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Niamh McGuirk

@niamhmcguirk.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor in Ethical/Intercultural Ed, Dublin City University Institute of Education. Interests include:critical whiteness studies, antiracism education, critical multiculturalism, religion & ed, school ethos, GCE. She/her

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Niamh McGuirk @niamhmcguirk.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I'm so happy to have my first article published in the @iesjournal.bsky.social ‘We were all sticking with the safe ones’: anti-racism education and Educate Together primary schools in Ireland doi.org/10.1080/0332...
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‘We were all sticking with the safe ones’: anti-racism education and Educate Together primary schools in Ireland
In Ireland, the overwhelming majority of primary teachers are white and from the dominant ethnic group, i.e. Irish-born, settled and Catholic. In contrast, Irish schools and classrooms are racially...
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Joe O'Hara @joeoharadcu.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Given all that is happening in 'other places' I thought it might be a good time to share this again. I think there is a chance that we could generate a bit of engagement here but who knows. Get in touch if you are interested in joining. go.bsky.app/8FJAkMG
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Valesca Lima @valescal.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
CfP The Social Movements Research Network of the Council for European Studies invites papers for the conference: 'Precarious Lives: Resistance, Solidarity, and Research during Catastrophes' at DCU (@dublincityuni.bsky.social) in 2026 More info: councilforeuropeanstudies.org/announcement...
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The Grand Drawing In @theauldsthretch.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Today is 2025-12-20, the sun sets at 16:07:16 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 1 min and 33 secs. #GrandStretch #TheGrandStretchIsBack
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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 13/12/2025
Racist graffiti can be reported to DCC tru citizenhub.dublincity.ie/service/Repo...
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Graffiti Report - Self
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Nuzhat Uthmani @nuthmani.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
DIVERSITY IN THE TEACHING PROFESSION 1/The annual data report tracking #MinorityEthnic teacher nos 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 has been published for 2025. Numbers remain stubbornly low with <2% of all teachers being #BAME. Still <1% are in any form of management position. Key points in the 🧵👇🏽 www.gov.scot/publications...
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Diversity in the teaching profession: annual data report 2025
Fifth edition of an annual publication which aims to gather and share data relating to the diversity of the teaching profession in order to inform and evaluate future work.
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Irish Educational Studies @iesjournal.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Irish Educational Studies is seeking to fill 2 co-editor positions. The new Co-editors will work alongside the editorial team of the journal, lead by General Editor, Prof. Audrey Bryan. Check out further details here: esai.ie/irish-educat... Deadline: 5pm, Fri 12th September 2025.
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Irish Educational Studies: Co-Editor Positions – ESAI: Educational Studies Association of Ireland CLG
The Official journal of the Educational Studies Association of Ireland (ESAI) https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/ries20
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David Pratt @foreigncorr1.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
The photograph that the Israeli government does not want you to see. Taken from the air by journalist colleague @Heidiphotos
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 22/07/2025
‘Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die’: News agency staff warn journalists face starvation
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‘Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die’: News agency staff warn journalists face starvation
AFP has issued a humanitarian alert as its own journalists in the enclave suffer malnutrition and exhaustion
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Gerard Elwood @gerardelwood.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
WorldWise Global Schools Permanent Vacancy: Education Officer – Munster Area. Find out more : www.worldwiseschools.ie/careers/
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Join Our Team - WorldWise Global Schools
Join WorldWise Global Schools Vacancies WorldWise Global Schools (WWGS) Education Officer – Munster Job Title: WorldWise Global Schools (WWGS) Education Officer – Munster Company: Self Help Africa Loc...
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Niamh McGuirk @niamhmcguirk.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Although developed for the Scottish context, this is great for Irish schools also
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Dr. Muireann Ní Raghallaigh @drmuireann.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Applications now open for our new micro-credential in Working with People of Refugee Background, commencing September 4th 2025. This has been developed in partnership with the Irish Refugee Council Further info at this link: www.ucd.ie/microcredent...
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Working with People of Refugee Background - UCD Micro-credentials
This is an introductory module, aimed at people who are relatively new to working with people of refugee background.
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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 02/07/2025
In a boxing club w/ ties to Conor McGregor, some non-white and immigrant athletes seek to connect & belong. Crumlin Boxing Club is run by Philip Sutcliffe Snr, McGregor’s boxing coach, a Dublin city councillor who, like McGregor, has voiced anti-immigrant views www.dublininquirer.com/in-a-boxing-...
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In a boxing club with ties to Conor McGregor, some non-white and immigrant athletes seek to connect and belong
Crumlin Boxing Club is run by Philip Sutcliffe Snr, McGregor’s boxing coach, a Dublin city councillor who – like McGregor – has voiced anti-immigrant views.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
“The entire 2.1 million population of Gaza is facing prolonged food shortages, with nearly half a million people in a catastrophic situation of hunger, acute malnutrition, starvation, illness and death. This is one of the world’s worst hunger crises, unfolding in real time.”
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Gaza – where food aid is a weapon
Military aid: how private guns turned Gaza’s breadline into a killing strip
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
'#Religion and #race: the need for an #intersectional approach' by Mareike Riedel & Vanessa Rau From our Themed Section in the latest #Identities issue, 32.3: doi.org/10.1080/1070... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social #intersectionality #ThemedSection
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Dave Rudden @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Libraries! I'm filling my dance card for CBF to talk about my new middle grade series, and I have some spaces free - hit me up if you have a horde of children who need entertaining... #libraries #Irishlibraries
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Sabrina Fitzsimons @sabrinafitzsimons.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Are you a teacher in Northern Ireland? DCU CREATE is conducting a large-scale mixed-methods study on mental health and burnout among primary and second level teachers in Northern Ireland. Have your voice heard here ⤵️
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Niamh McGuirk @niamhmcguirk.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Final call! Are you are teacher educator (early years, primary, secondary, third level, FET) in Ireland? Share your perspectives!
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Aoibhinn Ni Shuilleabhain (PhD) @aoibhinnos.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
#Madleen “Let the Madleen reach Gaza. Let this small ship carry the weight of global conscience. Let it land in peace.” Mary Robinson
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I read that children 6-12 are more likely to be killed in Gaza because they’re too big to be carried, and not as fast as children 12+, and I can’t stop thinking about it. We have children running for their lives on the regular so much so that there are patterns as to who survives.
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Shoaib M Khan @shoaibmkhan.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has condemned the continued obstruction of humanitarian aid to Gaza, urging the international community to pressure Israel to allow immediate and sustained access for essential food and medical supplies. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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Gaza: UN Child Rights Committee condemns mass starvation of children amid aid blockades
GENEVA  - The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child condemned the continued obstruction of humanitarian aid to Gaza, urging the international community to pressure Israel to allow immediate and sust...
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Ruth Sinhal @ruthsinhal.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Are you disillusioned with the way you’re expected to teach? Keen to centre care over compliance? Trying to move from traditional to transformative teaching? “Education As Liberation” will explore strategies to disrupt systems of oppression FREE ONLINE EVENT #edusky docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Niamh McGuirk @niamhmcguirk.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Our survey will close in two weeks. We'd love to hear your perspectives on racism and anti-racism in teacher education in Ireland. Scan the code or click the link if you are involved in this area at any level. Please share! dcusurveys.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 18/05/2025
BREAKING: At least 140 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air attacks on the Gaza Strip since dawn on Sunday, medical sources have told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/tgirl1
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Aimie Brennan @aimiebrennan.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Come join the team @marinoinstitute.bsky.social #JobFairy 📌Senior Lecturer & Head of Department of Policy & Practice 📌 Assistant Lecturer in Mathematics (IFP) Application details: www.mie.ie/en/about_us/... #IrishJobs #Vacancies #edchatie
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Eemer Eivers @eemereivers.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
🚨**Deadline Extended*** By request, we’re adding a week to our Bloomsday competition. Deadline extended to Friday May 23, high noon! Please share. #reading #writing #Bloomsday #speirgorm #edusky
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Educate Against Islamophobia (EAI) @eai-uk.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
In collaboration with the NEU @neunion.bsky.social, our brand-new toolkit is here to support primary school educators in embedding these vital themes across the curriculum. Download our Magnifying Magnificent Muslims toolkit today! bit.ly/3GIhJdz #NEU #TeachingToolkit #EDI
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DCU Conflict Institute @dcu-conflict.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Opportunity for a post-doctoral researcher working at @dcu-conflict.bsky.social and Ulster University on the North-South Research Programme, about the all-Ireland economy. Applications by 30th May www.dcu.ie/conflict-ins...
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Opportunity for post-doctoral researcher | conflict-institute
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Jack Crangle @jcrangle.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
New article! ‘“No race hate here”? Irish national identity and racism in the mid twentieth century’ just published online in Irish Historical Studies. Explores Irish attitudes to race and racism, including an ugly spate of racist attacks in Dublin during 1963-64. Open access: doi.org/10.1017/ihs....
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‘No race hate here’? Irish national identity and racism in the mid twentieth century | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core
‘No race hate here’? Irish national identity and racism in the mid twentieth century - Volume 48 Issue 174
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Ruth Sinhal @ruthsinhal.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Sign up to join us for the next episode of Changing The Narrative - Entitled Education As Liberation-explore ways as educators we can disrupt various ways education reinforces systems of oppression. Speakers include @iancushing.bsky.social & Saara from Maslaha docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Education as Resistance
Join us for a free online event where educators will be sharing ways to use education as resistance . Date - Sept 17th - 4pm-5.30pm UK time Speakers will include Saara Quested - Saara leads on the S...
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Niamh McGuirk @niamhmcguirk.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
This is an important thread for primary teachers and teacher educators so that we can understand the lived experiences of the children in our classrooms.
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Children's School Lives @cslstudyucd.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
🚨 Today, we launch Report 8c from the #CSLstudy, ‘Migration and Ethnicity in Children’s School Lives.’ 🔗 Download the report from our website at: cslstudy.ie/downloads/CS... 🧵 Read about some of the key findings below – ⬇️ 1/20
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Children's School Lives @cslstudyucd.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Second-generation immigrants more likely to aspire to go to university, study finds - Irish Times www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
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Second-generation immigrants more likely to aspire to go to university, study finds
Landmark study finds immigrant families feel strengths of education system include support and culture of care
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Children's School Lives @cslstudyucd.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Experiences of Traveller children in school more negative as they progress through system - Irish Examiner www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
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Experiences of Traveller children in school more negative as they progress through system
Irish Traveller children also report experiencing bullying, both being bullied and bullying others, at higher rates than any other ethnic group
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Pavi @sarmapavithra.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
@MedicalAidPal #stride4Palestinians We have now managed to raise £620, exceeding our revised pledge of £600. Thank you so much, everyone! I start my virtual walk on the 15th of May, Nakba day & we have now raised our pledge to £1000. Pls carry on donating and sharing.
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Pavi @sarmapavithra.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I will be participating in the 'Stride for Palestinians' fundraiser by MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians) on behalf of out grassroots educational space, Scottish Anti-Racism Education (SARE). Here's a link to my page - medicalaidforpalestinians.enthuse.com/pf/pavithra-....
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Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...
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World Central Kitchen | WCK Forced to Halt Cooking in Gaza as Supplies Run Out
After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza.
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Lynne_SCILT @lynnescilt.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
🎉A share for teachers of languages 🔗Anti-racist languages education in primary padlet.com/lynne_jones2... 🙏A collection of resources, guidance & examples of practice. With heartfelt thanks to the international community of educators & activists whose work features
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Anti-racist languages education in primary
A collection of resources and examples of practice at the intersections of anti-racist practice
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 06/05/2025
Israel's reported plan to intensify assault, displacement and destruction in Gaza would amount to an abhorrent escalation of crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing and acts of genocide. States should urgently act to prevent further mass atrocities.
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Israel plans to occupy and flatten all of Gaza if no deal by Trump's trip
Trump has effectively given Netanyahu a green light to do as he sees fit, Israeli officials say.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 05/05/2025
Reports say Israel now eyeing occupation of entire enclave, control of aid and possible expulsion of Palestinians.
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Israel plans ‘conquest’ of Gaza in expanded offensive
Reports say Israel now eyeing occupation of entire enclave, control of aid and possible expulsion of Palestinians.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 02/05/2025
ICRC says Israel has ‘obligation’ to meet the needs of Palestinians struggling to survive.
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Red Cross warns Gaza aid effort on ‘verge of collapse’ amid Israel blockade
ICRC says Israel has ‘obligation’ to meet the needs of Palestinians struggling to survive.
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Peter Tiernan @pt-phone-home.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
NEW EPISODE: Let's Talk Education Research @sabrinafitzsimons.bsky.social (@dcucreate.bsky.social) speaks about Intital Teacher Educators' experiences of burnout. Play now on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5QQZ... Also available on Apple & @dcuioe.bsky.social website @dcuresearch.bsky.social
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Episode 35: Burnout in Initial Teacher Education, with Dr Sabrina Fitzsimons
Let's Talk Education Research Research · Episode
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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The State of Palestine has just presented evidence to the International Court of Justice showing that life expectancy in Gaza has halved in the last 18 months. Horrifying. And yet the slaughter continues.
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INTO (Irish National Teachers' Organisation) @intonews.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
#INTOCongress25
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Rebecca Loader @rmloader.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
How have the education system and the curriculum responded to a more ethnically and culturally diverse Northern Ireland? Our analysis just published in Irish Educational Studies tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @erikafjimenez.bsky.social @aislingoboyle.bsky.social
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The educational response to ethnic and cultural diversity in transitional Northern Ireland: a critical review of policy and research
Ethnic diversity has increased substantially in Northern Ireland’s schools over the past two decades, with statistics showing that the number of minority ethnic pupils doubled between 2013 and 2023...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 14/04/2025
Israel intensifies the resumption of its deadly land and air attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip, with artillery and air raids hitting several areas of Khan Younis in the south of the enclave. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/xl1415
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Niamh McGuirk @niamhmcguirk.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
It's always so interesting to listen to Prof Elaine Keane and Katie Kaufmann talk about their research into teacher diversity @esai-irl.bsky.social
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Niamh McGuirk @niamhmcguirk.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Thank you to @esai-irl.bsky.social for the space to present on anti-racism in initial teacher education and to learn from fellow presenters today
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Niamh McGuirk @niamhmcguirk.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Thought-provoking keynote by Prof Clare Brooks, reflecting on teacher education as a spatial practice @esai-irl.bsky.social
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