Laura McAtackney
@lauramca.bsky.social
Irish Academic, archaeologist, heritage, memory, creative at UC Cork. Interest in post/conflict and post/colonial contexts inc fieldwork in Ireland and Caribbean.
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The Guardian gave Goodwin lots of space in the 2010s to whitewash racism as Legitimate Concerns, imbue those Concerns with faux working class authenticity, and denigrate anti racism as the bleatings of a cosmopolitan elite. Its a bit late to start Noticing now.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform UK accused of embracing racism over its pick for head of student organisation
Matthew Goodwin argued people from minority ethnic backgrounds born and raised in UK were not always British
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:02 AM
The Guardian gave Goodwin lots of space in the 2010s to whitewash racism as Legitimate Concerns, imbue those Concerns with faux working class authenticity, and denigrate anti racism as the bleatings of a cosmopolitan elite. Its a bit late to start Noticing now.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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New documentary review on the site by @brian-hanley.bsky.social on the RTE Documentary NORAID, Irish America and the Troubles. www.theirishstory.com/2025/11/10/d...
November 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
New documentary review on the site by @brian-hanley.bsky.social on the RTE Documentary NORAID, Irish America and the Troubles. www.theirishstory.com/2025/11/10/d...
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Institutional capture of the BBC: Michael Prescott former political editor of the Murdoch Sunday Times - so you can guess his politics - alleges the following. All the current far right obsessions in bullet points. Laughable and totally rancid
November 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Institutional capture of the BBC: Michael Prescott former political editor of the Murdoch Sunday Times - so you can guess his politics - alleges the following. All the current far right obsessions in bullet points. Laughable and totally rancid
I love when case-studies come up during my teaching that are just too perfect. Nearing the end of a course on ethical dilemmas in anthropology and we have Ivan Yates fudging the difference between legal and ethical. Chefs kiss! www.rte.ie/news/politic...
Client confidentiality reason for non-disclosure - Yates
Ivan Yates has said client confidentiality was the reason he did not disclose the fact that he gave media training to Fianna Fáil presidential candidate Jim Gavin.
www.rte.ie
November 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I love when case-studies come up during my teaching that are just too perfect. Nearing the end of a course on ethical dilemmas in anthropology and we have Ivan Yates fudging the difference between legal and ethical. Chefs kiss! www.rte.ie/news/politic...
Academic book publishers pre-advertising ‘black friday’ deals on social media. Grim.
November 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Academic book publishers pre-advertising ‘black friday’ deals on social media. Grim.
In yet another addition of willful ignorance by the British tabloid press, the cyclical poppy furore. It is incredible it has to be explained to adults that there is nothing apolitical about remembering war and especially how it is used in the contemporary. www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soccer...
Katie McCabe takes clear poppy stance as she follows in McClean's footsteps
Katie McCabe follows in the footsteps of James McClean by not wearing the poppy while in action for Arsenal.
www.irishmirror.ie
November 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
In yet another addition of willful ignorance by the British tabloid press, the cyclical poppy furore. It is incredible it has to be explained to adults that there is nothing apolitical about remembering war and especially how it is used in the contemporary. www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soccer...
While it was a less than ideal Presidential campaign - with only two candidates still running in the end - it’s useful to see the names and bios behind the ‘spoil your vote’ campaign. Mainly a lot of failed politicians, right wing agitators and social conservatives. www.rte.ie/news/primeti...
Who was behind the 'Spoil The Vote' campaign?
A network of businesspeople and online commentators campaigned for voters to spoil their ballots as a form of protest. Here's who they are — and how they became part of the movement
www.rte.ie
October 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
While it was a less than ideal Presidential campaign - with only two candidates still running in the end - it’s useful to see the names and bios behind the ‘spoil your vote’ campaign. Mainly a lot of failed politicians, right wing agitators and social conservatives. www.rte.ie/news/primeti...
Heading to the polling station to vote for @catherinegalway.bsky.social - after y’day horror with the Soldier F trial Ive put on my best clothes and am representing the North in my person and in my gorgeous @saraoneill.bsky.social scarf!
October 24, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Heading to the polling station to vote for @catherinegalway.bsky.social - after y’day horror with the Soldier F trial Ive put on my best clothes and am representing the North in my person and in my gorgeous @saraoneill.bsky.social scarf!
