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Greg Harrison

@greg-harrison.bsky.social
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Lifelong Veggie, Late of PRONI, Still History, trying to follow The Way, very much guided by Alison

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This excellent on critical thinking and what a history degree can do for you
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Greg Harrison @greg-harrison.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
@translinkni.bsky.social Sad to report very poor service today - bus substitute from Derry/Londonderry operated by Translink arrives Coleraine only to find the train has departed 16:19 - no coordination, no tie, customers left musing why they use public transport
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The British university emergency will see around 25% to 30% of all posts closed and many unis 'merged'. They contain 100ks of employees who've often given everything, entire lives, to a single research field. Will anyone exercise a duty of care over their mental health? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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University of Sussex staff vote in favour of strike over job cuts
Member of the UCU union back a strike over proposals to cut 200 jobs at the University of Sussex.
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Brendan McNally @brendanmcn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
We are aware of ‘true crime’ filmmakers planning to film in Lurgan in the upcoming week, on the case of Natalie’s murder. We don’t think the format of such a production is appropriate and so it doesn’t have our approval. If you are approached to contribute, please decline.
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Cllr Brian Smyth @briansmyth99.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Belfast I bloody well love you. You have excelled this week in a way many couldn't have imagined. We're going to build a better Belfast.
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Greg Harrison @greg-harrison.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
@dedalusdenaries.bsky.social Maybe you will be able to take in Fleadh ‘27, this year has been transformational for Belfast (way better than my memories of the last time when the city centre was properly pedestrianised)
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
A deeply destructive and inexpert management consultancy class has emerged whose sole purpose is to shrink Anglosphere universities and to undermine their future - all the better to secure more work. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...
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Inside Britain's university crisis
As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter
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Greg Harrison @greg-harrison.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
When you have railways run by a bus company, and not enough investment made in infrastructure, this is what you get…
Screenshot of NI Railways X post stating Derry/Londonderry trains delayed by large numbers of passengers wanting to use them
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Greg Harrison @greg-harrison.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
@dedalusdenaries.bsky.social Enjoyed your exposition of “Late Heaney” and looking forward to reading it - the Inst photos were a bonus (haven’t been on the socials much) as was having a chat with Frank Ormsby - safe travels Nick👍
Peter Gray, Nicholas Allen , Mark Carruthers at QUB Seamus Heaney launch of “Late Heaney”
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Three Red Kings @threeredkings.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
The IRFU have had to limit replies on every post, including Edwin Edogbo, due to the blue tick racist filth. When you look at the account locations — USA, UK, or "proxied" — alongside the Irish sadcases. Everyone in real life is delighted for Edwin.
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Greg Harrison @greg-harrison.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
@briansmyth99.bsky.social Hello Brian, saw BCC crews cutting up trees in stretch of woodland between the car park and the Lyric on Stranmillis Embankment - just wondering if this was Storm Chandra or planned felling ?
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Cllr Brian Smyth @briansmyth99.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I've contacted @deptinfra regarding the need for the newly refurbished cycle lane at Stranmillis to be urgently gritted. Cyclists shouldn't be an afterthought when it comes to safety on our roads network, especially with poor weather conditions.
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Greg Harrison @greg-harrison.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Unusually vivid sunset in Belfast late this afternoon - inspiring if I was a poet, sadly I’m not!
Sunset at QUB Belfast
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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
We'll be celebrating our first 60 years with a drinks reception following our Irish Studies seminar on Monday 8th December - please join us!
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Tony Gallagher @tgeducation.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Brooke Nichols, a Boston University health economist, is calculating the consequences of Trump’s cuts to humanitarian aid across the world. Currently the level of additional deaths is 340,000 and rising.
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
🚨 🚨BREAKING: High Court judge to quash @deptinfra A5 road plans following judicial review citing climate and environmental concerns
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Duncan Morrow @duncanmorrow0.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The failure of a government Department to pay attention to its own laws and rules once is unfortunate, the failure to do it time and time again is careless. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/courts/...
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Judge quashes decision by NI Executive to upgrade A5 road
An Executive decision to proceed with the A5 road upgrade has been quashed at the High Court in Belfast.
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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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Duncan Morrow @duncanmorrow0.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Ken Bloomfield was a crucial advocate for change in NI from within the system. His work after retirement was groundbreaking, especially in relation to victims. Along with Maurice Hayes and George Quigley he was a key public servant enabling NI’s transition in the 1990s.
