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Dr Aileen O'Carroll

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Sociologist (#work, #time &). Policy at @dri_ireland (#archive #data #privacy #gdpr ). @ Maynooth University. (She) cats, jokes & typos @aaocarroll.bsky.social

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My colleagues and I collected oral histories of repeal campaigners - they, and our project reports, can be found here repository.dri.ie/catalog/kk91v7…


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Met him once in the Ha’penny Inn pub in Dublin. After a Socialist Worker meeting. He was with an A&R guy I vaguely knew from TCD. I saw him looking at the copies of SW in my hand & we started chatting. He bought a copy off me & said he sold it back in the day. A gent. RIP Mani.

Words are simply not enough - RIP Mani a beautiful soul & a great friend - we are all absolutely devastated -reunited with your beautiful wife - our thoughts are with your family & friends #LoveFromLiverpool 🙏🙏🙏

TheFarm_'s tweet image. Words are simply not enough - RIP Mani a beautiful soul & a great friend - we are all absolutely devastated -reunited with your beautiful wife - our thoughts are with your family & friends 
#LoveFromLiverpool 🙏🙏🙏


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Reading a book, 'The Londonderry Plantation'. Then English view of native Irish has parallels with dehumanisation of Palestinians/ethnic minorities today. The Irish were "generally denounced as barbarians, ignorant, superstitious, depraved, inveterate enemies of social order."

GAHargan's tweet image. Reading a book, 'The Londonderry Plantation'. 

Then English view of native Irish has parallels with dehumanisation of Palestinians/ethnic minorities today.

The Irish were "generally denounced as barbarians, ignorant, superstitious, depraved, inveterate enemies of social order."

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“Researchers deserve more than short-term contracts. They deserve security, dignity, and a voice.” Inspiring words from IFUT’s Miriam Hamilton on the urgent need to transform researcher working conditions in Irish HE. 📖 Read more: ucc.ie/en/rsa/newssem… #Precarity


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A group of Cork nurses with long covid gave a presentation to Oireachtas members and staff in the Dáil recently, as their pay is set to be cut from the end of this year. echolive.ie/corknews/arid-…


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7/11 I'm resuming this thread, because the Seanad Committee Stage of the #Defamation (Amendment) Bill resumed today oireachtas.ie/en/debates/deb… Senator Joe Conway and Minister @OCallaghanJim referred to online defamation and @SenatorMcDowell picked up the baton:


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Discrimination against Travellers doesn’t just harm our community — it harms society. Racism anywhere is injustice everywhere.


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This Yom Kippur of 5786, we at Jews for Palestine Ireland cry out for justice.

JewishPeace's tweet image. This Yom Kippur of 5786, we at Jews for Palestine Ireland cry out for justice.

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On 1 October 1916, Ireland shifted from Dublin Mean Time to align with London. For 36 years, Irish clocks ran about 25 minutes behind Greenwich Mean Time, but the Time (Ireland) Act ended that tradition, setting clocks back 35 minutes to match Europe.

DCLAReadingRoom's tweet image. On 1 October 1916, Ireland shifted from Dublin Mean Time to align with London. For 36 years, Irish clocks ran about 25 minutes behind Greenwich Mean Time, but the Time (Ireland) Act ended that tradition, setting clocks back 35 minutes to match Europe.

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The thing about the arc of the moral universe bending toward justice over the long term is that every day between now and then adds another mountain of corpses and ocean of grief. That the better world is coming doesn't make this one any less intolerable, arguably makes it moreso


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There's something for everyone in our Special Collections and Archives such as this lovely little 1990s pamphlet for all the nature lovers out there. 📷"Flora and fauna of the Dublin Mountains : an environmental guide", produced by Dublin City Council

DCLAReadingRoom's tweet image. There's something for everyone in our Special Collections and Archives such as this lovely little 1990s pamphlet for all the nature lovers out there. 

📷"Flora and fauna of the Dublin Mountains : an environmental guide", produced by Dublin City Council
DCLAReadingRoom's tweet image. There's something for everyone in our Special Collections and Archives such as this lovely little 1990s pamphlet for all the nature lovers out there. 

