Aileen O’Carroll
@aaocarroll.bsky.social
Sociology (#work, #class, #time & #tech). Policy geek at the Digital Repository of Ireland (#archive #data #privacy #gdpr ). @ Maynooth University. She, her. Also cats, jokes & typos
Followed by a fascinating tour of @dublincitylibs.bsky.social given by senior librarian Tara Doyle - including a first edition of Finnegan’s Wake, a map of Dublin from 1754 and a printed book of plays from 1636 - all far more robust and long lasting that the floppy disk
November 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Followed by a fascinating tour of @dublincitylibs.bsky.social given by senior librarian Tara Doyle - including a first edition of Finnegan’s Wake, a map of Dublin from 1754 and a printed book of plays from 1636 - all far more robust and long lasting that the floppy disk
Happy World Digital Preservation Day y’all. Here is our wonderful memberships manager Maeve O’Brien introducing the work of @dri.ie
#WDPID2025
#WDPID2025
November 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Happy World Digital Preservation Day y’all. Here is our wonderful memberships manager Maeve O’Brien introducing the work of @dri.ie
#WDPID2025
#WDPID2025
A fascinating visit to the National Botanic Gardens in Ireland who are digitising their herbarium collection to make it more assessable to researchers and the public. Their collection is gold and crucial for tracking changes in the Irish ecosystem over 200 years @colinkelleher.bsky.social @dri.ie
May 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
A fascinating visit to the National Botanic Gardens in Ireland who are digitising their herbarium collection to make it more assessable to researchers and the public. Their collection is gold and crucial for tracking changes in the Irish ecosystem over 200 years @colinkelleher.bsky.social @dri.ie
Brigid died of Covid, three months after she moved into a nursing home. We miss her every day. ❤️
April 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Brigid died of Covid, three months after she moved into a nursing home. We miss her every day. ❤️
There was no funeral mass, only 11 of us were allowed to follow the coffin. Afterwards we had a funeral lunch for two.
April 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
There was no funeral mass, only 11 of us were allowed to follow the coffin. Afterwards we had a funeral lunch for two.
This day, 5 years ago, we buried Brigid Sreenan, my mother in law. Friends lined the road as left for her funeral.
April 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This day, 5 years ago, we buried Brigid Sreenan, my mother in law. Friends lined the road as left for her funeral.
April 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
First Remembered Dress by Harriet O’Carroll #worldpoetryday
March 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
First Remembered Dress by Harriet O’Carroll #worldpoetryday
Post a picture of when your pet was little
Dodger (El Dodgerino) and Artie (Lord Artful)
Dodger (El Dodgerino) and Artie (Lord Artful)
March 12, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Post a picture of when your pet was little
Dodger (El Dodgerino) and Artie (Lord Artful)
Dodger (El Dodgerino) and Artie (Lord Artful)
Lovely afternoon with my Digital Repository of Ireland colleagues visiting the letterpress print room at the National College of Art & Design in Dublin. Analogue is so much cooler than digital, the smell of the ink, the weight of the type. @dri-ie.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Lovely afternoon with my Digital Repository of Ireland colleagues visiting the letterpress print room at the National College of Art & Design in Dublin. Analogue is so much cooler than digital, the smell of the ink, the weight of the type. @dri-ie.bsky.social
My father used to tell me that long ago there existed a small furry animal called a shrove. Sadly this was hunted to extinction by people who flattened them with heavy sticks. Now on Shrove Tuesday, we eat pancakes in memory of the extinct shrove. Pity the poor shrove. #shrovetuesday
March 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
My father used to tell me that long ago there existed a small furry animal called a shrove. Sadly this was hunted to extinction by people who flattened them with heavy sticks. Now on Shrove Tuesday, we eat pancakes in memory of the extinct shrove. Pity the poor shrove. #shrovetuesday
Bar man in Listowel says “You can do anything in life if you have a woolley hat”. True dat.
February 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Bar man in Listowel says “You can do anything in life if you have a woolley hat”. True dat.
'Fragments of Victory: The Contemporary Irish Left' edited by @oisingilmore.bsky.social and @david-landy.bsky.social and published by Pluto Press. I have coauthored a chapter in it on the Irish Repeal referendum, focused on the activism of the Abortion Rights Campaign. #abortion #sociology
February 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
'Fragments of Victory: The Contemporary Irish Left' edited by @oisingilmore.bsky.social and @david-landy.bsky.social and published by Pluto Press. I have coauthored a chapter in it on the Irish Repeal referendum, focused on the activism of the Abortion Rights Campaign. #abortion #sociology
Burawoy on the University, from burawoy.berkeley.edu/PS/Sociology...
February 6, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Burawoy on the University, from burawoy.berkeley.edu/PS/Sociology...
Like many, I’m shocked and saddened to hear of the untimely death of Michael Burawoy. My well thumbed copy of Manufacturing Consent is still on my bookshelf, much referred to when writing my own book on working time in software. Condolences to his family and friends.
February 5, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Like many, I’m shocked and saddened to hear of the untimely death of Michael Burawoy. My well thumbed copy of Manufacturing Consent is still on my bookshelf, much referred to when writing my own book on working time in software. Condolences to his family and friends.
Everything for everyone.
November 7, 2024 at 10:24 PM
Everything for everyone.
Todays I’m in @ucclibrary.bsky.social speaking about ensuring qualitative data is FAIR
October 23, 2024 at 12:34 PM
Todays I’m in @ucclibrary.bsky.social speaking about ensuring qualitative data is FAIR
Brigid, Margaret and Stephanie from Southside Travellers Action Group talk with Michael Fortune about Irish Traveller traditions. Fascinating discussion about luck, money and remembering. I like the idea that robins are messengers from our dead loved ones. #HistFest24
October 9, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Brigid, Margaret and Stephanie from Southside Travellers Action Group talk with Michael Fortune about Irish Traveller traditions. Fascinating discussion about luck, money and remembering. I like the idea that robins are messengers from our dead loved ones. #HistFest24
Two movies I watched this week & highly recommend: Fancy Dance (Apple
TV) & Kneecap (in cinemas/rent online). Both speak to the importance of indigenous languages to cultural, identity and resistance to colonialisation. One a story of survival in Oklahoma, the other of revival in Belfast. #language
TV) & Kneecap (in cinemas/rent online). Both speak to the importance of indigenous languages to cultural, identity and resistance to colonialisation. One a story of survival in Oklahoma, the other of revival in Belfast. #language
September 26, 2024 at 10:24 AM
Two movies I watched this week & highly recommend: Fancy Dance (Apple
TV) & Kneecap (in cinemas/rent online). Both speak to the importance of indigenous languages to cultural, identity and resistance to colonialisation. One a story of survival in Oklahoma, the other of revival in Belfast. #language
TV) & Kneecap (in cinemas/rent online). Both speak to the importance of indigenous languages to cultural, identity and resistance to colonialisation. One a story of survival in Oklahoma, the other of revival in Belfast. #language
Are you a working in academia? Are you a woman working in Ireland? You need to read @ProfPatOConnor memoir, launched today at @MU__SSI . It’s full of wisdom and humour. She is a trailblazer & has done a great service in documenting her struggles.
September 17, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Are you a working in academia? Are you a woman working in Ireland? You need to read @ProfPatOConnor memoir, launched today at @MU__SSI . It’s full of wisdom and humour. She is a trailblazer & has done a great service in documenting her struggles.
Books I read on my summer holidays
September 16, 2024 at 9:41 AM
Books I read on my summer holidays
