final book cover design just dropped

Friends and colleagues in Irish academia! The wonderful Dr Mary McGill has asked me to circulate her @researchireland.ie - funded survey on Exploring experiences of gender-based online abuse among female academics in Ireland - please do share! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

We're excited to share details for our second Conversation on Disappearance, taking place on January 27! This session will be focused on cultural responses to disappearance. Further information and registration available here: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/jou...

📢 SPIRe Newsletter Autumn 2025 issue has just been published!
This issue includes "Lucía Tiscornia receives ERC starting grant", "NUI Awards an Honorary Doctorate to Maurice Manning", "Elizabeth Meehan Prize for Dawn Walsh" and more!

www.ucd.ie/spire/newsan...

This issue includes articles by our colleague, Dr Dawn Walsh @dawnwalsh.bsky.social , and our former PhD student, Dr Emma Murphy @emmamurphy.bsky.social , including:

"Gender quota adoption for commissions in post-conflict societies" by Dawn Walsh and Emma Murphy

journals.sagepub.com/toc/ipsa/46/5

excited to launch this conversation series! join us on November 24 for our first session

Tickets are going fast! Authors Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride will discuss #Irish #Unification at the National Concert Hall of #Dublin on 11/30. Notre Dame Press is thrilled to publish their new book, FOR AND AGAINST A UNITED IRELAND.

Event information: https://bit.ly/4hGoUBn

delighted to have had the opportunity to engage with Johanna, Malin, and Anna's excellent work on relational peace - roundtable review below

🚨 Heather Humphreys has told RTÉ she concedes the Presidential Election and has congratulated Catherine Connolly on her victory.

@virginmedianews.bsky.social

my partner is a doctor!

My friend Sarah Clancy is currently in IOF captivity, kidnapped last night when her boat, part of the Global Sumud Flotilla, was illegally intercepted in international waters.

Some boats are still sailing. Do what you can - wherever you are - to amplify & protest. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
@freedomflotilla.bsky.social

The Disappearance Studies Conference opened yesterday and continues today at Notre Dame.

The event marks the launch of the Journal of Disappearance Studies — an interdisciplinary platform to examine the phenomenon of disappearance worldwide.

@eliseferon.bsky.social @profcheryllawther.bsky.social

New deal to address Troubles legacy issues agreed between Dublin and London Tánaiste sees framework as ‘step change’ in relations between governments and reset after Tory Legacy Act

New deal to address Troubles legacy issues agreed between Dublin and London

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Author copies for

Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics

by me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social arrived today!

If you re-post this by Sept 30 we'll put you in a drawing & send the winner a free signed copy anywhere they happen to be on the planet.

I’ve researched the politics of flags in Northern Ireland for decades – here’s what England needs to understand I’ve contributed to at least six reports assessing the tensions around flags.

theconversation.com/ive-research...

so cool! can't wait to read

Unfinished Peace, Unfinished Memory: Theorising Feminist Peace With Northern Ireland’s Contemporary Art - Maria-Adriana Deiana, Heidi Riley, 2025 The critical engagement with everyday lived experiences and the politics of memory are key dimensions in Feminist Peace Research. They help us theorise feminist...

New publication in @millennjournal.bsky.social Theorising Feminist Peace with Northern Ireland’s Contemporary Art. Co-authored with my colleague Heidi Riley as part of our project Talk4Peace #IRSky #FeminsitSky #AcademicSky

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Disappearance Studies Conference Disappearance Studies Conference The Journal of Disappearance Studies, in collaboration with the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish…

happening at the end of the month - the inaugural Disappearance Studies Conference at the University of Notre Dame. check out the program here: irishstudies.nd.edu/events/2025/...

Enemy of Justice? Secrecy in Domestic War Crimes Trials in Serbia Secrecy is an essential element in war crimes trials, as it protects vulnerable individuals and sensitive information, ensuring trials can proceed effectively. However, secrecy often conflicts with...

NEW ARTICLE📢 We show how redactions in war crimes judgements obstruct transparency, prevent reckoning with past violence & highlight limits of digital data for quant analysis in TJ w/ @lanabi.bsky.social T.W.Waters @erc.europa.eu @lse-ei.bsky.social @journalgenocide.bsky.social
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I am giving away one *free copy* of my new book "Governing the Past: 'Never Again' and the Transitional Justice Project". Simply repost to enter the draw. I will randomly select the lucky reader on Friday 5 September. The book can be shipped within the UK or internationally!

🆕 📣 Making my BlueSky debut to share some exciting news: the first solo-authored publication from my PhD dissertation, published last week 🔓 open access in @gsqjournal.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

A thread 🧵:

Today is August 1.

Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.

There needs to be a ceasefire *and* a Palestinian state.

Recognising Palestine isn’t a punishment for Israel. It’s about the Palestinian right to self-determination.

Starmer’s approach suggests Palestinians can either have a ceasefire or a state—and that it is Israel that will make the decision.

BCG modelled plan to ‘relocate’ Palestinians from Gaza Consulting firm had multimillion-dollar role in contentious new aid scheme for shattered enclave

Add this to the already long list of moral failures by big consulting groups

How is this happening simultaneously, I feel like I’m going more insane every day

Had a great first day at the Future of Irish Studies in Leuven!

@emmamurphy.bsky.social @ndirishstudies.bsky.social
@irishstudiesqub.bsky.social

Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.

My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.

I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

got an article rejection this morning (fine) with some pretty mean reviews (not fine). sharing this + a bit of a convo with a good friend, to say - we all get rejected & if you're in the same boat, hi, sending hugs. and to also say, if you're an editor, please edit mean reviews, this stuff matters.

Abolishing the International Criminal Court The International Criminal Court (ICC) was formed through, and remains situated within, oppressive structures. Accordingly, critical legal scholars have questioned the Court’s ability to foster mea...

My first single authored publication is out! This article critiques the carceral logics of the ICC. I offer this critique alongside abolitionist tools to show how we can start to move away from harmful, carceral justice, beginning with the abolition of the ICC.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

sadly I can't make BISA this year but FYI for if you're there: