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Abby Keating

@abkeating.bsky.social
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Film lecturer @ucc, writer, maker. Co-founder of Alphaville Journal. Researching women in film & protest media. Runs on music. abbkeating.wordpress.com

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Catherine Girodet @drmusikat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
📢 CFP: "Irish Popular Culture from the 1990s to Today: A Green Wave Taking the World by Storm" 🗓 4-5 Feb 2027, Université de Reims, France ✉️ Proposals (EN/FR) by 15 Oct 2026 From Derry Girls to Fontaines DC, let's talk about the Green Wave 🍀 #CFP #IrishStudies #PopCulture #IASPM #TVStudies #SAES
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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 30/09/2026
Mise Éire premiered at the #Cork Film Festival #Onthisday 1959. The 1st feature-length film in Irish, it depicts events in Ireland leading up to, during, & immediately after the 1916 #EasterRising, using unrivalled archive with music by Seán O Riada share.google/5Wy1sAZOwulH...
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Karlito P @litop12.blacksky.app · 01/03/2026
Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Writer Alan O'Gorman, accepting the IFTA for best film for Christy, talked about the importance recognising and destigmatising the experience of being in the care system, said "Free Palestine, Free Palestine, Saoirse don Phalaistín, get the US army out of Shannon." RTÉ cut this part of his speech..
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Bravo to Olwen Fouéré and Margo Harkin, who turned down honorary doctorates from the University of Galway over its ties to Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology which works closely with the apartheid state's "defense industries", key to its genocide of the Palestinian people. #BDS
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Abby Keating @abkeating.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
I think much of the media underestimated how many of us have been Catherine Connolly fans for years 💚 The power of Left unity was also wildly underestimated ✨ #PresidentConnolly #Áras2025 #Aras2025
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 06/10/2025
On a day which included a TV debate and Jim Gavin’s surprise Áras drop-out, Catherine Connolly still found time to impress the public with her football skills. Read more: jrnl.ie/6836588
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 04/09/2025
Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI
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Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI
Even if all the known issues were magically resolved, we would still not want our students to use GenAI
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President of Ireland @president.ie · 28/06/2025
President Michael D. Higgins has sent a message to all those celebrating Pride today and across the summer
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Join the Cork branch of the IPSC tomorrow, 1pm, Grand Parade. Stand together for Palestine, against racism, bigotry and the far right.#FreePalestine 🇵🇸
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Abby Keating @abkeating.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
10 years ago. As we waited for the #MarRef results at Cork HQ. I’ll never forget that weekend. ❤️🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪
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Abby Keating @abkeating.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Oh my god, I bawled my way through that hashtag ten years ago 😭❤️
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Abby Keating @abkeating.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Using this as an example to students next academic year on how AI can’t do hands (ie can neither think critically nor check its own sources) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Chicago Sun-Times confirms AI was used to create reading list of books that don’t exist
Outlet calls story, created by freelancer working with one of the newpaper’s content partners, a ‘learning moment’
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Abby Keating @abkeating.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Una Mullally today on the hope of the #MarRef moment - “Ten years ago, when we came together, when empathy was expressed, the movement became broad and porous… If we can tap into that again, who knows what kind of society we could be?” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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Marriage equality 10 years on: A boy sees us hold hands and says ‘I f***ing hate gay people’
I miss the optimism and unforgettable beauty of that time, whatever ugliness came before or after
