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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Not long after we started #DerelictIreland someone from a PPN gave us a friendly warning that if we continued we would never get public funding
#HowIrelandWorks #SpeirGorm
#HowIrelandWorks #SpeirGorm
This week I had a meeting with an amazing advocate who works with a local charity. They don't feel safe publicly criticising government failures because they're applying for government funding to do work the state is failing to do. #spéirgorm
Massively important thread!
The people who fundraise for local initiatives, like a hospice, are energetic, engaged, motivated, if they weren't busy with a local campaign imagine what else they could accomplish? I believe it's a SOP for politicians to keep 'keep them busy', to keep community-minded
The people who fundraise for local initiatives, like a hospice, are energetic, engaged, motivated, if they weren't busy with a local campaign imagine what else they could accomplish? I believe it's a SOP for politicians to keep 'keep them busy', to keep community-minded
December 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Not long after we started #DerelictIreland someone from a PPN gave us a friendly warning that if we continued we would never get public funding
#HowIrelandWorks #SpeirGorm
#HowIrelandWorks #SpeirGorm
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🎶Pass the poitín to the left-hand side🎶
"Bígí ag ól go bhfeicidh sibh an gloine ag 'ul tuafal, ansin glanaigí abhaile!"
(Seanrá as Árainn, InaG, 1897)
"Bígí ag ól go bhfeicidh sibh an gloine ag 'ul tuafal, ansin glanaigí abhaile!"
(Seanrá as Árainn, InaG, 1897)
December 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
🎶Pass the poitín to the left-hand side🎶
"Bígí ag ól go bhfeicidh sibh an gloine ag 'ul tuafal, ansin glanaigí abhaile!"
(Seanrá as Árainn, InaG, 1897)
"Bígí ag ól go bhfeicidh sibh an gloine ag 'ul tuafal, ansin glanaigí abhaile!"
(Seanrá as Árainn, InaG, 1897)
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There are 3 types of newspapers columns
I am an utter sociopath
I am extraordinarily thick
Thank Christ for nepotism
They can, obviously, overlap
I am an utter sociopath
I am extraordinarily thick
Thank Christ for nepotism
They can, obviously, overlap
July 20, 2025 at 11:07 AM
There are 3 types of newspapers columns
I am an utter sociopath
I am extraordinarily thick
Thank Christ for nepotism
They can, obviously, overlap
I am an utter sociopath
I am extraordinarily thick
Thank Christ for nepotism
They can, obviously, overlap
Where else but Holy-well Street?
"Mum! Mum! It's a raid! We've *prepared* for this, remember?"
December 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Where else but Holy-well Street?
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November 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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The legendary Sir Henry's was located at the back of this hotel
We have Pure Cork now instead
Now that's progress
#DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm #IrishMusic #CorkCity
We have Pure Cork now instead
Now that's progress
#DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm #IrishMusic #CorkCity
So what was once Grand Parade Hotel has become decades of dereliction
Since @judesherry.bsky.social & I arrived we've seen A City Rising Is A Beautiful Thing, A City Remembers & now Pure Cork
Thanks Cork City Council for turning Cork City into leading dereliction tourist destination #DerelictIreland
Since @judesherry.bsky.social & I arrived we've seen A City Rising Is A Beautiful Thing, A City Remembers & now Pure Cork
Thanks Cork City Council for turning Cork City into leading dereliction tourist destination #DerelictIreland
November 28, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The legendary Sir Henry's was located at the back of this hotel
We have Pure Cork now instead
Now that's progress
#DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm #IrishMusic #CorkCity
We have Pure Cork now instead
Now that's progress
#DerelictIreland #SpeirGorm #IrishMusic #CorkCity
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Colún liom inniu faoin chairdeas agus Féile liteartha an Daingin m.independent.ie/seachtain/ai...
Áine Ní Bhreisleáin: Tá muid Beo arís... gura fada buan cairdeas inár saol a chuireann spion ar dóigh orm
Is geall le leigheas draíochta ó thaisce na mná feasa seal pléisiúrtha i measc do chairde, cuireann sé spion ar dóigh orm féin.
m.independent.ie
November 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Colún liom inniu faoin chairdeas agus Féile liteartha an Daingin m.independent.ie/seachtain/ai...
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Scéal faoi fhoghlaim an Bhéarla ar an Saol ó Dheas ansin 😁
Bhí seanbhean ann gan aon EN aici. Mhúin fear é di:
Abair 'narrative' is tú ag trácht ar 'tale'; 'extinguish' in áit 'put out'.
Léim an cat ar an tábla:
"Catch the cat by the narrative in ainm an diabhail and extinguish him out the door!"
Bhí seanbhean ann gan aon EN aici. Mhúin fear é di:
Abair 'narrative' is tú ag trácht ar 'tale'; 'extinguish' in áit 'put out'.
Léim an cat ar an tábla:
"Catch the cat by the narrative in ainm an diabhail and extinguish him out the door!"
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Scéal faoi fhoghlaim an Bhéarla ar an Saol ó Dheas ansin 😁
Bhí seanbhean ann gan aon EN aici. Mhúin fear é di:
Abair 'narrative' is tú ag trácht ar 'tale'; 'extinguish' in áit 'put out'.
Léim an cat ar an tábla:
"Catch the cat by the narrative in ainm an diabhail and extinguish him out the door!"
Bhí seanbhean ann gan aon EN aici. Mhúin fear é di:
Abair 'narrative' is tú ag trácht ar 'tale'; 'extinguish' in áit 'put out'.
Léim an cat ar an tábla:
"Catch the cat by the narrative in ainm an diabhail and extinguish him out the door!"
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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