If you can't vote in next month's presidential election, we want to hear from you. Are you an Irish emigrant abroad? An Irish citizen in Northern Ireland? Or a British, EU or non-EU citizen living in the Republic? We'll reflect your views in a forthcoming article. http://jrnl.ie/6828531f

Join us for a guided tour of Eileen Gray: The Making of Modernism with #IrishSignLanguage interpretation Discover one of the most influential 20th Century designers and architects. 📅 Sun 28 Sept, 15:30 📍 National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks 🎟️ No booking required 🔗 museum.ie/.../Irish-Si...

Sick of those who think that a country should be 'managed' like a business. Economically, politically, democratically, it makes zero sense.

Hermes bag: 20k Documented donations to the Iona Institute from far-right groups like the Novae Terrae Foundation: at least 25k? The grassroots desire for an alternative voice: priceless

Liam Neeson. Leslie Nielsen. Say it fast 10 times.

"If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience". Walter Benjamin I think boredom as a privilege too. I look forward to being idle. www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/16/b...

Those Stanley cups .... Please stop. They look ridiculous.

Read “Proving War Crimes: Archives, Truth Commissions and Transitional Justice“ by Cécile Chemin - Archives on Medium: medium.com/@cecilechemi...

#MSPC Realising you can't write a good reference to support someone's military pension claim....

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky

#1 Jeremiah Johnson 🫣

No other story in the media today should come close to this one. This is all that matters, and it is already too late. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Things I'm looking forward to: . Work. . Patti Smith on Oct 6. . Irish Sign Language class. . Starting a new book. . Planting bulbs in the garden. . Forgetting where I planted bulbs and be surprised in the spring. #LittleJoys

Everywhere we look....putrid stupidity.

A R C H I P E L A G O opens this Friday More info: rhagallery.ie/events/exhibitions/a-r-c-h-i-p-e-l-a-g-o Conor Horgan interview: thegloss.ie/artistic-license-conor-horgan #RHA #RHAGallery #ArchipelagoShow #Photography #IrishPhotography #IslandPhotographersGroup

The Presidential Palace, Prime Minister’s offices and all documents have been destroyed in Nepal. The Nepalese army has warned they will deploy troops if unrests continue.

🤷🏽‍♀️ and still nothing.....

@ssnci.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social Finally got my own copies! Hard to think that this all started with a conference in June 2022! Thanks to Arlene and Cathal, all the contributors and to our top secret peer reviewers #ssnci #irishstudies #conflict #Ireland

[France; Algeria; Access; Archives] Archives on chemical warfare in Algeria, freely communicated between 2012 and 2019, have been closed as non-communicable archives. What does that say about our democracy and on our willingness to face our wrongs? theconversation.com/guerre-dalge...

My very first hocho 😍

The next event in our @wellcometrust.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social -funded conference series will be ‘War, Trauma and Emotional Injury’, which takes place at @unibirmingham.bsky.social on 6-7 November #milwelfhist

I wrote a light version of a longer paper in preparation. Proving War Crimes: Archives, Truth Commissions and Transitional Justice. medium.com/p/archives-a...

Tonight I will read for pleasure and not for work. Tonight I will read for pleasure and not for work. Tonight I will read for pleasure and not for work. Tonight I will read for pleasure and not for work. Tonight I will read for pleasure and not for work.

What's on at Collins Barracks this month? #Museum

Why are you still on X? Why are government departments and cultural institutions still there?

Munster-by-the-Sea 😬 #FromageUnTitre

An Affair to Camembert #FromageUnTitre

Edam and Paul #FromageUnTitre

Good read www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Stop getting new books. No.

Kimchi day!!! 🥬🌶️

I am grateful to the Women's History Association of Ireland @whaireland.bsky.social for having accepted my book review. It is now available online. History Revolutionary Women of Tipperary (1914-1923) by Noreen Higgins McHugh

Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy - Vicar St last night ✨

Must have watched this 20 times already. Always phenomenal. Do yourself a favour if you haven't seen it yet.

🎉 The DRI Community Archive Scheme 2026 is now open for applications! Please visit dri.ie/community-ar... for information on the scheme and our 2026 application form. All are welcome to join an online information session on 16 September at 2pm. Please register here: ria-ie.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The foxes stole my bird feeder.

JHC How low they have fallen. Can't get more insane.

Pigs Marketing Board 1938 to Army Pensions Board, confirming employment of Michael O'Neill (34D1370)

Decisions due to lack of resources can often be seen as an intended obstruction to access. With enough resources, both could be done: cataloguing selected blocks of material for public release AND clear and catalogue files on request. In any case anything catalogued should be released to ALL.

We have to believe in luck. How else to explain the success of those we don't like? (Jean Cocteau)

Komphortayble

Quick thought about the lack of engagement of humanities scholars with archival studies. It's not just a question of terminology. www.linkedin.com/posts/c%C3%A...

We like.

I need some reading inspiration. Please, help and share your favourite/recent books.

Noooooo.... Step away, Mel. Step away.

Knowledge sets us free, art sets us free. A great library is freedom. Ursula Le Guin www.themarginalian.org/2015/11/06/u...

As Trump meets Putin in Alaska, your reminder to avoid hot takes on Ukraine from armchair experts in the west; my piece for Gwara media in Kharkiv @humanrightsfirst.org @barrymalone.bsky.social @brams884.bsky.social gwaramedia.com/en/opinion-g...

Everytime I see some quote from Gareth Sheridan, the only thing that comes to mind is this old meme