Tiffany Thompson (she/her)
@tiffthompson.bsky.social
History PhD Candidate studying gender, violence, displacement, and activism during Northern Ireland’s Troubles at Boston College
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If you missed @tiffthompson.bsky.social speaking yesterday on 'Belfast barricades and burnt-out homes: women navigating street violence and displacement in August 1969' a recording is available at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqb4... @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social #IrishHistory #Troubles
Tiffany Thompson 3.3.25
YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies
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Thank you so much for having me @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social It was truly such a pleasure to share a bit of my work. Everyone was so supportive and kind with wonderful comments and questions! ☺️
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#Meitheal year two began last night!
Our Irish Studies graduate student work group has once again organized a semester of great skills workshops and student seminars for writing feedback.
We're excited to see what our brilliant grads accomplish this year!
Our Irish Studies graduate student work group has once again organized a semester of great skills workshops and student seminars for writing feedback.
We're excited to see what our brilliant grads accomplish this year!
September 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
#Meitheal year two began last night!
Our Irish Studies graduate student work group has once again organized a semester of great skills workshops and student seminars for writing feedback.
We're excited to see what our brilliant grads accomplish this year!
Our Irish Studies graduate student work group has once again organized a semester of great skills workshops and student seminars for writing feedback.
We're excited to see what our brilliant grads accomplish this year!
So very honored and humbled to be this year’s Dalsimer Fellow ☺️ All my thanks go to the wonderful and every-supportive faculty of @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social Now… just one more year of dissertating to go!!
Tiffany Thompson was named the 2025 Dalismer Fellow!
Her dissertation, “Fleeing the Troubles: Gendering Violence, Displacement, & Migration in Northern Ireland, 1969-1976,” centers an analysis of women and their distinctive experiences during the migration of the Troubles.
Her dissertation, “Fleeing the Troubles: Gendering Violence, Displacement, & Migration in Northern Ireland, 1969-1976,” centers an analysis of women and their distinctive experiences during the migration of the Troubles.
August 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
So very honored and humbled to be this year’s Dalsimer Fellow ☺️ All my thanks go to the wonderful and every-supportive faculty of @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social Now… just one more year of dissertating to go!!
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Join us on 27 May for a talk by Prof Mark McGowan, Uni of Toronto, on Indigenous aid to Ireland during the Great Famine. Cohosted with @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social and @irishheritage.bsky.social . Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mark-mcgow...
May 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Join us on 27 May for a talk by Prof Mark McGowan, Uni of Toronto, on Indigenous aid to Ireland during the Great Famine. Cohosted with @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social and @irishheritage.bsky.social . Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mark-mcgow...
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The Rainbow Project's statement on the judgement today.
We will continue doing everything we can to fight for the rights of trans people in Northern Ireland, and defend against any attempts to diminish or remove those rights.
Please reach out if you need support.
We will continue doing everything we can to fight for the rights of trans people in Northern Ireland, and defend against any attempts to diminish or remove those rights.
Please reach out if you need support.
April 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
The Rainbow Project's statement on the judgement today.
We will continue doing everything we can to fight for the rights of trans people in Northern Ireland, and defend against any attempts to diminish or remove those rights.
Please reach out if you need support.
We will continue doing everything we can to fight for the rights of trans people in Northern Ireland, and defend against any attempts to diminish or remove those rights.
Please reach out if you need support.
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Thursday, April 24, in Connoly House, Irish Studies & AADS will host a panel discussion on race in Ireland with Emma Dabiri (broadcaster & writer), Kim DaCosta (NYU), Chanté Mouton Kinyon (Notre Dame University), Victor Pacheco (University of São Paulo), & Lorelle Semley (BC).
April 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Thursday, April 24, in Connoly House, Irish Studies & AADS will host a panel discussion on race in Ireland with Emma Dabiri (broadcaster & writer), Kim DaCosta (NYU), Chanté Mouton Kinyon (Notre Dame University), Victor Pacheco (University of São Paulo), & Lorelle Semley (BC).
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On April 23, award-winning broadcaster & author
Emma Dabiri will deliver the 2025 Flatly Lecture
Her talk compares Yourba and Irish ontologies to discuss the Irish language conceptualization of duine gorm - 'blue person' - a term used to describe people racialized as Black individuals as Gaeilge.
Emma Dabiri will deliver the 2025 Flatly Lecture
Her talk compares Yourba and Irish ontologies to discuss the Irish language conceptualization of duine gorm - 'blue person' - a term used to describe people racialized as Black individuals as Gaeilge.
April 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
On April 23, award-winning broadcaster & author
Emma Dabiri will deliver the 2025 Flatly Lecture
Her talk compares Yourba and Irish ontologies to discuss the Irish language conceptualization of duine gorm - 'blue person' - a term used to describe people racialized as Black individuals as Gaeilge.
Emma Dabiri will deliver the 2025 Flatly Lecture
Her talk compares Yourba and Irish ontologies to discuss the Irish language conceptualization of duine gorm - 'blue person' - a term used to describe people racialized as Black individuals as Gaeilge.
