Laura McAtackney

It "carries memory because generations have cared for it. It represents endurance because it continues to feed them & when a farmer stands before a threatened tree, what is at stake includes the possibility that a child will one day return to gather beneath it. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

‘Visa denial in the midst of genocide is both immoral and cruel and will be an enduring cause of shame to the government and the individuals that impose it.’ www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

It will be a shock to noone that the campaigns against Professor Jason Arday - that continue even after they hounded him to death - are financed by far right-inclined millionaires who also finance far right think tanks, media, academic racists and Neo Nazis. bylinetimes.com/2026/10/21/j...

My new Briefing Paper on rights developments relevant to public procession and protest law in NI and the Drumcree dispute is now available. In short, careful attention needs to be given to residents' rights as a "captive audience" opposing an unwanted parade: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Spread the word. Supreme Court 8.30am Tuesday Oct 27. Support a public enquiry into murder of Seán Brown

Delighted to be giving this seminar on Seamus Heaney's District and Circle at @nlireland.bsky.social with my brilliant colleague and expert on Heaney, Rosie Lavan, on 6 November. Open to all, and details here in the link below.

Now i know it’s Hallowe’en approaching, my fav turnip has made an appearance!

Very much looking forward to getting to Maynooth tomorrow to talk about material worlds and how they reveals the often ‘contested’ realities through the lens of gender and class.

We're at a really scary point in legacy debate were some MPs are presenting extra judicial killings as generally legitimate. If someone maintains the authorities can kill someone on our streets, outside the confined of Art 2 ECHR, they're arguing for tyranny: www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

The aim of getting through my email pile up this evening was defeated by a very demanding and grumpy cat. Better luck tomorrow (and with ongoing apologies!)

Having worked at unis in 3 diff countries most students are politicized by context: types of students they are surrounded by & how they perceive their role in soc. This is fundamentally about the uni they go to / course they select / place of uni in society. Most radical have been anthros at Cork.

In solidarity with Sally Rooney’s commitment to a free Palestine, Books Upstairs in Dublin will be donating the rest of the weeks proceeds from the sale of all her books to Medical Aid Palestine #SpéirGhorm booksupstairs.ie/sally-rooney...

From my experience of studying early 20th C women i cannot agree more.

Behind the shock and whispers at this unnecessarily prolonged process we need to reflect on the victims. Donaldson and his wife did not plead guilty, he claimed the victims were liars, put them through a trial and made many attempts to drag the process out. May he rot. www.bbc.com/news/live/cm...

Ofc they are never not at it. Sally Rooney should (and i hope does) sue him. But this is what coloniality looks like - British media normalizing the weaponization of antisemitism to deny genocide and at the same time slandering an entire nation because they don’t buy into those colonial logics.

I can’t imagine Sally Rooney is losing sleep over her books being banned in the UK. All it does is highlight the nature of the UK govt’s response to Gaza: outlawing activism, censoring free speech and reinforcing genocide. It won’t do her global sales any harm either. www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

A great turnout and amazing public support for our strike action today at UCC! Strikers Abú!

Solidarity for ever means not being a scab :)

Jim Allister either thinks that unionist votes are the only ones that matter or he cannot count as it would have failed under any system. Political unionism is a minority behaving as a ruling class

Different British govt, same old colonial mindset to Ireland. British govts will always protect the state.

"Palestinians have for decades been pushed by Israel into ever-shrinking confines with two options left to them: submission or departure.The only substantial debate about this endgame in Israel’s election is about the pace & packaging of that expulsion & subjugation" www.newarab.com/analysis/isr...

Visited the Ashmolean, when I visit order museums in England I now have my own private game of guessing how much of it is Irish under the guise of ‘British prehistory’ (answer = alot of of the gold!)

One day late for world octopus day, this beautiful example of a painted jar from Crete at the Ashmolean in Oxford (note this was ‘presented by the Cretan govt’ via Sir Arthur Evan’s, the excavator of Knossos. Not sure how much say a govt at that time of great political flux had!).

Someone told an American - who repeated it back to me - that Irish dancing came from ‘during colonialism’ people trying to hide when they were dancing in bars - cos the Brits didn’t like it - so they didn’t move their arms incase soldiers were looking through windows. Best laugh i’d had in ages!

We’ve had to listen to some very unimpressive TDs talk shit about public sector workers needing to prove their worth and up their game. Meanwhile the sight of an almost-empty greyhound track and the yelping of mistreated animals gets them humming the national anthem as a tear rolls down their cheek

How do people cope with the state of the trains in England? I can’t remember the last time i got one that wasn’t drastically late, overfull, combining previously cancelled trains. And the COST! The pure stress of living with this must drive ppl insane.

I'm fundraising for Dublin & Wicklow Mountain Rescue Team - running rather silly Art O'Neill race Dublin Castle to Glenmalure Lodge. 62k. In the middle of the night. In Jan27. DWMRT's biggest fundraiser: please support their fantastic work. 🙏 Photo Arts Cross, Jan25 eventmaster.ie/fundraising/...

Eamonn McCann is always razor sharp in his analysis of the North. Garvagh road is not a difference between ‘two communities’ that needs ‘both sides’ understood. It only benefits the DUP and hardline loyalists to force us to revisit a terrible time in the North. rebelnews.ie/2026/10/02/g...

One from the archives In 1984 Dunnes shop worker Mary Manning refused to handle South African goods & was backed by her shop steward, Karen Gearon. Both were suspended. 9 colleagues came out in support. The strike lasted 3yrs & forced the Irish govt to ban the import of all SA goods. All heroes