Aidan Beatty
@aidanbeatty.com
History Lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University and President of the American Conference for Irish Studies
Current research: Capitalism and Irish nationalism
Old research: aidanbeatty.com/books/
Current research: Capitalism and Irish nationalism
Old research: aidanbeatty.com/books/
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Aidan Beatty
@aidanbeatty.com
· Mar 20
For the last year @brian-hanley.bsky.social and I have been working on a proposed edited book on the global history of the Irish far-right. Today we are signing a contract to publish this with NYU Press and their Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series
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November 21, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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If you'd like to read a review of my book where I am accused of holding "petty-bourgeois political sensibilities" (yes you read that correctly)--well, then, do I ever have a review for you!
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Two new books on Marx and Marxism
What both books avoid is precisely what Marx insisted upon: that the liberation of humanity requires the political independence of the working class and the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism.
www.wsws.org
November 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
If you'd like to read a review of my book where I am accused of holding "petty-bourgeois political sensibilities" (yes you read that correctly)--well, then, do I ever have a review for you!
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Aproveitei o embalo e fiz uma tradução.
“As duas esposas irlandesas de Friedrich Engels”, de Aidan Beatty — tradução – O Triunfo do Realismo
otriunfodorealismo.blog
November 8, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Aproveitei o embalo e fiz uma tradução.
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“As duas esposas irlandesas de Friedrich Engels”, de Aidan Beatty — tradução
https://otriunfodorealismo.blog/2025/11/08/as-duas-esposas-irlandesas-de-friedrich-engels-de-aidan-beatty-traducao/
https://otriunfodorealismo.blog/2025/11/08/as-duas-esposas-irlandesas-de-friedrich-engels-de-aidan-beatty-traducao/
November 9, 2025 at 7:47 AM
“As duas esposas irlandesas de Friedrich Engels”, de Aidan Beatty — tradução
https://otriunfodorealismo.blog/2025/11/08/as-duas-esposas-irlandesas-de-friedrich-engels-de-aidan-beatty-traducao/
https://otriunfodorealismo.blog/2025/11/08/as-duas-esposas-irlandesas-de-friedrich-engels-de-aidan-beatty-traducao/
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If you're at Historical Materialism this week, I'll be talking about my new chapter, 'British Marxism and the Coup in Chile' + chairing the launch event for our book, 'In Solidarity, Under Suspicious: the British Far Left from 1956' - Saturday, 10-11.45, Birkbeck.
Please do come along!
Please do come along!
November 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
If you're at Historical Materialism this week, I'll be talking about my new chapter, 'British Marxism and the Coup in Chile' + chairing the launch event for our book, 'In Solidarity, Under Suspicious: the British Far Left from 1956' - Saturday, 10-11.45, Birkbeck.
Please do come along!
Please do come along!
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Aidan Beatty, Private Property and the Fear of Social Chaos
"Modern conceptions of property were conceived through race, but also race was invented through property" (46).
October 27, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Aidan Beatty, Private Property and the Fear of Social Chaos
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4x4-year, fully-funded PhD opportunities to work with an interdisciplinary group at Trinity College Dublin 2026-2030.
One of these is to work with me on a public history and cultural heritage PhD, in collaboration with one of Dublins most interesting neighbourhoods.
www.tcd.ie/graduatestud...
One of these is to work with me on a public history and cultural heritage PhD, in collaboration with one of Dublins most interesting neighbourhoods.
www.tcd.ie/graduatestud...
PhD Opportunity - Trinity East - Graduate Studies | Trinity College Dublin
Professor Timothy Stott and his team are inviting applications to doctoral research on the heritage of Trinity East in Grand Canal Dock, Dublin.
www.tcd.ie
October 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
4x4-year, fully-funded PhD opportunities to work with an interdisciplinary group at Trinity College Dublin 2026-2030.
One of these is to work with me on a public history and cultural heritage PhD, in collaboration with one of Dublins most interesting neighbourhoods.
www.tcd.ie/graduatestud...
One of these is to work with me on a public history and cultural heritage PhD, in collaboration with one of Dublins most interesting neighbourhoods.
www.tcd.ie/graduatestud...
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BC Ireland is now accepting applications for the Neenan Fellowship in Irish Studies!
