Stephen O'Neill
@oneillsb.bsky.social
Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955 (Liverpool University Press, April 2026)
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Stephen O'Neill
@oneillsb.bsky.social
· Nov 5
Very happy with this cover for ‘Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955’, which features a detail from Evie Hone’s stained glass window 'Four Green Fields'. This window was originally shown at the New York's World Fair in 1939, but is now found in Government Buildings on Merrion Street
Good tidings to you
December 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Good tidings to you
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The argument that Zionism as a political project should be above critique because it is the basis for the state of Israel is deeply problematic. Did this logic apply to the USSR? Does it apply to those parties who would like to see an end to the UK? Not to mention the erasure of Palestinians...
December 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The argument that Zionism as a political project should be above critique because it is the basis for the state of Israel is deeply problematic. Did this logic apply to the USSR? Does it apply to those parties who would like to see an end to the UK? Not to mention the erasure of Palestinians...
For Jane Austen's 250th Birthday I will once again be remembering the fact that in 1916, Thomas McDonagh ended his last ever class at UCD on her by sighing 'ah lads, there's nobody like Jane'. He then went off to start a revolution.
December 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
For Jane Austen's 250th Birthday I will once again be remembering the fact that in 1916, Thomas McDonagh ended his last ever class at UCD on her by sighing 'ah lads, there's nobody like Jane'. He then went off to start a revolution.
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Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
December 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
It is quite striking how silent many people who tweet constantly about the past are when news such as yesterday's comes out
December 10, 2025 at 10:14 AM
It is quite striking how silent many people who tweet constantly about the past are when news such as yesterday's comes out
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I would recommend anyone read the Kenova Report published today, especially ps 123-4 in context of the headlines stating there is no evidence of collusion between the British state and loyalist paramilitaries.
www.psni.police.uk/sites/defaul...
www.psni.police.uk/sites/defaul...
December 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I would recommend anyone read the Kenova Report published today, especially ps 123-4 in context of the headlines stating there is no evidence of collusion between the British state and loyalist paramilitaries.
www.psni.police.uk/sites/defaul...
www.psni.police.uk/sites/defaul...
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Collusion is a web of acts of both commission and omission that are extremely unlikely to be actively documented by the state committing them. The kinds of headlines we are seeing in some press today rub salt in the wounds of those who suffered through collusion.
I would recommend anyone read the Kenova Report published today, especially ps 123-4 in context of the headlines stating there is no evidence of collusion between the British state and loyalist paramilitaries.
www.psni.police.uk/sites/defaul...
www.psni.police.uk/sites/defaul...
December 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Collusion is a web of acts of both commission and omission that are extremely unlikely to be actively documented by the state committing them. The kinds of headlines we are seeing in some press today rub salt in the wounds of those who suffered through collusion.
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“Neither left nor right” meaning right part 146633788
"Gareth Sheridan went to Tucker Carlson's Christmas party" is already crazy, but "Gareth Sheridan took a photo with the world's most famous antisemitic conspiracy theorist, then voluntarily posted it on the Internet" is blowing my fucking mind
December 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
“Neither left nor right” meaning right part 146633788
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We are delighted to announce that we'll be hosting the SSNCI conference in Maynooth next June. Call for papers attached. Please spread far and wide!
December 8, 2025 at 8:52 AM
We are delighted to announce that we'll be hosting the SSNCI conference in Maynooth next June. Call for papers attached. Please spread far and wide!
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Reading this I am reminded again that it is, and has more often been, the work of the literary and cultural scholars, in the visual arts particularly, to practice the scholarship that Irish historiography even now aspires to, still without recognizing.
I finished my paper talking about my grandparents, and the ways that we talk about people as demographics or lost causes
December 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Reading this I am reminded again that it is, and has more often been, the work of the literary and cultural scholars, in the visual arts particularly, to practice the scholarship that Irish historiography even now aspires to, still without recognizing.
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Nodlaig shona duit...☃️In the latest UCD #CulturalHeritage blog post Archivist Kate Manning, @ucdarchives.bsky.social, takes us through a gallery of Christmas cards received by Éamon de Valera during his imprisonment in 1916 in Lewes, England.
ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2025/12/04/n...
ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2025/12/04/n...
December 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Nodlaig shona duit...☃️In the latest UCD #CulturalHeritage blog post Archivist Kate Manning, @ucdarchives.bsky.social, takes us through a gallery of Christmas cards received by Éamon de Valera during his imprisonment in 1916 in Lewes, England.
ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2025/12/04/n...
ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2025/12/04/n...
