Sean O’Connell
@seanoconnellqub.bsky.social
Professor of Modern British and Irish Social History at Queen’s University Belfast. Co-Chair of the Truth Recovery Independent Panel on Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses in Northern Ireland, 1922-1995.
My friend and colleague getting the recognition he deserves for his brilliant book. Good luck Kieran!
"I want to know what it was like to live in those multicultural societies at different points in time."
@kieranconnell.bsky.social on his approach to writing 'Multicultural Britain: A People’s History' #WolfsonHistoryPrize. @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
@kieranconnell.bsky.social on his approach to writing 'Multicultural Britain: A People’s History' #WolfsonHistoryPrize. @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
My friend and colleague getting the recognition he deserves for his brilliant book. Good luck Kieran!
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The Starmer offer of a state visit now a nightmare.
February 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The Starmer offer of a state visit now a nightmare.
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ANNOUNCEMENT: EMERGENCY GENERAL MEETING - 6th February 11am
Members will have seen this morning that the University is launching a Voluntary Severance Scheme (VSS), hot on the heels of announcing a new Indian campus, while budgets for faculties, schools and directorates have all been slashed. (1/4)
Members will have seen this morning that the University is launching a Voluntary Severance Scheme (VSS), hot on the heels of announcing a new Indian campus, while budgets for faculties, schools and directorates have all been slashed. (1/4)
February 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
ANNOUNCEMENT: EMERGENCY GENERAL MEETING - 6th February 11am
Members will have seen this morning that the University is launching a Voluntary Severance Scheme (VSS), hot on the heels of announcing a new Indian campus, while budgets for faculties, schools and directorates have all been slashed. (1/4)
Members will have seen this morning that the University is launching a Voluntary Severance Scheme (VSS), hot on the heels of announcing a new Indian campus, while budgets for faculties, schools and directorates have all been slashed. (1/4)
Merry Christmas!
Andrew and Tristan Tate lose £2m court case over unpaid tax
Andrew and Tristan Tate lose £2m court case over unpaid tax
Police can seize money from frozen accounts after ‘straightforward cheat of the revenue’, London magistrate rules
Police can seize more than £2m from the influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan after they failed to pay a penny in tax on £21m of…
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2024 at 11:41 AM
Merry Christmas!
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Andrew and Tristan Tate lose £2m court case over unpaid tax
Andrew and Tristan Tate lose £2m court case over unpaid tax
Police can seize money from frozen accounts after ‘straightforward cheat of the revenue’, London magistrate rules
Police can seize more than £2m from the influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan after they failed to pay a penny in tax on £21m of…
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2024 at 11:05 AM
Andrew and Tristan Tate lose £2m court case over unpaid tax
The brave ‘Anne’ reminds us that the grim history of Mother and Baby Institutions impacted Northern Ireland’s Protestant communities as well as Catholic ones. The Truth Recovery Independent Panel is currently recording further survivor testimony.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republi...
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republi...
'I was raped by my stepdad before my eighth birthday... then treated like a servant at Belfast mother and baby home'
A Northern Ireland woman abused from the age of four and raped just a month before her eighth birthday has described being treated “like a servant” in a mother and baby home after becoming pregnant at...
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
December 4, 2024 at 5:33 PM
The brave ‘Anne’ reminds us that the grim history of Mother and Baby Institutions impacted Northern Ireland’s Protestant communities as well as Catholic ones. The Truth Recovery Independent Panel is currently recording further survivor testimony.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republi...
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republi...
UCU at QUB now available here.
Hello, brave new world.
December 4, 2024 at 8:59 AM
UCU at QUB now available here.
