Sara Dybris McQuaid
@saradm.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Aarhus University. Peace, Conflict, Memory, Northern Ireland. Here for politics and righteous indignation.
Fra Belfast til Blågården! - Glæder mig helt vildt til samarbejdet med Emergency Architecture og Nørrebros biblioteker i formidlingen af min forskning om biblioteker som kritisk social infrastruktur i konflikt og fred. Tak til @carlsbergfondet.dk for støtten! www.carlsbergfondet.dk/en/what-we-h...
Support Your Local Library: Research Communication, Reseach Resonances and Research Echoes | Carlsbergfondet.dk
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November 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Fra Belfast til Blågården! - Glæder mig helt vildt til samarbejdet med Emergency Architecture og Nørrebros biblioteker i formidlingen af min forskning om biblioteker som kritisk social infrastruktur i konflikt og fred. Tak til @carlsbergfondet.dk for støtten! www.carlsbergfondet.dk/en/what-we-h...
The project to bring the Oldpark Library back to life is so intriguing, not least from a peacebuilding perspective. Across the Narrow Sea – early reflections by Chair of Trustees Brian J. Cavanagh on our #BackToLife project carnegieoldpark.org/2025/11/03/a...
Across the Narrow Sea – early reflections by Chair of Trustees Brian J. Cavanagh on our #BackToLife project
Three months ago, if someone had predicted that I would be the interim chair of the Carnegie Oldpark Library trustees in North Belfast, I would have riposted ‘unlikely’; if they had then explained …
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November 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The project to bring the Oldpark Library back to life is so intriguing, not least from a peacebuilding perspective. Across the Narrow Sea – early reflections by Chair of Trustees Brian J. Cavanagh on our #BackToLife project carnegieoldpark.org/2025/11/03/a...
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50 years ago what became the worst feud between the Official and Provisional IRA's began in Belfast. Anthony McIntyre's article, written in 2002, is one of the best accounts of this tragic period.
theblanket.library.indianapolis.iu.edu/sticks.html
theblanket.library.indianapolis.iu.edu/sticks.html
THE BLANKET * Index: Current Articles
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October 29, 2025 at 5:36 AM
50 years ago what became the worst feud between the Official and Provisional IRA's began in Belfast. Anthony McIntyre's article, written in 2002, is one of the best accounts of this tragic period.
theblanket.library.indianapolis.iu.edu/sticks.html
theblanket.library.indianapolis.iu.edu/sticks.html
This! I bought a refurbished 13 mini last year (to replace my ancient SE, which I didn't want to give up precisely because of the size).
Bring back small phones! This is my iphone 13 mini. It is a perfectly-sized phone. But it's going to die - in a few years, Apple will stop supporting it w/updates. Yet there are now NO new smartphones to buy on the market that fit the human hand. www.ft.com/content/6332...
October 22, 2025 at 6:36 AM
This! I bought a refurbished 13 mini last year (to replace my ancient SE, which I didn't want to give up precisely because of the size).
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Unmissable exhibitions by Larissa Sansour and Aleksandra Domanović at Charlottenborg in Copenhagen. @slowmemo.bsky.social @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social
October 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Unmissable exhibitions by Larissa Sansour and Aleksandra Domanović at Charlottenborg in Copenhagen. @slowmemo.bsky.social @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social
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A superb “Peter Mair Lecture” by @caterinafr.bsky.social at the @psaireland.bsky.social just now presenting her path-breaking work on the continuing rise of the far right. As she noted, Mair’s “void” rather unfortunately is being filled
October 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
A superb “Peter Mair Lecture” by @caterinafr.bsky.social at the @psaireland.bsky.social just now presenting her path-breaking work on the continuing rise of the far right. As she noted, Mair’s “void” rather unfortunately is being filled
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Pretty disturbing times: “If I’m using a dating app,” he says, “I want to start a conversation that feels meaningful from the beginning so I can hook the other person in – but also I don’t want to spend too much time on it.” www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder
Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Pretty disturbing times: “If I’m using a dating app,” he says, “I want to start a conversation that feels meaningful from the beginning so I can hook the other person in – but also I don’t want to spend too much time on it.” www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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In Irish Political Studies, Yvonne Galligan & I examine the electoral performance of women candidates in the 2024 general election and reflect back on the implementation of the legislative gender quota in three general elections - doi-org.ucc.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0790... & hdl.handle.net/10468/17999
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October 9, 2025 at 11:29 AM
In Irish Political Studies, Yvonne Galligan & I examine the electoral performance of women candidates in the 2024 general election and reflect back on the implementation of the legislative gender quota in three general elections - doi-org.ucc.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0790... & hdl.handle.net/10468/17999
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A Danish parliamentarian, the MP Victoria Velasquez, has been abducted by the Israeli military this morning.
