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Pádraig Durnin 🇵🇸

4 months

Pleased to see this article I've written for @IrishStudiesRev on the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement published. Glad to make my contribution to this special issue and to what will be a wave of long-overdue work on the IAAM over the next year or two.

“Acting on apartheid in a way that is consonant with the Irish people’s love of freedom”: anti-ap...

This article seeks to provide a broad overview of anti-apartheid activism in Ireland, in doing so, demonstrating that anti-apartheid activists in Ireland forged a distinct identity grounded in Irel...

www.tandfonline.com

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Pádraig Durnin 🇵🇸

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4 years

'British historians write almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it.' Eric Williams

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I am just so tired

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The most amusing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland.

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Gerry Adams opening a live TV interview with words "coola boola" while wearing a full Antrim GAA kit speaks to the vibe of this election. #GE2020

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Having deemed Saturday's Dundee march in solidarity with Palestinians under genocidal Israeli bombardment 'illegal' under an obscure local by-law, at 8 o'clock this morning Police Scotland arrested Jim Barlow, a well-known local activist of almost 50 years' standing, at his home.

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There are left-wing positions that age badly and then there's this.

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Why are American Catholics the most Protestant thing on the internet?

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Dundee (population approx. 150,000) has more drug deaths per annum than the entire nation of Portugal (population approx. 10 million). Let that sink in.

Ash Sarkar

@AyoCaesar

5 years

Scotland has the highest rate of drugs deaths in Europe. The only reason why we’re not pursuing decriminalisation, which took Portugal from the worst overdose rate in Europe to just 30 fatalities a year, is cos politicians are more worried about losing votes than saving lives.

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3 years

The street preacher who's been going up and down around Queen's this week just gave us the line, "this is Satanic Avenue, not Botanic Avenue", and you know what, you can't deny that's a zinger.

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@padraigdurnin

1 year

Few life trajectories can surpass this one.

Cultural Revolution OTD 1974

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1 year

29/6/73 Zhang Tiesheng starts writing to appeal his exam results but nods off. He wakes up late for his next exam and has sneak in through a window.

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Rachel Wearmouth

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Understand @paulmasonnews has been cut out of the Stretford & Urmston Labour selection race before making the shortlisting stage I'm told this was a decision by the local selection committee

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A Basque friend once told me about an American they came across camping above their village who'd taught himself *perfect* Basque, even using reasonably obscure Basque terms for things that most Basques use Castillian loan words for (he didn't have a word of Castillian Spanish).

Wrath Of Gnon

@wrathofgnon

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The strangest story in literature right now might be that of Tettyo Saito, a Japanese man born 1992 who basically never leaves his suburb outside of Tokyo, taught himself Romanian on Facebook and is now a published author of Romanian language novels and poetry. Respect.

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4 years

Never underestimate the spontaneous combustibility of a historic building on a valuable development site.

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@padraigdurnin

3 years

England has a fascinating, globally-unique political system where the functioning opposition to the government of the day is entirely composed of current and former professional footballers.

ℓουℓου 🕷♥️

@SkiptomyLoulou

3 years

In response to Edwina Currie, who is un-fucking-believably heinous,＠GNev2 says the language used by the Tories is 'divisive and dangerous', and that 'To reduce universal credit payment at this time is brutal.' Personally, I would like to see Gary Neville as our PM.

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4 years

The only impressive thing about the Irish @Labour Party is how it managed to beat all the other Labour Parties to that Twitter handle.

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1 year

Although Jim has now thankfully been released, the outrageous police bail conditions imposed prohibit him from setting foot in the city centre until a hearing in late November – a blatant attempt to stymie further protest.

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4 years

It strikes me how confusing the international response to the death of Bobby Sands must be to those who view "the Troubles" as essentially an outbreak of regressive "green vs orange" parochialism, which is perhaps why it tends to be omitted from their narratives altogether.

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Quite a story in the Sunday Mail today: a senior figure in a Scottish pro-Israel group looks like he's going to lose his job as a teacher after creating a fake Facebook profile claiming to be a Palestine solidarity activist and posting anti-semitic slurs.

