Marc Scully

New publication from me in Political Psychology on the phenomenon of the rise in applications for Irish passports post-Brexit and how such applicants negotiate discourses of citizenship and identity: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Admiring Aidan’s dedication to the turnip turn in Irish Heritage Studies. #turnipturn #irishstudies

Question for #Spéirghorm! Which bookshop in Dublin has the best social sciences section?

Question for #Spéirghorm! Which bookshop in Dublin has the best social sciences section?

Tá laoch ar lár 🕊️ Suaimhneas síoraí dá anam ceolmhar 🤍 Déanaimid comhbhrón lena mhuintir, a chomhghleacaithe agus a chairde 🙏🏻

Ah, I'm spending the rest of the evening listening to Planxty, so, is dócha. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyP4...

A thought-provoking new publication from Mairtin Mac an Ghaill, tracing intersections between multiple diasporas and the category of Irishness: who gets included in the latter, and who gets erased: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... (Declaring an interest, I'm cited in it a few times).

In a break from the usual format of "PhD supervisor promotes his student's work": If you're in Cork for the #corkjazzfest this weekend, do check out the bould @davetothegrave.bsky.social , who'll be doing DJ sets on Saturday in the Vicarstown Bar (early evening) and the Roundy (late night).

Had this idea in lockdown, half-built it, forgot about it, remembered it again, though might as well finish it.

Denying visas to Palestinians in the midst of genocide is immoral and cruel. International conference on Palestine planned for Maynooth University had to be cancelled, because Ireland's government wouldn't grant visas to Palestinians. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Just seen a reference on here to "Americans who expatriate to the UK". The word is 'migrate', folks. You have engaged in migration. You are migrants. It's not a slur!

When they’ve already started moving the Halloween stock off the shop floor to make way for the Christmas stock on October 19th.

As ever, I can't see Hilary Mantel's final Cromwell novel appear on the timeline without humming "This is the Mirror & the Light" to the tune of "This is the Rhythm of the Night".

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The French equivalent of getting your wedding picture with the Sam Maguire or the Liam McCarthy is getting a picture with the protestors!

I feel like “I could go to bed, but there’s a chance that Cavan-Monaghan announces the results of the 11th count, and the transfer patterns have been unprecedented” is the #Spéirghorm version of this.

Why's the Irish Public Sector Striking? Jack Chambers explains: "What [the govt] are doing in this budget...is trying to drive greater outputs from the level of spend." Letting inflation eat the wage bill is their backstage scheme for doing this. Strike says no. www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/d...

Some context for colleagues outside Ireland: over 300,000 people are on strike today. That's over 11 per cent of *all* people working in the state.

Good luck to all striking public sector workers tomorrow. May the rain and wind stay away. If you work in higher ed, please respect the strike. Don't reschedule lectures or hold them online. Don't reply to emails. After all, solidarity benefits us all. Up the workers ✊️💪

I am going on #strike tomorrow. In higher ed, state funding per student is about 30% lower than in 2008. The Government’s own acknowledged funding gap of roughly €300m a year is still unfilled; this means bigger classes and heavier workloads- e.g., I have 520 students in my first-year module.

And with that, a reminder to observe the #digitalpicket tomorrow if you're an @ifut.bsky.social member, work in a HEI in Ireland, or if posting on Bluesky/ #spéirghorm can reasonably be regarded as part of your job.

Tangentially related, but I recall a video clip of an Irexit (remember that) conference at which Farage was attending. A Horslips track was playing as people were waiting for the speakers, something from the book of invasions - an album based on mythical stories of repeated immigration to Ireland.

Proud to be a contributor to this documentary on C.S. Lewis’s Irish identity, which is presented by Ireland and Ulster rugby great Andrew Trimble and which airs on RTÉ One television at 10.15pm this evening (Thurs., 8 Oct. 2026)! about.rte.ie/2026/10/06/r...

Apropos of nothing in particular, here's a @micireland.bsky.social blogpost by my colleague Suzanne Egan on the benefits of reading to young children - for parents and caregivers, as well as the children themselves: www.mic.ul.ie/mic-insights...

Fantastic to see BBC covering this new exhibition in Liverpool! St Brigid's Arms explores the experiences of women of Irish heritage in the North of England It's free & open at the University of Liverpool's Victoria Gallery & Museum until 17 April 2027. https://ow.ly/pqQu50ZVLUA

#Spéirghorm, Your occasional public service reminder that the entire 11 seasons of Frasier are available on the much maligned RTÉ Player. Y’know, I don’t revisit it half enough.

Interesting, and a new addition to the burgeoning field of Post-Brexit Irish Passport Studies.

We need to send a task force to Oileáin Chléire to figure out what they’re doing to be the only community in Ireland to lose less than 2 hours daylight. Must be a grant of some sort in this. #spéirghorm