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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 20h

Friday evening listening... Wild Pink - Round of Applause at the End of the World TLDR: sounds like Springsteen discovered the fuzz pedal. youtu.be/SXcLwwg8DXw?...

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Round Of Applause At The End Of The World

YouTube video by Wild Pink - Topic

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Mo Moulton @momoulton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The new edition of A Practical Guide to Studying History is out, just in time for anyone starting a history degree. Want to see my material on trans history? Check out 'Identities' in the Activities and Annotated Bibliography sections. www.bloomsburyonlineresources.com/a-practical-... 🌈🎓

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A Practical Guide to Studying History - Home

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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There has been some very astute commentary on the Manchester City case over the last few days - including this excellent discussion on @liberopodcast.com. youtu.be/T5Zfs0Gq-xY?...

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Manchester City: Sham Football Club | Libero 162

YouTube video by Libero

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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

V.disappointing - esp Heimir saying he used the 'wrong' word in genocide. Black armbands simply not enough. But we shouldn't lose sight of two things: (1) What Gavin Bazunu has just done. (2) The impact of the boycott campaign so far. It's working. Keep it up for 24 more hrs + see if they'll break.

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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A perfect description of the position the Irish team has been left in - and their manager, too, I would add. They are clearly weighing up what doing the right thing will mean. They should be heartened by the knowledge that history will judge them very well for not playing these games.

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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wow. Good on them. The authorities left them adrift - a very brave move but the right thing to do. The world will remember them on the right side of history. Jason Knight: "I don't think the game obviously should be going ahead but it is going ahead." www.rte.ie/sport/soccer...

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Confusion in Hungary as players hold meeting - updates

The Republic of Ireland's press conference and training session has been postponed in Debrecen, Hungary as the squad deliberates whether to fulfil tomorrow's UEFA Nations League game against Israel. F...

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Call me old fashioned but I don't think the mission of Irish universities is to educate Chinese students in China or American students in America. We are not budding multinational businesses- we are a public service for students in Ireland, wherever they come from. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

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Irish colleges should focus on teaching abroad, not attracting foreign students – Minister

State already has insufficient accommodation for those in higher education, James Lawless says

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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Kudos to the couple on the train into Galway this morning who had booked their seats under the names Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. I only wish I'd noticed it on the display before they got off the carriage. Masterful work.

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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Good. When you have a platform and the ability to do the right thing, just do it.

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Documents on Irish Foreign Policy @difp-ria.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Its the last day of the National Ploughing Championships; listen back to our own @melissabaird.bsky.social speaking to @seanmoncrieff.bsky.social on @newstalkfm.bsky.social about the controversy over Rhodesian entrants to the 1973 instalment www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig... @ria.ie

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The controversy of the 1973 Ploughing Championships | Newstalk

The Ploughing Championships are on this week, and while that is usually a celebrated event, there...

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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This evening, I am mostly listening to Ry Cooder's brilliant 2005 album, Chavéz Ravine, which traces the history of the Mexican-American LA neighbourhood of the same name - and its ultimate destruction to make way for a new stadium for the LA Dodgers. youtu.be/rH2sLjK4wx8?...

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El U.F.O. Cayo

YouTube video by Ry Cooder - Topic

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Mark Doyle @markdoyle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Was very happy to beam into QUB today to launch the Africans in Ireland website that I and a number of colleagues have been working on for years. Maps, database, & other resources documenting the African presence in Ireland from the late 16th to early 20th centuries. africansinireland.com

A right-facing silhouette of the Black preacher and seaman John Jea, Methodist preacher and seaman, from his 1816 book The Life, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea, the African Preacher

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Solidarity with this Piddington resident ♥️✊ #Newsnight

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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Saturday mornings as a parent in hurling country.

Photograph of a hurley, a yellow hurling helmet, and a pair of brown football boots. The backdrop is a yellow diamond-patterned mat.

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uniofgalwaycasscs.bsky.social @uniofgalwaycasscs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

University of Galway’s Arts in Action 2026-2027 programme returns this week with free events, workshops and partnerships with arts organisations in the west. 🔗: www.universityofgalway.ie/about-us/new...

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September - University of Galway

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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The funny thing about this signalling is that approx 22% of Irish workers are on shift work.

