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Des Fitzgerald
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Co-director: https://www.ucc.ie/en/future-humanities/radicalhumanitieslaboratory/
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desfitzgerald.bsky.social
I replaced midweek alcohol with shin ramyun, and I think it might actually be worse?
February 9, 2026 at 9:40 PM
desfitzgerald.bsky.social
Genuinely could not have gone worse
My position in the bluesky map. The nearest cluster is labelled 'British Academic Historians.'
February 9, 2026 at 10:07 AM
desfitzgerald.bsky.social
The absolute shame of a Cork person describing the UK as "our great country." Fascinating, too, to so blithely erase your own immigrant positionality while spearheading anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘The only honourable course’: Morgan McSweeney’s resignation statement in full
Keir Starmer’s chief of staff leaves job over role in Peter Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2026 at 6:53 PM
desfitzgerald.bsky.social
<haha yes sickos meme>
A cardboard box containing a moccamaster. The box is on a white table with a plant and blue print on the background.
February 8, 2026 at 4:47 PM
desfitzgerald.bsky.social
The architecture profession genuinely doesn't get anything like the hate it deserves.
An image from dezeen illustrating a proposal to build a rail loop across "British cities" that include Belfast and Dublin.
February 7, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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drtinamorin.bsky.social
I very much look forward to welcoming Dr. Peter Hession to @unioflimerick.bsky.social as our inaugural O'Malley Fellow!

www.ul.ie/news/inaugur...
Inaugural recipient of the O’Malley Fellowship: Advancing Irish Studies joins 'remarkable community of scholars' in University of Limerick
Dr Peter Hession is the first appointee of the new University of Limerick O’Malley Fellowship: Advancing Irish Studies, supported by the Irish American Cultural Institute. Dr Hession, a historian curr...
www.ul.ie
February 6, 2026 at 3:01 PM
desfitzgerald.bsky.social
Is it wrong that I really want to buy this
portrait of eamon de valera in a charity shop window
February 6, 2026 at 11:29 AM
desfitzgerald.bsky.social
Domino meme. Small domino says "Charlie McCreevy halves capital gains tax in 1997." Large domino says "Resignation of Keir Starmer"
February 6, 2026 at 9:55 AM
desfitzgerald.bsky.social
As a committed Ireland rugby hater, and someone who kept the flame alive through the long, hard years when Ireland were good at rugby, I'm struggling to process the fact that Ireland appear to be, once again... shit at rugby?!
February 5, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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orlaegan1.bsky.social
#SpéirGhorm #SpeirGorm
Image of Cork Public Museum in Fitzgeralds Park with text: Cork LGBT Archive is developing a Cork LGBT Permanent Exhibition in Cork Public Museum. We are looking for objects to display in the exhibition. Do you have any Cork Queer Memorabilia from prior to 2000? Would you be willing to donate them to the Cork LGBT Archive? It won't be possible to display everything as space is limited. Contact: CorkLGBTHistory@gmail.com
February 5, 2026 at 11:36 AM
desfitzgerald.bsky.social
The spatial problem here is that we are governed by ideological suburbanites.
February 5, 2026 at 9:39 AM
desfitzgerald.bsky.social
It really is like a particle accelerator for all the absolute worst shit of the last 25 years.
That is because later in 2016 Epstein was notified by email that genetic testing kits from the company 23 and Me would “be delivered to Woody and Soon Yi."
February 3, 2026 at 6:39 PM
desfitzgerald.bsky.social
Yeah, it'd be brilliant though if the "US Congress" could just mind its own fucking business 👍
February 3, 2026 at 3:43 PM
desfitzgerald.bsky.social
A must-read paper for UK and international social scientists: the Sullivan Review "(re)installs.. a hygienically patrolled division between ‘sex’ and ‘gender’, where a certain model of sex is ‘reality’, and ‘gender identity’ is cast merely as an individual's (psychological) ‘self-understanding.'"
jaytoddgla.bsky.social Jay Todd 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaytoddgla.bsky.social · 6d
📣 Today @felicitycallard.bsky.social and I have published the first peer-reviewed response to the 'Sullivan Review' of research and data on sex and gender.

doi.org/10.1111/tran...

