Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A book launch, like an Irish funeral, is a chance to meet people and exchange a bit of gossip. 132
Reposted by Bryan Fanningmickbyrne.bsky.social @mickbyrne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Looking at a contentious issue today that is likely to grow in salience @bryanfanning.bsky.social @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social @valescal.bsky.social theweekinhousing.substack.com/p/social-hou...theweekinhousing.substack.comSocial housing allocation & immigrationThe Week in Housing 18/09/26 121
Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Why not bring a friend and come to my book launch. Please share because otherwise hardly anyone gets to see posts here :) 155
Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 15/08/2026A memoir of a quarter of a century researching immigration, trying to make sense of Irish intellectual history, arguments in Irish Studies and culture war stuff 051
Reposted by Bryan FanningPatrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 18/05/2026This should read: Data centre expansion threatens energy affordability for households and national decarbonisation plans. www.irishexaminer.com/business-col...irishexaminer.comJohn Whelan: High electricity costs threaten Irelands data centre and AI expansionIreland lags behind in the total number of data centres and is likely to continue to fall behind if the cost of electricity is not brought down 02816
Reposted by Bryan FanningCethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 09/05/2026I feel a lot of David Attenborough's hard work with nature preservation is to cover for how much of a mess his brother made of that dinosaur theme park. 183119737
Reposted by Bryan FanningLiam Hogan @liamhogan.bsky.social · 25/04/2026When slavery was abolished in Jamaica in 1834, the following Irish surnames were present in the long list of compensated slave-owners: Barry, Bourke, Boyle, Brady, Brennan, Broderick, Buckley, Burke, Byrne, Carey, Carroll, Codd, Coleman, Collins, Conway, Corbett, Costello, Cowan, Creighton, Crowley 6239116
Reposted by Bryan Fanningmickbyrne.bsky.social @mickbyrne.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Went on Inside Politics podcast yesterday talking about fuel protests, populism & liberalism. I tried to add nuance without appearing as an apologist for populism. Not sure how succesful I was! @bryanfanning.bsky.social @eoghandalton.bsky.social @lizcarolan.com www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/ins...irishtimes.comWhat the fuel protests meantInside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan 042
Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 10/04/2026If ever I have too much of reality I'll open an AI ap 030
Reposted by Bryan FanningIrish Independent @independent.ie · 10/04/2026‘Someone might die’ – Mother of Kildare girl (11) with rare bone cancer said fuel protests are putting lives at risk www.independent.ie/irish-news/s...independent.ie‘Someone might die’ – Mother of Kildare girl (11) with rare bone cancer said fuel protests are putting lives at riskThe mother of a young girl with a rare type of bone cancer has warned that “someone might die” as a result of the fuel protests. 0102
Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 03/04/2026One of mine, secondhand, at Oxfam on Parliament Street Dublin 130
Reposted by Bryan FanningTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 11/03/2026It’s easy (more easy than accurate) to dismiss academic critics of generative AI as uninformed or emotive, which is often anyway code for “moralizing.” But it’s remarkable how much gen AI boosterism requires feigning ignorance that theft and impersonation are widely seen as wrong, for good reasons. 428993
Reposted by Bryan FanningMarc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Like, "take an unexpected interruption, comment on it, weave it into what you were going to say anyway, continue unflustered" is a skill that most people with a teaching role pick up fairly quickly, out of necessity. While impressive from a politician, it's not *supernatural* communication skills. 181
Reposted by Bryan FanningPesky Splintergeist ~👻🌙~ @peskysplinter.bsky.social · 02/02/2026It's 1998. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. 512217674
Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 02/02/2026A bunch of my books on sale in Chapters on Parnell Street 020
Reposted by Bryan FanningDr Prospera Tedam @profprosperatedam.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Inviting submissions for this Special Issue on ‘Preparing Social Workers For Global Practice’ , guest edited by Dr Beverly Wagner @umaine and I. Details can be found here www.mdpi.com/journal/socs...mdpi.com 022
Reposted by Bryan Fanningmickbyrne.bsky.social @mickbyrne.bsky.social · 23/01/2026'It all boils down to a simple credo: people should stay where they are, and who they are'. 1st in a series on far/populist right housing politics looks at the recent book Vanadalising Ireland @bryanfanning.bsky.social @hlinehan.bsky.social @shamimmalekmian.bsky.social tinyurl.com/52dctvdm 061
Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 20/01/2026So I have a book out about the challenges and dilemmas arising from large-scale immigration. Of course I look at the benefits of integrating and incorporating migrants (and how social policy can help) but I also focus on the political obstacles that play out in many countries. 2134
Reposted by Bryan FanningEastwood Books @eastwoodbooks.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Looking forward to the launch tonight of our first new book of 2026! 'Waterford and the Wider World', edited by John Breslin, David Dickson, Ivar McGrath, Thomas O'Connor and Rosemary Ryan. Available now from The Book Centre, Waterford, and all good bookshops! 032
Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Four of my books with Manchester University Press. I have another with MUP out in the new year. 130
Reposted by Bryan FanningTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11/12/2025This is what is going to happen. There will be a thin top layer of non-digital universities — and all the tech billionaires will send their kids to those places. 26965274
