Delighted to have a chapter in this new book about Dr Kathleen Lynn and the other great, innovative female doctors during the first decades of St Ultan’s hospital for sick infants. #speirgorm #irishhistory #history

How very right wing of him! Everyone deserves housing Minister, there should be no hierarchies of need - what about the elderly, people with disabilities, students, those who cannot work, the most vulnerable to be left without a roof over their heads eh? #speirgorm

“There’s been a reluctance to name this moment as fascism,” says cultural historian Tiffany Florvil, yet extreme authoritarian dynamics can be clearly seen in the American right today.” Also in this sharp take on the reliance on women to prop up fascisms old and new: German historian Claudia Koonz.

I canceled my Hulu account ages ago but I have also just requested them to delete all of my data. It was a multi-step pain-in-the-rear process, which indicates that they really don't want you to do it. It would be a shame if you did. help.hulu.com/article/hulu...

The Executive Order does not appear to exempt professors (who are exempt from various other working visa conditions) from the 100,000 USD fee. That means that no university will hire foreign professors. American academia is toasted.

Andor would want you to cancel your Disney+ subscription. It's the least you can do for the Rebellion.

Sinn Féin is officially backing Catherine Connolly in the race for the Áras Best decision #gocatherine #aras2025 #speirgorm jrnl.ie/6821749

Green Party formally endorses Catherine Connolly for president - Green Party leader Roderic O’Gorman said Connolly best reflects the party’s core values on Gaza, climate change, and community resilience

‘Heightened rhetoric by the far right press incites violent confrontations … they imitate fascists while remaining ambiguous about fascism to rebuild mass membership’ The US today …. Why no … Latvia in 1923 - The echoes of history!

Wonderful signage indicating the gender neutral bathrooms at the university of Helsinki - no-one being excluded, policed, antagonised or upset!

About to kick off here at #PostCivilWarSocieties symposium in Helsinki & looking forward to our panel later with @tiinalintunen.bsky.social @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social & @profingrid.bsky.social. @ucddublin.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

Morning in Helsinki … really looking forward to the ‘post civil war societies’ conference. But first things first, coffee, newspaper and people watching. #academiclife #talkingcumannnamban

yesterday, Independent Ireland were requesting a minute's silence in the Dáil for Charlie Kirk, and today they're trying to get a gig cancelled because a performer said something they don't like a fitting tribute to Kirk, who also pretended to care about free speech

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Time to delete my account

Ah seriously lads … get a grip and cop yourselves on! He was a far right podcaster … I’m sorry for his family but really just cop on. Independent Ireland (looking 👀 at you Ciaran Mullolly) showing its true colours here! #speirgorm

Just back from my first lecture with the incoming first year class on our team taught ‘Exploring Gender’ module. Year on year students are engaged, questioning, open to discussion and inquiry and never fail to be inspirational. With young ones like these, I have hope for the future. #speirgorm

All set to travel to fabulous #Finland to present at @ucddublin.bsky.social Centre for War Studies @erc.europa.eu symposium on Post-Civil-War Societies. Re-grouping with members of #Afterlives team @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social @profingrid.bsky.social & @tiinalintunen.bsky.social always a pleasure 😍.

Looking forward this great symposium on Friday. Especially with @caitbeaumont.bsky.social @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social @profingrid.bsky.social and Dóra Fedeles-Czeferner.

1 in 3 hate incidents are racially motivated -racism (with large dollops of misogyny, attacks on health workers, mostly women, increasing) rising - wonder who is behind that? Could it be the racist, misogynist muppets going around wrapped in the tricolour … I wonder? #speirgorm jrnl.ie/681733

Helsinki here we come … looking forward to the civil war symposium, talking about the afterlives of my militant anti Treaty Cumann na mBan women, and, of course, meeting up again Tiina

Neighbourhood Watch! #catsofbluesky

LGBTQ History Month is an act of resistance. ✊🏳️‍🌈 Claim your past, live your present joyfully, and fuel the future. Our new post explores why queer history and its role models are vital in the current climate. queertriptych.weebly.com/pulse-blog/h... #LGBTHistoryMonth #Resistance #QueerHistory #LGBTQ

JUST IN: An independent United Nations inquiry has concluded for the first time that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and that the country’s top leaders have incited genocide, in what it described as “the “most authoritative UN finding to date.” https://cnn.it/3VjaHzS

Judith Butler:"It is important to refuse the notion that this is just how things are..invoking a feckless realpolitik that justifies complicity with a brutal & rising authoritarianism. It is time to resist the injustice that now threatens to be normalized" www.chronicle.com/article/when...