The Review could threaten trans rights and inclusion, erode academic freedom, and undermine research quality.
Graphic reading 'the UK Government-commissioned 'Sullivan Review' of sex and gender in data and research collection threatens British research and trans inclusion. Here's why.'
February 3, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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jaytoddgla.bsky.social
📣 Today @felicitycallard.bsky.social and I have published the first peer-reviewed response to the 'Sullivan Review' of research and data on sex and gender.

doi.org/10.1111/tran...

The Review could threaten trans rights and inclusion, erode academic freedom, and undermine research quality.
Graphic reading 'the UK Government-commissioned 'Sullivan Review' of sex and gender in data and research collection threatens British research and trans inclusion. Here's why.'
February 3, 2026 at 9:13 AM
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felicitycallard.bsky.social
By those whom we love are we made. That education and practices of pedagogy have come to have such a central place in my life is unimaginable without my dear uncle, Andrew Carruthers Garrod. I miss you fas.dartmouth.edu/news/2026/02...
Remembering Andrew Garrod, Visionary Educator and Humanitarian | Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The professor of education emeritus dedicated his career to amplifying student voices and bridging cultural divides.
fas.dartmouth.edu
February 2, 2026 at 8:28 PM
desfitzgerald.bsky.social
So I went to the blarney stone and it's actually a terrifying experience?! New respect for our US tourist friends.
Man preparing to kiss the blarney stone. Man kissing the blarney stone.
February 1, 2026 at 12:32 PM
desfitzgerald.bsky.social
Anyway, we put on the Guillermo Del Toro Pinnochio and the 5yo started balling because of the death of a child in the opening scene, then the 3yo started screaming at the sinister little wooden creep who replaced him. Overall: two stars, possibly not suitable for young kids.
January 29, 2026 at 7:43 PM
desfitzgerald.bsky.social
We're at that point in the January rain cycle where one wonders whether Ireland's history of emigration is not, in fact, surprisingly modest.
January 29, 2026 at 1:24 PM
desfitzgerald.bsky.social
If you want to keep your peace as an irish person on this website, my advice is don't search for commentary on the irish traitors (which, alas, is now on bbc). #speirgorm
January 29, 2026 at 9:51 AM
desfitzgerald.bsky.social
It blows my mind that universities in Europe are still blithely using Microsoft products - including to store highly sensitive research data and email - when microsoft has very explicitly said that it will hand over anything demanded by the openly lawless US govt.
hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13d
“The French government announced that it will stop using American video conferencing platforms such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom, and replace them with Visio, a French platform.”
Zoom Is the First Casualty in France's War on American Big Tech
Homebrewed video conferencing may not be a moonshot, but you gotta start somewhere.
gizmodo.com
January 28, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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felicitycallard.bsky.social
I wrote on psychic life and Palestinian resistance

– to ensure more people read Abdaljawad Omar @hamayel.bsky.social.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
For the Palestinian people, psychic life is just as much a site of struggle for liberation as social life. Palestinians are persistently refused psychological amplitude, characteristics easily granted to those who are never worried they might fall out of what is constituted as the category of the human. Abdaljawad Omar’s writings in English published since October 7, 2023 (as well as writings by other Palestinians, other Arabs, and those of Palestinian descent) offer means of understanding material resistance in relation to the terrain of the psyche. Omar offers distinctive accounts of mourning, loss, and ruins, as well as of how settler colonialism reorganizes experiences of time and relations between past, present, and future. The article reads Omar’s writings against other accounts of mourning and of psychic phenomena that are indebted to psychoanalysis. Omar’s analyses of Palestinians’ resistance to unfreedom and annihilation open up other ways of understanding the psychic vicissitudes of those who suffer, grieve, and struggle to exit a colonial condition characterized by the colonizer’s repeated attempts to break psychic worlds as well as erase bodily life. Understandings of psychic life that do justice to how Palestine is redrawing the world are central to the work of ‘cracking history open’.
January 28, 2026 at 7:31 AM
desfitzgerald.bsky.social
Still waiting for that analysis of the role of unversity social science in the UK's ongoing far-right resurgence, transphobic panic etc.
pippacrerar.bsky.social Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 13d
NEW: Former academic Matt Goodwin has been announced as Reform UK's candidate for the Gorton & Denton byelection.
January 27, 2026 at 2:57 PM
desfitzgerald.bsky.social
Fair play, "law enforcement losing the confidence of the community" is an unbeatable description of what happened in NI.
A post by David Allen Brain: Dear USA Policing and law enforcement losing the confidence of the community does not end well. Yours, Great Britain and Northern Ireland
January 26, 2026 at 9:29 PM