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If you missed Colleen Taylor’s #IrishStudies talk on ‘Tales of seals and shipwrecks: Irish new materialism goes to sea’ it’s now available at:
youtu.be/J_j5uQY6GAY?...
@bc-irish-studies.bsky.social
youtu.be/J_j5uQY6GAY?...
@bc-irish-studies.bsky.social
Irish Studies Seminar: Colleen Taylor
YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies
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April 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
If you missed Colleen Taylor’s #IrishStudies talk on ‘Tales of seals and shipwrecks: Irish new materialism goes to sea’ it’s now available at:
youtu.be/J_j5uQY6GAY?...
@bc-irish-studies.bsky.social
youtu.be/J_j5uQY6GAY?...
@bc-irish-studies.bsky.social
Absolutely brilliant talk last night! It was such a delight to get to listen to THE Hasia Diner talk about her research ☺️
Preeminent immigration historian Hasia Diner discussed her book, Opening Doors: An Unlikely Alliance Between the Irish & the Jews, last night in Connolly House.
March 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Absolutely brilliant talk last night! It was such a delight to get to listen to THE Hasia Diner talk about her research ☺️
Where you’ll find me this weekend ✊🌷💕 So excited to hear about about my fellow graduate students’ research on crisis, liberation, and activism - such important work for today’s world!! #GCWS2025
March 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Where you’ll find me this weekend ✊🌷💕 So excited to hear about about my fellow graduate students’ research on crisis, liberation, and activism - such important work for today’s world!! #GCWS2025
It was an honor & a pleasure to be invited by the MIT Coalition for Palestine to speak about the historic connections and continued solidarity between Ireland and Palestine alongside @rachael-young.bsky.social Perfect way to end the long St. Patrick’s weekend ☘️🇵🇸
March 19, 2025 at 1:36 AM
It was an honor & a pleasure to be invited by the MIT Coalition for Palestine to speak about the historic connections and continued solidarity between Ireland and Palestine alongside @rachael-young.bsky.social Perfect way to end the long St. Patrick’s weekend ☘️🇵🇸
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We'll be celebrating St. Patrick's Day in style!
At lunch time, Mike Cronin will lecture on Ireland's Soft Power on March 17
At 5 pm, we will have a panel discussion on how Boston College navigates in 21st century Ireland
Join us on campus next Monday to celebrate!
At lunch time, Mike Cronin will lecture on Ireland's Soft Power on March 17
At 5 pm, we will have a panel discussion on how Boston College navigates in 21st century Ireland
Join us on campus next Monday to celebrate!
March 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM
We'll be celebrating St. Patrick's Day in style!
At lunch time, Mike Cronin will lecture on Ireland's Soft Power on March 17
At 5 pm, we will have a panel discussion on how Boston College navigates in 21st century Ireland
Join us on campus next Monday to celebrate!
At lunch time, Mike Cronin will lecture on Ireland's Soft Power on March 17
At 5 pm, we will have a panel discussion on how Boston College navigates in 21st century Ireland
Join us on campus next Monday to celebrate!
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Why attend a parade when you can attend a protest? It’s what St Patrick would have wanted
#FreeMahmoudKhalil #freepalestine #bostonPSL
@tiffthompson.bsky.social
#FreeMahmoudKhalil #freepalestine #bostonPSL
@tiffthompson.bsky.social
March 16, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Why attend a parade when you can attend a protest? It’s what St Patrick would have wanted
#FreeMahmoudKhalil #freepalestine #bostonPSL
@tiffthompson.bsky.social
#FreeMahmoudKhalil #freepalestine #bostonPSL
@tiffthompson.bsky.social
How to celebrate St. Patrick’s weekend as an Irish historian: drink while you make protest signs with your academic bestie @rachael-young.bsky.social ☘️🇵🇸
March 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
How to celebrate St. Patrick’s weekend as an Irish historian: drink while you make protest signs with your academic bestie @rachael-young.bsky.social ☘️🇵🇸
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Boston: This Sunday at 2pm! Join us in for a rally in Copley Square to defend Mahmoud Khalil!
🗓️ Sunday, March 16
🕚 2pm
📍 Copley Square, Boston
🗓️ Sunday, March 16
🕚 2pm
📍 Copley Square, Boston
March 13, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Boston: This Sunday at 2pm! Join us in for a rally in Copley Square to defend Mahmoud Khalil!
🗓️ Sunday, March 16
🕚 2pm
📍 Copley Square, Boston
🗓️ Sunday, March 16
🕚 2pm
📍 Copley Square, Boston
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Join us next Wednesday, March 12, at the Burns library for an evening of engagements with Irish folklore!
Ray Cashman & Hilary Bishop will discuss their new work with Guy Beiner.
Cormac O'Malley & Vincnet Quealy, Jr. will launch their new books on Irish folklore & heritage!
Ray Cashman & Hilary Bishop will discuss their new work with Guy Beiner.
Cormac O'Malley & Vincnet Quealy, Jr. will launch their new books on Irish folklore & heritage!
