🚨✅ Dáil approves a Sinn Féin bill removing the mandatory three-day waiting period for GPs’ abortion services within 12 weeks. TDs voted 86 to 70, with government backbenchers not having a whip. Bill is now referred to Oireachtas Health Committee for scrutiny of possible amendments.

A whole bunch of new collections of radical online archives listed. Check out this 🧵 #historians #archives 🗃️

We're running a @dublininquirer.com Summer School at the end of this month, with sessions on how to get information from local government about what's its doing/not doing/ planning in your neighbourhood, and how to annoy them into making positive changes. Come join us!

In 1663, Pepys was still using the old (Julian) calendar so the date of the summer solstice is off by 11 days. England switched to the Gregorian calendar in 1752. The longest day of 2026 in the Gregorian calendar will be June 21st. In 1663 it was June 11th (Julian) and June 22nd (Gregorian).

At some point the State decided it was going to stop building public housing. Nobody ever put that in a manifesto. The Ministers under whom the policy was implemented explicitly denied it was their policy. But it happened. And it has hobbled our society ever since.

We are told about all the benefits of our FDI-led model, reliant on US tech multinationals. Research shows that between 2015-2023, households paid an estimated €360 additional in electricity bills because of data centre growth. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

It's been fascinating to follow AI industry's journey from "it's smarter than your experts!" to "at least it's cheaper than a human" to "your annual token budget ran out in March"

These spreadsheets are things of great beauty - someone give @gavreilly.com an award. 🏆

The legend @cmatbaby.bsky.social said a lot more in her acceptance speech than what RTÉ are reporting. (Video posted by Lisa McLoughlin on Instagram - www.instagram.com/reel/DYnTKR3...) #Speirgorm

Amazing the personal risks people will take to preserve archival material www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

#DIBLives Founder of the Ladies' Land League, nationalist and land activist Anna Parnell was born #OTD 1852. Her manuscript 'The Tale of the Great Sham' has stimulated a reassessment of the Land League period and of women's contribution to its evolution. www.dib.ie/biography/pa...

For #InternationalDanceDay 💃 Step back to 1922 with this leaflet promoting Vocalion Records—promising “perfect rhythm and lilt” in a sparkling mix of fox-trots & waltzes. Stamped by Dublin retailer R. B. & H. Harris, it captures a vibrant city dance scene. https://ow.ly/6mub50YNYqr

On Wednesday 6 May for a Collection Encounter explore broadside ballads with unique songs brought to life by balladeer Jennifer Reid. 📚See collections 3.15–4.30pm in the Reading Room on Level 2. 🎼 Performances by Jennifer Reid: 3.45 pm –4.05pm and 4.20 pm–4.40pm.

Cat Crainn!

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Very much open to correction but think I might've found Peig. #1926Cencus #TheStoryOfUs nationalarchives.ie/collections/...

Happy #WorldEarthDay 🌱🌼🍂🌷 These commemorative stamps from the Post Office Irish Postage Stamp Collection celebrate the natural beauty of Ireland's national parks. Deposited in the DRI by An Post Museum and Archive. 🔗Explore the collection: doi.org/10.7486/DRI....

I do like this image Go cyclist

Ale and Cake Day - an old Maundy Thursday tradition that we would LOVE to see return! 🍻🍰 We've done a bit of research into this intriguing tradition which appears to date back to the 18th century where the cake and ale was supplied from the Rose and Crown Hotel in Penistone

Hot Cross Buns!Hung in kitchens,to protect home from fire or evil for 1 year,with old bun replaced on next Good Friday.Buns baked on this day will never mold.Sailors took on voyages to stop shipwrecks.stale buns grated into water/milk to cure stomach or other illnesses #Folklore

My latest column: Ireland’s data centre policy will drive significantly greater fossil fuel use, contradicting multiple statutory and policy targets which require rapid reductions instead. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Some bad news from your favourite archive

For Seachtain na Gaeilge, our newly launched DRI Labs project team decided to highlight the rich visual history of #Ballyshannon in the collections, with links to friendly exhibit-making tools from @europeana.bsky.social and @iiif.bsky.social. Read more: dri.ie/news/baile-s...

