Douglas Carson
@douglascarson.bsky.social
Architect: Carson & Crushell
Design Fellow: UCD Architecture
Coach: Harold's Cross Under 10s
Design Fellow: UCD Architecture
Coach: Harold's Cross Under 10s
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Leading medical publication the British Medical Journal recognises SUVs as a danger to public health in a new editorial co-authored by T&E’s James Nix: bit.ly/4hVDlBC
Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers.
It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.
Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers.
It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.
November 12, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Leading medical publication the British Medical Journal recognises SUVs as a danger to public health in a new editorial co-authored by T&E’s James Nix: bit.ly/4hVDlBC
Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers.
It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.
Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers.
It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.
At 13:40, Phili Halton, like some brilliantly articulate & correct historian/architect/campaigner, speaks to @mattcooperlastword.bsky.social about efforts to create spaces for Dublin's youth, often against council ideology. Well done RIAI for inviting this young voice
shows.acast.com/68e546af744f...
shows.acast.com/68e546af744f...
Crisis Mode | Irish Cities in Crisis
shows.acast.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
At 13:40, Phili Halton, like some brilliantly articulate & correct historian/architect/campaigner, speaks to @mattcooperlastword.bsky.social about efforts to create spaces for Dublin's youth, often against council ideology. Well done RIAI for inviting this young voice
shows.acast.com/68e546af744f...
shows.acast.com/68e546af744f...
Nearing completion, at a Dublin domestic re-use. Previously the home had multiple ground floor levels, all-magnolia walls. and chronic energy loss issues. The newly accessible GF is now all one level, with polychromatic walls and low energy use.
November 8, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Nearing completion, at a Dublin domestic re-use. Previously the home had multiple ground floor levels, all-magnolia walls. and chronic energy loss issues. The newly accessible GF is now all one level, with polychromatic walls and low energy use.
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Would you sign up for my seminars if this was week one? (These are not all obligatory ..)
October 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Would you sign up for my seminars if this was week one? (These are not all obligatory ..)
Fragment 4: As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43978/...
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43978/...
November 6, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Fragment 4: As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43978/...
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43978/...
Help me writing experts! Setting aside the article's content, this phenomenon of writing as bullet-points, with 1/2 sentence sections is strong here from Min. Donohue. Precise writing? Or a sign of over-confidence? Any writing recs for why this is problematic?
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
November 3, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Help me writing experts! Setting aside the article's content, this phenomenon of writing as bullet-points, with 1/2 sentence sections is strong here from Min. Donohue. Precise writing? Or a sign of over-confidence? Any writing recs for why this is problematic?
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
A fine tagline on the @irishtimesnews on the Irish Presidential race, which Catherine Connolly will indeed win, with the Irish Government's candidate, Heather Humphreys, coming second.
October 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
A fine tagline on the @irishtimesnews on the Irish Presidential race, which Catherine Connolly will indeed win, with the Irish Government's candidate, Heather Humphreys, coming second.
In Ireland, more than half of all female architecture graduates have left the profession.
The gender pay gap in architecture in Ireland is 10%.
It's 18% in one Dublin architecture office.
(Ireland's median gender pay gap is less than 8%.)
Credit to UCD colleague Dr Dearbhla Murphy
The gender pay gap in architecture in Ireland is 10%.
It's 18% in one Dublin architecture office.
(Ireland's median gender pay gap is less than 8%.)
Credit to UCD colleague Dr Dearbhla Murphy
September 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
In Ireland, more than half of all female architecture graduates have left the profession.
The gender pay gap in architecture in Ireland is 10%.
It's 18% in one Dublin architecture office.
(Ireland's median gender pay gap is less than 8%.)
Credit to UCD colleague Dr Dearbhla Murphy
The gender pay gap in architecture in Ireland is 10%.
It's 18% in one Dublin architecture office.
(Ireland's median gender pay gap is less than 8%.)
Credit to UCD colleague Dr Dearbhla Murphy
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Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere
September 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere
Is William Blake's granny's sheebeen under Slattery's? Only a handful of Rathmines buildings there at the time...
1. Hoare, P. (2025) "William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love". 2. Ó Maitiú, S. (2021) Irish Historic Towns Atlas.
@blakesociety.bsky.social @philiphoare.bsky.social
1. Hoare, P. (2025) "William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love". 2. Ó Maitiú, S. (2021) Irish Historic Towns Atlas.
@blakesociety.bsky.social @philiphoare.bsky.social
August 6, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Is William Blake's granny's sheebeen under Slattery's? Only a handful of Rathmines buildings there at the time...
1. Hoare, P. (2025) "William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love". 2. Ó Maitiú, S. (2021) Irish Historic Towns Atlas.
