When I used to write for The Guardian, every time I wrote the word “meow” the editors would change it to “miaow”. It used to really get on my wick. Don’t try to make my cats sound like your upper middle class London cats, you fuckers. My cats did not go to your posh cat schools. They say “meow”.

I'd like to think so, but we *do* already have a minister for disabilities and, well... #spéirgorm #spéirghorm

Hello Cork. Calling Cork. Can you hear this over the noise from the drones? #Cork #SpéirGhorm

2/2 Cosaint teanga = cosaint daoine. Éilítear gníomh práinneach ón rialtas, níos mó tithíochta inacmhainne & athbhúnú scéim na ndeontas tithíochta de dhíth chun cainteoirí Gaeilge a choinneáil sa Ghaeltacht. Scéal iomlán @tuairisc.bsky.social 👇 tuairisc.ie/beagnach-90-...

Making art, even bad art, is its own reward

'she also firmly believes that Said the Dead treads a fine line between “rescue and theft”'. No better woman to articulate the messy ethics of researching marginal, powerless people

Sally Rooney suggesting that the student experience in Galway is somehow not as good as Paris.

Agus ceann eile i mBéarla amháin - Ag troid ar son pobal Béarla na hÉireann is cosúil....

Feels hard to believe - currently rocking a jumper+cardigan+blankie look. #SpéirGhorm extra.ie/2026/05/20/n...

Me too, Muriel, me too.

#kdrama ❤️❤️❤️

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The birth rate in the UK in the mid to late 1930s was almost as low as it is today and I can assure you that it wasn’t because Stanley Baldwin’s teenagers wouldn’t get off their phones. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Two of the greats of amazing-useful-websites-from-back-in-the-day in conversation here @victurk.bsky.social @erinacean.bsky.social. It makes me very nostalgic.

New alias incoming

the problem with capitalism is eventually other people run out of your money

The value of lived experience in historical research:

Today @dennycarter.bsky.social writes about Thurgood Marshall seeing the stooge justices early

I have a piece in today’s Irish Examiner about a new AHRC project I’m proud to be involved in with @jcrangle.bsky.social & @tortietabby.bsky.social on a hundred years of diversity in Ireland www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Sadly of immediate relevance

I called popcorn "Cockporn" one time and I laughed so hard it supplanted the correct pronunciation in my brain. I can't go to the cinema anymore

DIB doesn't often make me 🤣 but this did: 'Doctors diagnosed circulation problems and recommended that Rev Spratt take alcohol, but he refused to do so.' Zealous temperance campaigner prescribed booze for his own good! Priceless #SpéirGhorm www.dib.ie/biography/sp...

Even saying that Ireland had little open racism or prejudice before significant immigration because of lack of exposure to foreigners is being too charitable. It was always there #spéirghorm #justiceforYvesSakila

Tks to @kennysbookshop.bsky.social I'm going to spend the working day in a fog of anticipation. Lunchtime will be more about reading than eating... #SaidtheDead

Edits of #FilingforLove are so tempting when I'm tired and on a deadline

Not that it’s the point, since these things should never be put to a vote anyway (but the joys of this country where everyone gets an opinion on women’s bodies), but no it never came up. Not once. And I knocked on A LOT of doors.

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Poem: Objective 86 This week is Cork City LGBTI+ Awareness Week, reflecting on its beginnings, I wrote this short poem.

i like this photo where it looks like you've interrupted t.s. eliot and virginia woolf in the middle of planning your murder

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A new documentary is telling the story of the DeLorean factory, Belfast, from the workers' perspective. They'd like to speak to Irish speakers who worked at the plant/those who can speak to its social history. Visit oralhistorynetworkireland.ie/noticeboard-... #OralHistory #DeLorean #Gaeilgeoir

Maybe that's why podcasts should be on youtube - proof of humanness.

Impossible really but here's my *current top 5 #kdrama -Because this is my first life -Sh**ting Stars -Don't Dare to Dream/Jealousy Incarnate -Moon River -Destined with you *highly dependend on mood

Had a great welcome for himself, had Beau Feilding:

An experiment? For Science!!

Beidh Ceardlann Logainmneacha á reáchtáil againn @dublincityuni.bsky.social ar an Déadaoin 23 Iúil: 'Logainmneacha agus an Éiceolaíocht sa Chomhthéacs Eorpach'. Cainteanna den scoth 🔽 Fáilte roimh chách, ar ndóigh. www.eventbrite.ie/e/ceardlann-...

Anseo thíos tá cúpla sampla den litreoireacht bhreá a ghrean Michael Biggs ar an mballa cuimhneacháin i gCnoc an Arbhair, Baile Átha Cliath.

Paiste cainte ag @muintirshe.bsky.social le Cormac Ó Gráda faoina leabhar faoi íospartaigh sibhialta cogadh open.spotify.com/episode/6ohu... Lón machnaimh.

What an awesome idea. A library preserving suppressed works. #censorship malmo.se/Uppleva-och-...

Epic #spéirgorm #ciarraí #kingdom

Just spotted a Sheela na gig on Railway Street, Cork #speirgorm

Trying to imagine #Spéirghorm without these topics and failing, obviously

A story in 3 parts. Your fuel. Your energy. And your food. While we're here arguing over lads in tractors, billionaires earn more than ever #speirgorm

I am absolutely here for @oliver.ie 's motion at tonight's Cork City Council meeting (referred to a relevant committee).

Finding someone with an unusual name is easy unless they're posh and their relations are on every board, everywhere.

This is the only Odyssey adaptation that understands that the hero is an impulsive himbo who deserves his many ass whoopings. It is entirely believable that this Odysseus would get a bunch of his guys turned into pigs by a sexy witch.

there's at least one manga and/or kdrama about this