Kevin Doyle
@troublesinfrance.bsky.social
PHD History student - University of Limerick
Researching France and the Irish "Troubles (1968-1998) Irish Republicanism, international solidarity.
Researching France and the Irish "Troubles (1968-1998) Irish Republicanism, international solidarity.
Happy to announce that I'm spending the summer in Paris at the Centre Culturel Irlandais to continue my research, having been awarded this year's Rev. Liam Swords Foundation Bursary.
Arrived yesterday, a beautiful building rich in Franco-Irish history
Arrived yesterday, a beautiful building rich in Franco-Irish history
June 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Happy to announce that I'm spending the summer in Paris at the Centre Culturel Irlandais to continue my research, having been awarded this year's Rev. Liam Swords Foundation Bursary.
Arrived yesterday, a beautiful building rich in Franco-Irish history
Arrived yesterday, a beautiful building rich in Franco-Irish history
Delighted to be gifted this iconic edition of Paris Match from August 1969, covering the Battle of the Bogside in Derry. Likely the first introduction to the conflict for much of the French public.
April 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Delighted to be gifted this iconic edition of Paris Match from August 1969, covering the Battle of the Bogside in Derry. Likely the first introduction to the conflict for much of the French public.
Spotted in Dublin the other day: Sticker of Ali la Pointe, Algerian freedom fighter and protagonist of the great film "The Battle of Algiers"
April 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Spotted in Dublin the other day: Sticker of Ali la Pointe, Algerian freedom fighter and protagonist of the great film "The Battle of Algiers"
Sticker from one of the Irish solidarity groups in Paris in the early 80s. A lot of love put into that British lion caricature
"Ireland - 800 years of colonialism"
"Ireland - 800 years of colonialism"
April 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Sticker from one of the Irish solidarity groups in Paris in the early 80s. A lot of love put into that British lion caricature
"Ireland - 800 years of colonialism"
"Ireland - 800 years of colonialism"
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This week in 1974, the UK National
Union of Students first implemented their ‘no platform’ policy. I wrote about the history of this policy in my book, ‘No Platform: A History of
Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech’ (which is on sale here):
www.routledge.com/No-Platform-...
Union of Students first implemented their ‘no platform’ policy. I wrote about the history of this policy in my book, ‘No Platform: A History of
Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech’ (which is on sale here):
www.routledge.com/No-Platform-...
No Platform: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech
This book is the first to outline the history of the tactic of ‘no platforming’ at British universities since the 1970s, looking at more than four decades of student protest against racist and fascist...
www.routledge.com
April 13, 2025 at 8:36 AM
This week in 1974, the UK National
Union of Students first implemented their ‘no platform’ policy. I wrote about the history of this policy in my book, ‘No Platform: A History of
Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech’ (which is on sale here):
www.routledge.com/No-Platform-...
Union of Students first implemented their ‘no platform’ policy. I wrote about the history of this policy in my book, ‘No Platform: A History of
Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech’ (which is on sale here):
www.routledge.com/No-Platform-...
For French speakers/the curious: A few scans of French Irish solidarity journals (Irlande Libre, Irlande en Lutte) in my collection have just been uploaded to the Irish Republican Digital Archive:
republicanarchive.com/2025/03/25/m...
republicanarchive.com/2025/03/25/m...
Miscellaneous
Our Miscellaneous Section is where we will upload documents that don’t fit elsewhere or that we don’t have enough issues for a separate section. It will also feature groups and publications that mi…
republicanarchive.com
April 13, 2025 at 8:19 PM
For French speakers/the curious: A few scans of French Irish solidarity journals (Irlande Libre, Irlande en Lutte) in my collection have just been uploaded to the Irish Republican Digital Archive:
republicanarchive.com/2025/03/25/m...
republicanarchive.com/2025/03/25/m...
When The Jackal Came To Dublin?
