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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 16h

It came from Berkeley to Derry and now passed back over the ocean to Minneapolis!

abc @thekitchentapes.bsky.social · 16h

Yesssss! Where my Irish studies people at? We love to see it.

abc @thekitchentapes.bsky.social · 16h

Yesssss! Where my Irish studies people at? We love to see it.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 16h

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 1d

As Valentine’s Day #ValentinesDay arrives, here’s one of Ireland’s greatest love poems: Dark-Haired Miriam Ran Away by Patrick Kavanagh (1946), inspired by Hilda Moriarty, a 22-year-old med student he became infatuated with. Later set to music as Raglan Road and famously sung by Luke Kelly.

Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 1d

And i’m saying to you maybe the judgement and legislation is not some kind of neutral baseline that you should just accept without question.

Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 1d

Please do, i’ll do likewise :)

Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 1d

Police and army harassment, use of urban planning to control and survey ‘suspect’ communities, lower levels of proof required for terrorist conviction, unequal allowance of marching / demonstration permission, unequal proscribing of paramilitary organizations. The list is long.

Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 1d

Frankly amazing that the British judiciary doesn’t remember Diplock courts, extensive censorship, authoritarian police and army powers, state paid informers who were active combatants, and the collusion of state and loyalist paramilitaries in targeting civil rights activists. Mmmmm.

Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 1d

I just ignore or block, i don’t tolerate willful ignorance.

Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 1d

Never, even when it’s in their own interest to know these steps have been walked before and can (will) be done again!

Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 1d

Northern Ireland waving from the corner of the room

Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 2d

The ban on Palestine Action, now ruled unlawful, was described as "one of the most extreme attacks on free speech in recent British history." This ban was put in place by a Labour government and a PM who is a lawyer. #Corruption #Tyranny #Gaza #Abuse

Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 1d

How does one define such an organization as terrorist? Essentially PA posed a threat to private property, in this case often Israeli companies creating weapons, maybe one needs to question is this actually terrorism or do the definitions need refining?

Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 2d

Fantastic news, time for a Labour govt to stop trying to shore up the absolutely hideous violence of the Israeli genocide and do what a Labour govt is supposed to do (and also continues to fail to do in NI).

Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING⚡️The High Court has just ruled that the government's draconian ban of Palestine Action was unlawful. This is a massive blow to the Home Office’s authoritarian approach. They need to stop criminalising people protesting a genocide and start ending the UK's complicity

Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 2d

Another reminder of where the real terrorists are.. but it doesn't interest UK Gov to act as they don't pose a threat to the state, just the other communities here.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-nort...

Loyalist paramilitary groups in NI 'have 12,500 members'

Briefings, based on PSNI and MI5 intelligence, have been obtained by BBC NI's Spotlight.

www.bbc.co.uk

Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING⚡️The High Court has just ruled that the government's draconian ban of Palestine Action was unlawful. This is a massive blow to the Home Office’s authoritarian approach. They need to stop criminalising people protesting a genocide and start ending the UK's complicity

Dan Cooper @dancoopcoop.bsky.social · 2d

The ban on Palestine Action, now ruled unlawful, was described as "one of the most extreme attacks on free speech in recent British history." This ban was put in place by a Labour government and a PM who is a lawyer. #Corruption #Tyranny #Gaza #Abuse

Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 2d

Bereft of ideas, UK Far Right copy the US to manufacture ‘free speech’ culture wars focused on unis. They target unis not because of their rich recruitment potential (they aren’t) but because we teach critical skills that easily undermine their divisive claims. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you want to know what Reform would be like in power, look at how it threatened Bangor University | Gaby Hinsliff

A debating society didn’t want to invite two figures connected to the party to speak. Cue an authoritarian response, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

www.theguardian.com

David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 2d

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The Eighth International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales, Rathcroghan Visitor Centre 23-25 June 2026.

Rathcroghan Visitor Centre is delighted to announce that it will be hosting the eighth edition of the International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales.

Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 2d

The Mandelson controversy is awful, but consider the ongoing stalling and resistance to the issue of collusion in Northern Ireland before citing Mandelson as the worst scandal of recent decades. Pat Finucane was murdered on 12 February 1989, and still no public inquiry.

www.rte.ie/news/ulster/...

Frustration at delays to inquiry over Pat Finucane murder

The widow of murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane has criticised the British government for delaying the start of a public inquiry it announced in 2024.

www.rte.ie

Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 3d

Obviously zero reflection in any of this on how operating the largest empire in human history may have turned us into a multicultural nation. We are here because you were there. #Empireland

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

PM asks Sir Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK 'colonised by immigrants'

Sir Keir Starmer says comments by the businessman and Manchester United co-owner are

www.bbc.co.uk

Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 3d

And just incase anyone believes this is all in the past, time to get over: justice delayed is justice denied www.rte.ie/news/ulster/...

Frustration at delays to inquiry over Pat Finucane murder

The widow of murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane has criticised the British government for delaying the start of a public inquiry it announced in 2024.

www.rte.ie

Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 3d

Growing up in NI during the Troubles involved turning on the news most days with trepidation but i especially remember how the murders of ‘troublesome’ nationalist HR lawyers - inc also Rosemary Nelson - made us feel particularly vulnerable and not only unprotected but targeted by the state.

Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 3d

Leading Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane was shot 14 times and killed by loyalist paramilitaries (UFF/UDA) on this day in 1989, in front of his wife and children. A high-profile human rights lawyer, his murder highlighted collusion between loyalist paramilitaries and British security forces.

A photo of Pat Finucane from the mid 80s

Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 3d

Leading Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane was shot 14 times and killed by loyalist paramilitaries (UFF/UDA) on this day in 1989, in front of his wife and children. A high-profile human rights lawyer, his murder highlighted collusion between loyalist paramilitaries and British security forces.

Hannah Elias @hannahelias.bsky.social · 3d

If you’re planning to be in Sheffield in April, @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org and @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy are hosting the annual History & Archives in Practice conference, registration now open! www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/professional...

History and Archives in Practice

History and Archives in Practice is where historians and archivists come together to consider shared interests in archive collections.

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 3d

Least shocking revelation ever that the categorization of Palestine Action as terrorist is fundamentally about protecting property. Colonizer countries going to colonize. There is nothing more important to coloniality than protecting property and those who control it.

Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 3d

This is going to sounds v grouchy - i am - but nothing makes my heart sink more in a transport hub than a public piano. No matter how good they are - and they often aren’t - i don’t want to hear it in a train station, bus station, or airport whether i’m dashing for a gate or long periods of sitting.

Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 4d

For those who are concerned with the mechanized extraction of seaweed around ireland’s coasts (nb this is not the only corporation / place this is affecting) - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/st... @uplift.ie

Stop a Canadian corporation harvesting huge forests of seaweed from the west coast

There should be a public consultation on this plan opening soon but lets gather signatures to demonstrate the fact that up and down the west coast, thousands of people don't want our seaweed rights gi...

my.uplift.ie

Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 4d

Amongst the many hidden labours of academia that i find almost universally perpetrated by men on women (my own personal exp) is ‘eintroductions’ of students for you to in provide info / access to your research / informally supervise etc without any prior request or warning. Please stop doing this.

Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 4d

yes but money laundering with a purpose, Epstein was clearly interested in enabling the Far Right and other causes.

Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 4d

And Epstein also was heavily involved in the Zionist project of using archaeology in the overtly political claim of land / deny Palestinian hist connections to place. The interconnections of his political aspirations and misuses of academia to support it, require a lot more investigation (2/2).

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