🚨 Announcing our second CAMPS event of the semester! Dr Chris Doyle will deliver a lecture entitled "Following the Swarm: Beekeeping and the Medieval Irish Community in the Bechbretha" Come along for a fascinating Friday afternoon! 🗓️21st Nov 🕒12pm 📍Bridge Room, Hardiman Building Lunch to follow.

This as not simply populism, it's an extreme assault on public institutions and structures. The last week has been about the BBC, but comes alongside mounting attacks on judicial independence/the European Court of Human Rights. Treating each issue in isolation will see them killed off one by one.

Saturday night tunes www.youtube.com/watch?v=01zI...

Léacht reachtúil na Scoile do 2025 SCS Statutory Lecture for 2025 Gregory Toner, QUB The historian at work in Lebor Gabála Friday 14 November UCD, Theatre R, Newman Building Mar chuid de Thionól 2025 / Part of Tionól 2025 www.dias.ie/2025/10/22/t... #DIASdiscovers @dias.ie

Wishing Mr Zitouni a full and fast recovery and hoping the story of his heroism would bring some sense and shame to the rampant racist narratives sweeping our country. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“We have to do this for the future generation, they need to know where each and every one of us came from,” he said, recounting how he had persuaded the community to support the dig. “If we don’t, all these artifacts are going to be washed out.” #MedievalSky www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/c...

“We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”

Oscar Wilde had two sons who hit 30 just as #WW1 started. Find out all about the impact of his downfall on them, and their participation in the Great War achurchill.substack.com/p/full-featu...

We will be launching Vikings in Early Medieval Ireland: Church-raiding, Politics and Kingship, by our late colleague Dr Colmán Etchingham, on Thursday 13th November in Maynooth. @maynoothuniversity.ie @ceilteachomn.bsky.social

The Farage Factor. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Political lessons worth learning from #Aras25: 1. Relying on negative campaigning doesn't work. 2. If the left can act cohesively, they have a good chance of success. Pity the government, and some media, will instead likely prioritise the dipshit 'spoil the vote' movement despite their minority.

It’s been taken down from Meta platforms (Facebook, instagram etc), but as you’d expect, X have not fully taken it down yet, and still on YouTube It is what it is, and it’s intentional www.thejournal.ie/factcheck-ai...

This is NOT a joke. If it was meant to be funny it would show her talking about her love of hang-gliding or something. Its intent is to keep her voters at home, it’s malevolent and deeply cynical, a direct interference in our elections. But by whom? www.bbc.com/news/article...

A deeply shocking attack on Irish democracy A deep-fake video shows a fake Catherine Connolly announcing her withdrawal from the Presidential election in two days time. It also has deep-fake RTE newsreaders-using their faces and voices-to cover the false story www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

i.m. Machán Magan A Different Field By Cian Ferriter Irish Times #SpéirGhorm

A "ceasefire" means a brief moment to stop living in survival mode. Palestinians are picking up the pieces. Not physically but psychologically being hit by a tonne of bricks. It's not the time for us to relent our activism. It's the time to go all in. We do not rest until Palestine is free. 🇵🇸

Catherine Connolly has just been endorsed by Kneecap This and more updates from the presidential campaign trail today are all on our live blog www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

(2/2) ... even if I really dislike this happening, but turning them into crazy paving seems extremely disrespectful. For those that care, phone image using a #Huawei P10 Pro. #tombstone #gravestone #cemetery #churchyard #StAlbans #Hertfordshire #taphophilia

Next Thursday, 16 October, 2-5 p.m. ORB G.27 The McCarthy MSI project & The Department of Modern Irish @ucc.ie present: The Quire and the Medieval manuscript a seminar on how manuscripts are made Fáilte roimh chách / All welcome

Very interesting talk on Dark Skies coming up this weekend at the National Museum. Highly recommended! @mayodarkskies.bsky.social

Hear Viktoriia talk about this in her free #SamhainAgusScience talk at DIAS HQ on 04 November. Full details and ticket infomation can be found on www.eventbrite.ie/e/1739275773... #DIASdiscovers #DIAS85 @scs-dias.bsky.social

Recordad, mañana a las 19:00!

#stopthegenocide #breakthesiege #globalflotilla Contact the Taoiseach - details below #speirgorm

Soon you can have your sushi delivered by the same drones that shot toddlers in the head while they were scraping spilled flour off the ground

They could have just pushed him in his wheelchair when they arrested him. Instead they dragged him away like he was a bag of rubbish. They did this to humiliate him, to diminish him, to hurt him, to dehumanise him. He has a million times the heart and soul of the thugs who did this to him.

The sad spectable of American comedians selling out in Saudi Arabia www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Let him keep at it, he's digging himself a deeper hole for when justice catches up with him. Imagine what is being done to Palestinian prisoners with no camera

Manchán Magan 1970 - 2025 💔 Craoltóir, scríbhneoir agus Gael. Ní bheidh a leithéid arís ann. Thar na blianta, chruthaigh sé & chuir sé i láthair an t-uafás cláracha do TnaG & TG4. Tá oidhreacht shaibhir fágtha aige dúinn a thabharfaidh inspioráid don chéad ghlúin eile 🕯️ 🔗 www.tg4.ie

I often think of the Irish word for the environment – comhshaol, meaning "shared life," which I think captures the interconnectedness at the heart of environmental sustainability.

One of my favorite episodes of Motherfoclóir. Manchán Magan talking about all the wonderful thing that Manchán was prone to talk about. @theirishfor.bsky.social @darach.bsky.social @thekavofficial.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

The writer, broadcaster and documentary maker Manchán Magan has died at the age of 55, his family has confirmed

Manchán Magan: writer and documentary maker dies aged 55

Elon Musk: “I love Javier Milei.” Kemi Badenoch: “Javier Milei is the template.” Donald Trump: “My favourite president.” Nigel Farage: "Amazing. Cutting and slashing … doing all the things he’s done … that’s leadership.” Meanwhile... in Argentina www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Today's Knowledge Commons upload 'The Earliest Viking Activity in England?'. We always hear of the sack of Lindisfarne AD793 as the start of the Viking Age, but what about raids in #Kent a decade or so before? #medievalsky #archaeology #history Photo: Chris Coombe works.hcommons.org/records/r50j...

Will @asor-research.bsky.social @scsclassics.bsky.social @cacscec.bsky.social and @archaeological.org say something now that the genocidal weaponization of archaeology, which some of them are actively upholding and which we have been flagging for 2 years, is featured in the fancy Guardian?

Discover what life was like in Viking Dublin, and see the wider impact of the Vikings. Join a guided tour of the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street Viking Ireland exhibition. 🗓️ Saturday 27th September 🕛 12pm & 2pm 📍 Kildare Street, Dublin 🚫 No booking required www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

We're being bombarded with the idea that autism is a pitiable fate or disease, but I want autistic folks to remember that you're wonderful because of who you are, not in spite of it. Does it make some stuff harder? Sure. But does it make some stuff more interesting, rich, and fun? Damn right it does

Independent Ireland TDs accepted Maria Steen’s assurances that she’d work with LGBTI groups because she was respectful throughout the II engagement. Steen, who opposed all LGBTI equality activism & legislation on inclusion & equality,is ok ‘cause she’s got good manners!! II are a bad joke #speirgorm

‘Don’t let Farage turn Britain into Trump’s America’ – Lib Dem leader www.channel4.com/news/dont-le...

Ogham Stone • Dingle Peninsula • Kerry In the graveyard of Kilmalkedar Church on the Dingle Peninsula, you can find this holed ogham stone. It bears an inscription: ANM MAILE INBIR MACI BROCANN, translated to ‘the soul of Mael-Inbir, son of Brocán’ (Ogham in 3D Project). #Ireland #Archaeology 🏺

Great review, lots to think about, much I think about daily too