1. Book you’ve reread the most times? Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights
Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago1 like = 1 book question 📚💙
Kate Manning
@kate-manning.bsky.social
Principal Archivist, UCD Archives Besides my job, my life revolves around music, film, theatre, food, wine, art, books, friends and family.
Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d agoThe effrontery to compare Liddle to Swift!
Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 2d agoFraser Nelson reckons Rod Liddle was “the greatest satirist since Swift” while Michael Gove is comparing him to not just Swift but Orwell. Amazing the comparisons you can get if you’ll pump out exactly the racist opinions even they are too squeamish to commit to print.
'Imitate him if you dare/World-besotted traveller; he/Served human liberty.' 😢
Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 2d agoFraser Nelson reckons Rod Liddle was “the greatest satirist since Swift” while Michael Gove is comparing him to not just Swift but Orwell. Amazing the comparisons you can get if you’ll pump out exactly the racist opinions even they are too squeamish to commit to print.
At last. A real Irish summer. Eating ice-cream in the car while it's raining.
Went with nieces and nephews to see the new Spiderman film. At the end, a guy behind us shouted out loud in exasperation: Ah, you can't f*ckin' end the film there!
Our first blog post examines a variety of interesting cases from our latest file release. This is Part 1. Enjoy! Release 20 – Highlights Pt1 – Military Service Pensions Archive share.google/gEXbw44lJrUO...
Release 20 – Highlights Pt1
Highlights from Release 20 of the MSPC (July 2026)1. Interesting pre/post conflict stories & family connections2. Fatalities3. Intelligence4. Interesting incidents5. Wounds and injuries6. Post-…
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6.25 Expressway to Wexford has disappeared! No announcements. Not on the real time tracker. Will it just merge into the 7.25 Expressway to Wexford? Standing waiting now for 35 mins. One staff member came over to say he was going to find out where it was. He's disappeared too.
More #Odyssey Homer’s version of 'killing of the suitors' represents Odysseus's need for justice & the restoration of order Longley's poem differs, shifting focus from heroic avengers to blood thirsty killers The poem is an allegory for atrocities of the Shankill Butchers #poetry #poemoftheday
One of the many awful things about Leto's behaviour as reported in this story, is how many people enabled it. From sending invitations to underage models to attend parties to arranging underage girls to go to his room, wherever it was. 🤢
Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.New BBC investigation. Four women accuse Jared Leto of criminal sexual conduct www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I do hope whoever had to transcribe that was also canonised.
Petrus Crinitus @petruscrinitus.bsky.social · last wk.You are not a fan of the littera inintelligibilis of Thomas Aquinas then?
Jonny Dillon, Director of @bealoideasucd.bsky.social will introduce the history and scope of the NFC. @ucdlibrary.bsky.social conservator Julia Poirier, will share insights into the careful work of rehousing and preparing the material for its move. Booking info below.
UCD Library@ucdlibrary.bsky.social · last wk.Join @bealoideasucd.bsky.social & UCD Access & Lifelong Learning during National Heritage Week for a joint presentation on the preparation of the National Folklore Collection for relocation to UCD James Joyce Library. 📆Wed, 19 Aug 10.30-11.30am Details & book at www.heritageweek.ie/event-listin...
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'm teaching (for the third time!) my 10-week course on how to work on your ideas BEFORE you start the grind of writing, it's been a huge amount of fun the last 2 times we did it, with all kinds of surprising & amazing stories coming out of people. Starts Sept. irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/grow...
Growing Your Idea from Thought to Script with Paul Duane - Irish Writers Centre
10-week in-person course for screenwriters with writer and director Paul Duane. Starts Wednesday 23 September 2026, 6.30pm - 8.30pm.
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Europe wildfires: France evacuates 40,000 as Spain and Italy battle blazes www.channel4.com/news/europe-...
Europe wildfires: France evacuates 40,000 as Spain and Italy battle blazes
Raging wildfires have forced the evacuation of the whole of the Cap Ferret peninsula in southwest France, with hundreds of people escaping by boat.
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It's refreshing to hear a person in power speak directly to all those who have to leave their homes to find a place of safety, not about them, or at them.
Christopher Hale@christopherjhale.bsky.social · 2w ago“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity.” “You are not numbers or case files.” “You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV
Without saying your age, what is your favourite movie released the year you turned 18?
Library scene (Wings Of Desire 1987)
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Mark 🗿🗻🥾⛷️@hairybadgeridfk.bsky.social · 2w agoWithout saying your age, what is your favourite movie released the year you turned 18?
Beard's essay opens, "I want to start very near the beginning of the tradition of Western literature, and its first recorded example of a man telling a woman to ‘shut up’; telling her that her voice was not to be heard in public." My essay on the Odyssey, Andrew & Tristan Tate, misogyny then & now:
Listening to Cassandra: Misogyny, Classical and Modern
Last weekend, the film The Odyssey was released and the Tate brothers were arrested in Florida at the behest of the British government, which seeks to extradite them to face a long list of charges. An...
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By filming a story of exile and homecoming in Western Sahara, Christopher Nolan’s production turned an unresolved homeland into scenery — and exposed the need for ethical standards governing film locations.
A film about homecoming shot on a stolen shore: how Nolan’s Odyssey normalises Morocco’s grip on Western Sahara
By filming a story of exile and homecoming in Western Sahara, Christopher Nolan’s production turned an unresolved homeland into scenery — and exposed the need for ethical standards governing film locations.
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If anyone is considering editing something from our collections, we will happily supply a digital copy at no cost. Please contact Kate (archives at ucd dot ie).
Irish Manuscripts Commission@irishmanuscripts.bsky.social · 2w agoClosing date: Wed 29 July The IMC student prize of €1,000 is awarded to a postgraduate student for editing a short historical document, which will also be considered for publication in Analecta Hibernica. Learn more at: irishmanuscripts.ie/imc-student-prize-2026/
UCD Archive & Records Management MA students Kat Guiry & Lydia Flanagan put coursework into practice preparing @bealoideasucd.bsky.social for a big move. Read about their experiences at ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2026/07/16/i... Thank you @heritagecouncil.ie for this internship funding!
I persuaded 11 of my family to come see The Odyssey with me this evening. The cinema was about 1000°C... it says a lot about how good the film is that no-one in the packed cinema left!
'Tis far from watermelon and feta salad we were reared...
