Sara Dybris McQuaid

Once upon a time in Northern Ireland (fra 2023) ligger nu på DR - se den straks, den er fantastisk! Afsnit 1 er standardfortællingen, men afsnit 2, 3, 4 er anderledes skæve indblik i konflikterfaring og konsekvens (ikke bare de "to sider"). www.dr.dk/drtv/saeson/...

Bibliotekernes udlån stiger for tredje år i træk: Vi elsker at læse papirbøger Den fysiske bog giver os et frirum i en travl, elektronisk hverdag.

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„Bibliotekerne har gjort det igen: Udlånet af fysiske bøger er steget med 5,4 procent på et år. Og det er tredje år i træk.“

Engang røg hun 15 joints om dagen – nu bliver hun kaldt for en 'stor kunstner' Det hjalp Laura Helene Hansen med at komme ud af sit stofmisbrug, da hun opdagede sit talent for at synge opera.

I dag var Laura Helene Hansen dagens sommergæst i P1 og det var intet mindre end forrygende! Hør hende dissekere operahistorien, anerkende hvorfor den er svær at ændre og foreslå måder man alligevel kan gøre det på - det var inspirerende. #dkmedier www.dr.dk/det-bedste-f...

Minor Detail book: how the language of the past can help us read the present situation in Palestine Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail is a sparse but searing novel that shows how the horrors of the past continue to shape Palestinian life today

Today I finally read "A Minor Detail" by Adania Shibli. An almost forensic narrative of how to access and uncover the past in a present context of near total restriction and destruction. One of many books that might help us make out what we are witnessing in Gaza. theconversation.com/minor-detail...

#MSA2025 had a great and timely roundtable on Memory and Peace. As part of @slowmemo.bsky.social I wrote this very basic working paper to start our discussions on the interfaces of (slow)memory/peace/conflict -might be of interest to @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social www.slowmemory.eu/publi/concep...

🚨We are so happy to announce that our Votes at 16 Campaign has been a success! Yesterday, the Government announced their plans to legislate for #votesat16 in all UK elections!🥳
A huge well done to our fantastic campaign group, who have worked so hard to make this a reality@votesat16ni.bsky.social

Home sought for massive knitted map of Ireland A huge wool map of Ireland, which took four years of knitting and crocheting to complete, is in search of a new home to go on public display.

Home sought for massive knitted map of Ireland

You might want to come to our roundtable on Administrations of memory later on today, if you are interested in a new(ish) research agenda for political memory studies?

@memstudiesassoc.bsky.social

Started MSA 25 with an excursion to Strahov Stadium. A space still in use but also out of time. #MSA25 @

The best history book I have read in years! Uplifting but never distracting.

After the Train: Irishwomen united – a book to be passed down the generations, with future cultural insurgency in mind Inspiring account of IWU, edited by Evelyn Conlon and Rebecca Pelan, has left this reviewer turbocharged for further change

'After the Train: Irishwomen united – a book to be passed down the generations, with future cultural insurgency in mind'

Thank you @irishtimes.com @martindoyle.bsky.social for this generous review

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action".
This is real police state behaviour.

Mette Frederiksen bliver interviewet i Britisk Vogue (August). www.vogue.co.uk/article/mett...

I'm very eagerly anticipating the start of our fourth and final @slowmemo.bsky.social COST Action conference at the University of Porto tomorrow. Judging by the prep done by the stellar team led by Prof Alice Semedo, it is going to be absolutely fantastic. #slowmemory

The pleasure was all mine - congratulations! It was spectacular - even in its pursuit of the everyday.

I should add the overall title of her work: Living and Dying in Transit - violence, bodies and survival in the Tunesian borderlands.

An absolute tour de force introduction to her PHD defense by @ahlamchemlali.bsky.social - eye opening, captivating - more magisterial than doctoral! . Replete with thick and fine tuned ethnography and new conceptual constructs. Deserved standing ovation at the end. @diis.dk @aau.dk

The Elephant of Revolutionary Forgetfulness: The Art of Commemoration A free public talk by Louise Lowe of ANU Productions in the Old Carnegie Library DLR on art, theatre, history, remembering, and forgetting.

This looks very interesting! 👇👇👇
Free public talk:

The Elephant of Revolutionary Forgetfulness: The Art of Commemoration.

Monday, 16 June 2025 11:00 - 12:30
Doors at 10:40am
Old Carnegie Library,
Library Road, Dún Laoghaire, Dublin
www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-elepha...

The Ballymena violence has nothing to do with ‘protecting women’. It is racism, pure and simple | Sarah Creighton Northern Ireland has always seen high levels of violence against women and girls. Blaming migrants is a useful way to distract from that, says political commentator from Northern Ireland Sarah Creight...

Wrote for @theguardian.com about Ballymena and Northern Ireland's long history of violence against women ⬇️

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Historians of Ireland, Britain, the British Empire, Empires, Unions, Federalism, and those working in the history of ideas and political theory, this is definitely worth a look. Particularly the second debate, in which arguments are made about what form the Union should take.

Whose Right to Memory? The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Legal Disputes - Law and Critique There is a growing amount of literature on the ways in which the law has been utilised to promote a wide spectrum of memory agendas, from penalising Holocaust and genocide denials to penalising a stat...

New article alert! Some crazy stuff here 🔻
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

YouTube video by Amnesty International UK Why is Northern Ireland the most dangerous place in the UK to be a journalist?

Amnesty has documented scores of death threats, bomb threats and violent attacks against journalists in Northern Ireland.

🎬 Powerful testimony from Belfast journalists Allison Morris, Paula Mackin, Richard Sullivan, Martin Breen and Steven Moore. youtu.be/eXriDvx51mE?...

sounds great!

It’s not Denmark’s children who can’t handle debating Gaza. It’s our politicians | Rune Lykkeberg In banning a schools debate on Palestinian sovereignty, our leaders have revealed the nation we’re becoming, says Rune Lykkeberg, editor-in-chief of the Danish newspaper Information

It’s not Denmark’s children who can’t handle debating Gaza. It’s our politicians | Rune Lykkeberg

Granta mourns Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. In memory of his life and work, we have lifted the paywall on his writing for the magazine.

If you were involved in any way in the Repeal campaign and would be interested in speaking with a US-based researcher who wants to understand the referendum--not just the simple narrative but inclusion/exclusion, pragmatism, pain, joy etc--please drop me a line here. All involvement is relevant.