Interested scholars should submit all necessary application materials to Professor Mike Cronin by November 17.
Interested scholars should submit all necessary application materials to Professor Mike Cronin by November 17.
October 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
BC Ireland is now accepting applications for the Neenan Fellowship in Irish Studies!
Interested scholars should submit all necessary application materials to Professor Mike Cronin by November 17.
Interested scholars should submit all necessary application materials to Professor Mike Cronin by November 17.
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As the History Representative for ACIS, I have the distinct privilege to chair the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book. If you, or someone you know, has a book copyrighted in 2025 in Irish Studies please do consider submitting! Details here. 🗃️ #speirgorm
Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book | American Conference for Irish Studies – An Chomhdháil Mheiriceánach do Léann na hÉireann
Don Murphy, husband of ACIS Past President Maureen Murphy, was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, and died in New York on March 2, 1986. He received his bachelor of electrical engineering degree and his…
acisweb.org
October 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
As the History Representative for ACIS, I have the distinct privilege to chair the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book. If you, or someone you know, has a book copyrighted in 2025 in Irish Studies please do consider submitting! Details here. 🗃️ #speirgorm
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I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
www.thenation.com
September 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Fun to chat with Aidan for the channel!
Talking about police surveillance, archives and queer lives with @aearls.bsky.social
newbooksnetwork.com/love-in-the-...
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September 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Fun to chat with Aidan for the channel!
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Talking about police surveillance, archives and queer lives with @aearls.bsky.social
newbooksnetwork.com/love-in-the-...
newbooksnetwork.com/love-in-the-...
September 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Talking about police surveillance, archives and queer lives with @aearls.bsky.social
newbooksnetwork.com/love-in-the-...
newbooksnetwork.com/love-in-the-...
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Join me on Thursday for my official book launch virtual event! Free & open to the public
📢Book Event📢
Join us next Thursday for a discussion with @aearls.bsky.social and @jaretthenderson.bsky.social about Earls' latest work Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Same Sex Desire in Ireland, 1922-1972
📅Thursday, Sep 4
⏰9amPT/12pmET
Free and open to the public
Info and RSVP at the link!
Join us next Thursday for a discussion with @aearls.bsky.social and @jaretthenderson.bsky.social about Earls' latest work Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Same Sex Desire in Ireland, 1922-1972
📅Thursday, Sep 4
⏰9amPT/12pmET
Free and open to the public
Info and RSVP at the link!
Love in the Lav with Averill Earls | NACBS
Join NACBS to celebrate the publication of Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Same-Sex Desire in Ireland, 1922-1972.
www.nacbs.org
September 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Join me on Thursday for my official book launch virtual event! Free & open to the public
Happy to have a chapter about the Workers Revolutionary Party in this upcoming edited collection
Final cover proof!
Pre-order the hardback edition for your institutional library now: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
Pre-order the hardback edition for your institutional library now: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
August 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Happy to have a chapter about the Workers Revolutionary Party in this upcoming edited collection
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all welcome :-)
August 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
all welcome :-)
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Talking about feminism, radicalism and neoliberalism with @camillafitz.bsky.social
newbooksnetwork.com/rethinking-f...
newbooksnetwork.com/rethinking-f...
August 5, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Talking about feminism, radicalism and neoliberalism with @camillafitz.bsky.social
newbooksnetwork.com/rethinking-f...
newbooksnetwork.com/rethinking-f...
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Taner Akçam, Marianne Hirsch, and I introduce the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network and call for immediate concrete measures to prevent further atrocity crimes and to protect civilians in Gaza.
As scholars of genocide, we demand an end to Israel’s atrocities | Open letter
Within weeks, 400 colleagues joined our organization. We say: it is not too late to save lives. End the genocide now
www.theguardian.com
July 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Taner Akçam, Marianne Hirsch, and I introduce the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network and call for immediate concrete measures to prevent further atrocity crimes and to protect civilians in Gaza.
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Call for reviewers!!
