Jimmy Ó Briain Billings

Jimmy is a learner, scholar, sociologist, and lover of walking. He was raised by the river Siúr, and like many Irish people has a patchwork of ancestry from Gael to Norman to Norse to Palatine. He runs a decolonial education project called ‘Tuiscint na Talún’, which can be translated as ‘wisdom of the land’ from Gaeilge. Tuiscint na Talún was established to facilitate conversations and learning around what (de)colonization means in the Irish context as a basis for reconnection with the land and ancestral lifeways that were in relationship with it. Jimmy is an Associate Researcher with the MA in Race, Migration and Decolonial Studies at University College Dublin.

Jimmy holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology and a master’s degree in Race, Migration and Decolonial Studies, both from University College Dublin. He is an Associate Researcher with the same master’s programme. His research interests broadly include (de)coloniality, anti-racism, whiteness, global inequalities, sociology of knowledge, and Gaelic lifeways.