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@padraigdurnin

4 years

One of the very few surviving Irish Citizen Army uniforms in the world, and I'm told the only one on public display.

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1 year

Participants in the march on social media confirming that while spontaneous, the route taken was agreed with the police on duty at the time, and no action was taken or threatened against anyone involved as the march proceeded.

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@padraigdurnin

5 years

Here's a photo I'd never seen before: Larkin, Connolly, "Big" Bill Haywood, as well as the Scottish-born Liverpudlian socialist Mary "Ma" Bamber, whom Sylvia Pankhurst called the "finest, fighting platform speaker in the country".

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@padraigdurnin

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The "individual Catholics are proxies for Vatican influence" trope was anti-Catholic bigotry when it was used against John F. Kennedy, when it was used by Ian Paisley against nationalists and republicans here, and is anti-Catholic bigotry in the British Labour Party in 2020.

Paul Mason

@paulmasonnews

5 years

I've just signed this open letter to the Labour leadership candidates. I don't want Labour's policy on reproductive rights dictated by the Vatican, thanks.

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Many if not most Irish parliamentarians in the 1940s were deeply conservative and closely associated with the Catholic Church, but only one of them stood up during the final days of the war in Europe and told the Dáil he hoped Hitler was still alive.

The Irish Times

@IrishTimes

1 year

Charlie Flanagan: ‘My father was a controversial figure. He was deeply conservative, closely associated with the Catholic Church’

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Pádraig Durnin 🇵🇸

@padraigdurnin

2 years

Interesting that the Cuban and Nicaraguan Revolutions were both initially opposed by their official Soviet-aligned parties: the pre-1959 Cuban Communist Party thought Fidel a "bourgeois adventurist", Nicaraguan Communist Party used fairly similar language about the Sandinistas.

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A fascinating but retrospectively chastening map of the Celtic world from 1900. Gives a figure of 3.16 million speakers of Celtic languages, 1.26 million of them being monolingual.

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@padraigdurnin

2 years

Recently discovered there's a guy near Magherafelt who lives in a full-scale replica of Graceland.

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@padraigdurnin

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Managed to find the record of Bloody Sunday perpetrator Cook's (Soldier G) death from the South African end, specifically that he was shot dead by an uMkhonto we Sizwe unit on the South African/Zimbabwean border in Feb. 1986 — a modicum of justice delivered a long way from Derry.

Village Magazine

@VillageMagIRE

2 years

David Burke finally names Soldier G — dead in 1986 in South Africa — who killed unarmed civilians on Bloody Sunday and who had "the sadistic edge" over his partner, Soldier F.

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@kackjennedy @spoonitoria A blatant rip-off of Malta's "Mr Riley".

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3 years

In the way people talk about the Kennedy assassination or 9/11, for generations to come it'll be "where were you when you found out the Pink Peacock was putting shit through its competitors' letter boxes?".

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"Whit's aw this shite? How dae ye no sell mince rolls?"

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4 years

2/3 of the tweets on the Albanian President's official Twitter account are about how much he loves Celtic.

Ilir Meta

@ilirmetazyrtar

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Ready to connect to: 🍀🇦🇱 CELTIC SUPPORTERS CLUB ALBANIA! 🇦🇱🍀 Hail Hail! 🍀🍀 #CelticFC 💚

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Guardian news

@guardiannews

2 years

Irish amateur historian on lonely mission to save ‘bogeyman’ Cromwell from genocide charges

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It doesn't get any better than this.

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@padraigdurnin

3 years

Sacking a well-paid, well-trained staff with decades of experience and replacing them with underpaid and inadequately trained agency workers continues to have predictable consequences.

The Independent

@Independent

3 years

P&O ferry ‘adrift’ in Irish sea with up to 410 passengers aboard 🚨

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"Celtic Symphony discourse is a back", sighs Brian from the Wolfe Tones, as he sets up live notifications from the Irish iTunes chart before lighting a cigar with a fifty euro note.

