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Had an amazing time in the Linenhall Library book shop on royal avenue today. I’m a sucker for old and random books and who doesn’t love a table of ‘Randomers’ including a copy of John Whyte’s ‘Interpreting Northern Ireland’ and a book on Lagan Valley previously owned by R Dudley Edwards :)

The National Museum of Ireland seeks applications from suitable candidates to fill the post of Design Studio Manager (HEO). This is a two-year fixed term contract position. Closing 13 March, €59k www.museum.ie/en-ie/about/...

Almost felt sorry for the Gers, controlling a game and so emphatically losing a penalty shoot out, then i spotted a supporter waving a parachute regiment flag behind the goal when Celtic players were taking pens. Obv means nothing to most of the players but I didn’t feel so bad for them anymore.

A lot of people attended the Bessborough Virgil in Cork yesterday. We all understand the housing crisis, but building on this site will hurt even more people who have already been deeply affected. I hope to see this planning permission refused at the appeal stage. We will continue to stand together.

ofc, one of my highlights of vancouver (most of them involved you :))

OMG how cute, worth the scratches to see this cutie in his v cool tee! xx

Oh the British empire is very much still alive and well - and neutralized in how science journalists present its enduring form! The fact that they never reference what colonialism does to those seas and seabeds is v cringe!!

On IWD reports of yet another murder of a woman in the North of Ireland, one of the most dangerous places in europe for a woman to live. Gender-based violence remains one of the most under-analysed experiences and legacies of the conflict (and peace).

It is absolutely disgraceful how little far thought was put into ensuring everyone due compensation because of institutional abuse was able to access it without detriment to them. Compensation for incalculable harm by the state should not be treated like a windfall or wage, in Ire or the UK.

Unexplored deep-water worlds in Caribbean revealed for the first time Scientists discover underwater mountain ranges, golden towers of coral, and never-before-seen sea creatures.

It often amazes me how essentially colonial science journalism can be in reporting ‘discoveries’, this report on underwater coral environments in the Caribbean is especially cringe! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Frankly I don’t really care about your opinions. i can’t understand why people decide to preach to people they don’t know on social media. You can just scroll on instead of being, what you profess to hate, condescending.

Clearly not the sharpest tool but she totally forgot her audience, haha!

Clearly alot of people do care, hence why it’s trending. Very stupid when you’re doing publicity to sell a film about love and grief, to break that mystic they’re trying to create around her. It’ll have no impact as oscar voting is closed now, but an anecdote she should have kept to herself.

like shooting fish in a barrel!

Amazing by Vittorio and it’s truly a show of how deluded good ol Penny is that she thought appealing to his sense of armed forces / national pride would work on a man from West Belfast!

This is a very good thread on all the things you need to know about the Irish (not the Oiroish) before St Paddy’s day (never Patty’s)

‘Kitty karma’? Jessie Buckley tries to claw back approval after enraging cat-lovers Oscar favourite insists she is a ‘lover of cats’ after telling podcast about ultimatum she once gave to now husband

Against my best judgment, i read on the Jessie Buckley ‘hating cats’ controversy, yikes! Hating cats isn’t the issue - it’s ok not to like animals - but to get your partner to get rid of their pets. yikes! Also, one can do too much publicity, even for the oscars. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Black cat sitting in the sun on a piece of cardboard.

Black cat lying on a piece of cardboard in the sun.

Our mad cat turns his nose up at purpose created blankets, beds, toys etc but loves nothing more than luxuriating on a scrap of cardboard and playing with some pink string. Never change, Crowe!

Happy #caturday

Which human remains are held in UK museums – and where? Institutions including the Natural History Museum and Cambridge University hold more than 263,000 human remains, Guardian investigation finds

Just to note another guardian article on this survey indicated that the remains in armagh represent 6000+ items representing 10 individuals (!). If that’s accurate they - the guardian - might rethink how they represent this information! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Certainly!

yes i thought that might be the case but i was still unsure why so many in that particular jurisdiction in NI.

Graffiti image of a stylised soldier in combats with ‘stop war’ written in red across the middle.

Belfast today ‘Stop War’

The initial stats in which Armagh feature appear to be human remains in general - the latter ones specifically overseas / colonial - so these may be local but not sure why Armagh would have so many (even with local archaeological excavation & possibly some colonial collections)?

Armagh has an old museum, I’m not sure if human remain collections are retained in local museums or are held centrally but this would suggest locally? They are probably largely archaeological excavations at prehistoric sites and around the border post-partition (& some colonial legacy collections)?

Vast scale of overseas human remains held in UK museums decried by MPs and experts Exclusive: Guardian study finds UK museums hold more than 260,000 items of remains, often in sacrilegious ways

A damning report on the continued retention of human remains, especially from colonial contexts (nb Ireland virtually never included in these lists), in British museums. Rather amazed to see the 6th largest collection is in ‘Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon’?!? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Colonization = a lot of people who are Irish from anglo-british roots of various forms, it’s the nature of colonial settlement as well as local neighbor migration!

well there is that!

oh god, that an abomination!

the dreaded space!

But a lot of Irish people don’t have irish names because of colonialism, movement between the islands, convenience, buying into anglophone norms?! In diff eras / places people adopted English names - inc Eng equiv of their Irish name - as it wasn’t always safe to have an Irish name. Complicated!