Illan wall
@illanwall.bsky.social
Writes on law and disorder, human rights and critical legal theory, erstwhile Prof at University of Warwick, now lecturing at University of Galway.
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Four pedestrian desire lines. One zebra crossing. 👇
Why do you suppose Galway City Council is so uninterested in enabling foot traffic, @illanwall.bsky.social @kleyden.bsky.social?
They have an Active Travel team, with a bunch of "strategies" lining their shelves.
What's their problem?
Why do you suppose Galway City Council is so uninterested in enabling foot traffic, @illanwall.bsky.social @kleyden.bsky.social?
They have an Active Travel team, with a bunch of "strategies" lining their shelves.
What's their problem?
December 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Four pedestrian desire lines. One zebra crossing. 👇
Why do you suppose Galway City Council is so uninterested in enabling foot traffic, @illanwall.bsky.social @kleyden.bsky.social?
They have an Active Travel team, with a bunch of "strategies" lining their shelves.
What's their problem?
Why do you suppose Galway City Council is so uninterested in enabling foot traffic, @illanwall.bsky.social @kleyden.bsky.social?
They have an Active Travel team, with a bunch of "strategies" lining their shelves.
What's their problem?
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Excellent piece by @illanwall.bsky.social on how Galway is screaming out for better walking instastructure - crossing the road can not be that hard - can it?
www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...
www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...
Is Galway hostile to pedestrians?
There’s a video doing the rounds on social media of someone driving through Galway in 1965. The car drives along Bridge Street and Mainguard Street, before turning onto Shop street.
www.advertiser.ie
December 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Excellent piece by @illanwall.bsky.social on how Galway is screaming out for better walking instastructure - crossing the road can not be that hard - can it?
www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...
www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...
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@illanwall.bsky.social is right.
It should be noted, however, that a hierarchy of measures favouring active travel in general has allegedly been official City Council policy for many years. There were TWO walking & cycling strategies published before the #GalwayTransportStrategy arrived in 2016.
It should be noted, however, that a hierarchy of measures favouring active travel in general has allegedly been official City Council policy for many years. There were TWO walking & cycling strategies published before the #GalwayTransportStrategy arrived in 2016.
Absolutely spot on. We need to prioritise pedestrians and cyclists first and foremost, followed by public transport, and lastly cars, in the city centre.
The future is less cars not more roads.
The result will be a better city, with cleaner air, less noise pollution, and a healthier populace.
The future is less cars not more roads.
The result will be a better city, with cleaner air, less noise pollution, and a healthier populace.
Encouraging people to walk in the city centre is crucial to reducing congestion, improving accessibility and increasing the number of residents and tourists who want to spend time in the city centre, Dr Illan Wall writes www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...
December 9, 2025 at 11:56 AM
@illanwall.bsky.social is right.
It should be noted, however, that a hierarchy of measures favouring active travel in general has allegedly been official City Council policy for many years. There were TWO walking & cycling strategies published before the #GalwayTransportStrategy arrived in 2016.
It should be noted, however, that a hierarchy of measures favouring active travel in general has allegedly been official City Council policy for many years. There were TWO walking & cycling strategies published before the #GalwayTransportStrategy arrived in 2016.
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Always repost Paul Robeson singing I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night to Scottish coal miners.
Remembering Joe Hill on the 110th anniversary of his murder by the state of Utah.
Paul Robeson singing "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night" to Scottish coal miners in 1949.
Paul Robeson singing "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night" to Scottish coal miners in 1949.
November 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Always repost Paul Robeson singing I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night to Scottish coal miners.
Whatever this is, it is not genuine protest!
‘They surround our car’: Families at Citywest IPAS centre tell of ongoing ‘harassment’ People fleeing war, poverty, insecurity are being abused daily by local racist gobsh*tes, desecrating the tricolour as they harass women, children & men. Shameful! #speirgorm
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
‘They surround our car’: Families at Citywest IPAS centre tell of ongoing ‘harassment’
‘Intimidation’ includes children being told ‘go home’ and witnessing parents being called derogatory names
www.irishtimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Whatever this is, it is not genuine protest!
Ive just heard the incredibly sad news that Louis Wolcher has died. His work focused on that ethical turn in critical legal studies, he worked with Wittgenstein, Derrida, Levinas, Heidegger, Nietzsche and Zen Buddhism. He wrote extensively, and very beautifully on suffering.
