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(Dr) Rena Maguire

@justrena.bsky.social

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Archaeologist. Research Fellow. Iron Age and early medieval material culture .Horses and sharp pointy things, mostly. "Ain't nothin' like me - except me" (Raccoon, 2014). Usually optimistic even if cynical. She/her/thon wan. Personal views only

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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 27d

Here it is.
The newborn book.

My thanks as always to #Trivent Publishing for a beautiful job.

trivent-publishing.eu/home/214-404...

Knock Iveagh: Memory and Materiality in a Community Landscape Cover eBook

Edited by Rena Maguire, Veronica Kelly, Arlene Pattison, Anne Harper Publication date: September, 2025 Pages: 159, 29 images ISBN 978-615-6696-92-2 Paperback, €31.00 ISBN 97...

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Jo Ní Ghiolla Shúiligh @jogil.bsky.social · 2h

This is well worth a listen, both for understanding the primary role of British Colonialism in the trauma of Gaza today and for understanding why feelings about this run so high in Ireland.

Empire Podcast @empirepoduk.bsky.social · 4h

As the ceasefire in Gaza comes into action, today's Empire episode goes back to the 1920s when the British occupied the region.

The Black and Tans, fresh from the Irish War of Independence, arrive in Mandate Palestine to violently impose imperial order, & tensions are rising...

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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 4h

And i saw on Reuters Israel has broken the ceasefire already.....

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Literature Ireland @literatureireland.bsky.social · 5h

We are happy to share our New Writing from Ireland 2025 catalogue, which showcases a selection of the finest Irish writing published each year.

You can read it here: www.literatureireland.com/books/new-wr...

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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 1d

Nor shall they be as robust looking . We've seen from the flotilla how they treat those whose governments can hold them accountable. What mercy for those who have nothing?

(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 1d

I dont think many people with a moral compass will be

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School of Celtic Studies - Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh DIAS @scs-dias.bsky.social · 1d

Samhain agus Science 2025
Sraith léachtaí poiblí de chuid na hInstitiúide
DIAS public lecture series
#DIASdiscovers

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies @dias.ie · 1d

🌙 Get ready for Samhain agus Science 2025 — Halloween fun with a scientific spark! 🔬

Join us for a spellbinding series of talks and events where myth meets methodology 👻🌌

🎟️ Tickets available now here: www.eventbrite.com/cc/samhain-a...!

#DIAS85 #DIASDiscovers

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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 1d

The wee kids and all those detained without trial

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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 1d

As usual the FT cuts through the breathless reporting with a sobering dose of what's actually transpired and transpiring.

on.ft.com/3W4IQUt

Trump’s Gaza plan hinges on security force yet to take shape

Thornier second stage of US president’s proposal includes Hamas’s disarmament and Israel’s withdrawal

on.ft.com

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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 1d

I am very glad that the hostages are freed and their families must also be relieved to see them looking so fit and well.
I hope the same can be said for those released from Israeli jails, back to their families.

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Neil Miles (but spooky) @miles-online.co.uk · 1d

Here's a little something for when randoms turn up in your mentions demanding you explain what you're posting about

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Roibeárd Meillear @beaniebob.bsky.social · 1d

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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 2d

Reading McNeice Autumn Journal on the train.
Never ceases to offer something new each time read.
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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 2d

This.
The state of independence

DKAstrology 🇯🇲🇭🇺 @dkastrology.bsky.social · 5d

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The more conscious a woman becomes, the less of a desire she has to find a partner, or to be with someone who does not add to her life.
She will go thru process of ridding herself from old patterns of caving into societal norms,

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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 2d

I still want to see the plans for hospitals, schools, help for trauma, lost limbs, rebuilding and housing at the same prices they were, not priced out of existence. I want to see justice

الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 2d

The aid trucks Israel wasn't blocking

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 2d

Hundreds of aid trucks carrying food, medicine, and fuel await entry into Gaza at the Rafah crossing with Egypt under the ceasefire.

(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 2d

I appreciate the context but I've got him blocked anyway. I dont get the funnies of it, certainly not after a 39a bus driver telling me to fuck off back north and not take your jobs....

(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 2d

Incidentally I was commenting about him, not you. I appreciate your context. But when you've received quite a bit of abuse in Dublin first your accent IRL....he should be aware the rest of the world isn't up to Dublin nuances:)

(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 2d

Certainly without any context it was...

(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 2d

I seldom look at people's accounts i dont follow.

(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 2d

Same. I will not countenance anyone who advocates violence

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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 2d

Israel has every right to exist as every country on this planet has. To suggest otherwise is moving into dangerous territory.
It does need to become a more humane and decent place,to acknowledge what they've done since 1948 and be prepared to help fix the wrongs

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 4d

“I knew that homosexuality was a sin - I didn’t want to be homosexual. I went to my G.P and said I had read Freud’s book on dreams, that I suffered from homosexuality, and that I would like to change.”

My new article now out in Irish Historical Studies:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-1990 | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core

Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-1990

www.cambridge.org

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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 2d

And we're supposed to know that when not part of that conversation?

Useful to consider use of words and how that looks to others before bouncing onto someone's posts who you dont follow nor follows you.

Useful.to

(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 2d

We aint going away drifting off to Northumberland like....

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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 2d

Im sorry, "true Irish"?

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