Máiréad Enright
@maireadenright.bsky.social
Irish academic (@lawatloughborough.bsky.social) living in Birmingham. Working on women, law, religion (Catholicism mostly) and reproduction broadly understood. Often legal history, sometimes just law.
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“When Alison O’Connor warned that the rise of the Irish language might be “creating a them-and-us situation,” she revealed less about the language than about the anxieties of Ireland’s establishment commentariat”
#gaeilge #spéirgorm #CatherineConnolly
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#gaeilge #spéirgorm #CatherineConnolly
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The Future Speaks Irish!
Why Ireland’s new confidence in its own language has unsettled the establishment
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November 12, 2025 at 9:17 AM
“When Alison O’Connor warned that the rise of the Irish language might be “creating a them-and-us situation,” she revealed less about the language than about the anxieties of Ireland’s establishment commentariat”
#gaeilge #spéirgorm #CatherineConnolly
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#gaeilge #spéirgorm #CatherineConnolly
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Irish football legend Nial Quinn on Newstalk praising the FAI vote to bring a motion to UEFA calling on it to expel Israel.
"Through the power of sport, we can actually talk and have a loud voice."
Apartheid Israel cannot continue to commit crimes against Palestinians with impunity. #BanIsrael
"Through the power of sport, we can actually talk and have a loud voice."
Apartheid Israel cannot continue to commit crimes against Palestinians with impunity. #BanIsrael
November 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Irish football legend Nial Quinn on Newstalk praising the FAI vote to bring a motion to UEFA calling on it to expel Israel.
"Through the power of sport, we can actually talk and have a loud voice."
Apartheid Israel cannot continue to commit crimes against Palestinians with impunity. #BanIsrael
"Through the power of sport, we can actually talk and have a loud voice."
Apartheid Israel cannot continue to commit crimes against Palestinians with impunity. #BanIsrael
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On Kerry Today with @jerosullivanrk.bsky.social -
- The four survivors of industrial and reformatory schools, three of whom were in Pembroke Alms Industrial School have ended their hunger strike which began on September 21st. 1/
- The four survivors of industrial and reformatory schools, three of whom were in Pembroke Alms Industrial School have ended their hunger strike which began on September 21st. 1/
November 11, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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- The four survivors of industrial and reformatory schools, three of whom were in Pembroke Alms Industrial School have ended their hunger strike which began on September 21st. 1/
- The four survivors of industrial and reformatory schools, three of whom were in Pembroke Alms Industrial School have ended their hunger strike which began on September 21st. 1/
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Seventeen Native children taken to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in the late 1800s have finally returned home. Read about this important step toward truth, justice, and healing after the devastating legacy of the federal boarding school era: buff.ly/N1zhl15
#BoardingSchoolHealing
#BoardingSchoolHealing
The remains and stories of Native American students are being reclaimed from a Pennsylvania cemetery
The latest round of exhumations of Native American students from a cemetery at the former Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania resulted in the remains of 17 students being repatriated to…
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November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Seventeen Native children taken to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in the late 1800s have finally returned home. Read about this important step toward truth, justice, and healing after the devastating legacy of the federal boarding school era: buff.ly/N1zhl15
#BoardingSchoolHealing
#BoardingSchoolHealing
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Mamdani is going to implement Shania law. That don't impress me much.
Mamdani is going to implement Shisha law. Everyone gets their own pipe and the smog will smell of mango.
Mamdani is going to implement Shalamar law. He’s going to make it a night to remember
November 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Mamdani is going to implement Shania law. That don't impress me much.
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Mamdani is going to implement Shisha law. Everyone gets their own pipe and the smog will smell of mango.
Mamdani is going to implement Shalamar law. He’s going to make it a night to remember
November 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Mamdani is going to implement Shisha law. Everyone gets their own pipe and the smog will smell of mango.
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Mamdani is going to implement Shalamar law. He’s going to make it a night to remember
November 8, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Mamdani is going to implement Shalamar law. He’s going to make it a night to remember
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Mamdani is going to implement Shakira law. Hips will no longer be able to lie.
Mamdani is going to implement Shania law. That don't impress me much.