@blakesociety.bsky.social @philiphoare.bsky.social
1. Hoare, P. (2025) "William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love". 2. Ó Maitiú, S. (2021) Irish Historic Towns Atlas.
@blakesociety.bsky.social @philiphoare.bsky.social
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At the Israeli embassy, Dublin.
"Ban all trade, travel, and financial transactions with Israel, freeze all assets, expel diplomats, and suspend Israel from the UN General Assembly as was done with apartheid South Africa."
via Artists for Palestinians
#SocialistSunday
"Ban all trade, travel, and financial transactions with Israel, freeze all assets, expel diplomats, and suspend Israel from the UN General Assembly as was done with apartheid South Africa."
via Artists for Palestinians
#SocialistSunday
July 13, 2025 at 8:29 AM
At the Israeli embassy, Dublin.
"Ban all trade, travel, and financial transactions with Israel, freeze all assets, expel diplomats, and suspend Israel from the UN General Assembly as was done with apartheid South Africa."
via Artists for Palestinians
#SocialistSunday
"Ban all trade, travel, and financial transactions with Israel, freeze all assets, expel diplomats, and suspend Israel from the UN General Assembly as was done with apartheid South Africa."
via Artists for Palestinians
#SocialistSunday
I support Palestine Action
July 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I support Palestine Action
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Well, I guess it’s never too early to post this again —
‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR
YouTube video by NPR
youtu.be
July 4, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Well, I guess it’s never too early to post this again —
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Sign up for mailing list. New developments coming soon.
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July 4, 2025 at 12:58 PM
We have shows.
100% independent music promoters.
Sign up for mailing list. New developments coming soon.
foggynotions.ie
linktr.ee/foggynotions
100% independent music promoters.
Sign up for mailing list. New developments coming soon.
foggynotions.ie
linktr.ee/foggynotions
Instead of taking steps to prevent genocide, the UK government wants to criminalise people demanding justice for Palestine. Sign the petition to oppose this plan: palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/NoProscription
PETITION: Defend the right to protest: no proscription of Palestine Action
palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk
June 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Instead of taking steps to prevent genocide, the UK government wants to criminalise people demanding justice for Palestine. Sign the petition to oppose this plan: palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/NoProscription
June 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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These are the final seconds we have from Paul.
His phone has been taken, and his passport.
We urgently need Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Harris TD to intervene, demand he is freed, his passport & phone returned and the protesters are allowed to peacefully #MarchToGaza
Please email tanaiste
His phone has been taken, and his passport.
We urgently need Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Harris TD to intervene, demand he is freed, his passport & phone returned and the protesters are allowed to peacefully #MarchToGaza
Please email tanaiste
June 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
These are the final seconds we have from Paul.
His phone has been taken, and his passport.
We urgently need Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Harris TD to intervene, demand he is freed, his passport & phone returned and the protesters are allowed to peacefully #MarchToGaza
Please email tanaiste
His phone has been taken, and his passport.
We urgently need Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Harris TD to intervene, demand he is freed, his passport & phone returned and the protesters are allowed to peacefully #MarchToGaza
Please email tanaiste
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I don't think the old men & their friends have been so stupid about violence since the last time the old men & their friends were so stupid about violence.
June 13, 2025 at 6:30 AM
I don't think the old men & their friends have been so stupid about violence since the last time the old men & their friends were so stupid about violence.
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"But, Governor of the Central Bank Gabriel Makhlouf today defended its offerings, telling TDs at an Oireachtas Committee that the UN’s Genocide Convention applies only to the Irish State, not the country’s banking regulator."
What an incredible argument to give in your own defense
What an incredible argument to give in your own defense
Government rejects motion calling on it to stop sale of 'Israeli war bonds'
Government TDs argued that directing the Central Bank to stop selling Israeli bonds would impede on its independence.
www.thejournal.ie
June 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
"But, Governor of the Central Bank Gabriel Makhlouf today defended its offerings, telling TDs at an Oireachtas Committee that the UN’s Genocide Convention applies only to the Irish State, not the country’s banking regulator."
What an incredible argument to give in your own defense
What an incredible argument to give in your own defense
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"She was also Gaza’s youngest influencer, offering practical survival tips for daily life under bombardment, such as advice on how to cook with improvised methods when there was no gas.
'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. '”
'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. '”
Gaza’s youngest influencer aged 11 among children killed by Israeli strikes
Yaqeen Hammad offered tips for surviving life under bombardment and is just one of dozens of minors who have died
www.theguardian.com
May 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
"She was also Gaza’s youngest influencer, offering practical survival tips for daily life under bombardment, such as advice on how to cook with improvised methods when there was no gas.
'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. '”
'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. '”
unpaid internships in architecture offices
If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business.
You’re in organized crime.
You’re in organized crime.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
May 27, 2025 at 9:48 AM
unpaid internships in architecture offices
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May 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM