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Martine Brennan @saytheirnamesir.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you Claire. I'm hoping that it will entice the next generation of Irish historians to engage in the work. There are so many untold stories...

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Martine Brennan @saytheirnamesir.bsky.social · 7h

I am so excited to have the opportunity to share my research on #Irish slaveholders with BA students @qubhistory.bsky.social at the kind invitation of Dr Nik Ribianszky, (author of Generations of Freedom: Gender, Movement and Violence in Natchez, 1779-1865) this week. tinyurl.com/4t76e8ep #speirgorm

Irish slaveholders, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Pennsylvania 1670-1865 - Google My Maps

Database (incomplete) created by Martine Brennan, Ireland. Star icon: names of enslaved people attached. Green tags: known or reputed county of birth in Ireland. Blue tags: unknown place of birth in ...

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 11h

Maynooth University graduate Zoë O'Sullivan has been shortlisted as a global finalist for the James Dyson Award for her invention "Lymphia", a device that allows patients to perform lymphatic drainage independently.

Maynooth graduate shortlisted for James Dyson Award

Maynooth University graduate Zoë O'Sullivan has been shortlisted as a global finalist for the James Dyson Award for her invention "Lymphia", a device that allows patients to perform lymphatic drainage...

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 10h

The Irish Blood Transfusion Service is urgently seeking an additional 12,000 blood donations over the next four weeks as most blood groups have fallen to under three days of stock.

Appeal for 12,000 blood donations over next four weeks

The Irish Blood Transfusion Service is urgently seeking an additional 12,000 blood donations over the next four weeks as most blood groups have fallen to under three days of stock.

www.rte.ie

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Immo Rebitschek @immorebitschek.bsky.social · 11h

Fellowships for doctoral candidates or postdoctoral researchers from Poland or Ukraine for a stay of up to six months in Halle. 👇

www.aleksander-brueckner-zentrum.org/forschung/au...

Ausschreibungen

www.aleksander-brueckner-zentrum.org

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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 10h

Come and meet us (and many #FamilyHistory societies and vendors) at the Oxfordshire Family History Society Family History Fair on Saturday 25 Oct 2025. 10am to 4pm at Cherwell School (North Site), Oxford. Free entry, free parking, and chance to chat about #OnePlaceStudies!

#OnePlaceWednesday

Society for One-Place Studies.
Come and meet us.
Saturday 25 October 10:00 to 16:00 at Oxfordshire FHS family history fair, Cherwell School, Oxford.
Free entry!
www.ofhs.uk/fair2025
One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 1d

Miss Major died at home on October 13 in Little Rock, Arkansas, surrounded by loved ones. A Stonewall veteran and surrogate mother to her community, Miss Major was a lifelong advocate for trans liberation.

Trans Activist and Movement Leader Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Dies at 78

A Stonewall veteran and surrogate mother to her community, Miss Major was a lifelong advocate for trans liberation.

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Martine Brennan @saytheirnamesir.bsky.social · 1d

Justice for #Gaza means more than a ceasefire.

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 1d

'You say Russia should pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine. Do you believe Israel should pay for the reconstruction of Gaza?'

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 1d

During an EU Commission press briefing, a journalist questioned the double standards of European policy, asking whether Israel should also be held accountable for rebuilding Gaza — just as the EU demands Russia
The question was met with silence, as the EU spokesperson declined to comment.

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 1d

A disability rights and equality organisation - which will be "upfront and uncompromising" in calling out matters impacting disabled people - has been launched

New disability rights and equality organisation launches

A disability rights and equality organisation - which will be "upfront and uncompromising" in calling out matters impacting disabled people - has been launched.

www.rte.ie

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Orla Hegarty @orla-hegarty.bsky.social · 1d

🇮🇪 Last week

196 people hospitalised with Covid-19, 32 times rate of flu (6 people hospitalised)

Twice as many as last autumn

Still no HSE prevention campaign, still no accurate HSE public health information about transmission respiratorydisease-hpscireland.hub.arcgis.com/pages/covid-19

Line graph showing <100 people /week hospitalised with C19 in autumn 2024 falling in mid year to <50 & rising to >200 in recent weeks

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Martine Brennan @saytheirnamesir.bsky.social · 1d

'Following advice issued by the Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting in 1774, Quakers across the former British colonies concluded that they could no longer reconcile the Quaker Peace Testimony with the inherent violence of slavery.' Kathleen Telling ageofrevolutions.com/2025/10/13/a...

