I created a longer version of the BBC News Theme - The News Countdown.
With its dramatic build, and the combination of rave sounds, pulsing beat and pips,
and the BBC Concert Orchestra at #AbbeyRoadStudios This is how It happened.
#BBC #BBC NewsThemeTune #BBC NewsCountdown

Big business says union busting doesn't happen in Ireland.

But that's a lie.

Tom is a delivery worker who was sacked for organising a union – this is his story.

Join the campaign to #StopUnionBusting

respectatwork.ie

The shamelessness of Irish politicians making a target of immigration purely to misdirect attention towards migrants, instead of addressing the many, many issues THEY'RE responsible for but not solving - housing, healthcare, the things people actually care about. Pure cowardice.

'...We claim for our national independence the recognition and support of every free nation in the world, and we proclaim that independence to be a condition precedent to International peace hereafter:...'

Declaration of Independence
Dublin, 21 January 1919

I'll be helping to lead a session on 'Decolonisation and Sustainability' at this workshop at the RIA on 30 May at 14:00 (UTC+1) organised by the Environmental Humanities Working Group of the Irish Humanities Alliance. Registration is free and open to researchers of all stages:

Right on time: new dashboard presenting 60 party manifestos for Irish local and European Parliament elections from 1999 to 2024.

You can read the manifestos, search for keywords across all documents, and download the files.

➡️ Dashboard: irishpoliticsdata.shinyapps.io/manifestoexplo…

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UCD will be at @nafsa 2024 Conference & Expo! 🇮🇪🇺🇸

Come by ✨Booth 1501✨ in the expo hall to meet our UCD reps and learn all about our learning abroad programmes, subject offerings, undergraduate research modules, and to explore Study Abroad partnerships!

#UCDGlobal

I run a university – people like me should be backing students' right to protest over Gaza | Patrizia Nanz dlvr.it/T7RWMG

My new Cambridge University Press book – Ulster’s Lost Counties: Loyalism and Paramilitarism since 1920 – is out! It is expensive / discount code BURKE2024 via the link below. Paperback to follow🤞Arts and Humanities Research Council
cambridge.org/9781009469289

IRA HQ 24 May 1923 | Special Army Order | Cease Fire - Dump Arms: 'The Government and Army Council have decided to order that armed resistance to Free State 'Government' will cease. To avoid armed conflicts it is necessary that the arms of all ranks be dumped...' Frank Aiken, CoS

Against a backdrop of calls for students with dyslexia to be given extra time during State exams, one pupil has explained why she feels it is necessary.
Dublin student Lucy Brennan continues our series of reports on some of the challenges facing the Class of 2024 #LeavingCert2024

Around this time in the scéal I get tagged in posts where people ask if (or announce that) the word 'tory' comes from an Irish word for thief or bandit.

And yes, it's not incorrect. BUT in the interest of accuracy one detail can't go unraised..

🚨 Exciting postdoc opportunities University College Dublin. 3 x 3-year postdoc positions on 'Solidarity, Sovereignty, and Sanctuary on the Seas: A Global History of Boat Refugees since the 1940s' (SOS), an European Research Council (ERC) project at UCD History UCD Arts&Humanities A History of Boat Refugees since the 1940s (SOS) Deadline: 21 June

And we’re off! Dr Bairbre Fleming opening the University for All Symposium and posing the significant question: how do we address the Big Picture in Access and Inclusion. Intersectionality and collaboration is key! #UniversityForAll

Absolutely surreal to see myself and Trinity News featured on CNN CNN International speaking about the encampment and Trinity’s subsequent divestment. TNs poll was also quoted in the report! It is such an honour to see student journalism recognised internationally.

'It is the third high-profile departure in recent weeks from the station, after The 2 Johnnies and Doireann Garrihy announced they were also leaving RTÉ 2FM.'
Ireland treats the two Johnnies as a single entity in much the same way as we embrace the concept of the holy trinity. ☘️

Recalling here the OAS’ destruction of the University of Algiers Library in June 1962 and the destruction of the National and University Library in Sarajevo in 1992.

So glad the news is out and I can talk about this marvellous novel at last - an extraordinary, multidimensional work - challenging yet intimate. Such an honour to have been selected as a judge for this award Dublin City Libraries Dublin City Council International Literature Festival Dublin