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🎃👻David 👻🎃 @rebelalliance77.bsky.social · 19h

Some independent Irish bookshops you can support rather than Amazon. And most offer free postage in 🇮🇪too.
@kennysbookshop.bsky.social @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social
@booksupstairs.bsky.social
winding-stair-bookshop.myshopify.com
www.marrowbone.ie/shop
@gutterbookshop.bsky.social
#Spéirghorm

Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 21h

"We call on all our governments & people to condemn Israel’s crime of illegally intercepting our flotilla... Our governments must end #Israel ’s illegal blockade and ongoing genocide of #Gaza."

Milad Crew Illegally Abducted by Israeli Military
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh9-...

#FreedomFlotilla

Milad Crew Illegally Abducted by Israeli Military

YouTube video by Freedom Flotilla Coalition

www.youtube.com

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 22h

Famine’s Long Shadow

Even if food is surged into Gaza today, the history of weaponized mass starvation shows that the social aftershocks will reverberate for generations.

Alex de Waal

jewishcurrents.org/famines-long...

Famine's Long Shadow

Even if food is surged into Gaza today, the history of weaponized mass starvation shows that the social aftershocks will reverberate for generations.

jewishcurrents.org

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ACLU of South Carolina @aclusc.bsky.social · 2d

Advocacy Director Courtney Thomas on Beloved by Toni Morrison, one of the most banned and challenged books in the country. #BannedBooksWeek

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wendytm.bsky.social @wendytm.bsky.social · 20h

Celebrating #OnePlaceWednesday by completing the first draft of my book on the history of #GraveneyGoodnestone school. Started as a booklet to commemorate 150 years and became 45000 words. 😂 Now need to get it reviewed.

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Martine Brennan @saytheirnamesir.bsky.social · 19h

I lived through the death of one baby, I don't know how the families of these children will bear their losses. #speirgorm #babyloss

Sarah Kay (she/her) @k-interarma.bsky.social · 19h

The Guardian has published the names of the 18,457 children killed in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · 20h

Two Irish novelists have now done more to break the blockade and end man-made famine in Gaza than the entire UK government.

(Naoise Dolan on the flotilla and Sally Rooney with her words and deeds)

Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 20h

Author and TD among five Irish people on board latest Gaza flotilla intercepted by Israel
#speirgorm #stopthegenocide
jrnl.ie/6838266

Author and TD among five Irish people on board latest Gaza flotilla intercepted by Israel

There were five Irish citizens aboard boats in the flotilla.

jrnl.ie

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Dr Leeann Lane @lloislanel.bsky.social · 1d

Delighted that my exhibition on the afterlives of Cork republican women who did not go on to marry is now up in Creegan lib DCU @dculibrary.bsky.social
I want to thank all the DCU library staff and especially @orlanicaodha.bsky.social
Also thanks to @cecilearchives.bsky.social for all her help.

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Martine Brennan @saytheirnamesir.bsky.social · 1d

Sez you 'I'm only interested in the 3 grand buried in your pocket!' #speirgorm

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 2d

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin said "very comprehensive due diligence" was done on presidential candidate Jim Gavin, but that an issue with a former tenant was "probably buried somewhere in the recesses of his mind".

Gavin was 'repeatedly asked' about tenant issue - Martin

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin said "very comprehensive due diligence" was done on presidential candidate Jim Gavin, but that an issue with a former tenant was "probably buried somewhere in the rec...

www.rte.ie

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Martine Brennan @saytheirnamesir.bsky.social · 1d

In case that isn't clear, because I am an independent scholar I do not have a university direct access to the latest research in my field.

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George Padmore Institute @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight celebrate Black History Month 2025 at 6pm in North London! Talks, music and poetry.

Hear about the Black Parents Movement from our Chair Roxy Harris. Grassroots Black activism that started local and went national, through resilience, resistance and alliance.

Free. Booking details below 💃

George Padmore Institute @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social · 2d

Free event tomorrow, 7 October at 6pm.

Hear the Chair of the George Padmore Institute reflect on the achievements of the Black Parents Movement. An activist organisation which ran in the 70s and 80s.

Book here bit.ly/4nK9bmu

Graphic showing imaged of four panellists: Kenneth Olumuyiwa Tharp, Nels Abbey, Paulette Henry and Roxy Harris. The text reads: Black History Haringey 365 launch event. Join us for speeches, a panel discussion, live music and poetry. Tuesday 7 October, 6–9pm, Wolves Lane Centre N22 5JD. Book your free ticket via Ticket Tailor or scan the QR code.

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Making Gay History @makinggayhistory.bsky.social · 6d

Kick off #LGBTQHistoryMonth by going back to the very beginning, where #MakingGayHistory began nearly eight years ago. And stay tuned all month long for clips from our archive of interviews with LGBTQ trailblazers!

🔉 makinggayhistory.org/season-one/

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Martine Brennan @saytheirnamesir.bsky.social · 1d

My pleasure Breda. My migrant parents met in a dancehall in the Holloway Road. I was born in London and returned there in the 80s as an economic migrant myself.

Martine Brennan @saytheirnamesir.bsky.social · 1d

I wish I had access to this article by @gjkoos.bsky.social about #Irish migrants. The joys of being an independent scholar!

University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · Mar 31

In Vol. 117, Iss. 4 of Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, @gjkoos.bsky.social studies New Orleans as a key point of entry for Irish immigrants who moved up the Mississippi to Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and other midwestern states. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jishs/ar...

Cover of the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Volume 117, Issue 4, Winter 2024.
Photo of Mary Motherway O'Neil, a widow who along left Ireland for the United States with her children and cousins, using the Liverpool to New Orleans passage and settling in Bloomington, on a dark red background.

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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 1d

This was the topic of my class last week with my final years. They loved that Margaret took the dog with her. Good woman ❤️🐶 @ulhistory.bsky.social

Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 1d

Today on RTE Brainstorm, a piece from me on 'Runaway husbands & eloping wives in 18th century Ulster' in advance of book publication day 😘 #HistFam #Marriage #NewBook @unioflimerick.bsky.social @ria.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Meet the runaway husbands & eloping wives of 18th century Ulster

Elopement advertisements were placed by aggrieved spouses to notify the public that their partners had deserted the marital home

www.rte.ie

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Martine Brennan @saytheirnamesir.bsky.social · 1d

For the day that is in it! Joe Hill youtu.be/Cv_7hmHXXhA?...

Joe Hill

YouTube video by Luke Kelly - Topic

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Friends Journal @friendsjournal.org · 1d

Jane Barton Griffith was codirector of an AFSC humanitarian project during the Vietnam War. Nguyen thi Mai was a double amputee who came to the center for medical assistance and was later offered a job and invited to live in the AFSC house.

Two Women, One War is Jane's account of their friendship.

REVIEWED: Two Women, One War: An Unlikely Friendship During the Vietnam War

A memoir of a remarkable wartime friendship between a Quaker relief worker from the U.S. and a local Vietnamese woman.

www.friendsjournal.org

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Thomas Creamer @thomascreamer.bsky.social · 1d

Hi folk - just a PSA that today is the LAST day for checking and fixing your voter registration if you wish to vote on 24th October in the Presidential Election. Just head to checktheregister.ie - it'll only take a few minutes to see if your voter registration is up to snuff.

Check the Register

checktheregister.ie

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Martine Brennan @saytheirnamesir.bsky.social · 1d

I really enjoyed your podcast Dr Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social and look forward to reading your book. Martine

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Martine Brennan @saytheirnamesir.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Catherine for all your hard work which made this collection possible. (PS your auto-correct made me Marie again lol)

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Martine Brennan @saytheirnamesir.bsky.social · 1d

A visit to mudlarker historian @n16breda.bsky.social website is well worth it. #IrishInLondon #speirgorm www.irishlondonhistory.com/post/finding...

My journey to find Ireland in the history of London

Here's a quick read to explain what this blog is about . I hope you can join this journey into the history of Ireland in London's past.

www.irishlondonhistory.com

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Martine Brennan @saytheirnamesir.bsky.social · 1d

@profcathharper.bsky.social is in the process of editing a book The stained and bloodied cloths of Ireland to which I contributed about our view of ourselves as the 'Famine Irish' the victims of oppression as opposed to the oppressors.

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Martine Brennan @saytheirnamesir.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks again Breda. It is more than likely that Irish-born people living in London would have been involved in the slave trade. Some people here www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/ have Irish homes.

Legacies of British Slavery

www.ucl.ac.uk

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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 1d

There's something very powerful & disturbing about looking at familiar placenames in Ireland when they're connected with the names of Irish people who has legal ownership of enslaved people.
An important part of Ireland's complicated history that rightly challenges simplistic narratives.

Martine Brennan @saytheirnamesir.bsky.social · 2d

#Slavery was a family business. Uncovering a network of familial relationships between #Irishslaveholders in South Carolina. tinyurl.com/4t76e8ep #speirgorm

Irish slaveholders, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Pennsylvania 1670-1865 - Google My Maps

Database (incomplete) created by Martine Brennan, Ireland. Star icon: names of enslaved people attached. Green tags: known or reputed county of birth in Ireland. Blue tags: unknown place of birth in ...

tinyurl.com

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Martine Brennan @saytheirnamesir.bsky.social · 1d

It is indeed challenging Breda @n16breda.bsky.social South Carolina is my main study area but of course Irishborn slaveholders were present throughout the US. The Catholic bishops & priests of Charleston were also slaveholders... M

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