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Sean O’Connell @seanoconnellqub.bsky.social · Jun 27

www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

Stormont urged to ‘move swiftly’ on public inquiry into mother and baby homes

A Bill currently going through the Assembly will establish a public inquiry and redress scheme for institution survivors.

www.irishnews.com

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Sean O’Connell @seanoconnellqub.bsky.social · Mar 5

You don’t even need to attribute that quote Paddy. It certainly isn’t Steven Fry or Fran Lebowitz.

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · Feb 28

The Starmer offer of a state visit now a nightmare.

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Sean O’Connell @seanoconnellqub.bsky.social · Feb 28

Just watched John Bolton on BBC News criticising them both. It’s amazing that I currently wish that hawk was still in the US administration rather than what we currently have to suffer.

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Sean O’Connell @seanoconnellqub.bsky.social · Feb 14

Those are lovely words Cait. It was great to catch up and reminisce a little. Hopefully catch up again soon.

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UCU @ QUB @ucuatqub.bsky.social · Feb 3

ANNOUNCEMENT: EMERGENCY GENERAL MEETING - 6th February 11am

Members will have seen this morning that the University is launching a Voluntary Severance Scheme (VSS), hot on the heels of announcing a new Indian campus, while budgets for faculties, schools and directorates have all been slashed. (1/4)

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Sean O’Connell @seanoconnellqub.bsky.social · Dec 18

Merry Christmas!

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Dec 18

Andrew and Tristan Tate lose £2m court case over unpaid tax

Police can seize money from frozen accounts after ‘straightforward cheat of the revenue’, London magistrate rules Police can seize more than £2m from the influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan after they failed to pay a penny in tax on £21m of…

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Dec 18

Andrew and Tristan Tate lose £2m court case over unpaid tax

Police can seize money from frozen accounts after ‘straightforward cheat of the revenue’, London magistrate rules Police can seize more than £2m from the influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan after they failed to pay a penny in tax on £21m of…

www.theguardian.com

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Sean O’Connell @seanoconnellqub.bsky.social · Dec 4

The brave ‘Anne’ reminds us that the grim history of Mother and Baby Institutions impacted Northern Ireland’s Protestant communities as well as Catholic ones. The Truth Recovery Independent Panel is currently recording further survivor testimony.

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republi...

'I was raped by my stepdad before my eighth birthday... then treated like a servant at Belfast mother and baby home'

A Northern Ireland woman abused from the age of four and raped just a month before her eighth birthday has described being treated “like a servant” in a mother and baby home after becoming pregnant at...

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Sean O’Connell @seanoconnellqub.bsky.social · Dec 4

UCU at QUB now available here.

UCU @ QUB @ucuatqub.bsky.social · Nov 25

Hello, brave new world.

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Sean O’Connell @seanoconnellqub.bsky.social · Nov 30

2-2. With City hanging on at the end. 😬

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Sean O’Connell @seanoconnellqub.bsky.social · Nov 23

I just arrived in Dublin, Paddy. Two hours late.

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Sean O’Connell @seanoconnellqub.bsky.social · Nov 23

By way of introduction to new chums on this platform, here are some insights into the work I am doing. Please consider sharing this call .https://www.northernirelandworld.com/community/the-truth-of-mother-and-baby-homes-is-a-global-story-truth-recovery-independent-panel-appeals-for-testimony-4874315

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Jack Crangle @jcrangle.bsky.social · Nov 15

Recently migrated over here. For anyone interested in immigration, diversity and oral history in Britain/Ireland, my book with Palgrave History was published in 2023:

Migrants, Immigration and Diversity in Twentieth-century Northern Ireland: British, Irish or 'Other’?

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publichistoryqub.bsky.social @publichistoryqub.bsky.social · Nov 20

Great idea - loads of brilliant museums to follow 👇

Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · Nov 11

Hey! We’ve compiled a starter pack of museums, galleries, archives and libraries in the UK who are right here on Bluesky 🦋 go.bsky.app/9o1sRWp

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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · Nov 20

If you want to learn about David Strain - the subject of an art installation in the Ulster Museum until Sunday & the Public Record Office of NI from next week - but can't get to Belfast, you can hear extracts from his beautiful diary & info about his gay life here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zki...

a photograph album of David Strain and his friends - part of an exhibition at the Ulster Museum

the interior of David Strain's country hut - part of an exhibition at the Ulster Museum

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History at Queen's University Belfast @qubhistory.bsky.social · Nov 19

Online talk by Dr Nik Ribianszky coming up on Friday at 4pm

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · Nov 18

Celebrated historian and broadcaster David Olusoga will deliver the inaugural National Humanities Lecture!

The first of its kind, the lecture will make the case for the humanities and explore how new ideas are emerging.

Find out more and book: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Claire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social · Nov 18

This book was such an adventure and turning point in my life. I'm still very good friends with nearly everyone in it.
Any ghost limbers out there who would like to make contact with a Larne hallion, Angeline is your woman...

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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · Nov 18

Our next #IrishStudies seminar will be Gordon Gillespie (QUB), on 'The 1974 "Spongers" speech revisited: Harold Wilson, Lady Falkender and David Bowie', on Monday 25 November at 4.30. In-person and online - all welcome. Register at www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris... #IrishHistory

Irish Studies Seminar: Gordon Gillespie, 'The 1974

www.qub.ac.uk

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Sean O’Connell @seanoconnellqub.bsky.social · Nov 17

I’m sorry to have missed this.

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