‘Daffodil, Narcissus, Tulip, Primula’ Garden Flowers, 1960 Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton

"Our goal as academic writers is not to make the writing feel comfortable. It’s to make the discomfort feel less catastrophic." I found this post excellent. patthomson.net/2026/03/08/g...

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." - President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Bridget Holmes, 1686. By John Riley Holmes, d. 1691, reputedly 96, was James II's 'Necessary Woman', cleaning his bedchamber, polishing, dusting, laying fires, mopping, sweeping, emptying chamber pots. #InternationalWomensDay (Royal Collection, HM CIII)

To mark #IWD2026 #RightsJusticeAction we launch @ukri.org #AHRC funded project #womensgrassrootsactivism #Activism100+ toolkit. Join us: 🗓️ 10 March 2026 ⏰ 5.30pm-7pm (UK time via Zoom) & find out more here: learn.lsbu.ac.uk/womens-grass... #WomensHistoryMonth Please re-post 🙏 #RightsJusticeAction

📷 Edwardian Portraits began in John Lawson ’s Whitley Art Studio in Whitley Bay and resurfaced decades later when a box of his glass plates was found under a floor. An archive of faces and fashion, hidden for half a century before being shared again. 🔗 see more: sidegallery.co.uk/collectio...

Made it to Friday but at what cost

We wrote this report with the OTB in mind, but it equally helps explain the Govnt's refusal to condemn the illegal US-Israel bombing of Iran. 'Ireland’s economic dependency on the US ensures that the US holds a de facto veto over Irish foreign policy.' www.uplift.ie/neutrality-f...

Irish Women's basketball team urged not to play St. Patrick's Day match against Israel IPSC is urging supporters to write to Basketball Ireland’s calling on them to respect the Palestinian boycott call and refuse to play the March fixture #BanIsrael gcn.ie/irish-women-...

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

I have a new OA article out on the early history of Irish young people’s anti-abortion group Youth Defence. It’s part of a special issue by Agata Ignaciuk and Sylwia Kuzma-Markowska on anti-abortion activism in Europe.Thanks to reviewers and the RSE for funding. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Have you ever thought about reusing Discovery Programme data? We have datasets on the DRI including ISAP (doi.org/10.7486/DRI....) and CHERISH (doi.org/10.7486/DRI....) If you have an idea for reuse, @dri.ie are currently offering grants to support data reuse projects:

Applications for the Sanctuary Scholarship is now open! The online application form for this scholarship is now live and the deadline to submit this form is 5pm on Friday 20th of March 2026. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/edi/excellen...

#speirgorm I’m looking for info. My nephew is doing an undergrad in environmental science - are there any organisations that allow students to do summer internships with them?

The internet hosts several very good Walkman/personal stereo archive sites, but this is the slickest yet walkman.land Thanks @kottke.org The others will be linked below

Join us for part 3 of the Ethics, #AI, and Public Humanities Series presented with @usaconservation.bsky.social, “Ethical AI use in #Galleries, #Libraries, #Archives, and #Museums” Feb. 26 at 2pm ET. https://ncph.org/conference/ethics-ai-and-the-public-humanities/

Guess what's back, back again! Shrove Tuesday! @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Happy birthday to Charles Darwin, patron saint of tired scientists, grumpy fieldworkers, and hating your own manuscript.

Filmed over four years across kitchen tables, protests and public meetings, this documentary follows a city fighting for itself as a broken property market chews up its citizens for profit. Rooted in Dublin, it reveals global forces reshaping cities, where homes are assets and people are obstacles.

Introducing the DRI Research Reuse Reward! 🏆 📊 For #LoveData26 we're announcing a new scheme rewarding good research that interrogates, enhances, remixes or reimagines Ireland's social and cultural data. You could win up to €500 for reusing data in the DRI repository. dri.ie/news/dri-lau...

It's St Gobnait's feast day, so who was Cork's medieval beekeeper @liber-ray.bsky.social @ria.ie looks at the life and times of Ireland's lesser-known patron saint of bees and beekeeping www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Today we launch new AI guidelines to help galleries, libraries, archives and museums prepare for the future - read more here: www.archives.org.uk/news/new-ai-...

Spring. Imbolc.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...