Mary Gilmartin
@marygilmartin.bsky.social
Geographer, Sligo Rovers fan, writes books, union member
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Mourning the loss of Bill Abom, lifelong champion of justice for overlooked immigrant workers. Read more here: www.dublininquirer.com/mourning-the...
Mourning the loss of Bill Abom, lifelong champion of justice for overlooked immigrant workers
“We remember the work which you believed deeply in, and all of the people who were recipients of your efforts for change, one case at a time.”
www.dublininquirer.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Mourning the loss of Bill Abom, lifelong champion of justice for overlooked immigrant workers. Read more here: www.dublininquirer.com/mourning-the...
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Really interesting CFP for #IrishinBritain scholars here from @museumofthehome.bsky.social .
museumofthehome.org.uk/our-work/res...
museumofthehome.org.uk/our-work/res...
Call for Papers: ‘Irish Blood, English Hearth: creativity, identity and the migrant Irish home' - Museum of the Home
Call for papers for ‘Irish Blood, English Hearth: creativity, identity and the migrant Irish home’, a one-day symposium inspired by the Irish room that was launched at the Museum of the Home in 2024.
museumofthehome.org.uk
December 8, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Really interesting CFP for #IrishinBritain scholars here from @museumofthehome.bsky.social .
museumofthehome.org.uk/our-work/res...
museumofthehome.org.uk/our-work/res...
Finally. Our book is on its way to the printer. Looking forward to seeing it in the flesh in early 2026.
Order online at www.wiley.com/en-ie/Migrat... or through your local bookshop.
Order online at www.wiley.com/en-ie/Migrat... or through your local bookshop.
December 6, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Finally. Our book is on its way to the printer. Looking forward to seeing it in the flesh in early 2026.
Order online at www.wiley.com/en-ie/Migrat... or through your local bookshop.
Order online at www.wiley.com/en-ie/Migrat... or through your local bookshop.
November 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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It is cold and dark outside, and everything has gone out of me except misery.
November 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
It is cold and dark outside, and everything has gone out of me except misery.
A movie that takes place where you're from.
November 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
A movie that takes place where you're from.
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This was published in the Irish Times a week ago but re-sharing because it might be a while before there is another article supporting neutrality in the broadsheets.
November 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This was published in the Irish Times a week ago but re-sharing because it might be a while before there is another article supporting neutrality in the broadsheets.
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The demand for geography and GIS skills has never been greater, and the intellectual approaches and conceptual tools of the discipline are more relevant than ever. Now, community college #geography programs are growing fast and changing the landscape of geography #education: buff.ly/GLo0tWP #GeoWeek
Community Colleges Are Changing the Landscape of Geography Education | ArcNews | Fall 2021
While the relevance of geography is being challenged at the university level, the growth of the field at community colleges is promising.
buff.ly
November 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The demand for geography and GIS skills has never been greater, and the intellectual approaches and conceptual tools of the discipline are more relevant than ever. Now, community college #geography programs are growing fast and changing the landscape of geography #education: buff.ly/GLo0tWP #GeoWeek
Love finding out what people with Geography degrees do next. Like Liam Scales, now a professional footballer (with Ireland and Celtic)
November 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Love finding out what people with Geography degrees do next. Like Liam Scales, now a professional footballer (with Ireland and Celtic)
Solidarity with all colleagues under threat in Dundee.
Day 2 of our strike action.Heres some photos from yesterday’s action.
Come and join us if you value jobs at the University of Dundee.
#SaveDundeeUni #SaveHE
Come and join us if you value jobs at the University of Dundee.
#SaveDundeeUni #SaveHE
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Solidarity with all colleagues under threat in Dundee.
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Irish house, winter edition
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Irish house, winter edition
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Amazing how different Sean Bean looks in real life to the movies
(A joke that I accept will baffle many)
(A joke that I accept will baffle many)
November 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Amazing how different Sean Bean looks in real life to the movies
(A joke that I accept will baffle many)
(A joke that I accept will baffle many)
Shocking how academic staff in Leicester are being scapegoated for management failures. Human Geography at Leicester has always been an exceptional department. Any decent university management would be fighting to keep them.
Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!
November 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Shocking how academic staff in Leicester are being scapegoated for management failures. Human Geography at Leicester has always been an exceptional department. Any decent university management would be fighting to keep them.
Solidarity with the brilliant geographers and all other staff at risk in Leicester and elsewhere. The willful destruction of livelihoods and cultures of knowledge is shameful.
Solidarity to colleagues at Leicester Uni:
"all academic staff in the film studies and modern languages departments have been placed at risk, with "large numbers of staff" in chemistry, geography, geology & the environment (GGE) and history specialisms "uncertain if they will retain their jobs"
"all academic staff in the film studies and modern languages departments have been placed at risk, with "large numbers of staff" in chemistry, geography, geology & the environment (GGE) and history specialisms "uncertain if they will retain their jobs"
University of Leicester confirms formal redundancy consultation
The University and College Union's local branch says staff are planning strike action.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Solidarity with the brilliant geographers and all other staff at risk in Leicester and elsewhere. The willful destruction of livelihoods and cultures of knowledge is shameful.
