I have an article in The Currency on Frankenstein - the original novel by Mary Shelly & an overview of the film versions since the 1930s. New Netflix version coming in the next few days. thecurrency.news/articles/204...

A new book considers the works and legacy of an architect who built homes in Dublin, not units. Each essayist in the volume, in some way, grapples with Gerry Cahill’s projects in the context of today, says Eimear Arthur, a co-editor.

‘It’s been a shock’: Taylor Swift fans flock to see German museum’s Ophelia www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o... via @theguardian.com @deborahcole.bsky.social

The Baltic countries showed Ireland great solidarity at the time of Brexit, as did all EU members. They bought our argument that the border issue was a security issue. They now face a huge security issue and if we turn our backs on them we will deserve all the consequences that will flow from that.

It's easy to take this position if your geography means war probably won't impact you. Those living near Russia are terrified & militarily-deficient neutrality appears for them selfish & naive. Catherine Connolly can criticise the EU and still become president www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

What broke me in recent years is realizing to what extent qualified ppl struggle and unqualified ppl thrive in germany

Narrator: This is fascism.

I wrote about my five days in Israeli prison for the LRB. Remember with every paragraph that this is the cosseted version of the experience; it is infinitely worse for Palestinians www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

Today's most read on @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social. Check out our new digital exhibition tracing the history of visual representations of the Irish revolution in France: @clairedubois.bsky.social meshs-omekas.univ-lille.fr/omeka-s/s/im... www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

La révolution en français? By @siobhraaiken.bsky.social

🔴 A 17 year old Ukrainian boy has been murdered in Dublin this morning. He had arrived in Ireland only a few days ago as an unaccompanied minor. He got stabbed to death in the care unit where he was being housed. www.rte.ie/news/dublin/...

The activist in the Áras: How Michael D Higgins shaped the presidency My new piece (long read) www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

"About 2,800 Palestinians from Gaza are detained in Israeli prisons and detention centres without charge, according to the NGO Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI)." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

What is the Solarpunk movement? How does it relate to the scholarly area of Intercultural Communications? And how do Solarpunks imagine the future of the Internet? Listen to episode 3 of our new podcast series with PhD scholar Mareike Schütt to find out! letscast.fm/sites/redico... #solarpunk

Episode 2 of our new podcast season "Internet Futures" is now live. Listen to “Back to the Future? The Vernacular Web” with @nathaliefridz.bsky.social and @anya-shchetvina.bsky.social to learn about the Yesterweb, nostalgia-tinged imagining of Internet futures and more. letscast.fm/sites/redico...

13 October 1915 | A Dutch Jew, Jacob Batavier, was born in Aarlanderveen. A tailor. In #Auschwitz from 17 November 1943. No. 163452 He perished in the camp on 31 January 1944. --- Online lesson about Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/

Pico Lopes’ Cape Verde seal historic debut place at World Cup 2026 www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer...

"We need to look at the cost of genocide to our humanity." - Catherine Connolly TD. @catherinegalway.bsky.social We really do. Next media debate? #aras25 #spéirghorm @katiehannon.bsky.social

Nobel Prize for economics winner to publish book with UCD professors www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

“I wasn’t expecting the photo to go that viral, but I knew that moment was something special.” Portuguese photographer David Ribeiro, now based in Cork, spoke to The Journal capturing that photo of Caoimhin Kelleher and Cristiano Ronaldo on Saturday.

"Murphy, who writes a Gaelic games column for The Irish Times, is from the east of the county, a stronghold for Gaelic football." Ah, no. He's from north Galway. East and south Galway are largely hurling, north & west Galway largely football. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Jesus these numbers are INSANE

Steve's Pyke's Scribendi: Portraits of Irish Writers 1985-2025 launches at Photo Museum Ireland tonight. It features over 100 portraits, inc. Naoise Dolan (who we're thinking of), Edna O'Brien, Colm Tóibín, Iris Murdoch, John McGahern @lilliputpress.bsky.social www.lilliputpress.ie/products/scr...

