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brendanmack.bsky.social @brendanmack.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The Iranian poet’s memoir, written from scraps of paper smuggled out from her prison cell, reveals the human cost of repression. www.thejournal.ie/readme/open-... oneworldbooks.bsky.social
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A songbird trapped in a cage: Iranian poet Mahvash Sabet’s compelling prison memoir
The Iranian poet’s memoir, written from scraps of paper smuggled out from her prison cell, reveals the human cost of repression.
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brendanmack.bsky.social @brendanmack.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Thanks to thejournal.ie for including my reviewcof a quite remarkable memoir. "The Iranian poet’s memoir, written from scraps of paper smuggled out from her prison cell, reveals the human cost of repression." www.thejournal.ie/readme/open-... @ucc.ie @laurabyrne.bluesky.social
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A songbird trapped in a cage: Iranian poet Mahvash Sabet’s compelling prison memoir
The Iranian poet’s memoir, written from scraps of paper smuggled out from her prison cell, reveals the human cost of repression.
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brendanmack.bsky.social @brendanmack.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
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Diane Robinson-Dunn. An Empire of Many Cultures: Bahá'ís, Muslims, Jews and the British state, 1900–20 Studies in Imperialism. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024. Pp. 272. $130.00 (cloth). ...
Diane Robinson-Dunn. An Empire of Many Cultures: Bahá'ís, Muslims, Jews and the British state, 1900–20 Studies in Imperialism. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024. Pp. 272. $130.00 (cloth). ...
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brendanmack.bsky.social @brendanmack.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Thanks 'Journal of British Studies' for including my review of Diane Robinson Dunn's excellent, 'An Empire of Many Cultures: Bahá'ís, Muslims, Jews and the British State, 1900-20.' @universitypress.org @noreen9.bsky.social @iwatsonucd.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/jbr....
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brendanmack.bsky.social @brendanmack.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Thanks 'Journal of British Studies' for including my review of Diane Robinson Dunn's excellent, 'An Empire of Many Cultures: Bahá'ís, Muslims, Jews and the British State, 1900-20'. @jbritishstudies.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social @cambridgepress.cambridge.org @ucc.ie doi.org/10.1017/jbr....
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Diane Robinson-Dunn. An Empire of Many Cultures: Bahá'ís, Muslims, Jews and the British state, 1900–20 Studies in Imperialism. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024. Pp. 272. $130.00 (cloth). ...
Diane Robinson-Dunn. An Empire of Many Cultures: Bahá'ís, Muslims, Jews and the British state, 1900–20 Studies in Imperialism. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024. Pp. 272. $130.00 (cloth). ...
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brendanmack.bsky.social @brendanmack.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
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Bahá'í community calls for support for man held in Iran
A member of the Bahá'í community in Ireland has expressed concern over what she has described as torture, interrogation and mock executions that her cousin is enduring in Iran.
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Taylor & Francis Research @tandfresearch.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Congratulations on your publication Brendan! Thank you for diving further into Isabella Honan's history and for publishing it with us 👏
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brendanmack.bsky.social @brendanmack.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Delighted my article "Isabella Honan; wills and historical reconstruction" has just been published in @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social. Isabella was an extraordinary woman and almost nothing has been written about her. @ucc.ie @uccresearch.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social @routledge.bsky.social.
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brendanmack.bsky.social @brendanmack.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Many thanks to #IrishMissionUN For highlighting many serious #HumanRightsViolations in #Iran at the #UN #HumanRights Council and calling on the #Iranian government to end #persecution and #oppression of many groups including #women, #Bahais and #Bahaiwomen
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brendanmack.bsky.social @brendanmack.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Many thanks to @irishexaminer for including my piece in today's paper about #MichaelLongley and #MahvashSabet and their sharing of the #PENPinterPrize in 2017. @ucc.ie @englishpen.bsky.social @irishpen.bsky.social. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Michael Longley and the Songbird of Iran
Mr Longley died at the age of 85 in hospital
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brendanmack.bsky.social @brendanmack.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Delighted to present the fascinating and complicated story of James O'Kinealy of Cavan,a graduate of @uniofgalway.bsky.social,and his scholarship around Islam in service to Empire in the late 1800's. @tandfresearch.bsky.social @ucc.bsky.social #studyofreligionsucc www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KH65C...
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Ireland and Islam: James O’Kinealy and Wahhabism in India
The purpose of this article is to explore James O’Kinealy’s (1838–1903) contribution to scholarship around Islamic movements in India, while a functionary of the Indian Civil Service (ICS) from 186...
