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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 7h

And why use the legalistic ‘minors’ instead of ‘children’?

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Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · 18h

I'm fundraising for Dublin & Wicklow Mountain Rescue Team - running rather silly Art O'Neill race Dublin Castle to Glenmalure Lodge. 62k. In the middle of the night. In Jan27. DWMRT's biggest fundraiser: please support their fantastic work. 🙏 Photo Arts Cross, Jan25 eventmaster.ie/fundraising/...

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Fundraising page of Graeme Warren

Please help with fundraising for Dublin and Wicklow Mountain Rescue, who do fantastic and essential work in helping people in the mountains: you never know when you might need them. The Art O'Neill is...

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 16h

I’m so sorry, sending all the hugs to you xx

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well one only needs to read his co-produced book to see his breadth of knowledge on the North

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Eamonn McCann is always razor sharp in his analysis of the North. Garvagh road is not a difference between ‘two communities’ that needs ‘both sides’ understood. It only benefits the DUP and hardline loyalists to force us to revisit a terrible time in the North. rebelnews.ie/2026/10/02/g...

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Garvaghy Road: There Are Not Two Sides - REBEL

The clashes in Portadown between Orange marchers and nationalist residents have widely…

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s a bad mistake! You wonder if it’s even being read over when a clanger that big goes in and remains through to publication!?

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That is mortifying! Long live print to hold the McRedmonds of this world to account.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One from the archives In 1984 Dunnes shop worker Mary Manning refused to handle South African goods & was backed by her shop steward, Karen Gearon. Both were suspended. 9 colleagues came out in support. The strike lasted 3yrs & forced the Irish govt to ban the import of all SA goods. All heroes

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’ve had this discussion with their supporters before - about their right to delimit membership to Protestants - and the lack of recognition that it makes them a sectarian organization just blows my mind. And the fact they do this while being an overtly political body is just wild in a democracy.

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

RTÉ and its bothsideism and neutral language of ‘compromise’ show the same detachment, lack of understanding and disregard for the ongoing trauma in places like Garvagh as the BBC.

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Anyone with a semblance of knowledge about NI knows the significance of this march and the unpardonable harm it has done to this community. That residents were forced to block roads to protect themselves from state apparatus designed to protect the state and its status quo has long precedent.

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Who is writing these reports for RTÉ, DUP press office? “Under parading legislation in the region, protests against parades must be notified and approved by the Parades Commission adjudication body. The weekend blockade on the Garvaghy Road is an unnotified gathering” www.rte.ie/news/ulster/...

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No resolution after NI Secretary meets political leaders

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Bryant held talks with political leaders in Northern Ireland last night following a tense stand-off over an Orange Order parade, but no resolution emerged.

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

An academic nepobaby who has no good thoughts ever on anything. I’d be worried if such a professional contrarian believed in anything any emotionally intelligent person did, but you’re right he is just stupid enough to say what others think out loud.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Harry Burton @hbtoons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My cartoon in today's @independent.ie.

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Very sorry for your loss, she sounds an amazing woman. Take care of yourself x

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Across the political divide do WM govts specifically look for people who know nothing about NI and are tone death to its history to hold the position of SoS? Because they’re amazingly consistent if they aren’t trying.

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I feel extremely angry that the morally bankrupt likes of Jamie Bryson and Carla Lockhart think they have the right to force a fraternal group down a road they don’t come from, aren’t wanted in, and have a long history of terrorizing. What an advertisement for their rotten, broken union.

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

How desperate are the DUP to try - 28 years later - to refight a battle that even they should have consigned to history? Drumcree was one of those awful times that it is extremely triggering for all of us to have to revisit. It can benefit no one, least of all unionism, to do that.

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Drumcree was not just a ‘march’ it was an annual extended period of fear that threatened to destabilize the entire province and resulted in a significant number of deaths. No one should forget that the catalyst for the march being halted was the deaths of the Quinn boys in their firebombed home.

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For people of my age (old) and my background (CNR) who grew up in NI during the 90s, Drumcree was the nadir of community relation & differences in our perceptions of ‘rights’. We just could not conceive how a group of snarling, angry men thought their ‘right to march’ surpassed our ‘right to exist’.

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

While i understand where it comes from it makes me so uncomfortable to see people feeling they have to do this. But as whiteness = inclusion, access, even power it is a thing.

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m absolutely sure they like to exploit any kind of ambiguity about these terms to make them mean what they want it to mean. Why you’d do this against yourself, i’m especially bewildered by.

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

honestly i don’t believe in dna-based ancestry being meaningful at all in the modern world, but yes interesting looking at the names of ppl who claim it to be the be all and end all (especially in ireland where there is some residual meaning to them).

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Oh i know, it’s not quite as strongly articulated - and generally not by people who are ethnic minorities - but it’s a brain disease to believe such things.

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

(1) Ethnicity is shared cultural traits not shared biological DNA. (2) how does having deep ancestral connections to modern day Germany make someone ‘English’? (3) how many people in England do you think have exclusive DNA links to German prehistorical origins? Probably none. Dressed up racism.

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s actually quite depressing what people imbibe about themselves growing up with structural, systemic and everyday racism. Counseling rather than politics would be a good idea.

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As an anthropological archaeologists i’m just dying to find out what Suella thinks makes ‘English’ an ‘ethnicity’ that she doesn’t belong to (dya think it is whiteness????)

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think 5 historians for 5 years was dreamt up as an inviting prospect on the back of an envelope and somehow just made it in there. Strongly suspect this will not end up as representative in any way …

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ha, it got worse! Eventually the poor night receptionist at the wrong hotel let me stay semi-unofficially in a semi-off the books room if i paid a top up fee. I literally didn’t care by that stage as i was so tired but it all felt a bit dodge and that i could end up on some bad tv murder program.

