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.’

Seeing Pennsylvanians flying Confederate flags is such a disrespect to the absolutely mad stuff that happened at Gettysburg to end slavery.

The songbirds and other wildlife slaughtered in their billions annually by pet cats are living creatures too. What's more, they're part of *nature*, while pet cats are an extension of the human world.

Speaking as a Balt, this was a resignation-worthy stupid comment on the part of Kallas, not just because it is incredibly offensive but because it is profoundly, incredibly dumb to say this about Ireland on a purely tactical level, like it's /shockingly/ dumb, just dumb dumb dumb

Not a request you get every day, but we love to see it! #gaeilge

Don't forget to rinse out every jar and tin you finish, guys x

My recent talk at Gettysburg NMP is now live on the Gettysburg Foundation's YouTube Channel- I discuss the Irish experience in the Union military with specific reference to the battle. Please feel free to share with whoever you think might be interested! youtu.be/por1iiGM97U?...

Historians of Ireland, Britain, the British Empire, Empires, Unions, Federalism, and those working in the history of ideas and political theory, this is definitely worth a look. Particularly the second debate, in which arguments are made about what form the Union should take.

Flags flying at Sant’ Isidoro in anticipation of the conference on the Irish Presence in Rome, 1625-2025

It's not really the main issue with the Kneecap charge but his name is not Liam O'Hanna, it's Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh. You don't rename Rishi Sunak as Rishi Sunwell, you can't just anglicise things because they're Irish.

Watching the #Eurovision when RTÉ start advertising a classic music series - Me: ‘there must be a subsection of viewers that love Stravinsky and also Eurotrash’ My wife: ‘us’

The existence of general editors implies the existence of lieutenant general editors and brigadier general editors

Immediate papal bull, ex cathedra, Chigago Deep Dish Pizza is the one true pizza. Schism imminent.

I was advertised this… monstrosity and now you must see it too. There’s a parable here but I can’t figure out what.

whatever was so bad about travelling to the cave to see the oracle

The magpie. Is eating. The cake. Yum! Painted by my namesake Rubens Peale, who was born OTD in 1784.

If you see this, post a sword - ‘untitled British brigade commander no. 1’ I’m thinking that the AK matte varnish is in fact not all that matte

I’ve been lucky to get some hobby time again for the first time since September. The only problem is I can’t remember how exactly I painted these guys’ faces 😅

A monarch much more fondly remembered in early modern Ireland, positively associated with parliament and constitution unlike in England.

Hey all, just so you know my website now includes an option for digital downloads! atunsheifilms.vhx.tv If you have purchased (not rented) any of the movies on my website, you should now have the option to be able to download both the films and the various special features that came with them.

I will admit to swearing more than is necessary, and I understand that people are going to have different reactions to words... but tiny sliver people who find words like 'bum' or 'twit' offensive are weak and will not survive the winter.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard Mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek or LOTR)

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society

Absolutely not. Harvard has quietly shut down almost all Palestinian programming on campus. The directors of the Middle Eastern Studies centres were removed from their posts. The law school has cut back DEI initiatives. Claudine Gay is still fired. Don’t be distracted.

Okay, I just looked at the website. There's no HUMANITIES represented! We, too, contribute to knowledge production. Where do the histories of fascism come from? Where the analyses of how rhetoric & disinformation work? Ignoring the Humanities' contributions to truth-making is what got us into this.

Watching the US markets go up somehow while their economy collapses

I didn’t think a remake was necessary… but they really are the team to do it.

Living in London and seeing people actually upset that Thatcher had died really hammered home the existence of a Them for me.

When you have a *very* specific candidate in mind