Aoife Bhreatnach
@aoifeb.bsky.social
Swears, writes, Gaeilge is fáilte. She/í
Makes Censored, a podcast about dirty books and films https://shows.acast.com/censored
Research interests: sex and death
Makes Censored, a podcast about dirty books and films https://shows.acast.com/censored
Research interests: sex and death
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Applications for the 2026 TSF Poetry Workshop are open and close on Tuesday 2nd December at 5pm Irish time.
More information on how to apply here: stingingfly.org/poetry-works...
More information on how to apply here: stingingfly.org/poetry-works...
November 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Applications for the 2026 TSF Poetry Workshop are open and close on Tuesday 2nd December at 5pm Irish time.
More information on how to apply here: stingingfly.org/poetry-works...
More information on how to apply here: stingingfly.org/poetry-works...
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The CJEU know they’ve blown the bloody doors off on this one.
⚖️ Judgment in Case C-713/23 Wojewoda Mazowiecki:
Can a Member State refuse to recognise a same-sex marriage concluded in another Member State?
🎥 💬 Judge Jan Passer explains — with subtitles in all EU languages 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/p1...
📰 PR 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...
Can a Member State refuse to recognise a same-sex marriage concluded in another Member State?
🎥 💬 Judge Jan Passer explains — with subtitles in all EU languages 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/p1...
📰 PR 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...
November 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
The CJEU know they’ve blown the bloody doors off on this one.
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The BBC makes itself *extremely* hard to love with this stuff. I’ve worked in more than one small newsroom that’s discovered to its immense frustration that the country’s biggest news org has stolen its work with no credit whatsoever.
I guess it’s a compliment that the top story on BBC London’s TV/online output today is a direct lift of a month-old London Centric story? But once again the BBC is consistently the worst news outlet for actually remembering to credit others.
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The BBC makes itself *extremely* hard to love with this stuff. I’ve worked in more than one small newsroom that’s discovered to its immense frustration that the country’s biggest news org has stolen its work with no credit whatsoever.
Thanks to Heritage Council funding, digital versions of these parish registers will soon be online. And the precious records of St Luke's Douglas can move from a damp old building to a temperature-controlled archive. #Speirgorm #Ireland 🗃️
November 25, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Thanks to Heritage Council funding, digital versions of these parish registers will soon be online. And the precious records of St Luke's Douglas can move from a damp old building to a temperature-controlled archive. #Speirgorm #Ireland 🗃️
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every poster on #speirgorm has a copy of Soundings
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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1. The Toronto St. Patrick’s Day Parade used to be so dangerous that it was cancelled for more than a century.
Why? Religious hatred & sectarian violence.
Here’s my annual thread about the bloody riots that rocked our city in the days when Toronto was known as "The Belfast of Canada."
Why? Religious hatred & sectarian violence.
Here’s my annual thread about the bloody riots that rocked our city in the days when Toronto was known as "The Belfast of Canada."
November 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Two-mile-borris, Co. Tipperary. From the Irish 'Buiríos Léith', probably meaning the borough of the monastery in nearby Leigh.
Also the ideal distancing applicable to certain floppy-haired former British Prime Ministers in a pandemic.
#speirgorm
Also the ideal distancing applicable to certain floppy-haired former British Prime Ministers in a pandemic.
#speirgorm
November 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Two-mile-borris, Co. Tipperary. From the Irish 'Buiríos Léith', probably meaning the borough of the monastery in nearby Leigh.
Also the ideal distancing applicable to certain floppy-haired former British Prime Ministers in a pandemic.
#speirgorm
Also the ideal distancing applicable to certain floppy-haired former British Prime Ministers in a pandemic.
#speirgorm
Don't be boring or combative in conversation. It's so simple and restful.