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Abby Keating @abkeating.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Ireland (and France) still with above average cinema attendance, a fact I like to see, despite global decrease last year 🎟️🍿 amp.rte.ie/amp/1513629/
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Global cinema attendance drops in 2024
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Our President calling out apartheid Israel's forced starvation of Palestinians #GazaGenocide #SanctionsNow
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Ben of Ben & Jerry’s *arrested* after confronting RFK Jr. & Congress: "They need to let food into Gaza. They need to let food to starving kids! Congress is paying to bomb poor kids in Gaza, and paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US!"
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 13/05/2025
Ralph Fiennes and Yorgos Lanthimos were among over 350 artists to sign an open letter denouncing the industry’s silence in response to Cannes film subject, Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona.
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Filmmakers Denounce Industry ‘Silence’ About the Killing of Cannes Film Subject
Ralph Fiennes and Yorgos Lanthimos were among over 350 artists to sign an open letter denouncing the industry’s silence in response to Cannes film subject, Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona.
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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 11/05/2025
It has been over 9 weeks of siege on #Gaza, with the State of Israel banning the entry of all humanitarian aid, medical, and commercial supplies. UNRWA has thousands of trucks ready to enter and our teams in Gaza are ready to scale up the delivery. The siege must be lifted.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a
laura loomer tweet: WOKE MARXIST POPE
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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I'M GONNA KEEP ON DANCIN AT THE
Laura Loomer tweet: WOKE MARXIST POPE
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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 08/05/2025
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
🇵🇸 Events in solidarity with the Palestinian people around the country this weekend. All out for Palestine! #SolidarityIsAVerb #FreePalestine 🇵🇸
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Abby Keating @abkeating.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
“TERF stands for Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist, but there is nothing radical or feminist about othering and excluding, about making another person a non-being.” www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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Suzanne Harrington: Trans women are not a threat — there is plenty of room for all
TERF stands for Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist, but there is nothing radical or feminist about othering and excluding, about making another person a non-being
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
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Clodagh Finn: Mother’s Day Gaza vigil highlights Irish discomfort with female protest and dissent
The treatment of Gaza protesters outside the Dáil shows how female dissent is still met with disproportionate force
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Finnish artist Tove Jansson’s #mother, illustrator Signe Hammarsten-Jansson's self portrait, 1910. She had a huge influence on her daughter, including encouraging Tove to draw #womensart
Pen and ink illustration of a white woman walking away from tbe viewer holding a shopping bag and the hand of her child who walks beside her
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Abby Keating @abkeating.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Ooh.
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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
“If we accept that war is inevitable, that inequality is inevitable, that environmental destruction is a necessary cost of progress, then we abandon the possibilities of transformation..” President Michael D Higgins What’ll we do without him?
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Jennifer Szalai @jenszalai.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
WaPo's Ron Charles, in his Book Club newsletter, on Meta's repeated questions about his plans to review Sarah Wynn-Williams's "Careless People": "In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me."
Last Friday afternoon, I got my first message from Ryan Daniels, public affairs manager of strategic response at Meta. When I declined his invitation to talk by phone, he wrote back again: “I was wondering if the Washington Post was going to write a review about a book that’s coming out this upcoming week on Meta. Do you have a couple minutes to chat?”

