Pádraig Durnin
@padraigdurnin.bsky.social
scotto-hibernian, senior research associate @ Northumbria Uni, histories of anti-apartheid, int. l solidarity + Irish radicalism, Living Rent member, Dundee Utd fan 🍊⚫ (he/they)
mostly double-posting from the other place
Glasgow • Dundee • Belfast
mostly double-posting from the other place
Glasgow • Dundee • Belfast
An afternoon of English non-league football (the Southern Counties East Division One Cup final no less).
May 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
An afternoon of English non-league football (the Southern Counties East Division One Cup final no less).
Great trip down to Bristol to speak about the Dunnes anti-apartheid strike and the Irish labour movement in the 1980s at the Radical History Festival over the weekend – never having been down here at all before it I wasn't sure what to expect but it's a great place to visit!
April 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Great trip down to Bristol to speak about the Dunnes anti-apartheid strike and the Irish labour movement in the 1980s at the Radical History Festival over the weekend – never having been down here at all before it I wasn't sure what to expect but it's a great place to visit!
Will miss him! Came to Tannadice with plenty clubs under his belt when neither us nor his career were at a high point yet managed to radiate the demeanour of a boyhood fan living the dream. Probably time to move on but would love to see him back in a coaching role down the line.
April 24, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Will miss him! Came to Tannadice with plenty clubs under his belt when neither us nor his career were at a high point yet managed to radiate the demeanour of a boyhood fan living the dream. Probably time to move on but would love to see him back in a coaching role down the line.
If anyone has a copy of Ben Turok's Nothing But the Truth they're willing to lend/part with for a bit less than the forty-odd quid it's going for online give me a shout – happy to pay for it and/or cover the postage.
April 15, 2025 at 11:01 AM
If anyone has a copy of Ben Turok's Nothing But the Truth they're willing to lend/part with for a bit less than the forty-odd quid it's going for online give me a shout – happy to pay for it and/or cover the postage.
(both from Daniel Geary's 2020 article 'From Belfast to Bob Jones: Ian Paisley, Protestant fundamentalism, and the transatlantic right')
January 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
(both from Daniel Geary's 2020 article 'From Belfast to Bob Jones: Ian Paisley, Protestant fundamentalism, and the transatlantic right')
Nothing quite like the high Paisleyite world view expanded from Ulster to global affairs at large.
January 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Nothing quite like the high Paisleyite world view expanded from Ulster to global affairs at large.
Always had a real fondness for this bit of country. Standing stones, hillforts, dragon-slaying blacksmiths etc.
January 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Always had a real fondness for this bit of country. Standing stones, hillforts, dragon-slaying blacksmiths etc.
Two very old milestones in the Howe o' Strathmartine (at Balluderon and Bridgefoot). Anyone know anything about dating them?
January 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Two very old milestones in the Howe o' Strathmartine (at Balluderon and Bridgefoot). Anyone know anything about dating them?
If you remember, you remember.
December 31, 2024 at 6:58 PM
If you remember, you remember.
Unexpectedly transported back to 2014 this afternoon while running up a back-road in the Carse of Gowrie.
December 31, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Unexpectedly transported back to 2014 this afternoon while running up a back-road in the Carse of Gowrie.
Obv. the 1980s are the most recent point the duopoly briefly shattered, but I found myself thinking about the late 40s/50s passing Shawfield out running recently – Clyde had gates of almost there 18,000 one season! Hibs won back-to-back titles, East Fife and Falkirk winning trophies. Another world.
December 16, 2024 at 12:28 PM
Obv. the 1980s are the most recent point the duopoly briefly shattered, but I found myself thinking about the late 40s/50s passing Shawfield out running recently – Clyde had gates of almost there 18,000 one season! Hibs won back-to-back titles, East Fife and Falkirk winning trophies. Another world.
As much as I'll always take a Celtic win over Rangers (and unlike a lot of non-OF fans I'll happily say that publicly as well as privately), that headline really sums up the great curse of the Scottish game for most of the last 130 years.
December 16, 2024 at 12:12 PM
As much as I'll always take a Celtic win over Rangers (and unlike a lot of non-OF fans I'll happily say that publicly as well as privately), that headline really sums up the great curse of the Scottish game for most of the last 130 years.
Walking along the Tay at sunset on Tuesday.
December 13, 2024 at 11:27 AM
Walking along the Tay at sunset on Tuesday.
There's nae toon like meh hame toon.
December 9, 2024 at 2:16 PM
There's nae toon like meh hame toon.
Wonderful watching the great Andy Irvine last night, a man whose career is going into its seventh decade in fine fettle. Probably been listening to his Planxty/Sweeney's Men material since I was about 12 or 13!
November 28, 2024 at 7:55 AM
Wonderful watching the great Andy Irvine last night, a man whose career is going into its seventh decade in fine fettle. Probably been listening to his Planxty/Sweeney's Men material since I was about 12 or 13!
The Southern Necropolis aside I think there are less than half a dozen buildings in this entire photograph still standing.
November 25, 2024 at 9:10 AM
The Southern Necropolis aside I think there are less than half a dozen buildings in this entire photograph still standing.
Reading a Ralph Glasser's memoir of his childhood in the Gorbals at the moment and I'm losing it at the section where he describes walking lost around a wasteland after everything he knew had been raised to the ground.
November 25, 2024 at 9:10 AM
Reading a Ralph Glasser's memoir of his childhood in the Gorbals at the moment and I'm losing it at the section where he describes walking lost around a wasteland after everything he knew had been raised to the ground.
There's a team, team, the finest that we've seen... in Cardonald?
November 24, 2024 at 2:53 PM
There's a team, team, the finest that we've seen... in Cardonald?
Unlikely to happen given I'm not a minor Victorian industrialist but I'd enjoy if after I passed my friends would club together to pay for a public drinking fountain, even if it ended up sitting rather forelornly plugged up in a bit of dead space outside an Asda a century later.
November 20, 2024 at 11:49 AM
Unlikely to happen given I'm not a minor Victorian industrialist but I'd enjoy if after I passed my friends would club together to pay for a public drinking fountain, even if it ended up sitting rather forelornly plugged up in a bit of dead space outside an Asda a century later.
'When U.S. Grant paid a visit to my home town
They spruced it up with a lick of paint and they showed him round
Two bands played in fierce competition as the rain fell down
And the General said: "What a mighty long bridge for such a mighty little old town."'
They spruced it up with a lick of paint and they showed him round
Two bands played in fierce competition as the rain fell down
And the General said: "What a mighty long bridge for such a mighty little old town."'
November 18, 2024 at 10:45 AM
'When U.S. Grant paid a visit to my home town
They spruced it up with a lick of paint and they showed him round
Two bands played in fierce competition as the rain fell down
And the General said: "What a mighty long bridge for such a mighty little old town."'
They spruced it up with a lick of paint and they showed him round
Two bands played in fierce competition as the rain fell down
And the General said: "What a mighty long bridge for such a mighty little old town."'
Wee bit of belated news for BSky-only folk: started working (remotely) as a Research Assistant on the 'Investigating Anti-Apartheid Networks Past and Present' project under Connal Parr at Northumbria Uni last week. Hopefully some interesting work going to come out of this – excited to get started!
November 13, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Wee bit of belated news for BSky-only folk: started working (remotely) as a Research Assistant on the 'Investigating Anti-Apartheid Networks Past and Present' project under Connal Parr at Northumbria Uni last week. Hopefully some interesting work going to come out of this – excited to get started!
Some corporate outreach to the southside of Glasgow's large Welsh-speaking community.
November 13, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Some corporate outreach to the southside of Glasgow's large Welsh-speaking community.