Thérèse

In Ireland
• Nature is haemorrhaging
• Water bodies are sick and dying
• Greenhouse gas emissions from land are soaring
• Flooding is ever more catastrophic
• Etc...

Because we've turned nearly all wild, natural habitat into barren monocultures of grass or shitka.

Mass REWILDING is the solution.

Star-shaped tile with a stylized flowering plant, anonymous, c. 1250 - c. 1299
Persia

(Rijksmuseum)

I can’t quite put it into words yet, but something is happening, a kind of global singularity—a fusion of tech/media/news/government/employment which allows the global elite to push single agendas: “You WILL care about Charlie Kirk. You will NOT care about Palestine. You WILL fear cancel culture.”

graphite is carbon, compressed over high pressure over millions of years and transformed not into coal or diamond but into something even more precious, a pencil, into graphite, which can record everything you've known and seen . . . It is a greater miracle than diamonds

–Varlam Shalamov

Lest we forget that leading Holocaust historian, Israeli scholar Raz Segal, called Israel's campaign in Gaza 'a textbook case of genocide' as early as 13 October 2023. Palestinians on the ground relayed this horrific reality from the beginning. Why is it only now that many are starting to speak out?

A devastatingly accurate and rightfully angry piece from
Colin Sheridan.

"He weighed..less than half what is normal on average. The boy had not grown any teeth...and was too weak to cry...The decapitated babies...The dogs eating the dead...The parents picking up the mangled flesh of their children"

S E V E N Y E A R S

if Micheál Martin is worried about people supporting terror and violence, he might do literally one thing – one solitary single thing – about his own government's complicity in the genocide he claims to oppose

Issue #1 of #TheInstitutions is live now.

Read it here: theinstitutions.substack.com/p/issue-1

Still hoping to make this a reliable outlet for people wanting to stay in the loop about Ireland's institutions, so if you found it helpful, please consider subscribing!

Omissions, caveats and false balance: How media is failing Palestinians, the international order and our profession - The Currency “Legal scholars tend to sharpen their pens after the smell of death has dissipated and moral clarity is no longer urgent.” This is a line from an article penned by Palestinian human rights lawyer Rabe...

Such an important read by @niallsargent.bsky.social in Tye Currency. Now un-paywalled.

Please share.

thecurrency.news/articles/184...

During a recent trip to Ireland, @franceskalbs.bsky.social held a mirror up to the media & asked if we were reporting accurately on Gaza. The clear answer is no.

As I write in The Currency this morning, we are failing Palestinians, the international order & our own profession:

t.co/hVQ5dLKHj0

Dear Dr. Abdelhadi, The Keough School of Global Affairs, which houses the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, recently learned of your keynote speech at their student conference next weekend. The University of Notre Dame requires that all events or lectures related to Israel/Palestine have ND Police security and planning. We were unaware of your planned lecture, and since this conference overlaps with two other annual events on campus, we cannot provide security at short notice. For this reason, we respectfully request that you do not participate in the conference. The Kroc Institute will honor any honorarium that was awarded for this event. We apologize for any inconvenience. Sincerely, Mary Gallagher -- Mary E. Gallagher Marilyn Keough Dean Keough School of Global Affairs University of Notre Dame

I was scheduled to give a talk on Palestine at a student conference at @notredame.bsky.social. The University rescinded my talk a week in advance citing an extremely flimsy excuse. It is truly disgusting. Attached is the letter I received and my reply, link below...

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Whether you realise it or not every single household in #Ireland has a connection to a #MotherandBabyHome, a #MagdaleneLaundry &/or an #IndustrialSchool!
In my household there are 6 connections!
When the details of the exclusions from the #MotherandBabyHome #RedressScheme were made public…..

Green plaque on wall with text The Limerick Writers Centre. Charles Dickens writer and social critic (1813-1870) - visited Limerick in 1858 and stayed at Cruises Royal Hotel which stood on this spot until 1992. Limerick literary trail

Plaque of the day remembering the time Charles Dickens was in Limerick city. He found it “the oddest place of which nobody in any other part of Ireland seems to know anything."
The more things change...
limerickslife.com/charles-dick...

