We can't get enough of the gorgeous artwork for Baz Luhrman's beloved classic Strictly Ballroom 💃 🎟️ ifi.ie/strictly-ballroom-4k-restoration/ 📆 Returning in dazzling 4k from 12 Jun Bursting with colour, humour, and unforgettable music - a life lived in fear, is a life half lived ❤️

i got fired from the lettering factory for “bad kerning”. it’s unfair dismissal if you ask me but I won’t fight it; i don’t want to bum any bridges

What’s his campaign slogan, “By the power of Greyskull?”

I never posted about this at the time of the launch, so this is late, but here's a really cool project I got to work towards the end of last year, with Laois and Longford County Councils, with funding from Creative Ireland. It springs from two ideas, working with the elderly . . . 1/6 #SpeirGorm

Years ago we put googly eyes on a giant paperclip and stuck it to the wall. Now the blu tack has melted and the paperclip has grown ears and this is basically what Darwin was talking about. #NationalPaperclipDay

My novel, Experts in a Dying Field, is OUT IN TWO WEEKS, June 11th. Here are some nice things people have said about it

A library kid gave this note to me more than a decade ago, and now the "kid" works for my library system and we were in a meeting together and I recognized her and showed her that I still had her note. I don't think libraries are "magical," but they sure can be meaningful and impactful.

Bualadh bos!

@scorbet.bsky.social Hi Sharon, sent you an email about a travelling Photo Detectives exhibition, and the Rileys who survived the Lusitania. Please give me a shout about it if you can...

nothings scarier than hearing a cat preparing to throw up & not being able to locate the cat

In addition, Family Search frequently utilizes prison labor to digitize materials they make available so it's just a turducken of exploitation activehistory.ca/blog/2026/04...

We fight on. Because the women of Ireland deserve better.  Tonight, Sinn Féin, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael chose not to support women, not to trust women, not to show compassion to those so cruelly forced to travel abroad for care.

The absolute best thing about RTE's two fingers to the Eurovision and broadcasting the Song for Europe episode of Father Ted is that Graham is fuming about it, and not getting a penny for it

Ireland 🤝 Iceland Being a modern secular island nation (in the North Atlantic Ocean) but still rerouting public works so as not to disturb the fey, just in case.

The new exhibition will chart The Diceman’s legendary silent street incarnations. Read 👉 buff.ly/Jtt6rTo #GCNnews

this brilliant, funny and romantic book about sexy, bickering writers is by @urchinette and is published today. you should all go out now and buy it

Love to find women involved in the building trades in nineteenth-century Dublin - Catherine Aylemore supplying fresh water to the building site of St Laurence O’Toole & Margaret T. Byrne operating the Kimmage Quarry & Lime Works!

🚨 Job fairy 🚨 Project Archivist, the Robert and Nelofer Fisk Archive and Library This role @tcdlibrary.bsky.social will involve project management oversight of the archival description, research, and public presentation of the Robert and Nelofer Fisk Archive and Library. (1 of 5)

A Short Poem for Star Wars Day Her name was Yoda, A showgirl she was.

Cork, what a county. Its September 1934 and the Derry Journal reports that at a cinema dance in Buttevant, Co. Cork, all the women there refused to dance with the fascist Blueshirts. A Blueshirt announced that they had paid their way in and if no girls would dance with them.. [1/2]

The Muslim Sisters of Eire who endured their worst ever night on O'Connell Street thanks to people brought there by the fuel protests might wonder about Mary Lou's sunny portrayal of the city centre that weekend.

Happy Miss Congeniality Day to all who celebrate!

Whatever the “quality” of St Stephen’s Green SC, the replacement of a light filled almost botanical space where people could wander on a pissy rainy day, with a grim bunker to lock up 3k office workers - represents a real amenity loss for Dublin City. Just another #AssetOfCommunityValue gone!

how tall are the bosses, are they replacing the sign without needing ladders

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

Excellent, disturbing piece by @margareteward.bsky.social in the Irish Times today www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

I’m currently on a train going fairly fast out of Dublin. I’ve come to the conclusion a reasonable question to ask of the tech bros is, would I trust myself to a train signalling system they’d designed? If the answer’s no (and of course it’s no!!) then don’t trust what they have designed 🤷‍♀️

You'd cry 'Some woman's perfectly straightened and shiny hair Has maddened every mother's son':

A family friend found this vintage Ladybird 1000-piece jigsaw in a charity shop and gave it to me. Isn’t is a thing of beauty?

My great-grandmother wrote 'Out of Work' for her adult daughter (aged 17) but census enumerator changed it to 'Home Duties'. Women can't be unemployed! #1926census

Clouseau est fini. #caricature #art

I finally got Manannán transcribed. It is the 1939 Irish language sci-fi book with the first Spaceship using a gravity assist in literature. Next up is conversion to modern spelling. If you know a list of known changes (annso->anseo) or can even just help by reading please let me know.

Chemist & X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin's meticulous research was instrumental in uncovering DNA's molecular structure. Most famous for her role in the DNA double helix discovery, her work also revolutionized our understanding of viruses & coal. Died #OTD in 1958, age 37. #WomenInSTEM

girlies i’m on RTE radio one this morning around half ten talking about cozy games! as always i am coming out swinging for the girls and the sims, for rejection of violence as a necessity in puzzle solving, for a soft life in stardew valley

I can't be the first person to have read this and thought that Dublin Bus is trying to encourage job applications by saying "G'wan you prick"

Erm, they're called palaeontologists, actually.

Extremely loadbearing tweet for me. A perfect object. Pronounced billlewwwwen for maximal effect.

Found my LEAP card anyway

The Central Bank has launched a €15 coin to mark Sean O’Casey’s centenary. It retails for €90. It is very much what he would have wanted

One of my favourites of his.

Glen Baxter has died. His drawings of cowboy art critics and wimples were an absurdist joy. RIP

Ah, RIP Glen Baxter. I always loved his work, it had that unsettling quality you found in Rupert Bear. His art-loving cowboys were a particular favourite.

52 years ago on March 27, 1974, 'The Rockford Files" starring James Garner premiered as a TV movie on NBC.

Current mood.

During the depths of winter, it remains dark until about 08:15, with the sun rising at around 08:40 or so. Permanent summer time would push that out to 09:15/09:40. No judgement, but that's what we need to appreciate would happen (and why, we suspect, it didn't go down so well the last time).