Sharon Greene
@shazarch.bsky.social
Archaeologist, historian, writer, mother etc. Interested in early medieval Ireland and beyond, the Atlantic coast, south Kildare, Shackleton’s sisters and more. She/her
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#HeritageCrime isn't always high profile museum heists or dodgy detectorists stealing artefacts.
West Yorkshire Police have recorded a 50% rise in thefts of architectural stone year on year.
Thefts such as the York stone flagstones stolen from a road in Ossett near Wakefield.
West Yorkshire Police have recorded a 50% rise in thefts of architectural stone year on year.
Thefts such as the York stone flagstones stolen from a road in Ossett near Wakefield.
Stone thieves strip away Ossett cobbled road's history
Thieves have been ripping up centuries-old Yorkshire stone, leaving residents calling for help.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
#HeritageCrime isn't always high profile museum heists or dodgy detectorists stealing artefacts.
West Yorkshire Police have recorded a 50% rise in thefts of architectural stone year on year.
Thefts such as the York stone flagstones stolen from a road in Ossett near Wakefield.
West Yorkshire Police have recorded a 50% rise in thefts of architectural stone year on year.
Thefts such as the York stone flagstones stolen from a road in Ossett near Wakefield.
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🌲 THE BIG CHRISTMAS GIFT THREAD! 🌲
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December 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM
🌲 THE BIG CHRISTMAS GIFT THREAD! 🌲
If you are a creator or small shop/business, reply to this post with:
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I was gifted one of her prints last year and can vouch for the excellent quality!
📌 ciaraioch.com is now taking Christmas orders for prints, cards, and vouchers - each archival-quality print on heavy art paper is made in Ireland, ships internationally in eco-friendly packaging with discount tracked postage, and comes with a FREE card and treats for every customer 🎁 #SpéirGorm
December 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I was gifted one of her prints last year and can vouch for the excellent quality!
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Dear wealthy travelling old man I talked to on a plane in 2011 or 2012 on my way to do fieldwork on Ireland: Do you want to be my research patron? Pretty please? 🏺
December 1, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Dear wealthy travelling old man I talked to on a plane in 2011 or 2012 on my way to do fieldwork on Ireland: Do you want to be my research patron? Pretty please? 🏺
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Today's Knowledge Commons free download: "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Portrayals of Vikings in The Fragmentary Annals of Ireland" works.hcommons.org/records/mx47... #medievalsky #ireland #skystorians #vikings Picture: Mike Pennington
November 29, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Today's Knowledge Commons free download: "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Portrayals of Vikings in The Fragmentary Annals of Ireland" works.hcommons.org/records/mx47... #medievalsky #ireland #skystorians #vikings Picture: Mike Pennington
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Wexford County Council, supported by the OPW, is developing a Flood Relief Scheme for Enniscorthy to address flooding from the River Slaney. A public consultation will be held at The Riverside Park Hotel & Leisure Centre.
For more information see: https://enniscorthyfrs.ie/
For more information see: https://enniscorthyfrs.ie/
November 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Wexford County Council, supported by the OPW, is developing a Flood Relief Scheme for Enniscorthy to address flooding from the River Slaney. A public consultation will be held at The Riverside Park Hotel & Leisure Centre.
For more information see: https://enniscorthyfrs.ie/
For more information see: https://enniscorthyfrs.ie/
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Jean Armour Polly, aka Net-mom, celebrates the Internet Archive’s 1 trillionth webpage, highlighting the ephemerality of websites, the need to preserve digital culture, & the librarians & archivists who make that possible.
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#Wayback1T @netmom.bsky.social
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#Wayback1T @netmom.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Jean Armour Polly, aka Net-mom, celebrates the Internet Archive’s 1 trillionth webpage, highlighting the ephemerality of websites, the need to preserve digital culture, & the librarians & archivists who make that possible.
More ⬇️
blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/v...