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As we await a verdict in the trial of Soldier F, another reminder that in 2010 the Bloody Sunday inquiry found
- the killings were unjustified
- none of the 14 dead (7 of whom were children) had guns
- no warnings were given
- no soldiers were under threat
- the troops were the first to open fire
- the killings were unjustified
- none of the 14 dead (7 of whom were children) had guns
- no warnings were given
- no soldiers were under threat
- the troops were the first to open fire
October 23, 2025 at 10:52 AM
As we await a verdict in the trial of Soldier F, another reminder that in 2010 the Bloody Sunday inquiry found
- the killings were unjustified
- none of the 14 dead (7 of whom were children) had guns
- no warnings were given
- no soldiers were under threat
- the troops were the first to open fire
- the killings were unjustified
- none of the 14 dead (7 of whom were children) had guns
- no warnings were given
- no soldiers were under threat
- the troops were the first to open fire
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Much like Hillsborough, you have to marvel at how Britain as a system is so utterly impervious to accountability: decades of orchestrated bullshit, legal shenanigans and institutional roadblocks, and then one final great rasping fart of “maybe it was elves that did it, and fuck you”.
October 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Much like Hillsborough, you have to marvel at how Britain as a system is so utterly impervious to accountability: decades of orchestrated bullshit, legal shenanigans and institutional roadblocks, and then one final great rasping fart of “maybe it was elves that did it, and fuck you”.
As someone from the North living the South, it can feel b othering that so much of the election talk is about appealing to Northern unionists and virtually no recognition of the ongoing trauma inflicted on Northern nationalists. Yet another day in the British state being denied justice.
Some people on this island are voting to elect their head of state
Others are digesting the fact that their state deployed paratroopers as peacekeepers - an oxymoron in itself, who killed children in broad daylight & then frustrated justice to the point that it was impossible. Such a stark contrast
Others are digesting the fact that their state deployed paratroopers as peacekeepers - an oxymoron in itself, who killed children in broad daylight & then frustrated justice to the point that it was impossible. Such a stark contrast
October 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
As someone from the North living the South, it can feel b othering that so much of the election talk is about appealing to Northern unionists and virtually no recognition of the ongoing trauma inflicted on Northern nationalists. Yet another day in the British state being denied justice.
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You can read the full transcript of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry for the two days for which Soldier F was questioned with these two links:
webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/201010...
webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/201010...
webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/201010...
webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/201010...
UK Government Web Archive
This Page is [ARCHIVED CONTENT] and shows what the site page http://report.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org/transcripts/Archive/Ts375.htm looked like on 17 Oct 2010 at 06:24:23
webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk
October 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
You can read the full transcript of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry for the two days for which Soldier F was questioned with these two links:
webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/201010...
webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/201010...
webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/201010...
webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/201010...
Soldier F found not guilty of murder on Bloody Sunday. What can one expect when the British state doesn’t adequately investigate at the time, blames the dead for their murders, drags out justice processes for >50 years and then imposes a legacy act. Ensures this outcome www.rte.ie/news/ulster/...
Soldier F cleared of two murders on Bloody Sunday
A former British paratrooper has been found not guilty at Belfast Crown Court of committing two murders and five attempted murders on Bloody Sunday in Derry in 1972.
www.rte.ie
October 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Soldier F found not guilty of murder on Bloody Sunday. What can one expect when the British state doesn’t adequately investigate at the time, blames the dead for their murders, drags out justice processes for >50 years and then imposes a legacy act. Ensures this outcome www.rte.ie/news/ulster/...
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With fascism on the rise, venerating a polite decent debate club culture is actually useful to the fascists, being polite with fascists just normalises them. Call em racists, call em fascists, call em wankers and dont pretend they have a point
October 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
With fascism on the rise, venerating a polite decent debate club culture is actually useful to the fascists, being polite with fascists just normalises them. Call em racists, call em fascists, call em wankers and dont pretend they have a point
The British press are losing their collective minds over an Irish presidential candidate that not only isn’t part of the establishment but looks like they’ll win. Not that they really know anything about her but sure when does that ever matter?! Roll on Friday! #ConnollyforPresident
October 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The British press are losing their collective minds over an Irish presidential candidate that not only isn’t part of the establishment but looks like they’ll win. Not that they really know anything about her but sure when does that ever matter?! Roll on Friday! #ConnollyforPresident
WW is no longer satire.
