Siobhán Burke

If anyone is into knitting or crochet, a Bantry business that was hit by the floods could really do with a bit of support. #speirgorm
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This is disgusting. Rationalizing the bombing of a school that reportedly killed 108 girls.

But since she asked,

"Currently, 161 public schools operate on military installations across the United States."

www.militaryonesource.mil/education-em...

Wonderful! Congratulations!

Communities fight 'corporate' bid for seaweed rights Communities on Ireland's west coast say they will fight to safeguard their traditional seaweed rights against what they describe as a "corporate takeover "of their livelihoods.

Myself and Colin Breen have written in "Maritime Ireland" about seaweed harvesting on Ireland's coastline, in 19th century. These are local rights, well known and established through built features (e.g. wrack walls, kilns, etc). There is no way that such rights be taken over by foreign companies.

The president, who drones on about protecting women’s sports, publicly mocked the women’s gold-medal hockey team. A reminder this was never about protecting women’s sports and it was always about transphobia and misogyny.

After Pope Leo declined to join President Trump’s Gaza “Peace” Board, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt — a Catholic — criticized the pope as “partisan, political, and controversial.”

Meanwhile, Leo’s top Middle East envoy dismissed the board as a pay-to-play “colonialist operation.”

"I say! Are you Georgina?" The child in the opposite bed sat up and looked across at Anne. She had very short curly hair, almost as short as a boy's. Her face was burnt a dark-brown with the sun, and “Famous Five 01 - Five On A Treasure Island” By Enid Blyton 7 her very blue eyes looked as bright as forget-me-nots in her face. But her mouth was rather sulky, and she had a frown like her father's. "No," she said. "I'm not Georgina." "Oh!" said Anne, in surprise. "Then who are you?" "I'm George," said the girl. "I shall only answer if you call me George. I hate being a girl. I won't be. I don't like doing the things that girls do. I like doing the things that boys do. I can climb better than any boy, and swim faster too. I can sail a boat as well as any fisher-boy on this coast. You're to call me George. Then I'll speak to you. But I shan't if you don't." "Oh!" said Anne, thinking that her new cousin was most extraordinary. "All right! I don't care what I call you. George is a nice name, I think. I don't much like Georgina. Anyway, you look like a boy."

To give you an idea of how deranged the UK has become about gender stuff, here's Enid Blyton - the absolute avatar of classic English conservatism and a huge fan of racist "gollywogs" - casually describing a gender non-conforming kid in the 1940s and having their friends be totally cool with it.

You know you're editing an international relations book when you've finished all the referencing up to the end of T and you still have 6 pages to go.... #editing

As a keen forager whose speciality is seaweed and sustainable sourcing I beg you to sign this. There are currently two corps with applications to strip the Irish west coast of seaweed. We cannot let this happen.

Please sign and share. #irish #ireland

The death of medical care for Afghan women | Letter Letter: Dr Carol Mann says the world is silent while women in Afghanistan face a bleak future, in response to an article on the Taliban’s birth control ban

Gender genocide in Afghanistan: "after the demise of the present generation of female doctors, midwives, surgeons and nurses who are still permitted to work, women will receive no medical aid whatsoever."

Five very bargainous books. The rest are also available for cheap!

The whole series is discounted *for today only* so pass it on, tell a friend, stock your kindle etc etc but before midnight…

Quote from the Albanese interview:
"In 2024, Germany arrested more Jewish people than in any other year since the Holocaust. Why? Because they were standing against Israeli violence in Gaza."

US envoys to Israel blocked early warning of 'Apocalyptic Wasteland' in Gaza U.S. Agency for International Development staffers in early 2024 drafted a warning to senior officials in Joe Biden’s administration: Northern Gaza had turned into an “Apocalyptic Wasteland” with dire...

USAID wrote a 2024 cable warning that north Gaza had become an “apocalyptic wasteland” with dire shortages of food and medical aid.

Biden’s Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew blocked it from wider distribution amid a review of Israeli conduct in the war.

www.reuters.com/world/early-...

My dad remembers them too. He told a story once about finding a friend who had enough Irish to help young Connemara men find digs. They had ben sleeping on the site where he was working for Kennedys, I think. This would have been the second hald of the sixties.

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

'I'm in love again,' exclaims my husband, rapturously, as he breezes past me to watch the post-match interviews. #manutd

“”We had this discussion with him two weeks ago or so, you know, that go ahead and protest, but do not engage, do not do anything stupid, basically,” Michael Pretti said. “And he said he knows that. He knew that.””

This is so difficult to read. apnews.com/article/immi...

The term martyr means “witness.” The man was murdered for bearing witness, literally bearing it, not arms but a camera. Murdered for seeing.

An NYT headline reads “Federal Officers Shoot Person in Minneapolis”

It has gotten so bad that the @nytimes.com has stopped using the passive voice to describe the violence.

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

Things you get the privilege to learn about editing international relations scholarship over many years (including the book I'm working on now)

All of this violence is aimed at shrinking civic space and eliminating the capacity for - and people's belief in - collective action at the level between the state and the individual.

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

Irish Romanticism | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

I'm told this will be out in early to mid December. Please forgive coming episodes of shameless self-promotion and make a note of launch dates in your diaries!

UCC 19 February
Boston College 11 March
NYU Glucksman House 12 March
Royal Irish Academy 25 March

www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...

Anyway, it turns out that taking a break from reading the news to edit someone's book chapter on Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen is not a mood lightener.

God forgive me, but I tried to use AI today to tighten up the timings on a Yeats-based tourism itinerary. Its reply was oddly insistent that I should read Yeats' epitaph 'just once'.
Horseman, pass by.

Working on a new cop show called "Lazyboy" about a cop called Lazyboy who solves crimes on his phone from his bed. Semi-autobiographical.