CMAT announced that The Late Late Toy Show viewers donated over €4m to the Toy Show Appeal during Friday night's show rte.ie/b/1547576

An accurate way to explain Irish Bluesky is #LateLateToyShow Book children that never got picked for the show.

Kid with the bodhran had the best timed wink. #LateLateToyShow

I'm not sure Roy Keane actually knows he's on the the Toy Show. He kind of just wandered onto set when he heard there was a competition #ToyShow #LateLateToyShow

Has anyone written on Sean O'Casey's influence on Brecht? It can be in German!

Reading this I am reminded again that it is, and has more often been, the work of the literary and cultural scholars, in the visual arts particularly, to practice the scholarship that Irish historiography even now aspires to, still without recognizing.

Do go along to the launch of Antonia Hart's new monograph, The Commercial Lives of Irish Women, 1850-1922 (LUP). It is a brilliant piece of work, beautifully written, and well worth reading. Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street Thursday, 4th December | 7pm

Required reading of the most welcome sort in IHS this morning. 'It is in the space between our divining and conjuring that the argument lies, the debate happens, history is written and the story gets its endless quality.' www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

First year selling my art at Christmas without the Other site, where most of my sales came from, as well as losing US orders to new tariffs, so it'll be a tough one - I put huge work into every order, so even if you can't buy, shares help get them in front of eyes. GRMA! www.ciaraioch.com/artprints

Seals singing in a sea cave #Orkney 🦭🎧

Blew out my front tyre swerving into a ditch out of the way of an oncoming Range Rover with floodlight strength LED headlights. The sooner these are regulated the better - both the size of range rovers et al and those fkn LED headlights

This was a really special event: www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵

LITERARY MAGAZINES FOR EVERY READER at the #DublinSmallPressFair2025 Nov. 28-29 at Pearse St. Library dublinsmallpressfair.com for full details!

4am…

Armchair critics and door knockers

Special issue titled ‘Disease and Disability in the Novel’ - looks fantastic!

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

Rebuttal to John Collison's highly contested Irish Times “sermon to the nation", by lawyer @andrewlrjackson.bsky.social. A fact-check pushing back on the tech-optimist, deregulation-first vision - defending environmental law, democratic oversight & evidence-based planning elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...

❛ There will be dying, there will be dying, / but there is no need to go into that. / The poems flow from the hand unbidden / and the hidden source is the watchful heart. Poet Derek Mahon, who was born #OTD in 1941.

Send in your abstracts for the Sadness + Gender conference we're holding in June 2026! We have some fantastic keynote speakers and specialist panels lined up and would love to see you all in Dublin! #cfp @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @molimuseum.bsky.social

I'm thrilled to be launching Marion Quirici's brilliant "Fitness For Freedom: Disability, Degeneration & Modern Irish Writing" at this month's ISAANZ conference. A compelling intervention that will be invaluable to work on disability in Irish and modernist studies. Insist your library orders a copy!

Exciting to read the program for ISAANZ 27: "Health, Wellness and Care "(20-22 Nov, University of Otago); so many fascinating engagements with the conference's theme! I'm very honoured to be delivering the opening keynote on "Celibate Care in Kate O’Brien’s The Ante-Room" isaanz.org/cfp-isaanz-2...

Watercolour on Two Rivers handmade paper, the thick stuff. 79x56 cm.

OpenAI is a social arsonist - as Dr. Chris Gilliard reminds us - and the company's attempts to capture education with its "free" version of ChatGPT for teachers should, IMO, be met with vocal resistance and refusal if we as educators are to care for our students, their communities, and our planet.

NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst. It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

This is the illustration accompanying Robert Pinsky's review of Seamus Heaney's Collected Poems in the New York Times... But who the fuck is it supposed to be?

"Essential services are now digital by default, leaving many older people feeling locked out of their own lives." As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly. jrnl.ie/6864189

Join us online for this year’s Breandán Ó Buachalla Lecture, organised with the support of @nlireland.bsky.social. The lecture, “The harp and the harper in Classical Irish Poetry” will be given by Dr Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh. Registration now open www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...

This lad. (Troy Parrott, inner-city Dubliner, only in the team because Evan Ferguson is injured, scores two on Thursday to beat Portugal, says it's the best night of his life. Today he gets three to beat Hungary and put us through to the World Cup playoffs. Last-minute winner too. INCREDIBLE.)

Troy Parrott. Echos of Robbie Keane's goal against Germany in 2002. What a moment. #COYBIG 🇮🇪

This year's Christmas cards feature An Cailleach, bringer of winter in Irish tradition. They're available to order at the link below and will begin shipping towards the end of November ❄️ www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

Not a joke, and a really bad idea www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Dublin City council covers an area where 600,000 people live. DCC has assigned 3 people to the derelict site levy team. There are €10.5mn of fines uncollected.

New build 3-bed house price June 2021 Clonard Wexford €175k Carlow Town €199k Sligo €175k Portlaoise €212k Nov 2025 Clonard Wexford €360k ⬆️106% Carlow Town €330k (2bed) ⬆️66% Sligo €270 (duplex) ⬆️54% Portlaoise €370k⬆️ 75% Construction tender inflation 2021-25 ≈⬆️28% (SCSI) so it’s not bricks/mortar

Hot off the press release. My second book is a collection of interviews with Irish writers from Alice Taylor in 1991 to Sebastian Barry, Wendy Erskine, Colum McCann, Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín, John Banville, Emma Donoghue and Anna Burns in 2025. Out April from the Lilliput Press

Very happy with this cover for ‘Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955’, which features a detail from Evie Hone’s stained glass window 'Four Green Fields'. This window was originally shown at the New York's World Fair in 1939, but is now found in Government Buildings on Merrion Street

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Creative imagination and analytic capacity do not always pair well. The accomplished author of fiction and the successful essayist are not necessarily interchangeable. Enright has put her writer’s gifts at the service of a genuine, sustained “ecstasy of attention” www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

My creative process www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...

Just paid the aul' income tax for the year and consequently have about two beans left to rub together, so if you've been looking for a bit of Irish art now's a very good time to buy. It's this or train the crows to rob billionaires and I'm running out of cheese bribes

We need to put pressure on our governments to pressure Israel to let this money go to Palestinians of Gaza. People from around the world donated millions of dollars to thousands of global organizations and none of it has made it to the people it was meant for

Love this piece by @ruthpadel.bsky.social in @financialtimes.com about the 'The Poems of Seamus Heaney', a new book of collected and previously unpublished poems released by @faberbooks.bsky.social @seamusheaneyestate.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/d562...

Here’s what Frederick Douglass had to say about Haiti: “We owe much…to the anti-slavery societies at home and abroad; but we owe incomparably more to Haiti than to them all. I regard her as the original pioneer emancipator of the nineteenth century."

'His book tour brought him to Cambridgeshire, where he would marry and have two children with Susannah Cullen, an Englishwoman from Ely. They settled in Soham, supported by a local network including abolitionist friends, safe...when reactionary “church and king” mobs were targeting reformers.' 1/3

Death announced of Mary ‘May’ McGee who won historic Supreme Court contraception case

I might make this my ring tone.

What a day for a walk to Andy Goldsworthy’s extraordinary Hanging Stones on the North York Moors #AndyGoldsworthy

I don't know how they think Irish society is going to function if teachers, nurses, Gardai, etc. can't even afford somewhere to live. Especially in Dublin. They have to start considering housing to be an existential threat to the state.