Today, on International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we celebrate our amazing community of disabled women and non-binary people and recognise there’s still so much work to do.

Spotted human pet beds in the middle aisle. Finally an innovative solution to the housing crisis. If any of your friends go missing they've probably been rescued by a family in Wexford.

a shop that sells plus sized hats exclusively for irish people called Big Irish Head On You is this anything

Every day I work at Big Tech I understand this guy more and more

"Ireland is highly conformist and is more prone to deference to elite or expert consensus than our British counterparts." is how Collisons think tank, Progress Ireland, answered their own question, "How does Progress Ireland compound over time?" Read this: elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...

Anyone who’s ever used emergency contraception or gains peace of mind by even having it on hand owes Dr Camp a debt of gratitude. What a force. (Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!) Great obit—no paywall.

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

Terrible weather forecast across Ireland, but if you have any clear skies tonight, get out and look out for potentially an extremely strong northern lights display. Possibly the best since the early 2000s. #speirgorm #astronomy #ireland

So I have been waiting to announce it.This year I was awarded a very generous bursary by the School of English @tcddublin.bsky.social which covered my fees &offered me a monthly stipend to live on. I could not have imagined such an extraordinary thing happening to me. www.tcd.ie/english/news...

Mini Mystery: Book left on page 147 for three weeks. Suspects: TheTraitors, BlueSky or the crushing weight of modern life.

Publishing is weird & full of hidden lows and visible highs, but can I just take this wee moment to be extremely un-British and say 'hey I did a thing'? 6 books 5 awards 14 (I think?) award listings It's been rocky & the road ahead is uncertain but this here is not too shabby, is it?

There's no quicker way to kill a community than to drive out the young people. That's exactly what short term rentals do to places like the Gaeltacht. If young people have nowhere to rent locally they leave. It's a problem for any small community that's attractive to tourists.

A reminder, if needed, that the ‘Regional Public Policy & Government Relations Lead’ of Airbnb is a former Labour (!) TD who represented Gaeltacht communities in Galway West.

Call me controversial, but technology that leads vulnerable people into crisis and even holds their hand as they die by suicide should not be endorsed by schools and universities, we should not be giving discounted subscriptions to this monstrous tech to young people AT ALL

Heavens to Murgatroyd. Another reprint of Leonard and Hungry Paul @ronanhession.bsky.social That's two in the last month alone! Brilliant. @thebookseller.com @foylesforbooks.bsky.social @bookcornerhx.bsky.social @grovebookshop.bsky.social

Great time last night at the Dublin Book Festival with @susanmariemartin.bsky.social talking about our books 😊 Thanks to the @ria.ie for hosting us & @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social for chairing. And the audience for the giggles & craic @unioflimerick.bsky.social @ulhistory.bsky.social

Every webinar Me: camera unplugged, shut, covered with tape Also me: convinced it’ll still somehow turn on and expose me in my natural habitat (snacking, in a fleece)

If you've primary school aged kids or younger the government wants to know your opinions on: Co-educational schools Multi denominational schools Irish language schools #SpeirGorm www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

If you've primary school aged kids or younger the government wants to know your opinions on: Co-educational schools Multi denominational schools Irish language schools #SpeirGorm www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

A mate of mine agreed to do a well-paid corporate gig supposedly about art & diversity but really about branding. They gave him a script, he departed from it a bit, they made a video of the event and used an AI imitating his voice to speak the bit of their script he had skipped. Without asking him.

This chart always makes me think about how we made the streets "safer" by making sure no one goes outside ever, especially kids

Happy Samhain 🔥

Is this the same asylum system that his party/government set up, that both FF and FG have run for years separately and together, that made millions for themselves and their developer pals, that refugees and NGOs have literally protested against for years because the system is not working and cruel.🤔

Every time I see a social media meme about being an introvert, which is at least once a week, I think about how the modern conception of introversion was popularized by a book by a woman who worked on Wall Street who felt that she was so different and special compared to her coked up male colleagues

Very shortly, my current role ends: if anyone needs a temporary tutor in early modern history or any freelance research work done please do drop me a message. I have over a decade's experience in teaching and in archival research.