In 1976 you had claims in Irish media, such as this article in the Sunday World, that Ilich Ramirez Sánchez aka "Carlos the Jackal" had been living in Dundrum under the name Carlos Martinez in April 1974 for several months and had received hair/scalp treatment
In 1976 you had claims in Irish media, such as this article in the Sunday World, that Ilich Ramirez Sánchez aka "Carlos the Jackal" had been living in Dundrum under the name Carlos Martinez in April 1974 for several months and had received hair/scalp treatment
April 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
When The Jackal Came To Dublin?
In 1976 you had claims in Irish media, such as this article in the Sunday World, that Ilich Ramirez Sánchez aka "Carlos the Jackal" had been living in Dundrum under the name Carlos Martinez in April 1974 for several months and had received hair/scalp treatment
In 1976 you had claims in Irish media, such as this article in the Sunday World, that Ilich Ramirez Sánchez aka "Carlos the Jackal" had been living in Dundrum under the name Carlos Martinez in April 1974 for several months and had received hair/scalp treatment
1980 poster from the Irish Political Prisoners Defence Committee in Paris supporting the H-Block prisoners campaign.
"The Irish Prisoners Must Not Die"
"The Irish Prisoners Must Not Die"
April 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
1980 poster from the Irish Political Prisoners Defence Committee in Paris supporting the H-Block prisoners campaign.
"The Irish Prisoners Must Not Die"
"The Irish Prisoners Must Not Die"
March 1972: Bernadette Devlin, upon arriving in Bordeaux, France, was detained by French police and sent away on the next flight to London.
French Ministry of the Interior - "We have enough troublemakers in the country already without importing them"
(Daily Mirror, March 15 1972)
French Ministry of the Interior - "We have enough troublemakers in the country already without importing them"
(Daily Mirror, March 15 1972)
March 19, 2025 at 10:52 AM
March 1972: Bernadette Devlin, upon arriving in Bordeaux, France, was detained by French police and sent away on the next flight to London.
French Ministry of the Interior - "We have enough troublemakers in the country already without importing them"
(Daily Mirror, March 15 1972)
French Ministry of the Interior - "We have enough troublemakers in the country already without importing them"
(Daily Mirror, March 15 1972)
Reposted by Kevin Doyle
Our special issue of Irish Studies Review, co-edited by me, Sharon Crozier-DeRosa and Jimmy Wintermute, is out now. It has 5 articles on transnational activism, solidarity and Ireland and a 'snapshots' piece on the current field of transnational Irish studies.
tandfonline.com/toc/cisr20/3...
tandfonline.com/toc/cisr20/3...
Irish Studies Review
All journal articles featured in Irish Studies Review vol 32 issue 3
tandfonline.com
July 27, 2024 at 6:11 AM
Our special issue of Irish Studies Review, co-edited by me, Sharon Crozier-DeRosa and Jimmy Wintermute, is out now. It has 5 articles on transnational activism, solidarity and Ireland and a 'snapshots' piece on the current field of transnational Irish studies.
tandfonline.com/toc/cisr20/3...
tandfonline.com/toc/cisr20/3...
Karl Marx struggling to find obscure and out-of-print books on Ireland, highly relatable:
March 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Karl Marx struggling to find obscure and out-of-print books on Ireland, highly relatable:
International Women's Day 1980: A protest outside Armagh Gaol for Republican women prisoners, organised by Irish organisation Women Against Imperialism drew 600, including members of the french feminist MLF Mouvement de libération des femmes.
(Photo by Irlande Libre)
(Photo by Irlande Libre)
March 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
International Women's Day 1980: A protest outside Armagh Gaol for Republican women prisoners, organised by Irish organisation Women Against Imperialism drew 600, including members of the french feminist MLF Mouvement de libération des femmes.
