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Liam Ó Cnaimhsí

@liamkne.bsky.social
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Teach and research politics especially peace and conflict, media, and inequalities. Lots of books, movies, and sports. Bad takes all my own.

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Liam Ó Cnaimhsí @liamkne.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Two Irish artists quit Ed Sheeran’s tour citing Ireland’s history of colonisation and famine - live illustration of the “long shadow of the past” at work in a new @bjpir.bsky.social paper with @canmc.bsky.social : the same lens can lead others with a different past to read events the opposite way
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Department of Political Science, Trinity College Dublin @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Dr @liamkne.bsky.social and Dr @canmc.bsky.social recently joined Hugh Linehan on the Inside Politics podcast to discuss why Ireland cares so much more about Israel–Palestine than almost any other country in the West? You can listen to the full interview on the Irish Times: tinyurl.com/5fm2z35t
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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'The long shadow of the past: How Irish history shapes attitudes towards the Israel–Palestine conflict' by Miceal Canavan & Liam Kneafsey 🔗 buff.ly/GzlW7JY @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
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Liam Ó Cnaimhsí @liamkne.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
New paper, open access, in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, with @canmc.bsky.social Why is Ireland such an outlier on Israel–Palestine — not just in policy, but in public opinion? We surveyed 1,547 people in the Republic to find out. 🧵
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RTÉ Brainstorm @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Does an interest in Gaelic games predict how you will vote? Analysis by @stefanmueller.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social and Liam Kneafsey @tcddublin.bsky.social @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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Does an interest in Gaelic games predict how you will vote?
Income levels, education and gender may not predict an interest in the GAA, but it's different with voting intentions and left-right positions
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Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Article on RTÉ Brainstorm with @liamkne.bsky.social ahead of the All-Ireland Finals: we find that GAA interest cuts across income, education and gender, but not politics: Fianna Fáil voters are keenest, left-wing voters least interested. ➡️ www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2... @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social
GAA interest by age (rising from 3.3 for 18–24 year olds to 5.0 for over-65s), by gender (5.0 for men, 4.2 for women), and by area (4.9 rural, 4.4 urban), on a 0–10 scale.Bar chart showing GAA interest by household income (from 3.2 below €20,000 to around 4.7–4.9 across all higher brackets) and by education level (from 4.0 for lower secondary to 4.7 for degree holders), on a 0–10 scale.Average GAA interest by 2024 general election vote choice, ranked from Fianna Fáil (6.3) and Independent Ireland (5.7) down to Social Democrats (3.3) and other parties (3.2), on a 0–10 scale.GAA interest by left-right self-placement, rising from 3.4 on the left to 5.1–5.2 among centrist and right-leaning respondents, on a 0–10 scale.
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Liam Ó Cnaimhsí @liamkne.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
My favourite description of Christmas and the reason it matters so much, written by Dickens in 1843, and still holds today
Again the Ghost sped on, above the black and heaving sea - on, on - until, being far away, as he told Scrooge, from any shore, they lighted on a ship. They stood beside the helmsman at the wheel, the lookout in the bow, the officers who had the watch; dark, ghostly figures in their several stations; but every man among them hummed a Christmas tune, or had a Christmas thought, or spoke below his breath to his companion of some bygone Christmas Day, with homeward hopes belonging to it. And every man on board, waking or sleeping, good or bad, had had a kinder word for another on that day than on any day in the year; and had shared to some extent in its festivities; and had remembered those he cared for at a distance, and had known that they delighted to remember him.
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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 25/12/2025
i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry merry christmas xx
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A real Good Samaritan
One act of kindness that befell Leeds writer Bernard Hare in 1982 changed him profoundly. Here he tells his story.
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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Thank you everyone for the kind messages re ‘journalist of the year’ at the Irish Journalism Awards. Here is a link to what I said in the acceptance video they played there: www.instagram.com/p/DQ97qCSjvQv/ (video too long for Bluesky). 🙏🙏 www.irishtimes.com/media/2025/1...
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The Irish Times secures eight wins at 2025 Irish Journalism Awards
Sally Hayden, Róisín Ingle, Ian O’Riordan, Rosita Boland and Chris Maddaloni among winners announced at Dublin ceremony
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Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
“Committed acts of caring let all students know that the purpose of education is not to dominate, or prepare them to be dominators, but rather to create the conditions for freedom.” bell hooks, Teaching Community
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Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
“The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy.” bell hooks’ fantastic, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. Providing a necessary reminder of the power of teaching, how teaching transforms us all.
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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Please dm me if you can help.
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Sally Rooney understands exactly what is required from someone of her profession and social standing in this moment. We've seen so much cowardice from so many quarters in recent times that it's almost a shock to be reminded what a person of conscience acting with true integrity looks like.
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Liam Ó Cnaimhsí @liamkne.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Full article: Witnessing silence: the Palestinian genocide, institutional complicity, and the politics of knowledge www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Witnessing silence: the Palestinian genocide, institutional complicity, and the politics of knowledge
This paper examines the complicity of academic institutions in the ongoing Palestinian genocide, arguing that silence actively sustains settler colonialism, erases Palestinian narratives, and infli...
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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 15/04/2025
The Free Speech Warriors are mysteriously silent when it comes to the rights of Palestinians protesting against genocide. By @nicemangos.bsky.social
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Palestine and "Free Speech" Hypocrisy
The right and so-called moderate center have framed trigger warnings, the deplatforming of far right speakers, and peaceful protests as urgent free speech crises, but now they downplay the actual stif...
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Its not post modern to supprt trans liberation-Judith Butler writes ‘if you think of rights stripping as a form of state repression, on a spectrum with detention & deportation, then you see that authoritarian powers include all three kinds of legal destitution’ socialistworker.co.uk/lgbt/judith-...
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Judith Butler: It’s not ‘post-modern’ to support trans+ liberation
It was heartening to see your cover (see below). Let’s remember that trans men are also losing legal status and health care rights. If you think of rights-stripping as a form of state repression, on a...
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I just cried in my office after having another student in here talk about precautions they're taking about their status. I have received calls all week from people who need their names removed off publications or letters I was part of organizing. I feel sick and helpless and so so angry.
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Liam Ó Cnaimhsí @liamkne.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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Liam Ó Cnaimhsí @liamkne.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
27th consecutive year of watching Mayo in championship. Hope is the thing with feathers. #mayogaa
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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
One of the deepest shames of this period is how little attention has been paid to the Islamophobia at its heart.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/04/2025
Evidence of ‘execution-style’ killings of 15 Palestinian aid workers by Israeli forces, doctor says
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Evidence of ‘execution-style’ killings of 15 Palestinian aid workers by Israeli forces, doctor says
Forensic consultant says multiple bullets were used from short range in attack that has caused global outrage A forensic doctor who examined the bodies of some of the 15 paramedics and Palestinian rescue workers shot dead by Israeli forces and buried in a mass grave in southern Gaza has said there was evidence of execution-style killing, based on the “specific and intentional” location of shots at close range. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society, the Palestinian Civil Defense and UN employees were on a humanitarian mission to collect dead and wounded civilians outside the southern city of Rafah on the morning of 23 March when they were killed, and then buried in the sand by bulldozer alongside their flattened vehicles, according to the UN. Continue reading...
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Liam Ó Cnaimhsí @liamkne.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
My students are amazing, part 512 (right took me a second but is just spectacular)
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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:
Chart showing double the number of protests in 2025 than occurred during the same time period in 2017.
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Liam Ó Cnaimhsí @liamkne.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
fix your heart or die www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2017/09/25/f...
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Fix Your Heart or Die: The Startling Empathy of David Lynch
The films of David Lynch are strange creatures, but to focus only on their most ungainly appendages is to willfully ignore their equally beautiful qualities.
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Liam Ó Cnaimhsí @liamkne.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Feels like the glory days of, *checks notes*, 2009 all over again here.
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