Connolly's younger volunteers and organisers are fantastic and deserve huge credit. Smart, optimistic, strategic, disciplined, tapped into culture, positive message-bearers, excellent communicators. It's so great to see people putting their energy into a movement that expresses hope. 🇮🇪 #Aras25

When I make fun of my friend who is six months older than me for being old: Hilarious. Good fun. Banter. When my friends who are six months younger than me make fun of me for being old: Toxic. Bullying. Ageist.

Am at the ‘doing the lottery’ stage of maternity leave

Do you want to shape the future of the Irish language?☘️ Wikimedia Community Ireland is seeking an Irish Language Officer to lead our efforts in developing the Irish language across Wikimedia projects, with a special focus on #Vicipéid! For more: wikimedia.ie/2025/10/17/o...

Limited edition artworks! By Lauren O’Hara! From her new book OSCAR WILDE’S STORIES FOR CHILDREN! And you can have some! From Irish bookshops! Read more to find out more! #kidlit #illustration #speirgorm

I've been thinking a lot about creativity, silliness & earnestness lately, and how powerful they are when we actually make space for them. Recently, I asked my students to analyse a piece of media that had a person with a disability in it. I told them I wanted them to be brave and creative.

Just watched the first two episodes of #CelebrityTraitors and it was TV GOLD “You can't call someone a Traitor just because they have a better vocabulary than you.”

😭 help . I planted a beefsteak tomato thinking it was going to grow bits of cattle flesh but it was just tomato. I'm so confused, the EU parliament needs to help me. I've been tricked and mislead

Mini Mystery: Things keep going missing in your house. First a ring, then a euro coin and finally your matches. Who is your chief suspect and why?

Am actually quite moved to read the thoughts of the actors and director about Leonard and Hungry Paul. I honestly never expected any of this. I was just typing away for my own entertainment and a book popped out. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Got to love Dublin. #Speirgorm

Let’s goooooo

Join Sara Ahmed, Emma Dabiri and Catriona Crowe and I, Tuesday 7 Oct @abbeytheatre.bsky.social @dublintheatrefest.bsky.social for Complaining For Good at 12:30. Still a few tickets available. I’ll be talking about WTF Happened, the book I wrote with @lianbell.bsky.social from @ucdpress.bsky.social

Anyway, I'm super annoyed at Heather Humphreys this morning setting her prerequisite of being President as motivation to learn Irish, so here's a code 'creidimionat' to get my Irish language ebook of 150 resources for free. I've set aside 20 slots for that code. payhip.com/b/bm0ZI

I keep thinking about the person he owes the money to. IMAGINE what delicious revenge it would be. They'll probably get the money back and also landed a serious blow to Gavin's presidential campaign

Read Intermezzo in just over a day. Couldn't put it down. So I loved it? But I wanted to shout at everyone in it. 5 stars

Explaining to my wife that I cannot simply “read the books I’ve already bought and haven’t read” like some kind of peasant.

the EU parliament is looking for a native-level irish speaker for a press officer traineeship, starting next march it's paid (€1660/month, no tax) and is a pretty sweet opportunity to see how the EU sausage is made, and a chance to try brussels (if you're not already here) deadline end of october!

Smuggled out of Afghanistan — a chronicle of the last four years of living under Taliban rule as a woman. It was a rare privilege to work on this essay, and I am proud to have had some small part, alongside Untold Narratives and the Bagri Foundation is making it happen. aeon.co/essays/one-w...

Is this the MOST Halloween book you'll ever read? Maybe, but it IS set around the Irish hill where the bonefires were first lit. It is a story about the very roots of Halloween; the horror, mythology, and the harvest festival that lies between life and death. #Halloween #Samhain #Tlachtga #SpeirGorm

Love love love that outcome #TraitorsIRL

Is Kelley gone either way? She just gets to decide the winner #TraitorsIRL

This is so tough for Kelly #TraitorsIRL

Last night of The Traitors Ireland!! Who do you want to win? I'm rooting for Oyin. Will the faithful figure it out. #TraitorsIrl

Now that every party of the left* has endorsed Connolly, it is incumbent upon all activists within all the allied parties to pull our weight behind Catherine Connolly. If we want to navel gaze, or wait for perfection to come along - you have plenty of time to do so after the campaign. #speirgorm