Sunset at the edge of the world. An Blascaod Mór agus Inis Tuaisceart.

Couldn’t love this story more, what a great reminder to celebrate and support all sorts of ways of being in the world

I arrived into the BL 3 days after the cyber attack to see some precious material I'd ordered weeks in advance & cried all over the librarian who offered tea & sympathy & later emailed me photos they had taken on their own phone of any of 'my' material they manually retrieved. Support the strike!

British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

If you randomly have this kids 2016 Barcelona kit in the back of your cupboard and can save Christmas in my house please get in touch 🤞

‘We can’t let this happen’: Dozens of artists to lose studios with closure of The Complex

The arts space The Complex in Dublin is under imminent threat of closure. Right by city markets which are due for development, it’s a fantastically programmed and managed space of possibilities in a part of the north city - west of Capel street - that really needs it - petition details below

More of this kind of thing please!

Has there ever been a better time to be a reader of Irish language books? #Gaeilge jrnl.ie/6887140t

"Dickensian"

The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative. The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.

Dr Orla Kelleher pushes back against the narrative that judicial reviews are to blame for the housing crisis.

The Irish language is in an all-time underfunding crisis, with Gaeltacht housing ever more unaffordable and record secondary school exemptions. Rather than lowering our expectations, we need to fight for Irish and for everyone’s chance to access it m.independent.ie/opinion/naoi...

There's been a great deal of debate about how safe Dublin city centre is, but when we @dublininquirer.com looked for data to resolve this, we couldn't find much useful – so we commissioned a survey to try to add some facts/data to the debate. Today we've published five articles about the results. 1/

I see it's time for me to make the point again that the poppy is a fundraising campaign for the Royal British Legion, a specific, mundane entity that is not exempt from scrutiny and does not own the concept of remembrance. You can read its 2024 accounts here: storage.rblcdn.co.uk/sitefinity/d...

RIP Sister Stan, founder of Focus Ireland, and tireless advocate of permanent homes as a human right www.rte.ie/archives/201...

Vacancy Watch: The council has been sitting on the disused Dracula house for 11 years as vacancy sucks the lifeblood of the city. Dublin City Council has not yet said what it's going to do with the building.

From a Dublin base, an anti-caste influencer has been growing a global audience. In less than two years, Amit Wasnik has attracted tens of thousands of online followers with his posts focused on the life and ideas of BR Ambedkar.

Catherine Connolly commissioned a young designer to create meaningful work...Declan Ganley boasted that he spent a teeny amount on the spoil the vote campaign, complete with AI-generated schlock imagery

Schools in Europe were social spaces of learning and teaching, and above all, schools were a paper world: contact zones for pupils with papers of all sorts. Let's have a look at this 1670 painting by Jan Steen. A thread for #PaperHistory and #BookHistory #earlymodern #skystorians #BlueLZ 1/

As we await a verdict in the trial of Soldier F, another reminder that in 2010 the Bloody Sunday inquiry found - the killings were unjustified - none of the 14 dead (7 of whom were children) had guns - no warnings were given - no soldiers were under threat - the troops were the first to open fire

Researchers at ICARUS, Maynooth University’s climate research centre, have launched a new citizen science project, seeking help to rescue African weather data that is vital for research about a part of the world that is very vulnerable to climate change. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

Speaking Irish badly as 'refreshing' is a funny angle #Áras25

Krasznahorkai -94-minute conversation with Colm Tóibín

Annie Fletcher of Irish Museum of Modern Art being presented with the award of European Art Museum of the year in by the European Museum Academy in Budapest. Fantastic citation mentioning IMMA’s ‘pioneering, inclusive, and socially engaged approach to contemporary museology’. Brava!

I ❤️ this part of the OHouseNY programme & would ❤️ more people to see & understand more of Dublin's civic infrastructure. Link to brilliant essay on bollards that Jess Majekodunmi wrote for a module on Dublin 8 when studying @NCAD MA Design History & Material Culture: www.ncad.ie/files/pg_fil...

show the ‪@historyworkshop.org.uk‬ some love and attention

Eleven more libraries will reopen on Sundays, thanks to the leadership of the City Council. They never should've been closed in the first place. As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.

George Morrison RIP. My interview from 2008 when he was a fesity 85. www.irishtimes.com/culture/reel...