Reposted by Bryan FanningJessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 14/12/2025My kids woke up so excited this morning for the first night of Hannukah and now yet again we have a festival where I’m very conflicted about whether it’s safe to take them to synagogue to celebrate. Communities shouldn’t have to live like this. 351173189
Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Have an article on the role of faith-based supports for migrants and diasporas in the current issue of Studies: Catholic, Jewish, Muslim and evangelical Christian. It ties in with a book I have coming out in the new year. 030
Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Work by Eilis Fanning to see Friday 5 December to Sunday at the Spacecraft Gallery Limerick Eircode V94 HH 34 000
Reposted by Bryan FanningNiamh Moore-Cherry @niamhmcherry.bsky.social · 13/11/2025A delight to join colleagues from @UCDSocialPWJ to celebrate 10 years of an excellent School. Really encouraging opening remarks from President @OrlaFeely followed by an inspiring panel discussion with current students and alumni. Comhghairdeas gach duine!! 🎊🎉 083
Reposted by Bryan FanningNiamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · 14/11/2025TFW your extremely niche area of academic research is in the news! A 🧵 on some aspects of the building formerly known as the Pro-Cathedral (or the Metropolitan chapel as it was called first!) www.rte.ie/news/ireland...rte.iePro-Cathedral designated Dublin's Catholic cathedralPope Leo XIV has designated St Mary's Pro Cathedral in Dublin as the city's official Catholic Cathedral, becoming the first in the capital for 500 years. 15115
Reposted by Bryan FanningSam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · 05/11/2025There's been a great deal of debate about how safe Dublin city centre is, but when we @dublininquirer.com looked for data to resolve this, we couldn't find much useful – so we commissioned a survey to try to add some facts/data to the debate. Today we've published five articles about the results. 1/ 210252
Reposted by Bryan FanningKevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Later today, the @jcfjustice.bsky.social launch a report that demonstrates Irish society has moved decisively into a post-secular stage and it's past time for us all to leave our 20th century kneejerk nu-atheist tendencies behind 144
Reposted by Bryan FanningBen Tonra @bentonra.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Reliance on Chinese students and Chinese campus for university income creates strategic vulnerabilities which Chinese State is wiling to use to suppress academic freedom. Who’d have thought it?! Shocking. Not www.theguardian.com/education/20...theguardian.comUK university halted human rights research after pressure from ChinaExclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities 064
Reposted by Bryan FanningRichard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 24/10/2025We are a f***ing class country, let it be said. 1030756
Reposted by Bryan FanningKevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 24/10/2025My colleagues and I have launched a report looking at the religious diversity in Dublin's north-east inner-city, demonstrating beyond doubt that these communities are integral to the life of the city. It really presses DCC to stop overlooking religious practice www.jcfj.ie/research/fai...jcfj.ieFaith in the North-East Inner-City - Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice in IrelandIntroduction New research by the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice and ACET Ireland has identified almost fifty faith-based communities in the north-east inner-city of Dublin. A key aim of the resea... 052
Reposted by Bryan FanningIrish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 21/10/2025If you missed Ian d'Alton's talk yesterday about '1932: Seeing the same world differently: Irish Catholics and Protestants a decade after independence', it's now available online at youtu.be/9oxWs0PTA1Yyoutu.beIrish Studies Seminar: Ian d'AltonYouTube video by QUB Irish Studies 01510
Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Hundreds of people would love to work for you in the Dail. Would you hire somebody who was caught with a gun used to commit a murder perhaps planning to kill somebody, who never expressed remorse for this. CC is not the best of us. 040
Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Would you pretend to have a monopoly on virtue opposing repossessions as a councillor whilst facilitating these in you day job? CC is not the best of us. 000
Reposted by Bryan FanningAidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 19/10/2025Artist’s photoshop reconstruction image of an early medieval cashel settlement with small fields at Cahercommaun, Co. Clare. (Photoshop reconstruction by Conor McDermott, UCD School of Archaeology, based on an aerial photograph by National Monuments Service, Dept of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht) 111118
Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Great writing that strives to make sense our troubled times. 011
Reposted by Bryan FanningMike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen... 125154305229
Reposted by Bryan FanningSimon Communities of Ireland @simoncommunity.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Registrations are open for this month's #SimonTalks We are excited to be joined by Michelle Norris and Altaf Hossain from UCD's Geary Institute for Public Policy. Join us as we discuss Housing Precarity and Migrants in Dublin! Register 👇 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 034
Reposted by Bryan FanningEmily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Guess what!? My biography of Henri Bergson will be available in paperback NEXT WEEK (June 19th)! John Banville called it "the most intellectually stimulating book I read this year" and the NYT called it "lively and deft". Get your copy here (or don't I'm not a cop): linktr.ee/eherring 713039
Reposted by Bryan FanningDónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 12/04/2025This is a really beautiful piece worth seeking out. 081
Reposted by Bryan FanningTheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 12/04/2025BIG BIG news for us - this is a former hardware shop ( O'Doherty's in Patricxk Street, Templemore town Tipperary. The new home of our much larger warehouse for @thebookshopie.bsky.social , AND.. a used bookshop in the two story part - called 'The Book Temple' ( see what we did there? #templemore 813524