#Wayback1T @netmom.bsky.social
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#Wayback1T @netmom.bsky.social
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Our new episode of Transatlantic is live! We are joined by Dr. Jane Halloran to discuss the multi-generational impact and influence the emigration of two siblings had on their home locality in Clare, and their new home in Connecticut: shows.acast.com/transatlanti...
Clare to Connecticut: One Family’s Escape from the Great Hunger | Transatlantic: An Irish American History Podcast
shows.acast.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Our new episode of Transatlantic is live! We are joined by Dr. Jane Halloran to discuss the multi-generational impact and influence the emigration of two siblings had on their home locality in Clare, and their new home in Connecticut: shows.acast.com/transatlanti...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:41 PM
ALT Text benefits everyone
Alt text helps with accessibility, identifying/explaining elements you might not get to in your posts and makes your posts/work more discoverable - Make sure to toggle it on to “require alt text” in your settings
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"What most clearly sets it apart from other genres is that it’s so rooted in anger and sadness — or their common ancestors: terror, lack, isolation and despair. Metal, one fan told me, is 'a strange road to joy.'" This is so lovely, @btoastie.bsky.social:
Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation - High Country News
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
www.hcn.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
"What most clearly sets it apart from other genres is that it’s so rooted in anger and sadness — or their common ancestors: terror, lack, isolation and despair. Metal, one fan told me, is 'a strange road to joy.'" This is so lovely, @btoastie.bsky.social:
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Britain and South Africa have returned to a Ghanaian traditional king over 130 gold and bronze artefacts taken between the 1870s and the early 20th century, his palace announced.
Looted treasures returned to Ghanaian traditional king
Britain and South Africa have returned to a Ghanaian traditional king over 130 gold and bronze artefacts taken between the 1870s and the early 20th century, his palace announced.
www.rte.ie
November 11, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Britain and South Africa have returned to a Ghanaian traditional king over 130 gold and bronze artefacts taken between the 1870s and the early 20th century, his palace announced.
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OpenAI has infringed copyright law in Germany by using song lyrics to train its artificial intelligence models, a court in Munich ruled.
German music body wins copyright case against OpenAI
OpenAI has infringed copyright law in Germany by using song lyrics to train its artificial intelligence models, a court in Munich ruled.
www.rte.ie
November 11, 2025 at 11:37 AM
OpenAI has infringed copyright law in Germany by using song lyrics to train its artificial intelligence models, a court in Munich ruled.
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Literally streams of people arriving in saying “the bank sent me here to print my statements, &c.” They then have to be assisted to log on to a PC, assisted to find the website, assisted to logon to their account, assisted to send the document to print, assisted with retrieving and paying for docs.
November 11, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Literally streams of people arriving in saying “the bank sent me here to print my statements, &c.” They then have to be assisted to log on to a PC, assisted to find the website, assisted to logon to their account, assisted to send the document to print, assisted with retrieving and paying for docs.
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It’s difficult to underestimate the extra burden that this is placing on our public libraries. For example, on a daily basis library workers are now filling the in-person/human service gap that billion euro banking institutions have abdicated from to maximise their profit margins.
"Essential services are now digital by default, leaving many older people feeling locked out of their own lives."
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
Opinion: We’ve grown far too comfortable excluding older people from the digital world
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
It’s difficult to underestimate the extra burden that this is placing on our public libraries. For example, on a daily basis library workers are now filling the in-person/human service gap that billion euro banking institutions have abdicated from to maximise their profit margins.
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Don’t allow anyone to tell you that being a library ghost in the afterlife “doesn’t classify” as an appropriate long-term goal.
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Don’t allow anyone to tell you that being a library ghost in the afterlife “doesn’t classify” as an appropriate long-term goal.
