Dr Aileen O'Carroll @aaocarroll

Sociologist (#work, #time &). Policy at @dri_ireland (#archive #data #privacy #gdpr ). @ Maynooth University. (She) cats, jokes & typos @aaocarroll.bsky.social Dublin Joined January 2012

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Integration Nightmares @bad_immigrant

2 weeks ago

Hundreds visited funerals of anarchist, anti-fascist and painter David Chichkan in #Kyiv on Monday with commemoration event taking in place at Maidan in center of the city. #DavidChichkan #Anarchism #Ukraine

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Irish Universities Assoc. @IUAofficial

4 weeks ago

Ireland has not had a coordinated national investment programme in research infrastructure since the PRTLI ended in 2015, the absence of ring-fenced funding has left annual investment far below what’s needed to keep our research system competitive and fit for the future.

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Brandon Stanton @humansofny

4 weeks ago

“When I entered Gaza the Israeli military had a rule: I was only allowed to bring in three kilos of food. As I was weighing out protein bars, trying to get under the limit, I said to my husband: ‘How sinister is this?’ I’m a humanitarian aid worker. Why would there even be a…

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Markie 🇮🇪 @MarkAgitprop

4 weeks ago

I love how in the 1920s the one Indian store in Dublin only took out adverts in the Irish Republican newspaper @An_Phoblacht Based

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Haya 𓂆 @HayaDr_

a month ago

As you know I am a student in Gaza and I’ve an offer in TU Dublin, my semester starts in September and my student visa is processed. My last hope of surviving from this genocide was being evacuated by Ireland and get my chance in life. (1)

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National Library of Ireland @NLIreland

a month ago

Join us online on Tuesday 29th at 12pm to celebrate #InternationalBogDay with a free talk digging into the representations of the bog in Heaney’s poetry, from the personal to the political, featuring readings from his collections: nli.ie/exhibitions-ev…

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble

2 months ago

Couldn't let Wendy Cope's 80th birthday pass without posting this absolute knock-out punch of a poem.

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Eoin O'Dell @cearta

2 months ago

The #Defamation (Amendment) Bill fails to protect public interest speech by providing inadequate protections against #SLAPPs cearta.ie/2025/07/defama… My new blogpost

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Maynooth History @MaynoothHist

2 months ago

We're hiring! Two fully-funded 4-year PhD scholarships available at the Department of History, in the ERC Consolidator Grant project "Insurgent Temporalities: Fascism as a Global Anti-Universalist Project" (INTEMPO) led by Prof Raul Cârstocea. jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU289/phd…

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patrick bresnihan @PBresnihan

2 months ago

Ireland spends less than any other country in the EU on social welfare as a % of GDP, and less than half the EU average. Inequality is growing. And the Govnt wants to double defence spending to €3 bn a year.

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DCLA Reading Room @DCLAReadingRoom

2 months ago

This notice for a night school on Exchange St. offered working boys a rare chance to learn after long days of labour. Open to boys over 14, the school provided warmth, light, and the promise of opportunity—free of charge.

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Eoin O'Dell @cearta

2 months ago

Dáil passes Defamation Bill by 83 votes to 61 irishtimes.com/politics/oirea…

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AIT Gijón @AitGijon

2 months ago

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Ciarán Nugent @ciarannugent

2 months ago

In the past 20 years, the share of Irish adults that socialise every day or several times a week has almost halved from 47% to 27% The share that socialise less than once a month has increased from 7% to 18% (European Social Survey)

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BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @RobLooseCannon

3 months ago

Today, in 1877, ten members of a secret society of Irish coal miners known as "The Molly Maguires" were executed in Pennsylvania. The day would become known as ‘Black Thursday'. The organisation had been known to use strongarm tactics, but this was often in self-defense against…

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TCD Social Sciences & Philosophy @tcd_school_ssp

3 months ago

Looking for a new book to read over the summer? 📖📚 Check out our Summer Reads series! This week, we recommend Fragments of Victory: The Contemporary Irish Left edited by Dr @dlandy100 (@TCDsociology) and @oisingilmore 🔎 @tcddublin @tcdglobal

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Pat O'Connor @ProfPatOConnor

3 months ago

Excellent piece by David Landy, dept of Sociology, TCD in Irish Times to day on Israel. An example of the kind of leadership that one would hope for from the Irish publicly funded university sector. @tcd @IUA @hea @researchireland @Minister_Edn @JamesLawlessTD @Thea @ria

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Ciarán Nugent @ciarannugent

3 months ago

A one-bedroom apartment in Galway in the first quarter of 2007 was €691 and €1,413 in the final quarter of 2024 => a minimum wage worker in 2007 had to work 79 hours to cover it compared to 111 hours today (=66% of gross monthly full-time earnings)

The Labour Party Ireland @labour

3 months ago

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TCD Research Collections @TCDResearchColl

3 months ago

Today is the Feast Day of St Moling, 7th-century bishop of Ferns, and after whom the town of St Mullins in county Carlow is named. @tcdlibrary is fortunate to preserve the Book of Mulling within its manuscript collections