VAT! Admin charge! Embroidery thread and related items from the US. An €80 purchase is now €105!

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

Very much looking forward to this next Friday Heinrich Schütz’, Matthäus-Passion COLLEGIUM | Mark Duley, director Friday, April 3, 2026 at 5:00 pm St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church musicforgalway.ie/event/music-...

Archives are not dusty. That's part of the point!

My 11 year old nephew wanted to make afternoon tea. So he made a flourless chocolate cake, apple tart, scones an sausage rolls. He did all the work, incuding washing up as you go. A key baking skill!

The book banning school in Manchester has now been named, the Lowry Academy. Some of the books have been returned to the shelves but not all. Glad to hear CILIP are supporting the librarian ://www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/greater-manchester-school-library-censorship-who-is-accountable/

📢Job alert! We’re looking for 3 new full-time graduate trainee Archives & Special Collections Assistants to join our innovative, user-focused engagement team. See more details and apply: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/archives... 🗓️Closing date: 16 April 2026

1️⃣7️⃣,3️⃣0️⃣8️⃣ Another new record for people living in emergency accommodation, as of the end of February 2026. The overall number includes 5,457 children, and is up 12.5% in a year. @virginmedianews.bsky.social

📣Out now on #firstview Ciara Breathnach @ciarab.bsky.social @ucc.ie on 'Newspapers as Surrogate Archives: A Case Study of the Early Twentieth-Century Dublin City Coroner’s Court' #Archives #Newspapers #Press #Ireland #Legal #History 20thc📰🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

One voice from Iran, heard in Ireland thanks to @clodaghfinn.bsky.social @irishexaminer.bsky.social

From next Mon, 30 March the next phase of the redevelopment of the James Joyce Library will begin. See our Project page for full details & the JJL Level 1 floor plan showing the construction zone. The JJL remains open throughout the project. Thank you for your patience. www.ucd.ie/library/cont...

That depopulated "security zone" contains at least one city with a normal population of 60,000 people The settler colonial dynamic will continue until it is forcefully stopped

Israeli settlers rampage across West Bank torching homes and cars - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-settlers-rampage-across-west-bank-torching-homes-and-cars

So much work goes into library and archive catalogues so that students and researchers can find what they need!

Thoughts on Jack Lynch's threat to introduce internment in 1970 and adjacent conspiracies brianhanleyhistory.wordpress.com/2026/03/17/t...

Aois Criost, 932 Uallach, inghen Muimhnecháin, bainécces Ereann, d'écc. The Age of Christ, 932. Uallach, daughter of Muimhneachan, chief poetess of Ireland, died. #WorldPoetryDay online isos.dias.ie

We loved seeing everyone on Wednesday! Thanks to @kate-manning.bsky.social and all attendees for an insightful evening exploring the Fianna Fáil archives! @ucdarchives.bsky.social

Baby shark, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.

A must listen. Brian’s podcasts are so well researched and well written. This is a fascinating introduction to what promises to be a thoughtful and expertly crafted series.

Aois Criost, ceithre céd triocha a h-aon. An tres bhliadhain do Laoghaire. Ro h-oirdneadh naomh Pattraicc i n-espuccoide lasa naomh-papa an ced Celestinus, ro furail fair tocht dochum n-Ereann, do shenmóir & do proicept credmhi & crabhaidh do Gaoidhealaibh, & dia m-baitseadh idir. 1/2

The feast day of St Patrick is tomorrow. He shares his day with St Failtigern, a holy woman, now obscure, whose name is recorded in Félire Óenguso/Martyrology of Óengus, UCD-OFM MS A7, f 13r, C15th. H/T @elvabjohnston.bsky.social

A storm felled treeing being chopped for the fire...

Kuwait has an exit visa that's trapping people in the country and it's in times like these you realize states consider people like cattle

The mechanic arrived. We're off!!

5.25pm Expressway bus from Busaras to Wexford arrived an hour late (its journey begins at the airport). We've now broken down outside UCD (!) waiting for a mechanic or the 7.25pm bus from Busaras, whichever arrives first.

Dear everyone, As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included. A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.

#DIBLives Placed in St Vincent's Industrial School, Goldenbridge at the age of 4, nurse and advocate for survivors of childhood abuse Christine Buckley (d. #OTD 2014) was assigned the number ‘89’, which replaced her name for the 13 years she was a resident in St Vincent's. www.dib.ie/biography/bu...

