Bryan Fanning
@bryanfanning.bsky.social
Full Professor of Migration and Social
Policy, student of intellectual history #author: Public Morality and the Culture Wars: The triple divide (2023), and those in the above picture.
Policy, student of intellectual history #author: Public Morality and the Culture Wars: The triple divide (2023), and those in the above picture.
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There's been a great deal of debate about how safe Dublin city centre is, but when we @dublininquirer.com looked for data to resolve this, we couldn't find much useful – so we commissioned a survey to try to add some facts/data to the debate. Today we've published five articles about the results. 1/
November 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM
There's been a great deal of debate about how safe Dublin city centre is, but when we @dublininquirer.com looked for data to resolve this, we couldn't find much useful – so we commissioned a survey to try to add some facts/data to the debate. Today we've published five articles about the results. 1/
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Later today, the @jcfjustice.bsky.social launch a report that demonstrates Irish society has moved decisively into a post-secular stage and it's past time for us all to leave our 20th century kneejerk nu-atheist tendencies behind
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...
The risk of crises such as the 2023 Dublin riots “will diminish if officials cultivate relationships with faith-based communities”.
The risk of crises such as the 2023 Dublin riots “will diminish if officials cultivate relationships with faith-based communities”.
Policymakers failing to tap into religious groups for migrant integration, says report
Nearly 50 faith-based communities in north-east inner city play unique role as ‘mediators of integration’ in addressing needs ‘often unmet’ by Government
www.irishtimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Later today, the @jcfjustice.bsky.social launch a report that demonstrates Irish society has moved decisively into a post-secular stage and it's past time for us all to leave our 20th century kneejerk nu-atheist tendencies behind
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Reliance on Chinese students and Chinese campus for university income creates strategic vulnerabilities which Chinese State is wiling to use to suppress academic freedom.
Who’d have thought it?!
Shocking. Not
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Who’d have thought it?!
Shocking. Not
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Reliance on Chinese students and Chinese campus for university income creates strategic vulnerabilities which Chinese State is wiling to use to suppress academic freedom.
Who’d have thought it?!
Shocking. Not
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Who’d have thought it?!
Shocking. Not
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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We are a f***ing class country, let it be said.
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 11:23 AM
We are a f***ing class country, let it be said.
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My colleagues and I have launched a report looking at the religious diversity in Dublin's north-east inner-city, demonstrating beyond doubt that these communities are integral to the life of the city. It really presses DCC to stop overlooking religious practice
www.jcfj.ie/research/fai...
www.jcfj.ie/research/fai...
Faith in the North-East Inner-City - Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice in Ireland
Introduction New research by the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice and ACET Ireland has identified almost fifty faith-based communities in the north-east inner-city of Dublin. A key aim of the resea...
www.jcfj.ie
October 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
My colleagues and I have launched a report looking at the religious diversity in Dublin's north-east inner-city, demonstrating beyond doubt that these communities are integral to the life of the city. It really presses DCC to stop overlooking religious practice
www.jcfj.ie/research/fai...
www.jcfj.ie/research/fai...
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If you missed Ian d'Alton's talk yesterday about '1932: Seeing the same world differently: Irish Catholics and Protestants a decade after independence', it's now available online at youtu.be/9oxWs0PTA1Y
Irish Studies Seminar: Ian d'Alton
YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies
youtu.be
October 21, 2025 at 11:18 AM
If you missed Ian d'Alton's talk yesterday about '1932: Seeing the same world differently: Irish Catholics and Protestants a decade after independence', it's now available online at youtu.be/9oxWs0PTA1Y
Hundreds of people would love to
work for you in the Dail. Would you hire somebody who was caught with a gun used to commit a murder perhaps planning to kill somebody, who never expressed remorse for this. CC is not the best of us.
work for you in the Dail. Would you hire somebody who was caught with a gun used to commit a murder perhaps planning to kill somebody, who never expressed remorse for this. CC is not the best of us.
