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Bryan Fanning
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Bryan Fanning
@BryanFanning
Prof of Migration and Social Policy. Student of intellectual history. Loves dogs, not dogmas. Ideologies are not our friends. Empathy makes us human, or dogs
University College Dublin
Joined June 2012
- This book came out in 2002. The peer review said that chapters on Travellers had no place in a book about racism. I withdrew the book from the original publisher and it came out with @ManchesterUP
- Been researching immigration for 20+years. Remain optimistic that our diverse republic will flourish. Advice? Take racism seriously but listen to those who are uncomfortable with change. Invest heavily in social cohesion from the bottom up & in inclusive visions of Irishness
- Really good letter from Bristol Vice Chancellor Hugh Brady on Brexit-related academic freedom
- UCD to run Ireland’s first black studies course thetimes.co.uk/article/ucd-to…
- My essay about John Waters and the far right in Ireland from the Dublin Review of Books According to John - DRB
- My new book: Three Roads to the Welfare State @ucdsocscilaw @UCDSocialPWJ @JSP_Journal @SocialPolicyUK @IE_socialpolicy @ucdgearyinst @policypress @ucdsociology @JournalESP
- Tom Garvin was a friend and mentor who did his best to lead me astray. I had such fun in his mischievous company and working with him on what would his second last book. He was brilliant.
- Some excellent letters that address a complex topic with a degree of nuance missing from the article by @fotoole, perhaps the most powerful man in Irish media. Punching down at a named female academic is not a good look.Here are the letters published in the @IrishTimes today in response to the @fotoole ‘preferred pronouns’ article from yesterday. Some excellent responses I think. irishtimes.com/opinion/letter…
- My mother Mary passed away earlier today in the midst of those who loved her.Staying at my parents for the foreseeable at my mother’s bed side with my father and brothers. They have built a fortress of love and care around her.
- Finding online lecturing a challenge, mostly because It must be tough for students. But after a far from ideal class this morning I got several kind messages from Ist year students
- Staying at my parents for the foreseeable at my mother’s bed side with my father and brothers. They have built a fortress of love and care around her.
- Thread: Just watched the much-praised documentary about Noel Browne. It’s good but leans heavily into Browne’s somewhat unreliable memoir, Against the Tide became an anti-clerical equivalent of Emile Zola’s J’accuse. The Mother and Child Scheme controversy became one of the most
