Pádraig Durnin
@padraigdurnin.bsky.social
scotto-hibernian, senior research associate @ Northumbria Uni, histories of anti-apartheid, int. l solidarity + Irish radicalism, Living Rent member, Dundee Utd fan 🍊⚫ (he/they)
mostly double-posting from the other place
Glasgow • Dundee • Belfast
mostly double-posting from the other place
Glasgow • Dundee • Belfast
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Really enjoyed presenting my research paper, 'Anti-Apartheid in Britain: From Classical Anti-Colonialism to the New Anti-Imperialism, 1960-1975', at Friday's 'Investigating Anti-Apartheid Networks' workshop. Thanks so much to
Connal Parr & @padraigdurnin.bsky.social for the invitation!
Connal Parr & @padraigdurnin.bsky.social for the invitation!
May 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Really enjoyed presenting my research paper, 'Anti-Apartheid in Britain: From Classical Anti-Colonialism to the New Anti-Imperialism, 1960-1975', at Friday's 'Investigating Anti-Apartheid Networks' workshop. Thanks so much to
Connal Parr & @padraigdurnin.bsky.social for the invitation!
Connal Parr & @padraigdurnin.bsky.social for the invitation!
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Glasgow City Council: You finish that mural of Mary Barbour?
Artist: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.
Glasgow City Council: What.
Artist: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.
Glasgow City Council: What.
May 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Glasgow City Council: You finish that mural of Mary Barbour?
Artist: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.
Glasgow City Council: What.
Artist: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.
Glasgow City Council: What.
An afternoon of English non-league football (the Southern Counties East Division One Cup final no less).
May 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
An afternoon of English non-league football (the Southern Counties East Division One Cup final no less).
Great trip down to Bristol to speak about the Dunnes anti-apartheid strike and the Irish labour movement in the 1980s at the Radical History Festival over the weekend – never having been down here at all before it I wasn't sure what to expect but it's a great place to visit!
April 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Great trip down to Bristol to speak about the Dunnes anti-apartheid strike and the Irish labour movement in the 1980s at the Radical History Festival over the weekend – never having been down here at all before it I wasn't sure what to expect but it's a great place to visit!
Will miss him! Came to Tannadice with plenty clubs under his belt when neither us nor his career were at a high point yet managed to radiate the demeanour of a boyhood fan living the dream. Probably time to move on but would love to see him back in a coaching role down the line.
April 24, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Will miss him! Came to Tannadice with plenty clubs under his belt when neither us nor his career were at a high point yet managed to radiate the demeanour of a boyhood fan living the dream. Probably time to move on but would love to see him back in a coaching role down the line.
If anyone has a copy of Ben Turok's Nothing But the Truth they're willing to lend/part with for a bit less than the forty-odd quid it's going for online give me a shout – happy to pay for it and/or cover the postage.
April 15, 2025 at 11:01 AM
If anyone has a copy of Ben Turok's Nothing But the Truth they're willing to lend/part with for a bit less than the forty-odd quid it's going for online give me a shout – happy to pay for it and/or cover the postage.
SSP showing that a small left party with no press visibility can still register when it runs a serious campaign with a local candidate that starts more than two weeks before polling day – wouldn't have been miles off a seat in the four-seater ward here if this was a full election.
Southside Central (Glasgow) by-election, first preferences:
SNP: 1126 (30%, -4.2)
Labour: 1027 (27.4%, -4.1)
Green: 805 (21.5%, +3.4)
SSP: 271 (7.2%, +5.2)
Reform UK: 222 (5.9%, new)
Lib Dem: 155 (4.1%, +2.7)
Conservative: 102 (2.7%, -1.4)
UKIP: 41 (1.1%, new)
SNP elected stage TBC.
SNP: 1126 (30%, -4.2)
Labour: 1027 (27.4%, -4.1)
Green: 805 (21.5%, +3.4)
SSP: 271 (7.2%, +5.2)
Reform UK: 222 (5.9%, new)
Lib Dem: 155 (4.1%, +2.7)
Conservative: 102 (2.7%, -1.4)
UKIP: 41 (1.1%, new)
SNP elected stage TBC.
March 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
SSP showing that a small left party with no press visibility can still register when it runs a serious campaign with a local candidate that starts more than two weeks before polling day – wouldn't have been miles off a seat in the four-seater ward here if this was a full election.
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‘They each would wear the other one’s shoes’ I’m imagining Neil Gow as an old Presbyterian minister with him and Dougie Maclean. Neil is the ghost from the Michael Marra song. He’s got a bit missing. I rather fancy that’s true of ghosts, they’re like us in that way, bits missing, broken.
February 21, 2025 at 11:50 AM
‘They each would wear the other one’s shoes’ I’m imagining Neil Gow as an old Presbyterian minister with him and Dougie Maclean. Neil is the ghost from the Michael Marra song. He’s got a bit missing. I rather fancy that’s true of ghosts, they’re like us in that way, bits missing, broken.
With Nujoma passes the era of Africa's liberation generation of leaders – his name came up in a document I was reading this week for work and thought crossed my head that he was possibly the last living person anywhere to largely undisputedly hold the title of "father of the nation".
Namibian independence leader Sam Nujoma dies aged 95
Namibian independence leader Sam Nujoma dies aged 95
Namibia's founding father Sam Nujoma, who led his country's fight for independence from South Africa, died Saturday aged 95, the presidency announced.
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February 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
With Nujoma passes the era of Africa's liberation generation of leaders – his name came up in a document I was reading this week for work and thought crossed my head that he was possibly the last living person anywhere to largely undisputedly hold the title of "father of the nation".
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Interested on literature on the South African intelligence services activities in Europe and North America during the 1970s and 80s: infiltration/sabotage of anti-apartheid activism, links to the transnational far-right, collaboration/conflict with US/British/European intelligence services etc.
February 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Interested on literature on the South African intelligence services activities in Europe and North America during the 1970s and 80s: infiltration/sabotage of anti-apartheid activism, links to the transnational far-right, collaboration/conflict with US/British/European intelligence services etc.
Interested on literature on the South African intelligence services activities in Europe and North America during the 1970s and 80s: infiltration/sabotage of anti-apartheid activism, links to the transnational far-right, collaboration/conflict with US/British/European intelligence services etc.
February 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Interested on literature on the South African intelligence services activities in Europe and North America during the 1970s and 80s: infiltration/sabotage of anti-apartheid activism, links to the transnational far-right, collaboration/conflict with US/British/European intelligence services etc.
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Happy publication week! Delighted (& slightly terrified) my first book is out in the wild for everyone to read 😂 Had so much fun going down the rabbit hole researching these families and hope that’s evident on the page #histfam
January 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Happy publication week! Delighted (& slightly terrified) my first book is out in the wild for everyone to read 😂 Had so much fun going down the rabbit hole researching these families and hope that’s evident on the page #histfam
Nothing quite like the high Paisleyite world view expanded from Ulster to global affairs at large.
January 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Nothing quite like the high Paisleyite world view expanded from Ulster to global affairs at large.
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Abdul-Hakim Wadi from Qusra village, near Nablus, was kidnapped from his home in a dawn raid by Zionist occupation forces. Rafat Taha and Abdullah Az-Zein were also kidnapped in Hebron.
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Soldiers Abduct Three Palestinians In Hebron And Nablus
On Sunday at dawn, Israeli soldiers abducted three Palestinians from Hebron and Nablus, in the southern and northern parts of the occupied West Bank. Media ...
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January 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Abdul-Hakim Wadi from Qusra village, near Nablus, was kidnapped from his home in a dawn raid by Zionist occupation forces. Rafat Taha and Abdullah Az-Zein were also kidnapped in Hebron.
imemc.org/article/sold...
imemc.org/article/sold...
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Upcoming event
Online talk: Life in Balata refugee camp (details attached).
⏰ Tuesday 21 January at 6pm GMT.
Please register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... (free to members and non members)
Online talk: Life in Balata refugee camp (details attached).
⏰ Tuesday 21 January at 6pm GMT.
Please register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... (free to members and non members)
January 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Upcoming event
Online talk: Life in Balata refugee camp (details attached).
⏰ Tuesday 21 January at 6pm GMT.
Please register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... (free to members and non members)
Online talk: Life in Balata refugee camp (details attached).
⏰ Tuesday 21 January at 6pm GMT.
