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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 21h

Me explaining to Dublin people that from Cork it's quicker and easier to get to London than to Dublin.

"interesting" meme - girl with a self-satsifed expression, holding a drink, looks at a computer

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Heading into mid October with the windows open and sunlight coming in 💀💀

An open sash window with a tree behind it. In the foreground a white table with silver kettle and orange coffee machine.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Everyone who used to work in the UK during the IFUT work stoppage today

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Love these guys so much (1967, by local architect Frank Murphy)

Two 1960s/1970s rectangular office buildings, one with navy cladding and one with ochre. Both are reflected in the river on a clear day.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"we need to kill people nicer" really is US bluesky in a nutshell

A post that says "man I have complicated feelings about capital punishment generally but if we are going to do it we have to do it a lot better than this, just mechanically"

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Once again reflecting on how much our national discourse is constituted by hyper-vigilant attempts to be generous & nuanced about the history of British imperialism and British papers are just like, "lol, subhumans"

A daily mail headline: Forget The Craic. Modern Ireland is sanctimonious, angry - and addicted to grievance and playing the historical victim: DAVID PATRIKARAKOS

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"obviously a challenging situation today" this gobshite is so out of his depth jfc

PM Andy Burnham appeals for 'calm on all sides'
The prime minister has just been speaking on the BBC about the parade, calling for calm to prevail.

“I know it’s a tense situation. We do appeal for calm on all sides,” he told Laura Kuenssberg on her politics show.

“There have been big gains made in Northern Ireland, and we don’t want to see things go backwards.

“So, obviously, a challenging situation today, but it’s very important that we work to bring calm.”

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I actuallylike this article by Susan Pedersen, but this bit where a professorship at Columbia is imagined as a kind of hardship post is, even for the LRB, extremely LRB.

When I left more than two decades later, after fifteen years on the faculty and a few in administration, I missed so much about it: its heterodox but harmonious architecture, the Kabuki theatre of its faculty govern-ance, the many doors it opened, the wealth it oozed and the fact that, when things didn't work, the person you called didn't drily say, 'Welcome to Columbia,' but: 'I can take care of that for you, Professor Pedersen.' I never regretted leaving though, not just because I found Columbia's edgy students and argumentative faculty suited me, but still more because, in New York, no one cares that you're an Ivy League professor; you're just another resident of a crumbl-ing and glorious city. This is a great check on self-regard, and I found it unimaginably freeing.

I was left, though, with a healthy respect for Harvard's cultural power and, when I

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Some of the lads from the english department heard you made a light, passing reference to intertextuality in your sociology paper and want to talk about it

a poto of gilla band, four unhappy-looking white men in early middle age, dressed in various tones of black and beige

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Someone get this man off vinted before real damage is done

.e wearing a venue cool blue and navy patterned sleeveless v-neck sweater with a white shirt and green tie

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Got the 8.5% whiskey-infused anniversary Murphy's, lads [they're only allowed to sell in half pints because Irish people]

A hand holding a half pint glass of stout over a wooden table.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm sorry, I know we all love this guy, but this is extremely Cork City Council coded.

A post by Mamdani showing a green roof on a bus stop: Could new bus shelter roofs help New Yorkers stay cool in extreme heat?

We're testing a few in Brownsville to find out: a green roof covered with native plants, and reflective roofs covered with low-cost, heat-resilient film.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The @radhumslab.bsky.social are pleased to announce 'Against Automation: Resisting AI Futures in Teaching and Research,' November 20th, @ucc.ie. With Dan McQuillan, Patrick Brodie, Masoumeh Mansouri, and Jennie Stephens. Tickets at: www.eventbrite.com/e/against-au...

A poster announcing Against Automation: Resisting AI Futures in Teaching and Research, November 20th, @ucc.ie. With Dan McQuillan, Patrick Brodie, Masoumeh Mansouri, and Jennie Stephens. Cacsss seminar room, 10am - 3pm

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

God between us and the condescension of the English left

A post by Dave andress that quote tweets Mary mcauliffe's post on the crap new Irish citizenship proposals and says "hello and welcome to the fundamental logic of the nation state"

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Once again sharing my "marry a chef" life hack [beef tartare with crostini and a sous-vide egg]

A grey pate work crostini on the left and a disk of raw beef with an egg yolk on top

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Catherine Connolly, standing, talking down to Donald trump, who is seated with a massive book in front of him

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'm really looking forward to Caitríona Lally's 'Home Economics,' and look at this beaut of a cover. @newislandbooks.bsky.social

The cover of Home Economics by Caitríona Lally - a series of thin black lines on a white background with an orange disc split between the bottom and top.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I might need to get my wife off vinted

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Very much regret to tell you that the yanks have discovered ryanair

Some Americans talking about Ryanair, in which one says he once took a flight where someone had a live chicken and another says it reminds him of the Boston-nyc Chinatown bus.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The UK university sector is mired in absolute madness

Graduates would also receive a new “universal lifetime entitlement to careers support both while they are at university and throughout their career”, says the plan published on 9 September.
Every undergraduate would also be entitled to access artificial intelligence (AI) tools, the roadmap states, while every course should have a lecturer who is an “AI trailblazer” so that “graduates have the skills to be AI pioneers in the workplace”.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Scrolling through balaclava discourse on the bluesky

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I gave a keynote to the excellent conference of the @irishhumanities.bsky.social yesterday. Got a bunch of things off my chest about healthcare in Irl, about privatisation, tech, the role of private equity, and the need for a critical sociological imagination in Irish medical humanities. Was good!

A man speaking at a podium in a church inder a large stained glass window. A slide kas a newspaper saying: head of rotunda: I'm sorry, I did not mean private care was safer than public.

A slide giving the title of a talk: a sketch not a story, what can the medical humanities in Ireland achieve? There's a historical picture of the Pfizer plant in cork.

The inside of an empty church viewed from the podium. There are rows of empty chairs and a wooden organ in the background.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Hands down the weirdest place I've given a talk

An ornate church interior with rows of folding chairs and in the back a large wooden organ

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Some more photos of the SETU college st campus, a former laundry, convent, and industrial school.

An institutional corridor with patterned marble floor and church pews on the side.

A small classroom, a former parlour, with wooden framed Windows and a black fireplace

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I'm really looking forward to the @irishhumanities.bsky.social annual conference today and tomorrow. We're meeting at the site of the former Good Shepherd magdalene laundry in Waterford city, and beginning with an intervention from the Waterford Memories project.

A forbidding three story redbrick Victorian institution.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It's sort of bleakly funny that one of this lad's main examples of self-evidently "ridiculous" ideological over-reach is the suggestion that decolonial perspectives might have some bearing on his Irish politics course.