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James Joyce death mask up for auction Estimate €3,500 to €4,500

Not enough death masks these days

Lord Skidelsky obituary Economic historian and politician who was a leading authority on the life and work of John Maynard Keynes

We are sorry to learn of the deaths of two leading historians and Fellows of the Society this month: Lord Robert Skidelsky (1939-2026), economic historian and biographer of Keynes bit.ly/4e1mcqa #Skystorians

Lovely lady on twitter

RIP

I do think this is notable if only because the EU should absolutely think about a common stack instead of paying companies a multibillion dollar contract for sharepoint

In a Word ... Doom To date, we’ve survived radio, the car, the gramophone, and TV – I have every confidence we will survive AI

The End is Nigh.
Two apocalyptic articles in the @irishtimes.com today. One about rapture theology (www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...)
& one about Doomsday (www.irishtimes.com/culture/2026...). Just to put the latter into perspective, Proto-Germanic *dōma- m. "verdict, judgement, evaluation"...
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Dialogues and allegories Few ancient authors are as perplexing as Plato. He is responsible for many celebrated and notorious notions (“the only thing I know is that I know

Very grateful for this lovely review by Emma Greensmith of Why Plato Matters Now in @thetls.bsky.social: bit.ly/4vIN4l2

What was he going to do if you said 👎

I'm very excited for the paperback publication of 'Paganism Persisting'! 🌞📚 Thank you to everyone at @uexeterpress.bsky.social for making this possible www.exeterpress.co.uk/products/pag...

Comparative Political Studies - Volume 59, Number 6 Table of contents for Comparative Political Studies, 59, 6

The special issue of @cpsjournal.bsky.social “Back from the Brink: Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies”, co-edited by myself and Isabela Mares, was just published. The issue includes 8 articles, many of which set new research agendas. A🧵w/overview 1/10
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Read a great line about what it is to live in a free society: not knowing where the nearest police station is. (Alexander Wolff, no relation, Endpapers, on his grandfather Kurt Wolff, publisher, fleeing Nazi Germany for America.)

Rousseau's formulation provides a nice symmetry to Plato's highly legible numerical threshold of inequality in a just state:

"No citizen should be so rich as to be capable of buying another citizen, and none so poor that he is forced to sell himself."

An aerial view of Creevykeel Court Tomb it features a large wedge shaped drystone structure with a oval shaped 'court' on the left, leading to two small burial chambers.

In today's edition of our #MonumentMonday newsletter, we take a trip to Sligo to visit Creevykeel, one of Ireland's best examples of a Court Tomb.

#Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Sligo #Archaeology 🏺

Got one of those too (to "mum") which was fatally undermined by both kids being home at the time.

Reminded of the law of the innocent, created because killing was punished by fines, meaning the wealthy in society could kill those at the bottom with, for the wealthy, minimal consequences.

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Mega wealth today also erodes consequences.

AI offering to summarize the article I just downloaded is a little like a restaurant offering to have someone eat the meal I just ordered.

At a certain point, the right-wing education people are going to realize that "Return to the classics" and "Ban all queer and sexual content from education" are not reconcilable objectives.

Opening showing frontispiece and red and black title page of 'Der Neue Gulliver', Hamburg, 1731

A German translation of a fake sequel to Gulliver's Travels, one of the books on display in our current exhibition 'Gulliver 300' celebrating Jonathan Swift's masterpiece. We're open 9.30-5.00pm Tuesday to Friday and 10am-5.00pm on Saturday #Exhibition #GulliversTravels

A psychological argument for taxing the super wealthy.

(As the Pope might say, "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”)

Agree, it will be a very bizarre world if we cannot criticise mistakes because everyone makes mistakes.

Explains how the decay in politics has allowed the Supreme Court to ignore public opinion, undermining its legitimacy, and how to fix it.

(Bonus: learning about Mr. Martin Dooley and his silent auditor, Mr. Malachi Hennessy for the first time.)

Our annual Noel O’Connell Memorial Lecture, jointly organised with the Irish Literary Society, will be given this year by Nollaig Ó Muraíle on 'James Hardiman and his manuscript collection in the British Library’ at the Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith, on Thursday, 28 May 2026 at 7.30 p.m.

Hey, I'm on a @histphilosophy.bsky.social reading list!
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Chartists, Rebels & Radicals - Dr Neil Pye and Constantin Torve Talk exploring the lasting impact of 19th century popular protest, and the lessons to be learned from it in our time.

📜Chartists, Rebels & Radicals🔥
Dr Neil Pye @livunipol.bsky.social and Constantin Torve
@quceh.bsky.social will explore the lasting impact of 19th century popular protest.
🗓️6pm, 29 April
🧭CTL, @liverpooluni.bsky.social
FREE registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1985517033...

#IrishStudies #HistSky

"blunt AI talk is a warning for other CEOs: Be candid about the coming disruption, or risk a public backlash."

Based on this candor, governments are negligent if they don't regulate a speed limit on AI roll out. These are state-destablising numbers & the backlash will be worse for them.

*New Religion, New Pots: Newgrange, St Brigit and Imported Pottery* Dr Edel Bhreathnach (Discovery Programme) Thursday 23 April at 17:00; Room 2.31 IONTAS, Maynooth University.

Bígí linn le haghaidh sheimineár taighde Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge | Join us for the Department of Early Irish research seminar.

*New Religion, New Pots: Newgrange, St Brigit and Imported Pottery*
Dr Edel Bhreathnach (Discovery Programme)

Thursday 23 April at 17:00; Room 2.31 IONTAS.

Bookshelves at the National Library of Ireland

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Pluralism ≠ Relativism

For example
- I think all religions are, overall, harmful, and that some are more harmful than others - I am not a relativist.
- I think people should be fully free to follow any or no religion without interference or discrimination by the state or society - I am a pluralist.

The census only gives a small amount of information about people in 1926, but it's hard to resist trying to imagine what their lives might have been like.

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Yes, would be quite surprising if they did think him infallible.