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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Field of Flowers - Gustav Klimt

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I'd appreciate any help in amplifying this that I can get. A lot of work went into it and it's the kind of story that most media wouldn't touch with a barge-pole, but I think it raises important issues that need to be discussed.

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Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Belfast launch of Irish Culture and Partition 1920-1955 will be at the Seamus Heaney Centre on May 1, from 5.30pm to 7pm. Bígí Linn

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Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955 (Stephen O'Neill Book Launch)

Join Stephen O'Neill in conversation with Eamonn Hughes.

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 15/04/2026

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Surely it's not appropriate for a civil servant to be opining abroad on the 'maturity' of Irish views on neutrality. The same people who go into a rage when Catherine Connolly, elected on a clear platform, defends international law, strangely silent about this. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

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Ireland’s neutrality a ‘difficult path’ to follow, senior official says

Department of Defence secretary general Jacqui McCrum spoke at French defence conference

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Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

the Dublin launch of my book: 22 April, 6.30 at Notre Dame Dublin, O'Connell House, 58 Merrion Square. Bígí Linn. www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

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Book Launch: Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955

A book launch for Stephen O'Neill's Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955, with guest speaker Dr Tom Walker.

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Clare Moriarty @quiteclare.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I wrote about the turnaround on SNA cuts and how the whole thing shows a lack of understanding about how precarious things are for many families of people with additional needs. It's also a reminder that they need to be ready to fight & protest at all times just to maintain the inadequate status quo

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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

The financial hit to Israel each year would be less than the cost of the infamous Leinster House bike shed. #Spéirgorm We can't let this slide.

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Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Reminder to get those abstracts in for our sad girl summer conference!

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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

On Friday 16 January we will be hosting a one-day conference on LABOUR POLITICS IN WEST BELFAST, 1918-83. Free event - all welcome (in-person and online). www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...

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UCD Humanities Institute @ucdhumanities.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

⏱️FOUR MORE WEEKS to submit your abstract to @darlingorlaith.bsky.social and Fionnula Simpson for their upcoming 8-9 June 'Bad Feelings: Sadness and Gender in Contemporary Culture' conference, a research project funded by the UCD Humanities Institute's Seed Funding Scheme.

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Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Just saw a student wearing a barbour jacket and a mullet and don't know what to think

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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Who's Here? 👋 A warm welcome to: Dr Audrey Borowski (Cambridge) Dr Elizabeth Sarah Coles (Pompeu Fabra) Dr Sheila Crane (Virginia) Dr @darlingorlaith.bsky.social (UC Dublin) Dr @kareemestefan.bsky.social (Cambridge) Dr @fernandag.bsky.social (Cambridge) Dr Jan Kerkmann (Freiburg) 1/2

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Who’s Here? Introducing CRASSH Fellows in Michaelmas Term 2025 - CRASSH

A brief introduction to new fellows joining CRASSH this term.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

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Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48078... I will be hosting a reading group on the work of Lauren Berlant Oct.-Nov. @crasshlive.bsky.social. Berlant's writing on sentimentality and the public sphere has lots to say to the current moment we're living through + anyone in Cambridge should please join us!

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Lauren Berlant: A Michaelmas Reading Group - CRASSH

In an early talk about Cruel Optimism, Lauren Berlant describes their critical object: namely, the “desire”, which they perceive as endemic to capitalism, “to have a cluster of feelings in lieu of hav...

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Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Send in your abstracts for the Sadness + Gender conference we're holding in June 2026! We have some fantastic keynote speakers and specialist panels lined up and would love to see you all in Dublin! #cfp @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @molimuseum.bsky.social

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Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/about/events... I will be a visiting fellow at @crasshlive.bsky.social and Wolfson College from Oct-Dec. Come see me talk about my new project at Wolfson Humanities Society! I believe the event will also be MS Team-ed @ucdhumanities.bsky.social

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Wolfson College Cambridge: Everything’s Fine, Nothing’s Fine: The Sad Girl Novel

Why are so many millennial women so sad?

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Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Tune in to hear me talk about Research Ireland postdocs (formerly the IRC)

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

srael is no longer seeking approval for issuing bonds through Ireland's Central Bank. Despite the pathetic Irish Government refusing to formally stop authorising Israeli bonds, the concerted pressure of a popular campaign here led to this outcome. www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...