October 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Hundreds of people would love to
work for you in the Dail. Would you hire somebody who was caught with a gun used to commit a murder perhaps planning to kill somebody, who never expressed remorse for this. CC is not the best of us.
work for you in the Dail. Would you hire somebody who was caught with a gun used to commit a murder perhaps planning to kill somebody, who never expressed remorse for this. CC is not the best of us.
Would you pretend to have a monopoly on virtue opposing repossessions as a councillor whilst facilitating these in you day job? CC is not the best of us.
October 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Would you pretend to have a monopoly on virtue opposing repossessions as a councillor whilst facilitating these in you day job? CC is not the best of us.
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Artist’s photoshop reconstruction image of an early medieval cashel settlement with small fields at Cahercommaun, Co. Clare. (Photoshop reconstruction by Conor McDermott, UCD School of Archaeology, based on an aerial photograph by National Monuments Service, Dept of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht)
October 19, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Artist’s photoshop reconstruction image of an early medieval cashel settlement with small fields at Cahercommaun, Co. Clare. (Photoshop reconstruction by Conor McDermott, UCD School of Archaeology, based on an aerial photograph by National Monuments Service, Dept of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht)
Great writing that strives to make sense our troubled times.
Something a bit different today. Talking about authoritarian populism and the pitfalls of how we respond to it @bryanfanning.bsky.social @hlinehan.bsky.social
theweekinhousing.substack.com/p/populism-m...
theweekinhousing.substack.com/p/populism-m...
Populism makes sense: a provocation
The Week in Housing 17/10/25
theweekinhousing.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Great writing that strives to make sense our troubled times.
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Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
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Registrations are open for this month's #SimonTalks
We are excited to be joined by Michelle Norris and Altaf Hossain from UCD's Geary Institute for Public Policy.
Join us as we discuss Housing Precarity and Migrants in Dublin!
Register 👇
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
We are excited to be joined by Michelle Norris and Altaf Hossain from UCD's Geary Institute for Public Policy.
Join us as we discuss Housing Precarity and Migrants in Dublin!
Register 👇
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
July 8, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Registrations are open for this month's #SimonTalks
We are excited to be joined by Michelle Norris and Altaf Hossain from UCD's Geary Institute for Public Policy.
Join us as we discuss Housing Precarity and Migrants in Dublin!
Register 👇
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
We are excited to be joined by Michelle Norris and Altaf Hossain from UCD's Geary Institute for Public Policy.
Join us as we discuss Housing Precarity and Migrants in Dublin!
Register 👇
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Guess what!? My biography of Henri Bergson will be available in paperback NEXT WEEK (June 19th)! John Banville called it "the most intellectually stimulating book I read this year" and the NYT called it "lively and deft". Get your copy here (or don't I'm not a cop): linktr.ee/eherring
June 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Guess what!? My biography of Henri Bergson will be available in paperback NEXT WEEK (June 19th)! John Banville called it "the most intellectually stimulating book I read this year" and the NYT called it "lively and deft". Get your copy here (or don't I'm not a cop): linktr.ee/eherring
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🧵To mark the publication of "Rituals of Migration" @kevinkenny.bsky.social & @irpinaingiro.bsky.social 👏 to the Bluesky contributors @hidehirota.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @appalachianphilly.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social nyupress.org/blog/2025/05...
Ten Rituals of Migration by Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari - NYU Press
What do migrants do, feel, think, eat, and carry with them—on the eve of departure, in transit, and when returning home? Rituals of Migration offers snapshots of Italian and Irish migrants... READ MOR...
nyupress.org
May 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
🧵To mark the publication of "Rituals of Migration" @kevinkenny.bsky.social & @irpinaingiro.bsky.social 👏 to the Bluesky contributors @hidehirota.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @appalachianphilly.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social nyupress.org/blog/2025/05...