Books Upstairs is a great shop. Possible also to order online. @booksupstairs.bsky.social

Books Upstairs is a fine store with a particularly excellent poetry section. Why not support them by ordering your books online instead: booksupstairs.ie

Wow. 3,000 Euro is such a small sum to him that he can't remember if he paid it or not?

Greta Thunberg is held prisoner by Israel at a jail in the Negev. Read what Sweden’s embassy in Israel reports are the conditions of her detention ⬇️ Now just imagine: if Israel treats a world-famous Swedish activist this way, how badly are its prisons abusing Palestinians? 1/

In pictures: Portraits of Irish writers as you have never seen them before. Former New Yorker photographer Steve Pyke has compiled a striking book of portraits beginning with Neil Jordan in 1985 and including Marian Keyes, Edna O’Brien, Sebastian Barry (and me!) www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Very Trump-era story. 1. The sword has no meaning for Charles, but matters for the Eisenhower Museum. 2. Illegal for the museum to give away US property! 3. Trump makes no distinction between personal/public property. 4. The person who did the right thing was fired. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

Israel is now parading Irish citizens in front of cameras while its security minister, a convicted terrorist, stands and berates them www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

At the inauguration of the Centre for Digital Interculturality Studies Prof Dr Julia Kuhn vice dean of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities @uni-jena.de stressed the accomplishments of the ReDICo project and the importance of the Centre. We're grateful for the support and hope for long-term cooperation.

@fotoole.bsky.social is absolutely 100% on the mark here. Connolly is de facto turning a country wanting to defend itself into the aggressor. She is consistently on the wrong side. A thundering disgrace before an election has even been held. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...?

“The behavior was pure misogynistic abuse, and it’s a growing movement in American culture right now.” www.glamour.com/story/the-mi...

He doesn't need to explain himself like this. But he does, and he does it well. Why I didn’t nominate Maria Steen for the presidency www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

European way of life jeopardised by eco-collapse, EU report finds. If the threat were from any other quarter, our whole economy, political system, society, *everything* would be mobilised to head it off, like during COVID. But it's only nature dying, so nothing. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Straight talk from the European Union's Environment Agency: with Europe warming twice as fast as the global average, now is not the time to lose sight of our climate and nature goals. www.eea.europa.eu/en/newsroom/...

Tony Blair steht für den Bruch des Völkerrechts im Irakkrieg (zusammen mit George W. Bush natürlich). Er steht also für die Doppelmoral des Westens. Ihn zum Verwalter eines UN-Gaza Schutzgebietes zu machen ist eine absurde Vorstellung. Wer kommt als nächstes: Putin?

They could use that for their citizens or cities, but, alas, it’s easier to destroy than to create.

"(..)the parties backing Catherine Connolly might remind her that accusing our EU allies of being proto-fascist warmongers is not a winning electoral strategy. Most voters know that the EU is the safest place we can be in a dangerous world." www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

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Going to be on live radio, on Newstalk with Sean Moncrieff talking about Elizabeth Shaw & "How I Came to Berlin: An Artist's Journey from Belfast and the London Blitz to a Cold - War City" in about 30 minutes. Listen in.

The tech world's lurch to the right is the subject of my latest column for Prospect: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno... - it offers a super-brief history from the Whole Earth Catalog to cryptoconmen and anti-labor AI.

In Gaza, a child carries the body of his cousin to the cemetery after the Massoud family massacre, where an Israeli bombardment killed 33 members, leaving only the father and his young son alive.

About 100k people went out to demonstrate for Gaza,in Berlin, Yesterday

“Yes the Russian dictatorship is invading European countries, slaughtering thousands of people for 3+ years, and now also sending drones into the EU on a weekly basis, but EU countries should not spend anything on defence because…. George Bush and stuff!“

Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin: www.the-berliner.com/politics/bla...

This is a great piece. thecurrency.news/articles/200...

Democratic 2025 Germany militarising because it is terrified of Russia after years of demilitarisation is not at all comparable to Hitlerite 1930s Germany. Ridiculous comment. Catherine Connolly doubles down on warning about German rearmament www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...