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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 13h

“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross” (author, unknown)

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The Vikingology Podcast @vikingologypodcast.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Super stoked to have @smsindbaek.bsky.social back on the podcast. This time we talked about the series of cool books he's written about the #vikingage ring fortresses in Denmark. Check it out! vikingology.substack.com/p/denmarks-v...

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Denmark’s Viking Age Ring Fortresses

Listen now | Our chat with archaeologist Søren Sindbæk about these enigmatic monuments

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This one is doing the rounds

A picture of Elon Musk, via the London Economic. The quote says “If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what the heck was wrong with it. When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes.“ – Nathalie Robin Justice.

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“In addition to physical assaults, they usually commit other violations… such as preventing access to agricultural land; destroying crops, olive trees, farming equipment; vandalizing homes, water/electricity infrastructure; stealing or killing livestock.“ www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analy...

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Extremist Settler Terrorism and Violence in the West Bank: New Data Calls for a New Strategy

Acts of violence by extremist settlers have risen sharply in scale and severity, shifting from largely reactive incidents to a more proactive, strategic effort aimed at displacing Palestinian communit...

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Delighted to welcome a party of student counsellors from high schools in India, with UCD Global staff, to the Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture -chatting about the international student experience in University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

UCD's Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture's (CEAMC) researchers bring the past to life through the practice of ancient technologies and crafts. It is one of the few dedicated, full-scale, on-campus facilities for experimental archaeological research. www.ucd.ie/research/inf...

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Reconstructing the past

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Archaeologists excavating near Naousa in northern Greece recently uncovered a roughly 2,400-year-old school complex, or gymnasium. The site which stood in the ancient Macedonian town of Mieza, may have been where Aristotle taught in the 4th century B.C.E.” 🚨 allthatsinteresting.com/greece-ancie...

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Archaeologists In Greece Found An Ancient School Complete With Intact Benches Where Students Like Alexander The Great Listened To Lectures More Than 2,000 Years Ago

Archaeologists excavating near Naousa uncovered a 2,400-year-old school that's believed to be where Aristotle taught a young Alexander the Great.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New discovery: Tableware found in 2,100-year-old shipwreck located off coats of Adrasan, Türkiye It's believed that the cargo contained luxury tableware produced in Rhosus, modern-day Arsuz, and was intended for markets such as Rome. www.dailysabah.com/life/history...

Underwater photo of numerous pottery vessels across the sandy seabed, including bowlss and plate. A measuring scale is visible in the background.

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As debates about Irish unity referendum starts to emerge across communities, and after a successful and happy Belfast fleadh, are some people trying to (re)create divisions again by marching? www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

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PSNI issues warning to Garvaghy Road protesters amid standoff over Orange Order march

Orange Order had been due to march down the Garvaghy Road in mainly nationalist area of Portadown

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“But Bazunu is not responsible for any of this, because everything that happened across this day of infamy is a direct consequence of a serious lack of leadership from the Government, Uefa, and ultimately the FAI” www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer...

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Ireland v Israel: Day of infamy exposes serious lack of leadership in FAI

Gavin Bazunu has been left brutally isolated as any semblance of squad unity has been utterly sundered

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In a world of Ed Sheerans, be a Gavin Bazanu

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“The general manager of Ashford Castle has warned that if you don’t have your helicopter already booked for the time of the Ryder Cup at Adare Manor Hotel in Limerick next September 'you are not going to get it'.” So there now, can’t say you haven’t been warned www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

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Ashford Castle manager warns over difficulty in booking helicopters for Ryder Cup

Pretax profit triples to €4m

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How very pointless and incredibly, movingly beautiful ...

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"Early medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100. The evidence from archaeological excavations" Aidan O'Sullivan, Finbar McCormick, Thomas R. Kerr & Lorcan Harney (2021 reprint with new bibliographical essay) Royal Irish Academy, Dublin Available for €9.99 from Royal Irish Academy shop.ria.ie/products/ear...

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

First time ever in Vienna, better get working on the lecture "looking forward to welcoming Aidan O’Sullivan from University College Dublin for HEAS Keynote on Experimental Archaeology: Making, Understanding, Storytelling" 12 November 2026 at 15:30, Theatresaal at the Austrian Academy of Sciences"

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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"As Chair of UCD, I write in the Business Post along with my fellow Chairs of Ireland's leading universities." 🗣️ Mike Beary, Chair, UCD Governing Authority #SupportIrishUniversities @iua-official.bsky.social

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Opinion: Budget 2027 must tackle Ireland’s universities €250m funding gap

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Past Horizons Archaeology Equipment @pasthorizons.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

www.euronews.com/culture/2026... The discovery of the new agora, together with the uncovering of a paved road leading to the southern gate and Iron Age ceramics, challenges the accepted historical narrative of a long phase in which the city stood empty.

