On the final episode of series 1, we are joined by Dr Laura McAtackney from UCC Archaeology and Dr Patrick Bresnihan from Maynooth Geography. They talk to us about connections and similarities between Ireland/Northern Ireland and Palestine, colonialism, the Great Famine and the current forced starvation in Gaza, and the intersection between US-Israeli goods, Irish economics, neutrality, NATO and the Triple Lock. Hosted by Emer and Stephen, edited by Dawn.
References
Bishara, Amahl
https://as.tufts.edu/anthropology/people/faculty/amahl-bishara(She has worked a lot on Palestine and its perception, in the US, in particular. Laura attaches an interview Amahl did for easy access but there is a lot to read that can be accessed through her profile) https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/45069/Amahl-A-Bishara,-Crossing-a-Line-Laws,-Violence,-and-Roadblocks-to-Palestinian-Political-Expression-New-Texts-Out-Now
Burgess, Mary. 2005. “Mapping the Narrow Ground: Geography, History and Partition”. Field Day Review (1): 120–131.
Wind, Maya. 2024. Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom. Verso Books.
https://www.mayaywind.com/book
Marium Ali and Hanna Duggal, Here are the names of the journalists Israel killed in Gaza
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/11/here-are-the-names-of-the-journalists-israel-killed-in-gaza
Bana Abu Zuluf, Patrick Bresnihan and Rory Rowan, 'Decolonising Palestine and Unsettling Environmental Justice'
https://www.rundale.org/2024/04/25/decolonising-palestine/
Patrick Bresnihan and Patrick Brodie, From the Bog to the Cloud
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/from-the-bog-to-the-cloud
Annual Doolough Famine Walk
https://www.afri.ie/category/tag/famine-walk/
Interview with Irish historian Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh about how Britain’s role in Ireland’s Great Famine paved the way for Israel’s manufactured starvation of Palestinians in Gaza today
On this week's episode we have Dr Su-Ming Khoo from Ollscoil na Gaillimhe and Dr David Landy from Coláiste na Tríonóide, Baile Átha Cliath. They talk to us about teaching activism, activist praxis, coloniality, trade unions and organising and human rights. Hosted by Emer and Stephen, edited by Dawn.
References:
Peter Beresford, The Antidote https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-antidote
Silke Roth and Clare Saunders, Organising for Change https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/organizing-for-change
Su recorded on 14/06/25
David recorded on 08/07/25
On this week's episode we have Dr Eman Abboud from Trinity College Dublin and Dr Rita Sakr from Maynooth University. They talk about being Palestinian and Lebanese, coloniality and decolonial studies, activism and Eman's recent trip home to Palestine. Then Eman reads for us an excerpt from a famous Palestinian poem from 2002, 'A State of Siege' by Mahmoud Darwish. Hosted by Emer and Stephen, edited by Dawn.
References
Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin.
Atef Abu Saif, Don't Look Left: A Diary of Genocide.
Mosab Abu Toha, Forest of Noise.
Selma Dabbagh, Out of it.
Mahmud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence.
Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa.
Tahrir Hamdi, Imagining Palestine.
Ghassan Kanafani, Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories.
Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics.
Adania Shibli, Minor Detail.
Translation of 'A State of Siege' by Mahmoud Darwish: https://www.marxists.org/subject/art/literature/darwish/2002/siege.htm
On this week's episode we have Dr Brendan C. Browne from Coláiste na Tríonóide, Baile Átha Cliath and Dr John Reynolds from Ollscoil Mhá Nuad. They talk to us about International Law and the lack of any law-in-action, the metaphorisation of the term decolonial, their experiences living and teaching in Palestine and much more. Hosted by Emer and Stephen, edited by Dawn.
References:
Daragh Cogley, 'Ireland’s Double Game: Anti-Colonial Rhetoric Meets Neoliberal Imperialism'
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/30/irelands-double-game-anti-colonial-rhetoric-meets-neoliberal-imperialism/
Bana Abu Zuluf, 'Between political gaslighting and supply chains: Ireland is complicit in the Gaza genocide'
The Ditch
This episode was recorded 17 June 2025.
This week's episode has Dr Mike Berry from Cardiff University and Dr Henry Silke from Ollscoil Luimnigh talking about journalism, media studies and Bad News in relation to Palestine and other genocides. Hosted by Emer and Stephen and edited by Dawn.
The interview was recorded on 20 May 2025.
Tá fáilte romhaibh! This is the introduction to the series, hosted by Dr John Reynolds of Maynooth University with guests Dr Emer Purcell of National University of Ireland and Dr Stephen Hewer of Ghent University. John gives an extended introduction to the organisation, Academics for Palestine, and then talks about research and activism with the two guests.
Edited by Dawn Seymour Klos