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Irish Central Bank will no longer approve Israeli bonds

The latest bond prospectus issued by Israel has been approved by Luxembourg and not the Central Bank in Ireland.

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Entirely man-made famine.

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Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Like everyone, I am listening to obscene amounts of Oasis recently and would like to have a moment of appreciation for Liam's incredible diction (a fraught topic between myself and my childhood singing teacher)

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Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

www.litencyc.com/php/speople.... New Literary Encyclopedia entry on Sally Rooney just dropped. A real joy to think about her oeuvre, and a real challenge to fit it into concise entry!

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Sally Rooney

Background Sally Rooney is the author of poetry, short stories, essays,...

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Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Call out to drop me your favourite love poems🥰

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Literature Ireland @literatureireland.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Would you like to contribute to the public consultation about the Basic Income for the Arts? 💡 Fill out this survey from Minister O’Donovan at the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

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Basic Income for the Arts public consultation

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Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Thrilled that Fionnula and myself have been granted generous funding by @ucdhumanities.bsky.social to run this conference. Anyone interested in women's lit/mental health/disability studies keep your eyes peeled for CfP!

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UCD Humanities Institute @ucdhumanities.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

We're pleased to announce funding awarded to 6 projects catalysing research across the CAH Research Strands. The projects are funded by the HI Seed Funding Scheme: CAH Research Strands 2025-2026. We're delighted these projects can be realised and look forward to collaborating with the project leads.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

"There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled" Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel deliberately starving an entire civilian population

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Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Leafing through old Irish poetry anthologies to look for wedding readings is renewing my gratitude to a later generation of Irish writers, editors, and publishers for championing gender representation. Mad to think that efforts from the recent past (within my lifetime) including one woman poet...

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Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

spending a day in bed reading Brandon Taylor's Substack all day and calling it research: summer 2025 vibes

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Andrew Hartman @andrewhartman.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Seeing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social win thanks to grassroots support by young activists (yay @demsocialists.bsky.social) makes this middle aged guy living on the prairie so freaking happy. Let a thousand similar flowers all over the US bloom.

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Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Dublin and Dublin-adjacent people! If anyone knows of any nice wedding venues that can host 240-ish people, please let me know!

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

As has been typical for some time, the paper of global finance is to the left of the US liberal party.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

Posting this extract from a lecture by John Maynard Keynes, speaking on the BBC in the middle of the Second World War, to every Labour cabinet minister

Let us not submit to the vile doctrine of the nineteenth century that every enterprise must justify itself in pounds, shillings and pence of cash income … Why should we not add in every substantial city the dignity of an ancient university or a European capital … an ample theater, a concert hall, a dance hall, a gallery, cafes, and so forth. Assuredly we can afford this and so much more. Anything we can actually do, we can afford… We are immeasurably richer than our predecessors. Is it not evident that some sophistry, some fallacy, governs our collective action if we are forced to be so much meaner than they in the embellishments of life? …

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Alice-Mary Higgins @aliceeire.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

i'm bringing my Arms Embargo Bill back to Seanad tomorrow! Myself & my Seanad CEG colleagues want an end to Ministerial exemptions that allow flights to carry weapons directly or indirectly through Ireland to Israel. No more 'turn a blind eye' complicity in horrific breaches of international law👇

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Bluesky

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Former trades of New Ross, Wexford

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Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I find myself having somehow gone through a decade of education in English Literature without having read John Steinbeck. Currently finishing (and loving and weeping over) Grapes of Wrath, and would love recs on where to go next!

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Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Feeling the pernicious effects of my (warranted, I think) over-excitement (which is to say overindulgence) in a newly discovered Gluten Free stout yesterday. No more will I gaze longingly at friends' pints 🥰🍻

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Today’s mood is whimsical…

A picture of a hedgehog nesting in a doll’s tent in a garden with the words “I don’t know who needs to see this, but here is a hedgehog in a little tent”

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Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Anyone interested in literary narratives of social mobility and higher education in literature -- submit to my panel for Association for the Study of Arts in he Present conference 2025! asap16.exordo.com/panels/30/co...

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ASAP/16: Association for the Study of Arts of the Present | Ex Ordo

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Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨ @unaminh.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Neuter your ex for Valentine's Day! For €30 per donation Animals in Need Donegal will name a feral cat after your ex and will give em the snip through their TNR program! They'll even send you a pic of your ex's feline namesake lol 🐕 www.idonate.ie/1552_animals... 🐈

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