Dr Pauline McGonagle

This is not good enough by any hellish standards.

Happy St Brigid’s Day. radio.moli.ie/series/three...

Brutality being ignored. Horrendous lack of accountability will be noted by generations to follow. Words not enough only actions matter @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @keirstarmer.bsky.social @teamlabouruk.bsky.social

Indeed why are people still on X.

A list to add to yours @abdallahaljazzar.bsky.social

Cannot wait to see them at VERA @veragroningen.bsky.social in May #Tamikrest

We were honoured to host The Freedom Theatre from the Jenin refugee camp for rehearsals of the Irish premiere of Return to Palestine. Tickets are still available for tonight and tomorrow night at the Project Arts Centre.

projectartscentre.ie/events/seach...

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Tik Tok now stinks

Older women ‘disappear’ from BBC presenting roles, internal review finds Older men seen as ‘gaining wisdom’ but women must keep looking younger or be ‘idiosyncratic’, review hears

www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Dutch Govt please take your finger out re Gazan scholarships. Universities and students are waiting. www.linkedin.com/mwlite/messa...

Finally found time to watch and enjoy this..,

Justine McCarthy: Trump would sooner make apple pie than peace but he has done us one favour Time has come to throw out that old rule book. The Gordian knot must be cut

Donald Trump is right about two things

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

New from @EmpirePodUK
Our 1857 Uprising series continues
JOHN NICHOLSON & THE ARMY OF RETRIBUTION

Our latest PhD Placement opportunities - come and work at the British Library for 3-6 months to develop your research and professional skills. 8 projects available, deadline for applications 27 February.

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Yipee👏👍

About time. Get off there…

NL also gave each household the same recently.

What? @keirstarmer.bsky.social

Begging for your reading list.

Stupendous and a testimony to you.

Monsters

Ireland and literary journals..

An elderly conductor stands at a podium before a seated orchestra, musicians holding string instruments in a concert hall, with several performers visible behind him.

🚨 World-renowned conductor Zubin Mehta (89) has canceled all his projects and artistic commitments in Israel, saying he cannot separate music from politics.

This Jordanian warehouse is holding tonnes of aid for Gaza but Israel won't let it through Aid workers at the Al-Ghabawi facility called it ‘death by bureaucracy’ as the vital aid supplies sit gathering dust.

This is bureaucratic criminality and you should be acting @ec.europa.eu https:www.thejournal.ie/ireland-and-israel-aid-jordan-6927034-Jan2026/

Actually, It’s a Good Time to Be an English Prof (opinion) No, really.

"We are keepers of canon and critique, of traditions and interventions, of discipline-specific discourses and a robust legacy of public engagement."

Ragini Srinivasan, author of OVERDETERMINED, on the importance of literature teachers in an age of AI. bit.ly/4rBLgsa @columbiaup.bsky.social

‘The settlers brought the violence’: the ethnic cleansing of a West Bank village Ras ‘Ein al ‘Auja is a community of about 135 families – and the only one remaining in this part of the Jordan valley

“The midterm goal is to remove Palestinians from all the open land in the West Bank, and they are doing this with the full participation of the Israeli government. The settler maps make clear that ultimately they want to empty the land of Palestinians."

An illustrated portrait of Esther Lin, accompanied by her name in turquoise text and the title of her debut poetry collection, Cold Thief Palace.

“Literature, from the fury of Emma Bovary and the loneliness of Jane Eyre to the Old Testament and Greek mythology—by which I learned to read English—and some pop culture, like The Walking Dead television series and the X-Men comics.” —Esther Lin on what inspires her: at.pw.org/EstherLinDebutPoet

Totally right. The demand is behind the scourge