(Photo by Irlande Libre)
(Photo by Irlande Libre)
Bobby Sands began his hunger strike in the H-Blocks this day 44 years ago today
Photo below shows banners hung from Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris by Irish solidarity activists in May of that year [source: AP/RN July 18 1981]
Photo below shows banners hung from Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris by Irish solidarity activists in May of that year [source: AP/RN July 18 1981]
March 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Bobby Sands began his hunger strike in the H-Blocks this day 44 years ago today
Photo below shows banners hung from Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris by Irish solidarity activists in May of that year [source: AP/RN July 18 1981]
Photo below shows banners hung from Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris by Irish solidarity activists in May of that year [source: AP/RN July 18 1981]
Very much looking forward to presenting a paper on some of my research at the @sofeir.bsky.social "Ireland and Transnational Solidarities" conference in Cork next month!
irlsolidarities.sciencesconf.org?lang=en
irlsolidarities.sciencesconf.org?lang=en
Ireland and Transnational Solidarities - Sciencesconf.org
irlsolidarities.sciencesconf.org
February 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Very much looking forward to presenting a paper on some of my research at the @sofeir.bsky.social "Ireland and Transnational Solidarities" conference in Cork next month!
irlsolidarities.sciencesconf.org?lang=en
irlsolidarities.sciencesconf.org?lang=en
"For 10 years Ireland has resisted..."
Poster by Irish solidarity group Irlande Libre in 1979. The photo is attributed to Patrick Frilet, a prominent photojournalist who worked for the Libération newspaper.
Poster by Irish solidarity group Irlande Libre in 1979. The photo is attributed to Patrick Frilet, a prominent photojournalist who worked for the Libération newspaper.
February 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
"For 10 years Ireland has resisted..."
Poster by Irish solidarity group Irlande Libre in 1979. The photo is attributed to Patrick Frilet, a prominent photojournalist who worked for the Libération newspaper.
Poster by Irish solidarity group Irlande Libre in 1979. The photo is attributed to Patrick Frilet, a prominent photojournalist who worked for the Libération newspaper.
Reposted by Kevin Doyle
New blog post: "The Map of the Belfast Pogrom," showing all the deaths of this period, with each person’s name, the date, nature and location of the killing, who was responsible and when the inquest was reported in the press.
#IrishHistory
thebelfastpogrom.com/2025/02/22/t...
#IrishHistory
thebelfastpogrom.com/2025/02/22/t...
The Map of the Belfast Pogrom
This is not an article, but a project: a map of all the deaths of the Belfast Pogrom, with each person’s name, the date, nature and location of the killing, who was responsible and when the i…
thebelfastpogrom.com
February 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
New blog post: "The Map of the Belfast Pogrom," showing all the deaths of this period, with each person’s name, the date, nature and location of the killing, who was responsible and when the inquest was reported in the press.
#IrishHistory
thebelfastpogrom.com/2025/02/22/t...
#IrishHistory
thebelfastpogrom.com/2025/02/22/t...
1997: French authorities claimed to have dismantled a "French based IRA network", largely in Brittany, leading to seven arrests. Ultimately however the prison sentences would prove light for those charged, as was usually the case in France throughout the conflict. 1/2
February 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
1997: French authorities claimed to have dismantled a "French based IRA network", largely in Brittany, leading to seven arrests. Ultimately however the prison sentences would prove light for those charged, as was usually the case in France throughout the conflict. 1/2
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🚨New Blog Post🚨 I wrote this for the COLVET
blog on how West African veteran records can help us put a face on the Global Greater War and its impacts outside Europe. It includes ten brief biographies of West African veterans and their wartime experiences around the globe. colvet.eu/tracing-the-...
blog on how West African veteran records can help us put a face on the Global Greater War and its impacts outside Europe. It includes ten brief biographies of West African veterans and their wartime experiences around the globe. colvet.eu/tracing-the-...
Tracing the Global Greater War in the Records of West African Veterans of the French Army | Colvet.eu
colvet.eu
February 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
🚨New Blog Post🚨 I wrote this for the COLVET
blog on how West African veteran records can help us put a face on the Global Greater War and its impacts outside Europe. It includes ten brief biographies of West African veterans and their wartime experiences around the globe. colvet.eu/tracing-the-...
blog on how West African veteran records can help us put a face on the Global Greater War and its impacts outside Europe. It includes ten brief biographies of West African veterans and their wartime experiences around the globe. colvet.eu/tracing-the-...
Toujours intéressant d'en lire plus sur l'impact de la révolution française sur les irlandais en France de l'époque.