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Big shout out to the 100+ British Library members out on the picket line today, on strike over pay.
Thanks to @rmtunion.bsky.social general secretary Eddie Dempsey who came along to speak to the strikers in #solidarity.
#BritishLibraryOnStrike #PCSonStrike
Thanks to @rmtunion.bsky.social general secretary Eddie Dempsey who came along to speak to the strikers in #solidarity.
#BritishLibraryOnStrike #PCSonStrike
October 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Big shout out to the 100+ British Library members out on the picket line today, on strike over pay.
Thanks to @rmtunion.bsky.social general secretary Eddie Dempsey who came along to speak to the strikers in #solidarity.
#BritishLibraryOnStrike #PCSonStrike
Thanks to @rmtunion.bsky.social general secretary Eddie Dempsey who came along to speak to the strikers in #solidarity.
#BritishLibraryOnStrike #PCSonStrike
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Look to the many faith-based groups to boost integration in inner-city, a new report advises council. Almost 50 faith-based groups play a big role in helping people navigate civic life in the north inner-city, it says – and the council should tap into them, it says.
Look to the many faith-based groups to boost integration in inner-city, a new report advises council
Almost 50 faith-based groups play a big role in helping people navigate civic life in the north inner-city, it says – and the council should tap into them, it says.
www.dublininquirer.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Look to the many faith-based groups to boost integration in inner-city, a new report advises council. Almost 50 faith-based groups play a big role in helping people navigate civic life in the north inner-city, it says – and the council should tap into them, it says.
Can anyone make Alan's dream come true?
October 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Can anyone make Alan's dream come true?
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At some point in your thirties you’ll lose the ability to sleep past daybreak, so sleep in every chance you get.
Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?
October 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
At some point in your thirties you’ll lose the ability to sleep past daybreak, so sleep in every chance you get.
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Interview with Caoimhe Butterly on the legal observe boat here at the start
The Late Debate on RTÉ Radio 1 rteradioapp.page.link/NHTERJtC2HjM...
The Late Debate on RTÉ Radio 1 rteradioapp.page.link/NHTERJtC2HjM...
October 1, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Interview with Caoimhe Butterly on the legal observe boat here at the start
The Late Debate on RTÉ Radio 1 rteradioapp.page.link/NHTERJtC2HjM...
The Late Debate on RTÉ Radio 1 rteradioapp.page.link/NHTERJtC2HjM...
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Just arrived:
Debt Trap Nation
by @kbrickell.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki
“A compelling call to action... shows how reimagining policy could deliver economic justice.” - @nicolajanesharp.bsky.social
Author royalties will be donated to @seacharity.bsky.social
www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...
Debt Trap Nation
by @kbrickell.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki
“A compelling call to action... shows how reimagining policy could deliver economic justice.” - @nicolajanesharp.bsky.social
Author royalties will be donated to @seacharity.bsky.social
www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...
September 18, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Just arrived:
Debt Trap Nation
by @kbrickell.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki
“A compelling call to action... shows how reimagining policy could deliver economic justice.” - @nicolajanesharp.bsky.social
Author royalties will be donated to @seacharity.bsky.social
www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...
Debt Trap Nation
by @kbrickell.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki
“A compelling call to action... shows how reimagining policy could deliver economic justice.” - @nicolajanesharp.bsky.social
Author royalties will be donated to @seacharity.bsky.social
www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...
I spoke to Dublin Inquirer about this issue, which seems to have been going on since May.
Some prepaid commuters on Dublin’s public transport are finding they have to pay again. Their Leap Cards charged up through the TaxSaver scheme aren’t working.
Some prepaid commuters on Dublin’s public transport are finding they have to pay again
Their Leap Cards charged up through the TaxSaver scheme aren’t working.
www.dublininquirer.com
September 17, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I spoke to Dublin Inquirer about this issue, which seems to have been going on since May.
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He might be right. On the other hand, he might just possibly be wrong. But it didn't really matter much.
September 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
He might be right. On the other hand, he might just possibly be wrong. But it didn't really matter much.
A thoughtful and considered article; worth a read.
For my latest dispatch from Ireland for America Magazine, I talked to 2 bone fide legends, Sr Lena Deevy and Michael O'Sullivan, to investigate how, if you start to scratch, Irish attitudes to immigration aren't that far away from MAGAland. www.americamagazine.org/dispatches/2...
Migration and Irish identity—in the era of Trump deportations
Just about no one in Ireland would say that Irish citizens living in the U.S. are being treated as badly as immigrant residents from Latin America or Africa. But consternation is on the rise about esc...
www.americamagazine.org
August 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
A thoughtful and considered article; worth a read.
