Tony Craig
@tonycraig.bsky.social
Associate Professor Modern History, Intelligence and Security, Diplomacy, Northern Ireland and Britain's End of Empire.
Congratulations to Dr Helen Yates on the successful defence of her PhD thesis today! Dr Yates' thesis was titled "Staying Alive: Crime, Agency, and Trauma during the Great Irish Famine of 1845-1852"
October 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Congratulations to Dr Helen Yates on the successful defence of her PhD thesis today! Dr Yates' thesis was titled "Staying Alive: Crime, Agency, and Trauma during the Great Irish Famine of 1845-1852"
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A column from @frankie49.bsky.social that manages to link Festy Ebosele, James Joyce and Wittgenstein, via Connemara
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A Feast of Festy: A new lease of life for a colourful Irish name
Festus, from the Latin for ‘joyful’, is a popular boy’s name in Nigeria
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October 16, 2025 at 7:37 AM
A column from @frankie49.bsky.social that manages to link Festy Ebosele, James Joyce and Wittgenstein, via Connemara
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...
Harvard. On offer this week at Lidl.
September 13, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Harvard. On offer this week at Lidl.
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"Visitors stage anti-migrant march in Galway"
Other journalists should take notes on reporting from Maxim Kelly.
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Other journalists should take notes on reporting from Maxim Kelly.
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August 8, 2025 at 8:02 AM
"Visitors stage anti-migrant march in Galway"
Other journalists should take notes on reporting from Maxim Kelly.
www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...
Other journalists should take notes on reporting from Maxim Kelly.
www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...
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If you have to write about awful people gathering and doing awful racist things, then this is absolutely the way to do it. www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...
Visitors stage anti-migrant march in Galway
Galway city centre was especially busy last Saturday, with racegoers, summer tourists and the unusual addition of a march by far-right agitators, met by an anti-fascist counter demonstration, causing ...
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August 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
If you have to write about awful people gathering and doing awful racist things, then this is absolutely the way to do it. www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...
Fantastic new book here showcasing the excellent new research out there in intelligence history. So happy my author's copy arrived today. 🙂↔️
July 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Fantastic new book here showcasing the excellent new research out there in intelligence history. So happy my author's copy arrived today. 🙂↔️
50 free copies of this short review from me of Peter Finn and Robert Ledger (eds),The official record: oversight, national security and democracy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... An even shorter review would be 'go read it'.
The official record: oversight, national security and democracy
Published in Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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June 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
50 free copies of this short review from me of Peter Finn and Robert Ledger (eds),The official record: oversight, national security and democracy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... An even shorter review would be 'go read it'.
Oli North would've used Signal.
March 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Oli North would've used Signal.
Gordon Correa just now, 'Oleg Gordievsky has died. A KGB officer who spied for MI6, he supplied vital intelligence that helped manage tensions between the West and the Soviet Union in the 80s. Nothing suspicious to his passing, I understand'
March 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Gordon Correa just now, 'Oleg Gordievsky has died. A KGB officer who spied for MI6, he supplied vital intelligence that helped manage tensions between the West and the Soviet Union in the 80s. Nothing suspicious to his passing, I understand'
Today's fantastic trip to MoD Chicksands and their Military Intelligence Museum, topped with a talk from Defence Intelligence. #universityofstaffordshire #ProudToBeStaffs .
March 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Today's fantastic trip to MoD Chicksands and their Military Intelligence Museum, topped with a talk from Defence Intelligence. #universityofstaffordshire #ProudToBeStaffs .
I'm not sure I understand, the NZ High Comissioner got sacked because there aren't parallels you can draw between the Munich Agreement (and the Nazi-Soviet Pact for that matter), or because there are. #appliedhistory www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New Zealand fires UK envoy Phil Goff over Trump comments
Phil Goff asked if Trump
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March 6, 2025 at 11:03 AM
I'm not sure I understand, the NZ High Comissioner got sacked because there aren't parallels you can draw between the Munich Agreement (and the Nazi-Soviet Pact for that matter), or because there are. #appliedhistory www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Percy Jackson for World Book 2025 and he's nailed the hair.
March 6, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Percy Jackson for World Book 2025 and he's nailed the hair.
@helenyates.bsky.social Here you go!
Created a starter pack for #IrishHistory on Bluesky - apologies if I’ve left folks out - let me know go.bsky.app/TQ96Hoe
February 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
@helenyates.bsky.social Here you go!
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social absolutely smashing it last night, right when the world needs clarity, the Newsnight team delivers again. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Newsnight - US Votes With Russia at UN
Three years to the day since Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the US breaks with its Western allies to side with Russia at the United Nations. With Victoria Derbyshire.
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February 25, 2025 at 10:29 AM
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social absolutely smashing it last night, right when the world needs clarity, the Newsnight team delivers again. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
How pictures paint a thousand words!
Dear Justin, it’s a pleasure to see you in Brussels.
Canada is one of our most trusted allies.
Our partnership is strong and thriving. We are ready to take it even further.
→ europa.eu/!VkrXJm
Canada is one of our most trusted allies.
Our partnership is strong and thriving. We are ready to take it even further.
