Everywhere we look....putrid stupidity.
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Everywhere we look....putrid stupidity.
A R C H I P E L A G O opens this Friday More info: rhagallery.ie/events/exhibitions/a-r-c-h-i-p-e-l-a-g-o Conor Horgan interview: thegloss.ie/artistic-license-conor-horgan #RHA #RHAGallery #ArchipelagoShow #Photography #IrishPhotography #IslandPhotographersGroup
The Presidential Palace, Prime Minister’s offices and all documents have been destroyed in Nepal. The Nepalese army has warned they will deploy troops if unrests continue.
🤷🏽♀️ and still nothing.....
@ssnci.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social Finally got my own copies! Hard to think that this all started with a conference in June 2022! Thanks to Arlene and Cathal, all the contributors and to our top secret peer reviewers #ssnci #irishstudies #conflict #Ireland
[France; Algeria; Access; Archives] Archives on chemical warfare in Algeria, freely communicated between 2012 and 2019, have been closed as non-communicable archives. What does that say about our democracy and on our willingness to face our wrongs? theconversation.com/guerre-dalge...
My very first hocho 😍
The next event in our @wellcometrust.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social -funded conference series will be ‘War, Trauma and Emotional Injury’, which takes place at @unibirmingham.bsky.social on 6-7 November #milwelfhist
I wrote a light version of a longer paper in preparation. Proving War Crimes: Archives, Truth Commissions and Transitional Justice. medium.com/p/archives-a...
Tonight I will read for pleasure and not for work. Tonight I will read for pleasure and not for work. Tonight I will read for pleasure and not for work. Tonight I will read for pleasure and not for work. Tonight I will read for pleasure and not for work.
What's on at Collins Barracks this month? #Museum
Why are you still on X? Why are government departments and cultural institutions still there?
Munster-by-the-Sea 😬 #FromageUnTitre
An Affair to Camembert #FromageUnTitre
Edam and Paul #FromageUnTitre
Straight to the top of the pile....
Good read www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Stop getting new books. No.
Kimchi day!!! 🥬🌶️
Thank you! 🙌🏽
I am grateful to the Women's History Association of Ireland @whaireland.bsky.social for having accepted my book review. It is now available online. History Revolutionary Women of Tipperary (1914-1923) by Noreen Higgins McHugh
Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy - Vicar St last night ✨
Must have watched this 20 times already. Always phenomenal. Do yourself a favour if you haven't seen it yet.
Delusional
🎉 The DRI Community Archive Scheme 2026 is now open for applications! Please visit dri.ie/community-ar... for information on the scheme and our 2026 application form. All are welcome to join an online information session on 16 September at 2pm. Please register here: ria-ie.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
The foxes stole my bird feeder.
JHC How low they have fallen. Can't get more insane.
Isn't it amazing?
Pigs Marketing Board 1938 to Army Pensions Board, confirming employment of Michael O'Neill (34D1370)
Maybe more corporate but their way of communicating this is poor. As an archivist I can totally understand both sides. It's incredibly heavy to answer individual requests for material and it can feel extremely reactive. They should be more transparent about it.
I'd like to see historians and other users adding their signatures to push for the employment of additional archivists.
Decisions due to lack of resources can often be seen as an intended obstruction to access. With enough resources, both could be done: cataloguing selected blocks of material for public release AND clear and catalogue files on request. In any case anything catalogued should be released to ALL.
He's special. Greyhound X Podenco
We have to believe in luck. How else to explain the success of those we don't like? (Jean Cocteau)
Komphortayble
Quick thought about the lack of engagement of humanities scholars with archival studies. It's not just a question of terminology. www.linkedin.com/posts/c%C3%A...
We like.
😅😂 it looks very beautiful...
Aiii.... Will you stop??
No, I haven't.
I read those alright. Mantel's and Sansom's books are really good and entertaining. Took me a while to get into them but they're rewarding.
And strong thirding!!
Strong seconding!
That sounds so cool btw. Buying the book now
It's cool. I'm not jealous. I don't care. Not at all. 😢
The naming of a giant pig!? Well then...
That is what he is, indeed.
Interesting! Could read it in French....🤔
That sounds like fun!
Strong recommendation! That's super, thanks!!