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10 Nov 1180: St. Lorcán Ua Tuathail [Laurence O'Toole] Archbishop of #Dublin is at Eu #Normandy #otd suffering from a fever. He would die there on 14 Nov (JDemetrescu)
Supposed relic of his heart, stolen & then recovered in 2018, now kept at @cccdublin.bsky.social
Supposed relic of his heart, stolen & then recovered in 2018, now kept at @cccdublin.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
10 Nov 1180: St. Lorcán Ua Tuathail [Laurence O'Toole] Archbishop of #Dublin is at Eu #Normandy #otd suffering from a fever. He would die there on 14 Nov (JDemetrescu)
Supposed relic of his heart, stolen & then recovered in 2018, now kept at @cccdublin.bsky.social
Supposed relic of his heart, stolen & then recovered in 2018, now kept at @cccdublin.bsky.social
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Currently doing some marking. A reminder to everyone involved in archives and collections: digitisation is not preservation. If I digitise a box of records and put the files on a USB stick I haven't preserved a thing. It's all about what you do with the files post-digitisation. #archives #digipres
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Now that's what I call news.
Somerset church tomb collapse exposes 1700s stone crypt
The church says it is currently unclear whether the collapse has damaged any surrounding graves.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Now that's what I call news.
This is disgusting and disturbing. They can complain all they want but the Battlefield Commission didn’t have to act on it! #shame
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 10:56 AM
This is disgusting and disturbing. They can complain all they want but the Battlefield Commission didn’t have to act on it! #shame
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The world may be quite turbulent at the moment, but we can all take at least some solace in the fact that bookstores exist.
November 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The world may be quite turbulent at the moment, but we can all take at least some solace in the fact that bookstores exist.
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Hidden in one of my favourite ever papers is a nugget about the UK almost refusing to sign #Valetta due to the (illegal) #antiquity trade & (unlicensed) #metaldetecting.
It’s all baked in to UK Govt policy and Willem Willems recorded it, the absolute legend.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
It’s all baked in to UK Govt policy and Willem Willems recorded it, the absolute legend.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 5, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Hidden in one of my favourite ever papers is a nugget about the UK almost refusing to sign #Valetta due to the (illegal) #antiquity trade & (unlicensed) #metaldetecting.
It’s all baked in to UK Govt policy and Willem Willems recorded it, the absolute legend.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
It’s all baked in to UK Govt policy and Willem Willems recorded it, the absolute legend.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Egypt has officially opened to the public the Grand Egyptian Museum, a long-awaited, billion-dollar showcase of pharaonic grandeur that Cairo hopes will revive tourism.
The museum was designed by Irish architecture firm Heneghan Peng Architects
jrnl.ie/6862657
The museum was designed by Irish architecture firm Heneghan Peng Architects
jrnl.ie/6862657
Egypt opens grand museum designed by Irish firm to the public
The museum was designed by Irish architecture firm Heneghan Peng Architects.
jrnl.ie
November 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Egypt has officially opened to the public the Grand Egyptian Museum, a long-awaited, billion-dollar showcase of pharaonic grandeur that Cairo hopes will revive tourism.
The museum was designed by Irish architecture firm Heneghan Peng Architects
jrnl.ie/6862657
The museum was designed by Irish architecture firm Heneghan Peng Architects
jrnl.ie/6862657
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Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...
October 31, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...
If you’re wondering why archaeologists were upset about the Lost King film, you should read this and ask yourself how you would feel if someone misrepresented your profession and professionalism in this way. I also recommend @pittsmike.bsky.social book Digging for Richard III.
Updated thread on The Lost King film:
I’m digging over old ground but I have to challenge Steve Coogan's line. He claims it’s all true (as has Philippa Langley): Langley will be celebrated for her achievement, Richard Taylor & his personal gripes will be forgotten
So what’s the real story? 1/15
I’m digging over old ground but I have to challenge Steve Coogan's line. He claims it’s all true (as has Philippa Langley): Langley will be celebrated for her achievement, Richard Taylor & his personal gripes will be forgotten
So what’s the real story? 1/15
November 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
If you’re wondering why archaeologists were upset about the Lost King film, you should read this and ask yourself how you would feel if someone misrepresented your profession and professionalism in this way. I also recommend @pittsmike.bsky.social book Digging for Richard III.