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Prof. Anna Catherine Hickey-Moody

@annahm.bsky.social

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Professor of Intersectional Humanities, Director of Arts & Humanities Institute, Maynooth University 🇮🇪

Anna Hickey-Moody is an Australian academic specialising in cultural studies. She is a professor of intersectional humanities at Maynooth University, Ireland. She is also affiliated with media and communication at RMIT University. Hickey-Moody holds an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2017–2021). .. more

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Prof. Anna Catherine Hickey-Moody @annahm.bsky.social · Sep 1

New publication out today with @marissawillcox.bsky.social : “Feminist fabulation as refusal: Christine Yahya’s @pink_bits”. We examine how her illustrations reclaim space for bodies often censored www.frontiersin.org/journals/com... #mediastudies #algorithm
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Frontiers | Feminist fabulation as refusal: Christine Yahya’s @pink_bits illustrating ‘bodies we are told to hide’

IntroductionDigital feminist fabulations offer a mode of resistance to algorithmic patriarchies that govern visibility and acceptability on social media plat...

www.frontiersin.org

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 5d

If the EU won't speak up collectively and strongly for its own citizens, what hope for Palestinians?

If the EU won't speak up collectively and strongly for its own citizens, what hope for Palestinians?

- Letter from Fintan Lane

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Kennys Bookshop & Art Gallery @kennysbookshop.bsky.social · 5d

📍Barna Woods, Galway. Trees damaged during Storm Éowyn transformed into these beautiful pieces.

Barna Woods

Barna Woods

Barna Woods

Barna Woods

Prof. Anna Catherine Hickey-Moody @annahm.bsky.social · 5d

Love this.

Prof. Anna Catherine Hickey-Moody @annahm.bsky.social · 5d

Yes. That sounds more like it

Prof. Anna Catherine Hickey-Moody @annahm.bsky.social · 5d

Belvedere? They are still North side though. Not *that* posh. My Dad went there on scholarship and his family had no money

Prof. Anna Catherine Hickey-Moody @annahm.bsky.social · 5d

Wesley?

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Deirdre O'Callaghan @deirdreoc.bsky.social · 5d

Is there any news of Tadhg Hickey from the #globalsumudflotilla? I know the Zionists really don't like him as he's been so vocal about the genocide they are committing. #speirghorm

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 5d

The most telling argument I have against private school is that I’ve met several people over the years who’ve been to private school who somehow never heard arguments against private school.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 6d

These governments are making a lot of work for the compilers of the Oxford dictionary - the definition of terrorism now has to include “delivering food to children” and “sitting quietly”

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 6d

Another huge crowd out in Dublin today to protest against Israel’s genocide. We had young kids with us, and as ever, it was a peaceful, well organized and good-natured crowd. #FreePalestine #SanctionsNow #SpeirGorm

The front of the march on a bright day on O’Connell Street in Dublin. Banners and Palestinian flags visible.

In the March, looking south along O’Connell Street.

The crowd coming over O’Connell Bridge. Palestinian and INTO union flags.

Making the turn past Trinity college onto College Green.

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Fully Automated Celtic Anarchy 🚩🏴🇵🇸 @anarcho-surreal.bsky.social · 8d

Rest in Power Manchán Mangan! May your kids live to see the Irish language be as spoken and our mythology be as beloved as it once was.

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Kennys Bookshop & Art Gallery @kennysbookshop.bsky.social · 8d

and was such a positive presence. He has left such a wonderful legacy to the country, but for me I will just miss his sporadic phone calls, emails and visits, all of which inevitably left me in a better place than before. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

Tomás Kenny

Manchán Magan in Kennys

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Helen Shaw - Athena Media @athenamediaie.bsky.social · 8d

"We are in nature, and then we are humans in nature connected" Manchán Mangan - may he rest in nature - sad to part with both Jane Goodall and Manchán (far too young) this week - both powerful voices for our human relationship to nature and the environment www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...

Broadcaster and scríbhneoir Manchán Magan dies aged 55

The writer, broadcaster and documentary maker Manchán Magan has died at the age of 55, his family has confirmed.

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Laura Finnegan @lfinnegal.bsky.social · 8d

He also wrote this beautiful article about the intersections between Indigenous peoples in Canada and Ireland

Manchán Mangan: Indigenous people, Ireland and guardians of old lore – The Irish Times share.google/8BIzSYjuaMrX...

