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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 5d

“Labeling the nearly 250,000 people currently trapped in #Gaza City & the north as “terrorists or terror supporters” by the Government of #Israel is a statement suggesting planned large-scale massacres”

— UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini

www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...

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Hannah K. Smyth 🍉 @smythh.bsky.social · 5d

Heartbreaking

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 5d

Tributes to Manchán Magan: ‘He arrived in this life like a comet, ablaze with purpose’

Liam Ó Maonlaí, Kathy Scott, Seán Ronayne among the artists, musicians, writers and film-makers paying tribute to the late journalist, author and TV presenter

www.irishtimes.com

Hannah K. Smyth 🍉 @smythh.bsky.social · 7d

Good

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 7d

UK government wins £122m pandemic case against Michelle Mone-linked firm over faulty PPE

Trial heard 25m surgical gowns supplied by PPE Medpro to protect NHS staff were unusable and could ‘seriously harm or kill patients’ * VIP lanes and 25m faulty gowns: what PPE Medro trial reveals about Tory response to Covid The government has won its legal claim against a company linked to the Conservative peer Michelle Mone for the return of millions of pounds paid for personal protective equipment during the Covid pandemic. The Department of Health and Social Care sued the company, PPE Medpro, in December 2022, arguing that it had not complied with PPE laws to ensure that 25m surgical gowns it provided under a June 2020 government contract were sterile. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 7d

Join us on 20 November for the Annual Digital Lecture, a partnership between The National Archives, UK and the School of Advanced Study. The wonderful @nannathylstrup.bsky.social will be speaking about ‘When saving becomes loss: archival memory in the digital age’. Free to register!

When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age

Explore archival memory, data loss, and attempts to preserve the past in the digital age at this year’s Annual Digital Lecture.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 27d

Amid everything else, I just found out that Westlife is marking their 25th anniversary & the Irish postal service is releasing a commemorative stamp.
So it's also time to reshare this article & my campaign for them to tour Africa: www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...

Westlife’s fans across Africa: ‘I listen to them every day’

The Irish boyband is incredibly popular across Africa - so why have they never toured there?

www.irishtimes.com

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Hannah K. Smyth 🍉 @smythh.bsky.social · 29d

It's always the ones you most expect

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29d

Revealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals

Exclusive: Leak exposes how former leader has used publicly subsidised office to manage commercial interests

www.theguardian.com

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · Sep 2

86% of the world’s genocide experts have declared that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

Israel made its genocidal intent clear from day one.

It then committed genocide in full view of the world.

Nobody with power or influence can say they didn’t know at the time.

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · Aug 27

Powerful article by Sally Hayden on apartheid Israel's unprecedented murder of Palestinian journalists, and the complicity of their western peers. #GazaGenocide
Israel’s targeting of journalists is an attack on truth and history
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Sally Hayden: Israel’s targeting of journalists is an attack on truth and history

Journalists’ lives are not more important than those of other civilians, but when you attack journalists you stop the world from learning about what is happening

www.irishtimes.com

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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · Aug 15

The National Archives is looking for an Early Modern Parliamentary Records Specialist. Pros: you'll get to work in the same department as me. Cons: you'll have to work in the same department as me. Details via the link. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...

Records Specialist - Early Modern Parliament at The National Archives

Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Adam Crymble @adamcrymble.bsky.social · Aug 14

📣 Job Klaxon: come work with me at UCL on the Information in Society Programme!

🔹 Lecturer (Teaching) Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society
🔹 Full time, open ended contract
🔹 London
🔹 £54,931

Closes 8 September.

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Adam Crymble @adamcrymble.bsky.social · Aug 14

Job Advert to join my team at UCL

💭Lecturer in Humanities Data Science
💭£54,931 - £57,979
💭Open Ended Contract
💭Great interdisciplinary team

Closes 15 September 2025

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · Aug 13

There's a REALLY quick and easy survey for the public consultation on the Basic Income for the Arts scheme - it only takes a few seconds, anyone can fill it in, and it could make a huge difference to arts workers in Ireland. Take a few ticks to places a few ticks here: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Screenshot of the first two questions in the survey - there's only six to answer.

#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art

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Hannah K. Smyth 🍉 @smythh.bsky.social · Aug 11

With many thanks to @degruyterbrill.bsky.social and all our contributing authors

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Hannah K. Smyth 🍉 @smythh.bsky.social · Aug 11

🔊 Very pleased our book about public history is out and gold open access: Public History in Global Perspective
Inquiry, Exchange and Practice. @ciaranon.bsky.social @geolug.bsky.social @richardlegay.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/mafs2wrx

Public History in Global Perspective

Where should public history sit within the matrix of global, international, (trans-)national, and more local histories? Since its emergence in the 1970s, Public History has typically been read as comm...

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Hannah K. Smyth 🍉 @smythh.bsky.social · Aug 2

Dublin 💚🇵🇸

Section of a watermelon for Palestinian solidarity on a blue wall. A reference to a Repeal the 8th mural removed from the project arts centre in 2018.

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · Jul 29

Palestinian self-determination is an inalienable right, not a bargaining chip.

While children starve to death, Keir Starmer refuses to expel the Israeli ambassador, impose full trade sanctions, enforce a full arms embargo or end surveillance flights.

It’s Labour’s genocide too.

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Hannah K. Smyth 🍉 @smythh.bsky.social · Jul 27

En route to Dublin, many audible sighs as the pilot announced mid-flight the score of the All Ireland @aerlingus1.bsky.social

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Prof Linda Connolly @lindaconnolly.bsky.social · Jul 25

Starvation in Gaza is destroying communities – and will leave generational scars Starvation in Gaza is destroying communities – and will leave generational scars www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Starvation in Gaza is destroying communities – and will leave generational scars

Health and societal ramifications of extreme hunger will reverberate long after the war is over

www.theguardian.com

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · Jul 7

📢 Just announced! The programme & booking is now live for our Annual Conference 2025.

🗓️ Join us online & free on 4–5 Sept for Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums & Personal Collections.

🔗 womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...
#WHN2025 #WomensHistory #Archives #Heritage

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