A Great Reputation Among Men: Race and Contested Masculinities in the Early American Republic

By Kathleen Telling In 1785, Robert Pleasants, a wealthy tobacco planter, abolitionist, and prominent member of Henrico County’s Quaker community, penned a letter to Virginia’s most famous son, Geo…

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Arlene Harris @arleneharris.bsky.social · 1d

#journorequest - looking to talk to people in Ireland who live at home with their parents due to being unable to find accommodation of their own. DM today if any thoughts. RTs appreciated. #housingcrisis #housing

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 1d

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 1d

Ethnic cleansing is happening in the #WestBank.

In #MasaferYatta, 85% of homes have been demolished.

More from Celine, Project Coordinator and Frederieke, Humanitarian Affairs Manager:

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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 1d

New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues.
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Cover image of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) Diary, December 21-30, 1972. A purple and green poster-style image featuring text and a leafy plant design.

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Monika Bargmann @librarymistress.bsky.social · 16d

"Mapping the Black Digital and Public Humanities" invites Black Digital and Public Humanities project directors to submit their projects to an interactive map and searchable database of 650+ international #Black #DigitalHumanities and #PublicHumanities projects. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Mapping the Black Digital and Public Humanities - Call for Projects | H-Net

Mapping the Black Digital and Public Humanities formally invites Black Digital and Public Humanities project directors to submit their projects to our interactive map and searchable database of 650+ i...

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 1d

"The histories they interpret compelled them to speak out and put into practice the mantra that history matters."

Mary Rizzo explores how LA historical and cultural institutions mobilize history and practice solidarity in the fight against immigration raids and deportations:

No Going Back

Mary Rizzo examines how four LA historical and cultural institutions mobilize history and practice solidarity in the fight against immigration raids and deportations.

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) @dri.ie · 1d

We are delighted to announce a new collection – Ireland’s Educational Foundations: Digitising and Mapping the 1826 Education Inquiry – has been published in the Repository by @ria.ie in collaboration with Dr. Alan Fernihough of @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social.

Find out more: dri.ie/news/new-col...

A map illustrating various school listings and their locations across different regions.

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Teresa Collins @queen-crafty.bsky.social · 1d

#Áras25 #Vote

Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 1d

She had repeatedly condemned the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Here she is in her own words. www.rte.ie/video/id/282...

Catherine Connolly says she has 'repeatedly condemned' Russia's invasion on Ukraine

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 1d

On October 21, 1850, the Chicago City Council passed a resolution condemning the new Fugitive Slave Law as “cruel and unjust” and directing the city's police “not to render any assistance for the arrest of fugitive slaves.”
www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1430.h...

Fugitive Slave Law of 1850

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Martine Brennan @saytheirnamesir.bsky.social · 1d

Honouring Cre @bschillace.brandyschillace.com

Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 2d

It’s Indigenous People’s Day. Today, I honor my great grandfather, Cre. His mother, a full Cherokee, was wed to a German immigrant with land. They had two children, then the man died. His family dispossessed Cre’s mother; they were forced out of their home in early winter. With no where to go (1/11)

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Connolly for President @catherinegalway.bsky.social · 1d

There has never been a more important time to elect a President who will be independent of Government.

A President who will speak out when it is required. In this election Catherine Connolly is that person.

Vótáil #1 Catherine Connolly on October 24.

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 1d

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 2d

Tonight: Launch of Liverpool Irish Famine Trail: Reveal and its accompanying documentary 🎥 📚
Free tickets are available below ⬇️

Liverpool Irish Festival @livirishfest.bsky.social · Sep 10

📽 World premiere: documentary + book Reveal. 3 years in the making, tracing the Walk of the Bronze Shoes from Ireland to Liverpool.

Boxpark, Mon 13 Oct.
FREE via Eventbrite!

Details: www.liverpoolirishfestival.com?post_type=ev...

#LIF2025 #Reveal @boxpark.bsky.social

Reveal: book and documentary launch - Liverpool Irish Festival

A special preview to launch the Festival: an exclusive first screening of our new documentary and the debut of our long-awaited book, Reveal.

www.liverpoolirishfestival.com

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 2d

This is what presidential looks like.

Independent candidate for Irish president Catherine Connolly TD has always supported Carers & people with disabilities. She was one of only 2 TDs who supported us in the Care Referendum @catherineconnolly.bsky.social

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