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Sean O’Connell @seanoconnellqub.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

www.independentpanel.truthrecoveryni.co.uk My role as a co-chair of the Truth Recovery Independent Panel is at an end. We published our report yesterday with an event for Victims-Survivors. It was humbling to share the day with them. The report can be read at this link.

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Independent Panel Truth Recovery NI

Welcome to the home page of the Independent Panel Truth Recovery NI.

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UCU @ QUB @ucuatqub.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

What a beautiful day on campus for a trial run of our new flags! 😍🌸🌞 #WeAreTheUniversity

Officers of the UCU at QUB branch proudly displaying bright pink flags emblazoned with the slogan “We are the university”

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UCU @ QUB @ucuatqub.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

In response to the news that @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social has cut ties with Senator George J. Mitchell, following new information that suggests he remained in contact with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, we have released the following statement. 1/5

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Sean O’Connell @seanoconnellqub.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

My friend and colleague getting the recognition he deserves for his brilliant book. Good luck Kieran!

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 28/02/2025

The Starmer offer of a state visit now a nightmare.

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UCU @ QUB @ucuatqub.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

ANNOUNCEMENT: EMERGENCY GENERAL MEETING - 6th February 11am Members will have seen this morning that the University is launching a Voluntary Severance Scheme (VSS), hot on the heels of announcing a new Indian campus, while budgets for faculties, schools and directorates have all been slashed. (1/4)

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Sean O’Connell @seanoconnellqub.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The brave ‘Anne’ reminds us that the grim history of Mother and Baby Institutions impacted Northern Ireland’s Protestant communities as well as Catholic ones. The Truth Recovery Independent Panel is currently recording further survivor testimony. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republi...

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'I was raped by my stepdad before my eighth birthday... then treated like a servant at Belfast mother and baby home'

A Northern Ireland woman abused from the age of four and raped just a month before her eighth birthday has described being treated “like a servant” in a mother and baby home after becoming pregnant at...

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Sean O’Connell @seanoconnellqub.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

By way of introduction to new chums on this platform, here are some insights into the work I am doing. Please consider sharing this call .https://www.northernirelandworld.com/community/the-truth-of-mother-and-baby-homes-is-a-global-story-truth-recovery-independent-panel-appeals-for-testimony-4874315

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Jack Crangle @jcrangle.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Recently migrated over here. For anyone interested in immigration, diversity and oral history in Britain/Ireland, my book with Palgrave History was published in 2023: Migrants, Immigration and Diversity in Twentieth-century Northern Ireland: British, Irish or 'Other’?

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publichistoryqub.bsky.social @publichistoryqub.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Great idea - loads of brilliant museums to follow 👇

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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

If you want to learn about David Strain - the subject of an art installation in the Ulster Museum until Sunday & the Public Record Office of NI from next week - but can't get to Belfast, you can hear extracts from his beautiful diary & info about his gay life here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zki...

a photograph album of David Strain and his friends - part of an exhibition at the Ulster Museum

the interior of David Strain's country hut - part of an exhibition at the Ulster Museum

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History at Queen's University Belfast @qubhistory.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Online talk by Dr Nik Ribianszky coming up on Friday at 4pm

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Celebrated historian and broadcaster David Olusoga will deliver the inaugural National Humanities Lecture! The first of its kind, the lecture will make the case for the humanities and explore how new ideas are emerging. Find out more and book: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Claire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

This book was such an adventure and turning point in my life. I'm still very good friends with nearly everyone in it. Any ghost limbers out there who would like to make contact with a Larne hallion, Angeline is your woman...

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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Our next #IrishStudies seminar will be Gordon Gillespie (QUB), on 'The 1974 "Spongers" speech revisited: Harold Wilson, Lady Falkender and David Bowie', on Monday 25 November at 4.30. In-person and online - all welcome. Register at www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris... #IrishHistory

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Irish Studies Seminar: Gordon Gillespie, 'The 1974

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