#irishheatwave

fallowmedia.com/reviews/2026... Rare moment of reading and writing about reading, rather than applying for jobs!

Field of Flowers - Gustav Klimt

"If partition is Christ, give me Barrabas." @oneillsb.bsky.social drb.ie/blog/reasoni...

I'd appreciate any help in amplifying this that I can get. A lot of work went into it and it's the kind of story that most media wouldn't touch with a barge-pole, but I think it raises important issues that need to be discussed.

Philip O'Connor@philipoconnor.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“Humanity goes before the sport - it's that simple." Former Palestine captain Imad Zatara wants to send a message to Irish football - boycotting the games against Israel would send a powerful message to the world. Full interview & video here: philipoconnor.com/humanity-goe... #SpeirGorm

Belfast launch of Irish Culture and Partition 1920-1955 will be at the Seamus Heaney Centre on May 1, from 5.30pm to 7pm. Bígí Linn

Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955 (Stephen O'Neill Book Launch)

Join Stephen O'Neill in conversation with Eamonn Hughes.

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OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Surely it's not appropriate for a civil servant to be opining abroad on the 'maturity' of Irish views on neutrality. The same people who go into a rage when Catherine Connolly, elected on a clear platform, defends international law, strangely silent about this. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Ireland’s neutrality a ‘difficult path’ to follow, senior official says

Department of Defence secretary general Jacqui McCrum spoke at French defence conference

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the Dublin launch of my book: 22 April, 6.30 at Notre Dame Dublin, O'Connell House, 58 Merrion Square. Bígí Linn. www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

Book Launch: Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955

A book launch for Stephen O'Neill's Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955, with guest speaker Dr Tom Walker.

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I wrote about the turnaround on SNA cuts and how the whole thing shows a lack of understanding about how precarious things are for many families of people with additional needs. It's also a reminder that they need to be ready to fight & protest at all times just to maintain the inadequate status quo

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 5mo ago

Clare Moriarty: Parents of children with special needs should not have to fight for everything

The financial hit to Israel each year would be less than the cost of the infamous Leinster House bike shed. #Spéirgorm We can't let this slide.

Nick Daly@nickdaly.eurosky.social · 8mo ago

Oh FFS Occupied Territories Bill to be limited to goods - Byrne www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Reminder to get those abstracts in for our sad girl summer conference!

UCD Humanities Institute@ucdhumanities.bsky.social · 8mo ago

⏱️FOUR MORE WEEKS to submit your abstract to @darlingorlaith.bsky.social and Fionnula Simpson for their upcoming 8-9 June 'Bad Feelings: Sadness and Gender in Contemporary Culture' conference, a research project funded by the UCD Humanities Institute's Seed Funding Scheme.

On Friday 16 January we will be hosting a one-day conference on LABOUR POLITICS IN WEST BELFAST, 1918-83. Free event - all welcome (in-person and online). www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...

⏱️FOUR MORE WEEKS to submit your abstract to @darlingorlaith.bsky.social and Fionnula Simpson for their upcoming 8-9 June 'Bad Feelings: Sadness and Gender in Contemporary Culture' conference, a research project funded by the UCD Humanities Institute's Seed Funding Scheme.

Just saw a student wearing a barbour jacket and a mullet and don't know what to think

Who's Here? 👋 A warm welcome to: Dr Audrey Borowski (Cambridge) Dr Elizabeth Sarah Coles (Pompeu Fabra) Dr Sheila Crane (Virginia) Dr @darlingorlaith.bsky.social (UC Dublin) Dr @kareemestefan.bsky.social (Cambridge) Dr @fernandag.bsky.social (Cambridge) Dr Jan Kerkmann (Freiburg) 1/2

Who’s Here? Introducing CRASSH Fellows in Michaelmas Term 2025 - CRASSH

A brief introduction to new fellows joining CRASSH this term.

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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge@theverge.com · last yr.

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48078... I will be hosting a reading group on the work of Lauren Berlant Oct.-Nov. @crasshlive.bsky.social. Berlant's writing on sentimentality and the public sphere has lots to say to the current moment we're living through + anyone in Cambridge should please join us!

Lauren Berlant: A Michaelmas Reading Group - CRASSH

In an early talk about Cruel Optimism, Lauren Berlant describes their critical object: namely, the “desire”, which they perceive as endemic to capitalism, “to have a cluster of feelings in lieu of hav...

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Send in your abstracts for the Sadness + Gender conference we're holding in June 2026! We have some fantastic keynote speakers and specialist panels lined up and would love to see you all in Dublin! #cfp @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @molimuseum.bsky.social

www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/about/events... I will be a visiting fellow at @crasshlive.bsky.social and Wolfson College from Oct-Dec. Come see me talk about my new project at Wolfson Humanities Society! I believe the event will also be MS Team-ed @ucdhumanities.bsky.social

Wolfson College Cambridge: Everything’s Fine, Nothing’s Fine: The Sad Girl Novel

Why are so many millennial women so sad?

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Clare Moriarty: I’ve cracked the afterschool childcare problem. It has cheap coffee, wifi and over-excited toddlers

Clare Moriarty: I’ve cracked the afterschool childcare problem. It has cheap coffee, wifi and over-excited toddlers

As Dua Lipa pulsed through the soft play centre in Kildare, and I tried to write a lecture on Descartes’ sixth Meditation, I finally experienced the real distinction of mind and body

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Tune in to hear me talk about Research Ireland postdocs (formerly the IRC)

Deirdre Flynn@deirdreflynn.bsky.social · 11mo ago

IASIL ECR: Research Ireland Postdoc Information Session 6-7pm [Irish time] September 11, 2025, ONLINE Thanks to @lnhowley.bsky.social Please share #IrishStudies #ECR #Postgrad #IrishResearch sign up & more info: www.iasil.org/2025/09/iasi... PS - MENTORS we want you (see more at the link)

srael is no longer seeking approval for issuing bonds through Ireland's Central Bank. Despite the pathetic Irish Government refusing to formally stop authorising Israeli bonds, the concerted pressure of a popular campaign here led to this outcome. www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...

Irish Central Bank will no longer approve Israeli bonds

The latest bond prospectus issued by Israel has been approved by Luxembourg and not the Central Bank in Ireland.

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Entirely man-made famine.

Like everyone, I am listening to obscene amounts of Oasis recently and would like to have a moment of appreciation for Liam's incredible diction (a fraught topic between myself and my childhood singing teacher)

Fellowship from Bloomsbury for early career academics who are Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

www.litencyc.com/php/speople.... New Literary Encyclopedia entry on Sally Rooney just dropped. A real joy to think about her oeuvre, and a real challenge to fit it into concise entry!

Sally Rooney

Background Sally Rooney is the author of poetry, short stories, essays,...

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Call out to drop me your favourite love poems🥰

Would you like to contribute to the public consultation about the Basic Income for the Arts? 💡 Fill out this survey from Minister O’Donovan at the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Thrilled that Fionnula and myself have been granted generous funding by @ucdhumanities.bsky.social to run this conference. Anyone interested in women's lit/mental health/disability studies keep your eyes peeled for CfP!

UCD Humanities Institute@ucdhumanities.bsky.social · last yr.

'Bad Feelings: Sadness and Gender in Contemporary Culture' - @darlingorlaith.bsky.social and Fionnula Simpson 'Craft: Activism, Literature, Labour' - Katherine Fama and Benjamin Anderson 'Energy, Creativity, Sustainability' - Derval Conroy, Jane Grogan, and Jeanne Riou