Manchán Mangan: Indigenous people, Ireland and guardians of old lore

Canadian elders have many wise insights to share with the Irish about knowledge, mythology and cultural equivalence

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 8d

IS agus an Ghaeilge sa @irishtimes.com

www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

AI is smart, just don’t ask it to speak the Irish language

Chatbots inability to grasp Irish underscores gaps in AI systems

www.irishtimes.com

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Emma Rogan 🇵🇸 @emmadragon.bsky.social · 13d

“… at home, people are tired—tired of being unheard, unseen, uncertain. Tired of promises broken, of a social fabric fraying.
And yet, I have never believed more in the spirit of this country.
I have seen it in every corner of Ireland…”

#spéirghorm #Áras25 #IrishPol

www.youtube.com/watch?v=y53c...

Raising Your Voice

YouTube video by Catherine Connolly TD

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 15d

Denmark and the rest of Europe are waking up to potential attacks that could be directed against hundreds if not thousands of targets in each country on.ft.com/3VDScpZ

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Niamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social · 16d

Gen Alpha are mad about the Words on the Wave exhibition @nmireland.bsky.social. Visit while you can. Only one month left!

Two primary school age girls admiring a viking sword at the Words on the Wave exhibition, National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street.

A toddler fascinated by a medieval manuscript on display at the Words on the Wave exhibition, National Museum of Ireland, Archaeology, Kildare Street.

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Arts and Humanities Institute, Maynooth @muahi.bsky.social · 25d

'Ireland: Land of 1,000 Welcomes?' will take place this Friday, 19th Sept. as part of Culture Night 2025 activities. It will be held in the AHI Seminar Rm 1.33, First floor of Iontas from 5:30 - 7pm.

For any further information please contact [email protected]

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Aonghus Ó hAlmhain @aonghusoha.bsky.social · 27d

David san Acadamh Ríoga

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 27d

Yesterday was the big day:
The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project celebrated the end of four years of intensive work (2021-5) with the launch - in the venerable rooms of the Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie - of the new, revised and hugely updated 𝕆𝕘𝕙𝕒𝕞 𝕚𝕟 𝟛𝔻 database and website.
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sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 28d

A new scholarship fund for Palestinian students, led by university faculty and staff here in the U.S. Please share widely and encourage colleagues to give generously 🇵🇸

leonardeducation.org/the-palestin...

The Palestinian Futures Fund - Leonard Education Organization

The Palestinian Futures Fund is a higher education scholarship initiative led by university faculty and staff across the United States who stand in unwavering solidarity with the Palestinian people in...

leonardeducation.org

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · Sep 11

We are not going ANYWHERE !

Anti-Zionist Jews set the Israeli flag on fire.

"Israel Is a - TERROR STATE!"

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Prof. Anna Catherine Hickey-Moody @annahm.bsky.social · Sep 10

Are you a cultural theorist who is looking for postdoctoral research project? Research Ireland have a funding scheme opening.

If you are interested in the politics of popular culture and intersectional theory, drop me an email at [email protected]

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Aug 28

Call for Papers!

"Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the Arts"-a special issue of Poetics, coedited with @jticona.bsky.social + Angèle Christin

www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pla...

Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the Arts

Call for Papers Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the ArtsA Special Issue of Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts

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Mise Áine @miseaine.bsky.social · Aug 27

'"Europe will find it very difficult to repair the damage that has been done by a lethargic response that has tolerated impunity.'

Aontaím.

www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

EU damaged by 'lethargic' Gaza response, says President

President Michael D Higgins has said the European Union has suffered reputational damage through its "lethargic" response to the daily horror in Gaza.

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Kristian Kiehling @kristiankiehling.bsky.social · Aug 21

With no other European nation coming to Ukraine's aid, Russia is calmly continuing its war of extermination against the Ukrainian nation and its culture. On Monday 18th, Russian Soldiers used drones to attack a university building in Sumy, destroying 15,000 books and expensive research equipment.

Russia targets university: 15,000 books, costly equipment lost in Sumy

A Russian drone attack on Sumy gutted a State University library, destroying 15,000 books and damaging costly research equipment

global.espreso.tv

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Aug 21

Israel gave final approval to a settlement project in the heart of the occupied West Bank that supporters and critics alike say will deal a major blow to the contiguity of territory that Palestinians hope will be part of a future independent state.

Israel Approves Settlements, a Blow to Faded Hopes for a Palestinian State

The long-stalled project near Jerusalem, known as E1, further fragments West Bank lands envisioned as part of a Palestinian state, advancing a goal of Israeli hard-liners.

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Scarleteen @scarleteen.com · Aug 20

The Kicked Out series is a multi-part compilation of resources, advice, and one of our go-to safety guides for unhoused and transient youth. We're excited to announce that this series is expanding even more with two additional pieces coming soon! www.scarleteen.com/read/cultu...