New Crooked Timber Blogger

by Henry Farrell on March 9, 2011

Niamh Hardiman, who has been blogging for us and off, has very kindly agreed to come on board as a permanent member of CT. She is a senior lecturer at University College Dublin (where both Maria and I did our degrees), working on a variety of issues in European and Irish political economy. We’re really happy to have her join us.

{ 19 comments }

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niamh 03.09.11 at 12:34 pm

Thanks very much Henry. Delighted to be on board.

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Enda H 03.09.11 at 3:40 pm

Great addition. Tá fáilte romhat.

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Ingrid Robeyns 03.09.11 at 4:21 pm

Welcome, Niamh! Great to have you with us.

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tomslee 03.09.11 at 6:42 pm

I look forward to reading your posts.

Obviously I am perfectly aware of how Niamh is pronounced. Still, maybe it would help others (not me of course) if you or another of the celts around here spell it out?

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Chris Bertram 03.09.11 at 8:13 pm

Welcome!

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bh 03.09.11 at 8:35 pm

Welcome! I learned a lot from the guest posts, and I’m looking forward to more.

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Niamh 03.09.11 at 8:53 pm

Go raibh míle maith agaibh go léir as ucht an fáilte gheal a chuireann sibh romham. Yes, the sweet and melodious native tongue comes in handy now and again. Opening parliament. Confounding foreigners. That sort of thing. Like the sneaky way we spell our names. For tomslee@4, it’s pronounces roughly ‘Neev’, or ‘Ne-ev’, or ‘Niw’ if you’re Polish.

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John Quiggin 03.09.11 at 9:34 pm

Welcome, Niamh!

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Maria 03.10.11 at 8:30 am

Fáilte romhat go CT, Niamh. Déan tú féin sa bhaile – táim cinnte go bhfainimid go léir neart spraoi & suim as an mblog seo le chéile !

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Niamh 03.10.11 at 8:51 am

Janey Mac Maria, an conspóid atá in intinn agat, ag comhrá faoi rún os comhair na stráinséirí?! Beidh siad go léir ag iarradh fáil amach céard tá ar siúil anseo. Gluaiseacht nua aithbheochana na teangan ag silleadh amach ón blog!

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Eimear Ní Mhéalóid 03.10.11 at 10:51 am

Is breá an rud é an méid thuas a léamh anois i lár Seachtain na Gaeilge! Agus díreach tar éis Lá Idirnáisiúnta na mBan, bean eile a bheith mar cuid den fhoireann seo.

Tuairimí ag éinne ar méid/easpa mná sa gComh-Aireacht nua agus cás Joan Burton? Dár le Olivia Mitchell, “it’s a Dáil bar cabinet – the boys have divided up the major portfolios and left the girls with the housekeeping and nanny jobs” (a paraphrase as I can’t locate the exact quote).

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Eimear Ní Mhéalóid 03.10.11 at 10:56 am

Corrections, it was of course Olivia O’Leary which explains why I couldn’t find it.

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Maria 03.10.11 at 1:19 pm

Point maith, Niamh, point maith…

Eimear – ni raibh fhios agam gur Seachtain na Gaeilge é. An mhaith ar fad – táim tar éis eiri an ‘rusty’ ar fad tar éis dó-dhéag bhlianta a chaith thar lear. An chéad rud a cheap mé nuair a tháinig Niamh ná, ‘lán sásta le haghaidh bean Eireannach eile anseo linn ag CT’!

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mise 03.10.11 at 10:53 pm

By the way – an blog eireannach ar fad ata againn anseo anois? Thar a bheith ait!!

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Kieran 03.10.11 at 11:30 pm

Tá an-athas orm an corn seo a glachadh

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maidhc 03.11.11 at 7:34 am

Samhlaítear dom go Adhmad Cam atá ann, ar an snáth seo ar a laghad.

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dsquared 03.11.11 at 8:30 am

Those are fighting words where I come from.

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Maria 03.11.11 at 10:39 am

Always the bloody Welsh…

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James Conran 03.12.11 at 1:01 am

Hi Niamh, great to hear you’re on board at CT, I’ve been reading it for years – nice to know one of the authors now!

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