Shona

Hey.

Time on social media will not meaningfully increase your capacity to help combat the horrors.

If all it's doing for you is making you feel the horrors more deeply and constantly, please know that you are under no obligation to do that to yourself.

Presentation and presenters sitting to discuss

Cormac O'Malley stands and shows a book of Helen Hooker O'Malley's art

Excellent and very enjoyable overview of Helen Hooker O'Malley's life and work by her son Cormac O'Malley, celebrating the acquisition of her photographic archive @ucc.ie @ucclibrary.bsky.social
#photography #IrishHistory #archives

Open Access Pathways - celebrating #OpenAccessWeek @ucclibrary.bsky.social @hardyschwamm.bsky.social presenting an overview of the importance of Open Access

I guess working from home for 2 weeks is out of the question 😫

The nice people at @wikimediaireland.bsky.social are hiring an Irish Language Officer!

Check out wikimedia.ie

How are people coping with working 5 days when they have tiny humans? How are you squeezing more of their joy into your life? Should I work at night while they sleep??

I very much enjoyed being invited on the @shushradio.bsky.social radio show (link to recording below) and being able to pick my own songs (great fun, but difficult choices had to be made!) and also having a great chat about libraries (they give us power you know), food science and much more.

Excel. Great for numbers. Shit for text.

Taispéantas deas i gcuimhne Manchán Magan sa leabharlann Blanchardstown 💙 Nice display in memory of Manchán Magan in Blanchardstown library.
@darach.bsky.social

Ah lad!

[God, about to create the giraffe] Now let's do a silly one

UCC quad

UCC Library

It's a beautiful time of year when the sun shines!

Picture of a smiling Fergal Keane - with a blue background

Fergal Keane reflects on the culture that shaped him in today’s @irishexaminer.bsky.social ahead of our symposium Cork University Press and Irish Intellectual Life this week:
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

Really enjoyed the ‘Words on Waves’ exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland, with truly spectacular early Irish manuscripts loaned from the monastery of St Gall in Switzerland, paired with related artefacts from the NMI’s collection. Mobile art and ideas taking literal form! Unmissable.

Looking forward to seeing you at our Symposium next week.
bit.ly/CUPSymposium
📘 Session 1:
Paul McSweeney on Urban Milk Supply.
Síle Ní Mhurchú on Dánta Gráda.
Iarla Ó Lionáird on Irish Music.
Cormac Ó Gráda on Cork’s Economic History
Other session details to follow

I have to pay €2 extra for the carpark every time my kid won't cooperate about getting into school on time.

Two underappreciated things when working from home. Using up leftovers, and giving the face a little break from makeup.

thinking about the fast, efficient driverless cars we should’ve had decades ago

Celebrate 100 years of Cork University Press, Ireland’s oldest university press
Join us Thu 11 Sept in UCC’s Dora Allman Room for a symposium on landmark works, from Dánta Grádha to the award-winning Atlas Series, (plus an evening reception.)
Free & open to all

www.eventbrite.com/e/cork-unive...

Absolutely, and hopefully when all the usual places have opened up again. It's been a long summer if weak coffee.

Maynooth University Librarian Cathal McCauley and IReL Director Susan Reilly cutting a cake

Maynooth University Librarian Cathal McCauley and IReL Director Susan Reilly holding a cake

The IReL staff team standing in a line

A honey cake that says "IREL - APC you later" on it

This morning we bid farewell to our home of almost 10 years, @mulibrary.bsky.social, as we move to our new office! We would like to thank the MU Library team for hosting us, and for all of their support through the years. @maynoothuniversity.ie

Oh I definitely want to hear more about that.

Ah good stuff. Hard to resist the allure of Boole! Are you studying ot teaching?

I'd watch this.

It’s always lovely to have a piece in the Irish Arts Review, but particularly lovely when it is about the most recent graduates from art and design colleges around the country - so much talent to watch! #speirgorm

Couldn't possibly be true, aren't they leaving the market in droves?!

Absolute LOLZ. Every house I've been outbid on thus far (bar one) has been bought by either a builder or a landlord. I've worked all my life, and will still likely never be able to afford a home of my own.

This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read

7) Copenhagen is the answer to the question “what if you had as much money as Ireland and decided spent it on stuff that made the place better?”.

Will AI put fiction writers out of work? Authors Naomi Alderman, Curtis Sittenfeld and more on why artificial intelligence is stirring fears for the future of book publishing

“It’s almost taboo among writers to say, ‘I am interested in finding out what a person could do with this technology.’”

I spoke to @naomialderman.bsky.social, @richbeard.bsky.social and Sarah Hall about what AI means for novelists, in this week’s @ftweekend.com Books Essay:

🧵Spotted in a Library in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A softly smiling man (20s?) is wandering around the shelves with a tiny new human snug against his chest in a sling. He's kissing the top of her head, tilting himself this way and that so she can see ALL the books she'll one day be able to read. (1)