Niall Ó Dochartaigh
@niallodoc
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Author of Deniable Contact: Back-channel Negotiation in Northern Ireland | Fulbright Fellow 2024-25 | Director of MA Public Policy @UniofGalway
Galway, Ireland
Joined July 2011
Looking forward to discussing the 1975 IRA ceasefire this Fri 1 Aug at Féile an Phobail in W Belfast, exploring what it tells us about peace negotiations & hearing from Margaret Urwin about loyalist violence that year. Organised by the Pat Finucane Centre.
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I'll be talking at the Féile an Phobail Festival in Belfast on Aug 1st about the 1975 IRA ceasefire & the relationship between electoral politics & political violence together with Margaret Urwin. Organised by the Pat Finucane Centre @FeileBelfast.
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RT @DalrympleWill: If you read one piece this weekend.
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The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse
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Love charms, frog bread, letters and wakes: How the Irish and Italians handled emigration to the US
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The editors of Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move highlight two great diasporas’ differences and similarities
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RT @antonioguterres: I am appalled by the deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The last lifelines for survival are being cut off. Withou….
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I look forward to presenting the results of my research on the US & the N. Ireland conflict in the coming months, starting with a paper on the links between diaspora causes in the US at the Political Studies Association of Ireland @psaitweets conference in Oct 13/n ENDS.
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- Lecture on back-channel negotiation at Institute of European Studies, @UCBerkeley (thanks to Akasemi Newsome & @DewulfJeroen & to Giada Lagana for making the connection).- My thanks to everyone involved in organising these events over the past 6 months 12/n.
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- ‘Irish unification by 2030?’ @global_thoughts @Columbia (with @smccurry3 Adam Tooze & Brendan O'Leary @penn).10/n.
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- Conference in March 2025 at @BostonCollege on Ireland and the United States (co-organised with @MaryCMurphy & Peter McLaughlin @HAPPatQUB, our second collaborative conference, and not the last :-) 9/n.
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- Public Lecture on links between the civil rights campaigns in the US and Northern Ireland at @CCNYCWE City College New York Center for Workers Education (organised by Danielle Zach) 8/n.
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- Public lecture on back-channel negotiation at @GIHNYU @nyuniversity (Thanks to @carolineheafey & @melennon7 ).7/n.
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- The @FulbrightPrgrm Research Sharing Seminar organised by Marisa Silva at @OneToWorldInc in February which provided a valuable opportunity to meet other Fulbright fellows based in New York at a crucial early stage 6/n.
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I am grateful for the many opportunities to present my research & deliver talks in New York and beyond, including:.- ‘Bridging the Atlantic' conference, @GUGlobalIrish (organised by Cóilín Parsons & @DGannon2016).(Panel begins at 51:40) 5/n.
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It was a pleasure to get to know colleagues at NYU, including @PeterMHession Kelly Sullivan, Sarah Waidler, @MuinteoirGaeNYC Nicholas Wolf, John Waters. And other Fulbright fellows in NYC, Virginie Troit @FondationCRF, Hilary Bishop, Conall Ó Fátharta & Mairéad O'Donnell 4/n.
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My empirical research focused on American #peacemaking efforts during the Northern Ireland conflict & I spent many days working in the extraordinary Archives of Irish America at @nyuniversity, established and built up over many years by Marion Casey 3/n.
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My research looked at #Diaspora connections to #conflict and #peace processes in the ‘homeland’ and I'm grateful to everyone at Glucksman Ireland House @nyuniversity for making me so welcome, especially the Director, Kevin Kenny and @TedSmyth President of the advisory board 2/n.
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I recently returned to Ireland after almost 6 months in New York as a @Fulbright_Eire research fellow at @GIHNYU. It was a time of great political turmoil in the US & the direct impact of this on the universities and many of the people I met was evident 1/n.
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This recent NYT story offers fascinating glimpses of the use of AI by professional historians and hints at the transformation of academic research practices in the humanities and social sciences that lies ahead
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The technology’s ability to read and summarize text is already making it a useful tool for scholarship. How will it change the stories we tell about the past?
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