Not knowing what the worst people in the world were thinking every fucking day

i simply can not believe we are watching this happen STILL

Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank, report says Experts say attacks, also carried out by settlers, are leading girls to quit school and enter early marriages

"Palestinian women, men and children have reported attacks, forced nudity, invasive and painful body cavity searches, Israelis exposing their genitals, including to minors, and threats of sexual violence."

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

'Oh the jackeen abd the culcie should be freeeends'

It's just the dumbest most pointless mathsing. Where would the cities get enough electricity, food, leisure spaces then. How would the oil get from the oil refinery in the rural area it was palmed off on years ago. What should rural areas charge for dublin's water from the Shannon.

Does the idea that rural areas are subsidised by urban take into account the various services we provide for ourselves that are provided for others, eg costs of water, sewerage, higher bin charges or less service for same price, wear and tear on cars due to roads that are not maintained, etc?

The man's great grandmother had written "single", it was changed to widow, her husband had left her and gone to the States and started another family! She also called herself by her birth name, and they changed it to her absconded husband's name. That was 1926 Ireland for you!

Just discovered a distant cousin of my family registered himself as an atheist in the #1926census Kinda chuffed at finding that - probably weren’t too many atheists in north Kerry at the time, although in 1926 he’s living in Dublin

We are looking at a painting of St Liphardus - a 6th-century lawyer, hermit and abbot in Meung-sur-Loire near Orléans, France. He is wearing bishops clothing including a surplus and mitre and is holding a crook. On a lead is a small knee high green and blue dragon.

We’re very sorry sir but you cannot bring your emotional support dragon in here.

screenshot of a handwritten census return from 1926. 'Daniel Mahony' is 13 years old and is listed as a Farm Labourer living at the home of Fr. Patrick Murphy, along with Honnora Donegan a 'servant maid'

Statue created by sculptor James MacCarthy, commemorating Danno O'Mahony in his home town of Ballydehob, County Cork.

went looking in the #Census1926 records for Cork's Danno O'Mahony, who was National Wrestling Association World Heavyweight Champion in the 1930s. in 1926 he was a servant living at the the home of a Fr. Murphy in Coolagh Beg just outside of Ballydehob, where a statue to him was unveiled in 2001

"holy shit! you were censored for believing in God?"

LOL no, not that

"for thinking it's appropriate to observe religious holidays in the workplace?"

haha no not that

"Which religious beliefs, exactly?"

oh, you know the ones

Higher Education in the 2020s, ladies and gentlemen.

No one will save us. We have to save ourselves.

I'm so sorry.

My great-grandmother wrote 'Out of Work' for her adult daughter (aged 17) but census enumerator changed it to 'Home Duties'. Women can't be unemployed!
#1926census

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Very much open to correction but think I might've found Peig.
#1926Cencus #TheStoryOfUs
nationalarchives.ie/collections/...

Go Alice!

there is a lot of intimidation in rural Ireland we don't talk about when it comes to politics. when the far right were on the move in Tipp, me and so many people I know got hit with abuse and threats, online and off, followed around when we were outside, etc. I know someone whose car was burnt out

I have GONE WILD on the 1926 Irish census and have made some fun discoveries:

Trinidadian medical students, a Baháʼí couple in Donegal, the Irish widow of an emigré Cossack, and Egyptian sailors in Cork city - among many others.

could making a serial rapist the figurehead of the modern right have pushed women left?

no, it's the hysterical broads who went crazy

Breaking news: my toaster oven has achieved an internal temperature over 4x hotter than any human on the planet

Galliard Battaglia - Samuel Scheidt / arr. Philip Jones YouTube video by DECHO

Today, @rte.ie replaced Galliard Battaglia as the opening theme tune for @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social with something from the suite for the station's "new on-air audio identity".

The new identity for Sunday Miscellany doesn't work.
1/3

youtu.be/EfYBnwous6U

Oh no, what a mistake to mess with the SM theme. Every programme intro on RTE now sounds like Temu Euronews. Please write that essay!

this is an organization that exists to kill people. you should want it destroyed and you should be trying to put as much distance as possible between everyone that ever worked for palantir and any amount of power. this shouldn't be a moral quandary for you. hesitation means you failed already.

I finally got Manannán transcribed. It is the 1939 Irish language sci-fi book with the first Spaceship using a gravity assist in literature.

Next up is conversion to modern spelling. If you know a list of known changes (annso->anseo) or can even just help by reading please let me know.

Great. Now do it on a Cork road! 🕳 🕳 🕳

Teefy beastie

Radical Histories - Manchester University Press The Radical Histories series encourages innovative and field-defining research in the history of individuals, groups, movements and ideas which challenged the political, social and cultural status quo...

I'm pleased to announce I'm a founding co-editor of the new @manchesterup.bsky.social book series, Radical Histories.

Do let me know if you have a proposal for a book that fits our inclusive remit on radical histories.

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/radic...

Next Friday at 12, PhD candidate Michael O'Connor will speak about his work on Irish slaveholders in Jamaica in an event hosted by the Centre for 18th-Century Studies at QUB

Photograph of manuscript from the Essex Record Office, Q/SR 113/39.

Delighted to encounter in the archives this unexpected Elizabethan...

Kytte Myller 'a pedlar, whoe is a maker of Passportes and goeth apparelled in a Spanyshe lether Jerkynne with longe cutts and a payre of venesyans of canvas cutt', selling his services at Chelmsford Fair on Mayday 1590. 🗃️