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“Nobody says the word Bastard as well as Sean Bean” said my friend showing me the old Sharpe supercut, and I thought, this man has never been to Cavan
December 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
“Nobody says the word Bastard as well as Sean Bean” said my friend showing me the old Sharpe supercut, and I thought, this man has never been to Cavan
@siobhraaiken.bsky.social's paper was excellent, as were (genuinely) all of the contributions to the conference that weren't given by me. Also an excellent location
Siobhra Aiken (QUB) leads off the afternoon session on the cultural and memory resonances of partition and the boundary commission
December 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
@siobhraaiken.bsky.social's paper was excellent, as were (genuinely) all of the contributions to the conference that weren't given by me. Also an excellent location
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Siobhra Aiken (QUB) leads off the afternoon session on the cultural and memory resonances of partition and the boundary commission
December 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Siobhra Aiken (QUB) leads off the afternoon session on the cultural and memory resonances of partition and the boundary commission
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Happy to report that the author copies of the shelf-ready version of the book have landed on my doorstep from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social! Feel very grateful to be with my favourite publisher 🙏 Next up is the launch in Belfast on January 29! (Deets in due course). 🤍💙
December 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Happy to report that the author copies of the shelf-ready version of the book have landed on my doorstep from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social! Feel very grateful to be with my favourite publisher 🙏 Next up is the launch in Belfast on January 29! (Deets in due course). 🤍💙
never been prouder to be from Belfast. From flying the flag known around the world as a symbol of imperial brutality to becoming a beacon-light to the oppressed
Councillors in Belfast have voted to raise the Palestinian flag over City Hall.
Palestinian flag to be raised over Belfast City Hall
Councillors in Belfast have voted to erect the Palestinian flag over City Hall.
www.rte.ie
December 2, 2025 at 11:37 AM
never been prouder to be from Belfast. From flying the flag known around the world as a symbol of imperial brutality to becoming a beacon-light to the oppressed
like a koi in a frozen pond
like a goldfish in a bowl.
I don't want to hear you cry
like a goldfish in a bowl.
I don't want to hear you cry
MLA raises questions after valuable koi carp go missing from prison pond
‘Mink, heron or otters’ among suspects framed for theft, but MLA warns disappearance raises further questions for Prison Service over animal welfare
www.irishnews.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
like a koi in a frozen pond
like a goldfish in a bowl.
I don't want to hear you cry
like a goldfish in a bowl.
I don't want to hear you cry
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Required reading of the most welcome sort in IHS this morning.
'It is in the space between our divining and conjuring that the argument lies, the debate happens, history is written and the story gets its endless quality.'
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
'It is in the space between our divining and conjuring that the argument lies, the debate happens, history is written and the story gets its endless quality.'
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Encountering modern Irish history: historiography, archives and imagination in the twenty-first century | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core
Encountering modern Irish history: historiography, archives and imagination in the twenty-first century
www.cambridge.org
December 1, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Required reading of the most welcome sort in IHS this morning.
'It is in the space between our divining and conjuring that the argument lies, the debate happens, history is written and the story gets its endless quality.'
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
'It is in the space between our divining and conjuring that the argument lies, the debate happens, history is written and the story gets its endless quality.'
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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A statement like this by the Taoiseach sustains my concerns about how ‘heritage’ in Ireland is often uncritically conceived and has not evolved by claims of positive, nationalist & shrug. The belated naming (and potential renaming) of a park is political and can change for various reasons.
November 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
A statement like this by the Taoiseach sustains my concerns about how ‘heritage’ in Ireland is often uncritically conceived and has not evolved by claims of positive, nationalist & shrug. The belated naming (and potential renaming) of a park is political and can change for various reasons.
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I can see why An Taoiseach would conveniently ignore Herzog's role in the Nakba
After all, acknowledging it might require acknowledgement of the Irish State's complicity in the destruction of Palestine
Which we've been busily laundering since the late 1990s
jrnl.ie/6889586
After all, acknowledging it might require acknowledgement of the Irish State's complicity in the destruction of Palestine
Which we've been busily laundering since the late 1990s
jrnl.ie/6889586
Taoiseach says 'divisive' proposal to rename Herzog Park should be 'withdrawn in its entirety'
Micheál Martin said that scrapping the name would erase the Jewish community’s “distinctive and rich contribution to Irish life”.
jrnl.ie
November 30, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I can see why An Taoiseach would conveniently ignore Herzog's role in the Nakba
After all, acknowledging it might require acknowledgement of the Irish State's complicity in the destruction of Palestine
Which we've been busily laundering since the late 1990s
jrnl.ie/6889586
After all, acknowledging it might require acknowledgement of the Irish State's complicity in the destruction of Palestine
Which we've been busily laundering since the late 1990s
jrnl.ie/6889586
two people just had to be pulled apart on my train carriage because someone said Michael Collins was their hero
November 29, 2025 at 7:44 PM
two people just had to be pulled apart on my train carriage because someone said Michael Collins was their hero
Mickey Mouse was a tout
November 28, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Mickey Mouse was a tout
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The WINNER of the 2025 Library Association of Ireland Author of the Year is...
@elainefeeney.bsky.social
#APIBA #StoriesMakeUs
@elainefeeney.bsky.social
#APIBA #StoriesMakeUs
November 27, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The WINNER of the 2025 Library Association of Ireland Author of the Year is...
@elainefeeney.bsky.social
#APIBA #StoriesMakeUs
@elainefeeney.bsky.social
#APIBA #StoriesMakeUs