@rachael-young.bsky.social
Modern Irish & British History post-doc at Boston College. Interested in the merging of community art, protest, and policing in marginalized communities. she/her
#Comhfhios year 9 is here!!
I cannot wait to see what the fantastic graduate students of Irish Studies will present this year!!
No kings, but yaaas queens. Happy Pride Boston.
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Trying to motivate your students to hand in that final paper…
06.05.2025 14:50 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On April 23, award-winning broadcaster & author
Emma Dabiri will deliver the 2025 Flatly Lecture
Her talk compares Yourba and Irish ontologies to discuss the Irish language conceptualization of duine gorm - 'blue person' - a term used to describe people racialized as Black individuals as Gaeilge.
It was an honor & a pleasure to be invited by the MIT Coalition for Palestine to speak about the historic connections and continued solidarity between Ireland and Palestine alongside @rachael-young.bsky.social Perfect way to end the long St. Patrick’s weekend ☘️🇵🇸
19.03.2025 01:36 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Why attend a parade when you can attend a protest? It’s what St Patrick would have wanted
#FreeMahmoudKhalil #freepalestine #bostonPSL
@tiffthompson.bsky.social
How to celebrate St. Patrick’s weekend as an Irish historian: drink while you make protest signs with your academic bestie @rachael-young.bsky.social ☘️🇵🇸
16.03.2025 00:00 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
An insightful and thought provoking discussion on
the gendered nature and impact of violence and forced displacement from Tiffany Thompson at a packed @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social seminar.
@bc-irish-studies.bsky.social
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Had a really great time at #ACIS2025 in Savannah, but I was so distracted by the sunshine I didn’t take any photos inside at the actual conference…
27.02.2025 17:18 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#Comhfhios year 8 is here!
I cannot wait to once again be dazzled by the work of Irish Studies grads from the US, Ireland, and the UK!
Book covers from the Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series
🗃️ Historians of migration, empire, and diaspora, and readers of global Irish history in particular, may be interested in the Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series, a series I edit for @nyupress.bsky.social nyupress.org/search-resul...
25.11.2024 19:12 — 👍 168 🔁 51 💬 6 📌 3
Moo Deng the baby pygmy hippo, on the ground and screaming
Towards the end of the most difficult semester of my entire career, this is how your email finds me
25.11.2024 16:59 — 👍 675 🔁 43 💬 15 📌 5
Our next #IrishStudies seminar will be Máire McCafferty (UCD), on '"The flower of the Gaelic League endeavour"? The Irish language summer colleges, 1904-1940'. Mon 2 Dec at 4.30pm (in-person and online). All welcome. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris... #IrishHistory #Gaeilge
26.11.2024 07:47 — 👍 19 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1"People of northern #Gaza transform the walls of their destroyed homes into murals of resilience, showcasing their strength and hope in the face of adversity."
#Palestine #Nakba2024
It seems there has been a new X-odus?
A good time to remind you all of @petergray47.bsky.social ‘s Irish History starter pack:
go.bsky.app/TQ96Hoe
New books on race in modern Ireland.
Needed to rethink a lecture on race in modern Ireland this term and these are some of the books that helped me enormously. It’s a really vibrant area at the moment.
20.11.2024 13:51 — 👍 25 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 0Was talking with our MA History students about Radden Keefe’s book earlier in the week. Interested to see whether it works as dramatisation.
14.11.2024 16:12 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 4 📌 0
Four people sitting at a table, reading papers to a room of people.
Had a great time at #NACBS2024 in Denver. I always leave this conference amazed by all the great work being done!
Still a little academically star struck at being on a panel with Judy Walkowitz, Kieran Connell, and Stephen Brooke…