Thank you Royal Irish Academy for funding my project on the (long, ambiguous) transfer of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham to the Irish state aka 'We are all Paddies here' Image: Veteran March Past at Royal Hospital Dublin (Irish Pictorial Card Company, early Twentieth Century)

'A Report of the Debate in the House of Commons ... on the Subject of an Union', is now up @virtualtreasury.bsky.social. Use the link below to explore two key debates on the Union of Great Britain and Ireland. The debates took place in Jan. and Feb. 1800. virtualtreasury.ie/item/PUB-PAR...

We're delighted to say that the new excavations.ie website, the national database of archaeological excavation reports in Ireland, is now live. Have a browse! With thanks to the National Monuments Service, the Dept of Housing, Local Govt & Heritage and The Wordwell Group.

Thank you, Dr. Carla Hayden, for your leadership and commitment to ensuring access to knowledge for all. Your service as Librarian of Congress has inspired a generation of librarians, archivists, and readers. Photo: Dr. Hayden meets with Internet Archive founder @brewster.kahle.org, 2017.

Thanks to Dr Rosaleen McDonagh for writing this piece for us about the Grace scandal, our framing of disability and vulnerability, and remembering at the heart of this story is a citizen whose essential human rights have been disregarded. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

You can get anything on Capel St: dildos, fireplaces, overseas Chinese police stations.

I don’t know which academic needs to hear this but yes you should absolutely email other academics just to tell them you enjoyed their article/book/chapter. Just do it. Don’t overthink it. Hello So-and-so, just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed ‘Title’. Hope you’re well. Best, You. Done.

A terrific piece of writing, this

Next Saturday (12 April) I'm convening a public seminar @IMMA on creative practice at sensitive sites, an outcome of a Taighde Éireann-Research Ireland award. Speakers include ANU & plattenbaustudio - dets &c. below #publichistory #creativepractice www.researchireland.ie/news/imma-se...

Reminder: Kennys Bookshop delivers for free in Ireland. Easons have free delivery over 10 euros (and also sell toys and games and stationary). Lots of lovely booksellers in the actual stores too, like Books Upstairs, Gutter Bookshop, Hodges Figgis.

It's #InternationalWomensDay! The forensic scientist Frances Glessner Lee created real crime scene dioramas to train homicide investigators in the 1940s/50s. She was troubled that patrolmen and detectives rarely knew how to secure a scene, or identify key evidence in a forensic investigation.

The council's new city arts plan aims to provide more arts spaces, and more money for artists. It also includes plans for broadening out who gets to decide what public art the council will commission and install around the city. dublininquirer.com/2...

what an actor

"The Oba [king] has given the [National Commission for Museums and Monuments] the blessing to display, conserve and to pursue reparation of these objects." #Nigeria 's museum agrees with royal ruler on custody of #BeninBronzes: www.reuters.com/world/africa... via @reuters.com

Nilay was a qualified soccer coach who helped train kids of different ages and abilities with Knocknacarra FC. She helped with our u6/7 girls every Saturday morning with great enthusiasm, warmth, and encouragement. We were shocked to hear about her death. The story below is heartbreaking.

RIP Rick Buckler... www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE1c...

For Black History Month, I will post a daily primary source about a Black resident of 18th-century Massachusetts. 1. Miss Betty Cooper, who was considered male by her enslavers, but was “well known” enough that they did not publish any physical description when she self-emancipated in 1771.

This is great news - @ucdlibrary.bsky.social archivists could not have been more helpful to my son when he was researching the Mulcahy papers for a school project about military music in the early free state last year - thank you!

Here's the short film Derek Jarman made with Marianne Faithfull for Broken English, it's not a music video, it's art and it is what the song and the singer deserved. RIP. youtu.be/f2tbc81Ujno?...

Great news for 2 of my NCAD-UCD @researchireland.bsky.social PhD students - Donna Rose was appointed curator of inclusive histories @nmireland.bsky.social & Séamus Nolan's exhibition (part of his PhD research) curated w Pavee Point opened yday. Tks also @immaireland.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2yum8ym7

now that DeepSeek has completed AI, we hope that Silicon Valley will turn its attention to the next best thing: investing in rural history museums