Parisian style c/o Paul Poiret, at Musee des Arts Decoratif

Marvellous Art Deco centenary exhibition at the Musee des Arts Décoratifs

Quick hop to Paris for the weekend

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

I am THRILLED to wake up to this news! Voted yesterday as an overseas voter in my home district (King County - Washington State) - a good day for democracy 😀

We’ve gotten numb to it but Trump threatening NYC voters with federal funding to vote a certain way is the kind of shit that should get him unanimously impeached today. Insane fascist bullshit.

Exciting news! Filming will soon start on a Bad Bridgets film, inspired by Elaine Farrell & Leanne McCormick's great book. We're delighted to have both Elaine & Leanne on our USIHS Committee (for many reasons, this is just today's extra one) @badbridgetbook.bsky.social deadline.com/2025/10/dais...

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Aladár Körösfői-Kriesch, ‘All Saints’ Day’, 1914 - from National Gallery of Hungary

Unusual funerary monument to a Boy Scout I saw in Budapest’s central cemetery today - Gyorgy Zimmermann - who died in 1930 when he was 17.

Halloween post of the day - 15th c ivory saddle, reputedly belonged to Vlad Tepes III (otherwise known as Dracula), bearing his emblem of the Order of the Dragon - in the Hungarian National Museum

Memento Park in Budapest — as a historian of public commemoration this one has been on my bucket list

Taking in Bartok, Brahms, Mozart and Dvorak at the sublime Liszt Academy Concert Hall in Budapest 😍

Beautiful Budapest in autumn

There are worse places for a late afternoon lunch #Budapest #NewYorkCafe

time for my kids’ favourite (and creepiest) lunch of the year - homemade pizza skulls 💀🍕

Tomorrow. D.C. The National Mall. Sunup to sundown.

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

Really excellent and thorough review by @katyhayward.bsky.social of ‘For and Against a United Ireland’ this morn. Too often IT book reviews actually fail to review the book itself! This was an impressive critique informed by Katy’s own formidable expertise: www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Another great afternoon introducing the history of photography — this time to the BAs in Classics, Art History and Archaeology at @ucddublin.bsky.social! A super-engaged group & lots of questions during our 2 hour session getting hands-on with our superb Kingsley Photographic Teaching Collection!

Delighted to be present for the opening of ‘The Prisoners’ Lens: Secret photography in Kilmainham Gaol, 1921’, a gem of an exhibition (curated by Brian Crowley) exploring fascinating photographs taken in Kilmainham Gaol during the Irish War of Independence! www.kilmainhamgaolmuseum.ie/exhibitions/

I’m performing a live electronic score to Häxan (Christensen, 1922) tomorrow at 3pm, Trapdoor theatre, Newman, UCD. All welcome.

So we are eating those Purple Rain potatoes for dinner and my kid just asked me ‘Who is Prince’? and now we are having a very important life lesson

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

🎃 Looking to read something truly terrifying? We asked our #museum employees what sends chills down their spine and wakes them in a cold sweat. 😱 [🕸️ 1/5] #MuseumNightmare

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings

Allosaurus Things Considered

A few of the best signs from Dublin’s #NOKINGS protest today

#NOKINGS Dublin! Brilliant turnout at US Embassy 🇺🇸🇮🇪

This looks like a fascinating, disturbing exhibition — counter-violence wrought on monuments to violence. I’m less convinced they represent ‘healing’: more like a reckoning. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Protest is good for you and good for the nation. Get out there

This is class. I had the great privilege of attending a 2014 symposium at QUB run by Graham Brownlow and Cormac O Grada, revisiting Joel Mokyr’s landmark work on the famine, ‘Why Ireland Starved’ (1983). He was generous, hugely impressive, and so encouraging to ECRs. And now a Nobel prizewinnner!

Don’t forget to submit a paper by Dec 5 for our Music and Media conference at UCD: “Directions and Aesthetics of the Digital Era” www.ucd.ie/music/newsan...

The GOP is having an absolute aneurysm about these protests, and they haven't even happened yet. Make a fun sign! Bring some snacks! Let out some cathartic yelling! Exercise your First Amendment rights!

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...

What could be worse than screaming at a Capitol police officer?

early morning sourdough bake completed under strict supervision

'Despite AI’s widespread use, 62% of the students said it has had a negative impact on their skills and development at school, while one in four of the students agreed that AI “makes it too easy for me to find the answers without doing the work myself”.' 1/2

Fellow academics — I’ve always received speculative and formulaic PhD enquiries from folks with no actual connection to my research interests (often from Chinese and Indian students) — but they are amplifying this year: I’ve been receiving one every few days. What gives? Is AI accelerating this?

Update from the war zone in Portland.

Don’t do this, universe. Not now. Ideally not ever

Very pleased to be giving a talk in my School (Art History & Cultural Policy) next Mon at 3 pm, on 'Imaging Crisis in Ireland, 1839-1909', drawing on recent research at the NYPL, Library of Congress, and in Canada. All are welcome; talk will also be recorded and available online later! #irishstudies

another reason why Ireland is the best country in the world

This is going to be super! 👀👀

I had the very great pleasure of meeting the very great Jane Goodall at a museum event many years ago — where she graciously signed a book for my sister, an environmental biologist. A superb human being in every sense: generous, thoughtful, and inspiring. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

TY students! Explore museum careers at @NMIreland this Feb: conservation, education, marketing & more. 📍 Dublin & Mayo 📅 9–13 Feb 2026 📝 Apply by 24 Oct 🔗 www.museum.ie/en-IE/About/... #TYIreland #MuseumCareers #TransitionYear

I regret to inform you the House of Guinness is Not Good