Conor Knowles

He/Him, PhD Researcher in TCD, Modern Irish History🏛️- Socialist🟥🌹

[Jacobin @jacobin]

French revolutionary and Jacobin Maximilien Robespierre was born on this day in 1758.

“How long will the despots' fury be called justice, and the people's justice barbarism or rebellion?”

[Kevin Doyle @TroublsInFrance]

A Provisional Sinn Féin press release from August 1972, carrying a statement from the Paris based French Committee for the Liberation of the Irish People regarding the events of Bloody Friday on July 21st.

[Gwen🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇨🇺 @gwenguinpenguin]

I'm seeing a very large divide in Irish Marxists. On one side you've got Dubs who see farmers as working class green thumbs who put food on the table. On the other side is those of us who've lived with farmers and view them as the most satanic manifestation of the petit bourgeois

[Vittorio @vittorioangelon]

Watching the Louis Theroux Manosphere doc and shaking my head the whole time so my girlfriend knows I disagree

[Conor Fitzgerald @fitzfromdublin]

The year is 3026. In neo-Hibernia, people pause their normal business to watch as the skull of Enoch Burke is taken from jail, to the school, and then finally to the courthouse where the judge orders it back to prison. This has been happening once a day for at least 800 years

[Cllr Conor Reddy 🇵🇸 @ConorReddy95]

A certain young independent TD who claims to be a spokesperson for his generation voted down an opposition motion that would ban vultures and other funds from purchasing family homes.

Social media gloss and trips to Palestine dont fool anyone.

Náireach.

[Rakesh Kumar @Rakeshhkumaar]

Excerpt from The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins (2020):

“The fourth way that anticommunist extermination programs shaped the world is that they deformed the world socialist movement. Many of the global left-wing groups that did survive the twentieth century decided that they had to employ violence and jealously guard power or face annihilation. When they saw the mass murders taking place in these countries, it changed them. Maybe US citizens weren’t paying close attention to what happened in Guatemala, or Indonesia. But other leftists around the world definitely were watching. When the world’s largest Communist Party without an army or dictatorial control of a country was massacred, one by one, with no consequences for the murderers, many people around the world drew lessons from this, with serious consequences.
This was another very difficult question I had to ask my interview subjects, especially the leftists from Southeast Asia and Latin America. When we would get to discussing the old debates between peaceful and armed revolution; between hardline Marxism and democratic socialism, I would ask:
“Who was right?”
In Guatemala, was it Árbenz or Che who had the right approach? Or in Indonesia, when Mao warned Aidit that the PKI should arm themselves, and they did not? In Chile, was it the young revolutionaries in the MIR who were right in those college debates, or the more disciplined, moderate Chilean Communist Party?
Most of the people I spoke with who were politically involved back then believed fervently in a nonviolent approach, in gradual, peaceful, democratic change. They often had no love for the systems set up by people like Mao. But they knew that their side had lost the debate, because so many of their friends were dead. They often admitted, without hesitation or pleasure, that the hardliners had been right. Aidit’s unarmed party didn’t survive. Allende’s democratic socialism was not allowed, regardless of the détente between the Soviets and Washington.
Looking at it this way, the major losers of the twentieth century were those who believed too sincerely in the existence a liberal international order, those who trusted too much in democracy, or too much in what the United States said it supported, rather than what it really supported—what the rich countries said, rather than what they did. That group was annihilated.”

[Conor Knowles @knowles_conor]

@OneEyeGene Well to be fair, in the Muppets' Christmas Carol, the other Marley is Robert Marley, so technically...

[Éanna Ó Broin @OneEyeGene]

Just confidently proclaimed in front of the whole office that Bob Marley was the first ghost to visit Scrooge 😊

[Chris Broad @AbroadInJapan]

Married at last! 🥳📷

After months (if not years) of planning, Sharla and I enjoyed the most incredible day, surrounded by so many amazing people. Truly the perfect end to 2025!

We chose Christmas as it's our favourite time of year. A time to be cosily tucked away indoors alongside friends and family.

I have to say a huge thank you to everyone who's been a part of our journey over these years. We're beyond blessed to have a spectacular community of people around the world.

Have yourself an amazing Christmas! I'm eternally grateful to you all! 🍻🎄

[Éanna Ó Broin @OneEyeGene]

AND THEY BROUGHT OUT CMAT! PLOT TWIST OF THE NIGHT 🤩😍 #LateLateToyShow

[Alannah Uí Geargáin @lanauig_]

The character assassination begins. Gemma O'Doherty was not at full freak power in 2018, there are MANY lefties who were fans who completely disavowed her when the mask slipped. Look forward to the article on Mairead McGuinness' massive rental income and voting to kill children x

[Conor Knowles @knowles_conor]

@EndaSeanByrne Bring back the mantles!

[OSCAR @now_thats_oscar]

w-w-well does this mean i get two quissmassess~?

[Conor Knowles @knowles_conor]

@EndaSeanByrne @lil_doza Mate, you know if I could speak Arabic AND Irish, I so would - this woman is just clearly jealous she can't do either.

[DOZA🧐 @lil_doza]

Westbrits foot-soldiers ambushed Gerry Adams outside courts.

Gerry speaks Irish language and they feel insulted and humiliated. Wonder why😮

They march with loyalists to hate migrants but never said a word against ongoing pushback of Irish language in the north.

[Éanna Ó Broin @OneEyeGene]

Reminder that every SINGLE party - government and opposition - supported passing the Occupied Territories Bill during November’s Leaders’ Debate.

Every single one. Unequivocally.

Ireland does not deserve her name on this statement.

[Aturdida @Isa_Resandwich]

Spanish Broadcast of #Eurovision STARTING LIKE THIS. 🇪🇸🇵🇸 #EurovisionSongContest

[Jack Nolan @jacknolan__]

"Let no Irishman throw a stone at the foreigner; he may hit his own clansman. Let no foreigner revile the Irish; he may be vilifying his own stock”

James Connolly, murdered by imperialist forces on this day in 1916.

[Cllr Conor Reddy 🇵🇸 @ConorReddy95]

Join unions, left parties, students + almost 50 other groups tomorrow to stand up to the racists, misogynists + bigots trying to divide us!

Stand up to McGregor, Steenson + the billionaire-backed fascists who want to drag us backwards. Don't let them march unopposed.