So, I called. Daniels said, “We don’t have the book,” but the company had prepared “preliminary statements” about it. Although he didn’t share those with me, he wrote to me again on Saturday and again on Monday trying to get information about our review plans. (In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me.)Yesterday, when I reached out to Daniels for a response from Meta, he wrote back: “Do you plan to write something about it, or are you just curious how we’re responding?” 

It’s always about controlling the narrative. But apparently, that’s not going so well. This morning, “Careless People” is No. 3 on Amazon. 

I know this is a long item, the longest I’ve ever written for the Book Club newsletter. But when one of the world’s most powerful media companies tries to snuff out a book — amid other alarming attacks on free speech in America like this — it’s time to pull out all the stops.
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Abby Keating @abkeating.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The utter ridiculousness of fox news exemplified in 20 seconds. MM a socialist, jesus wept
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ifut.bsky.social @ifut.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Hundreds of academic staff and other university workers have signed a letter expressing alarm at Cabinet's decision to remove the Triple Lock. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
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Hundreds of academics express alarm at Triple Lock change
Hundreds of academic staff and other university workers have signed a letter expressing alarm at Cabinet's decision to scrap the Triple Lock.
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Abby Keating @abkeating.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
NO OTHER LAND yes! 🇵🇸 Everyone should see this film. #oscars #freepalestine
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Abby Keating @abkeating.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Is “men being prats to women” a theme of the night or something? #oscars
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Abby Keating @abkeating.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Week 73, Cork.
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TG4 @tg4.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Seachtain na Gaeilge Mí na Gaeilge Bliain na Gaeilge Tír na Gaeilge Domhan na Gaeilge Grian na Gaeilge Gealach na Gaeilge Jupiter na Gaeilge Saturn na Gaeilge Universe na Gaeilge Galaxy na Gaeilge
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Abby Keating @abkeating.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Any Irish Taoiseach or politician making the journey to that bully of a US president and his bully sidekick on St Patrick’s Day is not representing Ireland and its people.
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Abby Keating @abkeating.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
If anyone knows a way to collectively mute the orange man and his swarm of daddy-issue lap-boys from all my feeds for the next four years, please lmk
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Abby Keating @abkeating.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
It’s very cute that Aurora is new in the top 100 in a year where the northern lights were visible so many times - northern lights babies 💫🌟
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Abby Keating @abkeating.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Cork film winning big at Berlinale 👏🏼 www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...
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Irish director wins international award for Cork-shot film at Berlin festival
The jury said the film 'bursts with energy and raw emotion, capturing a teenager’s search for belonging with striking realism'
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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The tenants' union CATU has compiled a list of Ireland's Top Evictors, which really should be a spin-off RTE show like Ireland's Fittest Families: topevictors.ie
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Landlord Database
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Dermot Lynott @dermotlynott.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Gender Pay gap at Irish universities (2024, Median hourly pay gap) ATU: 12.6% DCU: 8.3% Maynooth: 8.86% MTU: 8.5% SETU: 24.3% TCD: 11.0% TUD: 18.25% TUS: 6.7% UCC: 11.56% UCD: 2.66% UG: 14.4% UL: 8.6% Source: @paygap.bsky.social paygap.ie/companies
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All Companies - Irish Gender Pay Gap Portal
A list of all companies that have data listed in the portal, including the company website and what year they first started reporting.
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Abby Keating @abkeating.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
New issue of Alphaville 👇🏼
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Progressive Politics NI @ppni.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
What a speech from Lola Petticrew at the IFTA Awards, winning Best Actress in a Drama for SAY NOTHING. 👏🏻✊🏻
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
As Vance 'lectures' Europe on free speech, it is good to be reminded that the United States ranks 55 (!) on the World Press Freedom Index. The top 10 countries are ALL in Europe. #journalism #democracy #freepress rsf.org/en/index
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Triskel Arts Centre @triskelartscentre.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Triskel Arts Centre, in association with the British Film Institute, is delighted to present five features from the celebrated director Chantal Akerman 22-26 Feb triskelartscentre.ie/special-even...
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Abby Keating @abkeating.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
“DEI is a racist dogwhistle … this is the weaponization of a three-letter term to denigrate Black people and pretend the political and economic advancement of minority communities over the past 60 years was a mistake”
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Abby Keating @abkeating.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Everything Lucy Dacus is releasing is just perfect ❤️
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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
News in pics.
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Abby Keating @abkeating.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
All the awful things about FF policy in one article. Christ. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
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Taoiseach signals possible end to Rent Pressure Zones by end of year
Micheál Martin argues that private investment needs a stable environment to increase housing numbers
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UCD Gender Studies @ucdgender.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The NMI are developing an LGBTQ+ tour for National Museum of Ireland at Collins Barracks & are seeking a researcher to work on drafting a script for the tour. Deadline for applications Fri 14th Feb - #speirgorm #queerhistory #irishhistory #history www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
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LGBTQ+ Tour Research Project | Decorative Arts & History | National Museum of Ireland
Welcome to the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin & Castlebar covering Archaeology, Decorative Arts, Folk & Country Life, & Natural History.FREE Exhibitions
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