And I’m perfectly fine about them making movies about the Liberation of Europe, 1944-45 and the US Armed forces experiences - that feels right to me

Famously, the US has a recent history of going into other people’s countries, demolishing them, and then making films about how it made their soldiers “feel” (eg every Vietnam movie, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc)

Expect Israeli filmmakers to begin to explore the trauma experienced by IDF in Gaza …

“They come out all brazen in the morning, see what they see”

We met a woman with her dog, while out on our morning run, and that’s what she said.

I’ll be thinking about that all day….?

He'll be talking about the antichrist soon.

Archaeologists Find Iliad “Catalog of Ships” Papyrus Inside Egyptian Mummy - Arkeonews Archaeologists in Egypt’s Oxyrhynchus have discovered a Roman-era tomb containing mummies with golden tongues and a rare papyrus

This is just so cool. A Roman-era mummy recently excavated in Egypt contained a fragment of papyrus with a section of the Iliad.

The cover, featuring a picture of a multi coloured glass bead (blue, red, white), hack-silver and a reindeer standing in profile against a blue sky.

New publication by Birgit Maixner:

”Three Miniatures on Raw Material
Exploitation and Long-Distance
Trade in Central Norway During
the Early Viking Age:
A Regional Study of the Viking Economy Based on Archaeological Evidence” (Gunneria 84)

🏺🥳🇳🇴

Free here 👇

www.ntnu.no/documents/10...

“Medieval Rural Settlement and Infrastructure Archaeology Across Europe” (eds. 2026, by Carenza Lewis, Neil Christie, Gareth Davies, Aidan O'Sullivan)
Available for a period at reduced price, use website and voucher code as below

www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

Really useful summary and reflection from Scotland in this interesting volume

Medieval Rural Settlement, Infrastructure Projects and Commercial Development: The Scottish Experience by John A. Atkinson

The Irish paper too at www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

And available as a free download here

www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

Good luck, sorry I can’t be there!!

“Medieval Rural Settlement and Infrastructure Archaeology Across Europe” (eds. 2026, by Carenza Lewis, Neil Christie, Gareth Davies, Aidan O'Sullivan)
Available for a period at reduced price, use website and voucher code as below

www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

Get Ready for Lovecraft Investigations: The Call of Cthulhu From Julian Simpson - Get Ready for Lovecraft Investigations: The Call of Cthulhu

www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

I have a complicated relationship with the million dollars in my bank account

While Russia bombs Ukrainian culture, a Czech team is trying to save it - with 3D scanning technology.

Churches, museums, memory itself.

New piece:

robjcameron.substack.com/p/scanning-f...

Who’d have thought a fossil-fuel shill like Trump would be the one to spark a green revolution? | George Monbiot The US attack on Iran has made the need for renewable energy inarguable, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

It's the opposite of his intention, but the Idiot Emperor is forcing the world off fossil fuels. This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Screenshot of Eurosky fundraising page showing amount raised: €5,226 out of a €100,000 target and number of supporters (282).

We’re fundraising to build everything we need to operate without Bluesky. Our €100,000 target will accelerate our goal of building a European app backend (Appview) and a microblogging app.

Since last night over 282 of you contributed more than €5,000.

Let's do this!

fund.eurosky.tech

Lynn Scarff, James Eogan and Fiona Eogan in the stacks. Image by Emma Skarstrand © National Museum of Ireland

📚Newly catalogued: The George Eogan Library
Former Museum Librarian Connie Bettison reflects on cataloguing Prof. George Eogan’s working library-2,000+ archaeology books & journals in the National Museum of Ireland Library
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...
#Archaeology #MuseumLibrary #RegistrationCorner

Sarah Moss: The unshed tears of men with big trucks are costly indeed How different would Ireland have been this last century if the tears of women were a national emergency?

Truth

www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Mind the Gap Ireland is the second richest country in Europe, and this week a single protest shut it down. Here's why.

Some readings worth reading on #FuelCrisis
"That is the worst of all worlds; having heavily taxed workers receiving poor services in a country running a €23 billion surplus funded by companies it doesn’t control."
Sinead O Sullivan
substack.com/home/post/p-...

An image shoeing the cover of a new book, Seeing Ireland: Art, Culture, and Power in Modern Ireland (UND Press, 2026), with a blurb quote by Diarmuid Ó Giolláin calling it a 'highly original contribution to the study of Irish Art.'

Today is publication day for this beautiful book. Inspiration for it came from seeing @billyshortall.bsky.social talk about his brilliant PhD research at the IHSA in @tlrhub.bsky.social in 2017. One of those joyful collaborations that come along sometimes in academia. Cover is a Paul Henry painting

“Christopher Duffy, the self-appointed leader who had ‘the country by the balls’”

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Running as a physical activity in the Middle Ages is underexplored despite its presence in historical accounts.

Kathy Sheridan: Fuel protests were a display of mine-is-bigger-than-yours machismo The extreme machismo element was introduced by Christopher Duffy, the self-appointed leader who had ‘the country by the balls’

Christopher Duffy “once opined that 23-year-old Greta Thunberg’s “only hope of getting the ride” was if she was raped. He commented over a post about the killing of a young mother, Renée Good, by an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officer in Minnesota: “F**k around and find out”

🙂 thanks Thomas!

“Medieval Rural Settlement and Infrastructure Archaeology Across Europe”, edited by Carenza Lewis, Neil Christie, Gareth Davies, Aidan O’Sullivan (April 2026)

Archaeopress will be ‘publishing’ the book online before this weekend, and the discount code will be working at that point too.

Clannad - Theme from Harry's Game (Official HD Video) YouTube video by ClannadVEVO

RIP Moya Brennan, a wonderful singer, composer, harpist, sister of Enya, and gave - with Clannad - the first ever performance in Irish on Top of the Pops. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zHT...

Moya Brennan sings 'Gaoth Barra Na dTonn' live | The Tommy Tiernan Show | RTÉ One YouTube video by RTÉ - IRELAND’S NATIONAL PUBLIC SERVICE MEDIA

A recent performance by Moya, on the Tommy Tiernan show in 2020, where she sings 'Gaoth Barra Na dTonn' as gaeilge. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_Ou...

Legacy and Springboard: The Untapped Potential of Archaeological Archives for Scientific Innovation Archaeological archives form a public resource that enables the reinterpretation of original findings from archaeological investigations, provides the raw material for further research, informs mu...

Archaeology is a driver of scientific innovation. Rather than being a perceived financial burden, it is actually a high-value investment that can improve human health and environmental sustainability. 🏺1/7

doi.org/10.11141/ia....

Hot off the press!! New open access special edition of the Cambridge Archaeological Journal on "Kinship Trouble". www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

All papers are open access, and the papers, I think, really capture this dynamic moment in studies of past kinship.