We are delighted to announce that registration for our Annual Conference 2026 is now open. 'Intimacies in nineteenth-century Ireland' takes place @maynoothuniversity.ie
18-19 June 2026. See shop.maynoothuniversity.ie/index.php?ap...
More information to follow soon!
sorry you aren’t there with us! xx
I’m very excited about our @radhumslab.bsky.social event on Friday 25 April @ucc.ie! We have an array of amazing speakers dealing with the big issues of radical humanities research. It’s a free event (booking required) and everyone is welcome! www.eventbrite.com/e/radical-hu...
I find it depressing how quickly the far right can co-opt national symbols, like the Irish tricolour. My husband (not Irish) was messaging me about the protests he saw in Cork city centre and said he knew they were racist ‘because of the number of Irish flags’. Humph, that hurt (because, yes).
Essentially archaeology - and anthropology - are deeply rooted in colonialism and coloniality. From the trope of ‘discovery’ to the overt connections made to - and legitimacy conferred on - selective links to national identity (which makes it a target in war). Israel is just an extreme example.
There is an education gap for some archaeologists nevermind members of the public!
Knowing and working with colleagues from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum I cannot imagine the pressure they, and other civil rights museums, are under in the US re their messaging / funding. Solidarity with them (and maybe we need to focus our ire at the administration forcing this situation).
View of a large expanse of sand with a distant sea. The skid is blue with some big white clouds. Perfect!
View of a large expanse of sand viewing the way back to land. Cloudy sky above (a bit more threatening of rain!).
Copper-strewn cliff side rock face with grass atop and the small dark figure of a man (my husband) examining it.
A lovely day trip along the ‘copper coast’ (essentially from Dungarvan to Tramore) with beautifully cloud swirled skies and seas just a little too choppy for a swim. Can’t wait to get back in late May! Stradbally beach was our first stop x
A thread on the reception of the Easter rising among Algeriam nationalists.
Emir Khaled, grandson of resistance leader Abd al-Qadir, led a movement for change to the colonial system after WWI. For his supporters, the Rising was a cautionary tale for the French. The movement's newspaper L'ikdam...
Also interesting how it is being reported - see Irish News, in particular - as I said to my husband i’d heard nothing about it and it seems I wasn’t the only one! Putting all that effort into ‘celebrating’ Belfast, the BBC was celebrating itself … www.irishnews.com/news/norther...
This drone rep of the Titanic really is wow! It wasn’t talked about alot growing up but my great g’father was amongst the many men who built the Titanic (he was also nearly expelled from the shipyards because he was married to a Catholic; so bittersweet!) www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
It’s interesting how the past can always be explained away! Personally i find it interesting how little reflection we have on various forms of colonial violence in the North - eg not an eye lid bat at Richardson remaining in victory in Lisburn - and then i realize we are good explaining away!
Should be, it wasn’t Open Access when it was published but seems
to be now!
Just to say i think it’s open access, if not please email, but the paper is here (and briefly considers place names as part of a wider structural violence imposed on nationalist communities) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
As requested: if anyone can’t access and would like a copy of this paper just email me at ucc and i’ll send it on. Essentially it’s a material memory study of McGurks pub bombing through the lens of structural (as well as physical) violence #speirgorm link.springer.com/article/10.1...
will do!
If you can email my institutional address at ucc i’ll happily send a copy to you!
Here’s the link scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e...
If you could email my ucc address (v googleable) i’d be happy to send it to you!
perfect! do that!
I’ll get it to you, it’s part of a material based study of material, memory and social justice associated with McGurks bar bombing.
You too xx
There is never a bad time
to celebrate Roger Casement
Indeed! I’ve written something before about the structural violence of places names in Belfast. I can add him to the (long) list!
I visited London recently and while passing Cromwell Road I involuntarily bristled, if that's any indication of the sentiment. It's not even named after Oliver afaik.
Silence is not neutral and is now unforgivable. Ongoing silence, especially by those who claim to focus on ethics, social justice and the politics of the past, is indefensible.
Postdoc in rock art/archaeology at University of Western Australia www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...
The IAI conference is approaching! We have 2 days full of fascinating talks on a wide range of topics. The conference will be on 17/18 Apr @ the Clayton Hotel Silver Springs in Cork. To get your ticket, visit buff.ly/a0w2gcF .
#iaiconference2026 #archaeologyconference #archaeology #irisharchaeology
It’s one of the greater indicators of different historiographical traditions between Ireland and Britain; we do not think well of him (to put it mildly). But in the North of Ireland it is a little more ambiguous; there is still a prominent road named after him in Belfast (increasingly contested).
