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JCFJustice @jcfjustice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Full house in Upstairs Books last night for launch of @bryanfanning.bsky.social academic memoir "Ideologies Are Not Your Friends." Bryan is a Professor of Sociology at UCD and a former board member of @studiesirishreview.bsky.social

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Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thanks to everyone who came to my book launch last night.

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Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A book launch, like an Irish funeral, is a chance to meet people and exchange a bit of gossip.

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Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Why not bring a friend and come to my book launch. Please share because otherwise hardly anyone gets to see posts here :)

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Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A 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

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 09/05/2026

I 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.

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

When 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

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mickbyrne.bsky.social @mickbyrne.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Went 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...

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What the fuel protests meant

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

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Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

If ever I have too much of reality I'll open an AI ap

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Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

One of mine, secondhand, at Oxfam on Parliament Street Dublin

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

It’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.

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Like, "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.

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Pesky Splintergeist ~👻🌙~ @peskysplinter.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

It'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.

Dr manhatan from watchmen sitting on a rock

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Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

A bunch of my books on sale in Chapters on Parnell Street

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Dr Prospera Tedam @profprosperatedam.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Inviting 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...

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mickbyrne.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

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Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Have this just out with @MUP Migration and social policy in a changing world bridges the generally separate fields of social policy and migration studies. This book traces social policy responses to migration from the Industrial Revolution to today's era of globalisation and large-scale migration.

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Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

So 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.

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Eastwood Books @eastwoodbooks.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Looking 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!

Cover design of 'Waterford and the Wider World, 1575-1825', featuring a painting entitled 'View of Waterford', by William van der Hagen, 1736.

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Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

One week to the publication of my new book.

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Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Four of my books with Manchester University Press. I have another with MUP out in the new year.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

This 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.

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

My 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.

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Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Have 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.

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Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Work by Eilis Fanning to see Friday 5 December to Sunday at the Spacecraft Gallery Limerick Eircode V94 HH 34

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Niamh Moore-Cherry @niamhmcherry.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

A 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!! 🎊🎉

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Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

TFW 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...

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Pro-Cathedral designated Dublin's Catholic cathedral

Pope 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.

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Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Thanks: want my 3rd year students to read it.

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Sam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

There'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/

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Later 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

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Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Kevin, can you email me link or include one the full report here. Can’t find it on the JRS site

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Ben Tonra @bentonra.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Reliance 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...

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UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China

Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

We are a f***ing class country, let it be said.

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

My 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...

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Faith in the North-East Inner-City - Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice in Ireland

Introduction 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...

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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

If 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/9oxWs0PTA1Y

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Irish Studies Seminar: Ian d'Alton

YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies

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Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Hundreds 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.

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Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Would 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.

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Artist’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)

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Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Great writing that strives to make sense our troubled times.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Damn. 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...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

The gridlock in supply is not going to be solved by immigration. If medium income people already here cannot compete with newcomers working in tech etc for whom new expensive apartments are being built, hard to see upside.

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Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

How? Existing supply rising slower than increase on population in need of housing; currently a slow down of new properties at a time of high immigration?

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Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I wish it was as you say but high levels of immigration in recent years, in the absence of corresponding rise in the availability of housing, especially affordable housing for rent, is imposing a social cost on society, particularly in Dublin.

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Simon Communities of Ireland @simoncommunity.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Registrations 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...

Simon Talks featuring Michelle Norris and Altaf Hossain from UCD's Geary Institute. The webinar, titled 'At The Margins: Housing Precarity and Migrants in Dublin,' is scheduled for 21st July 2025, 10–11am. Hosted by the Simon Communities of Ireland.

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