Unfortunately sick kiddo means I am missing this today. But it looks great, and it's all free: Franco-Irish literary festival, Dublin Castle. www.alliance-francaise.ie/filf/#/

Cowslips were believed to symbolise the keys of heaven, made clear in their German name ‘Himmelschlüssel’(keys to heaven). Cowslips also get a mention in The grete herball (1526) where the reader is being told that they grow at the foot or on the sides of hills in ‘watery places’.

🦋 Hello BlueSky! 🧠 We’re the UK’s network for early career historians, supporting those nearing the end of their doctorate or early in their post-doc. We Partner with @ihr.bsky.social + more, offering career development, networking, + events showcasing the latest in historical research. 🔍✨ #HL+

Primroses!

📢 Breaking news! Our chapter "Lasting Impressions: Archaeology and Community Engagement in the Xeros River Valley (Cyprus)" is out! 🎉 doi.org/10.4324/9781...

I love handwriting & use a fountain pen. Yet it tends to be for letters, or meetings where I want to process information. I still have the pen “lump” on my middle finger. But I expect my students may not have that (de)formation. I wonder… www.today.it/blog/scrittu...

Walked back to the flat from work and there was such a glow to the canal and its creatures.

Exhausted and sneezy after our offer-holder day. I was dosed up on paracetamol and decongestant and really enjoyed the conversations with future interdisciplinarians. But I’m feeling the crash now…

Happy International Women’s Day / Lá Idirnáisiúnta na mBan💜 Check out this poster recently shared with us of Poetry Ireland’s “Mna na hEorpa / Women of Europe” #InternationalWomensDay celebration in 1993! Today and everyday we celebrate Irish and International women in poetry 💪

What a joy to collab with the very brilliant Siobhán Doyle today at Cork Public Museum as we spoke about Harry Clarke’s Stained Glass @nmireland.bsky.social in partnership with @crawfordartgallery.bsky.social. This was week 3 in the Friends of Crawford Art Gallery’s spring lecture series.

This is awesome. Just like us, older birds sing hits from when they were young www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Me asking my 11-year old son if he finds something funny about the title of the movie Mickey 17

Driftwood organs, anatomical study by Tony Fredriksson

#31beerherstories and we are honouring Nell McCafferty, legendary activist, writer, and campaigner for a woman's right to drink pints, just like their male counterparts. In the late 1970s, McCafferty and thirty comrades entered the premises of Neary’s and each ordered a brandy... 🧵 #skystorians

#ResearchTraining The ICS are offering two free, online semi-intensive courses in #Phoenician from 15 April - 26 April. Elementary level: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/eleme... Intermediate level: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/inter... Applications close on 22 March

Caught up in a departures bottleneck at DUB right now. Adverse weather conditions leading to runway closure and multiple flights in holding pattern. We might get away 90mins late. Maybe.

Every day there has been a pair of barn owls hunting in the field next to my evening dog walk. A few minutes of quiet magic and wonder every day :)

If you’re excavating a prehistoric stone circle in Ireland in the 1940s, and you don’t have a site hut - sure, just build one of turf from the dig? Prof Seán P. Ó Ríordáin’s excavations at Grange, Co. Limerick, published in 1951. We are tidying UCD School of Archaeology’s archives today

Happy Heard Four Goldcrests Singing On My Walk Day to those who celebrate.

Join us for a one-day symposium on the 12th June at the Marine Institute, Furnace, Co. Mayo where we will present new research focused on the biodiversity within @WildNephin & discuss the possibilities for the Nephin Forest + ecological restoration potential in the wider landscape 🌲

Team! We are looking for a new *permanent* medievalist-Latinist to work with us at St Andrews! #medievalsky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD844/a...

Some vicarious cinephile tourism for you all to soak up via Michael:

We could have eliminated child poverty over the past 100 years but instead we eliminated the one amazingly beneficial thing that all children, rich or poor, had daily access to: outdoor play and freedom.

Big queue in Post Office. Our 3 local branches were “rationalised” into 1 and it’s too far for mum. So unless I can make time (and that’s not uncomplicated) to get pension for her she’s stuck 😖 I’d say losing that weekly activity/chat has also worsened her quality of life a lot.

Man, a Reed, Burton, Harris and O'Toole version of Conclave would have ruled.

Tickets to see me introduce my weird Irish folk music horror movie at @offscreenff.bsky.social in Brussels on March 23: www.nova-cinema.org/prog/2025/20...

Goodnight from the feral dogs of Ashcourt’s train yard, howling in welcome as the phantom 10100 diesel engine returns to its shed. Goodnight from Bella Bancroft, hoping tomorrow she will be able to find again the secret spot in the wood that makes you float. Goodnight from Hookland.

One of my tasks the past month or so has been reading personal statements from applicants to our BASc Arts and Sciences, and replying to those to whom we are offering a place. It’s such a joy if I actually hear back from them, because then I know we’re in dialogue mode 😁

Just saw an advert of kids wanting to buy their Mums a Pandora charm bracelet for Mother's Day... May have shouted "Just buy her a colour-change weather owl from the newsagents like the rest of us..." #MothersDay

“because I generate stains…” 🤣

Happy #WorldBookDay / Lá Domhanda na Leabhar 📚🎉 Books open doors to new worlds, spark our imagination, and connect us through the power of words. Whether it’s poetry, or a book that changed your life, let’s celebrate the magic of reading!✨📖

Hear two pioneering women discuss #interdisciplinary research & teaching on our podcast. #AI scholar, author and artist @katecrawford.bsky.social and Gabriele Bammer, creator of a new cross-disciplinary discipline share insights: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/podca... #IWD #edusky #academicsky

Also, if you can afford it, do become an IFI Friend. Lots of cool events, and you’re supporting creative people and practice.

I love this idea and plan to use it 🤗 #AcademicSky

Finally finished writing about military washerwomen. I wish I could replace the sober academic title with 'Clean undies: A Treatise'.

The squirrels failed to eat all the feral garlic!!!! Phew 🤗

1) Our latest #LostInBelfast episode features Julie Andrews, Director of the Linen Hall Library. The institution dates to 1788, and within its walls is something to offend everybody! Don't miss out! 📚🎧 On all major #podcast platforms #IrishPodcast #GlobalIrishNation #Belfast #SpéirGhorm

It's been a tough few weeks for humans, but it's a great day for beavers today www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I love the book so much. One of my Italian aspirations is to be good enough to read it in the original. Looking forward to checking out this version.

@sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social 🤗👋

Heading back tonight for an unusual weekday day in Dublin. I’m working at the weekend in the university (offer-holder visits 🤗) so I need to check in with my responsibilities at home between now and Friday. Very different vibe at BHX on a Wednesday night…

If you’re invited to the Irish Embassy event in Rome, it’s recommended 🤗☘️

UK folk: The Death of Stalin is on iPlayer if you want to mark the anniversary of the death of Stalin. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000qrrc

Day 5 of #31beerherstories & today we have Elizabeth Usher of St. Patrick Street in Dublin, who on February 25th, 1647, had to pay £2 & 2 shillings for the weekly impost for selling ale/'grinding' malt. This payment was part of the cess, a loan to support the colonising English army. #skystorians

Books do furnish a room (Powell) ☺️

What a glorious sunny morning on campus. Makes my heart sing 😁

I really detest the term "student experience". It's a university, not a theme park. How about ensuring students can effectively learn?