Cian O’Callaghan
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Urban geographer at Trinity College Dublin
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Please share - Trinity Geography is hiring for a tenure track position of Assistant Professor in Human Geography with a focus on Historical/Cultural Geography Job details can be found here
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Good to see this important contribution. Universities in Ireland must coordinate to resist this change
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Really thoughtful review of my book by
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, addressing some of the thorniest issues in the book, i.e. the conceptualisation of home and value
www.rundale.org/2026/06/03/c...
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Chasing the Tiger – Ireland’s Private Rental Sector -Rundale
A review of Michael Byrne’s Beyond Generation Rent: Political Economy, Inequality and the Private Rental Sector
https://www.rundale.org/2026/06/03/chasing-the-tiger-irelands-private-rental-sector/
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Lots of great contributions here, including an insightful analysis by
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of
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book which forms a launching off point to consider value theory and housing politics
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The May issue of Rundale on the theme of housing is out now. Five new contributions that approach housing and inhabitation in Ireland from new angles, offering different framings of (and answers to) ‘the housing question’. Quality analysis that you just don't find elsewhere.
rundale.org
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University staff say €4.55bn research fund ignores arts and humanities
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
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University staff say €4.55bn research fund ignores arts and humanities
Letter to Min Higher Ed
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/education/2026/06/02/university-staff-say-455bn-research-fund-ignores-arts-and-humanities/
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RIP Sonny Rollins. Always one of my favourites
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Trish Greenhalgh
13 days ago
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed.
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
https://slate.com/technology/2013/06/rescuing-drowning-children-how-to-know-when-someone-is-in-trouble-in-the-water.html
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If you want to understand what’s going on in the city (and why) in relation to housing, public space, investment in infrastructure, and local community is very much recommend.
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Sometimes it snows in April, sometimes it hailstones in May
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24 days ago
Launching my book on May 26th. Join me in conversation with Rory Hearne, hosted by Kitty Holland. Should be a great discussion of housing politics and the PRS
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Beyond Generation Rent, RSVP
Beyond Generation Rent: Author and housing researcher Michael Byrne in conversation with Rory Hearne TD. Facilitated by Irish Times journalist Kitty Holland.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeyMCWytOwCvw9oglxYVz-AQ1Zzhh-ASe8aE5YQHNC0QfcwyQ/viewform
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Alison Stenning
24 days ago
2,700 in limbo for months, with more than 600 expected to lose their jobs. Having been at risk of redundancy last year, I can’t imagine the impact of so many feeling so insecure and devalued. Cruel and destructive. Solidarity to all.
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Urban Political Podcast
24 days ago
In this episode, you will hear: Tracy Rosenthal, Jaime Palomera, Jacob Stringer, as well as the host (and guest) Michael Byrne.
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Very interesting
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Katie Lumsden
6 months ago
I get a lot of AI slop book marketing emails, but this is the first time I have ever been . . . mistaken for Jane Austen.
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Simon McGarr
about 1 month ago
These numbers should be amplified everywhere there is a flat surface. The 3,000 person sample size was statistically significant. The direction of travel is positive but runs directly contrary to the perception born in the echo-chamber of Twitter-brained media and politics. (H&CC is a client)
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Fresh as a sweet Sunday morning, indeed
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Please share - Trinity Geography is hiring for a tenure track position of Assistant Professor in Human Geography with a focus on Historical/Cultural Geography Job details can be found here
jobsireland.ie/en-US/job-De...
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This is very good
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Please share - Trinity Geography is hiring for a tenure track position of Assistant Professor in Human Geography with a focus on Historical/Cultural Geography Job details can be found here
jobsireland.ie/en-US/job-De...
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www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Very interesting article by my friend
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reflecting on structural constraints facing college students as they juggle multiple demands and ways to build structured space/time on campus to create belonging
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2 months ago
My book is out in the US today! Get in touch for a 40% discount
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Beyond Generation Rent: Political Economy, Inequality, and the Private Rental Sector
Beyond Generation Rent: Political Economy, Inequality, and the Private Rental Sector, As societies struggle to respond to the revival of private renting, this book offers the first comprehensive and c...
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=beyond-generation-rent-political-economy-inequality-and-the-private-rental-sector--9781509563418
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Very pleased to speak to Eithne Dodd recently for this interesting piece from the This Week show revisiting ghost estates almost 20 years after the crash
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Almost 60 ghost estates remain two decades on from crash
Nearly 20 years on from the financial crash, almost 60 ghost housing estates remain across Ireland.
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0308/1562256-ghost-estate-figures/
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Zen Arcade for the very un-zen world
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A lot of common sense in this piece, with a key takeaway that we have to take the politics of housing seriously
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RashersT
4 months ago
Nothing sums up what’s wrong with our property system more than landscapes pockmarked with decay across
#DerelictIreland
. What many see as failure, Trinity’s Cian O’Callaghan shows can function as strategy.