The Ethics of Justice Without Illusions
The founding premise of this book is that the nimbus of prestige, which once surrounded the idea of justice, has now been dimmed to such a degree that it is no longer sufficient to secure the possibil...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Ive just heard the incredibly sad news that Louis Wolcher has died. His work focused on that ethical turn in critical legal studies, he worked with Wittgenstein, Derrida, Levinas, Heidegger, Nietzsche and Zen Buddhism. He wrote extensively, and very beautifully on suffering.
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More evidence that the UK Government not only forgets that NI exists, it also forgets that the Common Travel Area exists. This is just a remarkable story of benefits being withdrawn from hundreds of families for using the CTA amid a performative benefit crackdown:
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NI parents caught in UK crackdown lose child benefit after travelling via Dublin
Exclusive: new anti-fraud system fails to account for fact many return to country via airport in Irish capital
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October 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
More evidence that the UK Government not only forgets that NI exists, it also forgets that the Common Travel Area exists. This is just a remarkable story of benefits being withdrawn from hundreds of families for using the CTA amid a performative benefit crackdown:
share.google/NSWTG5JNYMrz...
share.google/NSWTG5JNYMrz...
Have a listen to this brilliant podcast from one of my former students: Renato Urtus uastegui soundcloud.com/user-5172277...
Scenes of Disappearance
The podcast explores the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico, and the Ayotzinapa Protests which have unfolded over the last decade.
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October 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Have a listen to this brilliant podcast from one of my former students: Renato Urtus uastegui soundcloud.com/user-5172277...
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I hate so much of what happens in my country that I have to remind myself that on the odd occasion magic happens
The home of the O'Donovan family is being used as a polling station in Coolmoyne, Co Tipperary. Around 250 people are eligible to vote at the house and after they cast their ballot, they will be treated to a cup of tea, a slice of apple or rhubarb tart, or a scone | More: rte.ie/b/1540324
October 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
I hate so much of what happens in my country that I have to remind myself that on the odd occasion magic happens
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The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has awarded €23,000 to a tenant who experienced discrimination and victimisation from his former landlords.
Tenant awarded €23,000 after discrimination and victimisation
The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has awarded €23,000 to a tenant who experienced discrimination and victimisation from his former landlords.
www.irishlegal.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has awarded €23,000 to a tenant who experienced discrimination and victimisation from his former landlords.
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Have you read the latest issue of the ICLQ?
All articles are fully #OpenAccess.
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All articles are fully #OpenAccess.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
October 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Have you read the latest issue of the ICLQ?
All articles are fully #OpenAccess.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
All articles are fully #OpenAccess.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
My article on how British police monitor social tensions and surveil communities to ensure they don’t protest is available open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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October 20, 2025 at 7:40 AM
My article on how British police monitor social tensions and surveil communities to ensure they don’t protest is available open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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"There are few more serious and consequential charges than terrorism. Even if protestors avoid jail, a successful prosecution for terrorist offences is likely to hover over them for years to come".
@illanwall.bsky.social in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
@illanwall.bsky.social in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Palestine Action's civil disobedience overwhelming London police
With Palestine Action a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK, a September protest attended by 1,500 people meant the Met was unable to arrest them all, showing the limits of the criminal justic...
www.irishexaminer.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:19 AM
"There are few more serious and consequential charges than terrorism. Even if protestors avoid jail, a successful prosecution for terrorist offences is likely to hover over them for years to come".
@illanwall.bsky.social in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
@illanwall.bsky.social in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
With heartfelt thanks to the team at Hachette Ireland, I can now share that my first book, At Least It Looks Good From Space, is coming out this October.
I thought I was more emotionally prepared for this moment but it turns out I'm absolutely not. I hope you like it.
I thought I was more emotionally prepared for this moment but it turns out I'm absolutely not. I hope you like it.
October 17, 2025 at 7:22 AM
We have just released 1st report of our legal observers network, following Garda use of force at protest on the 04/10/25 at the port tunnel. We had 7 observers there, whogathered significant evidence of the Gardai's actions on the day. The full report is available here. www.iccl.ie/wp-content/u...
www.iccl.ie
October 15, 2025 at 10:19 AM
We have just released 1st report of our legal observers network, following Garda use of force at protest on the 04/10/25 at the port tunnel. We had 7 observers there, whogathered significant evidence of the Gardai's actions on the day. The full report is available here. www.iccl.ie/wp-content/u...
I love this booklet so much! Still trying to figure out how to include it in my land law module 😂
October 15, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I love this booklet so much! Still trying to figure out how to include it in my land law module 😂
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The Land for the People Third Edition, a workbook by Eimear Walshe, commissioned by the National Sculpture Factory. €5 including postage, buy your copy here - buy.stripe.com/4gw6rpbyw0sb...
