hilariously i had to be reminded it was shakespeare’s birthday today. anyway it’s a good day as any to tell yous that my book IRISH SHAKESPEARES: GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND PERFORMANCE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY has been sent into production at Routledge [pre-order link tbc!]
Here's Lady Gregory in the #1926Census. Her occupation - playwright and author.
_"The Government’s consistent cheerleading for data centre expansion has reached a point of reckless disconnect from the economic reality of Irish citizens... Irish families are paying nearly double the electricity rates of these industrial facilities, effectively subsidizing the massive energy consumption of global tech giants while struggling with a punishing cost-of-living crisis." https://greenparty.ie/news/uncritical-expansion-data-centres-will-fuel-social-inequality-and-energy-crisis-cllr-hazel-chu
Data centres uses 32% of Ireland's total electricity supply but pay almost less than half of the residential rate. So we're effectively subsidizing tech giants during a cost of living & energy crisis. Meanwhile this Govt continues to cheerlead their expansion & continue to fail in their obligations.
So Fantasy grows out of Romance (medieval) but rejects Romance (contemporary) because for girls, so Romance (contemporary) develops into something increasingly un-Fantastical, and has to be portmanteued back into Fantasy (Romantasy), despite Fantasy being originally Romance...
Hi all, my contract at LMU ends this month and I don't have any options lined up. I know that many of us are in the same situation, but if you hear of any opportunities or projects you think I might be suited to (doesn't have to be in academia) please send me a message or comment below. Thanks!
Good piece. While I am famous for my serenity, it can sometimes feel a little irritating to see male journalists and academics "discover" the manosphere, while very pointedly not referencing any of the research or writing, mostly by women, that goes back 10-15 years on this topic
Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable sources, proving the transition is not theoretical but already operational. The barrier is no longer technology, but political will, investment priorities, and the courage to move faster.
have there been zero arrests after four days of road blockages?
asking for that teenager who was arrested at Shannon Airport for sitting on an empty road in an industrial estate
I think one of my visceral reactions to the protesters is because they are bullies. Loud, boorish bullies. And I have no time for bullies. The irony is Trump caused the global crisis, and miniTrumps are causing the local one.
Mick Clifford: Does Ireland have a problem with right-wing extremism? Ireland is not immune to racism or bigotry but the GPAHE report is inflating niche groups well above their true stature
Let's not forget classics like this, big part of the problem was the constant minimising of it
"You've overreacting, you're overreacting, you've overreacting, you're overreacting, you've overreacting, you're overreacting, you've overreacting, you're overreacting, OH SHIT WAIT YOU WERE ALL RIGHT!"
Incredible lack of imagination to still see billionaires as the solution to anything, given the current state of the world
Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Extract List of Jews From Penn The decision to allow the government to collect the names and phone numbers of Jewish people on campus could allow the government to pursue similar tactics elsewhere. • Listen • 3:32 min < 1 TODAY
As a Jewish historian who works at a university, I think it’s great that an administration committed to destroying “the internal globalist enemy” which is staffed by groyper antisemites is collecting lists of Jews. Can’t see any potential downside here at all.
Irony was killed stone dead ages ago. But I suppose they can still piss on its grave.
Delighted ’The Brussels Review’ has just printed ‘Anglo-Irish’, my first-person story which explores the complex relationships between 1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-generation Irish immigrants on a building site in 80s England. Thanks to the editors for their input.
thebrusselsreview.com/admin/tbr-sp...
You don't run them for a profit you run them because people who live places need to be able to get places 😭 www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
how do people in #waterford get to #DublinAirport now?
#speirghorm
Doing more than most universities.
A billionaire can get what they want with one donation to a political party. The rest of us must fight for years to get even the most basic rights recognised. Money destroys democracy, more than any other cause. The first step towards a better world is to stop the rich buying political outcomes.
#DIBLives In 2021 Mary Lavin (d. #OTD 1996) became the first female Irish writer honoured with a public space named after her. She wrote about the ‘vagaries and contrarieties’ of the human heart, and lives not of quiet desperation but of evasion and wish-fulfillment. www.dib.ie/biography/la...
The arson in London of the ambulances run by a Jewish community organisation is morally repugnant. There's no contextualisation or qualification possible of this hate crime. Just call it what it is- antisemitic violence.
Chuffed 'Piker Press' has published ‘England Expected’, my coming-of-age story set in 80s England, dramatising family conflict between 3 generations - an ex-army, countryman grandfather; a Thatcherite, urbanite father; & a leftish, bookish, teen-narrator son.
www.pikerpress.com/article/1174...
I'm happy to have contributed an essay to @efacis.bsky.social Kaleidoscope project on Irish spirituality - honouring my RE teacher Miss Williams, who, like Miss Jean Brodie, led us out rather than shutting us in…
kaleidoscope3.efacis.eu/publications...
It’s hard to blame woke DEI when the military is losing a war because of the straits.
Sickening but no surprise Isn't this what Landlord Minister Michael Healy-Rae has been lobbying for Clearly he doesn't want the people of Kerry or Ireland to have their own home
Sickening but no surprise
Isn't this what Landlord Minister Michael Healy-Rae has been lobbying for
Clearly he doesn't want the people of Kerry or Ireland to have their own home
#speirgorm
She doesn’t use genAI for historical research, she uses genAI to plagiarise the work of historians who conduct research.
A reminder that when Christian Zionists and Christian Nationalists in the West talk about Christians, they are not talking about the Christians of the same holy land that Jesus himself came from. They don't give a shit about us.
The second section of the special issue of LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory on 'Irish Women's Genre Fiction' has been published!
www.tandfonline.com/toc/glit20/c...
It is absolutely disgraceful how little far thought was put into ensuring everyone due compensation because of institutional abuse was able to access it without detriment to them. Compensation for incalculable harm by the state should not be treated like a windfall or wage, in Ire or the UK.
Devotions is out in just 2 months! If you’d like to preorder a copy @waterstones.bsky.social are running a 25% promotion from today 17 Feb- midnight 20 Feb, just enter FEB26 at the checkout. I’ve also been signing lots of pretty candle bookplates for your local indie preorders!
