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An Taisce @antaisce.bsky.social · 8h

Decade-long decline: Irish waterways continue to be polluted

"We now need a step change in how we manage our waters and how we manage our land and wastewater. We can’t keep doing largely the same thing and expecting a different outcome"

www.antaisce.org/news/decade-...
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Decade-long decline: Irish waterways continue to be polluted

Latest Water Quality Report from the Environmental Protection Agency indicates decreases in overall ecological quality of our waters

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Dorothy Cashman @irishcookbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Another brilliant little place just down from there is .., www.kenilworthelectrical.ie?srsltid=AfmB...

Home - Kenilworth Electrical Sales - Spare Parts & Servicing for Kenwood, Delonghi , Nilfisk , Polti, Magimix, Electrolux, Zanussu ,Miele

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Dorothy Cashman @irishcookbooks.bsky.social · 2d

www.projectbowes.com/interviews/2...
Worth a try. It’s a great place.

The Hoover Centre of Harold's Cross — Project Bowes

A woman walks into the shop carrying one of those cheery Henry vacuum cleaners with a smiley face on the front of it ,  and tells Fergus it's stopped working. He takes a look at it, writes up a...

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Dorothy Cashman @irishcookbooks.bsky.social · 2d

“Coillte has been contacted for comment”….

Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 2d

A cynical person might suggest that - just as with the recent huge ecocide on the river Blackwater - nobody will ever face consequences for this www.thejournal.ie/cork-tree-fe...

Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork

The Department of Agriculture has been formally alerted to the incident by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

www.thejournal.ie

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Richard Hornsey @hornseyhq.bsky.social · 2d

Just out: Factory tourism in inter-war Britain: the spectacular construction of social-democratic mass production: academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...

Factory tourism in inter-war Britain: the spectacular construction of social-democratic mass production

Abstract. In the 1920s and 1930s, British mass-manufacturers opened their factories to hundreds of thousands of ordinary consumers. As the market for brand

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 4d

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 4d

Coming soon!

Written by historian Leanne Calvert, @unioflimerick.bsky.social ‘Pious and Promiscuous’ offers a previously unseen glimpse into how ordinary people faced life’s most significant milestones as members of a closely knit Presbyterian community in the long 18th century Ulster.

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IrishBeerHistory @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social · 4d

I possess a sort of 'tapering glass, slender and barley-wreathed" so mentioned in the essay highlighted in my post, and I will drink from it tonight some Old Ale - although he'd say Mild - in remembrance of Charles Hugh Davies ...

A homebrewed old recipe Irish ale poured into a 19th century dwarf ale glass with barley and hop etching.

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Ciarán Cuffe @ciarancuffe.bsky.social · 7d

That new public colonnade on Liffey Street Upper? Motel One wants to close it off, a slap in the face for those who value public space. Here’s my Planning Observation, feel free to write your own: bit.ly/CufULS

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Tadhg Ó hErodáin / Tim Heron @timheron.bsky.social · 7d

Dear all,
I'm excited to share the CFP for the annual SOFEIR conference which I'm organising on 26-27 March 2026 in Strasbourg. The theme is "Irish Exceptionalism". You'll find the CFP here:

www.sofeir.fr/cfp-irish-ex...

CFP Irish Exceptionalism – SOFEIR conference – University of Strasbourg, 26-27 March 2026 – SOFEIR

www.sofeir.fr

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Dr Leeann Lane @lloislanel.bsky.social · 7d

Delighted that my exhibition on the afterlives of Cork republican women who did not go on to marry is now up in Creegan lib DCU @dculibrary.bsky.social
I want to thank all the DCU library staff and especially @orlanicaodha.bsky.social
Also thanks to @cecilearchives.bsky.social for all her help.

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Books Upstairs @booksupstairs.bsky.social · 8d

A small fire at the front of the bookshop was started last night after rubbish bags that were awaiting collection were set on fire. The guards don’t have reason at this time to believe it was a targeted attack. Thankfully the damage was limited and everyone is safe. We are open for business as usual

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 7d

Join us on 8 Oct for Collecting Ireland’s History, a lecture for the Dublin Festival of History in collaboration with @virtualtreasury.bsky.social

Explore 700 years of Irish manuscript collecting.

Book your tickets now: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...

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Adrian Weckler @adrianweckler.bsky.social · 8d

“Littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement.”

Deloitte issues refund to (Aus) government for using AI in $440k report

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 9d

On flu jabs, paperwork, and a trickling tremor that public attitudes to science are going in the wrong direction.

observer.co.uk/news/columni...

My kids are due for their flu jabs, which is good to hear

But these days more and more parents are ticking the red ‘refuse’ box on the form

observer.co.uk

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Dorothy Cashman @irishcookbooks.bsky.social · 11d

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Dorothy Cashman @irishcookbooks.bsky.social · 11d

It being National Potato Day per Bord Bia, a recipe courtesy of a Scot, Elizabeth Craig, and her Art of Irish Cooking.
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A recipe for Irish Potato Mash which adds in apple sauce, and cloves if liked, at the end.

Cover image of Craig’s Art of Irish Cooking.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 12d

Shout out to Richard Flanagan. No idea who you are, but you seem like a good egg to me!

[Times]

Writer gives up prize
The winner of last year’s Baillie Gifford prize for non-fiction has refused the £50,000 prize because the sponsoring company has not exited hydrocarbon investments. Richard Flanagan, 64, who won last November for Question 7, did not collect the money after “a candid conversation” with Baillie Gifford partners, the prize said. The cash will now go to charity.

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Willie Mackenzie @williemackenzie.bsky.social · 12d

RIP Jane Goodall, one of the most worthy humans ever to be officially immortalised as a Lego minifigure.

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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 13d

So grateful to @sonjatiernan.bsky.social & editors of #Saothar50 for opportunity to write on Irish housewives. By mad coincidence my ma was interviewed about her everyday experiences in 1968 & that features in my new article. #familyhistory #femaleactivism
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Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social · 13d

Road bowling (pronounced like the bow you do to a king) in east Cork. www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

Inside Ireland's most unusual ball sport

On a small road in East Cork, thousands gather each autumn for the King and Queen of the Roads: the world's biggest road bowling tournament.

www.bbc.com

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Joe Moran @joemoransblog.bsky.social · 13d

I reviewed Sarah Perry's Death of an Ordinary Man here www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Death of an Ordinary Man by Sarah Perry review – a brilliant meditation on mortality

The Essex Serpent author offers a moving account of her father-in-law’s final illness that will resonate widely

www.theguardian.com

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Dorothy Cashman @irishcookbooks.bsky.social · 15d

www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... (five minutes in).
Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire on his father Liam, ní thiteann an t-úll i bhfad ón gcrann.

portraidi.ie/en/liam-mac-...

A Giant At My Shoulder

Twenty-five years ago, the RTÉ Radio millennium series asked prominent Irish people select the person who has most influenced them.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 16d

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 16d

“I was doing that thing where you realize your concept of home is going away and you have to make your own now. And you won’t ever get there. You’ll never feel home in the same way ever again. All you’ve got is memory, a place where you can’t live.”

From The Archives: Merle Haggard, Son of Bakersfield

Note: I wrote a bunch of stuff before posting the actual article. You know, like recipe sites, except I heard some of those guys make money. So just scroll down a thousand words for the actual thing y...

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