Dr. Jim MacLaughlin

Writer, geographer, social scientist. Most recent book: 'Kropotkin & The Anarchist Intellectual Tradition' (Pluto Press) has now been translated into Spanish.

[Dr. Jim MacLaughlin @jimmacl1]

Hello Twitterati! #myfirstTweet
Here's my recent book on Russian anarchist, Peter Kropotkin.
@AnarchistGeog @jpdromina @moville_red

[Dr. Barry Houlihan @stagedreaction]

"Crowley’s edition of selected writings by Dervla Murphy will bring the curiosity, humanity, energy, wit and fearlessness of Murphy to a new generation of readers"

Life at Full Tilt: The Selected Writings of Dervla Murphy @IrishTimesBooks https://t.co/QAbhrpcA5e

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@KitdeWaal just finished Without Warning . Loved it!! Keep writing always!!

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@rpjatBL Thanks Pauline.

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I'm writing a sort of autobiography of growing up in Inishowen before throwing myself into the world. The chapters dealing with schooldays of dire punishment at secondary school bring back very bad memories of abuse.

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@ShepherdofBeing @PlutoPress Hope you like the book

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Alan Morehead's book The White Nile describes a Sudan barely recognizable in Sudan today where genocide and brutality against women and children are rampant. Yet it contains germs of an understanding the current catastrophe.

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Bit strange to see an obituary in Irish Times on Russian mercenary and killer Progoshin. World is a lot better withot modern savages like this.

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Sunday Miscellany on Seamus Heaney was a joy to listen to this morning .

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Even the Vatican is attacking so called religious views of US Republicans. We need everyone's support to defend what is right.

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Have re-read The White Nile. A pure classic.

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After attending book launch where Colm Tobin was speaker l am more than ever a fan! Such a fine man!

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Great turnout at Cork City Library to demonstrate against thrashing of books. We need everyone's support to stop low life who attack our libraries.

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Announcement

@ElandPublishing #travel #travelwriting #DervlaMurphy

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If I see one more BBC programme about Cornwall or Yorkshire I'll puke. Britain LOOK AT THE WORLD . ITS BIG AND INTERESTING!!!!

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Just finished reading Emma Donoghue's Pull of the Stars. Every man, particularly older men should have to read this epic of the trials of childbirth.

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@Andrew_Breslin It was Dervla's anniversary last Monday . We still miss her living presence and her questions

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Dervla Murphy left school at fourteen, died in house chock-full of books, never tweeted in her life, wrote 26 books that were erudite and politically engaged, was still commenting on global issues up until a month ago, and never failed to inspire me. Will miss you sorely.

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@DavidStorey60 @ethelcrowley2 Not really!!

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@rpjatBL Your cartoon is mad! Love it! Good to hear from you Pauline!

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I am writing a new book about my childhood and surprised by the hurt and anger I still feel for some priests who were so cruel to us at school I went to in Carndonagh.

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@rpjatBL Cartoon is mad!!!! Great! They were sadists and I intend to expose them after all these years. Their victims deserve nothing less. We survived!