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Lynsey Black
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Maynooth University, School of Law & Criminology - doing history, gender, punishment, postcolonialism, borders. PI on Research Ireland Laureate Award, CONSPACE - Contested Space: Penal Nationalism & the Northern Ireland Border.
Colours on Parnell Square this morning.
November 13, 2025 at 9:30 AM
CONSPACE comes to the archives!
Kicking off sabbatical with some diplomatically tricky border incidents, filed by MOD under 'navigational error, relax, nobody tell Ireland'.
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Event on EU Border Violence - Maynooth University @mu-ssi.bsky.social October 9th. How EU border violence—including violent pushbacks and other violations against racialised and irregularised migrants—is recorded, represented, and contested.
September 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
En route to a hen night reading material
August 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Claire Hamilton, my brilliant colleague at Maynooth Law and Criminology, is series editor along with David Nelkin of Routledge's New Advances in Crime and Social Harm. If you have a proposal that might be a good fit and you'd like to chat, see below.
August 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Final plenary of #MaynoothCrimCon 'Responding to the far right'
June 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Ciara Bracken-Roche introducing the second plenary on online spaces and the far right, looking at the criminological implications #MaynoothCrimCon
June 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
John Morrison @maynoothlaw.bsky.social responding to keynote, we need to talk about concepts like nationalism in criminology #MaynoothCrimCon
June 24, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Prof Orla Lynch @orlalynch-ucc.bsky.social offering a response to keynote, teasing out some parameters of emergent far right in Ireland #MaynoothCrimCon
June 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
How liberal democracies bend, not break: the success of right-wing legal mobilization - opening keynote from Prof Vanessa Barker #MaynoothCrimCon
June 24, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Just left the #MaynoothCrimCon PhD pub happening (because I'm not happening) but we're kicking off tomorrow with our plenary on the far right. Looking forward to two days of great papers!
June 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
'Upper Ireland'
April 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Easter at Maynooth (there were other people in Pugin but that would kinda harsh the aesthetic)
April 24, 2025 at 9:01 AM
A belter of a show from Trinity Musical Theatre at @smockalley.bsky.social yesterday. Into the Woods by Sondheim, and on his birthday too. AMAZING! I cannot believe this cast and crew are pulling this quality together as students. My waster undergrad years really putting me to shame.
March 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
It's an altogether more ominous day in Maynooth!
March 6, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Lovely Dublin morning with a bit of Croke Park in the background.
March 6, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The 16th North South Criminology Conference will be hosted by @maynoothuniversity.ie this year - call for papers open now so get your abstracts in, you have until 4th April! forms.office.com/pages/respon...
March 4, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Last night of the Rockefeller tree. For me too. And there was me thinking multicoloured lights were tacky.
January 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Back of a toilet door, Ardesia wine bar in New York. What's in and out for 2025. As added by the users of the toilet who are motivated to pick up the chalk.
January 5, 2025 at 11:18 AM
January 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Countryside divisions
December 30, 2024 at 10:59 AM