📷"Flora and fauna of the Dublin Mountains : an environmental guide", produced by Dublin City Council

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Hundreds visited funerals of anarchist, anti-fascist and painter David Chichkan in #Kyiv on Monday with commemoration event taking in place at Maidan in center of the city. #DavidChichkan #Anarchism #Ukraine

bad_immigrant's tweet image. Hundreds visited funerals of anarchist, anti-fascist and painter David Chichkan in #Kyiv on Monday with commemoration event taking in place at Maidan in center of the city.

#DavidChichkan #Anarchism #Ukraine
bad_immigrant's tweet image. Hundreds visited funerals of anarchist, anti-fascist and painter David Chichkan in #Kyiv on Monday with commemoration event taking in place at Maidan in center of the city.

#DavidChichkan #Anarchism #Ukraine
bad_immigrant's tweet image. Hundreds visited funerals of anarchist, anti-fascist and painter David Chichkan in #Kyiv on Monday with commemoration event taking in place at Maidan in center of the city.

#DavidChichkan #Anarchism #Ukraine
bad_immigrant's tweet image. Hundreds visited funerals of anarchist, anti-fascist and painter David Chichkan in #Kyiv on Monday with commemoration event taking in place at Maidan in center of the city.

#DavidChichkan #Anarchism #Ukraine

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Ireland has not had a coordinated national investment programme in research infrastructure since the PRTLI ended in 2015, the absence of ring-fenced funding has left annual investment far below what’s needed to keep our research system competitive and fit for the future.


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“When I entered Gaza the Israeli military had a rule: I was only allowed to bring in three kilos of food. As I was weighing out protein bars, trying to get under the limit, I said to my husband: ‘How sinister is this?’ I’m a humanitarian aid worker. Why would there even be a…

humansofny's tweet image. “When I entered Gaza the Israeli military had a rule: I was only allowed to bring in three kilos of food. As I was weighing out protein bars, trying to get under the limit, I said to my husband: ‘How sinister is this?’ I’m a humanitarian aid worker. Why would there even be a…

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I love how in the 1920s the one Indian store in Dublin only took out adverts in the Irish Republican newspaper @An_Phoblacht Based

MarkAgitprop's tweet image. I love how in the 1920s the one Indian store in Dublin only took out adverts in the Irish Republican newspaper @An_Phoblacht 

Based
MarkAgitprop's tweet image. I love how in the 1920s the one Indian store in Dublin only took out adverts in the Irish Republican newspaper @An_Phoblacht 

Based
MarkAgitprop's tweet image. I love how in the 1920s the one Indian store in Dublin only took out adverts in the Irish Republican newspaper @An_Phoblacht 

Based

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As you know I am a student in Gaza and I’ve an offer in TU Dublin, my semester starts in September and my student visa is processed. My last hope of surviving from this genocide was being evacuated by Ireland and get my chance in life. (1)


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Join us online on Tuesday 29th at 12pm to celebrate #InternationalBogDay with a free talk digging into the representations of the bog in Heaney’s poetry, from the personal to the political, featuring readings from his collections: nli.ie/exhibitions-ev…

nli.ie

Striking Inwards and Downwards

A Celebration of International Bog Day through Seamus Heaney’s Poetry


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Couldn't let Wendy Cope's 80th birthday pass without posting this absolute knock-out punch of a poem.

phillipcrymble's tweet image. Couldn't let Wendy Cope's 80th birthday pass without posting this absolute knock-out punch of a poem.

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The #Defamation (Amendment) Bill fails to protect public interest speech by providing inadequate protections against #SLAPPs cearta.ie/2025/07/defama… My new blogpost


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We're hiring! Two fully-funded 4-year PhD scholarships available at the Department of History, in the ERC Consolidator Grant project "Insurgent Temporalities: Fascism as a Global Anti-Universalist Project" (INTEMPO) led by Prof Raul Cârstocea. jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU289/phd…


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Ireland spends less than any other country in the EU on social welfare as a % of GDP, and less than half the EU average. Inequality is growing. And the Govnt wants to double defence spending to €3 bn a year.

PBresnihan's tweet image. Ireland spends less than any other country in the EU on social welfare as a % of GDP, and less than half the EU average. Inequality is growing.

And the Govnt wants to double defence spending to €3 bn a year.

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