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Prof Linda Connolly

@lindaconnolly.bsky.social
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Prof Linda Connolly @lindaconnolly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great post this morning! To order/view: www.routledge.com/Women-Violen...
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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I wrote something on anger, today and in medieval Ireland. #MedievalSky #OpenAccess #Speirgorm #Spéirghorm www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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De Ira | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core
De Ira - Volume 2
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Prof Linda Connolly @lindaconnolly.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This “silence breaking” book, long in the making, is entering the world. Preorder here: www.routledge.com/Women-Violen...
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Prof Linda Connolly @lindaconnolly.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This “silence breaking” book, long in the making, is entering the world. Preorder here: www.routledge.com/Women-Violen...
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Prof Linda Connolly @lindaconnolly.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Andy Burnham apologises for Labour’s stance on Gaza and says it ‘didn’t get it right’ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Andy Burnham apologises for Labour’s stance on Gaza and says it ‘didn’t get it right’
Exclusive: PM-in-waiting says party must ‘do better’ in approach to Middle East and he will put more pressure on Israel
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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Later this week (Thursday, Friday and Saturday) we will host the French Colonial Historical Society conference at Department of History, Maynooth University. 180 attendees are coming for what promises to be a fascinating event. You can check out the programme here: colvet.eu/wp-content/u...
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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Campus looking well ahead of #FCHS26. Looking forward to welcoming all the delegates of the @frenchcolonial.bsky.social to Maynooth.
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Joe Borsato @theecoalchemyst.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
J’arrive à l’université de Maynooth pour le congrès de @frenchcolonial.bsky.social et j’ai hâte de présenter à demain sur mes recherches dans l’histoire des Kalinagos (personnes autochtones des Caraïbes) pendant le six-septième siècle. #FCHS2026
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Prof Linda Connolly @lindaconnolly.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
‘We were attacked as bad Jews’: Columbia faculty who supported Gaza protests file claims with Trump’s antisemitism fund Faculty who support Palestinian rights are applying for compensation, claiming they faced harassment as Jews for their positions www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘We were attacked as bad Jews’: Columbia faculty who supported Gaza protests file claims with Trump’s antisemitism fund
Faculty who support Palestinian rights are applying for compensation, claiming they faced harassment as Jews for their positions
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Prof Linda Connolly @lindaconnolly.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Join us @maynoothuniversity.ie for a lecture by Professor Rashid Khalidi on Tuesday 21st April - register here: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...
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Britain, Ireland, Palestine, Israel with Rashid Khalidi
MU AHI Contested Histories Research Group, Maynooth University History Society, and Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute are pleased to host Professor Rashid Khalidi (Columbia University)
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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Delighted that we will be welcoming the brilliant Prof Rashid Khalidi to Maynooth next Tuesday for a talk on the shared genealogies of colonial counter-insurgency in Ireland and Palestine. Follow this link to register. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...
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Britain, Ireland, Palestine, Israel with Rashid Khalidi
MU AHI Contested Histories Research Group, Maynooth University History Society, and Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute are pleased to host Professor Rashid Khalidi (Columbia University)
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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I have a full page report in today's @irishtimes.com on Israeli attacks on healthcare in Lebanon & the crisis of international law. Read it online or in the print newspaper: www.irishtimes.com/world/middle... Thank you to everyone who spoke to me for this.
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Prof Linda Connolly @lindaconnolly.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
After Habermas www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
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Nancy Fraser | After Habermas
My ties to Habermas were multi-layered. He was an inspiration and a role model; a mentor and an antagonist; a figure who...
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Prof Linda Connolly @lindaconnolly.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
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Prof Linda Connolly @lindaconnolly.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Watch this. How the anti semitic slur has been weaponised in the most disgusting way @irishtimes.com www.youtube.com/shorts/nVZXc...
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Rep. Balint storms out House hearing after Bondi's comments on antisemitism
YouTube video by ABC 7 News - WJLA
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Prof Linda Connolly @lindaconnolly.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
‘I could not stay silent’: Palestinian prisoner tells of sexual abuse in Israeli jail
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Prof Linda Connolly @lindaconnolly.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
As if Greenland had not been colonised enough
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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
"The day is arriving when those responsible for these crimes against humanity will be held to account. Iran, too, will have its Nuremberg moment: a reckoning in the name of justice." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... #IranMassacare
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Opinion: As Iran cracks down on protesters again, the world cannot be silent
The international community must stand with the courageous people of Iran in their heroic struggle for liberation and a better future
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Prof Linda Connolly @lindaconnolly.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Prominent Palestinian reconstructive surgeon and academic Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah has won a misconduct case brought against him - yet another case won m.facebook.com/story.php?st...
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Jay Kirell @jasonkirell.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Philadelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal: “No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle. “What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.” Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
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Prof Linda Connolly @lindaconnolly.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
“Rector of Scottish university cleared of antisemitism and Hamas support” - yet another case won - the smearing of academics who spoke out about the emerging genocide in Gaza was utterly scandalous and defamation in its crudest form. Apologies are long overdue. www.thenational.scot/news/2575360...
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Rector of Scottish university cleared of antisemitism and Hamas support
THE rector of the University of Glasgow has been cleared of misconduct by medical watchdogs over alleged antisemitism and support for Hamas in his…
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Prof Linda Connolly @lindaconnolly.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
A Harvard scholar’s ouster exposes a crisis of institutional integrity | Eric Reinhart www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A Harvard scholar’s ouster exposes a crisis of institutional integrity | Eric Reinhart
The dismissal of a a renowned health leader who refused to ignore Palestine highlights false claims of universality in human rights, global health and academia
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Prof Linda Connolly @lindaconnolly.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
My letter in @irishtimes.com today about violence and genocide denial
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
French journalist unions file legal case against Israel over lack of access to Gaza - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/liv…
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French journalist unions file legal case against Israel over lack of access to Gaza
<article data-history-node-id="432218" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/french-journalists-unions-file-legal-case-against-israel-over-lack" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/french-journalists-unions-file-legal-case-against-israel-over-lack" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title"> French journalist unions file legal case against Israel over lack of access to Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Two French journalist unions filed a legal case against Israel for obstructing the work of their journalists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, AFP reported on Tuesday.</p> <p>The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the French Journalists' Union filed the complaint with the Paris anti-terror prosecutor's office last week, accusing Israel of "obstructing the freedom to inform".</p> <p>The complaint mentioned a journalist being pursued by around 50 Israelis armed with "guns, cans of petrol and sticks" while reporting in the West Bank, all in the presence of the Israeli army.</p> <p>Israel has not allowed international journalists into the Gaza Strip since the start of the war in October 2023, except when embedded with Israeli forces.</p> <p>IFJ general secretary Anthony Bellanger said, "For more than two years, the IFJ has been calling for the borders to be opened to the foreign press so that they can relieve our colleagues who are exhausted by two years of war."</p> </div> </div> </article>
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Prof Linda Connolly @lindaconnolly.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
@irishtimes.com Letters to the Editor, December 3rd: On Herzog Park “Raising the alarm on the conditions for a genocide and on genocide denial is an ethical imperative in tackling what Hannah Arendt termed “the banality of evil” that violently destroys lives….” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...
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Letters to the Editor, December 3rd: On Taser stun guns, renaming Herzog Park, rural pubs and remembering Hugh Wallace
It is also reassuring that this proposal is being trialled in tandem with body-worn cameras
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Prof Linda Connolly @lindaconnolly.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
“Gaza now resembles 'Mad Max movie', says Irish surgeon” - the shame of this being allowed to happen, some serious soul searching needed amongst those who continue to actively deny this with silence including in universities www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
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Prof Linda Connolly @lindaconnolly.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Higher education has been destroyed in Gaza - Academics call for sanctions as Israel’s actions against education in Gaza draw condemnation @irishtimes (others remain completely silent) www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
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Higher education has been destroyed in Gaza
Academics call for sanctions as Israel’s actions against education in Gaza draw condemnation
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 24/10/2025
Catherine Connolly, whose campaign was rocked by a last-minute deepfake video, is predicted to win.
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Ireland picks new president, polls indicate win for pro-Palestine candidate
Catherine Connolly, whose campaign was rocked by a last-minute deepfake video, is predicted to win.
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Prof Linda Connolly @lindaconnolly.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
A Connolly landslide! So interesting that many of the minority arguing against Connolly have either actively denied or not commented in public on the genocide/Israeli war crimes in Gaza which is clearly out of step with Irish public sentiment and position of government parties
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Sinisa Malesevic @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Assistant prof position in sociology, University of Limerick, Ireland: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOX816/a...
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Assistant Professor in Sociology (Racism(s), Criminology, Cultural Sociology) at University of Limerick
Discover Assistant Professor in Sociology (Racism(s), Criminology, Cultural Sociology) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
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Prof Linda Connolly @lindaconnolly.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Thanks to @irishtimes.com for publishing my letter this morning www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...
