Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955 (Liverpool University Press, April 2026)https://bsky.app/profile/oneillsb.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/oneillsb.bsky.social/post/3mlr7pymcc22fCeltic will be the end of me13 May 2026 21:11 +0000at://did:plc:dizl3ji6h7n35eutp5ae2tty/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlr7pymcc22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/oneillsb.bsky.social/post/3mlpytvk3522s'Creative Writing' by Dane Holt https://www.the-tls.com/literature/original-poems-literature/creative-writing-dane-holt13 May 2026 09:35 +0000at://did:plc:dizl3ji6h7n35eutp5ae2tty/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlpytvk3522shttps://bsky.app/profile/oneillsb.bsky.social/post/3mlod4voo7k2nif anyone has any tips for Paris, Bordeaux, or Bilbao, please send them my way. Especially thrifty ones12 May 2026 17:34 +0000at://did:plc:dizl3ji6h7n35eutp5ae2tty/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlod4voo7k2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/oneillsb.bsky.social/post/3mlnwsc3bbc2ieach passing article about Irish unity feels like it is part of a game to use as many clichés as is humanly possible. Matthew O'Toole uses the same clichés that he is critiquing nostalgia for on a regular basis https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/05/12/nigel-farages-success-makes-irelands-failure-to-plan-for-the-future-irresponsible/12 May 2026 13:53 +0000at://did:plc:dizl3ji6h7n35eutp5ae2tty/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlnwsc3bbc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/oneillsb.bsky.social/post/3mlnhpm26yc22 [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 May 2026 09:23 +0000at://did:plc:dizl3ji6h7n35eutp5ae2tty/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlnhpm26yc22https://bsky.app/profile/oneillsb.bsky.social/post/3mlne4koces2yvery excited to be travelling to Sorbonne Université in Paris next week for the inaugural 'Partitions Network' conference, 'Partitions in Conversation: Echoes of Empire in Literature and the Arts'. For a change, I will be talking about Ireland and partition. partitionsnetwork.wordpress.com https://partitionsnetwork.wordpress.com/12 May 2026 08:19 +0000at://did:plc:dizl3ji6h7n35eutp5ae2tty/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlne4koces2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/oneillsb.bsky.social/post/3mlktzgru622gthis should be a red line for any leftist in the next election. [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 May 2026 08:25 +0000at://did:plc:dizl3ji6h7n35eutp5ae2tty/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlktzgru622ghttps://bsky.app/profile/oneillsb.bsky.social/post/3mliy3lctfk23Take your pouts and the goals will come10 May 2026 14:33 +0000at://did:plc:dizl3ji6h7n35eutp5ae2tty/app.bsky.feed.post/3mliy3lctfk23https://bsky.app/profile/oneillsb.bsky.social/post/3mlivg3mums2mCeltic, thank you10 May 2026 13:45 +0000at://did:plc:dizl3ji6h7n35eutp5ae2tty/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlivg3mums2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/oneillsb.bsky.social/post/3mlgd7o4xik2cAnyone who has actually paid attention to the north would know that this complete nonsense - it was literally organised on the opposite principle. The actual recipe for disaster is partition. [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 May 2026 13:14 +0000at://did:plc:dizl3ji6h7n35eutp5ae2tty/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlgd7o4xik2chttps://bsky.app/profile/oneillsb.bsky.social/post/3mlgb5l7cwc2mI don't know anything about culture and Identity when it comes to partition to be fair [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 May 2026 12:37 +0000at://did:plc:dizl3ji6h7n35eutp5ae2tty/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlgb5l7cwc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/oneillsb.bsky.social/post/3mlfxchet3c2sThere is a fundamental paradox with this claim from Mick Clifford - hardly a prolific commentator on the six counties - that the 'old sectarian state' is gone and yet there still needs to be a supermajority within its territory for a united Ireland. [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 May 2026 09:41 +0000at://did:plc:dizl3ji6h7n35eutp5ae2tty/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlfxchet3c2shttps://bsky.app/profile/oneillsb.bsky.social/post/3mlarazflrc22delighted to announce that I have won the inaugural, once off Platinum Medallion from the Irish Anti-Revisionist Association https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/07/french-professor-florent-montaclair-accused-award-prize07 May 2026 08:09 +0000at://did:plc:dizl3ji6h7n35eutp5ae2tty/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlarazflrc22https://bsky.app/profile/oneillsb.bsky.social/post/3ml72mggqxc2eEvery passing day there is another story that comes to light about how utterly shocking this city is to live in. When it comes to improving any aspect of life in a meaningful and sustainable way, this government is a coalition of the unwilling https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2026/05/06/disgusting-and-gut-wrenching-regeneration-of-dublins-oliver-bond-flats-to-be-scrapped/06 May 2026 15:51 +0000at://did:plc:dizl3ji6h7n35eutp5ae2tty/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml72mggqxc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/oneillsb.bsky.social/post/3ml4hakamwk2tHad a great time at the Seamus Heaney Centre on Friday launching Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955. (Again). Thanks to them and everyone for coming.05 May 2026 14:59 +0000at://did:plc:dizl3ji6h7n35eutp5ae2tty/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4hakamwk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/oneillsb.bsky.social/post/3mkzu5cn6lk2othread of artworks in 'Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955' that I got to see in real life. First, the cover - 'Four Green Fields' by Evie Hone, 1939. I arranged a private tour of government buildings for this one.04 May 2026 14:12 +0000at://did:plc:dizl3ji6h7n35eutp5ae2tty/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzu5cn6lk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/oneillsb.bsky.social/post/3mkvkaxgkyc25It is objectively bizarre to make KNEECAP and Vitorio Angelone about the twenty six counties [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 May 2026 21:05 +0000at://did:plc:dizl3ji6h7n35eutp5ae2tty/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkvkaxgkyc25https://bsky.app/profile/oneillsb.bsky.social/post/3mkugz3w42c2kWhat a gift02 May 2026 10:34 +0000at://did:plc:dizl3ji6h7n35eutp5ae2tty/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkugz3w42c2k