@mcinally_d

Research Fellow at @StAModLangs @univofstandrews working on a project on the Belgian colonial métis and their mothers funded by @RoyalSocEd

 Liverpool, England
Joined November 2018
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Another wonderful evening with Baron François d’Adesky at ⁦@RoyalSocEd⁩’s #Curious festival with ⁦@mcinally_d⁩
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Come and join François d’Adesky, @mcinally_d and me at @RoyalSocEd’s Curious festival in Edinburgh on 9 September. Tickets are free. ‘Lost mothers of the Belgian empire’s mixed-race children’: rse.org.uk/event/lost-mother…
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The Rejoin EU Party@RejoinP27 May 2025
🇬🇧❤️🇪🇺🇬🇧❤️🇪🇺🇬🇧❤️🇪🇺🇬🇧❤️🇪🇺 Let’s send a message to the government! 18/Oct/2025 Join the majority who hate Brexit! #RejoinEU #MarchForEurope
John Stitch@stitwit26 May 2025
Time not only to undo #Brexit but enjoy full membership of the EU, with all its freedoms, conveniences and commercial advantages. In any case, the UK belongs with and in Europe - it's our past and future. #RejoinEU, @RejoinP. Wake up, you 16m and rising.
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Find out more about #Belgium’s conduct in colonial Africa at our @ByreWorld event with François d’Adesky on 12 Feb. Book your free tickets here byretheatre.com/shows/the-mo…… @StAModLangs @mcinally_d ⁦@auukarekezi⁩ theguardian.com/world/2025/j…
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Looking forward to welcoming François d’Adesky to @ByreTheatre for our @ByreWorld event @mcinally_d @auukarekezi @StAModLangs @univofstandrews byretheatre.com/shows/the-mo…

The Mothers of the Belgian Empire’s Stolen Children

6.30pm - FREE but please book During Belgium’s colonisation of what are now the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi, mixed-‘race’ children born from relations between European men and...

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Excited to see our book on Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere, co-edited with @nsahmala1, heading towards May 2025 publication with @LivUniPress @StAModLangs @SFPS_UK liverpooluniversitypress.co.…

Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere | Home

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Delighted to have received a @RoyalSocEd small research grant to support the new project on mothers of the Belgian colonial métis with @auukarekezi and @mcinally_d @StAModLangs @UStAResearch rse.org.uk/rse-awards-over-6…

RSE awards over £680K to support exceptional research projects

We are pleased to announce that 48 exceptional research projects have been selected at the spring 2024 Research Awards open call.

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Excited to be presenting @VTadjo for an honorary doctorate on Monday @univofstandrews @StAModLangs graduation.wp.st-andrews.ac.…
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SFPS@SFPS_UK4 Jun 2024
The program for our SFPS 2024 Annual conference, The End(s) of Empire, is available, and it looks to be a fantastic two days. You can peruse it here: sfps.org.uk/forthcoming-even…. So looking forward to these exchanges this November 15 and 16!
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I’ll be talking about Umubyeyi Mairesse on Monday at 4pm with @auukarekezi and @mcinally_d @TLRHub eventbrite.ie/e/stolen-child…

Stolen Children of the Belgian Empire: Métis Stories from Rwanda

with Professor Nicki Hitchcott (University of St Andrews)

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Inkuru Library
@InkuruLibrary23 May 2024
“Mairesse's lyrical prose […], is mesmerizing. She crafts beautiful sentences that convey a feeling or mood: 'I hung myself on my words,' 'silence is a shield,' a smile is 'like a dove flying over a courtyard in the late morning sun.'" Lucy Popescu amp.theguardian.com/books/20…
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My new chapter ‘Alternative Explanations’: Literary Representations of Disability in Sub-Saharan Africa, co-authored with Ken Junior Lipenga is out #alternativeexplanations #disabilityinclusion #Disability @DeLCLancaster routledge.com/The-Routledge-…

The Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Disability Studies

This book centres and explores postcolonial theory, which looks at issues of power, economics, politics, religion and culture and how these elements work in relation to colonial supremacy. It argues...

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Margaret Atack obituary | Books | The Guardian theguardian.com/books/2024/f…

Margaret Atack obituary

Other lives: Leading scholar of French literature of and about the second world war

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More threats to #ModernLanguages in hostile #BrokenBritain: Concerns about the closure of modern languages at the University of Lincoln - Sign the Petition! chng.it/cjTgnGyQ via @UKChange
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Job: Lecturer in French & Francophone Studies at The University of Edinburgh ⁦@UCFLangs_ECA⁩ ⁦@SFPS_UK⁩ jobs.ac.uk/job/DFO004/lectur…
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Rachel Reeves
@RachelReevesMP10 Jan 2024
Martin Lewis is right.
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Labour have bought up ALL of the advertising on Conservativehome website for the next few days - this is just the start 🤣🤣 #ToriesOut547 #SunakOut437 #GeneralElectionNow #Sunackered #UnitedAgainstTheTories
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Mick ☕️🍉@MickCoffey24 Jan 2024
Replying to @HughCasswell
Sunak on a visit to a Nottinghamshire youth centre today promising a better 2024… . God, it’s going to be a long 6 plus months. #Sunackered
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.@jdpoc17 Dec 2023
THIS DAY in 1964 singer Dusty Springfield was deported from South Africa for refusing to play to segregated audiences, after four days of Security Forces questioning over her political beliefs - without legal representation. She stuck to her ethics. Not all heroes wear capes.
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David__Osland
@David__Osland17 Dec 2023
It's a good job Michelle Mone isn't a black mother wrongly accused of dodging a £2 bus fare, or she'd certainly have been arrested by now
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English @UoA_LLMVC programme response to the Modern Languages, Translation and Interpreting Consultation #SaveUoALanguages #Stoptheconsultation: We write as members of the English programme at the University of Aberdeen in strong repudiation of the current consultation
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