Det her er jo vanvittigt. Et dansk folketingsmedlem, der bortføres militært af en fremmed magt i et åbenlyst brud på folkeretten. Hvordan kan vi opretholde almindelige diplomatiske forbindelser med et sådan forbryderisk regime.
nyheder.tv2.dk/live/udland/...
nyheder.tv2.dk/live/udland/...
Dansk politiker en del af opbragt skib: - Jeg er blevet kidnappet
Det danske folketingsmedlem Victoria Velasquez (EL) er en del af besætningen på et af de skibe fra nødhjælpsflotillen, der er blevet opbragt af Israels militær...
nyheder.tv2.dk
October 8, 2025 at 6:56 AM
A Danish parliamentarian, the MP Victoria Velasquez, has been abducted by the Israeli military this morning.
Once upon a time in Northern Ireland (fra 2023) ligger nu på DR - se den straks, den er fantastisk! Afsnit 1 er standardfortællingen, men afsnit 2, 3, 4 er anderledes skæve indblik i konflikterfaring og konsekvens (ikke bare de "to sider"). www.dr.dk/drtv/saeson/...
www.dr.dk
August 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Once upon a time in Northern Ireland (fra 2023) ligger nu på DR - se den straks, den er fantastisk! Afsnit 1 er standardfortællingen, men afsnit 2, 3, 4 er anderledes skæve indblik i konflikterfaring og konsekvens (ikke bare de "to sider"). www.dr.dk/drtv/saeson/...
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„Bibliotekerne har gjort det igen: Udlånet af fysiske bøger er steget med 5,4 procent på et år. Og det er tredje år i træk.“
„Bibliotekerne har gjort det igen: Udlånet af fysiske bøger er steget med 5,4 procent på et år. Og det er tredje år i træk.“
Bibliotekernes udlån stiger for tredje år i træk: Vi elsker at læse papirbøger
Den fysiske bog giver os et frirum i en travl, elektronisk hverdag.
www.dr.dk
July 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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„Bibliotekerne har gjort det igen: Udlånet af fysiske bøger er steget med 5,4 procent på et år. Og det er tredje år i træk.“
„Bibliotekerne har gjort det igen: Udlånet af fysiske bøger er steget med 5,4 procent på et år. Og det er tredje år i træk.“
I dag var Laura Helene Hansen dagens sommergæst i P1 og det var intet mindre end forrygende! Hør hende dissekere operahistorien, anerkende hvorfor den er svær at ændre og foreslå måder man alligevel kan gøre det på - det var inspirerende. #dkmedier www.dr.dk/det-bedste-f...
Engang røg hun 15 joints om dagen – nu bliver hun kaldt for en 'stor kunstner'
Det hjalp Laura Helene Hansen med at komme ud af sit stofmisbrug, da hun opdagede sit talent for at synge opera.
www.dr.dk
July 23, 2025 at 8:27 AM
I dag var Laura Helene Hansen dagens sommergæst i P1 og det var intet mindre end forrygende! Hør hende dissekere operahistorien, anerkende hvorfor den er svær at ændre og foreslå måder man alligevel kan gøre det på - det var inspirerende. #dkmedier www.dr.dk/det-bedste-f...