Rúaidhrí O'Connor

@RuaidhriOC

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'Ooh Ah, Up the Ra!' rings out at the RDS as the Leinster players do a lap of honour and the crowd empties. Not sure the PA has been following the news cycle

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The Irish Green Party is so committed to averting a climate catastrophe that the last Government it was part of sent in the military to defend a gas pipeline against predominantly local environmental protesters.

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@padraigdurnin

4 years

Choose life. Choose surviving the Edinburgh slums. Choose Marxism, and a move to Dublin. Choose to form the Irish Citizen Army and defend workers and strikers with arms. Choose Easter 1916 and to lead a brigade in the GPO. They strapped him to a chair to kill him. #ChooseConnolly

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Strange how Israel was unable to intercept a single Palestinian communication about an attack planned months in advance involving thousands of fighters and yet has been able to rustle this up almost immediately.

Avi Mayer אבי מאיר

@AviMayer

1 year

Whoa: Israeli media is reporting that the IDF has a recording of a conversation between Islamic Jihad terrorists confirming that they launched the rocket that hit the Gaza hospital. It will reportedly be released shortly.

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The IRA campaign ended over two decades ago. Fine Gael first went into Government in its modern incarnation in 1948 with a man who had been Chief of Staff of the (already illegal) IRA less than a decade before, and had spent most of the intervening period defending IRA prisoners.

Leo Varadkar

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Every time Sinn Féin endorse the narrative of violence, they make it more difficult to achieve a united Ireland

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@padraigdurnin

4 years

Is it even a Belfast riot if there isn't a picture of a young guy with his shirt off standing on top of a police Land Rover?

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Incredible that some journo desperate for a new angle on Enoch Burke has rung up the Westboro Baptist Church for comment, and they've essentially gone "don't associate us with him, we don't want the bad publicity".

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@padraigdurnin

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'Condemn me, it does not matter. History will absolve me.' 🇨🇺✊

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Fidharleus the T'Nèg

@fidharleus

3 years

Met an old guy with no bank account. When I asked him why he didn't have one he said "I just never got into that shit"

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This blew up a wee bit! If you're wanting to something practical, download yourself the new @ScotsGaelicDuo and get learning, and sign this petition from @MisneachdAlba urging the Scottish Government to respond properly to the crisis facing Gaelic.

Sign the Petition

Staing na Gàidhlig / Gaelic in Crisis: 5 ceumannan Mhisneachd

www.change.org

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@padraigdurnin

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Imagine believing this.

Ben Harris

@btharris93

4 years

The American and British flags are the only flags in the world that are relatively neutral cultural icons. I can't think of any others? France maybe?

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@padraigdurnin

3 years

Choose your fighter.

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@padraigdurnin

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The helicopter had a history its own. It was originally a gift from De Gaulle to the wife of Nguyen Van Thieu, the Western-sponsored dictator of S. Vietnam, but had been sold on to an Irish company from where a "Mr Leonard" (an IRA member hamming up an American accent) hired it.

Irish Unity 🇮🇪🇵🇸

@IrishUnity

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47 years ago today, 3 IRA POWs Seamus Twomey, JB O’Hagan and Kevin Mallon escaped from Mountjoy Gaol by Helicopter. “It’s up like a bird...” 🇮🇪🚁

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@padraigdurnin

4 years

I'm pretty sure Protestants have Good Friday too you know.

Sir Conor Burns

@ConorBurnsUK

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@JoeBiden Hey @joebiden would you like to discuss the Good Friday agreement? It is also called the Belfast Agreement so it doesn't offend both traditions. Did you actually know that? I was born in NI and I'm a Catholic and a Unionist. Here if you need help.

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Heritage isn't a type of personal identity—there are going to be things that are part of your heritage that you might not want to be there or find unpalatable. Ultimately, there's a historical association between Ulster Protestants and the Irish language whether you like or not.

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@padraigdurnin

4 years

Re. a tweet circulating from a well-known English fascist this morning.

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@padraigdurnin

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There's definitely a particular "I'm doing something important today so I'd better wear my kilt" mentality you come across in some Scottish guys, and I feel Stuart Christie took it to the next level.

Working Class History

@wrkclasshistory

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#OtD 11 Aug 1964 18-year-old Scottish anarchist Stuart Christie was arrested in Madrid, Spain with explosives to assassinate dictator General Franco. He was wearing a kilt, which confused the Spanish press, who described him as "a Scottish transvestite".

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BBC News NI

@BBCNewsNI

5 years

In a statement, @HillaryClinton said it was a "great privilege" to take up the five-year role:

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@padraigdurnin

5 years

Leo Varadkar being chased down the street by press demanding he respond to a statement from the Wolfe Tones is exactly what I needed.

Irish Independent

@Independent_ie

5 years

'Black and Tans' controversy: Taoiseach refuses to comment on RIC event and Wolfe Tones chart-topper

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@padraigdurnin

4 years

The "Billy Boys" is a song about a pre-WWII Brigton gang leader who was a member of the British Union of Fascists and tried to form a Scottish branch of the Ku Klux Klan. The primary current of the Scottish far-right subsists in Loyalism.

Michael A MacLeod

@MAML84

4 years

Does my tits in reading stuff from pro Indy tweeters who think that Far right Loyalist thugs only appeared in Scotland either a) during the Indy Ref or b) after the repeal of the odious OBFA. Who do they think Billy Fullarton was? Pastor Jack Glass?

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Solidarity with the family of John Pat Cunningham, the mentally-impaired man Dennis Hutchings shot in the back. They deserved their justice almost fifty years ago.

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@padraigdurnin

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Scottish cites in order of soundness: 1. Dundee 2. Glasgow 3. Perth 4. Inverness 5. Stirling 6. Edinburgh (only because of Leith) 7. Brechin's a city right? 8. Elgin too. 9. Anywhere else where people outnumber sheep. 10. Aberdeen

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@padraigdurnin

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"there might be as many as 200 persons unlawfully detained" This isn't just about Gerry A, this is about the British Govt. systematically detaining people illegally, knowing about it, and it taking the 30-year-rule and a series of expensive court cases for anything to happen.

The Guardian

@guardian

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Gerry Adams illegally held during Troubles, supreme court rules

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@padraigdurnin

2 years

And breathe.

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@padraigdurnin

3 years

The idea that the "pro-Putin left" is some sort of substantial current beyond a few internet oddballs is a fever dream of the sort of people who would've spent WWI telling you that James Connolly, John MacLean, Sylvia Pankhurst et al. were in the pay of the Kaiser.

Gordon 🇵🇸 / rent controls fan account

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have seen infinitely more people denouncing an imaginary pro-putin left than i've seen leftists supporting putin

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@padraigdurnin

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Appalling use of draconian powers under Thatcher's Public Order Act to ban Cairde na hÉireann's Spanish Civil War commemoration today. Police Scotland are openly using the state-enforced mourning period to suppress political dissent.

Police Scotland Greater Glasgow

@PSOSGreaterGlas

2 years

Section 12 of Public Order Act invoked in relation to planned public procession in Glasgow. Chief Superintendent Mark Sutherland, Divisional Commander for Greater Glasgow Division, has issued a statement. Read it here:

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@padraigdurnin

5 years

I think the News Letter has peaked.

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@padraigdurnin

3 years

Only catching up on some of the Twitter discourse going on here but the Palestinian BDS National Committee - the only definitive arbiters of what is and what isn't a #BDS target - haven't issued any statements calling for a boycott of this year's Eurovision Song Contest.

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4 years

*muted*

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@_Chicanery @Sayers33 @AliceAvizandum They've done actual rebel songs too. Tremendous stuff.

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Me: these online DNA tests are unreliable, are used to propagate racial essentialism, obscure complex vectors of ethnic and cultural identity, not to mention every US Govt. agency you can think of has access to them Also me: 0% English, you see that, 0% English. Sassenach-free.

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Really hurting hearing the news of Dawn Foster's passing. She's been one of my favourite people on here for a long, long time, we've corresponded a fair bit and was just thinking to myself I'd have to give her a shout if I ever found myself in London. A horrendous loss.