#IrishStudies #AcademicSky
Looking for reviewers for Irish Studies books from around the world for ESTUDIOS IRLANDESES - Irish Studies Around the World
Some of the books I'm hoping to get reviewed below - email me if you are interested!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
#IrishStudies #AcademicSky
Looking for reviewers for Irish Studies books from around the world for ESTUDIOS IRLANDESES - Irish Studies Around the World
Some of the books I'm hoping to get reviewed below - email me if you are interested!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
ESTUDIOS IRLANDESES - Irish Studies Around the World
If you wish to add your book to this list please contact me _________________________________________________________________________ The Irish Bildungsroman Edited by Gregory Castle, Sarah L. Townse...
docs.google.com
July 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Call for reviewers!!
#IrishStudies #AcademicSky
Looking for reviewers for Irish Studies books from around the world for ESTUDIOS IRLANDESES - Irish Studies Around the World
Some of the books I'm hoping to get reviewed below - email me if you are interested!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
#IrishStudies #AcademicSky
Looking for reviewers for Irish Studies books from around the world for ESTUDIOS IRLANDESES - Irish Studies Around the World
Some of the books I'm hoping to get reviewed below - email me if you are interested!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Talking about Christian Zionism, Messianic Christians and Northern Ireland with @valtglas.bsky.social on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
newbooksnetwork.com/judaizing-ch...
newbooksnetwork.com/judaizing-ch...
June 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Talking about Christian Zionism, Messianic Christians and Northern Ireland with @valtglas.bsky.social on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
newbooksnetwork.com/judaizing-ch...
newbooksnetwork.com/judaizing-ch...
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Um they’re real 🥹
#LoveInTheLav
So thankful for all the people who made this book possible, from the @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social PhD program to research support from the NEH & St Olaf, to many friends & colleagues who read chapter drafts & cheered me on.
12 years in the making
#LoveInTheLav
So thankful for all the people who made this book possible, from the @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social PhD program to research support from the NEH & St Olaf, to many friends & colleagues who read chapter drafts & cheered me on.
12 years in the making
June 16, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Um they’re real 🥹
#LoveInTheLav
So thankful for all the people who made this book possible, from the @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social PhD program to research support from the NEH & St Olaf, to many friends & colleagues who read chapter drafts & cheered me on.
12 years in the making
#LoveInTheLav
So thankful for all the people who made this book possible, from the @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social PhD program to research support from the NEH & St Olaf, to many friends & colleagues who read chapter drafts & cheered me on.
12 years in the making
Had a great conversation with the new podcast run by Hegel Haus in Stuttgart
deadbeatphilosophy.substack.com/p/ideologies...
deadbeatphilosophy.substack.com/p/ideologies...
May 9, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Had a great conversation with the new podcast run by Hegel Haus in Stuttgart
deadbeatphilosophy.substack.com/p/ideologies...
deadbeatphilosophy.substack.com/p/ideologies...
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Dr. Edda Fields-Black has been awarded the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History! 👏
She was awarded for her book "COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid and Black Freedom during the Civil War,” which recounts the most successful slave rebellion in U.S. history.
➡️ cmu.is/Pulitzer-2025
She was awarded for her book "COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid and Black Freedom during the Civil War,” which recounts the most successful slave rebellion in U.S. history.
➡️ cmu.is/Pulitzer-2025
May 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Dr. Edda Fields-Black has been awarded the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History! 👏
She was awarded for her book "COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid and Black Freedom during the Civil War,” which recounts the most successful slave rebellion in U.S. history.
➡️ cmu.is/Pulitzer-2025
She was awarded for her book "COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid and Black Freedom during the Civil War,” which recounts the most successful slave rebellion in U.S. history.
➡️ cmu.is/Pulitzer-2025
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Amazing history PhD opportunity at Trinity College Dublin to work on women’s experiences of maternity care in Dublin, 1950-2020. Dream supervisory team of @drdeefoley.bsky.social and @earner.bsky.social. 🤩Closing date 23 May. #histmed
PhD opportunity at TCD under the supervision of Dr Deirdre Foley and Dr Lindsey Earner Byrne.
April 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Amazing history PhD opportunity at Trinity College Dublin to work on women’s experiences of maternity care in Dublin, 1950-2020. Dream supervisory team of @drdeefoley.bsky.social and @earner.bsky.social. 🤩Closing date 23 May. #histmed
Talking about Andrew Hartman’s (@andrewhartman.bsky.social) new book in Jacobin this morning
April 15, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Talking about Andrew Hartman’s (@andrewhartman.bsky.social) new book in Jacobin this morning