Last Thursday, 5 March, UCD Library had the pleasure of welcoming Jeffrey Sachs, world-renowned economist and professor at Columbia University. Sachs was at UCD to speak about sustainability and has an interest in the role and work of libraries in championing UN sustainable development goals.

Kate will give a talk to @irisharchives1970.bsky.social on 18 March, 6.00pm in The Conference Room, Dublin City Library and Archive, Pearse Street, Dublin 2: The Archives of the Fianna Fáil Party: A Case Study of Political Party Archives and Their Role in a Democratic State' 1/2

The lesser spotted sun...

I was once referred to as the Joyce Grenfell of Irish archives...

Leaving Dublin in the rain...

A lovely auction success tonight: a watercolour sketch by Yvonne Jammet. In honour of my friend Deirdre McMahon who died just over a week ago. She and I started bidding in online auctions two years ago and had great fun going through the catalogues...and making sure we didn't bid against each other!

Myself and Colin Breen have written in "Maritime Ireland" about seaweed harvesting on Ireland's coastline, in 19th century. These are local rights, well known and established through built features (e.g. wrack walls, kilns, etc). There is no way that such rights be taken over by foreign companies.

Deirdre and I were friends for decades. We shared a love of music and art and were regular attendees at opera and ballet at the cinema. (She was an acknowledged expert on ballet, having written about it for years.) She was a wonderful person, I will miss her greatly.

I'm stuck in Dublin airport with a delayed flight, so let me tell you about the lecture I gave this afternoon to my 2nd-year group of Law, History & Celtic Studies students who are studying early Irish law. We were looking at a piece of legislation called Cáin Adomnáin, also sometimes called 1/6

I appeared as an expert witness before the Joint Committee on AI at the Houses of Oireachtas (parliament of Ireland) to discuss "AI: truth and democracy" this morning. You can read my opening statement here: www.oireachtas.ie/en/publicati...

The Edward Worth Library, Dublin, is offering two short-term research fellowships of between 1 week and 1 month between Jun and Nov 2026 to encourage research relevant to its collection of c. 4,300 books, left to Dr Steevens’ Hospital by Dublin physician Edward Worth (1676-1733). #histmed

Absolutely right. Like Chris, I resent the framing that European governments are learning this from the US. It’s totally routine for hundreds of black African people to drown in the Mediterranean when trying to reach Europe. The EU, and its homegrown structural racism, enabled that all by itself.

1940 Irish language scif-fi book Manannán by Máiréad Ní Ghráda It is the first Mecha Robot outside of Japan and mention of a Gravity assist in fiction. It was never republished or translated.

Happy Valentine’s Day! Relics of St Valentine are in the Carmelite church on Whitefriar Street in Dublin. Here is a transcription of the original documents that accompanied the relics to Dublin - the church is quite different to its early 19th c design by George Papworth, but still v interesting!

Sighle Humphreys married Donal O'Donoghue on 19 February 1935. This writer wishes Donal had 'waited until this unfortunate country was free' before marrying, as many married patriots 'eventually ignored the ills of the Motherland in the tranquillity of the domestic hearth.' #ValentinesDay

I regularly post updates on this story because it's an atrocity on an incomprehensible scale but people don't really talk about it www.reuters.com/business/hea...

We are seeking to appoint an Assistant Librarian in Marsh's Library. This will be a great position for an early-career librarian. Further details at: marshlibrary.ie/assistant-li...

OK #SpeirGorm this is a big one. The public consultation for "Grow College Green" is open from now until March 11. Have your say! This will radically reshape the heart of Dublin City and this is our once-in-a-generation chance to make it great for everyone! engage.dublincity.ie/en-IE/projec...

Kate Manning @ucdarchives.bsky.social reflects on early 20th c. Irish-Czech relations in a 1937 letter from Alice Hillstead Mušek to J. Grierson of Dublin, which includes a photo of playwright J.M. Synge taken in 1906 in Dargle Glen. 🟥🟦⬜🟩🟧 Read: ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2026/02/12/c...

Refugees waiting on citizenship decisions find the rules have quietly changed. While they heard about harsher policies brought in last year, this change wasn't announced, and affects people who applied before then www.dublininquirer.com/refugees-app...

Suppressed Voices Monkstown Parish Church Tuesday 10th March, 7.30pm. Music and composers suppressed by politics, war, religious persecution or enforced exile. Will include internationally renowned Palestinian composer, oud player and singer Saied Silbak. www.resurgam.ie/event-detail...

Seamus Culleton speaks with Kieran Cuddihy. He said that detainees have been killed by staff where he is being held. The conditions in which he is being held are appalling. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...