Jimmy Ó Briain Billings

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Jimmy is a sociologist, anarchist, musician, and avid hiker. He was raised by the river Siúr. He has been on a decolonization journey exploring the possibilities of ‘re-existence‘ in Ireland for the past few years. Jimmy established Gaelic Re-existence to facilitate conversations and thinking around how modernity/coloniality manifests in Ireland, and what decolonization can mean in this context as a process of reconnection with the land and ancestral lifeways that had healthier cultural relationships with it.

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Writing:

Essays on Substack: https://gaelicreexistence.substack.com/

Land and ancestral revitalisation as decolonising practices in Ireland (2021) in Unapologetic Magazine

Decolonial possibilities in Ireland (2021) in Airmid’s Journal

Qualifications:

MSocSc Race, Migration and Decolonial Studies (University College Dublin, Ireland)

BA Sociology (University College Dublin, Ireland)

Past academic conference papers:

Ancestral re-existence in Ireland through the Land: A decolonial exploration of
pre-Christian spiritualities and places (New Perspectives Symposium on the Humanities, NUI Maynooth, 2019)

Temporal displacement(s), spatial re-existence(s): Decolonising Ireland’s relationship to place through native woodlands and pre-Christian sacred places (Sociological Association of Ireland Annual Conference, NUI Galway, 2019)