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(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Be grand, as long as they don't look for finger prints ...

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

One can never forget @dsquareddigest.bsky.social's profound observation, some years ago, that online Palestine discourse will never stop, because it's one place everyone who likes a good fight knows they can get one at the drop of a hat.

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(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

3 years is an eternity in pro sport these days

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(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Coincidentally, where I am from is in the barony of Carbery, which in Irish is Cairbre!

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(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Love trawling through historical newspapers for nuggets like this 👇 ('Skibbereen Eagle', 23 Jan. 1915) @catsofyore.bsky.social

Newspaper article on the employment of cats as public servants during World War One

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(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In 2 months' time you could make a jaunty tune out of it ...

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(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One might say they're almost ... *big pause ... Obsessed with it

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(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Born #OnThisDay in 1852: William O'Brien - journalist, maverick politician and an influential figure in late 19th and early 20th century Ireland. My PhD research centered to a large degree on O'Brien in early 20th century Ireland. A piece I wrote on him in 2018: medium.com/@j_goddy/a-f...

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A Forgotten Son of Mallow (and Ireland)? William O’Brien (1852–1928) and his world

A few weeks ago I spoke to a local history group in the town of Mallow in north County Cork in January 2018. The subject of my talk was the…

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(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Probably should have lost it too, Austria were dominant for the last quarter at least

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(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

*Rummaging around for the 'It Is Another Frustrating Night for Irish Soccer' meme

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(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And they're cashing in on our fatigue

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(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Like a modern day Constable painting

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(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's a tale as old as the state itself, with brief periods of wild optimism

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(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Seismic team meeting Shambolic press conference afterward Goalkeepers at the centre of a firestorm We've learned precisely nothing in 24 years

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(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Was it for this that a man of Cork (allegedly) called a man of Barnsely several epithets on a small Asian island all those years ago?

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(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Readers of Sports Illustrated (is that still a thing?) might also have a view

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(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Leo Varadkar turning up as an answer on Only Connect was not in my bingo card

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(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Wait until they hear who's been voicing Bart Simpson for the last 35 plus years

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(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Purveyors of laptop dancing and the nanny goat mambo as a notorious ex-employee of that august publication once wrote

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(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Contrarianism [at] irishtimes [dot] com

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(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Quality rage baiting costs money to produce

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(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Dermot Bannon Effect, I think it has been christened

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(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Good job window taxes are a thing of the past

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(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I think it depended on the parish priest and what humour he was in!!

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(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

PS Regina did a great talk on 'Connie Dodgers' last Sat at the UCC Cork Histories Conference

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(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Stations in my neck of the woods were either at 12 noon (winter) or 7.30pm (summer)

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(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I think you might have hit on an idea for an RTE Sunday night drama there - Kitty and Maude: Takedown

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(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Which reminds me: I must buy that Tom Morello t-shirt featuring Antonio Gramsci

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(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

40 days and 40 nights of rain should do the trick

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(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Investors had The Living Daylights scared out of them, and were told to Live and Let Die

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(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I was just making the same point on another discussion here! Great minds ...

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(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I was told on the qt by a senior lecturer that some of the best essays on his period were found on wikipedia!

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(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I can remember warning students less than a decade ago about citing wikipedia in essays, and now look at where we are

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(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Wait, there's a new Spider-Man picture out?

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is insanity. It appears the entire Seanad voter register has been junked without letting any of the voters know and we all (TCD and NUI) have to re-register on this 1996-flavoured website to use our vote. seanadvoter.ie/indexEN.shtml

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(Dr) John O'Donovan @jodcork.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hopefully his taxes are in order, or things could get Messi very fast ...

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

To overcome AI, all history courses require students to travel back through time and collect figures from history for a final presentation. And they must remember to wind their watch.

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