Yorgos Lanthimos, The Secret History

"A Canticle for Leibowitz" as an anthology film, with George Miller directing "Fiat Homo," Jane Campion directing "Fiat Lux" and Debra Granik directing "Fiat Voluntas Tua."

Not that @irishrail.bsky.social is active here since they’re still on the gutter space that is Twitter

Seven-car train from Heuston to Galway with no luggage racks in the first three cars - what the hell is the point?

19 Feb 1616: Thomas Dempster, 'saint-stealer' - who claimed #Irish saints (as Scoti) for #Scotland - made historiographer royal by James VI &I #otd

I think the University of Galway has made a bit of a miscalculation here.

A lot of people really don’t realize that there is a vast amount of information out there that is not online and plausibly never will be, or can’t be.

In college I did a paper comparing government responses between the AIDS crisis and the Justinianic plague. Some of the texts I cited from contemporaneous Byzantine accounts had no published translations. As far as I knew, my translations were the first "published" excerpts. There's a ton of stuff!

Maryam Aslany - Peasants Makers of the Modern World À paraître en septembre chez Flammarion

Chat, is it good when the safety researcher quits because it's too dangerous?

Virgin media rugby pundits just did a half time analysis as if they had just witnessed the 1916 leaders being executed if you're wondering how the Ireland France game is going

Annie Wilkes from Misery is spiritually Millennial: ▪️cottagecore ▪️extremely toxic fandom ▪️aggressive side part ▪️weird childish curses ▪️puritanical, but also ▪️horrifyingly perverted RIP Annie you would have been so good at BookTok

Foreigners can, of course, learn British History, but only by gunpoint and only if it's The Right Kind of History.

the producers of Hamnet missed a huge opportunity

Custaiméirí an tsiopa chráite

Llongyfarchiadau to my Aber colleagues on this - delighted to get an unexpected Simon Rodway With Book portrait in my morning news!

You Scumbag, You Maggot Just Plain, Simple, Garak

What a great headline

I'm very pleased to formally launch "Yankee Pensioners in Ireland 1845-1905: An Interactive Map" with location/bio info on 720+ women & men receiving U.S. pensions in Ireland-significantly more than previously thought: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/4e3d...

This has to be the funniest @churchtimes.bsky.social headline of the year, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Github alerts are so fun when your co-dev is your husband "Alex created an issue" Like yeah, lemme tell ya Github. This is not the first time

It’s difficult to underestimate the extra burden that this is placing on our public libraries. For example, on a daily basis library workers are now filling the in-person/human service gap that billion euro banking institutions have abdicated from to maximise their profit margins.

17th-19th century Irish scribal abbreviations that look like text-speak: numeral 8 edition "beannacht" (x2), "Connacht"

Your regular reminder that by throwing away nature, we throw away *everything*.

Me when I accompany my mother to parkrun: Spare a thought for those of us who can't do parkrun ☹️ Because we have no interest in trying and have done nothing to facilitate a situation where we might be doing parkruns one day ☹️☹️

WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE ANGLOPHONES

Early medieval cemeteries in Ireland were places for all kinds of activities, including metal-working etc

I’m now imaging Google Gemini responses in Anthony Daniels’ voice.

There's something very powerful & disturbing about looking at familiar placenames in Ireland when they're connected with the names of Irish people who has legal ownership of enslaved people. An important part of Ireland's complicated history that rightly challenges simplistic narratives.

#Slavery was a family business. Uncovering a network of familial relationships between #Irishslaveholders in South Carolina. tinyurl.com/4t76e8ep #speirgorm

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Irish historian: we think it was lost when the Public Records Office was destroyed, best I can do is an entry in the Calendar of State Papers Ireland.

Beidh Lá Oscailte Náisiúnta na Leabharlanna Poiblí ar siúl Dé Sathairn, an 27 Meán Fómhair - is é seo an t-am is fearr chun breathnú ar a bhfuil le fáil ag do leabharlann! Tabhair cuairt orainn agus faigh amach duit féin é! #LáOscailteNaLeabharlann #TógAmharcNíosGaire

Notice, #earlymodern #skystorians, the logo at the middle of the photo? The VOC (Dutch East India Company). All the more reason to reckon with the legacies of these companies and how they integrate (or don't) with shifting ideas of globalisation, integration, capitalism, and national identity.

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/climax #smbc

Reading about this brought to mind a piece I wrote two years ago, inspired by one of my favourite authors. Ursula K. Le Guin emphasized that there’s a big difference “between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art.” OpenAI’s AI-generated movie offers us nothing.

As a PhD-holder myself, I feel obligated to make it abundantly clear that people with PhDs are not necessarily smart. They're experts in a small niche of their incredibly niche field, sure, but sometimes that is all. A PhD is a test of resilience and stubbornness, not cleverness.

For all the nonsense that Cromwell gets (wrongly) blamed for here in Ireland, there's plenty that he damn well really did do here, there, and everywhere

People who aren’t paying attention don’t think anti-trans stuff matters, as they don’t know any, & think of caricatures of trans ppl on sitcoms etc. To the far right yobs it does matter. This happened in Dublin, which doesn’t have the anti-trans culture of Britain. You should care:

The Mermaid of Clonfert Cathedral, County Galway. You can find this beautifully detailed carving of a mermaid on the chancel arch of the cathedral. She dates to the 15th century, and is depicted holding a comb in her right hand and mirror in her left. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Medieval 🏺

Ireland's alleged "traditional neutrality". The linked memo listing Ireland's assistance to the British during the Second World War is short but worth reading. Candidates for #Áras25 should read it with particular attention. #speirgorm www.ria.ie/blog/the-coa...

and balking at "guilt by association" like it's some cooky acquaintance from her bridge club, she openly endorsed Daly in an election campaign scarcely a year ago, and O'Doherty in 2018 😭 it's very fair to be grilled on these dodgy endorsements!

Imagine being told someone you supported is accusing a people being invaded and colonised falsely of being Nazis, openly parroting Russian propaganda and you not only don't disavow that person but praise him?! Deplorable stuff #speirgorm

The GVS (Great vowel shit) never or only lately happened in many Hiberno-English dialects. So main and mean were both pronounced main, like in my own South Tipperary dialect, hence the joke on tight-fisted merchants "Yes, that's Main Street and the further up you go, the meaner it gets". #speirgorm

Well folks, at times like this all you can say is

I went to college in Galway and still have a lot of friends there. Some of those friends worked at Romero Games until this morning. They only ever had the highest praise for John and Brenda as employers and as people, and the one time I was lucky enough to meet the they were the coolest

I had friends in Romero Games. They always said it was a great place to work. Microsoft can get fucked, not another penny.

I wonder why

This later-Simpsons quote is evergreen for me when in Pennsylvania: ‘This confederate symbol is an embarrassment. Particularly as we are a northern state.’