The Scale of Distance with Déirdre McKenna

🗓️ Wednesday 21 October, 13:00-14:00 Irish time
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Join us for conversations with architects of the #IrishDiaspora on design, distance and what it means to feel at home in the world today.

Where in Ireland is your surname from? 🗺️ Genealogist Barry Griffin has mapped 6,000+ Irish names using the 1901 and 1911 censuses. Via our media partner IrishCentral 👇

#IrishGenealogy #IrishDiaspora

#CheLives #IrishDiaspora 🧩💚🍀☀️✊

Today would have been my Dad's 96th Birthday. I remember him today & his journey via Tuam Mother & Baby Home & being Boarded-out. A remarkable man; a remarkable survivor; He'd love hearing abt his long-lost family & journey to justice. #ireland #IrishDiaspora #galwayireland #IrishAmerican #justice

New article just published in ‘Èire-Ireland’ Journal on the queer Irish novel and death in the Irish diaspora #IrishStudies #queerliterature #queernovel #Irishdiaspora

#CheLives #IrishDiaspora 🍀🇦🇷🇮🇪🇨🇺

To my #IrishAmerican followers, if you or your family come from #countygalway #countymayo or #dublincity, then this #truestory story of love, betrayal and injustice may whet your appetite for stories from home? #ireland #IrishDiaspora #usa

✨James Cagney, The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941)✨

#JamesCagney #IrishDiaspora 💚🧩🍀🏮💥🎥🎞️🎬🎭🎟️

✨Billy the Kid & Compañeros 1878, New Mexico ✨

#IrishDiaspora 🍀💚

#JamesCagney #IrishDiaspora 🍀💚

#IrishDiaspora 💚🍀

✨Cheetah Chrome R.I.P.✨ 🎸♦️♠️♦️♣️♦️🏮💥🫀🎙️☄️

✨Cheetah Chrome of DEAD BOYS, born Eugene Richard O'Connor on Feb. 18, 1955 in Cleveland has left the mortal coil ✨

✨ February 18, 1955 --- Sept. 13, 2026✨

#DeadBoys #CheetahChrome #IrishDiaspora 🧩🧩🍀💚☠️

✨"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."✨

-- George Carlin 🫀💥🎙️☄️✨☀️

#IrishDiaspora 💚🧩🍀

#JamesCagney #IrishDiaspora 🧩💚🍀🎫🎟️🎬🎭