I’d like to say we are certainly sending our best to be councillors and we are certainly not nominating the best! Apologies from the Kingdom 💚💛 #speirgorm

🤣🤣🤣well yeah! He tapped out, because he was never going to get the nomination - It was all a performative gig for his US fan boys! Regardless this has cheerled me up immensely this Monday morning #speirgorm

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

Me, I can

Oh my, expect for few (Cora Stack, Lorna McCormack & Charlotte Keenan - none of whom have any chance) this is a line up of people (Cahill, Casey, Mulligan 😱)who are seeing DCC support & have no understanding of what it means to be President. Adjudged rapist McGregor is also presenting! ##speirgorm

I once visited a place where this kind of thing was done. These days, it's called the @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social.

Professor Nick Maynard, consultant in internal medicine, reports on the dreadful medical situation in Gaza. Israeli border guards seized infant formula from is fellow Doctors entering the genocide scene that is Gaza. Children died unnecessary as a result. #Gaza #Cork

Didn't have rebel nuns on today's bingo, but it's definitely a much better thing to read than the steady stream of bad stuff. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

Free speech for him, and them, but not for me or us! Far right hypocrisy in full display these days www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The group described the decision to host next year's Irish Open at Trump Doonbeg as 'shameful' and 'another example of appeasing Donald Trump'. http://jrnl.ie/6814960

Historians will cite Kirk’s inflammatory statements followed by the media’s hagiography to condemn both.

Apparently it’s all down to my Viking ancestry - only migrated here a 1000 years ago so not Irish, eh! Trying to decide which Nordic country I’d like to be deported to?

Eavan Boland: "Arlen House has one of the finest histories of any publishing house I know." Many say they admire Arlen House, its books, its independent feminist ethos & that they'd like to help progress our vision & help our work continue. Well, now you can ... www.gofundme.com/f/50-for-50-...

Ireland’s national broadcaster RTÉ says it will withdraw from Eurovision if Israel participates www.irishtimes.com/media/2025/0...

The Biography of the week from the Dictionary of Irish Biography is the entry on Fanny and Anna Parnell: ‘A most dangerous experiment’. Although Charles Stewart Parnell is the better known member of the Parnell family, his sisters Fanny and Anna have also earned their place in Irish history.

Alright, the cat’s out of the bag. The National LGBTQ+ Federation (NXF) has a new look, website, and a renewed vision for queer liberation in Ireland. Since 1979, we’ve been connecting, cultivating, and celebrating the movement. And we're not stopping. Explore the new site: nxf.ie

Oliver Callan doing something approaching a eulogy to Charlie Kirk! 😬 I hate seeing deadly political violence like this (at the same time several kids were badly wounded in a school shooting in Denver) but let’s not whitewash what an awful, racist, transphobic, misogynist Charlie Kirk was.

I spoke to the Irish Times for this very good and rounded piece on the real-world effects of C***GPT in the humanities classroom: www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

Yeah, that’s a BIG no from me #speirgorm

Such a blatant attempt to insert a yank political trope over here (Wall Street vs Main Street, Coastal elites etc). As for her alleged grá for Kerry? She wouldn't last 5 minutes on the Blasket. She pronounces Tuosist like Trieste. She cannot name one dolphin. She thinks Castleisland is an island.

The Department of Transport contacted Israel's national airline about flights illegally carrying weapons through Irish airspace – but officials tolerated El Al stalling the investigation for almost eight months after the company hired lawyers. www.ontheditch.com/israels-nati...

In what world would Iona’s Maria Steen who campaigned against the removal of the 8th & the insertion of marriage equality into the constitution be a fit constitutional guardian. Also our last 3 Presidents, the Marys & Michael D, were excellent and active representative of the country #speirgorm

Holy Catholic Ireland, showing its true colours … again. It’s a wonder he didn’t call to have them institutionalised, as in days of yore! #speirgorm