Ultán Gillen
@ultan1793.bsky.social
Interested in counter-revolution, but also Wolfe Tone. And Robespierre
Oops. We developed new technologies as if we were communists believe that they would reduce human toil, and create conditions for flourishing lives. But actually they dominate us, alienate us from each other, reduce us to servants to machines, and diminish our creativity, just as Marx noted in 1844.
'Random factoid' is rather dismissive. I borrowed it from you because I think it fits the case. 'Unrepresentative anecdote' also works. I have expressed my views on historians' approach to Ireland and empire at some length here (in Irish): cstair.blogspot.com/2021/11/dich...
Díchoilíniú nó athchoilíniú na staire?
Saothair ealaíne a ghoid na Francaigh ón Afraic Le bliain nó dhó anuas tá ‘decolonisation’ go mór faoi chaibidil sna meáin chumarsáide ag...
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A lot of people today talking about an awful person who died but i want to make everyone aware of a good person who died: Northern Irish comedian Jimmy Cricket, who you should all look up if you don’t know. 10/10 all around wife guy, dad, granddad, and just a generally solid person
Somehow missed that our glorious leader was in the FT complaining about what Labour has done to university finances in the UK. He's right and he should say it. www.ft.com/content/e14d...
Labour has harmed universities as much as Trump, London School of Economics head says
LSE vice-chancellor Larry Kramer points to domestic students’ fees, limits on international students and rise in employers’ national insurance
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Unless fully separatist, we should describe Irish nationalists just as people who wanted to run their own domestic affaris while claiming a bigger slice of the imperial pie. Discuss
Jay Roszman@jayroszman.bsky.social · 3d agoA small, random factoid I've just stumbled upon: Daniel O'Connell's most trusted lieutenant, T.M. Ray, had a son named Daniel O'Connell Ray who attended Queen's Galway and went off to India as a Surgeon. Another data point in the respectability/desirability of empire for middle class Irish.
The World Cup to become like the 'World Series' then?
FIFA so cartoonishly evil that they've managed to make UEFA into good guys
Philippe Auclair@philippeauclair.bsky.social · 6d ago"No UEFA national teams will participate in any FIFA competition for so long as these proposals remain alive, unless this proposal has been abandoned in its entirety and binding assurances have been given that FIFA will never again open its governance or competitions to private ownership".
From the book BOHEMIANS ON THE BREADLINE: THE RADICAL WOMEN ARTISTS OF ROOSEVELT’S NEW DEAL, publishing Dec 2026. Available for pre-order at www.laurenarrington.com
Missed the anniversary itself, but here is why everyone should read Jim Smyth's biography of Henry Joy McCracken drb.ie/article/foll...
Following Henry Joy - Dublin Review of Books %
Following Henry Joy - % Dublin Review of Books
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This poster is the most iconic, you in high school late 90s/early 00s this was all up in your library. #Horror #Horrorsky #Buffy #Booksky #Books
I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.
What can we learn from data about the current trends in university staffing in the humanities, social sciences and arts subjects? 🧵 Read on for key insights or see the full analysis: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r...
📢 Book news!! My new book, Revolutionary Connections: Russia and Ireland, 1905-1923, with Oxford University Press is now out online & open access ahead of print! doi.org/10.1093/9780... This image comes from the final chapter on Bolshevik and early Soviet attitudes to Ireland @leverhulme.ac.uk
Craolfar an dara clár sa tsraith faoi Réabhlóid Mheiriceá ar TG4 ag 9.30 anocht. Beidh corrfhocal le cloisteáil ó údar 'Irish Opinion and the American Revolution' (Cambridge UP, 2002) agus 'Washington i gCeannas a Ríochta' (Coiscéim, 2005).
Vincent Morley@vmstarai.bsky.social · last mo.Tá dhá chlár faoi réabhlóid Mheiriceá le feiceáil anois ar shuíomh TG4: www.tg4.ie/ga/player/bo... Craoladh an chéad chlár aréir agus craolfar an dara ceann Dé Céadaoin seo chugainn. Bhí páirt bheag agam féin sa tsraith ...
Coupled with the reduction in student premiums, equal choice in access and opportunity look set to be further restricted. A statement from our President: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/stateme... 2/2
British Academy President: UK higher education crisis risks irreversible damage
As course closures, shrinking provision and widening regional inequalities threaten the future of UK higher education and research, President of the British Academy, Susan J Smith calls for an immedia...
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Fresh cuts to the Strategic Priorities Grant are of grave concern for our disciplines. In history-based subjects like archaeology, trends in university provision indicate large emerging cold spots - where courses are shrinking or disappearing in some regions. 🧵1/2
Supreme Paris court in verdict that supports reaction shock
Very pleased to be able to say my first book is now available online on the @degruyterbrill.bsky.social website: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Really enjoyed this. Some men are born French. Some men achieve Frenchness. And some men have Frenchness thrust upon them samuelharrison.substack.com/p/two-irishm...
Bologna opens a new library containing more than 32,000 books from Umberto Eco's private study - arranged exactly as he left them - a decade after his death.
Umberto Eco library opens in Bologna, 10 years after his death
The University of Bologna has opened a new public library housing the personal book collection of writer Umberto Eco, a decade after his death.
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Even the cut-throat Yanks who take over Lowlands University in A Very Peculiar Practice decide not to sack the arts staff.
This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"
Matt Binder@mattbinder.bsky.social · last mo.this guy is the co-founder of Airbnb
