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
Pinned
'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
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
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Ah, jaysus. 💕
November 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Ah, jaysus. 💕
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Higher education has been destroyed in Gaza
Eradicating learning, including to third level also has the hallmarks of a genocide #endthegazagenocide
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
Eradicating learning, including to third level also has the hallmarks of a genocide #endthegazagenocide
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
Higher education has been destroyed in Gaza
Academics call for sanctions as Israel’s actions against education in Gaza draw condemnation
www.irishtimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Higher education has been destroyed in Gaza
Eradicating learning, including to third level also has the hallmarks of a genocide #endthegazagenocide
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
Eradicating learning, including to third level also has the hallmarks of a genocide #endthegazagenocide
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
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Evidence of the last 30-40 years is that, generally, once you start reducing the state’s role in pursuit of efficiency, there is no point at which people will believe “value for money” has been achieved. It just undermines the state’s capacity to deliver (and people’s trust in public institutions).
Oh gosh, another "bonfire of business regulation". As promised by all governments and oppositions for the last 15 years, mysteriously failing to deliver, and with not a shred of interest shown by politicians in why that was. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage to promise business deregulation in economic policy speech
Reform UK leader to set out ‘pro-entrepreneurship’ agenda while rowing back on tax cuts pledge
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Evidence of the last 30-40 years is that, generally, once you start reducing the state’s role in pursuit of efficiency, there is no point at which people will believe “value for money” has been achieved. It just undermines the state’s capacity to deliver (and people’s trust in public institutions).
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’Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world.
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world.
October 31, 2025 at 11:31 PM
’Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world.
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world.
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"The general problem is that the traditional right adopts the rhetoric of the far right, but instead of gaining seats, they lose them to the extreme right. This is something we see in almost all of Europe."
October 31, 2025 at 8:24 AM
"The general problem is that the traditional right adopts the rhetoric of the far right, but instead of gaining seats, they lose them to the extreme right. This is something we see in almost all of Europe."
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Happy Samhain 🔥
October 31, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Happy Samhain 🔥
Wow. ❤️
I can't wait for the banger Lankum Ghost Town dance remix -- words I never thought I'd utter. Yet here we are, beyond that particular veil.
Dooooom folk cover of Ghost Town by the best to ever do it. Set your faces to stunned.
youtu.be/aLLnF4vxaeY?...
youtu.be/aLLnF4vxaeY?...
October 30, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Wow. ❤️
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I've been reading 1960s oral histories and am surprised at parallels with our present-day.
"Everything happens so much" was just as true then. For activists, in 1968, everything happened all at the same time and too much. And, social movements we may imagine as separate were also shmushed together.
"Everything happens so much" was just as true then. For activists, in 1968, everything happened all at the same time and too much. And, social movements we may imagine as separate were also shmushed together.
![ANDERSON: So Gay Liberation Front turned out to be as social as it was political?
SHELLEY: Well, it was social and political because Bob was really into the dances. Some of us were into putting together a newspaper which we did, which was Come Out, and that was my big thing. I was very involved with that and I typeset it because at that point, I was working at a typesetters. And my boss had typeset stuff for the Black Panthers. Not their newspaper but mailing lists and things. So it was fine with her if I wanted to come in late at night and typeset the newspaper.
ANDERSON: And she knew for what organization?
SHELLEY:
Oh, yeah. She was in her sixties then and she had been involved in radical politics. She was originally from Weed, California, and she moved to New York City and became involved with the Bohemians and the socialists and everybody else there. And had a child and broke up with the father of the kid, and so she did that typesetting business in order to support her kid. And he wanted to be an actor and so she raised him and sent him to acting school, whatever. And he ended – his name was Robert De Niro. So he made it big. Years later, I went and visited her and I said, Well, I’m glad now you can retire. And she said, Yes. All that paid off. [laughs]
Martha Shelley interviewed by Kelly Anderson, Voices of Feminism Oral History Project, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2wyqv44lm72vasmddeqjgy72/bafkreidb55mbndjrgqlxtrcwpwak26fmcxzgunhni447nsxjwet5qsdhsm@jpeg)
October 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I've been reading 1960s oral histories and am surprised at parallels with our present-day.
"Everything happens so much" was just as true then. For activists, in 1968, everything happened all at the same time and too much. And, social movements we may imagine as separate were also shmushed together.