March 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Join us next Wednesday, March 12, at the Burns library for an evening of engagements with Irish folklore!
Ray Cashman & Hilary Bishop will discuss their new work with Guy Beiner.
Cormac O'Malley & Vincnet Quealy, Jr. will launch their new books on Irish folklore & heritage!
Ray Cashman & Hilary Bishop will discuss their new work with Guy Beiner.
Cormac O'Malley & Vincnet Quealy, Jr. will launch their new books on Irish folklore & heritage!
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Our #IrishStudies seminar on Mon 31 March will be given by Dr Colleen Taylor of @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social on 'Tales of seals and shipwrecks: Irish new materialism goes to sea’. All welcome, in-person or online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/irish-stud...
March 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Our #IrishStudies seminar on Mon 31 March will be given by Dr Colleen Taylor of @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social on 'Tales of seals and shipwrecks: Irish new materialism goes to sea’. All welcome, in-person or online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/irish-stud...
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"Palestinian women stand at the heart of the struggle for survival."
The Palestinian Authority has urged on International Women’s Day that the international community take responsibility for ensuring protection for Palestinian women.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/95lc11
The Palestinian Authority has urged on International Women’s Day that the international community take responsibility for ensuring protection for Palestinian women.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/95lc11
March 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"Palestinian women stand at the heart of the struggle for survival."
The Palestinian Authority has urged on International Women’s Day that the international community take responsibility for ensuring protection for Palestinian women.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/95lc11
The Palestinian Authority has urged on International Women’s Day that the international community take responsibility for ensuring protection for Palestinian women.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/95lc11
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Today! Saturday, 1pm, City Hall, for International Women's Day. There is no genuine feminism that does not fight apartheid Israel’s genocide, femicide, ecocide, educide. Feminists must stand with Palestine. #SolidarityIsAVerb #FreePalestine 🇵🇸
March 8, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Today! Saturday, 1pm, City Hall, for International Women's Day. There is no genuine feminism that does not fight apartheid Israel’s genocide, femicide, ecocide, educide. Feminists must stand with Palestine. #SolidarityIsAVerb #FreePalestine 🇵🇸
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A few years ago I made a series of mini drawings of interesting Irish women (available as a print here www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...) - this thread is a little information on the women featured, partly because it's useful, but mostly because I'm trying to be sustainable by recycling content.
November 20, 2024 at 8:32 AM
A few years ago I made a series of mini drawings of interesting Irish women (available as a print here www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...) - this thread is a little information on the women featured, partly because it's useful, but mostly because I'm trying to be sustainable by recycling content.
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‘Nell McCafferty belonged to the Bogside’: Derry mural commemorates late journalist and campaigner
‘Nell McCafferty belonged to the Bogside’: Derry mural commemorates late journalist and campaigner
The gable mural is being unveiled to mark International Women’s Day
www.irishtimes.com
March 8, 2025 at 9:57 AM
‘Nell McCafferty belonged to the Bogside’: Derry mural commemorates late journalist and campaigner
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The Centre for Global Intercultural Communications; Resistance Studies; and Forced Migration Studies invite scholars, PG students, educators, policymakers and activists to submit papers for 'Global Intersections: Communication and Resilience Across Borders' (20-21 May), by 28 March, to: cgic@tcd.ie
March 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The Centre for Global Intercultural Communications; Resistance Studies; and Forced Migration Studies invite scholars, PG students, educators, policymakers and activists to submit papers for 'Global Intersections: Communication and Resilience Across Borders' (20-21 May), by 28 March, to: cgic@tcd.ie
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Trump's Gold Card. Don't flee your home without it.
February 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Trump's Gold Card. Don't flee your home without it.
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BREAKING: We're sending an open letter to universities across the country, offering support and urging them to reject pressure to punish international students and faculty for exercising their First Amendment rights.
Schools must hold firm against the Trump administration's censorship attempts.
Schools must hold firm against the Trump administration's censorship attempts.
March 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
BREAKING: We're sending an open letter to universities across the country, offering support and urging them to reject pressure to punish international students and faculty for exercising their First Amendment rights.
Schools must hold firm against the Trump administration's censorship attempts.
Schools must hold firm against the Trump administration's censorship attempts.
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The 35th Irish Conference of Historians will be hosted by ICHS and Maynooth History
12–13 September 2025. The theme is 'Inner Lives and Outer Realities'! Deadline for Proposals 31 March 2025! #history #skystorians #speirgorm
12–13 September 2025. The theme is 'Inner Lives and Outer Realities'! Deadline for Proposals 31 March 2025! #history #skystorians #speirgorm
March 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
The 35th Irish Conference of Historians will be hosted by ICHS and Maynooth History
12–13 September 2025. The theme is 'Inner Lives and Outer Realities'! Deadline for Proposals 31 March 2025! #history #skystorians #speirgorm
12–13 September 2025. The theme is 'Inner Lives and Outer Realities'! Deadline for Proposals 31 March 2025! #history #skystorians #speirgorm