Jack Crangle

Article by @brian-hanley.bsky.social Hanley on events across Ireland in the long hot summer of 1935. July 1935: ‘Remember Belfast – Boycott the Orangemen!’
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Sex, Love, and Everyday Life: A History of Northern Ireland before Gay Liberation - The Linen Hall, Belfast Ask the average person on the street what they know about Northern Ireland’s LGBTQ+ or ‘queer’ history, and they will likely mention the Reverend Ian Paisley’s notorious campaign to ‘Save […]

A few tickets left for this talk next week for Belfast Pride 2025!

Come hear about a ‘female husband’ dockworker (1880s), a scandalous Victorian male brothel, Jazz Age gay novels, a trans woman in mid 20th c. Ballycastle, & NI’s (sadly forgotten) 1st lesbian activist!

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Modern racism has become loud and proud | The Observer The response to a photo of a class in London shows how ethnic notions of national identity have seeped into mainstream conservatism

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I am signed up for a few events this autumn to talk about MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN. Come along if you’re in Sheffield, Cambridge or Dublin. Possibly more to come - keep an eye on my website for more info!

www.kieranconnell.com/events

I am working on 'The Asian Mother and Baby Campaign' which ran from 1984-1986. I would love to interview any linkworkers who were employed by the campaign or any women who were supported by linkworkers. Please spread the word or get in touch if this is you! My email is saima.nasar@bristol.ac.uk

Northern Ireland has a long history of immigration and diversity. And of racism. Dr Jack Crangle discusses recent anti-immigration disorder in Northern Ireland, and places it in historical context.

Piece I wrote tracing the historical context of last month’s riots in Ballymena and elsewhere in NI. We have a long history of immigration in NI and also, sadly, a long history of racism.

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Funny, i can think of one that happens every year.

Accents d'Europe - Face aux frappes en Iran, les tiraillements du gouvernement allemand Crainte d'une escalade, et de la fermeture du détroit d'Ormuz par lequel transite 20% du pétrole mondial. Les frappes sur l'Iran se sont poursuivies lundi (23 juin 2025) et les ministres européens des...

I spoke with Radio France Internationale about this month’s rioting in Ballymena, providing the historical context of Northern Irish immigration: www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/... piece starts around 9.25

Jack Crangle. Migrants, Immigration and Diversity in Twentieth-century Northern Ireland: British, Irish or ‘Other’?. For most of the twentieth century, immigrants were invisible in Northern Ireland. This is the starting premise of Migrants, Immigration and Diversity in Tw

Thanks to @markdoyle.bsky.social for a lovely review of my book in The American Historical Review. A very concise summary of the book’s key themes which will leave you (hopefully) wanting to pick up a copy!

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A Green Party NI campaign graphic shows a row of terraced houses in Ballymena with two police vehicles and a fire burning in the street. Large white text at the top reads “CALL IT WHAT IT IS.” A red text box in the centre says, “The situation in Ballymena is where male violence against women and girls collides with racist violence – driven by people misled and inflamed by years of lies and scapegoating from Executive parties.” A black banner at the bottom says “STORMONT ISN’T WORKING.” The Green Party logo and publishing details appear at the bottom.

Call it what it is. Racist violence in Ballymena is the toxic legacy of 27 years of failure by DUP, Sinn Féin, SDLP, UUP, and Alliance.

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Politicians need to call racism racism. LEAD
They’re all well able to say when something is sectarian. Talking about real or imagined sectarianism keeps most of them elected. They need to find the courage of Anna Lo when she was basically a lone voice calling out racism even when it was v dangerous

Poster advertising an oral history project on South Asian Medical practitioners in Scotland. Please get in touch with monique.lerpiniere.2022@uni.strath.ac.uk if you know anyone who worked/studied in the medical field in Scotland who is of South Asian heritage.

My PhD student Monique Lerpiniere is looking for oral history participants for her @sgsah.bsky.social project on South Asian medical practitioners in Scotland. Please see the poster for info and share if you know anyone. Thank you! @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social @strathhumanities.bsky.social #histmed

Thanks Charlie! That’s very much the vibe of the article…

Oral History Network Ireland Annual Meeting. 'What we say and how we say it: exploring words, silences and language in oral history.' www.oralhistorynetworkireland.ie/2025-meeting

📣Have you registered for OHNI's 2025 annual meeting taking place 13-14 June, Absolute Hotel, Limerick?

📣Early bird rates available until Friday 30 May.

Looking forward to welcoming @stevenhigh.bsky.social to be our keynote speaker.

👉Register today! oralhistorynetworkireland.ie/2025-meeting

All of this is brilliant because, yes, we are racist at home as well as abroad #SpéirGhorm

Thank you!

Thanks Tom!

New article! ‘“No race hate here”? Irish national identity and racism in the mid twentieth century’ just published online in Irish Historical Studies. Explores Irish attitudes to race and racism, including an ugly spate of racist attacks in Dublin during 1963-64. Open access: doi.org/10.1017/ihs....

The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening.

That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.

Shame on you, Keir Starmer.

The epilogue from my book. Siva said it best - “what Powell says today, the Tories say tomorrow and Labour legislates on the day after”

The Anti-Abortion Movement in Ireland, c.1972-92 Prof. Laura Kelly will deliver the J.C. Beckett Annual Lecture on 22 May at 6pm. This *in person* event will be held at PRONI.

Due to where Easter falls, our next USIHS event will be the J.C. Beckett Lecture which will be delivered by Prof. Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social on 22 May at PRONI. More information on the eventbrite www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-anti-a...

I have a very personal essay in today’s Irish Times about the grandfather I never met, the historian KH Connell

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Why access to condoms was such a controversial issue in Irish law It's 40 years this month since access to contraception was liberalised in Ireland, but that was far from the end of the story

It’s 40 years this month since access to contraception was liberalised in Ireland, but that was far from the end of the story! @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social article from myself and Jennifer Redmond - love Gaybo explaining how to use a condom (that was 1987!!) #speirgorm www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

My latest journal article is out now with @historywo.bsky.social

This is the story of an Irish circle of activists, artists and intellectuals who set out to re-imagine what society and sexuality could look like, in Ireland and elsewhere.

It is free to read here:

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Never more appropriate, and important, than now

Belated shout out for this engaging, insightful and lyrical book from @kconnel.bsky.social

Image of four copies of Siblinghood and Sociability in Nineteenth-Century Ulster by Shannon Devlin and some lovely flowers.

A copy of Siblinghood and Sociability in Nineteenth-Century Ulster by Shannon Devlin against a blue sky.

Happy publication week! Delighted (& slightly terrified) my first book is out in the wild for everyone to read 😂 Had so much fun going down the rabbit hole researching these families and hope that’s evident on the page #histfam

Returned to the UK today to find my copy of History Workshop Journal featuring my article on male rape (and several other very interesting articles)!

White British people aren’t under threat from multicultural Britain – they are part of it | Kieran Connell Reform would have you believe that multiculturalism is an act of exclusion. In fact, the opposite is the case, says historian and writer Kieran Connell

I have a piece in today’s Guardian based on my book in which I argue for an expanded, more inclusive definition of multiculturalism as a way out of the culture wars

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