October 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
WW is no longer satire.
Just showing my virtual support (while recuperating from a recent operation) for #StandOutforGaza lunchtime protests across Ireland today! Always in solidarity with Gaza and Palestinians. www.ipsc.ie
Home - Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Protests, Actions & Events for Palestine Around Ireland As Apartheid Israel continues it genocidal war on the people of Gaza, now using starvation as a weapon, all with the blessing of Western powers,...
www.ipsc.ie
October 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Just showing my virtual support (while recuperating from a recent operation) for #StandOutforGaza lunchtime protests across Ireland today! Always in solidarity with Gaza and Palestinians. www.ipsc.ie
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Join us on 23 October for Revealing the Past, a biennial conference on recent archaeological discoveries and research funded by @nationalmons.bsky.social , Historic Environment Division NI, and @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social via RIA grants
Book your tickets now: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...
Book your tickets now: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...
October 15, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Join us on 23 October for Revealing the Past, a biennial conference on recent archaeological discoveries and research funded by @nationalmons.bsky.social , Historic Environment Division NI, and @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social via RIA grants
Book your tickets now: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...
Book your tickets now: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...
Cork today #nopeaceonstolenland #palestine
October 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Cork today #nopeaceonstolenland #palestine
In a country where elected politics has been dominated by the centre right pretty much since the formation of the state it has always been a huge relief to have Irish Presidents (at least in recent times) being more left leaning and interested in social justice. Long may it continue #Connolly
“What Connolly would do is keep the presidency going as some kind of alternative space in the State’s official life.
The Áras would continue to function as a counterweight to Govt Bdgs, a space in which a wider set of Irish realities can be recognised.
Can we really afford to have no such space?”
The Áras would continue to function as a counterweight to Govt Bdgs, a space in which a wider set of Irish realities can be recognised.
Can we really afford to have no such space?”
October 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM
In a country where elected politics has been dominated by the centre right pretty much since the formation of the state it has always been a huge relief to have Irish Presidents (at least in recent times) being more left leaning and interested in social justice. Long may it continue #Connolly
Fantastic event hosted by Maynooth University - Scholasticide in Palestine and the responsibilities of Western Universities. 21 October, in person and online. Not to be missed! www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...
Scholasticide in Palestine and the Responsibilities of Western
The Israeli state has systematically targeted and repressed Palestinian education since the 1948 Nakba. Over the past two years, Israel's perpetration of ‘scholasticide’ against Palestinian scholars,
www.maynoothuniversity.ie
October 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Fantastic event hosted by Maynooth University - Scholasticide in Palestine and the responsibilities of Western Universities. 21 October, in person and online. Not to be missed! www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...
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1/4 New recommendation: @ehmalatesta.bsky.social et al. (2025) Rethinking Caribbean Archaeology: Towards an ethical position for a truly decolonial practice. ver.3 recommended by @pciarchaeology.bsky.social osf.io/4ge5j
October 13, 2025 at 8:52 AM
1/4 New recommendation: @ehmalatesta.bsky.social et al. (2025) Rethinking Caribbean Archaeology: Towards an ethical position for a truly decolonial practice. ver.3 recommended by @pciarchaeology.bsky.social osf.io/4ge5j
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🚨 We have a cool new ESRC PhD studentship opportunity on the topic of political persuasion for someone interested in campaigning, field experiments and/or computational methods @lsegovernment.bsky.social, in collaboration with
@campaign-lab.bsky.social. All info 👇
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
@campaign-lab.bsky.social. All info 👇
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
LSE Collaborative Studentship with Campaign Lab
LSE Collaborative Studentship with Campaign Lab
www.lse.ac.uk
October 6, 2025 at 10:57 AM
🚨 We have a cool new ESRC PhD studentship opportunity on the topic of political persuasion for someone interested in campaigning, field experiments and/or computational methods @lsegovernment.bsky.social, in collaboration with
@campaign-lab.bsky.social. All info 👇
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
@campaign-lab.bsky.social. All info 👇
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
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