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Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com · 08/06/2026

Looking forward to teaching at Dartmouth‘s Jewish Studies program this summer

Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com · 01/05/2026

A question for any Irish historians looking through the newly released 1926 census: when a person in the census has their name crossed out it usually means they recently died. What does it mean if the person is still alive?

1926 Irish census listing for the Healy family, Galway

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Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com · 28/01/2026

I wrote about this a few years ago www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

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Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com · 09/05/2025

Had a great conversation with the new podcast run by Hegel Haus in Stuttgart deadbeatphilosophy.substack.com/p/ideologies...

Aidan Beatty is a historian at Carnegie Mellon University and the current president of the American Conference for Irish Studies. Aidan is author of the books Masculinity and Power in Irish Nationalism, 1884-1938 (2016), Private Property and the Fear of Social Chaos (2023), and, most recently, The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism (2024).

Aidan and Dave chat about Irishness, ideology, whiteness, stereotypes, the history of private property, Marx & Engels, the Russian Revolution, Jewish history and identity, martyrdom, disciplinary divergences and overlaps between history and philosophy, and much else besides.

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Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com · 15/04/2025

Talking about Andrew Hartman’s (@andrewhartman.bsky.social) new book in Jacobin this morning

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Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com · 20/03/2025

For the last year @brian-hanley.bsky.social and I have been working on a proposed edited book on the global history of the Irish far-right. Today we are signing a contract to publish this with NYU Press and their Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series

Screengrab of a contract for the upcoming book "Ireland First?: Tracing the Global History of the Irish Far-Right"

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Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com · 11/03/2025

@kyleriismandel.bsky.social on American suburbia and @renfro.bsky.social on abduction panics are great

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Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com · 11/02/2025

Had a great Zoom conversation last week @carnegiemellon.bsky.social with Tariq Ali, talking about biography-writing and the history of the British Left. Thanks to everyone who attended.

Photo of a Zoom book talk with Aidan Beatty and Tariq Ali

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Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com · 13/01/2025

And then on February 6th, this event at Carnegie Mellon University with Tariq Ali, where he will talking about his new @versobooks.bsky.social memoir

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Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com · 13/01/2025

On January 27th, as part of this American Conference for Irish Studies panel on New Books on the Irish Left with David Landy and @oisingilmore.bsky.social, we will be talking about our @plutopress.bsky.social books, moderated by Sinéad Kennedy

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Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com · 13/01/2025

Over the next month I will be taking part in two events in which I will be talking about my recent book on Gerry Healy

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Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com · 01/01/2025

Since 2020 I have been working on this theoretical essay on antisemitism and sexuality studies - really happy to see it published in the last few days in the Journal of Right-Wing Studies

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Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com · 14/11/2024

All Pluto Press books, including my own book on Gerry Healy, are half price until early next month

Cover of the Pluto Press book “The Party is Always Right”

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Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com · 05/08/2024

Brian Hanley (@brian-hanley.bsky.social) and I are seeing contributors for an upcoming edited book on the global history of the Irish far right Send 250-400 word abstracts to us by 30 November, 2024 Details below. Feel free to reach out if you want more information

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Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com · 11/04/2024

"The Party is Always Right" is now available for pre-order from @plutobooks.bsky.social and will be out in the world in September www.plutobooks.com/978074534872...

Cover of "The Party is Always Right" book

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Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com · 15/03/2024

Doing the final edits to the manuscript this week and sending it out into the world in September

Catalogue page for the book "The Party is Always Right"

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Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com · 08/03/2024

My new book with @plutobooks.bsky.social Should be on sale by the end of the year.

Cover of an upcoming book with Pluto Press, "The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism"

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Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com · 03/03/2024

Really happy that my paper on theories of antisemitism just passed peer review with the Journal of Right-Wing Studies academia.edu/resource/wor...

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Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com · 19/01/2024

Great to see the first articles appearing for the special issue of Irish Studies Review on "Capitalism and Irish Studies" that @conormccabe.bsky.social and I edited www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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