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Elaine Dobbyn

@edobb.bsky.social
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Teacher, book-reader, sea-swimmer- posts my own.

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 20/05/2025
Compare Vonnegut buying an envelope with this tech bro running from his life
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Humphrey Jones @humphreyjones.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Breda O’Brien is spot on in her article in today’s @irishtimes.com - the Department have decided that bullying teachers into reform is easier than actually funding or supporting it properly.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
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Damien Owens @damienowens.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
To the tune of Eric Carmen's 1975 hit All By Myself:
Screenshot of a Tweet by noted lunatic Laura Loomer. She's replying to the newly-elected head of the Catholic Church with the words 'WOKE MARXIST POPE'.
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Elaine Dobbyn @edobb.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Wikipedia is on the ball- #newpope #vatican
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
filling time on air until the new pope is announced is known as "pontiffication"
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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 19/04/2025
“Orkneyinga Saga… is at once a historical chronicle & a literary fantasy. It is a Christian book of bloodshed that celebrates saints alongside murderers. Rich in paradox, invention & embellishment…” —Simon Hall on the c.1200 CE Orkneyinga Saga #BookWormSat www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/nors...
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Norse Past, Victorian Present: Orcadian readings of 'Orkneyinga Saga' - The Bottle Imp
I am privileged to work in a school in the village of Pierowall on the Orkney island of Westray, and my Monday morning commute is pretty spectacular. At Kirkwall airport, I board the little eight-seat...
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The Looney @jaylonesome.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
They banned drink on good Friday, see, on account of the Romans. So we'd all buy cans on the Thursday. "Gimme a bag o cans", you'd say. 'Course back then they were a pound a can, so you could fill a bag. A pound was what they called Euros...
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Bryan Quinn @bryanquinn1981.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I can never forget that ending. Stays with you like the Arctic wastes themselves.
A printed book page with the closing paragraph of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Below the final printed words, the following handwritten paragraph:

As he drifted away I could just make
out his final words.

“It’s ok if you just call me ‘Frankenstein’
instead of ‘Frankenstein’s Monster.’

