Prof Linda Connolly

Ireland picks new president, polls indicate win for pro-Palestine candidate Catherine Connolly, whose campaign was rocked by a last-minute deepfake video, is predicted to win.

Catherine Connolly, whose campaign was rocked by a last-minute deepfake video, is predicted to win.

A Connolly landslide! So interesting that many of the minority arguing against Connolly have either actively denied or not commented in public on the genocide/Israeli war crimes in Gaza which is clearly out of step with Irish public sentiment and position of government parties

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Letters to the Editor, October 18th: On negative presidential campaigning, house prices in the North and South and a Wilde card The candidates should focus more on what they have to offer as a president

Thanks to @irishtimes.com for publishing my letter this morning www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...

You are warmly invited to attend upcoming event on Scholasticide in Palestine and the Responsibilities of Western Universities, taking place on Tuesday, 21 October 2025, from 2:00pm to 5:00pm in the MUSSI Seminar Room and online as part of MU Research Week www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

The time to call out, stop + analyse the annihilation of thousands of people as the likely reaction to a heinous atrocity, enmeshed in 70 years of violent oppression, was 7th October 2023 - to engage in genocide denial but now pose as an expert with a different view is extraordinarily opportunistic

U.N. commission finds that Israel committed genocide in Gaza Israel rejected the conclusions, which echo those of a growing group of governments and human rights organizations.

An independent United Nations commission said that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza.

The commission found indications of intentions to destroy, in whole or in part, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as a group — which it said amount to genocide.

How did UN commission reach its genocide conclusion?

Professor Shane Darcy of the Irish Centre for Human Rights spoke to RTÉ’s News at One about how an independent UN commission reached its conclusion that Israel has committed and continues to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza

Unlikely at this stage, the continued silence merely upholds the original smears and inaccurate reading of the situation

Looking forward to @caitbeaumont.bsky.social ‘s talk this evening, held on the WI’s 110th birthday.

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I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

the second session of the CUP symposium, ‘Claire Connolly ‘the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, vols 4 and 5’

It was a pleasure to speak at the @corkup.bsky.social symposium yesterday

The 35th Irish Conference of Historians is kicking off shortly with opening remarks from Prof. Ian Speller and @petergray47.bsky.social. Looking forward to hearing about fascinating research across a wide range of topics and time periods. @irishhistorians.bsky.social

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Our Symposium is tomorrow – we can’t wait to see you!
📘 Session 4 features Linda Connolly on Attic Press, Thomas McCarthy on Irish Review, Fergal Keane on the Atlas Series + a new series announcement
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Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say International Association of Genocide Scholars resolution backed by 86% of members who voted

No place for genocide denial/deniers now www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Kildare university’s new School of Nursing to welcome first students Applications for BSc in General Nursing open August 28 under CAO ‘Available Places’ facility and first student intake to start studies at Ireland’s newest School of Nursing in September

Our new School of Nursing will welcome its first students in September, following official approval by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI).

The first intake of 30 students will commence their undergraduate studies in September.

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Israel’s attack on hospital in Gaza may constitute a war crime on many fronts - •Double-tap• strike suggests killing of civilians, rescue workers and journalists deliberate and not a mistake

The scale of the evidence and the consensus in the scholarship is as inconvertible as it is horrifying. At the very least, our colleagues in Palestine, who continue to teach and write in the midst of a genocide, deserve that we speak the truth.

Genocide denial statements remain on the public record at a time when continued silence about this should provoke some soul searching - as well as greater respect for the human rights/violence scholars who both named what this was and verifiably condemned the despicable violence of October 7th

…which will achieve nothing

"The suspension of the ISS is a political instrument, not a punishment. It is not directed at individual scholars in Israel, but rather at organisations involved in, or failing to distance themselves from, the genocide in Gaza.

245 journalists killed by Israel in 22 months including 5 today in Nasser Hospital. Unprecedented murder of members of the press + targeting of areas where there is disproportionate risk to civilians. Still stand over the statement you disagree there is a genocide + tarnishing of those who named it?

Famine confirmed in Gaza City region, global hunger monitor says More than half a million people in and around Gaza City are facing catastrophic conditions “characterized by starvation, destitution and death,” the IPC said.

More than half a million people in Gaza City are experiencing famine after almost two years of war, displacement and harsh Israeli restrictions on food and other aid, a new report says.

UCLA's Jewish community unites against Trump's $1-billion demand: 'misguided and punitive' UCLA's Jewish faculty united around a letter conveying anger over a potential $1-billion settlement between the university and the Trump administration over alleged campus antisemitism.

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School Avoidance & Book Tips Association Professor of Psychology in Education Dr Catriona O’Toole advises on how to manage school avoidance, and librarian Darina Molloy has book tips for school avoiders and school starters.

Listen to Dr Catriona O'Toole, on Radio 1 discussing her research on school avoidance. You can listen back to her insightful discussion here-
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‘Too hungry to think, too weak to sit upright. Concentration slips away’: the struggle to stay focused as an academic in Gaza It is hard to keep the mind sharp when the body is thin and dehydrated, but solidarity is teaching starving students their thoughts still matter

‘Too hungry to think, too weak to sit upright. Concentration slips away’: the struggle to stay focused as an academic in Gaza, Ahmed Kamal Junina ‘…solidarity is teaching starving students their thoughts still matter’ ⁦‪@guardian‬⁩ www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The complex question of what it is to be culturally Irish in 2025 Ed Sheeran grew up in England but described himself as 'culturally Irish,' prompting debate about what that really means

Interesting reflections by Fergal Keane on what it means to be Irish in Britain & to be 'culturally Irish' + input from @lindaconnolly.bsky.social. In my case it is pretty simple. Despite moving to UK in 1991, I am just 'Irish' & my 3 kids born in London, feel the same.
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Prof Rob Kitchin

Originally from The Wirral near Liverpool, Prof Rob Kitchin began his career in England before moving to @maynoothuniversity.ie, where his research into data and society has thrived for almost three decades. Read more about his research career journey: www.researchireland.ie/news/profess...

@robkitchin.bsky.social our great colleague featured in this piece @mu-ssi.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie