Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social bad news from the zone, tumbleweeds
catholic socialist & smalltown journalist
in the valley near Slievenamon, Co. Tipperary
leftinthelurch.net | thesundae.net
Women's Studies, UCC @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social Interdisciplinary Master’s & PhD degree in Women's Studies at University College Cork, Ireland.
https://www.ucc.ie/en/cke03/
Taught by a vibrant multidisciplinary team & managed by program director Dr Evelien Geerts (@egeertsphd.bsky.social).
Nicola Carr @nicolacarr.bsky.social Academic | Criminology, Social Policy and Social Work | Trinity College Dublin📍🇮🇪🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Clíodhna Bhreatnach @cliodhnabhreatnach.bsky.social “Pink Roses, Green” out now with Green Bottle Press. In Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, Propel, Forward Book of Poetry. Interested in feminism, anti-imperialism, socialism. 🇵🇸
https://cliodhnabhreatnach.com/
Theresa O'Keefe 🍉 @treesaw.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology. I write on feminism and conflict, state violence, gender and social movements, and academic precarity. She/her. 🍉
Orla Egan she/her @orlaegan1.bsky.social Founder Cork LGBT Archive http://corklgbtarchive.com
Author: Diary Of An Activist http://diaryofanactivist.com
and Queer Republic of Cork Books
Director: LOAFERS Documentary and I'm Here, I'm Home, I'm Happy documentary
Franca Leitner @francaleitner.bsky.social PhD candidate in Irish Studies, Uni Mannheim, working on Precarious Spaces. Likes (crime) fiction, tea, and hand lotion. (she/her) 
Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social Journalist etc. Currently Irish Times correspondent in Beirut/Damascus & author of ‘My Fourth Time, We Drowned’ (Orwell Prize, Terzani Prize, Inge Feltrinelli Prize, Michel Deon Prize, Irish Book of the Year) & new book 'This is Also a Love Story'.
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Disgruntled Lesbian @izzykamikaze.bsky.social Just another refugee from That Other Place.
Ciarán @ciaran2100.bsky.social Games, sport, tv, cooking and woodworking. Parent and public sector worker. Just here to pass the time.🇮🇪
Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social A very Irish filmmaker.
All You Need is Death streaming now, see linktree.
“A folk horror masterpiece” (Daily Beast)
He/him, anarchist, artist. Avatar painted by Sol Robinson.
https://linktr.ee/paulduane
Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal @supriyadhaliwal.bsky.social NWCDTP-funded PhD student at Centre for Place Writing, MMU. Author of The Yak Dilemma, out now with Makina Books.
https://linktr.ee/supriyakaurdhaliwal
Dublin Book Fair @dublinbookfair.bsky.social Next fair: Sun 6th Sept 2026,
St Thérèse Parish Centre, Mount Merrion.
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Shane Darcy @shanedarcy.bsky.social Professor, Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law, University of Galway.
International law, armed conflict, accountability, business and human rights.
Radical Online Archives @radonlinearchives.bsky.social List of *online* and *open access* collections of historical documents relating to radical history (broadly defined). Nearly 1000 collections from around the world listed (and always looking for more).
Susan Madigan @susanmadigan3.bsky.social Occupational Therapist.Supporting the neurodivergent crew to thrive.Accessibility in Education, Work and Healthcare.Working with employers to understand and value neurodiversity. She/her,Neurodivergent not otherwise specified. Information @ susanmadigan.ie
Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social HISTORIAN of 19th CENTURY REFORM CROWDS
Focus on mismatch between crowd size, reputation & power
Warwick Thesis: bit.ly/-PhD
Working on chapter in 2026 Parl. Hist. Sp. Ed.
& Editing Routledge Collection on 19th C. Sedition
Academic profile: bit.ly/ds-1-
Eithne Sexton @eithnesexton.bsky.social Lecturer School of Population Health, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences. Epidemiological modelling, ageing, stroke, cognitive impairment.