Please register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... (free to members and non members)
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Just frenetically reposting all the #AHA updates because I'm so livid. Our institutions are so totally useless
The "intentional destruction of educational institutions, libraries, universities, & archives" is apparently "outside the scope" of the mission to "promote historical studies," "preserve historical documents," & "disseminate historical records."
January 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Just frenetically reposting all the #AHA updates because I'm so livid. Our institutions are so totally useless
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The Dundee Nablus Twinning Association is now on Bsky!
We'll share Dundee and Nablus news here so please follow us and share 🇵🇸🏴
Membership is available to all: dundee-nablus.org.uk/join-us/
We'll share Dundee and Nablus news here so please follow us and share 🇵🇸🏴
Membership is available to all: dundee-nablus.org.uk/join-us/
Join us! - Dundee-Nablus Twinning Association
Join us! We encourage you to join the Dundee-Nablus Twinning Association. Membership is open to anyone who shares our aims (you don’t have to live in Dundee to join).
dundee-nablus.org.uk
January 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The Dundee Nablus Twinning Association is now on Bsky!
We'll share Dundee and Nablus news here so please follow us and share 🇵🇸🏴
Membership is available to all: dundee-nablus.org.uk/join-us/
We'll share Dundee and Nablus news here so please follow us and share 🇵🇸🏴
Membership is available to all: dundee-nablus.org.uk/join-us/
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My first piece on the new volume of @difp-ria.bsky.social (&first Bluesky post!), and it’s all about Irish diplomacy during Bernadette Devlin McAliskey’s 1969 US tour:
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2... @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2... @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social
How Irish diplomats reacted to Bernadette Devlin's 1969 US tour
The Irish Government found themselves in a delicate position when the civil rights activist and newly elected MP toured the US in 1969
www.rte.ie
January 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
My first piece on the new volume of @difp-ria.bsky.social (&first Bluesky post!), and it’s all about Irish diplomacy during Bernadette Devlin McAliskey’s 1969 US tour:
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2... @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2... @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social
Have been going through a difficult end to a relationship recently and I don't think I've ever seen anything as noxious if not dangerous as the sort of thing the Instagram algorithm has served up since it figured it out (presumably from harvesting data from DMs?).
January 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Have been going through a difficult end to a relationship recently and I don't think I've ever seen anything as noxious if not dangerous as the sort of thing the Instagram algorithm has served up since it figured it out (presumably from harvesting data from DMs?).
Two very old milestones in the Howe o' Strathmartine (at Balluderon and Bridgefoot). Anyone know anything about dating them?
January 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Two very old milestones in the Howe o' Strathmartine (at Balluderon and Bridgefoot). Anyone know anything about dating them?
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Sky Sports defying the cynics who say they don’t take the Dundee derby seriously by not confusing the two teams once during the entire three-minute pre-match build-up
January 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Sky Sports defying the cynics who say they don’t take the Dundee derby seriously by not confusing the two teams once during the entire three-minute pre-match build-up
Unexpectedly transported back to 2014 this afternoon while running up a back-road in the Carse of Gowrie.
December 31, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Unexpectedly transported back to 2014 this afternoon while running up a back-road in the Carse of Gowrie.
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Dundee United captain Paul Hegarty shakes hands with his Manchester United counterpart Bryan Robson before a UEFA Cup third round match at Old Trafford, with both Hegarty and Robson on the scoresheet. (1984)
December 18, 2024 at 9:21 AM
Dundee United captain Paul Hegarty shakes hands with his Manchester United counterpart Bryan Robson before a UEFA Cup third round match at Old Trafford, with both Hegarty and Robson on the scoresheet. (1984)
As much as I'll always take a Celtic win over Rangers (and unlike a lot of non-OF fans I'll happily say that publicly as well as privately), that headline really sums up the great curse of the Scottish game for most of the last 130 years.
December 16, 2024 at 12:12 PM
As much as I'll always take a Celtic win over Rangers (and unlike a lot of non-OF fans I'll happily say that publicly as well as privately), that headline really sums up the great curse of the Scottish game for most of the last 130 years.
Walking along the Tay at sunset on Tuesday.
December 13, 2024 at 11:27 AM
Walking along the Tay at sunset on Tuesday.