Clodagh Tait

Aldi is poor for veg alright.

Is the 'fresh produce' section of an Irish Tesco in March the dismalest place in the world? All the disgusting tasteless muck grown in someone else's water just rotting. Bringing baby carrots from South Africa and calling them 'fresh' should be a jailing offence.

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EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY CHILD'S SAMPLER by Isabelle Pue (circa 1805-?) (circa 1805-?) at Whyte's Auctions | Whyte's - Irish Art & Collectibles 64 by 20cm., 25 by 8in. silk thread cross-stich on linen Family of Hilda Roberts, artist

Sold at Whytes in 2005: www.whytes.ie/art/early-ni...

A Co Cork sampler: 'Isabella Pue worked this sampler at Mrs Lawlers School Youghall in the Tenth Year of her Age August Fourteenth 1815'

'The Haunting at the Rectory: Ghost Stories and Women’s Lives' IN PERSON RHS Lecture with Prof Sasha Handley (Manchester) at the University of Warwick, 1 May 2026

Lucky members of @cemsexeter.bsky.social got a sneak preview of some of the material for Sasha's lecture yesterday!

The haunting is a quite extraordinary survival, so if you are in Warwick I do urge you to go along.

#EarlyModern 🗃️

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Physical Disability and Deformity in Nineteenth-Century Britain Offering historical primary sources that outline both medical and experiential perspectives of physical disability, this book provides frequently mentioned but rarely provided material and supports re...

I have an edited primary source collection coming out on disability and deformity in c19th Britain. My hope is that you find it useful for teaching (apologies for the abstract, I did not write it! and the cost) #histmed #dishist www.routledge.com/Physical-Dis...

Bloodied abandoned school bag, Minab.

“Well, it's only in time that we'll find out if it was illegal or not.”

- FF TD Galway East follows his instructions.

This sounds like an ad, but it's about murder.

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.

Twas the night before World Book Day, and all across the land, parents were saying “Oh. Just. Please. Be. A. F*****g. Pirate”.

Cat rescued before ending up mummified. #apotropoeic

'Portrait of a gentleman'
Edmund Ashfield, c. 1669-1690

This lad has had a few late nights in his time...

(British Museum)

Excellent hair curation

Nothing to see here just the Chancellor of the University of Limerick retweeting a post suggesting that those of us who campaigned for Catherine Connolly would have preferred Ayatollah Khomeini (though I think Shatter actually means Khameini) as a candidate... Outrageous stuff.

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.

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Sign saying ‘our bartenders are so light fingered they could be concert pianists’ Why, are they going to rob me?

I feel they have misunderstood this expression:

Grown man briefly stuck in a luxury hotel built by indentured labour whining that the Irish government hasn't assigned him someone from the overstretched diplomatic service to massage his ego.

While I suppose we have to spend taxpayers' money on the eejits who chose to holiday in a slave state during a prrof regional political volatility, do we really have to listen to them whinge on the radio?

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

Just in time for my class on grief in early modern Ireland and Britain tomorrow.

Business card for Pat Cunning, 'with healing hands'

Great name for a faith healer.

the HPV vaccine is fucking incredible, period end of that's it

The graves dug for 153 Iranian female school children who were killed by an Israeli-American strike.

Photo: IRNA

Text on an academic article about "Moving Things: Moving Cartloads of Treasures from Venice to Ethiopia, ca. 1400" pasted into Grammarly in a Browser. It offers to invoke the digital ghosts of David Abulafia, Barry Flood and Chris Wickham to give me "expert feedback".

Using Grammarly for the first time in forever ... WHAT?

As a non-native speaker writing primarily in English, I used to use it to check prepositions, point out too long/convoluted sentences etc.

It now offers to summon colleagues both living and dead to "expert review" the piece???

What?

The Irish For: Baby names - Rían’s fada and the myth of the ‘neutral’ name Ireland’s latest baby-name data shows how parents bend tradition, blur gender lines, and quietly make wishes for their children’s futures, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha.

Thanks to @thejournal.ie for letting me blather on about baby name trends again.

As Naoise enters the top 100, I reflect upon an increasing overlap between the boy name list and the girl name list.

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The death has been announced of the historian J. J. Scarisbrick, whose seminal study of Henry VIII, originally published in 1968 (a more recent edition appears below), has inspired generations of scholars and readers. Professor Scarisbrick was 97.