"...ces collégiens républicains adoptent presque automatiquement un « internationalisme révolutionnaire »..."
journals.openedition.org/etudesirland...
"...ces collégiens républicains adoptent presque automatiquement un « internationalisme révolutionnaire »..."
journals.openedition.org/etudesirland...
« La République au collège », Paris, 29 octobre 1792 : catholicisme...
An 1792, le 1er de la République françoise, le 29 [octobre], 8 heures du matin. Nous, membres du Conseil général de la Commune de Paris, commissaires nommés […] à l’effet d’assister et être présent...
journals.openedition.org
February 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Toujours intéressant d'en lire plus sur l'impact de la révolution française sur les irlandais en France de l'époque.
"...ces collégiens républicains adoptent presque automatiquement un « internationalisme révolutionnaire »..."
journals.openedition.org/etudesirland...
"...ces collégiens républicains adoptent presque automatiquement un « internationalisme révolutionnaire »..."
journals.openedition.org/etudesirland...
"Ireland: The English Algeria." Cover of the newspaper of the french Parti Socialiste following Bloody Sunday
The PS Mitterand government in 1982 would be implicated in the famous "Irish of Vincennes" case that saw three members of the IRSP framed for an attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris.
The PS Mitterand government in 1982 would be implicated in the famous "Irish of Vincennes" case that saw three members of the IRSP framed for an attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris.
February 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
"Ireland: The English Algeria." Cover of the newspaper of the french Parti Socialiste following Bloody Sunday
The PS Mitterand government in 1982 would be implicated in the famous "Irish of Vincennes" case that saw three members of the IRSP framed for an attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris.
The PS Mitterand government in 1982 would be implicated in the famous "Irish of Vincennes" case that saw three members of the IRSP framed for an attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris.
Protester at a march for the Irish hunger strikers in Paris, 1981. Sign reads "Thatcher Murderer, She Killed Bobby Sands". Unknown origin
February 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Protester at a march for the Irish hunger strikers in Paris, 1981. Sign reads "Thatcher Murderer, She Killed Bobby Sands". Unknown origin
Article reacting to Derry's Bloody Sunday in L'Humanité Rouge, paper of the Parti communiste marxiste-léniniste, a french Maoist organisation [February 10 1972]
"The Irish people cry out in their righteous anger: “British imperialism out of Ireland!”"
"The Irish people cry out in their righteous anger: “British imperialism out of Ireland!”"
January 31, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Article reacting to Derry's Bloody Sunday in L'Humanité Rouge, paper of the Parti communiste marxiste-léniniste, a french Maoist organisation [February 10 1972]
"The Irish people cry out in their righteous anger: “British imperialism out of Ireland!”"
"The Irish people cry out in their righteous anger: “British imperialism out of Ireland!”"
Fascinating 1992 article from the Orange Standard, official paper of the Orange Order, in which they compare the North of Ireland to Algeria, and urge Loyalist paramilitaries not to make the same mistakes as the OAS.
January 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Fascinating 1992 article from the Orange Standard, official paper of the Orange Order, in which they compare the North of Ireland to Algeria, and urge Loyalist paramilitaries not to make the same mistakes as the OAS.
RA prisoner Pauline Drumm writing about her incarceration in French prison in 1990. Drumm had been arrested alongside Donncha O'Kane and Patrick Murphy, having been accused of carrying out attacks against British bases in Germany. [The Captive Voice Vol. 2 Issue 2.]
January 21, 2025 at 5:21 PM
RA prisoner Pauline Drumm writing about her incarceration in French prison in 1990. Drumm had been arrested alongside Donncha O'Kane and Patrick Murphy, having been accused of carrying out attacks against British bases in Germany. [The Captive Voice Vol. 2 Issue 2.]
October 1981 cover of the Le Peuple Breton, journal of the left wing Union Démocratique Bretonne. The UDB had a close relationship with the Officials/Workers Party.
January 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
October 1981 cover of the Le Peuple Breton, journal of the left wing Union Démocratique Bretonne. The UDB had a close relationship with the Officials/Workers Party.