@seanoconnellqub
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.
Officers of the UCU at QUB branch proudly displaying bright pink flags emblazoned with the slogan “We are the university”
What a beautiful day on campus for a trial run of our new flags! 😍🌸🌞 #WeAreTheUniversity
In response to the news that @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social has cut ties with Senator George J. Mitchell, following new information that suggests he remained in contact with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, we have released the following statement. 1/5
My friend and colleague getting the recognition he deserves for his brilliant book. Good luck Kieran!
You don’t even need to attribute that quote Paddy. It certainly isn’t Steven Fry or Fran Lebowitz.
The Starmer offer of a state visit now a nightmare.
Just watched John Bolton on BBC News criticising them both. It’s amazing that I currently wish that hawk was still in the US administration rather than what we currently have to suffer.
Those are lovely words Cait. It was great to catch up and reminisce a little. Hopefully catch up again soon.
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)
Merry Christmas!
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...
UCU at QUB now available here.
2-2. With City hanging on at the end. 😬
I just arrived in Dublin, Paddy. Two hours late.
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
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’?
Great idea - loads of brilliant museums to follow 👇
a photograph album of David Strain and his friends - part of an exhibition at the Ulster Museum
the interior of David Strain's country hut - part of an exhibition at the Ulster Museum
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...
Online talk by Dr Nik Ribianszky coming up on Friday at 4pm
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/...
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...
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
I’m sorry to have missed this.