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Looking forward to see this on Sunday
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Solidarity with striking colleagues in the UK
www.ucu.org.uk/article/14401
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4 months ago
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Jason Luger
4 months ago
We out here.
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Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19
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4 months ago
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Simon Parker
4 months ago
Every one needs to watch and hear this testimony especially in the UK where the leaders of both far right parties have plans to introduce a version of ICE to the streets of Britain.
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Patrick Bresnihan
4 months ago
Regardless of what you think of the Triple Lock, the Government's efforts to remove it without a referendum is anti-democratic and flies in the face of any claims about 'reclaiming sovereignty' over foreign policy. h/t Louth Neutrality Network
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Brett Christophers
4 months ago
We're recruiting 2 PhD candidates in human geography here in Uppsala, one position focused on urban/housing issues and one in political ecology. Please spread the word/repost etc. Being a PhD student in Sweden is a good gig.
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2 PhD student positions in Human Geography - Uppsala University
2 PhD student positions in Human Geography, Department of Human Geography, Uppsala University
https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/jobs-and-vacancies/job-details?query=891697
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Very good overview. This is starting to look like it could get messy.
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I finished watching The Lowdown recently, which id recommend. One of the enjoyable things about it is a great soundtrack, featuring a lot of Oklahoma musicians - I got introduced to this lovely piece of strangeness from Lee Hazlewood from a record I hadn’t heard before
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Tulsa Sunday
YouTube video by Lee Hazlewood - Topic
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MhAWdk_6ayY
4 months ago
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Sara Koopman
4 months ago
Geographers, in case you missed this detail, Alex Pretti graduated from the Minnesota Geography department in 2011.
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martha shearer
5 months ago
"today, all politics is about real estate"
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5 months ago
My book is out on Friday in print and ebook. Get a 40% discount wit this code: MIB26
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Beyond Generation Rent: Political Economy, Inequality, and the Private Rental Sector
Beyond Generation Rent: Political Economy, Inequality, and the Private Rental Sector, As societies struggle to respond to the revival of private renting, this book offers the first comprehensive and c...
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=beyond-generation-rent-political-economy-inequality-and-the-private-rental-sector--9781509563418
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Rebecca Solnit
5 months ago
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye:
pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
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If one third of the housing stock was social housing we probably wouldn’t have half the housing problem we have. But it suits the far right (for obvious reasons) and the government (to detract from their policy failures) to inflate migration figures & their impact on housing. Fuelling misinformation
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5 months ago
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Great new paper which examines the somewhat ambiguous role that Approved Housing Bodies increasingly play in the Irish housing system
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Sleepwalking Woman & Blanket Roll Blues 🙌
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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan)
5 months ago
The protestors in Nepal were flying Straw Hit Pirates flags. Fandom is a much more powerful motivator than political theory these days because we exist in a realm of politics that is essentially a form of fandom. Sorry but Marx and Lenin are dead; long live Luffy and Luthen.
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jamelle
5 months ago
what you clearly see, CLEARLY, is a driver who is spooked by the agents grabbing her door, takes steps to drive away, and is immediately shot as moves her vehicle *away* from the agents.
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Nathan Daniel Hernandez
5 months ago
My mother was a refugee of the Salvadoran civil war. The Americans backed the fascists that took over the country. Now Salvador is run by a pro yankee crypto dictator who has built the largest concentration camp in the western hemisphere. That, is American intervention.
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Eugene McCann
5 months ago
Be our colleague… Hiring an Assistant Prof of Urban Geography & Climate Crisis.
www.sfu.ca/geography/ab...
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Assistant Professor of Urban Geography/Climate Crisis
https://www.sfu.ca/geography/about/work-with-us/faculty-hire-urban.html
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Alexia O’Brien
5 months ago
Before your weird uncle starts going on about how there is no housing crisis at Christmas dinner, you can read my report on how he could be right in a few years if we used our resources correctly 👇
www.jcfj.ie/research/usi...
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Using the Kenny Report To End Land Hoarding - Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice in Ireland
The Housing Crisis in ireland needs a radical solution that was suggested 50 years ago.
https://www.jcfj.ie/research/using-the-kenny-report-to-end-land-hoarding/
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Naoise Dolan
6 months ago
‘There are young people dying in British jails again’ — Kneecap say what the world is ignoring
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Naoise Dolan: ‘There are young people dying in British jails again’ — Kneecap say what the world is ignoring
It was late in the night when Kneecap began speaking about the Palestine Action hunger strike. The concert was last Tuesday at the 3Arena and with thousands of us packed in, I was to the right of the...
https://m.independent.ie/opinion/naoise-dolan-there-are-young-people-dying-in-british-jails-again-kneecap-say-what-the-world-is-ignoring/a1676082360.html#
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