Lynsey Black
Maynooth University, School of Law & Criminology - doing history, gender, punishment, postcolonialism, borders. PI on Research Ireland Laureate Award, CONSPACE - Contested Space: Penal Nationalism & the Northern Ireland Border.
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- Reposted by Lynsey Black📣Apply for Small Grants Funding! Are you looking to conduct research into social or cultural history? Do you need support with archival visits, organising a conference, or buying specialist equipment? ⏰Our next funding deadline is 1 March socialhistory.org.uk/funding/smal...
- Call for Abstracts | Gendering Postcolonial Punishment - Special Issue in @crimjustjournal.bsky.social - guest edited by Lucia Bracco and me: www.crimejusticejournal.com/genderingpos...
- Reposted by Lynsey BlackI think that RTÉ should continue to exist and that BBC Northern Ireland become BBC Ireland, giving us all access to the iPlayer. jrnl.ie/6925139
- The Irish Legal History Society is now on LinkedIn (21st century, you what!?) #legalhistory www.linkedin.com/company/iris...
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- Reposted by Lynsey Black📣The special issue is out! for a global, anti colonial criminology of war, genocide and resistance - with @hannahwilkinson.bsky.social 🌸 thanks to @mattiasdebacker.bsky.social and Ana Gabriela Perez for the editorial guidance and support ✨✨ www.criminologicalencounters.org/index.php/cr...
- Reposted by Lynsey BlackWe are delighted to share the programme for our upcoming conference! We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.
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- Reposted by Lynsey BlackOpportunity to work with other me on a funded PhD at Queens - may suit anyone interested in gender, history of the child and family in 20thC Ireland. Happy to chat to anyone thinking of it!
- Funded PhD opportunities at QUB: 'Childcare provision in late twentieth-century Northern Ireland (1960s-1990s)' www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
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- Reposted by Lynsey BlackWell, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
- Colours on Parnell Square this morning.
- Reposted by Lynsey BlackThe Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is hiring! Applications are invited for the position of Research and Engagement, Senior Programme Manager as part of the DRI team headquartered at the Royal Irish Academy. Apply by 27.11.2025 at 3pm. www.ria.ie/about/career...
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- Looking forward to speaking at this Dublin County Council event 'Borders & Boundaries', although mostly looking forward to hearing these people speak: @cormacmoorehist.bsky.social @pduffy1.bsky.social, Kieran Rankin, Niamh Brennan, Liam Campbell and Jim McBride: www.donegalcoco.ie/en/news/2025...
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- Puff Daddy, the 1798 United Irishmen rebellion, knowledge hierarchies and the militarisation of policing... I am over the moon to see this essay published. Thank you so much to the Dublin Review of Books and to @juliango.bsky.social for writing such a thought-provoking book. drb.ie/articles/its...
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- My fantastic colleague Prof Claire Hamilton is recruiting a research assistant for her project FEELING POLITICAL, which looks at populist politics, emotions and feelings of in/security in Europe. Details here, closing 2nd Nov and position is for 23 months: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...
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- CONSPACE comes to the archives! Kicking off sabbatical with some diplomatically tricky border incidents, filed by MOD under 'navigational error, relax, nobody tell Ireland'.
- Event on EU Border Violence - Maynooth University @mu-ssi.bsky.social October 9th. How EU border violence—including violent pushbacks and other violations against racialised and irregularised migrants—is recorded, represented, and contested.
- En route to a hen night reading material
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- Claire Hamilton, my brilliant colleague at Maynooth Law and Criminology, is series editor along with David Nelkin of Routledge's New Advances in Crime and Social Harm. If you have a proposal that might be a good fit and you'd like to chat, see below.
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- Reposted by Lynsey BlackAnnouncing a PhD scholarship for a history project on imperialism and great power projection in the Pacific. Supervised by Prudence Flowers and I here at Flinders, Adelaide. It includes an international fee waiver and stipend. Start Jan 2026. www.flinders.edu.au/scholarships...
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- He had no regrets. And he had very few egrets too.
- Final plenary of #MaynoothCrimCon 'Responding to the far right'
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- Ciara Bracken-Roche introducing the second plenary on online spaces and the far right, looking at the criminological implications #MaynoothCrimCon
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- John Morrison @maynoothlaw.bsky.social responding to keynote, we need to talk about concepts like nationalism in criminology #MaynoothCrimCon
- Prof Orla Lynch @orlalynch-ucc.bsky.social offering a response to keynote, teasing out some parameters of emergent far right in Ireland #MaynoothCrimCon
- How liberal democracies bend, not break: the success of right-wing legal mobilization - opening keynote from Prof Vanessa Barker #MaynoothCrimCon
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- Just left the #MaynoothCrimCon PhD pub happening (because I'm not happening) but we're kicking off tomorrow with our plenary on the far right. Looking forward to two days of great papers!
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- North South Criminology Conferencing getting underway today with PhD Training Day! We're posting at #MaynoothCrimCon for the duration, and kicking off full conference tomorrow with Vanessa Barker's plenary on mobilisation of the far right, responses from @orlalynch-ucc.bsky.social and John Morrison.
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- Reposted by Lynsey BlackIf you are interested in historicising, contextualising, or rewriting #truecrime, join @lizzieseal.bsky.social, me, and our 8+1 speakers! The conference is free and open but registration is required - see the programme and follow the link 👇 drive.google.com/file/d/1tLdN...
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- Reposted by Lynsey BlackIf women rioted every time one of us was attacked Northern Ireland would lie in ashes.
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- A new Cork Prison will bring the number of women's prisons in Ireland to three. More spaces going into the Dóchas Centre (within the same building footprint). There are a lot of women in prison who shouldn't be there. Lots more prison spaces, for men and women, when the issues remain upstream.
- Reposted by Lynsey BlackCheck out the call for papers for this exciting conference in beautiful Boulogne-sur-Mer in March next year on 'Women in War in France, Britain and Ireland'. It should be a fascinating event. femmescombattantes.univ-littoral.fr/en/call-for-...