Idiot bigot.
I only read physical books....😅😅 That look intense but really interesting. Thank you 🙂
You absolutely might. That looks very interesting. I'm familiar with Jean-Louis Debré who died this year. It's family, right?
I need some reading inspiration. Please, help and share your favourite/recent books.
😅 I think so too... There's no need for more
Noooooo.... Step away, Mel. Step away.
Knowledge sets us free, art sets us free. A great library is freedom. Ursula Le Guin www.themarginalian.org/2015/11/06/u...
Sort of thick when he doesn't know what the role entails.
😅😅
As Trump meets Putin in Alaska, your reminder to avoid hot takes on Ukraine from armchair experts in the west; my piece for Gwara media in Kharkiv @humanrightsfirst.org @barrymalone.bsky.social @brams884.bsky.social gwaramedia.com/en/opinion-g...
Everytime I see some quote from Gareth Sheridan, the only thing that comes to mind is this old meme
Thick. Ego.
Read Perfume a long time ago. It's fantastic. I've loved reading Butter.
Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves Anaïs Nin
Archiving from below. Giving a voice to those who are invisible and tell different stories. Giving agency back. Revealing societal issues. Including yourself in the process. Archiving with Agnès Varda: Gleaners, Faces, and the Power of the Ordinary medium.com/@cecilechemi...
North-West Mayo. Paradise. 💚
I have to run this back. 🤭🤭🤭🤭 Because Toni didn’t play.
Looking for help managing your #ResearchData? See our RDM Guide for guidance and resources on #DataManagement Plans, #FAIR principles, where you can deposit research data and more: libguides.ucd.ie/data @ucdscoilglcb.bsky.social @ucdclassics.bsky.social #ResearchDataManagement #OpenResearch
Belfast Bride - Frank McNally on the Irish wife of man who dropped US atomic bomb on Nagasaki
Get out of Twitter. Not sure why some of government dept and cultural institutions are still doing there. 🤷🏽♀️
'In a world dominated by Western hegemony ... UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese stands apart. Through her immense courage under fire, Albanese has supplanted herself as the preeminent voice of the dispossessed and a crusader of Palestinian human rights' www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/05/a...
Perfectly organised chaos
We'll try!! 😘
Oh!! Haha. No, next week 😁
Oh!! It's Mayo for us!
The Military Arc🌿🌿🌱🌿 iv🌿🌱🌿🌱🌱🌱 #Friday
Happy Friday from Zero & Kana. They're pretty excited to go west next week. They're doing super for old woofs.
Loot of the day. #MoreBooks
Tonight's choice #Books #Reading #WalterBenjamin
Did you know? There is more to Irish history than Micheal Collins.
I contend that writing on unique archival material is worse. I don't understand it.
'Historians' writing notes on archival material should be barred for life. And I'm being lenient.
🙂 maaaaaa
I tried to write as a professional archivist about what watching those movies does to me. Beyond the archival echoes, they offer a breath of humanity, of empathy and generous, gentle resistance. It's life affirming. You see the absurdities of a wasteful society without any judgement. It's soulful.
@frculturalst.bsky.social @filmarchive.bsky.social @cinemarchiviste.bsky.social
Varda offers a cinematic form of empathetic community archiving. Her gentle approach to filmmaking echoes calls for a more inclusive archive. The Gleaners and I (2000) and Faces, Places (2017) may not be traditional archives but they act function as acts of memory-making medium.com/@cecilechemi...
Annoying. I've put a text written by me 100% through an AI detector and it came back at 65% AI..... That's disappointing.
Spending the weekend watching Agnès Varda's movies is time well spent. #ArchivalRepresentation #Subaltern
Orcs! Zero surprise.
"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people". Howard Zinn
An interesting life...
Photo I took at the Bray event last year that my friend Sarah organised to celebrate Sinead's life and legacy
"Fight the real enemy" 🖤
Thanks @conorhorgan.bsky.social I can't wait to see your work in September. It's beautiful, it's important.
When a photographer tells you that you're a mix between Patti Smith and Charlotte Gainsbourg, your Friday has peaked and it's all going downhill from there. 🙂
The numbers are insane. Especially when you consider the astronomical underreporting rate.