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3 years

Too close to South Down for comfort.

New York Post

@nypost

3 years

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro skipping climate summit in Glasgow

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@BigDirtyFry I raise you Malta's very own "Mr Riley".

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"We will not blame him for the crimes of his ancestors if he relents the royal rights of his ancestors; but as long as he claims their rights, by virtue of descent, then, by virtue of descent, he must shoulder the responsibility for their crimes."

The New York Times

@nytimes

2 years

Britain's new king will officially be known as King Charles III, Clarence House has confirmed. Follow live updates:

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In September Michelle O'Neill took the line that Sinn Féin would offer condolences on the Queen's death, but would not take part in ceremonies re. the accession of the new monarch as these were "intended for those whose political allegiance is to the British Crown".

PA Media

@PA

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#Breaking Sinn Fein’s vice president Michelle O’Neill has announced that she will attend the coronation of the King

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5 years

This German Communist poster calling for a British withdrawal from Ireland is the sort of political ephemera I live for.

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And she explicitly disowned her support for divestment from South Africa as a student anti-apartheid activist when she was Principal at the University of St Andrews.

Shona Murray

@ShonaMurray_

1 year

Louise Richardson, who ⁦ @PresidentIRL ⁩ criticized was chair of Anti-Apartheid Society in TCD and friend of Kadar Asmal, who became a minister in Mandela’s gov of Sth Africa. She joined Dunnes strikers on a trip to Johannesburg at height of apartheid

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4 years

Oh yes? Well explain this.

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Extremely embarrassing stuff from the IRSP.

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The end of an eighty-year political dynasty which began with his father being elected as essentially a single-issue anti-Semite.

Ireland Votes

@Ireland_Votes

1 year

BREAKING: @LaoisToday are reporting that Charlie Flanagan, Fine Gael TD for Laois / Laois-Offaly since 1987, has announced that he will not seek re-election at the next general election at a constituency meeting in Clonaslee.

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The existence of "British people".

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@padraigdurnin

4 years

We have a winner.

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@padraigdurnin

4 years

The word "change" (tʃeɪndʒ) was invented in Belfast in 1988, during an all-night meeting of the IRA Army Council. It has been the universal watchword of the Provos and their fellow-travellers ever since.

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@padraigdurnin

5 years

@olcan_shaw @JackONeil90 "Now get that Toilet Duck down you son, show them that we're better together."

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@padraigdurnin

5 years

Ulster Scots is a dialect of Scots, and Scots is a language with a rich and distinct literary tradition at least seven centuries old. Insofar as the consensus in the field of Linguistics is concerned, denying that is no more credible than refusal to acknowledge climate change.

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@padraigdurnin

4 years

Lads, are we winning?

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@padraigdurnin

2 years

Whatever your position on the UCU's strategy in 2023 it's completely inappropriate for the General Secretary to use the union's official social media outlets to present an attack on a decision taken by the union's own NEC.

UCU

@ucu

2 years

WE NEED EVERY SINGLE UCU MEMBER TO RT AND WATCH THIS. In 2023 we will need more strike action to deliver the change our sector needs. We want your views on what that should look like. It’s your union. Help to shape it. #ucuRISING

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@padraigdurnin

1 year

As my name-change suggests I pasded my viva with three months' corrections earlier! Thanks to my supervisors @KConnellWriter and Paul Corthorn, and the panel @kevinkosullivan and @emorier . Getting told Dr Durnin has a ring to it.

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@padraigdurnin

6 years

The #FBPE mob are the worst people in the world.

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@padraigdurnin

3 years

Solidarity with Sally Rooney against the usual disingenuous bad faith actors who'll hurl anything at anyone to preserve the legitimacy of a colonial project born out of genocide and sustained by the permanent exclusion of the Palestinians it expelled and their descendants.

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@padraigdurnin

5 years

Saw this photo circulating online described as a photo of Éamon de Valera's visit to the Isle of Barra in 1947. I'm not sure of its provenance, but the visit certainly happened.