Pat Ingoldsby ©️

Memento Mori A dignified burial (heck, even a memorial) would go a long way… Photo by Kenny Eliason on Unsplash Firstly, thank you to every single one of you that attended my talks at RootsTech over the past fe…

New post 'Memento Mori' is out now. Read it here:

Substack: danielloftus.substack.com/p/memento-mori
WordPress: danielmloftus.wordpress.com/2025/03/09/m...

#Genealogy #MotherAndBabyHomes

I’d love to see the equivalent of the wild Atlantic way but in Irish forest form, the full length of the country so you could walk the whole way

Here is the letter addressed to the Taoiseach and signed by over 400 academics and university workers.

'It is easy to be neutral in times of peace, the real test, and where it matters most, is being neutral in times of war and heightened conflict.'

www.pana.ie/posts/open-l...

Only 7% of mother and baby home redress budget spent one year after applications opened An MEP said the underspend shows that the exclusion of thousands of survivors from the scheme was an unneccesary “punitive measure”.

I said it from the beginning, theMother and Baby Home redress scheme was designed in order to save money. Shameful but entirely predictable from @greenpartyie.bsky.social @fiannafailparty.bsky.social and Fine Gael www.thejournal.ie/mother-and-b...

It's a sign of the times that callousness is now dressed up as intellectualism. That empathy is framed as being as morally problematic as prejudice. That bigotry and hatred is just honesty. That solidarity is treason.

On foot of significant concerns regarding a major study on 'Experiences of Irish Mother and Baby Institutions' at the University of Limerick, I have published a critical analysis which can be downloaded here: criticaladoptiontheory.com/publications...

More than €44 million paid to mother and baby home survivors, but some waiting seven months The average redress payment made to date is just under €15,500, with a minimum of €5,000 and a maximum of €65,000.

1) ℹ️ Some further facts about the scheme:

Examples of the thousands of excluded people:

❌24k people covered by the scheme who were separated from their mother before 6 months.

❌People who were confined in institutions not covered by the scheme

www.thejournal.ie/mother-and-b...

'We want no stone left unturned', say group campaigning for Sean Ross Abbey dig The We Are Still Here group to continue campaign for archaeological dig after excavation at the site was ruled out

No stone should be left unturned to find the #Tuam babies.

No stone should be left unturned to find the #Bessboro babies.

No stone should be left unturned to find the #SeanRossAbbey babies.

The government need to stop dragging their heels.

#Speirgorm

www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

Getting more difficult to separate and neatly categorise the sense of existential dread due to personal, internal reasons from the sense of existential dread due to external, global everything-on-fire reasons

Breda is one of many #Bessborough survivors, if you don’t already follow Breda, please do consider — her advocacy & campaigning is inspiring.

Breda is a survivor who doesn’t get any justice: no redress, poor tracing & no substantial pledges from politicians to save the Bessborough grounds.

Lose all respect for groups or organisations using AI generated imagery. The lack of imagination, the devaluing of art and photography, the corner-cutting and cheapness of it. Would rather have photos of coddle stapled to my eyeballs.

Mother and baby home campaigner who threatened to set the dogs on nuns passes away Rosie McKinney, 86, passed away peacefully, said her daughter Mags. THU, 02 JAN, 2025 - 19:05 An 86-year-old campaigner who threatened to set the dogs on the nuns and gardaí when they tried to take her back to a mother and baby home after she escaped, has passed away.

These are the people that Ireland should honour and remember.

www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

Tuam home survivor: 'I want a better report, one that would say how badly we were treated' 'We were treated like animals': 83-year-old wants other mother and baby home survivors to 'fight together for justice'

The mighty Rosie McKinney, who had two babies taken from her in the Tuam Home, has passed away at the age of 86. Here’s an interview I did with her in March 2021. 'I want a better report, one that would say how badly we were treated' #TuamBabies www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40...