Eilís Ní Chaoimh they/them

Thanks Devin!!! Spent the afternoon in Salthill to celebrate 😁

Took the afternoon off and felt like I was mitching off school 😂

Almost!!!!

It is done. PhD thesis submitted. Now I just need to defend it!

Update: reverted to an earlier version, saved multiple copies before converting to PDF.

The word-processing gods have decided to stop tormenting me, as it seems ok...

One last check needed!

Thank you! Honestly, wanted to yeet the laptop out the window.

Currently trying to submit my thesis. Converted to PDF, and the chapter headers went bananas. Fixed that. Then the numbering was off. Fixed that. Tried to lock it for editing so things wouldn't go crazy when converted to PDF. Now everything is highlighted purple.

Why is everything purple?????

'We're seeing eviction rates not seen in Ireland since the 1850s' The issuing of 5,000 eviction notices in three months last year is quite revealing when viewed against Ireland's historical record

‘We're seeing eviction rates not seen in Ireland since the 1850s'
- a headline out government should be ashamed off, but do they even care? A reminder - the 1850s was the period during and after the devastation of the Great Famine #spéirgorm www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Tomorrow's Headlines

The Telegraph: Starmer Next!

The Guardian: Morgan McSweeney's Gone, Thank God!

The Irish Times: Irishman forced out of UK Labour Role

The Irish (Cork) Examiner: Having Completed Michael Collins' Work, and brought low the British Government, Macroom Calls it's Son Home

All of Michael Martin's statements these days are just "we can't deliver flood relief", "we can't deliver climate reform", "we can't deliver transport infrastructure", "we can't criticise the US"

What can you deliver

What is the point of you

I didn't believe it, but I've started doing an exercise routine designed by my physio. Apparently the trick is to push yourself just enough to get the benefit but not too much that you feel horrific.

The joys of being a floppy person. We could label it but those are the terms my docs have used 😂

eily_may's January 2026 Reads from the Storygraph. The graphic shows three different book covers with star ratings. Now She is Witch by Kirsty Logan - 3.75 stars. Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid - 3 stars. Babel by RF Kuang - 4.75 stars.

I have been reading for at least 45 minutes a day this month as part of a reading challenge. Sometimes it's hard to do the 45 minutes, but I'm really enjoying it!

Fave read for January was definitely RF Kuang's Babel. Incredible book with such a clever magic system.

#BookSky

a woman in a sequined dress is walking in the fog . Alt: Catherine O'Hara as Moira Rose, in a sequined dress, walking through fog and upsetting the birds.

Ah lads. Catherine O'Hara has died. What a horrible loss.

major case of shooting the messenger, when successive governments have done too little to: (a) cut ireland's emissions enough to make a fair contribution to climate action; (b) protect people and their homes from the climate change that's already locked in

Apparently, it doesn't matter if the United States is an authoritarian fascist regime murdering and disappearing those with the misfortune to cross paths with ICE. Our political representatives will still show up with the begging bowl filled with shamrock.

Absolute moral bankruptcy.

Finished Babel by RF Kuang.

An extraordinary anti-colonial fantasy book. Incredibly compelling, wonderful characters and perhaps the most ingenious magic system I have come across.

Loved it.

4.75 ⭐ rather than 5 because I wanted the queer subtext to be more than subtext.

#BookSky

"And in the end, the answer had been so obvious - to simply refuse to participate. To remove their labour - and the fruits of their labour - permanently from the offering."

RF Kuang, Babel

It's coming to an end, and the hard-hitting quotes are coming thick and fast:

"One individual choice, made at just the right time. That was how they defied momentum. This was how they altered the tracks of history."

- RF Kuang, Babel

This quote from Babel is hitting hard today:

"Go on, he thought; do it again; kill more of them; turn the streets red with the blood of your own. Show them who you are. Show them their whiteness won't save them."

- RF Kuang, Babel (the thoughts of Robin Swift as Oxford devolves into open war).

‘the horrible things done to ordinary law-abiding people by these maddened men’

W. B. Yeats, speech to the Oxford Union, 1921

Current goal: to submit my PhD thesis before the international legal order collapses.

Existential dread is high.

A little peek into the making of one of my linocut illustrations for ‘Sinners’.
Can’t believe this is a year ago, and still surreal to have my work on film.
You can read more in detail in my portfolio over on my website. www.blockforest.co.uk

#sinners #Illustration #Art #linocut #sinnersmovie

if you insult slime jesus you insult me www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

🎵Come out La Migra goons
In your stumbling platoons
Tell your wives how you ate shit on ice for quotas
Tell her how despite your guns
all you ever did was run
from the cold and frozen streets of Minnesota!🎵

Oh goodness. Thanks for the heads up!

... History isn't a premade tapestry that we've got to suffer, a closed world with no exit. We can form it. Make it. We just have to choose to make it."

- RF Kuang, Babel

This quote really hits, given the world we are living in:

"If we push in the right spots - if we create losses where the Empire can't stand to suffer them - then we've moved things to the breaking point. Then the future becomes fluid, and change is possible...

The front cover of RF Kuang's Babel. The cover is in grayscale with "Babel" inscribed from top to bottom. The cityscape of Oxford serves as a backdrop, filled with dreaming spires and rising domes. Several birds are also depicted on the front cover.

Book #2 of 2026 is Babel, which @frankiegolucky.bsky.social has been trying to get me to read for a while now.

I'm about a third of the way through, and it's an incredible book. I absolutely adore the magic system that RF Kuang has devised.

#BookSky

Supporting the legal capacity of all persons with disabilities – in conversation with János Fiala-Butora

In this 'in conversation with,' I talk to the lawyer and academic Dr János Fiala-Butora about his new book, Implementing the Right to Decide under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with…

She's got a plastic dress on, is Heathcliffe her dangerous crow boy?