Sean O’Connell

Stormont urged to ‘move swiftly’ on public inquiry into mother and baby homes A Bill currently going through the Assembly will establish a public inquiry and redress scheme for institution survivors.

www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

You don’t even need to attribute that quote Paddy. It certainly isn’t Steven Fry or Fran Lebowitz.

The Starmer offer of a state visit now a nightmare.

Just watched John Bolton on BBC News criticising them both. It’s amazing that I currently wish that hawk was still in the US administration rather than what we currently have to suffer.

Those are lovely words Cait. It was great to catch up and reminisce a little. Hopefully catch up again soon.

ANNOUNCEMENT: EMERGENCY GENERAL MEETING - 6th February 11am

Members will have seen this morning that the University is launching a Voluntary Severance Scheme (VSS), hot on the heels of announcing a new Indian campus, while budgets for faculties, schools and directorates have all been slashed. (1/4)

Merry Christmas!

Andrew and Tristan Tate lose £2m court case over unpaid tax Police can seize money from frozen accounts after ‘straightforward cheat of the revenue’, London magistrate rules Police can seize more than £2m from the influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan after they failed to pay a penny in tax on £21m of…

Andrew and Tristan Tate lose £2m court case over unpaid tax

'I was raped by my stepdad before my eighth birthday... then treated like a servant at Belfast mother and baby home' A Northern Ireland woman abused from the age of four and raped just a month before her eighth birthday has described being treated “like a servant” in a mother and baby home after becoming pregnant at...

The brave ‘Anne’ reminds us that the grim history of Mother and Baby Institutions impacted Northern Ireland’s Protestant communities as well as Catholic ones. The Truth Recovery Independent Panel is currently recording further survivor testimony.

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republi...

UCU at QUB now available here.

2-2. With City hanging on at the end. 😬

I just arrived in Dublin, Paddy. Two hours late.

By way of introduction to new chums on this platform, here are some insights into the work I am doing. Please consider sharing this call .https://www.northernirelandworld.com/community/the-truth-of-mother-and-baby-homes-is-a-global-story-truth-recovery-independent-panel-appeals-for-testimony-4874315

Recently migrated over here. For anyone interested in immigration, diversity and oral history in Britain/Ireland, my book with Palgrave History was published in 2023:

Migrants, Immigration and Diversity in Twentieth-century Northern Ireland: British, Irish or 'Other’?

Great idea - loads of brilliant museums to follow 👇

a photograph album of David Strain and his friends - part of an exhibition at the Ulster Museum

the interior of David Strain's country hut - part of an exhibition at the Ulster Museum

If you want to learn about David Strain - the subject of an art installation in the Ulster Museum until Sunday & the Public Record Office of NI from next week - but can't get to Belfast, you can hear extracts from his beautiful diary & info about his gay life here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zki...

Online talk by Dr Nik Ribianszky coming up on Friday at 4pm

Celebrated historian and broadcaster David Olusoga will deliver the inaugural National Humanities Lecture!

The first of its kind, the lecture will make the case for the humanities and explore how new ideas are emerging.

Find out more and book: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

This book was such an adventure and turning point in my life. I'm still very good friends with nearly everyone in it.
Any ghost limbers out there who would like to make contact with a Larne hallion, Angeline is your woman...

Irish Studies Seminar: Gordon Gillespie, 'The 1974

Our next #IrishStudies seminar will be Gordon Gillespie (QUB), on 'The 1974 "Spongers" speech revisited: Harold Wilson, Lady Falkender and David Bowie', on Monday 25 November at 4.30. In-person and online - all welcome. Register at www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris... #IrishHistory

I’m sorry to have missed this.