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History at Queen's University Belfast @qubhistory.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
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Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Babies with heart conditions enduring ‘greenhouse’ conditions on a Belfast hospital ward 😭 One parent also raised concerns for nurses working in such hot conditions www.irishnews.com/news/norther...
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Babies with heart conditions enduring ‘greenhouse’ conditions on Belfast hospital ward
Staff can’t turn on air circulation systems or open windows because of building works
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Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Thank you to BBC Radio 4. They have adapted The Boy from the Sea for radio and it'll go out in ten parts, 10:45pm to 11:00pm, starting Monday 12th May. It's produced by BBC Northern Ireland's Michael Shannon and read by Niall Cusack. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - The Boy From the Sea by Garrett Carr
When a baby boy is found abandoned on a beach in Donegal, a local fisherman takes him in.
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Neil Hegarty @neilhegarty.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
This thread is excellent and supremely pertinent.
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Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Throwback to 1908
A political cartoon from 1908 showing hand with a cuff that reads "Republican Party" pouring champagne from a bottle that reads "tariff revision" into a glass held by a hand that reads "protected interests" on its cuff. They appear connected to the same person. Beside this another pair of hands hold an empty glass and the cuff reads "consumer"
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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
"Contrary to general opinion the Modern Records Centre has not been established with the deliberate intention of creating new problems for the Library staff" Strong #ArchiveBeginnings for the MRC in 1973. We've grown hugely in 51 years thanks to the work & support of friends & colleagues #Archive30
The Modern Records Centre's rules for researchers, August 1974:
"1. A Research Record form is to be completed on a researcher's first visit.
2. A Document requisition form is to be filled in for each request for material. 
3. No smoking.
4. Pencil only to be used : no ink or ballpoint pens.
5. No documents may be marked. 
6. Documents are not to be leaned on or have working materials or other items laid on them.
7. Documents are to be returned to staff in the condition and order in which they are received by the researcher."The MRC's research area, probably in the 1980s. It includes researchers hard at work at desks, drawers of card indexes to help people navigate the collections, and, stuck on the wall at the back, pictures of trade union emblems and a cat poster.The MRC's first archivist, Richard Storey, standing next to shelves of archives, probably during the 1980s.Extract from University of Warwick Library Staff Newsletter, December 1973: "Contrary to general opinion the Modern Records Centre has not been established with the deliberate intention of creating new problems for the Library staff. Nor was it designed to provoke archivists, especially in the West Midlands, to a burst into a flurry of protest, although initially it did have this effect. What it has been set up to try to achieve occupied a 20-page submission to the Leverhulme Trust. ... Nothwithstanding the archive preservation work carried out by a countrywide network of local record offices and by such long-established specialist national centres as the British Library of Political and Economic Science, the proposers of the scheme to the Leverhulme Trust, Dr George Bain (SSRC Industrial Relations Research Unit), Professor Royden Harrison (Centre for the Study of Social History), Professor Malcolm Anderson (Department of Politics) and Professor K.G. Cowling (Centre for Industrial Economic and Business Research), supported by the Librarian were able to present a convincing case for the need to supplement the search and preservation activity in respect of original sources for historical research in the fields of politics, industrial relations and in particular British labour history."
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Cllr Brian Smyth @briansmyth99.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
As thousands of people come into Belfast City Centre to celebrate St Patrick's Day, one of its most important & historic buildings lies left to rot by the failure of private developers. It's time for Assembly Rooms to come into public ownership & save it for future generations.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 15/03/2025
Earlier this week the Society also released the March 2025 version of its 'Toolkit for Historians' bit.ly/3skly1l The toolkit is a set of RHS and external guides, resources and data for those working in #History in UK higher education, with a focus on advocacy for the profession. #Skystorians
Graphic showing desktop writing and computing equipment with the text: Toolkit for Historians. March 2025 version.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 09/03/2025
⚡️Trump won't resume Ukraine military aid after signing of minerals deal, NBC News reports.
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Trump won't resume Ukraine military aid after signing of minerals deal, NBC News reports
U.S. President Donald Trump wants to see a change in President Volodymyr Zelensky's stance toward peace talks with Russia and a willingness to make concessions such as giving up occupied territories t...
