Incredible lack of imagination to still see billionaires as the solution to anything, given the current state of the world

As a Jewish historian who works at a university, I think it’s great that an administration committed to destroying “the internal globalist enemy” which is staffed by groyper antisemites is collecting lists of Jews. Can’t see any potential downside here at all.

Irony was killed stone dead ages ago. But I suppose they can still piss on its grave.

Delighted ’The Brussels Review’ has just printed ‘Anglo-Irish’, my first-person story which explores the complex relationships between 1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-generation Irish immigrants on a building site in 80s England. Thanks to the editors for their input. thebrusselsreview.com/admin/tbr-sp...

You don't run them for a profit you run them because people who live places need to be able to get places 😭 www.rte.ie/news/ireland... how do people in #waterford get to #DublinAirport now? #speirghorm

Doing more than most universities.

A billionaire can get what they want with one donation to a political party. The rest of us must fight for years to get even the most basic rights recognised. Money destroys democracy, more than any other cause. The first step towards a better world is to stop the rich buying political outcomes.

#DIBLives In 2021 Mary Lavin (d. #OTD 1996) became the first female Irish writer honoured with a public space named after her. She wrote about the ‘vagaries and contrarieties’ of the human heart, and lives not of quiet desperation but of evasion and wish-fulfillment. www.dib.ie/biography/la...

The arson in London of the ambulances run by a Jewish community organisation is morally repugnant. There's no contextualisation or qualification possible of this hate crime. Just call it what it is- antisemitic violence.

Chuffed 'Piker Press' has published ‘England Expected’, my coming-of-age story set in 80s England, dramatising family conflict between 3 generations - an ex-army, countryman grandfather; a Thatcherite, urbanite father; & a leftish, bookish, teen-narrator son. www.pikerpress.com/article/1174...

I'm happy to have contributed an essay to @efacis.bsky.social Kaleidoscope project on Irish spirituality - honouring my RE teacher Miss Williams, who, like Miss Jean Brodie, led us out rather than shutting us in… kaleidoscope3.efacis.eu/publications...

It’s hard to blame woke DEI when the military is losing a war because of the straits.

Sickening but no surprise Isn't this what Landlord Minister Michael Healy-Rae has been lobbying for Clearly he doesn't want the people of Kerry or Ireland to have their own home #speirgorm

She doesn’t use genAI for historical research, she uses genAI to plagiarise the work of historians who conduct research.

A reminder that when Christian Zionists and Christian Nationalists in the West talk about Christians, they are not talking about the Christians of the same holy land that Jesus himself came from. They don't give a shit about us.

The second section of the special issue of LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory on 'Irish Women's Genre Fiction' has been published! www.tandfonline.com/toc/glit20/c...

It is absolutely disgraceful how little far thought was put into ensuring everyone due compensation because of institutional abuse was able to access it without detriment to them. Compensation for incalculable harm by the state should not be treated like a windfall or wage, in Ire or the UK.

Devotions is out in just 2 months! If you’d like to preorder a copy @waterstones.bsky.social are running a 25% promotion from today 17 Feb- midnight 20 Feb, just enter FEB26 at the checkout. I’ve also been signing lots of pretty candle bookplates for your local indie preorders!

underrated part of this is him saying there was no UN mandate to our knowledge. as if maybe there was a secret one

This is a really interesting thread that's worth a read.

Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region. Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat. We live in Orwellian times.

Notions: the Lives of Irish Working-Class Academics, edited by Iona Burnell Reilly, Stephen Baker and yours truly, will be published in May: www.hive.co.uk/Product/Iona...

Chuffed to have my "Sally Rooney, James Joyce, and 'Eastern Europe'" article appear in the latest special issue of LIT. Many sincere thanks to the absolutely amazing editorial team behind this special issue: #EllenScheible, #drtinamorin, and Tara Harney-Mahajan! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This sounds like an ad, but it's about murder.

Read our letter today published in the Irish Times - regarding the announcement of the 12 members appointed to the National Science Advice Forum.

what does the Irish government understand international law to mean if the unprovoked US attacks on Venezuela and Iran – with the kidnapping of a head of state in one case and the murder of a head of state in the other – do not clearly violate it?

In order to understand UK politics in 2026 you must realise that a plumber & plasterer doesn't represent the interests of the working class because she is left-wing but a wealthy broadcaster & former academic does represent the interests of the working class because he is right-wing. Hope this helps

Come see me at this year’s @granardbooktown.bsky.social

As I scroll through triumphal pro-war tweets, thinking about this image a lot today:

This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.

Looking forward to tomorrow’s events. We have a full day of wonderful speakers. Book tickets: www.limerickliteraryfestival.com #LLF2026

looking forward to tomorrow’s events. We have a full day of wonderful speakers Book tickets: www.limerickliteraryfestival.com #LLF2026

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

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I’d say he’s sweating now

We are delighted to announce the line up for the Spring/Summer Dublin City Heritage Talks 2026 @ the Wood Quay Venue, featuring talks from @drdeefoley.bsky.social, @aoifeb.bsky.social, Mícheál Ó hAodha and Anthony Delaney. All talks will be ISL interpreted. www.eventbrite.com/cc/dublin-ci...

This was on the cataloging shelf this morning, and the amount of whoops and cheers I’ve let out just reading the introduction and skimming chapters! A really important book for Irish visual and material culture, and much needed in the broader Irish Studies field 📚

The privileged life and tragic death of an 11-year-old Tipperary girl Poignant and beautiful story #spéirgorm www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

“The Triple Lock…relates only to Ireland’s deployment of more than 12 members of the Irish Defence Forces on an overseas mission, although the Irish public could be forgiven at this stage for thinking it is to do with everything from humanitarian missions to undersea cables, to drones in Dublin bay”

Warmest congratulations to Dorothy Cross on her recent election as Saoi of Aosdána! This honour truly reflects the searching commitment and creative force of Dorothy Cross and the esteem in which she is held. In celebration, here are some of the artist’s exceptional works in the collection…

VAN MORRISON - A DOZEN ROMANTIC SONGS - After my use of TWO Van songs, while talking love songs on William Crawley's Talk Back yesterday... here are a dozen red romantic ones for Valentine's Day... open.substack.com/pub/sstockma...

new pod! big clock! part one!

My analysis of Lord of the Flies (not Lord of the Dance which I reviewed last week) www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

Dude regularly works for Disney, DreamWorks, Netflix and CN so speculate away. But this sucks no matter which studio is doing it, and gross to think some major movie this year is running with a plagiarized image from ChatGPT.

📢Join us for the launch of 'Contentious Spaces' by Rosaleen McDonagh with Sinéad Burke on Thursday, March 12th, at 6 PM @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social. Our friend and first reader, Anne Burke, will chair the event, and Sinéad Burke will join Rosaleen in conversation about her remarkable debut novel!

4 stories in the @irishtimes.com highlight the crazy approach to climate action by the government. 3 articles detailing the heavy financial & social cost of climate breakdown, and 1 where the govt celebrates increasing climate emissions for the airport by lifting the passenger cap. 🤯 #SpeirGorm

We Didn’t Start the Fire (But it’s all the ways the EU has ruined environmental protection in the last three years) with @greenpeace.eu #ad