Mamdani is going to implement Shisha law. Everyone gets their own pipe and the smog will smell of mango.
November 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Mamdani is going to implement Shakira law. Hips will no longer be able to lie.
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Well this is awful news: tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx
'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.'
Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.
'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.'
Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
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November 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Well this is awful news: tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx
'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.'
Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.
'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.'
Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.
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The Marian Hotel Digital Exhibition is being launched at the Playhouse Theatre, Derry this Thursday at 6pm.
Digital exhibition telling moving story of NI’s Mother and Baby Institutions to be launched in Derry
A major digital exhibition showcasing the harrowing stories of young women forced to give up their babies at Northern Ireland’s mother and baby institutions will be launched in Derry this week.
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March 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The Marian Hotel Digital Exhibition is being launched at the Playhouse Theatre, Derry this Thursday at 6pm.
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The pandemic was a mass-disabling event and one of the reasons it has largely vanished from day to day political discourse is that those in power don't want to acknowledge the long term care needs it produced.
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
UK ‘sliding into avoidable crisis’, major review into workplace sickness warns
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
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November 5, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The pandemic was a mass-disabling event and one of the reasons it has largely vanished from day to day political discourse is that those in power don't want to acknowledge the long term care needs it produced.
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Comórtas Rapcheol ag #OnaS25 😎
Moltóirí: DJ Próvaí agus Móglaí Bap ó Kneecap 🙏
Comhghairdeas le Piaras Mac Dugláis ó Ghaelscoil Bharra, Baile Átha Claith 7, a fuair an chéad áit 🏆
📸 Clive Wasson @oirnagaeilge.bsky.social
Moltóirí: DJ Próvaí agus Móglaí Bap ó Kneecap 🙏
Comhghairdeas le Piaras Mac Dugláis ó Ghaelscoil Bharra, Baile Átha Claith 7, a fuair an chéad áit 🏆
📸 Clive Wasson @oirnagaeilge.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Comórtas Rapcheol ag #OnaS25 😎
Moltóirí: DJ Próvaí agus Móglaí Bap ó Kneecap 🙏
Comhghairdeas le Piaras Mac Dugláis ó Ghaelscoil Bharra, Baile Átha Claith 7, a fuair an chéad áit 🏆
📸 Clive Wasson @oirnagaeilge.bsky.social
Moltóirí: DJ Próvaí agus Móglaí Bap ó Kneecap 🙏
Comhghairdeas le Piaras Mac Dugláis ó Ghaelscoil Bharra, Baile Átha Claith 7, a fuair an chéad áit 🏆
📸 Clive Wasson @oirnagaeilge.bsky.social
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Repeat until this message is understood… by politicians and media.
‘Catherine Connolly garnered 914,000 first preference votes, the highest number ever recorded for any presidential candidate in Irish history, by explicitly rejecting far-right narratives throughout the course of her campaign’
‘Catherine Connolly garnered 914,000 first preference votes, the highest number ever recorded for any presidential candidate in Irish history, by explicitly rejecting far-right narratives throughout the course of her campaign’
November 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Repeat until this message is understood… by politicians and media.
‘Catherine Connolly garnered 914,000 first preference votes, the highest number ever recorded for any presidential candidate in Irish history, by explicitly rejecting far-right narratives throughout the course of her campaign’
‘Catherine Connolly garnered 914,000 first preference votes, the highest number ever recorded for any presidential candidate in Irish history, by explicitly rejecting far-right narratives throughout the course of her campaign’
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Justice for Magdalenes Research supports Industrial School survivors’ campaign; urges Government to provide proper health and social supports before it is too late
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Justice for Magdalenes Research supports Industrial School survivors’ campaign; urges Government to provide proper health and social supports before it is too late
Justice for Magdalenes Research (JFMR) supports the demands of residential school survivors who began a hunger strike outside the Dáil on Monday 22 September. The survivors are campaigning for the …
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September 23, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Justice for Magdalenes Research supports Industrial School survivors’ campaign; urges Government to provide proper health and social supports before it is too late
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Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag.
Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.
Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.
أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك
November 3, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag.
Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.
Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.