Today I finally read "A Minor Detail" by Adania Shibli. An almost forensic narrative of how to access and uncover the past in a present context of near total restriction and destruction. One of many books that might help us make out what we are witnessing in Gaza. theconversation.com/minor-detail...
Minor Detail book: how the language of the past can help us read the present situation in Palestine
Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail is a sparse but searing novel that shows how the horrors of the past continue to shape Palestinian life today
theconversation.com
July 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Today I finally read "A Minor Detail" by Adania Shibli. An almost forensic narrative of how to access and uncover the past in a present context of near total restriction and destruction. One of many books that might help us make out what we are witnessing in Gaza. theconversation.com/minor-detail...
#MSA2025 had a great and timely roundtable on Memory and Peace. As part of @slowmemo.bsky.social I wrote this very basic working paper to start our discussions on the interfaces of (slow)memory/peace/conflict -might be of interest to @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social www.slowmemory.eu/publi/concep...
Conceptualising Conflict Transformation as forms of Peace-building to take in Slow Memory – SlowMemory – CA20105
Conceptualising Conflict Transformation as forms of Peace-building to take in Slow Memory
www.slowmemory.eu
July 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
#MSA2025 had a great and timely roundtable on Memory and Peace. As part of @slowmemo.bsky.social I wrote this very basic working paper to start our discussions on the interfaces of (slow)memory/peace/conflict -might be of interest to @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social www.slowmemory.eu/publi/concep...
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🚨We are so happy to announce that our Votes at 16 Campaign has been a success! Yesterday, the Government announced their plans to legislate for #votesat16 in all UK elections!🥳
A huge well done to our fantastic campaign group, who have worked so hard to make this a reality@votesat16ni.bsky.social
A huge well done to our fantastic campaign group, who have worked so hard to make this a reality@votesat16ni.bsky.social
July 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
🚨We are so happy to announce that our Votes at 16 Campaign has been a success! Yesterday, the Government announced their plans to legislate for #votesat16 in all UK elections!🥳
A huge well done to our fantastic campaign group, who have worked so hard to make this a reality@votesat16ni.bsky.social
A huge well done to our fantastic campaign group, who have worked so hard to make this a reality@votesat16ni.bsky.social
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Home sought for massive knitted map of Ireland
Home sought for massive knitted map of Ireland
A huge wool map of Ireland, which took four years of knitting and crocheting to complete, is in search of a new home to go on public display.
www.rte.ie
July 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Home sought for massive knitted map of Ireland
Started MSA 25 with an excursion to Strahov Stadium. A space still in use but also out of time. #MSA25 @
July 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The best history book I have read in years! Uplifting but never distracting.
July 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
The best history book I have read in years! Uplifting but never distracting.
‘The voices of our dead have not faded away’: the fight for the memory of genocide in Srebrenica
‘The voices of our dead have not faded away’: the fight for the memory of genocide in Srebrenica
Three decades on, as leaders deny what happened, remains of the thousands killed continue to be identified and buried
www.theguardian.com
July 10, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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'After the Train: Irishwomen united – a book to be passed down the generations, with future cultural insurgency in mind'
Thank you @irishtimes.com @martindoyle.bsky.social for this generous review
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Thank you @irishtimes.com @martindoyle.bsky.social for this generous review
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
After the Train: Irishwomen united – a book to be passed down the generations, with future cultural insurgency in mind
Inspiring account of IWU, edited by Evelyn Conlon and Rebecca Pelan, has left this reviewer turbocharged for further change
www.irishtimes.com
July 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
'After the Train: Irishwomen united – a book to be passed down the generations, with future cultural insurgency in mind'
Thank you @irishtimes.com @martindoyle.bsky.social for this generous review
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Thank you @irishtimes.com @martindoyle.bsky.social for this generous review
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action".
This is real police state behaviour.
This is real police state behaviour.
July 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action".
This is real police state behaviour.
This is real police state behaviour.