Alice Perry in B&W head and shoulders photo #WomenInSTEM #WomenInEngineering
Alice Perry 1st woman in #Ireland to graduate w' engineering degree. Only woman to have been Irish County Surveyor (Engineer), but not allowed to do job permanently. Factory inspector, later published poet. Uni of Galway named building for her. d #OTD 21 Apr 1969 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_P...
1926 census entry
1926 Census:
Sean McDermott Street Magdalene Laundry.
30 nuns and over 100 other women.
Occupation entered as: Laundress.
The incarceration of women in the early Free State.
#SpeirGorm
AfD erstmals vor Union in Sonntagsfrage.
Vielleicht sollte die Regierung noch mehr Steuergeschenke machen, noch mehr Reformen aufschieben, noch mehr Umweltschutz abbauen, noch mehr MigrantInnen bedrohen?
I too "live in ceaseless dread and fury of fossil fuels, Elon Musk, toxic masculinity, TERFs and neo-Nazis."
Am I allowed to join the femosphere?
Maybe as an associate member?
Anti-migrant streamers and 'auditors' who generate millions of views on Youtube, while posing as ‘citizen journalists’, have a record of abusive behaviour towards women and sexual offences, a Byline Times investigation reveals
bylinetimes.com/2026/04/17/t...
These are the belligerent morons lecturing the pope on theology.
Pope Leo: "The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants, yet is held together by a multitude of supportive brothers and sisters. The masters of war pretend not to know that it takes only a moment to destroy, yet often a lifetime is not enough to rebuild."
There are only 44 female TD’s in the Dáil. Each female Minister who stood up to speak during the confidence motion was heckled and shouted over during their speaking time by Independent Ireland. It is not acceptable.
Lol!
How did Magyar win? A long running grassroots campaign in rural and small town Hungary; a refusal to be distracted by government propaganda; a focus on economic issues and corruption; a central promise to bring back democracy and the rule of law
When people tell you who they are, believe them.
We have all learned a lesson here. Any future protests need to have a few tractors and claim to speak for rural Ireland and we will be able to grind the country to a halt with no state pushback
I fully support people's right to protest but I don't support far right bullshit pretending to be about farmers and hauliers and I can't recall another protest ever being allowed to bring the city to a halt for 36 hours and still going without any consequences whatsoever
"we need kids to get an early start operating machines that are routinely wrong and may try to coax them into suicide and/or psychosis" is a fun education perspective i disagree with actually
Sully Prudhomme - The first Nobel Prize in Literature laureate The Broken Vase The vase where this verbena is dying was cracked by a blow from a fan. It must have barely brushed it, for it made no sound. But the slight wound, biting into the crystal day by day, surely, invisibly crept slowly all around it. The clear water leaked out drop by drop. The flowers’ sap was exhausted. Still no one suspected anything. Don’t touch! It’s broken. Thus often does the hand we love, barely touching the heart, wound it. Then the heart cracks by itself and the flower of its love dies. Still intact in the eyes of the world, it feels its wound, narrow and deep, grow and softly cry. It’s broken. Don’t touch!
The very first Nobel Prize in Literature in history was awarded to Sully Prudhomme in 1901.
Most people don’t know him today - which makes it even more interesting to read the man who started Nobel literary history.
Try his elegant, heartbreaking “The Broken Vase”.
Last week, I encountered THE biggest wild native Irish tree of my life: the Brian Boru Oak, once part of Galway and Clare's mighty Slieve Aughty rainforest.
(Zoom in to see Sonia of the Woodland League for scale.)
Can you even imagine when this sort of magnificence was nothing special?
Dear @irishtimes.com readers,
This happened: Four ambulances burned in an antisemitic attack in London in the early hours of Monday morning.
Remarkably, you won't have seen it reported in your paper.
Interview with Oliver Sears (@holocaustireland.bsky.social) and @hlinehan.bsky.social discussing antisemitism in Ireland, Iran as an existential threat, the war in Gaza, and how he lives with inherited Holocaust trauma
pca.st/episode/3a95...
Undo birthright citizenship, and Trump can deport anyone at any time for any reason.
And without any citizenship in any other country, where would they (including me) go?
Would this be cause for political asylum?
Asking for a friend... not me... an outspoken Trump critic...
I know everything seems beyond parody now, but...good lord.
i appear to have asked a question akin to "how do Rebel Alliance schoolteachers feel about Darth Vader?"
🚨🚨"Surprise, surprise": Hungary’s top diplomat Péter Szijjártó admitted today to being a #traitor and #Putin envoy having spoken to Russian officials as EU ministers considered new economic measures targeting Moscow. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/hung...
'When Trump announced that he might bomb Iran’s oil facilities on Kharg Island “a few more times just for fun”, a new note was being sounded in human history – the open relishing of annihilation as entertainment.'
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
Israel's parliament has passed a law making the death penalty a default sentence for Palestinians convicted in military court of lethal attacks
“Israel Passes Law to Allow Hanging of Palestinians Convicted of Deadly Attacks; the law was written in such a way that it is unlikely to ever apply to Jewish extremists.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/w...
'Israel’s leading rights groups decried the law as “an act of institutionalised discrimination and racist violence against Palestinians”.'
Condemnation as Israel passes law imposing death penalty on convicted Palestinians
www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...
My essay on production and the shambolic games industry is featured in this book which launches in April in Books Upstairs in Dublin! Attendance is free but booking is essential.
Launch event here 😄 booksupstairs.ie/all-events/l...
LAPD officers arrest a protester dressed as the Statue of Liberty outside a federal building during a ‘Kings Day’ protest. (Connor Sheets/Los Angeles Times)
A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...
I wrote this in an absolute rage, and I'm really beyond grateful that the Irish Times approached me to write it.