Interactive dashboards for future stroke in Ireland - https://simistroke.eu/interactive-dashboard/
Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com History Lecturer, Carnegie Mellon University // President, American Conference for Irish Studies @acirishstudies.bsky.social
Current research: Capitalism and Irish nationalism
Old research: aidanbeatty.com/books/
Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social Journalist in Dublin
Dr Eva Burke @evab89.bsky.social Academic, lecturer, and teacher of English. Interested in domestic noir fiction, horror, & pop lit. Cat lady and toddler mammy. She/Her.
Aodhán Ó'Coileáin @werslabber.bsky.social Belfast born. Galway domiciled. Here for the news and the views. Despise bots and their puppet masters. Ex-The Other Place, and happy to be cleansed of it. No pasaran!
Radical Humanities Laboratory @radhumslab.bsky.social Post- and anti- disciplinary practices // experimental humanities research // critical collaborations // new engagements // transformations
https://www.ucc.ie/en/future-humanities/radicalhumanitieslaboratory/
Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social Hello👍Bluesky
happy to be here!
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FYI👋I zombied IG👎
R.E.M. @remhq.bsky.social Band from Athens, GA, 1980-2011, made music, lasts forever.
Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social Professor at a University in the Fens. 
Máiréad Enright @maireadenright.bsky.social Irish academic (@lawatloughborough.bsky.social) living in Birmingham. Working on women, law, religion (Catholicism mostly) and reproduction broadly understood. Often legal history, sometimes just law.
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
@fionnulamac.bsky.social @fionnulamac.bsky.social Retired. Mental/physical health. Trustee/Director of OCD Ireland. Irish. Leftie. Atheist. #SpeirGorm
@lorrainehaigney.bsky.social @lorrainehaigney.bsky.social 
Fergal Lenehan @fergallenehan.bsky.social Books on The European Idea and German images of Ireland. Co-ed Reclaiming the European Street by MDH. Contributor https://thecurrency.news
Member @redico.eu www.redico.eu
Join the research hub: hub.redico.eu
Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social Eamon Cleary Chair of Irish Studies, U. Otago | President International Flann O’Brien Society & ISAANZ | PI Marsden Project ‘Modern Immunity’ | co-author w/ Matthew Hayward of The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonisation, Radical Campuses and Modernism
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social Lecturer, Centre for Adult & Continuing Education (ACE), UCC
PhD (UCC School of History) 2026
Foroige leader
All round procrastinator
Cat slave
David @rebelalliance77.bsky.social Dubliner.
Coddle enthusiast. Fenian Cunt. Minion of the moon. Stuck up half witted scruffy looking nerf herder.
Fewwminn
pharaoh house crash @phchq.bsky.social Bassist from Belfast. Makes songs from protest chants to fund the resistance.
https://www.pharaohhousecrash.com/protestreaming.html
Dr Emma Lyons @ehlyons.bsky.social Historian of c17th&c18th Ireland: female inheritance, Catholic landownership & education during the Penal Laws. Also Irish horse racing, and Irishwomen & WWI war effort.
Visiting Research Fellow, Dept of History, TCD.
Website: emmalyons.ie
Devadas Moodley @historydev.bsky.social Historian etc retired academic. South Asia, Africa, Empire. Museums, Art history
Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her.
Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring.
Find me at l.khalili@exeter.ac.uk 
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/
Irish Network for the Legal Humanities @legalhumanities.bsky.social https://lawandliteratureireland.wordpress.com/
managed by adam.hanna@ucc.ie and eugene.mcnulty@dcu.ie
BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social Official account of the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC). We're the Palestinian leadership of the global Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Daithi Bhard @daithibhard.bsky.social Data & Cloud Nerd, Socdem Nerd, Movie Nerd, Nerd Nerd!- P pattie @punchpattie.bsky.social librarian
"own notions"
Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social Historian of 19th-c Ireland, Britain, & Empire at UCC. An 🇺🇸in 🇮🇪. Writing about Irishmen, education, and empire.
Kieran Cunningham @kcsixtyseven.bsky.social Journalist
Stephen R. Millar @stephenrmillar.bsky.social Anthropologist in Belfast working on music, power, and conflict. 🚨NEW BOOK: ‘Performing Paramilitarism: Loyalist Songs, Conflict, and Culture War in Northern Ireland’.