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Greg Harrison @greg-harrison.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Listening to Brendan O’Connor on RTE interviewing Gary Lightbody on his new book . Very taken by the joint inspiration he got from listening to Nirvana and reading Seamus Heaney
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Greg Harrison @greg-harrison.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
France have pace and power - sadly no one on our bench to counter that
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Uilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
A directory of EU-made alternatives. From software and electronics to everyday products www.buy-european-made.eu
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Buy European Made
A directory of EU-made alternatives. From software and electronics to everyday products - all made in Europe
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Duncan Morrow @duncanmorrow0.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
The 80-year presumption that western European countries can rely on US democratic solidarity for security is broken. No country in Europe can go it alone. National Security has transformed discussions on the UK's relationship with the EU in a week.
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Peter O'Neill @poneill.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Amazing work here by Martine Brennan .
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Gerry Lynch @therealgerrylynch.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Even the cleverest members of the routed establishment have started acknowledging the old older is dead. This isn’t about changing personnel or diplomatic alliances, but suddenly finding our shared assumptions about how the world functions are no longer correct. sluggerotoole.com/2025/02/20/l...
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Life Punishes the Late—Adapt or Die
This will be the first of many shattering weeks in 2025. Even the cleverest members of the establishment that is being routed have started to acknowledge publicly that the old older is dead. This isn’...
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Sam McBride @sjamcbride.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Thought-provoking from the erudite former Alliance executive director @therealgerrylynch.bsky.social on Trump's new world: "My own doubts about the durability of the progressive order started in 2014, & from 2016, even as my rhetoric became angrier as a partisan of the Remainer movement..."
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Life Punishes the Late—Adapt or Die
This will be the first of many shattering weeks in 2025. Even the cleverest members of the establishment that is being routed have started to acknowledge publicly that the old older is dead. This isn’...
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Duncan Morrow @duncanmorrow0.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
clearly Zelensky won’t do what Trump wants: capitulate or hand over the mineral resources of his country. So he must be blamed for failure , and Trump will have his revenge.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 11/02/2025
Last week @davidolusoga.bsky.social gave the annual National Humanities Lecture at the University of London. This was a superb account of how public history promotes and communicates academic research beyond HE. David's lecture is now available and is highly recommended bit.ly/3Qd1x5i #skystorians
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The National Humanities Lecture | Professor David Olusoga | 4 February 2025
The National Humanities Lecture is a major new annual event that celebrates the vital role of the humanities in public life. We are honoured to welcome historian, author, and award-winning filmmaker David Olusoga as our inaugural speaker. In his lecture, Professor Olusoga will make the case for the humanities and explore how new ideas about humanities, heritage and institutions are emerging – from virtual museums, to hyper-local history projects and alternative city tours. What is the public role of the historian in an age of populism and digital disruption? How might museums adapt to our more interconnected world and to the phenomenon of 'contested heritage'? How can the humanities adapt to an era of Podcasts and Substack? And what are the broader intersections between the humanities and public life? Drawing together thinking from history, political culture and public humanities, he will ask what new forms our cultural institutions might take, and how they might support a more equitable, connected society.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 11/02/2025
From 21 February @royalhistsoc.bsky.social will be closing and archiving its X account. From this date all updates from the Society - and its promotion of work by fellow organisations for #history and the humanities - will be via BlueSky. Please encourage colleagues to join us here #skystorians
Photograph of the Royal Historical Society's BlueSky homepage.
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Fine, but I’d hope & expect that all government networks in major western countries don’t allow the download of unapproved GenAI apps onto connected devices already? If yes, that covers deepseek already If no, that’s really bad & gives rise to big risks beyond deepseek www.wsj.com/tech/ai/lawm...
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Exclusive | Lawmakers Push to Ban DeepSeek App From U.S. Government Devices
The bipartisan bill comes amid concerns that the application allows China to see user data.
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Ida Milne @idamilne.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Looking forward to hearing the responses to this…I think!
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Tony Gallagher @tgeducation.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Interesting conversation between Stephen Roulston, Martin Brown and host Rory Montgomery comparing the education systems in the northern and southern parts of the island of Ireland. It's part of the ARINS podcast series considering policy issues in Ireland. open.spotify.com/episode/4dzX...
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ARINS: Education Across the Island of Ireland
ARINS: Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South · Episode
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