Bryan Fanning

@bryanfanning.bsky.social

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Full Professor of Migration and Social
Policy, student of intellectual history #author: Public Morality and the Culture Wars: The triple divide (2023), and those in the above picture.

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Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 20d

So I have a book out about the challenges and dilemmas arising from large-scale immigration. Of course I look at the benefits of integrating and incorporating migrants (and how social policy can help) but I also focus on the political obstacles that play out in many countries.

Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 3d

At the moment I am reading

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 3d

Like, "take an unexpected interruption, comment on it, weave it into what you were going to say anyway, continue unflustered" is a skill that most people with a teaching role pick up fairly quickly, out of necessity.

While impressive from a politician, it's not *supernatural* communication skills.

Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 7d

A bunch of my books on sale in Chapters on Parnell Street

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Pesky Splinter @peskysplinter.bsky.social · 7d

It's 1998. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

Dr manhatan from watchmen sitting on a rock

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mickbyrne.bsky.social @mickbyrne.bsky.social · 17d

'It all boils down to a simple credo: people should stay where they are, and who they are'.

1st in a series on far/populist right housing politics looks at the recent book Vanadalising Ireland @bryanfanning.bsky.social @hlinehan.bsky.social @shamimmalekmian.bsky.social

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Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · 18d

Have this just out with @MUP
Migration and social policy in a changing world bridges the generally separate fields of social policy and migration studies. This book traces social policy responses to migration from the Industrial Revolution to today's era of globalisation and large-scale migration.

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Eastwood Books @eastwoodbooks.bsky.social · 28d

Looking forward to the launch tonight of our first new book of 2026!

'Waterford and the Wider World', edited by John Breslin, David Dickson, Ivar McGrath, Thomas O'Connor and Rosemary Ryan.

Available now from The Book Centre, Waterford, and all good bookshops!

Cover design of 'Waterford and the Wider World, 1575-1825', featuring a painting entitled 'View of Waterford', by William van der Hagen, 1736.

Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · Jan 6

One week to the publication of my new book.

Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · Dec 30

Four of my books with Manchester University Press. I have another with MUP out in the new year.

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Dr Prospera Tedam @profprosperatedam.bsky.social · Dec 30

Inviting submissions for this Special Issue on ‘Preparing Social Workers For Global Practice’ , guest edited by Dr Beverly Wagner @umaine and I. Details can be found here www.mdpi.com/journal/socs...

www.mdpi.com

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · Dec 14

My kids woke up so excited this morning for the first night of Hannukah and now yet again we have a festival where I’m very conflicted about whether it’s safe to take them to synagogue to celebrate. Communities shouldn’t have to live like this.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Dec 11

This is what is going to happen. There will be a thin top layer of non-digital universities — and all the tech billionaires will send their kids to those places.

Christopher Howell @chrishowell.com · Dec 5

Total success to the first college/university that pledges to be AI-free and brand it as an opportunity to receive a real education.

Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · Dec 4

My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.

Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · Dec 9

Have an article on the role of faith-based supports for migrants and diasporas in the current issue of Studies: Catholic, Jewish, Muslim and evangelical Christian. It ties in with a book I have coming out in the new year.

Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · Dec 5

Work by Eilis Fanning to see Friday 5 December to Sunday at the Spacecraft Gallery Limerick Eircode V94 HH 34

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Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · Nov 14

TFW your extremely niche area of academic research is in the news! A 🧵 on some aspects of the building formerly known as the Pro-Cathedral (or the Metropolitan chapel as it was called first!) www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Pro-Cathedral designated Dublin's Catholic cathedral

Pope Leo XIV has designated St Mary's Pro Cathedral in Dublin as the city's official Catholic Cathedral, becoming the first in the capital for 500 years.

www.rte.ie

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Niamh Moore-Cherry @niamhmcherry.bsky.social · Nov 13

A delight to join colleagues from @UCDSocialPWJ to celebrate 10 years of an excellent School. Really encouraging opening remarks from President @OrlaFeely followed by an inspiring panel discussion with current students and alumni. Comhghairdeas gach duine!! 🎊🎉

Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · Nov 6

Thanks: want my 3rd year students to read it.

Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · Nov 5

Kevin, can you email me link or include one the full report here. Can’t find it on the JRS site

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JCFJustice @jcfjustice.bsky.social · Nov 5

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

The risk of crises such as the 2023 Dublin riots “will diminish if officials cultivate relationships with faith-based communities”.

Policymakers failing to tap into religious groups for migrant integration, says report

Nearly 50 faith-based communities in north-east inner city play unique role as ‘mediators of integration’ in addressing needs ‘often unmet’ by Government

www.irishtimes.com

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Sam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · Nov 5

There's been a great deal of debate about how safe Dublin city centre is, but when we @dublininquirer.com looked for data to resolve this, we couldn't find much useful – so we commissioned a survey to try to add some facts/data to the debate. Today we've published five articles about the results. 1/

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Ben Tonra @bentonra.bsky.social · Nov 3

Reliance on Chinese students and Chinese campus for university income creates strategic vulnerabilities which Chinese State is wiling to use to suppress academic freedom.

Who’d have thought it?!

Shocking. Not

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China

Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities

www.theguardian.com

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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · Oct 24

My colleagues and I have launched a report looking at the religious diversity in Dublin's north-east inner-city, demonstrating beyond doubt that these communities are integral to the life of the city. It really presses DCC to stop overlooking religious practice
www.jcfj.ie/research/fai...

Faith in the North-East Inner-City - Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice in Ireland

Introduction New research by the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice and ACET Ireland has identified almost fifty faith-based communities in the north-east inner-city of Dublin. A key aim of the resea...

www.jcfj.ie

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · Oct 24

The home of the O'Donovan family is being used as a polling station in Coolmoyne, Co Tipperary. Around 250 people are eligible to vote at the house and after they cast their ballot, they will be treated to a cup of tea, a slice of apple or rhubarb tart, or a scone | More: rte.ie/b/1540324

Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · Oct 23

Hundreds of people would love to
work for you in the Dail. Would you hire somebody who was caught with a gun used to commit a murder perhaps planning to kill somebody, who never expressed remorse for this. CC is not the best of us.

Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · Oct 23

Would you pretend to have a monopoly on virtue opposing repossessions as a councillor whilst facilitating these in you day job? CC is not the best of us.

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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · Oct 21

If you missed Ian d'Alton's talk yesterday about '1932: Seeing the same world differently: Irish Catholics and Protestants a decade after independence', it's now available online at youtu.be/9oxWs0PTA1Y

Irish Studies Seminar: Ian d'Alton

YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · Oct 19

Artist’s photoshop reconstruction image of an early medieval cashel settlement with small fields at Cahercommaun, Co. Clare. (Photoshop reconstruction by Conor McDermott, UCD School of Archaeology, based on an aerial photograph by National Monuments Service, Dept of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht)