the Free State-a state which defined a narrow model of what it meant to be an Irish woman. Anyone who did not live up to that model was surveilled, shamed and/or institutionalised! Narrow definitions of womanhood harm all women.

m.imdb.com/title/tt8995... One of the most powerful things I've ever watched is this Irish-made documentary, Gaza (2019), which I viewed last night at the Maynooth #PalFest screening. Please watch it. #Palestine #EndGenocide

Great turn-out for the launch of Maynooth's Festival of Palestinian Culture today, launched by the indefatigable Richard Boyd Barrett. #PalFest

sites.google.com/view/maynoot... Maynooth Festival of Palestinian Culture starts tomorrow. Please join AfP and affiliated groups in supporting this and fundraising for Gaza. 🍉

Support #PalFest in Maynooth.

#Kylie book arrived at last! Happy to have contributed a chapter on her music and pop persona in the 1980s. #locomotion #lovers #ishouldbesolucky #musicology