"Everything happens so much" was just as true then. For activists, in 1968, everything happened all at the same time and too much. And, social movements we may imagine as separate were also shmushed together.
Looking forward to this 🍿
Join us in one hour for our webinar with Jefferson Bailey from @archive.org. All are welcome to attend!
Please register here: dri.ie/events/dri-i...
Please register here: dri.ie/events/dri-i...
We are thrilled to announce a very special event in anticipation of World Digital Preservation Day #WDPD25 as we hold an "In Conversation" webinar with Jefferson Bailey from the @archive.org.
🗓️ Tuesday 28 October 2025
🕒 3.00-4.15pm Irish Time
📩 Please register here: dri.ie/events/dri-i...
🗓️ Tuesday 28 October 2025
🕒 3.00-4.15pm Irish Time
📩 Please register here: dri.ie/events/dri-i...
October 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Looking forward to this 🍿
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Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Updating my LEGO White House
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🎼Irish Traditional Music Archive (ITMA) field-recording programme is hosting a free lunchtime lecture on "How to Conduct a Field-Recording Interview" as part of a pan-European music project.
When: 4th Nov 1-2pm
Where: 73 Merrion Square, Dublin 2
FREE
Visit: www.tickettailor.com/events/irish...
When: 4th Nov 1-2pm
Where: 73 Merrion Square, Dublin 2
FREE
Visit: www.tickettailor.com/events/irish...
www.tickettailor.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
🎼Irish Traditional Music Archive (ITMA) field-recording programme is hosting a free lunchtime lecture on "How to Conduct a Field-Recording Interview" as part of a pan-European music project.
When: 4th Nov 1-2pm
Where: 73 Merrion Square, Dublin 2
FREE
Visit: www.tickettailor.com/events/irish...
When: 4th Nov 1-2pm
Where: 73 Merrion Square, Dublin 2
FREE
Visit: www.tickettailor.com/events/irish...
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If you are in London, or know someone who is, Pat Brodie and I are having a book launch event in the AA Bookshop this Wednesday 22nd.
Ireland, data centres, bogs, postcolonial development, imperialism, anti-colonial struggles....something for everyone.
Ireland, data centres, bogs, postcolonial development, imperialism, anti-colonial struggles....something for everyone.
October 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
If you are in London, or know someone who is, Pat Brodie and I are having a book launch event in the AA Bookshop this Wednesday 22nd.
Ireland, data centres, bogs, postcolonial development, imperialism, anti-colonial struggles....something for everyone.
Ireland, data centres, bogs, postcolonial development, imperialism, anti-colonial struggles....something for everyone.
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Mark Bray wrote a great book about antifascism and its history. He’s now being targeted by right-wing provocateurs.
You can buy his book here:
a.co/d/7Gvdrtt
You can buy his book here:
a.co/d/7Gvdrtt
October 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Mark Bray wrote a great book about antifascism and its history. He’s now being targeted by right-wing provocateurs.
You can buy his book here:
a.co/d/7Gvdrtt
You can buy his book here:
a.co/d/7Gvdrtt
Solidarity with Mark Bray - it is absolutely shocking that threats and harassment against his family is forcing him to leave his country.
Excellent statement in support of Mark Bray, academic freedom, and implicitly antifascism.
This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY
October 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Solidarity with Mark Bray - it is absolutely shocking that threats and harassment against his family is forcing him to leave his country.
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Very excited launch of #Saothar50 is today 🥳 🥳. Looking forward to attending later as part of #DublinFestivalHistory & being in fab company of @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social @sonjatiernan.bsky.social @fionnualawalsh.bsky.social @helenbeaumont.bsky.social. Hope to get quick 🌊🏊♀️ in as well 🥶. ❤️Dublin.
So grateful to @sonjatiernan.bsky.social & editors of #Saothar50 for opportunity to write on Irish housewives. By mad coincidence my ma was interviewed about her everyday experiences in 1968 & that features in my new article. #familyhistory #femaleactivism
dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/specia...
dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/specia...
October 9, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Very excited launch of #Saothar50 is today 🥳 🥳. Looking forward to attending later as part of #DublinFestivalHistory & being in fab company of @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social @sonjatiernan.bsky.social @fionnualawalsh.bsky.social @helenbeaumont.bsky.social. Hope to get quick 🌊🏊♀️ in as well 🥶. ❤️Dublin.
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“When the Irish dockers went out on strike in 1912, it was a terrible time. