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Oisín Gilmore @oisingilmore.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

The An Clogán website is (finally) live!!! Please check it out and consider subscribing to the magazine!

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An Clogán @ancloganmag.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

The An Clogán website is now live! 🔔 anclogan.ie Log on to read open-access articles... ... subscribe for more! Go on and take a look 😉

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Oisín Gilmore @oisingilmore.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Come to our wee Belfast book launch. This Saturday at 1pm! I love saying "wee". fb.me/e/7Ja4BlPwZ

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Oisín Gilmore @oisingilmore.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I've a feeling I've seen similar findings for Europe. But I could be wrong. The data for working this out should be here anyway. If you wanted to go digging. www.timeuse.org

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tomboktu.bsky.social @tomboktu.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Today is too late for the launch, but the nice thing about books is that they're available afterwards. Buy this one!

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Packed house in The Teacher's Club for launch of David Landy and @oisingilmore.bsky.social new book on the contemporary Irish Left - 'Fragments of Victory'. So many familiar faces!

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Aileen O’Carroll @aaocarroll.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

'Fragments of Victory: The Contemporary Irish Left' edited by @oisingilmore.bsky.social and @david-landy.bsky.social and published by Pluto Press. I have coauthored a chapter in it on the Irish Repeal referendum, focused on the activism of the Abortion Rights Campaign. #abortion #sociology

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Oisín Gilmore @oisingilmore.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

It contains chapters covering anti-austerity struggles 2008-13, water charges, repeal, housing struggles, trade unions, the centre left, anarchism, Trotskyism and republicanism. Huge thanks to everyone who has helped out with this project!

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Oisín Gilmore @oisingilmore.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

The book includes writing from Dave Gibney, Aileen, Máire Ni Chuagáin, Juliana Sassi, Seamus Farrell, Rosi Leonard, Aisling Hedderman, Mary Muldowney, Paul Dillon, Kevin Doyle, Dan Finn, Stewart Reddin and Damian Lawlor.

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Oisín Gilmore @oisingilmore.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Hold the date: Book launch on February 6th! ‘Fragments of Victory: The Contemporary Irish Left’, which I co-edited this with David Landy, is forthcoming from Pluto Press in January 2025 and is available to pre-order now. www.plutobooks.com/978074534875...

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Oisín Gilmore @oisingilmore.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I doubt that's it, as any lay person can perform a baptism. This is only supposed to happen when clergy are unable to perform a baptism (ex. if an unbaptised child is close to death). But, regardless, it's already accepted that lay people can perform a sacrament.

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

The irony of the neoliberal dispensation in a academia is the refusal to apply something like a cost-benefit analysis to competition itself

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Oisín Gilmore @oisingilmore.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Oh that's very interesting. I'd never even heard of a Department of Campus Life before. That sounds bizarre!

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Oisín Gilmore @oisingilmore.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I think what really drives innovation is competition over cost, where firms are compelled to find ways of increasing productivity per hour worked. And I think looking at that is where you are more likely to find explanations for slow down in productivity growth.

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Oisín Gilmore @oisingilmore.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

And that aligns with what universities, including the economists and academics advising policy makers want: more money for their institutions. Happy economists. But was the evidence really there that investing in universities leads to higher innovation? I think the evidence was really fairly weak.

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Oisín Gilmore @oisingilmore.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

There's a large consensus amongst economists that what drives growth is "innovation"/TFP not capital deepening. So, how do you increase "innovation"? Well, an easy answer for policy makers is "invest in universities". Box ticked. Happy policy makers.

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Oisín Gilmore @oisingilmore.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

On the productivity growth story... I don't really believe the idea that there ever was a simple causal link where increased university research lead to increased productivity growth. I'd like if that story was true, but I think its a simple story that serves a neat coincidence of wants:

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Oisín Gilmore @oisingilmore.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I really think, relative to the things I've listed above, almost no-one is employed in "improving the “student experience”". And in all the flurry of literature around this, the stats I've seen have always been these aggregated stats that don't really show what they claim to be showing.

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Oisín Gilmore @oisingilmore.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Now, some of that is also going to be picked up in this "other professionals" category, but I suspect the growth in this category is to a large degree the growth is part-time faculty. Some of the growth is going to be things like a growth in medical services on campus. But apart from that....

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Oisín Gilmore @oisingilmore.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I suspect a lot of the growth in the admin staff faculty is growth in things like IT services, and in STEM, where you have a large growth in non-academic lab technicians employed in universities etc, and growth in staffing in things like fundraising and alumni relations etc.

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Oisín Gilmore @oisingilmore.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

So, on the administration story. You often see figures like this that show a growth in staff focused "more on improving the “student experience”". Now, I've only worked in European universities, so maybe its different over the pond, but I don't really see this on the ground in Europe.

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Oisín Gilmore @oisingilmore.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Well, when I say "I think the thread is wrong", I mean more "I suspect its wrong" than "I am sure its wrong". But, I suspect there are two things wrong. Firstly, on the university administration story, and secondly on the productivity growth story.

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Oisín Gilmore @oisingilmore.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I think this thread is wrong in a number of ways, but it's still an interesting idea.

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Oisín Gilmore @oisingilmore.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

I assume NWW=North, Wallis and Weingast. Is that right?

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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

a short thread of Nicolas Cage resembling various philosophers 1. Spinoza

left: Nicolas Cage with long black hair and a moustache in a black top
right: Spinoza with long black hair and a moustache in a black top

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Oisín Gilmore @oisingilmore.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

This is so sad. Henri was one of the most incredible men I've ever met, and it was an honour to know him and consider him a comrade.

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TASC - Think Tank for Action on Social Change @tascireland.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Ireland’s auto-enrolment pension scheme may deepen the gender pension gap, as it links pensions to earnings—disadvantaging women for unpaid care work. Read our report with @nwc.bsky.social: www.tasc.ie/publications... #PensionJustice #EconomicEquality

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National Women’s Council @nwc.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The auto-enrolment scheme is not gender neutral. It risks increasing the gender pension gap and that cannot be ignored by policy makers. We need to focus on meaningful, non harmful reforms of our pension system. Mary Murphy, Age Action #PensionJustice #Stillstuckinthegap

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National Women’s Council @nwc.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Private tax relief is the elephant in the room because it benefits those most who have the highest incomes. We want to see adequate pensions for people in old age and the best way to achieve this is the State pension. Senator Alice Mary Higgins #PensionJustice

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National Women’s Council @nwc.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Auto-enrolment is likely to increase the gender pension gap. We need to look at the State pension and investing in /benchmarking it as the bedrock of our pension system. Maureen Moloney, University of Galway #PensionJustice #StillstuckintheGap

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National Women’s Council @nwc.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Men have significantly higher pension income than women because they have significantly higher income from private pensions because their earnings during working age are also much higher. Oisin Gilmore from TASC #PensionJustice

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Oisín Gilmore @oisingilmore.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

RTÉ article about my report for the National Women's Council @nwc.bsky.social about the gender and care aspect of forthcoming Irish pension reforms.

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Oisín Gilmore @oisingilmore.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Just after leaving the launch of a report I wrote for the National Women's Council about pension auto-enrolment.

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Oisín Gilmore @oisingilmore.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I've heard Susan Woodward's "Socialist Unemployment" in very good and much more general account of the features of socialist Yugoslavia than the title would suggest. I have a copy but haven't read it yet.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/12/2024

United Health CEO is assassinated in NYC. Wall Street: this is good.

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Oisín Gilmore @oisingilmore.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I can't speak Spanish, so I don't actually know how they translated me, or how much of the interview they actually used, or what the rest of the programme says says. But @cliodhnabhreatnach.bsky.social, who does speak Spanish, listened and said it sounds fine. 👍

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Oisín Gilmore @oisingilmore.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I was on Spanish radio talking about the economic background to the Irish elections. On the International News Program ("5 Continentes") broadcast on Thursday, it starts at 11m: www.rtve.es/play/audios/... And a long report (with different topics) broadcast on Friday: www.rtve.es/play/audios/...

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Cinco Continentes - Rusia deja a partes de Ucrania sin electricidad

Emisión del programa Cinco continentes titulado Rusia deja a partes de Ucrania sin electricidad. Todos los contenidos de RNE los tienes aquí, en RTVE Play

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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Ireland's exit poll suggests the govt will lose 6pts of vote share. That would put them just below Belgium on the 2024 leaderboard of anti-incumbent backlash: Indonesia -39 Britain -20 South Africa -17 Portugal -13 Lithuania -11 Austria -11 Japan -10 Belgium -7 USA -3 Croatia -3 India -1 Mexico +1

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Oisín Gilmore @oisingilmore.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I'd say that's in the right ballpark. I wouldn't he surprised if SD and II have those kind of seat gains. But I have no idea where they'd get them from. I don't know who has a chance. If you're right with this, government formation could be slow. It might even be interesting.

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Oisín Gilmore @oisingilmore.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Yeah. Living in Ireland, I know lots of Jewish people. But, I think the only non-fictional Irish Jew famous outside Ireland was Chaim Herzog.

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Oisín Gilmore @oisingilmore.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Just realised that was my first post on bluesky. Ha ha.

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Oisín Gilmore @oisingilmore.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Wow. This looks great. I'm really looking forward to reading it.

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