In 2021 I was telling people in my field of art history to stop legitimizing the use of image recognition, to stop applying for grants to use AI in identifying the subjects of portraiture bc this was what such work was being used to further. All this was obvious. theconversation.com/how-ai-is-hi...

Historian focusing on early modern book culture here. I am not sure that feeding a private company with all our past handwritings from archives is a solution or a way forward. Google‘s AI studio is a data trap. #skystorians

Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)

“If you wish to keep the minever tails from getting moth-eaten or loosing their hairs, dip them in wet earth or chalk.” — The Craftsman’s Handbook/Il Libre dell’ Arte, Cennnino Cennini, trans. Daniel V. Thompson, Jr.

Things that never cease to be a joy: that you can go, for free and with very little notice, into the National Gallery of Ireland’s library reading room and look at a first edition of Vasari’s ‘Lives’.

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Thank you to all the good people working in hospitals and in the emergency services over the next few days 🎄 ⭐️

So 12 of Dublin’s most sought after homes, that are intact and in a beautiful setting, are going to be…vacant? Converted to TII offices? Converted to flats and rented at astronomical cost? www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...

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This is the kind of thing that the Annals of the Four Masters would have recorded in very ominous tones #speirgorm

Bluesky, I want to get some Terry Pratchett for my niece, who’s 11 and a highly enthusiastic reader. Is there a particularly good place to start? 📚

Enormous shout-out to the Australian and Kiwi librarians standing up to Elsevier. This is killer.

Love this local story, where backpay got Marshall Bailey/Charles White out of the workhouse, into a nice pad in Kilmainham, and a wife to boot.

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presses! presses! presses! distros! #DublinSmallPressFair2025 is this Friday 6-9 p.m. and Saturday 10-4 at Pearse St. Library in Dublin!

Not it’s intended purpose, but excellent use of alt-text here. Bravo, Dublin Inquirer team!

Troy story 3 📸 Attila Kisbedenek

What a match! What a win! What a week! ⚽️ 🇮🇪 #COYBIG

Grotesque.

There’s an essay here on the role of good design/typography in successful campaigns!

It’s nice to wake up to positive news from America…

A research question for #IrishStudies folks: where has a good run of the Freeman’s Journal, and will scan from the print issues rather than microform? Trying to order good digital images of exhibition photographs as the INA/BNA scans are awful.

Such sad news. Sr Stan was an iconic campaigner and activist. She did so much good in her life. RIP

Wed: “Our migration numbers are too high”-Simon Harris Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’” Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris *Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*

Halloween in Ireland in 1832. “Snap Apple Night, or All Hallow Eve”, by Daniel McAlise In October 1832 Daniel Maclise attended a Halloween party in Blarney, Ireland and in 1833, exhibited painting at London’s Royal Academy of Arts, showing dancing, bobbing for apples, and other traditional games

I love that the librarian didn’t amend this, either. (I wouldn’t!)

Interesting. A library decides they can’t renew a database because their users would immediately violate the license terms by using the university’s Microsoft products that have force fed copilot into everything. Great future we’re building here in the higher ed factory

"Remember that you have only one soul; you have only one death to die; you have only one life to live which is short and lived by you alone; and there is but one glory which is eternal. If you remember this, there will be many things about which you will care not at all." #SaintTeresaOfAvila

“An unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time” could be Beckett’s own review of Life. 🤣

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

A Sunday well spent at the NMI 📚

This should also be how universities reply to the AI thing btw

I doubt it’s the last we’ve seen of her: a nice wee platform now to line things up for the future 🫠

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If by any chance someone is selling two tickets for this, let me know! 🎟️ 🎟️

Good to know 👇

This is a jaw-dropping statement from anyone in a uni leadership role — but also — what exactly is ‘low-quality’ and ‘hobbyist’ research? Nearly every academic I know is burning the candle at both ends and STILL producing important work in their fields. This feels like an anti-humanities dog whistle

Artle #Artle September 6, 2025 🎨 🟥 🟩 ⬜ ⬜ www.nga.gov/Artle

Don’t know who made this but thank you

Little moment for how good @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social’s Sofonisba Anguissola portrait looks as a book cover!

I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

This takes about one minute to do, it’s extremely simple, just a few simple questions, and you don’t need to be an artist to do it, it’s open to the general public. And the far right are trying to load it, so please take a moment and fill it out

Yes, please do this 👇

FYI Dublin City Council Your Dublin Tour Voice survey has large portion on drones and Gen AI. You can sign up to complete it here: dublincc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Obviously a lie, since the definition of PhD-level expertise, standard across universities worldwide, is that you can produce original knowledge.

Cries in art historian. JFC.

This is really sad news to hear. When Painting Dublin came out in the depths of lockdown, Sean put together the most gorgeous audio intro of Dublin in song and text and then we chatted though some works by Harry Kernoff and Estella Solomons: it was such a bright spot in a dark time.

Such a good phrase!

As an anti-immigrant encampment dwindles on Basin View, its organisers are trying to rally. One man who’s been involved has been trying to organise a social event on a nearby council football pitch, something the council says it’s “monitoring”. www.dublininquirer.c...