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brendanmack.bsky.social @brendanmack.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Sad news indeed.
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Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann @irishpen.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
We stand in solidarity with Iranian poet Mahvash Sabat, 71, serving a second 10-year jail sentence following her arrest in 2022. She recently underwent open-heart surgery and will be returned to prison very soon. #FreeMahvash Please read & repost. www.newarab.com/news/iranian...
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brendanmack.bsky.social @brendanmack.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
When they shared the Pen Pinter Prize for poetry in 2017, the great Irish poet, Michael Longley, described #MahvashSabet as “a songbird trapped in a cage”. Having just had open heart surgery, Mahvash will now be returned to that cage. It should not happen. #FreeMahvash #Iran.
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brendanmack.bsky.social @brendanmack.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Campaign for #Bahai poet, #MahvashSabet, who is to be returned to prison after open-heart surgery and is seriously ill. 5.30 this evening on social media. #Iran #Bahai #FoRB #HumanRights
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brendanmack.bsky.social @brendanmack.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Two years ago this piece appeared in the Journal highlighting the plight of #MahvashSabet, an award winning poet. In prison now for a second 10 year term for her faith, 71 year's old and severely ill. #Iran should release her immediately. #FoRB #Bahai www.thejournal.ie/readme/minor...
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Opinion: "You can't see the sorrow after lights out..." - Iran's persecution of Bahá’ís
Brendan McNamara says we cannot turn a blind eye while minorities are persecuted for their faith.
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brendanmack.bsky.social @brendanmack.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Thanks to the "Echo" for including my piece on #HumanRightsDay2024. Focus on #HumanRights never more important. #HumanRightsEducation
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brendanmack.bsky.social @brendanmack.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The U.S. Senate yesterday unanimously passed Resolution 74 (S.Res.74). This resolution condemns the Iranian government’s state-sponsored persecution of #Bahai’s and other religious minorities, and its ongoing violations of international #humanrights agreements. #Iran #FoRB
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brendanmack.bsky.social @brendanmack.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
71-year-old #Bahai prisoner of conscience, Mahvash Sabet, sentenced to a second leghty prison term for her faith, is now in hospital in #Iran in dangerously poor health and awaiting surgery. She must be released after her surgery. Mahvash deserves freedom and dignity. #FreeMahvash #HumanRights
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brendanmack.bsky.social @brendanmack.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
EU Parliament condemns #Iran 's persecution of #Bahai 's and abuse of women and other minorities. www.bic.org/news/europea...
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European Parliament joins global chorus condemning Iran’s government for persecution of Baha’is and the abuse of women and other minorities
An “urgency resolution” by the European Parliament “strongly condemned” the Iranian government’s “persecution of ethnic and religious minorities” yesterday with an overwhelming majority, citing a 1991...
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brendanmack.bsky.social @brendanmack.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Regional Australia has welcomed Iranian Bahá'ís with open arms. "Back home, we’d be persecuted" - Dellaram Vreeland. #Iran #Bahai #OurStoryIsOne. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Regional Australia has welcomed Iranian Bahá'ís with open arms. Back home, we’d be persecuted | Dellaram Vreeland
The community-building activities my family and I participate in every week are a core part of our faith. In Iran, it would see us arrested
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The Co-Operation Conversation @rainsfordt.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
#Bahai citizens of #Iran are targets of government led persecution from cradle to grave
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brendanmack.bsky.social @brendanmack.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
In 1913, Ataollah Rezvani, a #Bahai man in #Iran, was brutally murdered for being a member of Iran’s largest religious minority, the Baha’i Faith. A court ruling this October finally confirmed that Mr. Rezvani was the victim of a premeditated murder - but no compensation awarded as he was a Bahai.
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brendanmack.bsky.social @brendanmack.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
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United Nations resolution rebukes Iran’s government for systemic and escalating persecution of Baha’is and all Iranians—and calls for urgent change
A new United Nations (UN) resolution by the General Assembly’s Third Committee condemning the Iranian government’s human rights record has added to several weeks of international focus on the plight o...
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brendanmack.bsky.social @brendanmack.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
"Today the Baha'i International Community is taking the grave step of exposing, in public, our profound concerns at six decades of discrimination and persecution against the Egyptian Baha'i community, a situation which is getting worse.” — Dr. @ShaddadHaddad, Bahá’í International Community
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brendanmack.bsky.social @brendanmack.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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