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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy

@garodean.bsky.social
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Gael. Feminist. Lawyer. Sí/í

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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Má tá aithne ag aon duine ar phaleontologist le Gaeilge, abair liom!
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ok an bhfuil aon duine ann chun cabhrú liom chun aistriucháin do leabhair fíricí a bhaineann le dineasáir a cruthú? An páiste ag éirí cantalach toisc nach bhfuil sé in ann labhairt liom mar gheall ar nósanna an triceratops
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Great article by @dan462.bsky.social in this morning’s Examiner about what childcare could look like if there was enough political will! www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Finland's childcare is state-run, cheap, and plentiful — why can't Ireland do it?
We feel incredibly privileged to have this excellent system for our kids, and the thought of having to go back to Ireland to try and navigate the system there was a major factor in us choosing to stay...
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Multilingual Matters @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Our second video for #InternationalDayofSignLanguages is from Gearóidín McEvoy, who recently published her book "Access to Justice for Minority Language Communities: Experiences of Irish Speakers and Irish Sign Language Users" with us. Find out more and order your copy now on our website ⬇️ #IDSL
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It’s absolutely wild that the people who defend it have the audacity to claim it as a rural pastime when in fact, absolutely hating the hunt and all who attend is the real rural pastime.
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
That’s because the luring maids never get to be the narrators, I’m sure they were all having a blast
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If we brought back the time honoured tradition of maids luring men into a moor I think it would be a net benefit to society.
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Me, crying in front of a crowd, reading old drill tweets off a teleprompter
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Niche but girlies, I am begging you not to buy a WOOL SWEATER and then stick it in your washing machine? And when you do, and it’s all shrunken and felted, don’t list it on Vinted as “like new, size M but fits more like S”. Ma’am, I can see that you’ve wrecked your & Other Stories cardi.
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Anyway, Mundy’s Galway Girl has always reigned supreme
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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026
To say Irish citizenship is “given out like smarties” betrays an ignorance that is unworthy of an elected member of the Oireachtas. Also deeply insulting to the many people who have had to wait years for it due to sheer governmental incompetence.
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“I would like to use your Irish sound, language, artistry, culture and even your history but absolutely none of the politics wrapped up in any of that, thanks” - a load of British singers, for some reason
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My absolute favourite part of existing in a multilingual community is watching a toddler (the same one who cannot operate a zipper yet and has a meltdown over how a banana is peeled) flit between like four languages with ease.
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
That’s about three sentences shy of eugenics too (Too many old people! Too many poors having kids!), they’re playing all the horrible, horrible hits
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It was true for primary teachers before they introduced the degree at St Pats a few years ago.
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Ah but there is an excellent degree at DCU St Pats as of late for primary teaching in ISL! It’s only had a few graduates so far but times are a-changing!
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The urge became too strong.
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I literally wrote a book about how people got ARRESTED for trying to speak Irish to police in Ireland, don’t given me this feigned respect and reverence for Irish.
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
But suddenly, it’s an innate part of what it means to be Irish? I’m not a dog but something tells me they’re blowing a whistle.
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
And are therefore primed to be good at learning another language anyway? We do this for a whole host of people, including dyslexic people - just cut off from learning because there’s no way a dyslexic person could learn Irish (iykyk)
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Did you know that we deny Deaf people in Ireland the opportunity to learn Irish in school? Because it’s deemed that they wouldn’t be able. Without any assessment. Without any comprehension that many Deaf people are learning ISL and English at the same time? And are therefore bilingual?
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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026
Meanwhile:
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A little blogpost I wrote about my book! channelviewpublications.wordpress.com/2026/08/06/e...
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Exploring how the Justice System Treats Irish Sign Language Users and Irish Speakers
This month we are publishing Access to Justice for Minority Language Communities by Gearóidín McEvoy. In this post the author explains how her interest in Irish Sign Language users and Irish speake…
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
He was real nerdy for obstructing justice, perjury and illegally funding Nicaraguan rebels
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
A significant player in the Iran-Contra Affair was named Poindexter
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Boo to the people who are at parties with you, boo! This is fascinating!!