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Archaeology at Troy: 2,800-year-old agora found, city was not abandoned after war

Excavations on Hisarlik hill in Turkey have uncovered the site’s oldest agora, proving Troy was resettled 80–90 years after the war, not deserted for centuries before the Aeolians arrived.

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Internet Archaeology @intarcheditor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Who tells your story? Diversifying narratives of the past through storytelling as an archaeological 🏺 method by @hlsteyne.bsky.social and Milica Rajić doi.org/10.11141/ia.... #archaeology #method #storytelling #socialjustice #diversity #inclusion #narrative

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

UCD School of Archaeology team, 2025/26!

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is …. truly glorious 🥰 A young Mary Black sings the Scottish folk song “Annachie Gordon” youtu.be/dN2tAU5J0mg?...

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Mary Black-Annachie Gordon

YouTube video by Donegal

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Newtown Hill; One of the most remarkable small archaeological landscapes in Ireland, spanning millennia, preserved by generations of the Maguire family farming the hill. Today you can go on tours - see Newtownhill.ie www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

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Exploring a landscape farmed for the past 4,000 years

Philip Boucher Hayes walks the farm of Philip Maguire, with his son Daniel and archaeologist Prof Aidan O'Sullivan, UCD, exploring a landscape farmed for the past 4,000 years - or thereabouts

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Franciscan College Gormonston boys, class of ‘84 on archaeological tour of Newtown Hill, Dublin mountains

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Prof Tadhg O’Keeffe used his vast knowledge of medieval architecture, to seek out and identify the original 13th century elements in a structure long thought to be a castle in name only, a 19th century building manning centuries old architecture www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

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‘Lost’ medieval castle found hiding inside UCD building

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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Walls of the Norman castle of Roebuck, long thought demolished, survive beneath plaster in a Dublin university building. Its oldest sections date to the early 13th century, and its medieval courtyard remains in use.

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'Lost' medieval castle found hiding inside university building in Dublin

One of Dublin's "lost" medieval castles has been found hiding in plain sight inside University College Dublin's Roebuck Castle.

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What an extraordinary time to be alive. Just extraordinary

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Mr D’Arcy, your breeches are stupendous!” The Regency Tearooms one morning in Bath

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I used to be obsessed with prehistoric and medieval woodworking In my Airbnb in Bath looking at a timber beam, hewn from a smallish oak - leaving a curved waney edge. It was worked with two different broad iron axes, one of them had a chip on the cutting edge, leaving a distinctive blade signature

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Cannot tell you how much I adore this clip from 1941 of women from the Western Isles of the Outer Hebrides singing as they work their Harris Tweed. It was shot by the Oscar-winning cinematographer JACK CARDIFF.

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"The University of Chicago’s undergrad social-sciences division will go “analog” this fall, implementing a blanket policy banning technology in class and AI assistance on coursework across the division’s core courses." www.chronicle.com/article/u-of...

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U. of Chicago Bans Tech, AI in Social Sciences Core Courses

The new restrictions apply to students and faculty members.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 13/09/2026

Another year full of climate extremes... Did you know the last 100 days have all set new daily records for global sea surface temperatures? Learn more about our rapidly warming oceans in our webinar this week, & bring your questions! 📣 Register in advance: climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The WW2 Bletchley Park Bombes were electro-mechanical devices using rotors to simulate Enigma settings, breaking German codes, and enabled winning the war, or at least shortening it. The origins of modern computers, thanks to them today we can send messages like “I hope this email finds you well”

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Statement from President Connolly: We are in a world facing the existential threat posed by war and climate change, both of which are inextricably interlinked. I conveyed the strong view of the Irish people that the normalisation of war and genocide can never be accepted.

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A GAA member my whole life, & wince to remember men and us boys scoffing at a 1970s Longford Ladies football match. GAA has made a hames of this, we need a proper timeline now for Gaelic games integration, or more girls will face years of that old cod www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic...

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Ciarán Murphy: Gaelic integration by 2027 is dead. Now, associations must get it right

GAA must find a voice somewhere in their ranks who can prove they’re all-in on integration

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Deeply disappointing and shambolic; it makes the GAA look very cynical and foot-dragging. There will be camogie and LGFA players, and women coaches, mentors, and mothers of girls across Ireland worn out by this... more of the same old cod...

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What a pity Ireland on the Atlantic coast doesn’t get windy conditions

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Just a thought.. lots of people starting to post - including me -about that American woman suing that cafe/community centre, on the Scottish island. And the media loving it - all the clicks What’s next, a suicide? Have we not learned?

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Dr Izzy Wisher @izzywisher.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Very bold claims and (it seems) no scientific publication to support it (+ unconvincing/poor images in the press article, and nothing really to suggest the marks photographed are Palaeolithic in age). Curious to know what others think about this…

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