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My @researchireland.ie project 'LGBT+ Activism in Ireland, 1973-2023: Looking Back, Going Forward'. Panels & podcasts from (1)History of LGBT Activism in Ireland (2)Where We’re Going – Backlash, Solidarity, and Mobilising 👉 historyhub.ie/lgbt-activis... #speirgorm #queerhistories #LGBTIQactivisms

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Our colleague, @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social, was interviewed for the forthcoming @rte.ie television documentary series 'From That Small Island: The Story of the Irish'. Catch the first episode on RTÉ1 and RTÉ Player this Sunday, 8 June at 6.30pm!

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It does suck that "AI" now means both generative AI (boo hiss) and a whole basket of incredibly useful machine learning techniques.

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PSG were immense, but the most revealing element of their victory is that their 19-year-old star, Désiré Doué, was bought from Rennes for €50m. A very 2025 football story - especially to have Inter Milan (they of Massimo Moratti fame) as the poor relation. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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🚨 We’re hiring at UCC! Two roles in energy systems research with our Energy Policy & Modelling Group (MaREI, Cork). Work with us on Ireland’s energy transition 🧵

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In fairness to ChatGPT, at least it rendered the ARRmagh accent correctly.

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I'm really excited about this workshop, which also doubles as the first event in our new AHRC-funded project, 'Sites of Fracture', which looks at c20th Irish history through the lens of landscape & capitalism. More details here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/pro... 🗃️ @historyatgalway.bsky.social

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Knausgaard on writing undergrad essays: "in an assignment I could manoeuvre the little knowledge I actually had in such a way as to make it appear greater and more comprehensive". (Some Rain Must Fall, p. 312)

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There must be an early modernist out there who (a) has a full set of Samuel Pepys' diaries on their shelves; and (b) points to those shelves every time someone asks them how they would describe themselves as an academic and says, "these are my Pepys".

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Everyone read this!

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Straight to the point from Mary Robinson.

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Saturday morning listening: Inflo - No Fear youtube.com/watch?v=vJ07...

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Looks like even Simon Harris as Minister for Foreign Affairs is now using the term genocide. Well past time now for those who dismissed and, in some cases, denigrated those who raised the alarm to acknowledge this reality.

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Brian Eno calls on Microsoft to cease its partnership with Israel and pledges to donate the original fee for his Windows '95 chime to victims of Israel's genocide in Gaza

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'Minister Pablo Bustinduy said his goal was to end the general "lack of control" and "illegality" in the holiday rental business. "No more excuses. Enough with protecting those who make a business out of the right to housing in our country," he told reporters.' www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

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Every year on 18 May I post an Old Irish translation of a Joy Division song. This year: Ice Age, a song from 1977, recorded in 1979, but published only on the album Still in 1981, more than a year after the death of Ian Curtis (www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK-s...). An earlier recording from the... /1

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RIP Brian Glanville www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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In case anyone is still deluded enough to think FIFA will give a second thought to hosting the World Cup in the US. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Paul's Scarlet - in the ditch. (Best read in a Dublin accent.)

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Last chance to register for this evening’s in-person discussion on writing the history of the conflict in N Ireland @ihr.bsky.social. Panel includes the head of the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy project & both co-chairs of the UK Public History of the Troubles. www.history.ac.uk/events/eisen...

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Registration details for the ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference 2025 have now been added to our website: asle.org.uk/events/galwa...

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What a quote.

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A by-product of reading county council minutes from late c20th Ireland is that I also catch lots of day-to-day issues that councillors were concerned with. Unfortunately (though unsurprisingly), anti-Traveller discrimination is among the most prominent. See this from Tipperary South, 27 July 1987.

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New article! ‘“No race hate here”? Irish national identity and racism in the mid twentieth century’ just published online in Irish Historical Studies. Explores Irish attitudes to race and racism, including an ugly spate of racist attacks in Dublin during 1963-64. Open access: doi.org/10.1017/ihs....

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One for you and your peat crew, @kbruisch.bsky.social !

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Spent today in Clonmel, working at the Tipperary Council archives. A very fruitful journey, not least because I managed to also fit in a trip to see the site of the case study I'm working on, as well as the river (the Suir) and valley that are big characters in that story. More once I write it up.

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Ah, lads. A first Leinster championship in sixty-eight years. It's, well, emotional. And all the sweeter after being robbed by Meath in 2010. Louth were just immense.

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I was 16, doing an after-school class to prepare for the Leaving Cert oral French exam. My good friend Greg and I were going through the usual conversation themes with the tutor. When we moved to films, Greg mentioned The French Connection, and I misremembered the lead actor's name as Gene Pacman.

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Saturday morning listening = Darkside - SNC. Come for the groove, stay for the Stevie Wonder/Superstition-style keyboards. youtube.com/watch?v=fKiS...

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All set up now in the new exhibition space of the Lullymore Heritage & Discovery Park. Come for the RePEAT exhibition, stay to look at some former peat extraction technology, bog cotton and rewetting-in-progress. Our exhibition will be there until 30 May. #peatsky

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"Statistics released last year showed that 41 percent of young people aged 18 to 34 live at home with their parents. Meanwhile, as of October 2024, investment funds had acquired 46 percent of all apartments built since 2017 letting them at exorbitant prices." www.ontheditch.com/comment-bren...

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Tell you what, the @carsoncenter.bsky.social knows how to build anticipation. I'll be spending time there in June as a visiting fellow, and they've already added me to their mailing list, which has proven a very good way to build serious envy at all the great stuff I'm already missing out on...

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On Big Jack’s birthday, a reminder of one of the great football images of all time.

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One of the great privileges of being a middle-aged academic is to work with ECRs doing fantastic work. I've supervised some brilliant PhDs; now I'm lucky to work w/ @aoifeolearymcneice.bsky.social as mentor on a terrific project on hydro-power. Check it out: www.universityofgalway.ie/colleges-and...

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Tomorrow (8 May 2025) in Dublin: the annual @ria.ie international affairs conference. 'Reconstructing the Global Order: Imperatives and Possibilities for Cooperation in Turbulent Times' Browse the programme and grab one of the last remaining tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...

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"Everyone was dying, and yet somehow everyone had scarcely felt more alive: football played on the very edge of everything." Brilliant description of last night's match from Jonathan Liew. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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