Ciaran Tierney

Oct 30, 2024 | irishcentral.com | Ciaran Tierney

Top places to visit in Galway, according to a local! From a cup of tea to kicking walls, this is what the City of the Tribes is all about. It’s the only city on the Wild Atlantic Way and next year it’s set to become the European Capital of Culture. Galway is a small city on the west coast of Ireland that consistently punches well above its weight and should be a “must-see” destination on any trip to the Emerald Isle.

Apr 21, 2023 | galwaydaily.com | Ciaran Tierney

An acclaimed Palestinian lawyer and human rights defender whose deportation from his homeland last December caused shock waves across the globe is coming to Galway to deliver a talk on Tuesday evening. Salah Hammouri was interned without trial for seven months before Israel deported him from Jerusalem, the city of his birth, in what Amnesty International described as a “war crime” and a clear breach of international law.

Feb 22, 2023 | ciarantierney.medium.com | Ciaran Tierney

There is an old Irish saying that a land without a language is a land without a soul. Over the past couple of years, while working on the smallest of the Aran Islands, I tried to imagine how sad it would be if the last native Irish speaker passed away. Imagine the thousands of years of oral traditions, of myths and legends, of connecting with our ancestors and the land around us which would be lost forever.

Feb 16, 2023 | ciarantierney.medium.com | Ciaran Tierney

The National Party join an anti-refugee protest in Dublin. Photo via Ireland Against Fascism on Facebook. When mass murder was taking place in Myanmar seven years ago, social media played a significant role in the genocide of Rohingya Muslims. For years, people had spread Islamophobic material on Facebook in a country of 54 million people, including conspiracy theories and grainy photos of atrocities supposedly carried out by a long-resented minority.