Djinn @djinn23.bsky.social Zen priest, Belfast dweller, she/í. Bmzcbelfast.org
Conor @ernekid.bsky.social Irishman in Maryland.
https://boxd.it/5ozfJ
Tom Griffin @tcgriffin.bsky.social Author of State-Private Networks and Intelligence Theory (Routledge 2022). Writing on intelligence history on substack. https://intelligencehistory.substack.com
Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London & author of The Conservative Party after Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation (now out in paperback). The bits and pieces I do for websites and newspapers turn up eventually at https://proftimbale.com
Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social Journalist for @DublinInquirer.com mostly covering immigration. Send tips/stories/hellos to Shamim@dublininquirer.com
Ciarán O'Rourke @corourke91.bsky.social Poet with @irishpages.bsky.social / PhD on WCWilliams 📚
Prose in An Clogán, DRB, Hard Crackers, Headstuff, Jacobin, New Hibernia Review, Novara Media, Rundale, Rupture, Skylight47, Strange Matters, Studies, Verso (blog).
Website: www.ragpickerpoetry.net
Seán William Gannon @swgannon.bsky.social Irish Historian.
Twentieth-Century Ireland: Ireland and Empire: Irish Revolution: Royal Irish Constabulary: Irish Jewish History.
https://independent.academia.edu/Se%C3%A1nWilliamGannon
https://irishhistorians.ie/members/seanwgannon/
emer @emer.bsky.social writer, professional shakespeare opinion haver, shoegaze fan, film dyke. she/her. my book is called IRISH SHAKESPEARES: GENDER, SEXUALITY, & PERFORMANCE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (out Oct). all my opinions are great actually x
Paula Gilligan @gilliganpaula.bsky.social Digger. Senior Lecturer in Film and Cultural Studies, Dublin. #socialist #transrightsarehumanrights #FreePalestine
@acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social 
Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social Lecturer Geography // political ecology, green transition // From the Bog to the Cloud. Dependency and Eco-modernity in Ireland (2025)
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Eabha Gallagher @eabhagallagher.bsky.social M.Phil in Modern Irish History Student at Trinity College Dublin
Paddy Brennan @paddy-brennan.bsky.social PhD in food consumption and self-starvation in 20th-21st century Irish fiction at the University of Liverpool's Institute of Irish Studies 🥔
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Cormac @cormacos.bsky.social All manner of nerdery and geekery. Gaming. TTRPGS. Dogs. Environment. History. Dubliner. Queer.
Trying to use more Irish - please feel free to correct me if I make mistakes!
Apparently I talk a lot about folk music.
L. J. McCartan @ljmccartan.bsky.social The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.
Dara O'Reilly @daraor.bsky.social Gonna have to level with you, I'm not a real architect. I just showed up in this turtleneck and, well, everything spiralled from there.
Diarmuid Slattery @diarmuidslattery.bsky.social Designer. Mostly Dublin, sometimes Kerry. 🇮🇪
Likes: Cycling 🚲; Sports ⚽️; History 📚; Politics 📣; Arts 🖼️
@glasgowdiamond.bsky.social @glasgowdiamond.bsky.social Mike Diamond - Glasgow still in my soul after 10 years of Dorset and almost thirty years of South Co. Down.
Peter Kelly @pkelly314.bsky.social Wannabe photographer. I might even post a few here. Or not.
Politics, history, this and that.
Borderland Ireland.
Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social 1st gen academic from Sligo/Donegal, now in Vancouver. Does research on obscure topics. Extremely fond of Cicero.
She/her nó sí/í
Opinions my own.
siobhanmcelduff.com
Cathal Mac Coille @cathalmaccoille.bsky.social I write for Tuairisc.ie and post in English and Irish. Iománaí ar an gclaí.
Politics. 🎶 Ceol. Hurling. Cyclist.
Deep down quite shallow.
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Liam Harkin @liamharkin.bsky.social Dún na nGall, Éire. (Donegal, Ireland.) Travel, music, politics, Gaeilgeoir, bit of a francophile ... did I say travel?
Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social Lecturer in Literature & Culture at University of Vienna│Leader of Irish Research Council project 'Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing 1860-1950s'│Co-Founder of @flannobriensoc.bsky.social and @theparishreview.bsky.social
Catherine Crichton @catherinecrichton.bsky.social Dubliner. Reading, writing, art, film. Novel about Harry Clarke’s ill-fated final masterpiece publishes in 2027 with Stairwell Books. Runner-up, IWC Novel Fair, top 100 Bath Novel Award. National Gallery volunteer.
https://catherinecrichtonwrites.com/
Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social Formerly a productive member of society. Denied a 2023 Hugo, probably.✒️
#journalist #writer
Occasionally here, but mostly https://mastodon.ie/@faduda
Recent(ish) project https://guth.ie/space-navigator/
• https://www.kobo.com/ie/en/ebook/space-navigator
Ruth Fletcher @ruthfletcher.bsky.social Feminist legal academic interested in reproducing life otherwise at Queen Mary University of London, and elsewhere | #Repealedthe8th
Seán Rainford @seanrainford.bsky.social Law lecturer University of Seychelles, researches constitutions and legal philosophy, democratic socialist, views my own
Louth For Ever 🦋 @louthforever.bsky.social Sincerely Anonymous • Open mind • Robust disputation • Politics/History/Economics/Art/Sociology/Human Rights • Gaeilge nó Béarla • Éire💡🕊️
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Dr. Lou @handmadelou.bsky.social PhD in children's literature, children's books enthusiast, library worker. My day-job is managing a gigantic warehouse full of books, so it's a good thing I like them so much ❤️✨she/her
Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social taking care of ancient lore
Paul O'Donovan @paulodonovan.eurosky.social 🇪🇺🇮🇪🇺🇦 Cork born, small country favourer, food scientist. Academic Secretary of University College Cork @ucc.ie Member of Senate, National University of Ireland Ex Welsh Gov; WDA; ADAS; MAFF. Views own. 📸Monumental Reckoning, Dana King, Golden Gate Park, SF
Rory O'Connell @rjjoconnell.bsky.social Professor of Human Rights & Constitutional Law, Posts on human rights, equality & constitutional law. Posting in personal capacity.
Jack Gleeson @gleesonjack.bsky.social Dublin-based reformed academic. Formerly of Bruxelles and other locations. Consumer of books, movies, and art. GA/FR/EN
Matt Barfield @mdbarfield48.bsky.social ⚖️ PGDL student
🎓 PhD in 🇫🇷📚 from @gsas.harvard.edu
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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social Professor of Law & Democracy @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Constitutional Law | Human Rights | Brexit | Devolution | Political Violence | Colonialism | Other Assorted Dourness
He/Him 
The Ghost of Birdseye McPherson @barmecide.bsky.social Watch the performance at the 2026 Atlanta Fringe Festival.
Sarah @sarahskeeter.bsky.social Curiouser and curiouser, and increasingly militant
Stephen Baker @stephenbaker.bsky.social Socialist. Trade unionist. Strummer of strings. Co.Down. Researches, writes & teaches. Radical whore of sociology. "...clean living under difficult circumstances." Proudly Paddystinian. Stiofán Mac an Bháicéara, for the avoidance of doubt.
Precedent Journal @readprecedent.bsky.social The declared system and the operating system are never the same. Power lives in the gap between them. The person who can read that gap holds the position everyone else is still arguing about. Subscribe to https://readprecedent.substack.com/ to support.
Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social Academic/Writer - History/Politics/Criminology - British, Australian & southern African (plus transnational) history - he/him - top 2% researchers 2024 (Stanford/Elsevier rankings) - views own - cult classic, not best seller - DMs will, alas, remain unread
Tom Roberts @tchrob.bsky.social Haberdashers' Company Archivist. Early modern London, migration, drama.
Shannon Devlin @shannondevlin.bsky.social Historian of siblings, the family, gender and sexuality, and 19th-century Ireland. Belfast-Galway commute enthusiast. Lecturer in Irish History @ U of Galway. All my own thoughts. She/her
Margaret E. Ward @margareteward.bsky.social Human. Boat rocker. Leadership consultant. Journalist. NYer in Ireland. Sharing trusted news sources & experts reporting on breakdown of US Democracy. #ireland #irish #leadership #business #democracy #resist #american #democrat #irishbluesky #broligarchy