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Letters to the Editor, October 18th: On negative presidential campaigning, house prices in the North and South and a Wilde card
The candidates should focus more on what they have to offer as a president
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Prof Linda Connolly @lindaconnolly.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
You are warmly invited to attend upcoming event on Scholasticide in Palestine and the Responsibilities of Western Universities, taking place on Tuesday, 21 October 2025, from 2:00pm to 5:00pm in the MUSSI Seminar Room and online as part of MU Research Week www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...
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Prof Linda Connolly @lindaconnolly.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
The time to call out, stop + analyse the annihilation of thousands of people as the likely reaction to a heinous atrocity, enmeshed in 70 years of violent oppression, was 7th October 2023 - to engage in genocide denial but now pose as an expert with a different view is extraordinarily opportunistic
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16/09/2025
An independent United Nations commission said that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza. The commission found indications of intentions to destroy, in whole or in part, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as a group — which it said amount to genocide.
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U.N. commission finds that Israel committed genocide in Gaza
Israel rejected the conclusions, which echo those of a growing group of governments and human rights organizations.
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 16/09/2025
Professor Shane Darcy of the Irish Centre for Human Rights spoke to RTÉ’s News at One about how an independent UN commission reached its conclusion that Israel has committed and continues to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
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How did UN commission reach its genocide conclusion?
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Anne Logan @annefhlogan.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Looking forward to @caitbeaumont.bsky.social ‘s talk this evening, held on the WI’s 110th birthday.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.
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Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit
Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture
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John Borgonovo @drjohnborgonovo.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
the second session of the CUP symposium, ‘Claire Connolly ‘the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, vols 4 and 5’
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Prof Linda Connolly @lindaconnolly.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
It was a pleasure to speak at the @corkup.bsky.social symposium yesterday
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Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The 35th Irish Conference of Historians is kicking off shortly with opening remarks from Prof. Ian Speller and @petergray47.bsky.social. Looking forward to hearing about fascinating research across a wide range of topics and time periods. @irishhistorians.bsky.social
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Cork University Press @corkup.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Our Symposium is tomorrow – we can’t wait to see you! 📘 Session 4 features Linda Connolly on Attic Press, Thomas McCarthy on Irish Review, Fergal Keane on the Atlas Series + a new series announcement 📝 a few tickets remaining 🔗 Registration & Full programme: bit.ly/CUPSymposium
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Prof Linda Connolly @lindaconnolly.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
No place for genocide denial/deniers now www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say
International Association of Genocide Scholars resolution backed by 86% of members who voted
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Maynooth University @maynoothuniversity.ie · 28/08/2025
Our new School of Nursing will welcome its first students in September, following official approval by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI). The first intake of 30 students will commence their undergraduate studies in September. www.kildarenow.com/news/local-n...
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Kildare university’s new School of Nursing to welcome first students
Applications for BSc in General Nursing open August 28 under CAO ‘Available Places’ facility and first student intake to start studies at Ireland’s newest School of Nursing in September
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Prof Linda Connolly @lindaconnolly.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Israel’s attack on hospital in Gaza may constitute a war crime on many fronts - •Double-tap• strike suggests killing of civilians, rescue workers and journalists deliberate and not a mistake
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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
The scale of the evidence and the consensus in the scholarship is as inconvertible as it is horrifying. At the very least, our colleagues in Palestine, who continue to teach and write in the midst of a genocide, deserve that we speak the truth.
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Prof Linda Connolly @lindaconnolly.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
…which will achieve nothing
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Christine Binzel @christinebinzel.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
"The suspension of the ISS is a political instrument, not a punishment. It is not directed at individual scholars in Israel, but rather at organisations involved in, or failing to distance themselves from, the genocide in Gaza.
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Prof Linda Connolly @lindaconnolly.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
245 journalists killed by Israel in 22 months including 5 today in Nasser Hospital. Unprecedented murder of members of the press + targeting of areas where there is disproportionate risk to civilians. Still stand over the statement you disagree there is a genocide + tarnishing of those who named it?
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 22/08/2025
More than half a million people in Gaza City are experiencing famine after almost two years of war, displacement and harsh Israeli restrictions on food and other aid, a new report says.
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Famine confirmed in Gaza City region, global hunger monitor says
More than half a million people in and around Gaza City are facing catastrophic conditions “characterized by starvation, destitution and death,” the IPC said.
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Prof Linda Connolly @lindaconnolly.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
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UCLA's Jewish community unites against Trump's $1-billion demand: 'misguided and punitive'
UCLA's Jewish faculty united around a letter conveying anger over a potential $1-billion settlement between the university and the Trump administration over alleged campus antisemitism.
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