Aisling Walsh
@aislingwalsh.bsky.social
Writer & Researcher Sociology post-doc at University of Galway Fiction Reader at Anomaly Litmag I write about movies and neurodivergence at: https://autcasts.substack.com Proud #NeuroQueer (She/Her)
Ireland’s notorious mother and baby institutions operated until the late 1990s. Zoei Bonny was the last baby to die under the care of Bessborough, in Cork, in 1994. Her mother Cindi shared her story with me a few days ago. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
Bessborough survivor Cindi Bonny on the death of her baby Zoei in 1994
Podcast Episode · The Deirdre O'Shaughnessy Podcast · 31 July · 36min
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This is what an actual *hero* of Irish music looks like:
Me whenever someone starts talking about the future of AI:
The Big Lebowski: The Dude Chilling
ALT: The Big Lebowski: The Dude Chilling
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This is grim, and so disappointing. I've no doubt it was done to avoid the potentially astronomical cost of a lawsuit but if the preeminent human rights organisation can't stand up to her then what hope have the rest of us??? www.bbc.com/news/article...
Amnesty apologises to JK Rowling's sexual violence support centre Beira's Place
The centre, funded by the Harry Potter author, had threatened Amnesty with legal action after it was labelled "anti-rights".
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Look, just because he died young, I'm not going to pretend I'm not aware that Glen Hansard groomed a teenager and had a well circulated reputation amongst heads and people in the music industry for chatting up teenage girls, and probably worse.
Wow, it's almost like all those protests weren't really about fuel... www.independent.ie/county/wexfo...
Fuel Support Scheme for farmers ‘under subscribed’ despite €87m budget and nationwide protests over costs
The deputy president of the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) says she does not know why the Fuel Income Support Scheme for farmers and agricultural contractors was significantly “under subscribed.”
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This year, Bath Children's Literature Festival programmed just seven writers of colour out of a line up of nearly 100 authors, and then responded to critics by asking them to remove their social media posts. @ihussainwriter.bsky.social explains what happened writershq.co.uk/writers-of-c...
Me reading about the outcome of the Anthropic class action:
Terminator's Iconic Smile
ALT: Terminator's Iconic Smile
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I went to every gig the band & Glen played in Cork between 2002-04 when I was 17-19, & a few more after that. I had a huuuuuuge crush on Glen (then in his 30s)... But when I found out he was actually dating Markéta, who's 4 years younger than me, I could no longer enjoy his music because: gross!
Aisling Walsh@aislingwalsh.bsky.social · last wk.I adored The Frames as a teenager, but Glen Hansard was a total creep and no doubt we'll just skip over that part of the biography in the next few days...
I adored The Frames as a teenager, but Glen Hansard was a total creep and no doubt we'll just skip over that part of the biography in the next few days...
How writers without financial privilege or connections navigate the literary world’s unacknowledged class system.
On Reckoning With the Literary World’s Unacknowledged Class System
When I walk into a room full of writers, I’m often struck by the sense that I don’t belong. I’m an immigrant, first-generation to college; my father was a welder. Swearing was the third language we…
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Bezos' mouthpiece this morning: here's a way better idea than social/affordable housing... Let's give unhoused people mini pigs so they can become responsible and learn to solve their own problems !!
So it seems we're in for another six months where everyone pretends that Johnny Depp is a *nice guy* 🙄🙄🙄 #scrooge
Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.
Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 2w agoThe use of extremely online memetic aesthetics to support far-right political goals is like something out of Walter Benjamin’s nightmares.
I see you and your AI graphic/poster because, you know, they ALL LOOK EXACTLY THE SAME 👀
"My next book project rests at the intersection of two roads 0.3 of a mile southwest of my university because I threw the unfinished fifteen-page manuscript out of my car window as I drove to the local dive bar to drown out the nagging internal monologue of my imposter syndrome."
My Next Book Project
“My next book project is a trans-species manifesto-cum-collage assembled from excised first editions of Ernest Hemingway novels, decaying roadkill gathered o...
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“I have no idea how to get around chat gpt’s refusal to let me rip off other authors other than to actually write prose myself”
Damon Young@damonyoung.com.au · 2w agoNope. No, you haven’t.
Rulfo did what Márquez wished he could do, and in only 121
The Believer@thebeliever.net · 2w ago“Mutis—who himself would later also become a seminal novelist—said, ‘Read this shit and learn!’ Márquez obeyed and read it twice that same night, bedazzled.” —Peter Orner on “Pedro Páramo,” with art by Liniers
I love Patti Smith, but why, oh why does she keep fangirling on Jonny Depp??? 😔
Why do trailers these days give away the whole movie???
My IUD has been a game-changer in managing my endometriosis, I've been pain free for nearly a year, but every so often (like right now) I get a flare up that makes me wonder how on earth I put up with this once, sometimes twice, a month for the guts of 20 years??? 😔
‘There are more than eight thousand adults and over four thousand children in emergency accommodation in Dublin. The Liberties has lost community spaces in favour of sightseeing attractions and luxury short lets.’ @naoisedolan.bsky.social on the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
Naoise Dolan | Evicted
The masked men had hidden the identification on their olive green private security uniforms. They wore sunglasses, body...
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The only real problem with having pink hair is that, in the summer, bees often mistake me for a source of pollen 😆
(In reality I suspect the hosepipe ban was specifically chosen for the primary reason the Irish government chooses to do anything - blindly copying Whatever Britain is Doing, the more unpopular and unsuccessful the policy the better)
Cold beer and icecream is all that's getting me through this...
Aisling Walsh@aislingwalsh.bsky.social · 3w agoI'm two weeks away from submission of my manuscript and I cannot stress how hard it is to maintain the concentration to edit an 80,000 word document in the midst of the most extreme heat wave Ireland has ever had 🥵🥵🥵