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For now it seems so, i wonder at what stage they’ll let the rest of us know? Maybe when their very open and transparent project is completed?!

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This happened to me except not med emergency (pilot timed out as we waited out a storm), it was Dulles and the airline tried to pretend it wasn’t their problem. Eventually got a voucher for a hotel but no address, at least three hotels with that name. Most of us went to the wrong one. Looong night.

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It is mad to see the impunity with which far right activists have been able to operate especially in the context of mass arrests of the Palestine solidarity movement. This is particularly alarming across the water in Britain where fascist thugs are running riot. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard

Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As one might expect from an imposed British govt initiative, which advertised for historians nearly 18 months ago and haven’t updated their website since. 5 year job replacements ads are appearing, which seem to suggest positions have been filled. TRANSPARENCY, key obv. niofficialhistory.org.uk

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Northern Ireland Official History

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I love the pure danger of senior ppl!

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

An absolute disgrace that these small number of humanitarian visas for Gazan students to attend university in Ireland are not being prioritized by the govt. The places are funding, the universities are full supportive. The govt should do their job. www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...

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Gaza student misses start of UCC course amid visa appeal delays

Some 58 students from Gaza granted scholarships to Irish third-level institutions remain unable to travel after visa refusals, despite many having lodged appeals months ago

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Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thanksto @lauramca.bsky.social, Kylie Thomas, Gema Kloppe-Santamaría, and Brian Ngwenya for a great panel and day yesterday. Maybe people from Cork are right about how good it is after all

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It was a great day and event, we were so pleased to have you there to talk about your brilliant book on partition (and any vintage Celtic appearance is an omen it is going to be a good day!) www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

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Irish Culture and Partition, 1920–1955 | Home

Stephen O’Neill is Teaching Fellow in Twentieth Century Literature at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin.

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Really happy to share the schedule for this semester's History Research Seminar in Maynooth. A fantastic lineup of speakers covering a wide range of geographic and temporal contexts. All are welcome to attend.

September 24
16:10-18:10 Rocque Lab Dr Patrick Doyle, (University of Limerick), ‘The Occupation of Heaven’: Catholic Political Economy, Land, and the Irish World, 1880-1930’.

October 01
16:10-18:10
Rocque Lab
Dr Bernadette Cunningham, (Maynooth University), ‘Medieval Irish Women as Pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela’.

Launch of the new School of History and Ancient Classics, featuring launches of the new books Irish Townspeople: The Early Modern Urban Experience, c.1400-c.1640 by Prof Emeritus Colm Lennon and Akrasia and the Catullan Lover: Resisting Reason in Republican Rome by Dr Leah Hearn.

October 08
16:10-17:10
Rocque Lab Dr Zhouxiang Lu, (Maynooth University), ‘Yellow River Piano Concerto: History, Politics and Identity’.

October 15
16:10-17:10 Rocque Lab
Dr Idriss Jebari, (Trinity College Dublin), ‘Leaping Decolonization: North Africa in the Global Sixties and Seventies’.

October 22
16:10-17:10 Rocque Lab Dr Laura McAtackney, (University College Cork), ‘Material Worlds and Contested Histories: material revelations related to gender and class in Ireland’s recent past’.

November 05
16:10-17:10 Iontas Building
MUSSI Seminar Room
Dr Angel Alcalde, (Melbourne University), ‘Four Global Moments in the History of Fascism’.

November 12
16:10-17:30 Rocque Lab
Dr Clodagh Tait, (Mary Immaculate College), ‘Robert Perceval’s wraith: death omens, family folklore, and male violence in late seventeenth-century London’.

November 19
16:10-17:10
Rocque Lab
Dr Lea Horvat, (University of Jena) ‘Coffee, gender, and labour on the southern semi-periphery of the Habsburg Empire (1867-1918)’.

November 26
16:10-17:10
Rocque Lab
Dr Siobhán Doyle, (National Museum of Ireland), ‘Irish Sport in 100 Objects: Writing a Public and Material History of Sports in Ireland’.
December 03
16:10-17:10
Rocque Lab
Dr Mina Hristova, (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), ‘Printing the Nation, Timing the Bloc: Temporalities of Money in Socialist Bulgaria, with Comp…

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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Same thing over and over again and we are gas lit to believe it has any connection to justice.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

'Governments must not ignore the social sciences when they marshal researchers to address grand challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, housing pressures, energy security and social inequality, a new report says...'

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Grand challenges ‘require social science response’

Sustainability issues too often framed as technical challenges, researchers say

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Does anyone have any faith in the NI state to police itself, especially re the nuances of collusion? A 15 year delay in publishing a report that exonerates the RUC even while finding a suspect was tipped and allowed to destroy evidence. Bryant is absolutely shameless. www.rte.ie/news/2026/09...

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Inquiry finds no RUC collusion in murder of Catholic man

RUC officers did not collude with loyalist attackers involved in the 1997 murder of Robert Hamill in Co Armagh, an inquiry has found

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Sorry to miss you Jay, we will hopefully have future events on similar themes!

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This was absolutely inevitable in my opinion, younger people aren’t as tied to tribal identities in NI and all they can see is a loss of opportunity with Brexit. Likewise migrants to NI, who are often forgotten in people’s discussions.

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Also just to note it is culture night in cork on 18 September! There are lots of events on @ucc.ie that evening, so a perfect time to come to our panel 2-4 and to stay on for much more! www.ucc.ie/en/discover/...

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Culture Night | University College Cork

UCC has a range of cultural events to suit all audiences across our beautiful campus on Fri 19 September 2025 for Culture Night

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