Emily Mark-FitzGerald

Delighted to tour the gorgeous Tyrone Guthrie Centre for artists’ residencies, Annaghmakerrig as part of the Irish Museums Association annual conference - sunshine and scones made for a heady combination!

I find the diagonal pleasing

Not offered, but I was ok with that (not my favourite)

A hearty plate of breakfast including fried egg, bacon, sausages, mushrooms, tomato, white pudding, and potato bread, as well as HP brown sauce, brown bread and toast

Monaghan fry 10/10 no notes

Very much enjoying the annual Irish Museums Association conference in Monaghan this year, and especially ending Day 1 in this rather spectacular pub

A reminder that this post closes in one week! 👀👀

Eeek this made me wince 😬 🥔

This is the most resonant higher ed piece I’ve read in a long time

#ireveng

Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates how is it possible to cram so much ignorance--"English-Scott-Irish origin" -- into such a small space? miracle of a person said to be "world's richest man" has no more grasp of US history than a crumpled paper tissue underfoot in a men's restroom not recently cleaned.

joyce is going after elon again

Great post. I missed that Elon cited the Irish as part of our heritage. For decades, nativists insisted that the Irish were papist thugs who were ruining America. That idea is so thoroughly buried that in 30 days, people with ancestry from all over will be wearing shirts saying “kiss me, I’m Irish.”

American culture of the 1840’s would have been *very fucking surprised* to see the Irish considered as co-founders.

Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.

When you don’t even have enough brain cells to rub together to define your racism

This whole thread. On how ICE and DHS are ignoring orders to release ppl, moving them to Texas to get favorable judges, and holding them—including young children—in absolutely inhumane conditions.

It’s so clear that neither ICE nor DHS are compatible w the rule of law and must be dismantled.

Samantha Morton’s buzooms and cackle are unparalleled (the series is great fun)

Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...

Well that was just brilliant - a love letter to Latino community, full of joy and life, familia in the deepest sense - got quite emotional seeing all the flags of the Américas at the end 🇵🇪🇵🇷🇺🇸felicidades Bad Bunny, magnífico

Any rockstars out there need a consulting historian? My rates are eminently affordable.

Didn’t work for Scotland, alas

France v Wales next wknd tho 🫣

I’m happy to take enquiries also at emily(dot)mark@ucd.ie about this post and working at UCD. Please note, this is a wide open search, open also to international candidates, but please do review selection criteria (PhD is mandatory, etc).

Very pleased to share details of a new permanent academic job opportunity in Creative & Cultural Industries at University College Dublin. We are seeking candidates with a PhD whose work engages with the commercial creative industries. Deadline: 6 March 2026 universityvacancies.com/university-c....

2026 calendar featuring Irish crooner Daniel O’Donnell, looking suave in a plaid shirt against a background of hydrangeas

Back of calendar showing 12 months of fashion shots featuring Daniel O’Donnell

Eason’s 75% off bin came up trumps today. Looking forward to 12 months of Daniel

When the world otherwise feels like it’s falling to pieces - taking small joys where I can. Smell of fresh bread baking while the rain falls outside; making breakfast crepes for a gaggle of teenagers still drowsy from their sleepover; coffee and the paper for me; Sam Cooke on the wireless.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college.

1. Italian Renaissance Literature in Translation
2. Neuroscience and Neurobiology
3. Introduction to Jazz (with David Baker)
4. Californian Mission-style Architecture
5. Sex and Sexuality in Classical Art

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This is the biggest targeted training programme since Harold Wilson started the Open University (note).

Open to all UK adults online, taking as little as under 20 minutes, the courses will give

founding partners - Accenture, Amazon, Barclays, BT, Google, IBM, Intuit, Microsoft, Sage, SAS and Salesforce to take the Al Skills Boost programme to the next level and upskill 10 million workers with Al skills by 2030.

The government’s suggestion that rolling out 20 minute courses on writing “AI“ prompts, sponsored by Google, Microsoft and Amazon, is somehow comparable to the founding of the Open University (the Wilson government‘s, & Jennie Lee’s, proudest achievement), is an insult to our human intelligence.

“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”

recently learned about “dek bass”, a sound system culture in rural West Bengal, using cassette decks and homemade systems, and it’s remarkable because 1) the music and equipment are sick and 2) the DJ always looks like he’s being briefed on a national security issue