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University of Galway - History @historyatgalway.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We are delighted to announce the line up for the History Research Seminars this semester. All welcome! Wednesday, 4pm, Hardiman Building G011.

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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"I believe in Britain & I believe in its future and I believe in its people & its institutions, but my goodness, there needs to be a lot of clearing out, a lot of burning down and a lot of reconstruction, a lot of restoration." This is one hell of an article. www.ft.com/content/c2d0...

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James Orr and the gospel of the new British right

Reform’s policy head is a Cambridge theologian with an enviable contact book and a belief in ‘faith, family and flag’

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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Beautiful. Crazy end to the game too - disallowed goal and missed penalty for Real.

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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This beautiful thing just arrived. New Lambchop on vinyl.

Vinyl record, featuring a black and white collage image on the front.

Vinyl record sitting on top of the sleeve and inlay card. Each item is black and white

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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

On a not-so-serious note, this must mean that historians (who routinely pore over 2,000 pages of docs in order to write a couple of paragraphs) are insane. On a serious note, this kind of attitude to using AI is what we must defend against. At some point, you simply *have* to read the stuff.

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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"Within the past few years, data centers have been elevated from an unremarkable part of daily life in Loudoun to something that many residents now think about every day..." www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

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Your future is in Virginia

If you want to know what the data center occupation looks like, there’s one place where it already arrived — 20 years ago.

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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Today in Galway: a meeting of colleagues working in environmental humanities. If you're about, you're very welcome to drop in.

Environmental Humanities

12.00pm, Wednesday, 2 September 2026

Bridge Seminar Room (Room 1001), first floor, Hardiman Research Building

Environmental humanities at University of Galway has never been stronger: spanning cultural and language studies, history, philosophy, creative practice, and policy-focused research. Yet for all this energy, our work largely happens in parallel; we don't yet have a shared sense of what we could do, or be, together.

With that in mind, we would like to invite colleagues to an open meeting at 12.00pm on 2 September 2026 to discuss shared interests, areas of potential collaboration, and what we might fruitfully do together.

Our discussion will focus on three broad questions:

What are we already doing - and what are the overlaps we might not see?

What could we do together that none of us could do alone?

What would an environmental humanities collective look like, and what wouldn't it be?

All are welcome - from postgraduate researchers to established professors!

Dr Nessa Cronin, Prof Patrick Lonergan, Dr Tina-Karen Pusse, Dr Kevin O'Sullivan

For further details, contact Dr Kevin O'Sullivan (kevin.k.osullivan@universityofgalway.ie

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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Just had some brilliant news about a thing I worked on with a group of people I like very much. A very, very welcome start to the new academic year. More anon!

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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Anne Dolan on the importance of begrudgery in Joe Lee's Ireland 1912-1985: "It's fundamental to what we might try to understand as class in twentieth-century Ireland. to what thwarts and what prohibits, to how what changed did change, and much more to what never changed at all" (in Grey, ed. 2024).

While some reviewers questioned whether 'the Irish', each and every one, did indeed beat time to a begrudger's rather than a fanatic's heart, I knew and understood well what a begrudger's heart might be. I come from a long line of them, and I have huge sympathy for the anger that comes from the pages of this book, because it prods where prodding hurts, because it still cuts closer than I would like to the bone. I had sat through enough Sunday dinners that invariably ended up marching out every acre of land that should have gone one way in a will rather than another, on who was and wasn't getting ideas above their station, on who you should vote for because, like their father before them, they'd always do you a good turn. What I learned about right and wrong was less about good and bad and more about respectability and disgrace, and to be seen to be respectable mattered above all else. And 1920s, 1930s, 1970s, 1980s, no matter - another generation with their own twist on the same 'thwarted ambition... frustrated hopes, shattered ideals'. I knew all of this and much more that went with it was part of what was meant by a begrudger's heart. It's fundamental to what we might try to understand as class in twentieth-century Ireland. to what thwarts and what prohibits, to how what changed did change, and much more to what never changed at all. And I have been struck by the challenge that Ireland 1912-1985 laid down and also by how loath as historians of independent Ireland we have

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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Trying to figure out a way to block the Google Maps / lake / "don't be evil" posts. The insipidness of this form of discourse is really something to behold.

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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Just finished reading this. Its brilliance - similar to West and Clear, which I also loved - is captured in one of the quotes on the back. Davies is so economical with language and plot, she "doesn't drop a sentence".

Photo of a hardback book, with a green cover and pink writing, which says: Carys Davies The Mission House.

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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

For anyone who hasn't seen this. A truly brilliant film.

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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A small but very pleasing task this weekend: to frame and hang these prints of Ireland's wildlife (as Gaeilge) by @ciaraioch.bsky.social. If I knew my art history properly, I'd try and sound confident by calling them a triptych, but I don't, so...

Photograph of three framed art prints hanging on a wall.

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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Spending Saturday afternoon with the new Lambchop record, and thinking (a) it's great to hear Kurt Wagner's voice again, and (b) how amazing these songs will sound when he plays in Galway (at St Nicholas's Church) next year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bW_...

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Lambchop - Weakened (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Lambchop

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Ruth Morgan @ruthamorgan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Working in the environmental humanities? If you have a fresh take on new approaches/concepts/methods/sources - plz pitch to the Approaches section in OUP's new initiative, Environmental Change & Human Experience (led by maestros Georgina Endfield & Poul Holm academic.oup.com/oxford-inter...

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Prof Linda Connolly @lindaconnolly.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This “silence breaking” book, long in the making, is entering the world. Preorder here: www.routledge.com/Women-Violen...

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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The local wits over in Waterford already have it in for Mark Zuckerberg and his newly-acquired castle.

Screenshot of a comment on Google Maps, which reads: "A socially awkward ghost rambles the halls, almost human like. Would visit again."

The comment refers to Strancally Castle, Co. Waterford, which has just been purchased by Mark Zuckerberg for €20m.

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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Saturday listening. I bought this in my late teens and saw Holmes DJ at Tivoli in Dublin about a year later. He played lots from this mix, along with the theme from Test Match Special. In hindsight, this CD influenced my tastes hugely; so eclectic, I'm still following the paths that lead from it.

Photo of a CD sitting on top of a stereo. The CD cover is an orange and black coloured photograph of a man. The title of the CD is Essential Mix 98/01: David Holmes.

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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Dug this out for a look this morning. My inscription on the front tells me I bought it in the Trinity book sale in 2007. Jill and Leon Uris - Ireland: A Terrible Beauty (1976). Nice images; shame about the weird (patronising, infantilising, wide of the mark) perspectives on Ireland and the Irish.

Photo of a young boy in a cap, holding a short steel pipe. The caption beneath the photo says "Protestant Defenders".

Photograph of three teenage boys standing outside a shop called 'The Pantry '.

Photograph of three old men (farmers?) in flat caps. They are all leaning on a high wall, two on the near side, one on the other.

Three nuns sitting on a bench in St Stephen's Green. Two of them are holding umbrellas. I hope they don't make a habit of this.

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 17/01/2026

Bandcamp has formally introduced a new policy banning music and audio generated wholly or largely by AI from purchase on its platform. Bandcamp said: “With this policy, we’re putting human creativity first." buff.ly/mnjpUZA

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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This was a great event - huge congrats to all those involved in organising. Lots of great papers and conversations, and a properly inter-disciplinary approach to these subjects. Will look forward to hearing more!

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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Apropos a certain debate occurring in American politics at the moment, here's Jamaican PM Michael Manley explaining what 'democratic socialism' means - in 1977. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bREG...

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Gil Noble- Michael Manley Interview 1977 Part 1.avi

YouTube video by GREG G

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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Brilliant analysis of the ins and outs of the FIFA crisis on today's @liberopodcast.com, with some helpful nuance on UEFA's role. "This is a classic case of [head of UEFA] Čeferin has worked out the best way to be a hero is just to find a bigger villain." youtu.be/hMzMTO9k9mI?...

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How Infantino Tried To Sell The World Cup And Destroyed His Presidency | Libero 145

YouTube video by Libero

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Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

All these people with hot takes lauding UEFA for its stance against neoliberalism are in for a terrible shock when they read about the Champions League - not to mind its attitude to Israel.

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Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Urgent! If you work in an Irish HEI, please sign and share this open letter asking the Dept of Justice to overturn its refusal of visas to Palestinian students who were supposed to be evacuated from Gaza to take up fully funded places and scholarships at Irish HEIs: openletter.earth/refusal-of-v...

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Refusal of Visas to Students from Gaza

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