Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955 (Stephen O'Neill Book Launch) Join Stephen O'Neill in conversation with Eamonn Hughes.

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

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

sweet jesus almighty. Hie thee back to lusk tout de suite!

I was just reading the part of Great Expectations the other day where Pip dilutes his sister's rum with tar water!

Ireland’s neutrality a ‘difficult path’ to follow, senior official says Department of Defence secretary general Jacqui McCrum spoke at French defence conference

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...

couldn't agree more with your cypriot friend, frankly

Bizarre to think that sick kids would get any bit of comfort from actual machines rather than humans giving them their dinner in an already, for kids, strange environment like a hospital. This strange idea is nevertheless unsurprising given the sociopathic tendencies of our governing parties.

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.

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...

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

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.

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

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...

⏱️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.

This sounds great! Send in an abstract!

I would love to, as soon as I am back from perfidious albion of the no fadas and peculiar surnames x

cut to 8 year old me petitioning to change my surname to my mother's maiden name

Sure, I think Lauren Berlant is always a good place to start with this. Any of their books from The Queen of America Goes to Washington City. Or, in a more specifically literary sphere, Rachel Greenwald Smith's 2015 book.

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

Who’s Here? Introducing CRASSH Fellows in Michaelmas Term 2025 - CRASSH A brief introduction to new fellows joining CRASSH this term.

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)

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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.

Excellent! Would love to have you

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...

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!

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

Ooh I will absolutely!

Wolfson College Cambridge: Everything’s Fine, Nothing’s Fine: The Sad Girl Novel Why are so many millennial women so sad?

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

Clare Moriarty: I’ve cracked the afterschool childcare problem. It has cheap coffee, wifi and over-excited toddlers As Dua Lipa pulsed through the soft play centre in Kildare, and I tried to write a lecture on Descartes’ sixth Meditation, I finally experienced the real distinction of mind and body

Clare Moriarty: I’ve cracked the afterschool childcare problem. It has cheap coffee, wifi and over-excited toddlers

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

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.

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...

the phrase 'crisp rugby shirts' makes me want to boke

Entirely man-made famine.