@bridmcgrath.bsky.social
Historian of #earlyModern #Irish #parliaments and towns & palaeography. #Gaeilge agus fáilte. #Cyclist. Fellow Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.bsky.social ORCID ID 0000-0003-0636-0499
The world will remember how the EU and its member states respond to this catastrophic tragedy. Silence and neutrality in the face of genocide constitutes complicity. Inaction emboldens perpetrators and betrays every principle the Union and its states claim to uphold
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
#BREAKING International Court of Justice issues a ground-breaking judgement affirming legal obligations on States to take action on climate. #ICJ #ClimateJustice Live stream here: go.icj-cij.org/4f3KGgM
Request for Tenders: EU Presidency Advocacy Support. The Environmental Pillar has planned a specific workstream in relation to the Irish EU Presidency and is seeking additional capacity to support in the development and implementation of our workplan environmentalpillar.ie/request-for-...
#History #SkyStorians Giving our Research Bursary scheme another plug! Deadline 15 August.
Gaza is being starved by Israel. Aid is available but the Israelis are refusing to allow access to those who need it. Time is running out fast.
If you’re based in Ireland, please email your TD now to demand the government takes action to ensure the aid gets in.
action.uplift.ie/campaigns/ga...
"Do we really believe that this is going to be limited to Palestine and the Middle East?" ― UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese
The new National Development Plan proposals released today represent yet another retreat from real #ClimateAction by the government
greenparty.ie/news/governm...
#NDP @hazelchu.bsky.social @rodericogorman.bsky.social @pidgeon.ie
€22bn allocated for transport in the NDP of which €2bn we know is for MetroLink. There's zero reference to where the other €20bn will go.
25 foreign ministries have made a joint statement calling for "the war in Gaza to end now", including the UK, much of the EU [not Hungary], Canada, Japan, Norway, Switzerland
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Gaza is now officially in IPC Phase 5, the final stage of hunger. Designated as 'catastrophe'.
A further 67 of the starving were killed by IDF soldiers yesterday trying to access food. Witnesses say the victims had their hands held in the air.
One day, everyone will have always been against this.
In Lebanon, over 200,000 Palestine Refugees depend on UNRWA for essential services including education, healthcare, and humanitarian assistance.
Amid the crises and increasing needs, #UNRWAworks to uphold dignity, and critical access to services.
📄 Learn more: www.unrwa.org/resources/fa...
Loved this special - #bogs #peatlands @npwsireland.bsky.social and looking forward to hearing @janeclarke.bsky.social read in @nlireland.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social event on Saturday - we've a few late release tickets - message us if you want to put your name on one #IntBogDay
We are receiving desperate messages of starvation from #Gaza, including from our colleagues.
Food prices have increased 40 fold.
UNRWA has enough food for the entire population for over three months, stockpiled just outside Gaza.
Lift the siege and let aid in safely and at scale.
Fears of a Russian invasion are palpable in the Baltic states. My views at #MacGill25 www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
If you read one thing today - make it this by @andrimagnason.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/o... gift share #climate change is everything change
Oh God that’s all we need.
Great lineup!
Today in Glasgow a man is arrested for holding a sign reading "Genocide in Palestine. Time to take action"
Meanwhile the head of the Israeli air force who has overseen the killing of thousands of Palestinians is welcomed to an RAF conference
www.thenational.scot/news/2532523...
“Only god”, terror and fear in ICE detention
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...
That's the question of our time.
We have now published the programme for the 2025 Tudor & Stuart Ireland conference at UCD on 21-22 August. All details can be found here: tudorstuartireland.com/2025-confere...
An interesting development:
Defending decency.
Looks like a full house in Kilkenny this evening for my talk titled #Climate and the Everything Emergency. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.
Two-year-old Laila Khatib was shot in the head by Israeli forces while inside her home in the occupied #WestBank.
According to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Israeli forces have repeatedly used unnecessary, disproportionate, and often lethal force against Palestinians.
Oireachtas committee hears the anti-semitism card played in support of Israel as Alan Shatter brazenly misrepresents the bill on trade with Israeli-backed settlements in the Occupied Territories as a ‘boycott Jews bill’.
A charge that’s both unfair and false.
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
So much looking forward to not voting for Mairead McGuinness for president.