conversely, anyone using the word nation or 'Ireland'

a cartoon character is sitting at a desk holding a pink box with a heart on it ALT: a cartoon character is sitting at a desk holding a pink box with a heart on it

me reading all the census chat (all grandparents and great grandparents from the six counties)

I have GONE WILD on the 1926 Irish census and have made some fun discoveries:

Trinidadian medical students, a Baháʼí couple in Donegal, the Irish widow of an emigré Cossack, and Egyptian sailors in Cork city - among many others.

once saw a reference in DoJ Surveillance files to a Brahmin Indo-Trinidadian called Krishna Deonarine who was a student at Trinity in 1931 and spoke at a meeting of the Irish chapter of the Anti-Imperialist League. Wonder how many students from colonies were in Irish universities then...!

Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955 (Stephen O'Neill Book Launch) Join Stephen O'Neill in conversation with Eamonn Hughes.

Belfast launch of Irish Culture and Partition 1920-1955 will be at the Seamus Heaney Centre on May 1, from 5.30pm to 7pm. Bígí Linn

We might be well used to statistical partition in maps like this but it's all the more striking given that there was a census conducted in 1926 in the North but it has been "lost". Simultaneous censuses underlines ofc how these were as much about constituting the state as representing its population

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This is the worst Proclamation of the Republic ever

I am a very tedious man

No more census chat please

much obliged! I think the paperback should be out next year (probably dependent on book sales...)

there should be...

thanks Hilary!

thanks Martin, hope you are keeping well!

I think this means it's out, so it only remains to say yeooooo

that was quick!

Promotional graphic for the book Irish Culture and Partition, 1920–1955 by Stephen O’Neill. On the left is the book cover, with a dark green top section displaying the title and author, and a colorful stained-glass image below featuring a red hand and a sword among abstract shapes. On the right, yellow text on a blurred stained-glass background reads: “Comprehensively reinterprets the effect on culture of the continuing division of the island of Ireland.” The Liverpool University Press logo appears in the top right.

New in Irish Studies | @oneillsb.bsky.social's Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955, is the first book dedicated to examining culture and partition in Ireland.

Discover more here ⬇️
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

A brilliant thinker and writer. Her academic books are fantastic and have such a deep range

An image shoeing the cover of a new book, Seeing Ireland: Art, Culture, and Power in Modern Ireland (UND Press, 2026), with a blurb quote by Diarmuid Ó Giolláin calling it a 'highly original contribution to the study of Irish Art.'

Today is publication day for this beautiful book. Inspiration for it came from seeing @billyshortall.bsky.social talk about his brilliant PhD research at the IHSA in @tlrhub.bsky.social in 2017. One of those joyful collaborations that come along sometimes in academia. Cover is a Paul Henry painting

Back in 2013 Stormont had to give up its powers over Antarctica (bizarrely a product of devolution) so the imperial parliament could enhance wildlife protection. Jim Allister then came off with the most Jim Allister thing of all time

The book cover for Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation. It shows two men sat on a bench in the 1930s.

"Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation" is published TODAY by @cornellupress.bsky.social! I tell the story of how queer men didn't just exist in Belfast but could be accepted by friends, family & colleagues... at least until a moral panic about homosexuality in the 1950s. 🧵

Delighted that we will be welcoming the brilliant Prof Rashid Khalidi to Maynooth next Tuesday for a talk on the shared genealogies of colonial counter-insurgency in Ireland and Palestine. Follow this link to register. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

Also just saw six countries. The real partitions is the not on the maps

Catch @drdeefoley.bsky.social's talk on our YouTube channel now! youtu.be/a1ElI56O6Bc?...

See the flag protests in 2012-13 about which several academics completely embarrassed themselves

The issue with infrastructure in the six countries is that much of it was (colonially) designed to be defensive and for the purposes of population control. So a small amount of people can park a relatively small amount of large vehicles across a few lanes in Belfast and it stops traffic for hours

The Feast of the Holy Tundish

The Government COULD have put together an innovative and progressive package of direct supports.

It COULD have regulated prices and profit margins in the energy sector.

INSTEAD, they opted for regressive tax cuts and subsidies to employers.

Workers abandoned AGAIN by the Government

They are doing fine on their own tbf