This reminds me of Cardinal John Henry Newman's book Definition of a Gentleman. I often cite Newman's book because it's so instructive. The term gentleman is so overwrought and frequently abused, but to the degree it means anything at all, I think Newman captures it here:
November 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Don't be boring or combative in conversation. It's so simple and restful.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
We really are such lazy articles.
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
We really are such lazy articles.
She knew about Kinsale then... #purecork
Thirty years since the best reaction to losing a referendum was spoken! In 1995 one of No Divorce Campaign leaders Úna Bean Mhic Mhathúna,on leaving the RDS as the 15th amendment to allow divorce was passed,shouted to celebrating pro divorce campaigners,’Go way ye wife swappin' sodomites’!#speirgorm
November 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
She knew about Kinsale then... #purecork
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By my count there will only be one (1) trans character on all of the major networks and streaming services as of January 2026.
"According to the report, [...]during the 2024-25 television season, queer characters increased across platforms by 4%, bringing the total to 489. However, the Thursday report found that 41% of those characters will not return." www.thewrap.com/glaad-where-...
Nearly Half of All LGBTQ+ Characters Will Disappear From TV Next Season, GLAAD Study Finds
The 2024-25 TV season recorded 489 queer characters across broadcast, cable and screenings, but cancellations and plot find a deep decline to come
www.thewrap.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 AM
By my count there will only be one (1) trans character on all of the major networks and streaming services as of January 2026.
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if nova's right I may actually die
November 19, 2025 at 4:53 AM
if nova's right I may actually die
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Looking at any US government account now is like having to spend a torturous evening with an odd cousin. All this internet-boiled freak shit; always annoying, usually racist and far too often just so confusing and boring you feel like there's no escape.
November 18, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Looking at any US government account now is like having to spend a torturous evening with an odd cousin. All this internet-boiled freak shit; always annoying, usually racist and far too often just so confusing and boring you feel like there's no escape.
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I remember the sinking feeling I got around 2013 when I realised I’d be hearing about what John McGuirk thinks about everything for the rest of my life
Nobody who should fuck off actually fucks off anymore. We're stuck with all these fucking people.
November 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I remember the sinking feeling I got around 2013 when I realised I’d be hearing about what John McGuirk thinks about everything for the rest of my life
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RIP Sister JoAnn Persch, immigrant advocate who, alongside Sister Pat Murphy, prayed the Rosary in English & Spanish every Friday outside Broadview ICE, no matter what **since 2007** She was still attempting to minister to people inside Broadview Nov. 1. Legend 💚 blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/18/s...
Sister JoAnn Persch, Trailblazing Immigrant Rights Activist, Dies At 91
Sister JoAnn Persch spent decades with the Sisters of Mercy, fighting for immigrant and refugee rights in Chicago and across the country. She prayed the rosary outside the Broadview ICE facility every...
blockclubchicago.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:20 PM
RIP Sister JoAnn Persch, immigrant advocate who, alongside Sister Pat Murphy, prayed the Rosary in English & Spanish every Friday outside Broadview ICE, no matter what **since 2007** She was still attempting to minister to people inside Broadview Nov. 1. Legend 💚 blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/18/s...
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Fuxk and off
FF & FG challenge to stop trying to copy and paste the worst of UK policies.
#speirgorm
FF & FG challenge to stop trying to copy and paste the worst of UK policies.
#speirgorm
Justice and Migration Minister Jim O'Callaghan said he's committed to ensuring Ireland is 'not viewed more favourably than the UK by those seeking to claim asylum'.
His statement comes following proposed reforms to the UK's asylum practices
jrnl.ie/6877693
His statement comes following proposed reforms to the UK's asylum practices
jrnl.ie/6877693
O'Callaghan 'committed' to ensuring Ireland not viewed 'more favourably' than the UK by asylum seekers
A new International Protection Bill to reform Ireland’s asylum system will be published later this year.
jrnl.ie
November 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Fuxk and off
FF & FG challenge to stop trying to copy and paste the worst of UK policies.