My first time in Bilbao
May 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
My first time in Bilbao
Loki ten years ago. Never look down.
April 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Loki ten years ago. Never look down.
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This is a really beautiful piece worth seeking out.
I have a very personal essay in today’s Irish Times about the grandfather I never met, the historian KH Connell
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
April 12, 2025 at 9:38 AM
This is a really beautiful piece worth seeking out.
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BIG BIG news for us - this is a former hardware shop ( O'Doherty's in Patricxk Street, Templemore town Tipperary. The new home of our much larger warehouse for @thebookshopie.bsky.social , AND.. a used bookshop in the two story part - called 'The Book Temple' ( see what we did there? #templemore
April 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
BIG BIG news for us - this is a former hardware shop ( O'Doherty's in Patricxk Street, Templemore town Tipperary. The new home of our much larger warehouse for @thebookshopie.bsky.social , AND.. a used bookshop in the two story part - called 'The Book Temple' ( see what we did there? #templemore
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Pleased to say that my book - Ulster's Lost Counties: Loyalism and Paramilitarism since 1920 - is available to pre-order in Paperback (delivery from 22 May) via Cambridge University Press.
www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...
www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...
Ulster's Lost Counties | Irish history
www.cambridge.org
April 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Pleased to say that my book - Ulster's Lost Counties: Loyalism and Paramilitarism since 1920 - is available to pre-order in Paperback (delivery from 22 May) via Cambridge University Press.
www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...
www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...
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🚨FT Permanent Job 🚨
My department is hiring a lecturer (B/B) in 18th-c. Irish history, with the desire for someone whose research and teaching pertains to the Irish 'long eighteenth century (1690-1830)...and broader international, political and intellectual context of the period.' 🗃️
My department is hiring a lecturer (B/B) in 18th-c. Irish history, with the desire for someone whose research and teaching pertains to the Irish 'long eighteenth century (1690-1830)...and broader international, political and intellectual context of the period.' 🗃️
April 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
🚨FT Permanent Job 🚨
My department is hiring a lecturer (B/B) in 18th-c. Irish history, with the desire for someone whose research and teaching pertains to the Irish 'long eighteenth century (1690-1830)...and broader international, political and intellectual context of the period.' 🗃️
My department is hiring a lecturer (B/B) in 18th-c. Irish history, with the desire for someone whose research and teaching pertains to the Irish 'long eighteenth century (1690-1830)...and broader international, political and intellectual context of the period.' 🗃️
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Stock market crashed
Dictators appeased
Liberals censored
Maybe Trump is a Tanky?
Dictators appeased
Liberals censored
Maybe Trump is a Tanky?
April 4, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Stock market crashed
Dictators appeased
Liberals censored
Maybe Trump is a Tanky?
Dictators appeased
Liberals censored
Maybe Trump is a Tanky?
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Outside, it's a florist's. Inside, it's a stark reminder of women killed violently in Ireland #speirgorm
jrnl.ie/6622859
jrnl.ie/6622859
Outside, it's a florist's. Inside, it's a stark reminder of women killed violently in Ireland
This St Valentine’s Day, Women’s Aid is raising awareness of violence against women and calling for men to stand up as allies.
jrnl.ie
February 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Outside, it's a florist's. Inside, it's a stark reminder of women killed violently in Ireland #speirgorm
jrnl.ie/6622859
jrnl.ie/6622859
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It has been brought to my attention that one of my books is available for free in PDF format through the National Academic Digital Library of Ethiopia, so have at it if you are interested in 1930s constitutionalism in Ireland: ndl.ethernet.edu.et/handle/12345...
National Academic Digital Library of Ethiopia
ndl.ethernet.edu.et
February 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
It has been brought to my attention that one of my books is available for free in PDF format through the National Academic Digital Library of Ethiopia, so have at it if you are interested in 1930s constitutionalism in Ireland: ndl.ethernet.edu.et/handle/12345...