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early modernist at UCD; Dublin, London. Bread, beer, bikes, books. Queer is my DNA. All views my own
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Delighted to be a recipient of the Emmerson fellowship at the State Library of Victoria- my gratitude for the support and I can’t wait to get stuck in! www.slv.vic.gov.au/get-involved...

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Note to future self: remember to turn the dishwasher ON before going on holiday for a week…

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I have been on holiday and missed that Alfred Brendel died; I was lucky enough to hear him several times at the royal festival hall courtesy of enlightened free tickets from the then Inner London Education Authority.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Mostly I just sad that past me didn’t have the knowledge or foresight to be an Aegean archaeologist

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

This is a really important thread; and the impact of AI historical research on any minoritized group is terrifying. So much archival material is not part of the digital domain - so at best AI will rely on secondary material to generate its “conclusions”

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

I’m holidaying on Santorini and I wondered if there was anything good to read about tourism and environmental impact in the Greek islands - I’ve lots of thoughts! It’s stunning at one level but also an ecological dead zone.

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

West cork on a glorious day of sun and shifting clouds

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Note to future me: if editing a long poem check your lineation before doing anything else 🤦🏻

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

This is of course wonderful; I’m sad that no Irish institution was able to successfully bid for the Hiberno-English manuscript -

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Just open.spotify.com/track/6lENVF...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

My garden is not manicured or orderly but it is full of life - bees, insects, and yes slugs and snails.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Manuscript friends — I have a query from Georgia (USA) about a locally-purchased mss: “we were astonished to find a substantial, unpublished literary work — composed between 1737 and 1759 — authored by an English woman using the pseudonym “Amica”.

submitted 27 days ago • 7 comments