#speirgorm
FF & FG challenge to stop trying to copy and paste the worst of UK policies.
#speirgorm
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If we don’t signal our virtue every now and again - then so many believe they are utterly alone - “virtue signalling” is not there to say “aren’t I good” but “there are more of us than you might imagine” and “fuck you for demanding that only the brutal and the bullies may speak”
November 18, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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⚰️WOULD YOU BE willing to be buried alive in a coffin for two months, if you thought it would make you rich and famous?
👀 Beo faoin bhfód @TG4TV
www.thejournal.ie/beo-faoin-bh...
👀 Beo faoin bhfód @TG4TV
www.thejournal.ie/beo-faoin-bh...
Beo Faoin Bhfód: The Irish man who was buried alive in 1968
A new documentary, on TG4 later this month, tells the story of Mick Meaney and his strange quest.
www.thejournal.ie
November 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
⚰️WOULD YOU BE willing to be buried alive in a coffin for two months, if you thought it would make you rich and famous?
👀 Beo faoin bhfód @TG4TV
www.thejournal.ie/beo-faoin-bh...
👀 Beo faoin bhfód @TG4TV
www.thejournal.ie/beo-faoin-bh...
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Dochreidte ag an pointe seo. Tá na treoirlínte seo (chomh maith le cionníollacha teanga, atá b'fheidir chomh tábhachtach) geallta le fada an lá. Níl sé inghlactha le géarchéim titíochta ag cur leis an ngéarchéim teanga. @greenpartyie.bsky.social #spéirgorm
Gaeltacht planning guidelines which various ministers have promised to be delivered soon on numerous occasions since 2022 will now not be delivered appear to be on the long finger once again. #Gaeilge
jrnl.ie/6873220t
jrnl.ie/6873220t
Surprise and criticism as Gaeltacht planning guidelines delayed again until 2027
Campaigners for Gaeltacht housing are bitterly disappointed over the lack of urgent measures in the housing plan published today.
jrnl.ie
November 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Dochreidte ag an pointe seo. Tá na treoirlínte seo (chomh maith le cionníollacha teanga, atá b'fheidir chomh tábhachtach) geallta le fada an lá. Níl sé inghlactha le géarchéim titíochta ag cur leis an ngéarchéim teanga. @greenpartyie.bsky.social #spéirgorm
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Soundabout - I love it #SpeirGorm
There's a roundabout in Cork where even during the worst traffic, drivers unfailingly allow others to merge in a "zip" by local custom. Driving through it restores my faith in society, every time.
I just found out it's known as the "soundabout", and that's just wonderful.
I just found out it's known as the "soundabout", and that's just wonderful.
November 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Soundabout - I love it #SpeirGorm
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The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
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The rise in taxidermy fandom means certain types of bats are being decimated at alarming rates. Bats are protected in western countries, so if you see taxidermied bats for sale, big warning.
Be a considerate gloom cookie, please.
unfortunatecadaver.com/pages/the-un....
Be a considerate gloom cookie, please.
unfortunatecadaver.com/pages/the-un....
The Unethical Practice of Bat Taxidermy
Given the critical role bats play in ecosystems and the numerous threats they already face, it is unethical to engage in bat taxidermy. Conservation efforts should prioritize protecting these essentia...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The rise in taxidermy fandom means certain types of bats are being decimated at alarming rates. Bats are protected in western countries, so if you see taxidermied bats for sale, big warning.
Be a considerate gloom cookie, please.
unfortunatecadaver.com/pages/the-un....
Be a considerate gloom cookie, please.
unfortunatecadaver.com/pages/the-un....
It just gets better
I have spent quite a bit of time looking all this up because there is a Twopothouse and a Twopot river but while Twopothouse and NEW Twopothouse are in the general vicinity of each other, Twopot river is nowhere near them. Meanwhile Buildings of Ireland claims an Oldtwopothouse...
November 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
It just gets better