→ europa.eu/!VkrXJm
February 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
How pictures paint a thousand words!
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Hearing first from the bereaved and survivors is a very moving and powerful way to start the public hearings of the Omagh Bombing Inquiry. Reading the inquiry’s terms of reference, I was struck by how historically challenging some of its judgements will be for the Inquiry to make.
January 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Hearing first from the bereaved and survivors is a very moving and powerful way to start the public hearings of the Omagh Bombing Inquiry. Reading the inquiry’s terms of reference, I was struck by how historically challenging some of its judgements will be for the Inquiry to make.
And here was me hoping Trump would pull a William Henry Harrison and catch pneumonia on from his inauguration. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Donald Trump's inauguration moved indoors due to 'dangerous' cold
The last president to be sworn-in indoors was Ronald Reagan in 1985, when cold weather also plagued the US Capitol.
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January 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
And here was me hoping Trump would pull a William Henry Harrison and catch pneumonia on from his inauguration. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This Saturday I'll be hosting an Open Day for anyone interested in the attendance Security and Intelligence undergraduate degree programme here at the University of Staffordshire. Roll up Roll up.. spread the word, and sign up here www.staffs.ac.uk/visit/underg...
Undergraduate Open Day - University of Staffordshire
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November 26, 2024 at 7:37 PM
This Saturday I'll be hosting an Open Day for anyone interested in the attendance Security and Intelligence undergraduate degree programme here at the University of Staffordshire. Roll up Roll up.. spread the word, and sign up here www.staffs.ac.uk/visit/underg...
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I'm offering a short online course for the American Irish Historical Society over 3 weeks in December. Researching the Irish in the American Civil War- from where they fought to navigating pension files and other records. More details and how to sign up here: aihsny.org/events-2/aih...
AIHS History Course: Researching the American Civil War — American Irish Historical Society
Join Dr. Damian Shiels for a three part course into using several fascinating archives in your Irish in the Civil War research.
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November 20, 2024 at 6:59 PM
I'm offering a short online course for the American Irish Historical Society over 3 weeks in December. Researching the Irish in the American Civil War- from where they fought to navigating pension files and other records. More details and how to sign up here: aihsny.org/events-2/aih...
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Is notre dame hockey afraid of starting The Troubles 2
November 19, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Is notre dame hockey afraid of starting The Troubles 2
#BritishFBI UK National Crime Agency to sack their PR Team after evidence emerges that nobody knows who they are. www.lbc.co.uk/news/major-t...
'Major' Turkish supplier of small boats for Channel migrant crossings arrested as 'British FBI' swoop in airport
A suspected people smuggler has been arrested in Amsterdam, accused of supplying small boats for English Channel crossings.
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November 14, 2024 at 4:46 PM
#BritishFBI UK National Crime Agency to sack their PR Team after evidence emerges that nobody knows who they are. www.lbc.co.uk/news/major-t...
"“I was hoping we could get one of those foreign bosses, like the Catholics have. Someone who could work a bit of latin magic on the team and bring back the glory days we haven’t seen since Henry the Eighth." newsthump.com/2024/11/12/c...
Church of England appoint Sam Allardyce to shore things up until the end of the season
The Church of England has announced Sam Allardyce as the new Archbishop of Canterbury until the end of the season.
newsthump.com
November 14, 2024 at 8:28 AM
"“I was hoping we could get one of those foreign bosses, like the Catholics have. Someone who could work a bit of latin magic on the team and bring back the glory days we haven’t seen since Henry the Eighth." newsthump.com/2024/11/12/c...
#UncivilWar Hope you can tell I really enjoyed reading this one. academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
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Uncivil War: The British Army and the Troubles, 1966–1975, by Huw Bennett
For many decades, scholars have debated how the Northern Ireland Troubles might be defined; whether a guerrilla or civil war, insurgency or terrorist campa
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September 10, 2024 at 8:19 AM
#UncivilWar Hope you can tell I really enjoyed reading this one. academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
@bennetthuw.bsky.social
@bennetthuw.bsky.social
After a fantastic week Set in Clay Volume 6 (2024) is now published! sway.cloud.microsoft/JX9n9ThAFvVQ... Congratulations to all those whose work got included and thanks to the team of volunteers, on campus and beyond, who brought the project to completion so smoothly. Delighted to be involved.
Set in Clay Volume 6 2024
Welcome to Set in Clay 2024
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May 24, 2024 at 3:35 PM
After a fantastic week Set in Clay Volume 6 (2024) is now published! sway.cloud.microsoft/JX9n9ThAFvVQ... Congratulations to all those whose work got included and thanks to the team of volunteers, on campus and beyond, who brought the project to completion so smoothly. Delighted to be involved.
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Neil Hannon wrote the new songs for the Wonka movie. The same Neil Hannon that wrote My Lovely Horse for Father Ted. This is like when I found out that Hans Zimmer wrote the theme tune for Going For Gold.
January 8, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Neil Hannon wrote the new songs for the Wonka movie. The same Neil Hannon that wrote My Lovely Horse for Father Ted. This is like when I found out that Hans Zimmer wrote the theme tune for Going For Gold.