📷 Simon Curran
📷 Simon Curran
January 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The Land for the People Third Edition, a workbook by Eimear Walshe, commissioned by the National Sculpture Factory. €5 including postage, buy your copy here - buy.stripe.com/4gw6rpbyw0sb...
📷 Simon Curran
📷 Simon Curran
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👋 Introducing Loughborough Law: a brand new law school bringing a critical and inter-disciplinary approach to legal research + teaching.
Follow this page for updates on our research and upcoming events.
@khorsey.bsky.social @clairq.bsky.social @andywoodhouse.bsky.social @maireadenright.bsky.social
Follow this page for updates on our research and upcoming events.
@khorsey.bsky.social @clairq.bsky.social @andywoodhouse.bsky.social @maireadenright.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 9:02 AM
👋 Introducing Loughborough Law: a brand new law school bringing a critical and inter-disciplinary approach to legal research + teaching.
Follow this page for updates on our research and upcoming events.
@khorsey.bsky.social @clairq.bsky.social @andywoodhouse.bsky.social @maireadenright.bsky.social
Follow this page for updates on our research and upcoming events.
@khorsey.bsky.social @clairq.bsky.social @andywoodhouse.bsky.social @maireadenright.bsky.social
I'm so happy that this is now live. We have a new book series, edited by Henrique Carvalho, Christine Schwöbel-Patel, Daniel Matthews and I.
Bristol University Press have been a dream to work with, so please do send in your proposals
criticallegalthinking.com/2025/10/10/n...
Bristol University Press have been a dream to work with, so please do send in your proposals
criticallegalthinking.com/2025/10/10/n...
New Book Series: Law, Culture and Justice (Bristol Uni Press)
We are delighted to announce a new series to foster critical, theoretically and methodologically innovative, culturally informed work on law and justice.
criticallegalthinking.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I'm so happy that this is now live. We have a new book series, edited by Henrique Carvalho, Christine Schwöbel-Patel, Daniel Matthews and I.
Bristol University Press have been a dream to work with, so please do send in your proposals
criticallegalthinking.com/2025/10/10/n...
Bristol University Press have been a dream to work with, so please do send in your proposals
criticallegalthinking.com/2025/10/10/n...
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Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.
October 10, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.
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"I would smear the bejaysus out of her, simply because you've nothing to lose... you've got to create a fear... in my experience, nothing works like negative campaigning."
They're really openly saying the quiet part out loud now aren't they...🤔
They're really openly saying the quiet part out loud now aren't they...🤔
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
"I would smear the bejaysus out of her, simply because you've nothing to lose... you've got to create a fear... in my experience, nothing works like negative campaigning."
They're really openly saying the quiet part out loud now aren't they...🤔
They're really openly saying the quiet part out loud now aren't they...🤔
Ive put my piece on Bolivian constitutional experiments (particularly the experiments with a paradoxical separation of powers) up onto SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The Constitution of Turbulence
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<p><span>When the left-wing indigenous candidate Evo Morales was elected as President of Bolivia in 2006, the movement he led was faced
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October 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Ive put my piece on Bolivian constitutional experiments (particularly the experiments with a paradoxical separation of powers) up onto SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Delighted that Jo Bluen's post is now available in Japanese: criticallegalthinking.com/2025/09/24/t...
The Culpable Liberal, The Latte Legalist and the End of the Settler Siege at Sea
**We are delighted to say that this post has been translated into Japanese by Yota Negishi, available here** It is the early hours of the morning on the
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October 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Delighted that Jo Bluen's post is now available in Japanese: criticallegalthinking.com/2025/09/24/t...
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Netpol's 'State of Protest' report for 2024 launched with a stark title: ‘This is Repression’. On the second anniversary of the continuing genocide in Gaza, it is hard to know what we will call our assessment of protest rights for 2025.
Perhaps ‘An End to Our Illusions’? netpol.org/2025/10/06/a...
Perhaps ‘An End to Our Illusions’? netpol.org/2025/10/06/a...
October 7, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Netpol's 'State of Protest' report for 2024 launched with a stark title: ‘This is Repression’. On the second anniversary of the continuing genocide in Gaza, it is hard to know what we will call our assessment of protest rights for 2025.
Perhaps ‘An End to Our Illusions’? netpol.org/2025/10/06/a...
Perhaps ‘An End to Our Illusions’? netpol.org/2025/10/06/a...