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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.
Goodnight
July 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
My first time in Bilbao
May 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Loki ten years ago. Never look down.
April 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
At The Brutalist. There’s an intermission. Only another few hours to go. This is what cinemas are for.
January 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
So I asked The AI on X whether Elon Musk posts untrue statements on his platform
January 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Tomorrow at
3.00pm.
I’m really pleased to have
a chapter in this excellent book
December 4, 2024 at 5:03 PM
You can read the paper here: ideas.repec.org/p/ucd/wpaper/2…
November 27, 2024 at 5:36 PM
Tomorrow at 12.00 at UCD
November 26, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Know what you mean but, hey, it’s Peter Brown
November 25, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Sunday reading
November 24, 2024 at 10:04 AM
I’m going to be on sabbatical in the new year and, after the grim years of lockdown and some health problems, need to engage with the wider world. If anybody wants to invite me to something get in touch.
November 22, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Ten years ago, published by Bloomsbury. An intellectual history of Ireland through 12 thinkers.
November 18, 2024 at 9:18 PM


Public Morality and the Culture Wars is a strictly non-polemical analysis of the intellectual and ideological conflicts at the heart of the ‘culture wars’ around human nature, sexuality, gender identity, abortion, censorship, and free speech.
November 15, 2024 at 11:15 AM
Giving a talk on political and policy responses to refugees since the Ukrainian war
November 13, 2024 at 10:29 PM
A book that addresses the far right in Ireland, the need to invest in social cohesion by supporting supporting local communities @UCDPress
February 18, 2024 at 9:42 PM
I’ve just finished the first draft of a book provisionally titled Migration and Social Policy and am now looking to engage with other scholars of migration and to find a publisher. Shares would be appreciated.
December 6, 2023 at 9:20 PM
Waiting for some bookshelves to arrive
December 4, 2023 at 4:20 PM
Saw this over the weekend. An outstanding movie in so many ways.
October 24, 2023 at 7:28 PM
Today’s Irish edition of the Sunday Times leads has a front page click baiter: ‘Muslim prayer houses are prey for radicals’. The story itself is thin gruel. For a deeper dive into the diversity of Muslim communities in Ireland perhaps look this up analysis I wrote with James Carr
October 22, 2023 at 10:20 AM
Whoever formatted this page has a bleak sense of humour
October 21, 2023 at 10:46 AM
An academic’s daughter texts from class
October 17, 2023 at 2:58 PM
Seminar @ucdgearyinst 10 Oct 1.00-2.00pm: Professor Bryan Fanning: ‘Public Morality and the Culture Wars: Implications for Public Policy"
October 4, 2023 at 1:54 PM
Pixie, my second favourite dog in the world. Most Saturdays for the last few years I have gone for a walk (with Loki) with her and her human.
September 30, 2023 at 6:13 PM
Photos of Loki in full flight by my daughter Caitriona
September 27, 2023 at 4:17 PM
Painting of Eilis by her sister Ellie. Galicia, a few years ago.
September 22, 2023 at 3:27 PM