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Kevin O'Sullivan
@kevinkosullivan.bsky.social
Author of The NGO Moment (http://cambridge.org/9781108708548). Associate Professor in History at University of Galway. Co-editor @difp-ria.bsky.social. Currently researching climate change and capitalism in c20th & early c21st Ireland
Oh, sorry the details didn't make it to you, Clodagh. I'm sure you know plenty about these spaces!
November 11, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Love this way of putting it. (Scribbles it down to add it to our Google doc...)
November 11, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Ah, super. I didn't know this was in the works! Congrats, Julia.
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
*always
November 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Loads of good food!! And, yeah, it was really great. And great to see ye all again - in person, rather than just via Zoom.
November 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
It's always great to spend time with @aoifeolearymcneice.bsky.social @erikahanna.bsky.social @momoulton.bsky.social & Patrick Doyle. Even better to work on this project - and book - together. As Mo said after one of our Zoom meetings: "I was come away from our conversations a little bit smarter."
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I was chatting to a colleague recently about all the collaborations I've done over the years. They asked me how I'd gotten into so many collective projects. The answer is simple: seek out the good people that you want to spend time with first and the academic stuff will follow.
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Brugge 3-3 Barcelona also feels like a result from the group stages circa 1995.
November 5, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Sorry - one goal disallowed, and a penalty ruled out by VAR.
November 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
As part of the workshop, we'll walk to the site, while also exploring entanglements of human and more-than-human activity that have shaped this place along the way. East Cork is now a site of industrialised agriculture, but it's been marked by Empire, globalised commodity chains, etc, for centuries.
November 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
The projects are also linked by Killeagh as a 'site of fracture' against totalising capitalism. I've been working on a case study from the 1980s when locals campaigned (and eventually won) against plans by US multinational Merrell Dow to establish a pharmaceutical plant just outside the village.
November 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
We also wanted to talk about these challenges in situ, since we want to explore physical environments as a source for modern Irish history. The added value in Killeagh is working with artists from thisour.ie (a project I'm also involved with), who are deep-mapping the community-owned woodland.
this/OUR
this/OUR is a community deep mapping project exploring Glenbower Wood through art, history, ecology and citizen science, led by artists Basil Al-Rawi, Chris Finnegan, Katie Nolan and Philip Ryan in pa...
thisour.ie
November 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Very sorry to have missed this - but brilliant to see such a big crowd.
November 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I'm only about one-third of the way through it, but it's really resonating with some of the environmental history writing I've been thinking of. Particularly, the issue of bodily permeability.
November 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM