Naoise Dolan

Umer Khalid’s water strike starts tonight if the UK government does not enter negotiations with Prisoners for Palestine. The human body can survive, on average, 3 days without water. The genocide in Gaza continues, solidarity with a comrade risking his own life to oppose it

When ‘unfriend’ was a noun in English, my quest to learn 3,000 Arabic lemmas, and other language things naoise.substack.com/p/unfriend-n...

‘Hands off Greenland because it belongs to Denmark’ is not the one. Denmark colonised Greenland, suppressed the language and culture, and forcibly sterilised indigenous Greenlanders for decades

Dialann léitheoireachta thar lear Tá léamh agam, de réir dealraimh

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Ní deir aon Ghearmánach ‘Tá an iomarca canúna Bheirlín in Berlin Alexanderplatz’; b’fhéidir nach n-aithneoidh duine as München gach téarma ann, ach ní bheadh aon fhadhb ag cainteoir dúchais Gearmáinise é a thuiscint ~ @naoisedolan.bsky.social faoi Cré na Cille

Umer Khalid is the last remaining hunger striker. Solidarity with him, free Palestine

We don’t need to be naive about it, but we do need not to succumb to despair. That plays right into the hands of governments

The UK has declined a new Elbit Systems contract, leading Palestine Action prisoners to end the hunger strike that had three of them on the brink of death. The Tesco worker suspended for refusing to handle Israeli goods has been reinstated and will no longer have to handle them. We can and will win

Dialann léitheoireachta thar lear Tá léamh agam, de réir dealraimh

Smaointe fánacha faoi na leabhair a bhí mé ag léamh le déanaí i bPáras, i mBeirlín agus i bPalermo naoise2.substack.com/p/dialann-le...

This is Heba Muraisi’s 70th day on hunger strike. Bobby Sands died on his 66th day. I’m not privy to UK government meetings, I don’t have the pleasure of seeing inside their minds, but their behaviour is empirically indistinguishable from that of people who want her dead

Just write 250 words On drafting a novel piece by piece

I wrote on Substack about how to draft a book piece by piece when you don’t have much time, like I’m currently doing for my first Irish-language novel naoise.substack.com/p/just-write...

As the New Year rings in, Palestine Action prison hunger striker Heba Muraisi will cross over into her 60th day without food. This is often the threshold where sudden death becomes imminent. Her government knows and is wilfully proceeding, just as it has with the genocide in Gaza

grma! 🙏

An Gallantach Smaointe faoi Mavis Gallant

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cuireann sé frustrachas orm nach aistrítear sleachta Béarla go Gaeilge agus an Ghaeilge mar theanga oibre in aistí srl., mar sin déanfaidh mé mo sheacht ndícheall ~ @naoisedolan.bsky.social

Rud inmholta!

An Gallantach Smaointe faoi Mavis Gallant

Mo chuid smaointe faoin scríbhneoir Ceanadach Mavis Gallant, a bhí an-dian maidir le caighdeáin aistriúcháin (rud is annamh) naoise2.substack.com/p/an-gallant...

Assorted minor things I’m changing in 2026 If not sooner

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Letting hunger strikers die, arresting Greta Thunberg — this is not incompetence or even indifference. The UK state is deliberately making examples of people to ramp up the crushing of basic civil liberties and silence opposition to genocide

Naoise Dolan: ‘There are young people dying in ­British jails again’ — Kneecap say what the world is ignoring It was late in the night when ­Kneecap began speaking about the Palestine Action hunger strike. The concert was last Tuesday at the 3Arena and with thousands of us packed in, I was to the right of the...

‘There are young people dying in ­British jails again’ — Kneecap say what the world is ignoring m.independent.ie/opinion/naoi...

Naoise Dolan: Aontú gives us an early Christmas gift with Winter Lights gripes. Peadar, you really shouldn’t have! Loyal readers of this paper might recollect that I hate summer. “Is there literally anything this relentless curmudgeon does enjoy,” you may ask. The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind — the mo...

‘How do you know someone used to live in Berlin? They’ll tell you — though I would never be so gauche as to bring up that time I got into Berghain on a guestlist without queuing.’ This week’s Sunday Independent column m.independent.ie/opinion/naoi...

Trí dhán Bhleá Cliath Ó ócaid Aerach Aiteach Gaelach

Trí dhán faoi Bhleá Cliath a léigh mé os ard aréir ar ócáid Aerach Aiteach Gaelach naoise2.substack.com/p/tri-dhan-b...

What could be putting young women off marriage? It really isn’t that much of a mystery | Naoise Dolan Survey data suggests more and more girls can’t imagine getting married, while their male counterparts are keener. That disparity holds a clue, says writer Naoise Dolan

I may not be able to pronounce her name but I could read her all day.

@naoisedolan.bsky.social on marriage.

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Palestine campaigning in Ireland and the UK has badly needed more union action and collective support of workers. That’s where the most power is, not with celebrity activists; the murder machine relies on labour. Stand with this Tesco worker who refused to handle Israeli goods

Irishman facing ‘inhumane’ trial and conditions in Britain Though Jordan Devlin is an Irish citizen the Irish government hasn’t intervened.

Jordan Devlin from Antrim is among the Palestine Action prisoners being horribly mistreated. His comrades’ hunger strike is now entering its fourth week, with dangerous negligence from authorities www.ontheditch.com/irishman-amo...

Naoise Dolan: My hunger strike experience pales in comparison to Palestine Action activists’ plight A co-ordinated prison hunger strike has been ongoing for three weeks and has gained hardly any media attention.

Palestine Action-linked prisoners have been on hunger strike for three weeks now, with hardly any media attention. We need to stand with them and amplify what’s happening m.independent.ie/opinion/naoi...

Aontaím go hiomlán, bhí sé briste ón tús ó pheirspictíocht dhaonna ach ní hé sin an ceann acusan is cinnte!

Israel has killed at least 280 people in Gaza since the ‘ceasefire’ took effect. ‘The fragile ceasefire’ is a hand-wringing euphemism. It’s not fragile. It’s broken.

Dlúthpháirtíocht ó Éirinn, is gá idirghabháil a dhéanamh i gcoinne cinedhíothaithe ⁊ ba cheart dúinn uilig a bheith buíoch go bhfuil daoine á dhéanamh

Naoise Dolan: Climate action needs more class traitors like Greta Thunberg Cop30’s politicians, billionaires and bloviators claim they want to protect the Amazon. But in fact they are protecting Amazon, and countless other corporate interests.

The class interests of billionaires are fundamentally opposed to climate justice. Until they and the politicians who support them are willing to betray those interests, climate conferences are mere theatre m.independent.ie/opinion/comm...

Palestine Action Prisoners’ Hunger Strike to Become Biggest Since Irish Republicans | Novara Media Six Palestine Action prisoners are on hunger strike calling for all Israeli arms factories to be shut down and the end to what they call ‘systematic abuse’ in prison. Harriet Williamson reports.

Palestine Action activists in the UK are coordinating what will soon be the largest rolling prisoners’ hunger strike since the 1981 Irish hunger strike led by Bobby Sands novaramedia.com/2025/11/11/p...

Caithfimid ár rudaí (Gaelacha) féin a chruthú Ní caoirigh muid

Anailís @naoisedolan.bsky.social , mar chléach: níl an rialtas ar tí aon rud suntasach a dhéanamh ar son na teanga gan a bheith fórsáilte. An rath is mó a bhí ar an ngluaiseacht na Gaeilge, tharla sé nuair a chruthaigh na Gaeil ... gan a bheith ag fanacht le cead

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