@irishcookbooks
Culinary historian. History of the recipe in Ireland, through manuscript and print. https://shop.ria.ie/products/irish-food-history Co-editor European Journal of Food, Drink, and Society https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ejfds/
From the correspondence course craze in the early 20C to MOOCs one hundred years later, the commodification of education was but a lucrative side hustle for unis. Now the compulsory technologization of education is fully integrated into extractive capitalism. What a time to be a professor.
Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music
Several dozen folks did
Some even dubbed music over the original clip.
I haven't been able to get this out of my head.
So I give you
A Bluesky exclusive:
Reservoir Ducks
🐣 🪶
"...bless the power of the sun, its conspiracy with the underground..." - The Seed, Paula Meehan.
lede to an irish times article about Harry and Meghan by Patrick Freyne.
A reminder that in 2021, @patrickfreyne.bsky.social wrote the best explanatory lede regarding colonialism and monarchy that I have ever seen. www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...
The MS of the Week is RIA MS 23 E 25, Lebor na hUidre / The Book of the Dun Cow.
This 12th century manuscript is best known for containing the oldest version of the Táin Bó Cuailgne.
Visit @rialibrary.bsky.social to read more about this MS and explore highlights from the RIA Library’s collections.
You really need to expand this long thread to appreciate it in all its sublime glory. There are so many weird and wonderful articles about being Irish here, including how uafásach is our favourite Irish word because of the influence of Bosco😭
TODAY at 19:15!
Children swinging from a lamppost in a Dublin street during a teachers' strike, 1946, photo by Czech photo‑journalist Paul Popper.
A wooden flask or bottle from the early medieval period found in Leitrim, Ireland and now on display in the National Museum of Ireland Archaeology in Dublin
Leather bottle • Leitrim
This leather bottle or flask was found deep in a bog in Cloonclose, County Leitrim.
From the decoration, it is believed to date to the early medieval period, making the bottle at least a thousand years old.
#Ireland ##SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺 #EarlyMedieval
Thanks to @projectmuse.bsky.social ’s Subscribe to Open (S2O) model, all 2026 research articles in the RIA’s journals will be free to read and free to publish.
Read more about RIA’s transition to S2O here: www.ria.ie/2026/02/18/r...
@jisc.bsky.social @irelibrary.bsky.social
“Have you got a problem”.
A grey squirrel on my windowsill thoroughly enjoying my better tulip bulbs.
Him eating the tulip bulbs.
Well i just got a lovely message from someone who said she had printed this out and read it to her grandmother. Who was now insisting she tell the "internet dragon love story man" how much she loved it.
And i can honestly say that has made my week if not my year.
Go to quitgpt.org. Cancel your subscription. Using the free version? Delete the app, because your conversations still feed the machine. Then try an alternative, and tell at least one person why.
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Coming up this SUNDAY! A true story of family, love and anti-Nazi resistance — researched and presented by yours truly. Live on BBC Radio 4 or listen later on BBC Sounds.
📢 If you're interested in eyewitness accounts of Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising and/or Irish artist Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1853-1941) - the first woman elected a Dublin city councillor - check out Lot 5268 in the 10 Mar Books & Ephemera sale at TWGaze Auctions /1
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Photo of one page of Sarah Cecilia Harrison's letter with the reference to Sylvia Pankhurst’s "Irish girl" highlighted Source: https://auctions.twgaze.co.uk/catalogue/lot/fe1eb361487e60992a95d08e3aa866ea/8a390ef7ce02b4a94fa666f3e767067e/books-ephemera-sale-lot-5268/
Slide from a talk written by Breda Corish: "500 Years of Irish Women in Tower Hamlets". It shows the opening paragraphs of the news report written in 1916 by Patricia Lynch for the newspaper of the East London Federation of Suffragettes, "The Women’s Dreadnought" Source: The Women’s Dreadnought via British Newspaper Archives
Cover of "The Turfcutter’s Donkey", one of many children's books written by Patricia Lynch
"Sylvia Pankhurst sent over an Irish girl to report on affairs here & sent her to see me. She returned this evening. I sent her to see various non political people who gave her their experiences"
She was Patricia Lynch (1894-1972), the future children's author, writing for The Women’s Dreadnought /3
By the mid-twentieth century, Ireland had proportionately more people in 'mental hospitals' than any other country in the world. On a given night, the number of people in Ireland's psychiatric hospitals was more than double those in all our other institutions put together.
Old colour map of Waterford City. Parish boundaries are marked on the map. An index is included listing street names as numbered on the map and also includes significant buildings.
Happy #MapMonday!
This colour map of Waterford City from 1830 shows the city's parish boundaries. An index lists the street names as numbered on the map and also includes significant buildings such as the Town Hall; Cathedral; Old Courthouse; Female Blue School and others: doi.org/10.7486/DRI....
SYMpToMs OF OVARIAN CANCER FEELING FULL QUICKLY AND/OR LOSS OF APPETITE 1 2 PERSISTENT BLOATING (NOT BLOATING THAT COMES AND GOES) 3 NEEDING TO WEE MORE URGENTLY OR MORE OFTEN THAN USUAL 4 PAIN IN YOUR TUMMY OR PELVIS (THE AREA BETWEEN YOUR HIP BONES) Target Ovarian Cancer
It’s Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, everyone. There’s no routine screening for ovarian cancer, and it isn’t picked up by other gynaecological screening (such as smear tests). But if you do think it might be a possibility, you can ask your GP for a blood test and/or a scan.
Two taxidermy birds building a nest in a tin can
Irish hedgerows are protected by an annual ban on cutting from 1 March to support nesting birds. These European Robins from Crumlin, Dublin are countryside birds from 1902 and a tin can will do. National Museum of Ireland - Natural History @nmireland.bsky.social #SpeirGorm
No one should be using ChatGPT or partnering with OpenAI for anything.
The closest I can come to is Smallage, wild celery Apium graveolens which does seem to have cosmetic use. Ivan Day would probably know.
Criminally funny, but also I'm crying inside
Norway comes for the #TechBros
www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree
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I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.
Were this in Ireland, this would be exceedingly concerning news.
#fungi #mushrooms on a hazel tree. I think the tree is a gonner but…
Myself and Colin Breen have written in "Maritime Ireland" about seaweed harvesting on Ireland's coastline, in 19th century. These are local rights, well known and established through built features (e.g. wrack walls, kilns, etc). There is no way that such rights be taken over by foreign companies.