I really don’t mind.”
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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...
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Andrew @adymarti.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
At last!! Well done Rory. Now every single person on this island can finally move on with our lives. #masters
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Elaine Dobbyn @edobb.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
#masters He did it the hard way! Congrats Rory! So happy for him.
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QueenCityJamz @queencityjamz.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
RIP Kurt Vonnegut. Gone 18 yrs. Dang.
"No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful. If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music."
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Patrick Hickey @aiteachingguru.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
“Teachers will not teach what they do not know.” - from my interview In today’s @irishexaminer.bsky.social with Jess Kelly #edchatie #aieducation
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Elaine Dobbyn @edobb.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
All the new Leaving cert sample papers for Tranche 1 subjects are 2 hours 30 mins across the board 🤮 Exactly the same mistakes as JC are being repeated- give students time to THINK! Less time only increases stress and pressure!! #edchatie
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
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Seán Moncrieff @seanmoncrieff.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
For all its flaws, be thankful where you live.
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INOTE @inotenews.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Another week & while the numbers are rising, the numbers don’t add up yet. It’s really important to have your voices included. Please encourage all stakeholders to have their say-
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Elaine Feeney @elainefeeney.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
This post is so apt👇 Here’s a link to our podcasts from University of Galway Archive on the Tuam Institution www.universityofgalway.ie/tuam-oral-hi...
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Podcasts - University of Galway
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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 27/03/2025
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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I wrote about the workplace culture in various TV shows from Severance to Paw Patrol www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...
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Damien Owens @damienowens.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
So grateful that Ireland doesn’t have a perceived Golden Age we could enjoy again if only we’d listen to the racists and homophobes. Wax lyrical about the 1950s in an Irish pub and people will assume you’ve suffered a head injury.
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Brian @brianmcguinness.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
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INOTE @inotenews.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
📢 @NCCAie are offering you the opportunity to be part of Regional Focus Groups on the draft specification for Leaving Cert English. Follow the link for more details on these one day events & to register: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 17/03/2025
Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space. Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.
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Annie West @anniewestdotcom.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Happy Ides of March to those who celebrate
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Fintan O'Toole @fotoole.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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What Made the Irish Famine So Deadly
The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the market must be obeyed at all costs.
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INOTE @inotenews.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
How many English teachers are there currently teaching in Post Primary schools? That’s how many voices should be heard. forms.office.com/pages/response…
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The Prompt @wearetheprompt.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Submissions are now open for The Prompt, a new writing series for RTÉ Radio 1. Eight of Ireland's best writers have set prompts for you - details here: www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
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RTÉ Radio 1 is looking for writers for their new series
The Prompt is a brand new series for writers...
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INOTE @inotenews.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
INOTE Executive Committee met today to discuss the recently published draft specification for Leaving Certificate English. An online consultation survey is available-MAKE THE CHANGE MEANINGFUL-have your say too ncca.ie/en/senior-cycl…
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Elaine Dobbyn @edobb.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
@fotoole.bsky.social excited to see and updated version of 'The Radical Guide to Shakespeare' in the book shops- now with added Othello and King Lear 🥳 Have been forcing my leaving certs to read bits of the original book for years and now I can suggest they buy this 👏🏼👏🏼
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 06/03/2025
Very few Dutch cyclists wear helmets. Yet theirs are among the safest streets on earth. Why? They understand it’s more beneficial to calm motor traffic, build dedicated infrastructure, and nurture a culture of everyday cycling. Not force the most vulnerable users to armour up. youtu.be/P7trv9paMxA
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Elaine Dobbyn @edobb.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Have had a very quick scan- a lot to process- any other English teachers out there reading it??! #edchatie ncca.ie/media/kocjun...
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 03/03/2025
An Australian man who saved more than two million babies by donating blood over a thousand times has died jrnl.ie/6638624
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Australian man whose blood donations saved more than 2.4 million babies dies aged 88
Over the course of his life, James Harrison donated blood 1,173 times, which helped save the lives of over 2 million babies.
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Julien Hoez @julienhoez.eu · 02/03/2025
It’s unacceptable that 500 million Europeans have left themselves exposed and dependent on 340 million Americans to protect them from 140 million Russians, who have been unable to win against 40 million Ukrainians in a three-day war that has lasted for three years.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.
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Elaine Dobbyn @edobb.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
If some large high street retailer could whizz out a dog man costume for kids in the next few days they would make BANK in pre World Book Day panic... can't even find a blue top to use to cobble together a home made one 🤦‍♀️ @primark.bsky.social
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 25/02/2025
Over 51,000 primary school pupils were in classes of 30 children or higher last year, according to the Department of Education jrnl.ie/6632834
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Over 51,000 primary school pupils were in classes of 30 children or higher last year
More than 1,600 primary school classes across the country had at least 30 pupils last year.
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Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Media coverage on spending in the arts needs to be balanced w the HUGE value for money that public funding provides for our communities, society & economy in this country. Politicians talking about being ‘furious’ would do well to take account of the many projects & institutions that are… #speirgorm
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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Relatedly, Mary Oliver, for anyone who is grieving.
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Mojito Fiend @ronronzo.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Drives me mental how people in media do no seem to understand how the public sector works. Someone on a career break isn’t being paid. The job is filled by someone else. It literally doesn’t affect you if someone takes a 12 career break and there’s loads of reasons why they might. It’s an outlier.
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Philip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
This poem is now well over a century old. Does that mean, that despite the undoubted power of the line and resonance with today, the centre actually tends to hold?
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Elaine Dobbyn @edobb.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Was also there- so good. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...
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Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
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Maitiú Ó Coimín @maitiuocoimin.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Agus an síneadh fada gan chúis ar an dá liosta! 'Rían' in áit 'Rian' agus 'Fíadh' in áit 'Fiadh'. Hyper-gaelicisation.
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Elaine Dobbyn @edobb.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Elaine Dobbyn - secondary teacher of English and SEN in Galway- lurking mostly today as was getting a kid to sleep! Can anyone explain the Deepseek thing to me like I'm 5 (the mental age I am when it comes to AI stuff)? #edchatie
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