Their Facebook page says that the Taoiseach’s officials promised them a mediation meeting on Monday. It has now been postponed to Wednesday. They have now been on hunger strike for over 40 days. This is an appalling way to treat people.
'We are not afraid to die': Industrial school survivors vow to continue 32-day hunger strike
Four are refusing to eat over two demands they say were promised but have not been delivered as part of the industrial schools' redress scheme — a Health Amendment Act card and a contributory pension
Four are refusing to eat over two demands they say were promised but have not been delivered as part of the industrial schools' redress scheme — a Health Amendment Act card and a contributory pension
www.irishexaminer.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Their Facebook page says that the Taoiseach’s officials promised them a mediation meeting on Monday. It has now been postponed to Wednesday. They have now been on hunger strike for over 40 days. This is an appalling way to treat people.
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'We are not afraid to die': Industrial school survivors vow to continue 32-day hunger strike
Four are refusing to eat over two demands they say were promised but have not been delivered as part of the industrial schools' redress scheme — a Health Amendment Act card and a contributory pension
Four are refusing to eat over two demands they say were promised but have not been delivered as part of the industrial schools' redress scheme — a Health Amendment Act card and a contributory pension
www.irishexaminer.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
'We are not afraid to die': Industrial school survivors vow to continue 32-day hunger strike
Four are refusing to eat over two demands they say were promised but have not been delivered as part of the industrial schools' redress scheme — a Health Amendment Act card and a contributory pension
Four are refusing to eat over two demands they say were promised but have not been delivered as part of the industrial schools' redress scheme — a Health Amendment Act card and a contributory pension
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We're seeing a massive institutional deportation and state violence apparatus being built and it honestly feels like people dont grasp the sheer scale of it and what already is in place. For every horrific video of masked feds kidnapping people there are so many people pushing paper to help.
NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
October 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
We're seeing a massive institutional deportation and state violence apparatus being built and it honestly feels like people dont grasp the sheer scale of it and what already is in place. For every horrific video of masked feds kidnapping people there are so many people pushing paper to help.
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Under pressure from Europe, court cases and MPs, EHRC withdraws transphobic 'interim update' calling for segregation of Trans+ people
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/ehrc-withdraws-transphobic-interim-opinion-on-supreme-court-ruling-and-demands-ministers-act-at-speed-to-publish-new-statutory-guidance/
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/ehrc-withdraws-transphobic-interim-opinion-on-supreme-court-ruling-and-demands-ministers-act-at-speed-to-publish-new-statutory-guidance/
EHRC withdraws transphobic interim opinion on Supreme Court ruling
The equalities watchdog's move came in an eventful week for British trans rights
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October 30, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Under pressure from Europe, court cases and MPs, EHRC withdraws transphobic 'interim update' calling for segregation of Trans+ people
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/ehrc-withdraws-transphobic-interim-opinion-on-supreme-court-ruling-and-demands-ministers-act-at-speed-to-publish-new-statutory-guidance/
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/ehrc-withdraws-transphobic-interim-opinion-on-supreme-court-ruling-and-demands-ministers-act-at-speed-to-publish-new-statutory-guidance/
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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
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May McGee was such a courageous woman and had a huge impact. Ní bheidh a leithéid arís ann. RIP.
Death announced of Mary ‘May’ McGee who won historic Supreme Court contraception case
Death announced of Mary ‘May’ McGee who won historic Supreme Court contraception case
Landmark 1973 case found married couples had right to make private decisions on family planning
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October 28, 2025 at 10:29 PM
May McGee was such a courageous woman and had a huge impact. Ní bheidh a leithéid arís ann. RIP.
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“.. Andrea Soria, whose daughter plays at Luna y Cielo, overheard her 6-year-old whisper to her dolls: ‘We have to be good or ICE will get us.’”
@apnews.com #Chicago
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@apnews.com #Chicago
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October 29, 2025 at 12:14 AM
“.. Andrea Soria, whose daughter plays at Luna y Cielo, overheard her 6-year-old whisper to her dolls: ‘We have to be good or ICE will get us.’”
@apnews.com #Chicago
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@apnews.com #Chicago
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