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@padraigdurnin

2 years

The co-founders of John Hume's party were involved in efforts to procure guns for Northern nationalist self defence in 1969 and the man who was leader of Micheál's party when he was first elected to the Dáil attempted to supply them.

Micheál Martin

@MichealMartinTD

2 years

Thankfully John Hume and the large majority of nationalists kept working for the alternative, which always existed. SF revisionist history directly stands in the way of reconciliation and building bridges.

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@padraigdurnin

5 years

Just found out what Hurlford in Ayrshire is called in Gaelic and I'm shook.

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@padraigdurnin

3 years

Punting the idea that Ireland can "appropriate" Palestine solidarity is thoroughly devoid of any historio-political context and more about this website having melted your brains.

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@padraigdurnin

3 years

Far more interested in the sort of thing seen today in Glasgow being challenged at an institutional level than a couple of the Union Bears ending up with a suspended sentence for breach about a year and a half down the line.

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@padraigdurnin

5 years

If you're earning the cumulative rent from 32 flats and haven't put away anything to tide you over a couple of difficult months, well it's really shite to be you, isn't it?

jewdⒶs // ייִדהודה

@jewdas

5 years

YOU 😍 LOVE 😍 TO 😍 SEE 😍 IT

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@padraigdurnin

1 year

At least beyond the loyalist fraternity, this is just unambiguously the case and anyone who would claim otherwise is kidding themselves.

The Daily Record

@Daily_Record

1 year

Former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams says there would have been ‘very few tears’ shed in “working class Scotland” if the IRA had killed Margaret Thatcher

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@padraigdurnin

3 years

The cynic in me says its absolutely in the British state's interests for Dennis Hutchings to drop dead here: scotches any potential for a guilty verdict, plays into the narrative of sick and elderly veterans being "victimised", and leaves the Cunningham family with nothing.

Rt Hon Johnny Mercer

@JohnnyMercerUK

3 years

Dennis was taken to hospital last week; he has now subsequently also contracted COVID. His trial has been suspended for three weeks. A grotesque experience for him only worsens. MoD has an enduring duty of care to him that they must honour, even more-so now.

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@padraigdurnin

4 years

If you didn't get a rush of adrenalin on seeing that statue coming down in Bristol I don't know you.

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@padraigdurnin

4 years

Our challenge by the end of the day is get one gammon on here sincerely believing that the ballots that put Biden ahead in Georgia were filled out by an army of Sinn Féin activists in a back-room of the Felons and flown into Atlanta.

Gerry Adams

@GerryAdamsSF

4 years

Well done @JoeBiden & @KamalaHarris .

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@padraigdurnin

3 years

@liamkiernan59 Famous libertarian communist, Robert Mugabe.

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@padraigdurnin

3 years

Alistair McConnachie (the Holocaust denier who pickets independence marches in a manky Union Jack shirt) won over two thousand votes running under the "Independent Green Voice" label, which seems to be what's tipped that final Glasgow seat to a Tory.

Glasgow Live

@Glasgow_Live

3 years

Patrick Harvie says Greens short by 'just a few hundred votes short' of second Glasgow seat

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@padraigdurnin

4 years

I love the idea of an entire town just going on an outing together.

PictureThis Scotland

@74frankfurt

4 years

Forfar town outing. (c.1900s) Pic: Angus Libraries.

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@padraigdurnin

2 years

My Gran used go on to my Grandad about how much she liked Van Gogh, and so my Grandad (who had no artistic training) decided to paint her one.

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@padraigdurnin

4 years

A story in four parts.

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@padraigdurnin

3 years

The image of prisoners in Chilean jails being given hope after overhearing a crackling report on military radio about the junta's air force being grounded because of what these men had done in solidarity with them remains unsurpassable. Robert Somerville, presente! Nae Pasaran!

Nae Pasaran! - Now On Demand

@NaePasaran

3 years

Here's to the wonderful Robert Somerville, who sadly has moved on, aged 85. Also known as Bobby, Papa or Mr Netherdale (after the youth club of the same name he founded in Motherwell), he was a beloved great-grandfather, a loving husband to Jean and a legendary shop steward.

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