Edward Burke How can you justify 5 historians having “unfettered access” to files & knowledge that victims families are legally denied? Perhaps “engage in some soul searching” as you have advised scholars of legacies of State violence, colonialism, sexual violence, genocide/s & the Holocaust?

Prof Linda Connolly That remains to be seen. Past official history publications / processes have resulted in records being released to the National Archives that were not previously available.

Everybody should read

Erskine Childers Well worth reading those telegrams which they’ve decided to publish. The government accurately perceived the Anglo-Americans as a greater threat to our state independence. Germany offered us military aid in the event of another British invasion! difp.ie/volume-7/1941/…

Its important to understand how completely naive Fianna Fail were in the late 1930’s to Germany. Including my grandfather, who in 1937 toured Germany and wrote the most embarrassing article about that trip.

Lá Bealtaine shona duit..
Happy May Day. In memory of those who courageously fought for the political, social and economic freedom of the Irish people.

Bitta Connolly for #MayDay

18 executed in Dublin

-Beggars Bush 5
-Mountjoy 4
-Kilmainham 4
-Arbour Hill 5

Did you have an ancestor in a Cork workhouse? We Cork Archives hold all the surviving records here. For detailed lists of our holdings see: corkarchives.ie/explore_collec…

Every few years, I search for this 2019 clip of Blair again. The bluntness of his ‚power is power!‘ doesn‘t only apply to geopolitics, but equally to energy policy & the delayed energy transition. Raw power. No longer a lack of technologies or knowledge.

Wow

Put together some thoughts on the ‘public’ history of the troubles, especially on that description of it. Spoiler: I am not a fan qpol.qub.ac.uk/a-critical-res…

Pippa Crerar After the Redbird IMI bid for Telegraph is stymied by Sunak, remind me who owns The Independent and Evening Standard? theguardian.com/media/2022/may… 'The Lord Lebedev' owns them. The Lord given a peerage by #BorisJohnson . Lebedev's dad sold his share after being sanctioned by Canada.