When slavery was abolished in Jamaica in 1834, the following Irish surnames were present in the long list of compensated slave-owners: Barry, Bourke, Boyle, Brady, Brennan, Broderick, Buckley, Burke, Byrne, Carey, Carroll, Codd, Coleman, Collins, Conway, Corbett, Costello, Cowan, Creighton, Crowley

Never trust a white lady with dreadlocks #OlgaTokarczuk

Truly terrible news... when racists feel empowered and are given positions of power, this kind of violence is inevitable. www.rte.ie/news/2026/05...

My university employs hundreds of "expert" admin staff and yet when you have an admin query or need a process explained all these so called experts only seem to know how to send a (usually faulty) web link or forward your email to someone else 🤦‍♀️

Best film adaptation of the Odyssey. Wrong answers only.

Great to be at the @sociologyireland.bsky.social Annual Conference at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social & to reconnect with the SAI Race & Ethnicity Study Group in-person. #SAI2026 #sociology #SociologyIreland #race #ethnicity #EDI @sumingkhoo.bsky.social @aislingwalsh.bsky.social

Who wants to work with me to make some cool things at ANMLY? Volunteer role as part of an all volunteer team, VERY hands on, lots of room for creativity. You'd work with me to pitch and/or vet folio proposals, and then make em happen! 💜✨

Regulating airbnb being turned into another "attack on rural Ireland" shows how ridiculous and meaningless that phrase is. Increasing the available houses so people can actually live where they're from as opposed to being priced out by landlords and holiday homes is an attack on rural Ireland 🤷‍♀️

I love reading for @anmlymag.bsky.social , have learned so much over the lastima few years and would highly recommend joining the team!

The immersion... f**********k! #speirgorm

ANMLY #42 is here! We’re thrilled to share new translations, fiction, a double issue of poetry, CNF, and new folios of comic and flash & micros! >>> anmly.org/ap42 And we're open for new work from May 1 - August 1! >>> anmly.submittable.com

I think there is so much projection happening here, but also, if you've ever read any of her books it's quite clear that JK Rowling thinks very little of women 🧐

Your periodic reminder that JK Rowling made a billion $$ career on the back of passing herself off as a man using 1) intentionally gender ambiguous initials and 2) a male pseudonym

So Season 3 twist... Noah Whyle does not go on his motor bike adventure and fosters Baby Jane Doe instead???

If you're a journalist who is still on substack, it is NOT ok.

Things are so bad that I assumed this was true until I saw it was from McSweeney's...

"Emergency workers and paramedics are being killed at an astonishing rate in Lebanon" Alex Crawford talks to emergency workers in Lebanon. One of them talks about hearing children buried under the rubble screaming - "unfortunately we couldn't reach them"

We’re almost a week in! Please help me spread the word! The details for the call for submissions is in the comments.

come do neat stuff with me! 💜✨

Don’t forget, you’re allowed call fascists fascists

I am so tired of being deluged with the sordid details of sexual crimes. It feels nonstop since 2014. Yes absolutely those stories should be told. I get that this is how justice begins: with victims having voices, stories being heard, and so forth; I've been supporting that forever.

Very happy to donate to the Muslim Sisters of Éire who feed the unhoused week in week out. Only takes a minute msoe.ie/donate/

Racists brining the country to a standstill this week (under guise of fuel crisis) tried to intimidate one of the great charities in the country last night. MSOÉ have been feeding the unhoused for 11 years on O Connell street. Ugly scenes but beautiful show of solidarity from the people they feed.

This woman is facing a copyright claim for her own music by an AI company that took her youtube page and copied her.

Fuel is going up as a direct result of US- and European-backed imperial aggression. See you at the next port blockade for Palestine comrades

Instead memberships to the golf club have increased, as well as sales of it's cottages and Clare County Council have capitulated to a planning request for a ballroom on what is already an eyesore and environmentally destructive golf course #speirgorm

Do you know what would be really great to see? All those tractors driving down to Doonbeg and occupying the golf course of the man who got everyone into this mess...

Maybe it's just me but I'm immediately suspicious of protests populated almost exclusively by white men... but especially when their spokemen blame migrants and queer people for *checks notes* fuel shortages caused by w$r and g$noc$de 🤔🤔🤔

Honestly don’t want anyone getting in my fucking face again about how Black people don’t understand how awful the New York Times can be

During the Great Famine, John Milton Niles of Connecticut declared in the U.S. Senate that “Charity begins at home" as he argued against the U.S. Government sending direct aid to Ireland during the Great Famine. The ignorance and selfishness of this ‘protest’ is beyond belief.

Shingle Bells, shingle Bells, Shingle all the way... Oh what fun it is to have chicken pox at 41... 🫩

The fact that it took a few weeks of higher oil prices, rather than three years of g€noc!de and recent escalations in regional conflict, to spark mass disruptive protests in Ireland just about sums up how scewed our priorities are...

They should all have pox scars, rsther than smooth skin!

One of the things that most fascinates me about the Mayan calendar is that the cycle between one "birthday" & the next is nine months, the period of gestation for human babies... so when I turn 42 in November, I will actually have completed 56 gestational cycles & will be entering my "wise" years 🤓

Below is an interview with Duaa, a Palestinian woman whom I've been supporting via her GFM. Please read about what life is like for her and so many other families in Gaza. Please help to end this.

The best thing about packing for this writer's residency was filling a suitcase with little more than books and comfy jumpers 🤓

It was colonialism all along...

I'm the receiver for Doaa's fundraiser, we chat almost every day. Any support you can provide helps, including sharing Doaa's post helps! 🙏

"That the war is not over. We’re still suffering – even more so – from shortages of food and medicine and our inability to buy anything." sussexbylines.co.uk/politics/hum...

"Forcible disappearance has a time-swallowing quality: it is an ongoing crime until the uncertainty is resolved, until the missing person or their remains are found". Essential reading on the 50th anniversary of the military coup in Argentina @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Resource extraction is the biggest threat to our collective humanity and home on earth whether it happens in the Amazon or Connemara

Why are university lecturers teaching native English speakers how to use an apostrophe? Isn't this something students should be learning in primary school??? 🤦‍♀️

Civil Rights icon, @doloreshuerta, made a brave move today, revealing a secret she had been holding for 60 years for the sake of the Farm Workers movement. You can read her letter here: medium.com/@dolores_hue...

Preesing play now...

Sinners was robbed for best picture, and aslo, I cannot face the PTA and DiCaprio combo, no matter how good people say it is...