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Bryan Fanning

@bryanfanning.bsky.social

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Full Professor of Migration and Social Policy, student of intellectual history #author: Public Morality and the Culture Wars: The triple divide (2023), and those in the above picture.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 5d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · Sep 12

The gridlock in supply is not going to be solved by immigration. If medium income people already here cannot compete with newcomers working in tech etc for whom new expensive apartments are being built, hard to see upside.

Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · Sep 12

How? Existing supply rising slower than increase on population in need of housing; currently a slow down of new properties at a time of high immigration?

Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · Sep 12

I wish it was as you say but high levels of immigration in recent years, in the absence of corresponding rise in the availability of housing, especially affordable housing for rent, is imposing a social cost on society, particularly in Dublin.

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Simon Communities of Ireland @simoncommunity.bsky.social · Jul 8

Registrations are open for this month's #SimonTalks

We are excited to be joined by Michelle Norris and Altaf Hossain from UCD's Geary Institute for Public Policy.
Join us as we discuss Housing Precarity and Migrants in Dublin!

Register 👇
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Simon Talks featuring Michelle Norris and Altaf Hossain from UCD's Geary Institute. The webinar, titled 'At The Margins: Housing Precarity and Migrants in Dublin,' is scheduled for 21st July 2025, 10–11am. Hosted by the Simon Communities of Ireland.

Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · Jul 3

Goodnight

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · Jun 11

Guess what!? My biography of Henri Bergson will be available in paperback NEXT WEEK (June 19th)! John Banville called it "the most intellectually stimulating book I read this year" and the NYT called it "lively and deft". Get your copy here (or don't I'm not a cop): linktr.ee/eherring

Herald of a Restless World How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social · May 15

🧵To mark the publication of "Rituals of Migration" @kevinkenny.bsky.social & @irpinaingiro.bsky.social 👏 to the Bluesky contributors @hidehirota.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @appalachianphilly.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social nyupress.org/blog/2025/05...

Ten Rituals of Migration by Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari - NYU Press

What do migrants do, feel, think, eat, and carry with them—on the eve of departure, in transit, and when returning home? Rituals of Migration offers snapshots of Italian and Irish migrants... READ MOR...

Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · May 4

My first time in Bilbao

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Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · Apr 20

Loki ten years ago. Never look down.

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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · Apr 12

BIG BIG news for us - this is a former hardware shop ( O'Doherty's in Patricxk Street, Templemore town Tipperary. The new home of our much larger warehouse for @thebookshopie.bsky.social , AND.. a used bookshop in the two story part - called 'The Book Temple' ( see what we did there? #templemore

The exterior of our new and future warehouse home - on Patrick Street, Templemore, Tipperary Ireland - the former O'Doherty's Hardware. The new bookshop is in the part on the right ( under Builder's Providers' ) as it was.

Interior of the shop looking out to Patrick Street. The building is long so this makes it look narrower than it is , with bookshelves on both sides and the inside of the front door on the left

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Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social · Apr 12

I have a very personal essay in today’s Irish Times about the grandfather I never met, the historian KH Connell

www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · Apr 11

🚨FT Permanent Job 🚨
My department is hiring a lecturer (B/B) in 18th-c. Irish history, with the desire for someone whose research and teaching pertains to the Irish 'long eighteenth century (1690-1830)...and broader international, political and intellectual context of the period.' 🗃️

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Edward Burke @edwardburke.bsky.social · Apr 11

Pleased to say that my book - Ulster's Lost Counties: Loyalism and Paramilitarism since 1920 - is available to pre-order in Paperback (delivery from 22 May) via Cambridge University Press.
www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...

Ulster's Lost Counties | Irish history

www.cambridge.org

Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · Apr 4

Me

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Damien Walter @damiengwalter.com · Apr 4

Stock market crashed
Dictators appeased
Liberals censored

Maybe Trump is a Tanky?

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · Feb 14

Outside, it's a florist's. Inside, it's a stark reminder of women killed violently in Ireland #speirgorm

jrnl.ie/6622859

Outside, it's a florist's. Inside, it's a stark reminder of women killed violently in Ireland

This St Valentine’s Day, Women’s Aid is raising awareness of violence against women and calling for men to stand up as allies.

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Donal Coffey @donalcoffey.bsky.social · Feb 11

It has been brought to my attention that one of my books is available for free in PDF format through the National Academic Digital Library of Ethiopia, so have at it if you are interested in 1930s constitutionalism in Ireland: ndl.ethernet.edu.et/handle/12345...

National Academic Digital Library of Ethiopia

ndl.ethernet.edu.et

Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · Jan 25

At The Brutalist. There’s an intermission. Only another few hours to go. This is what cinemas are for.

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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · Jan 20

🤰🇺🇸 “What these things have in common with each other is that basic anxiety over rapid social change and the feeling of not being in control of change.”
- Professor @bryanfanning.bsky.social , UCD Professor of Migration and Social Policy
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/m...

Birthright Citizenship Under the 14th Amendment Defined America. Will Trump End It?

The 14th Amendment made the U.S. a place where every child was born equal under the law. That might be about to change.

www.nytimes.com

Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · Jan 9

So I asked The AI on X whether Elon Musk posts untrue statements on his platform

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Mukesh Kapila @mukeshkapila.bsky.social · Dec 23

Ego-bruised genocide scholars squabble while world burns: a tragic farce. It matters not a jot if Gaza situation is or is not declared a genocide coz that brings no relief for obvious suffering of people - which is what is urgent & should consume all our energy www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Defining genocide: how a rift over Gaza sparked a crisis among scholars

New reports by human rights groups use the term to describe Israel’s offensive. The debate has fueled a brutal division among those who study mass violence

www.theguardian.com

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · Dec 4

"Ar Ais chuig an Am atá le Teacht le Beo agus Raja: Scéal ón mBithgheilleagar Fadó: Aistear Ama in lonad na Seandálaíochta
Turgnamhaí agus an Chultúir Ábhartha, UCD"

By N. Wright, L. Ní Chléirigh, M. Nic an Bhaird, A. Radini, B. O’Neill, A. O’Sullivan, and T. P. Curran

hdl.handle.net/10197/25437

Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · Dec 4

Tomorrow at
3.00pm.
I’m really pleased to have
a chapter in this excellent book

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Sam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · Dec 4

Congrats to @shamimmalekmian.bsky.social on her award today at the Shine Mental Health Media Awards for this story! (That's @lokapila.bsky.social on stage accepting on her behalf.) #MHMA2024
dublininquirer.com/2023/12/13/a...

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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · Dec 1

5% of Aontú transfers in Cork South-West go to Holly Cairns

The sheer inscrutability of voters on the micro level is something I genuinely love about Irish politics

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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · Nov 25

Dublin! Another chance to hear me talk about my book is coming up on 4 December. Tickets are free, register here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/hotel-lux-...

Hotel Lux: An Irishwoman in 1920s Moscow

Dr. Maurice Casey shares the story of May O’Callaghan, a radical journalist who found herself at the heart of revolutionary Russia.

www.eventbrite.ie

Bryan Fanning @bryanfanning.bsky.social · Nov 27

You can read the paper here: ideas.repec.org/p/ucd/wpaper/2…

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · Nov 27

This week's Ó Cléirigh seminar in
@ucddublin.bsky.social
at 4pm on 29 Nov is Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh (Edinburgh), ‘The visuality of Irish manuscripts in the age of print’

Fáilte roimh chách /all welcome.

And feel free to re-post.

Research schedule for the months November-December, with an image from a medieval Irish manuscript.