Calling all independent and early career scholars working on nineteenth-century Ireland! Submit your essay for the SSNCI essay prize! Deadline 30 Sept 2026

1/2 OPEN CALL: UCD Library seeks photographers and lens-based artists for a commission capturing the National Folklore Collection's move to its new home. Full details at www.ucd.ie/irishfolklor... Up next: site visits 31 Aug & 1 Sept Application deadline: 16 Sept @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social

Looks like today is when we find out if April's roof repairs hold up ☔

in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton

Possibly very late to this, but what has happened to the BNA website/search?! The redesign feels awful.

If you live in Dublin 8: There are plans to move the Dolphin's Barn sort hub to Lucan. This means that if you need to collect s package, it'll be quite a trek. And that's just for starters. Here's a petition to voice opposition. Please share. my.uplift.ie/petitions/sa...

Save Our Postal Depots!

Local communities rely on An Post to deliver accessible services. Currently, there are three Delivery Service Units (DSUs) in Dublin South Central, located at Dolphin's Barn, Crumlin, and Ballyfermot...

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Shiro Sirius@shirosiri.us · 2mo ago

I don’t want to be too sensationalist about this but also I’m the least violent person in the world and I think if someone said this to my face I’d hit them

This is desperately sad 😢

Nialler9 | Niall Byrne@nialler9.com · 2mo ago

Glen Hansard has died after single-vehicle collision in Dublin nialler9.com/glen-hansard...

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 · 2mo ago

Closing date: Wed 29 July The IMC student prize of €1,000 is awarded to a postgraduate student for editing a short historical document, which will also be considered for publication in Analecta Hibernica.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/

Today: gave a paper at a fantastic Irish art history event, read in the sun, watched Wimbledon final, barbecue for dinner and now a walk into town to see Bell XI in the Iveagh Gardens. Summer (days and) Nights ✨ (Also, pink dahlias 💗)

Either put your profile on private or Go into your share and reuse settings to turn off. It’s automatically put on.

kate conger@kateconger.com · 2mo ago

Instagram saw all the nonconsensual imagery generated by Grok earlier this year and still decided to opt in all of its adult users to having their photos "remixed" by AI www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/t...

📢 Applications are open for the National Library of Ireland’s 2026–2027 Studentships! ⭐ Library ⭐ Archival ⭐ Research A great opportunity to gain hands-on experience and develop your career. Learn more, and apply by 3pm, 17 July 2026: https://www.nli.ie/about-us/working-national-library-ireland

(Art) library folks: after a very happy time in NCAD, I am moving on to a new position and my post is now advertised. A great opportunity to work with a fantastic collection, and will suit someone with a deep interest in art & design, + teaching, learning and research 📚🎨 www.rezoomo.com/job/99517/

Assistant Librarian in Dublin | National College of Art & Design Jobs

National College of Art & Design is looking to fill the role of Assistant Librarian in Dublin. Apply today!

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"...annihilating attention is a political project w/ clear benefits for the 💰 class: if we cannot attend the world, neither can we intercede in it. We become passive recipients of their worldbuilding, disenfranchised from our own responsibility to make sense of—and [to] remake—the 🌏 around us."

Umyazu

Reading is the art of attention.

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We are now accepting applications for vendors for the 2026 Dublin Small Press Fair (Nov. 27/28 in Pearse Street Library, Dublin 2): forms.gle/Vhgo12K3wvYD...

It was a pleasure to be on the judging panel for this prize: a really fascinating book that takes a creative approach to the material 📚

@acirishstudies.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Molly-Claire Gillett's Irish Lacemaking: Art, Industry and Cultural Practice merits the Durkan Prize for its distinctive combination of scholarly rigor and creative imagination. Gillett's meticulous research reconstructs the lives and labor of Irish lacemakers.

Our Call for essays is closing on June 30th for volume 2 of Digital Art in Ireland. (Ireland being VERY broadly construed). If you've got something that you think could fit please do get in touch. www.blackwaterpublishing.com/digital-art-...

This. God, this. It is such a manufactured panic and it started the moment they lost the fight over gay marriage. Support trans rights because it’s the right thing to do and also because this is all just a fascist push

Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera@pantibliss.bsky.social · last yr.

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

Always nice to see one of Evelyn Hoffer’s Dublin photographs pop up somewhere unexpected 📷

Monroe Gallery of Photography@monroegallery.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts receives major gift of photography www.seegreatart.art/virginia-mus...

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

Grim

Caitlin G. DeAngelis@caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

(This librarian says, quietly but repeatedly: if you can, disable the AI tools in databases, ebook platforms, whatever)

Tobias Wilson-Bates@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A student who sets out to write a research paper will now encounter chatbots who will offer to do their work in their word document, in their learning management system, in their email, in their web browser, and in certain library database interfaces.

Delighted to receive my contributor copy of “Seeing Ireland: Art, Culture and Power in Modern Ireland”! Huge thanks to editors @ciaranon.bsky.social and Billy Shortall for inviting me to be involved 📚

Honestly, what are we at.

Gavan Reilly@gavreilly.com · 5mo ago

Latest figures show another increase in record numbers in emergency accommodation - 17,517 at the end of March. The figure is up over 2000 since the same period last year, while more than half of the increase in March 2026 is children, perhaps reflecting impact of tenancy reforms

UCD Library is looking for the next Director of the world-class National Folklore Collection. The new Director will ensure the ongoing delivery of services for students, faculty, & researchers in an exciting time of change. Full details & apply by 12 noon, 21 May, 2026 at www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs

Sharing again for the morning Bluesky! Our conference programme - Locating Loss: histories of infertility in landscapes and spaces is now available & booking is open. All are most welcome @unioflimerick.bsky.social on 27 May #histmed #skystorians

Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman@niamhroisin.bsky.social · 5mo ago

It is National Infertility Awareness week - a week to acknowledge the impact of infertility on millions of people around the world. An appropriate time to share the programme for the Locating Loss conference, which will take place @unioflimerick.bsky.social on 27 May

Delighted to have an essay in this new volume!

Ciaran O'Neill@ciaranon.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Today is publication day for this beautiful book. Inspiration for it came from seeing @billyshortall.bsky.social talk about his brilliant PhD research at the IHSA in @tlrhub.bsky.social in 2017. One of those joyful collaborations that come along sometimes in academia. Cover is a Paul Henry painting

Four days of Roman sunshine: just what was needed ☀️

“Strip away the high-vis, strip away the diesel fumes, strip away the carefully filmed sandwich distribution, and what was this week, really? It was a stress test. It was the international far right discovering that the same playbook that worked in Paris…works just as well in Cork and Dublin.”

Louth For Ever 🦋@louthforever.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I’ve managed to string together my thoughts through the rage this week, please read & share 💭✍🏼 #Spéirghorm #IrishPolitics #Fascism 🔗 tinyurl.com/wak45j7d