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
senior male academics giving a conference paper, after being shown the "one more minute" sign
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
What if the poors are having fun, Darach? What then? What if they are happy? And not aspiring to be like the middle class? What if they don’t know their betters? What then?
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 05/07/2026
You could for example do commercial law, like Jim O’Callaghan did, where you can charge approximately the same amount for an hour of your time that he’s now paying for an entire criminal case start to finish
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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 05/07/2026
1. The fees cited include 23% VAT (goes back to the exchequer) 2. Legal aid fees are paid into the law firm’s bank account and used to pay staff salaries, &often split with barristers in District Court 3. I oppose the new fees and I might have made a few hundred in criminal legal aid last year 🤷‍♀️
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Free criminal legal aid is a basic human right, hope that helps x
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 02/07/2026
In ‘terrible but also funny’ news, the state of Florida is currently beefing with… An Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha, aka the world’s largest and oldest governing body for Irish Dance because the NA championships are being held in Orlando and CLRG refuses to ban trans girls from competing as girls
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
There is an account on Instagram where this person grooms all of these extremely placid dogs in like an ASMR kind of way and I am convinced they are drugging the dogs before popping them in the shower because they are all slightly too chill
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Multilingual Matters @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
New book! "Language Strategies for Bilingual Families" by Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert is now available! Get your copy at 30% off now ⬇️
30% discount with code LANGST30 on the MM website until 31/07/2026. Tablet and cover of Language Strategies for Bilingual Families: The One-Parent-One-Language Approach by Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
My latest article has just come out, it’s available open source here for all to read! It’s about perceptions of education for deaf people within deaf communities in Ireland, the UK and Finland academic.oup.com/jdsde/advanc...
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Perceptions of Deaf education in the Deaf community
Abstract. This article explores perceptions about education for the Deaf community within Deaf communities in Ireland, Finland, and the UK. Ireland, Finlan
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
We have reached the “why” phase of parenting and things sure do get real existential after a few layers of “why”
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
*pulling up in a sinister Ford Transit van* you kids want some books?
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Tuairisc @tuairisc.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
‘Slíbhíní’ - cearta teanga phobal na Gaeilge i gcóras dlí na hÉireann le cíoradh i leabhar nua
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‘Slíbhíní’ – cearta teanga phobal na Gaeilge i gcóras dlí na hÉireann le cíoradh i leabhar nua
Deirtear sa leabhar nua gur minic a bhreathnaítear ar chainteoirí Gaeilge a dhéanann iarracht dul i ngleic leis an gcóras dlí ina dteanga féin mar ‘slíbhíní’
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
“True Story: How I Got A Changeling In Exchange For Views”
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
“Building My Dream Fairy Garden”. “Transforming My Bookshelf Into A Whimsical Fairy Village” MA’AM WHAT ARE YOU DOING
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The cutesification of bringing FAIRIES INTO YOUR HOME on the internet needs to stop.
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Niche and I haven’t seen it mentioned yet but if the mam is breastfeeding get an enormous water bottle that can be opened with one hand and has a handle to carry. I recommend the Takeya ones because you can also put it in the dishwasher. Also as everyone else said: food.
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
It’s just really weird to be like “More Guns For Belfast” and then be like “you’ve taken me out of context” but also be like “you’re not allowed to include the context of how Belfast used to have a lot more guns, it undermines the integrity of the point I was poorly making”
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
A chairde, I have a 💖book coming out💖 on 11th August!! It’s called Access to Justice for Minority Language Communities and you can pre order it! And I have a discount code! For 50% off!! www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...
Advertisement for “Access to Justice for Minority Language Communities” by Gearóidín McEvoy in ebook and hardback format. You can used the discount code “AJMLC50” for 50% off the pre order on Multilingual Matters Ltd website. The discount is valid until 30/09/26
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The Good Friday Agreement needed more guns.
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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
It’s giving that scene from Sex and the City that I thought was a joke until about 2 years ago because how could it ever make it into a script
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