By way of introduction to new chums on this platform, here are some insights into the work I am doing. Please consider sharing this call .https://www.northernirelandworld.com/community/the-truth-of-mother-and-baby-homes-is-a-global-story-truth-recovery-independent-panel-appeals-for-testimony-4874315
November 23, 2024 at 10:53 AM
By way of introduction to new chums on this platform, here are some insights into the work I am doing. Please consider sharing this call .https://www.northernirelandworld.com/community/the-truth-of-mother-and-baby-homes-is-a-global-story-truth-recovery-independent-panel-appeals-for-testimony-4874315
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Recently migrated over here. For anyone interested in immigration, diversity and oral history in Britain/Ireland, my book with Palgrave History was published in 2023:
Migrants, Immigration and Diversity in Twentieth-century Northern Ireland: British, Irish or 'Other’?
Migrants, Immigration and Diversity in Twentieth-century Northern Ireland: British, Irish or 'Other’?
November 15, 2024 at 12:13 PM
Recently migrated over here. For anyone interested in immigration, diversity and oral history in Britain/Ireland, my book with Palgrave History was published in 2023:
Migrants, Immigration and Diversity in Twentieth-century Northern Ireland: British, Irish or 'Other’?
Migrants, Immigration and Diversity in Twentieth-century Northern Ireland: British, Irish or 'Other’?
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Great idea - loads of brilliant museums to follow 👇
Hey! We’ve compiled a starter pack of museums, galleries, archives and libraries in the UK who are right here on Bluesky 🦋 go.bsky.app/9o1sRWp
November 20, 2024 at 10:42 AM
Great idea - loads of brilliant museums to follow 👇
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If you want to learn about David Strain - the subject of an art installation in the Ulster Museum until Sunday & the Public Record Office of NI from next week - but can't get to Belfast, you can hear extracts from his beautiful diary & info about his gay life here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zki...
November 20, 2024 at 1:14 PM
If you want to learn about David Strain - the subject of an art installation in the Ulster Museum until Sunday & the Public Record Office of NI from next week - but can't get to Belfast, you can hear extracts from his beautiful diary & info about his gay life here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zki...
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Online talk by Dr Nik Ribianszky coming up on Friday at 4pm
November 19, 2024 at 6:14 PM
Online talk by Dr Nik Ribianszky coming up on Friday at 4pm
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Celebrated historian and broadcaster David Olusoga will deliver the inaugural National Humanities Lecture!
The first of its kind, the lecture will make the case for the humanities and explore how new ideas are emerging.
Find out more and book: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
The first of its kind, the lecture will make the case for the humanities and explore how new ideas are emerging.
Find out more and book: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
November 18, 2024 at 2:28 PM
Celebrated historian and broadcaster David Olusoga will deliver the inaugural National Humanities Lecture!
The first of its kind, the lecture will make the case for the humanities and explore how new ideas are emerging.
Find out more and book: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
The first of its kind, the lecture will make the case for the humanities and explore how new ideas are emerging.
Find out more and book: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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This book was such an adventure and turning point in my life. I'm still very good friends with nearly everyone in it.
Any ghost limbers out there who would like to make contact with a Larne hallion, Angeline is your woman...
Any ghost limbers out there who would like to make contact with a Larne hallion, Angeline is your woman...
November 18, 2024 at 8:46 PM
This book was such an adventure and turning point in my life. I'm still very good friends with nearly everyone in it.
Any ghost limbers out there who would like to make contact with a Larne hallion, Angeline is your woman...
Any ghost limbers out there who would like to make contact with a Larne hallion, Angeline is your woman...
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Our next #IrishStudies seminar will be Gordon Gillespie (QUB), on 'The 1974 "Spongers" speech revisited: Harold Wilson, Lady Falkender and David Bowie', on Monday 25 November at 4.30. In-person and online - all welcome. Register at www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris... #IrishHistory
Irish Studies Seminar: Gordon Gillespie, 'The 1974
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November 18, 2024 at 9:57 PM
Our next #IrishStudies seminar will be Gordon Gillespie (QUB), on 'The 1974 "Spongers" speech revisited: Harold Wilson, Lady Falkender and David Bowie', on Monday 25 November at 4.30. In-person and online - all welcome. Register at www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris... #IrishHistory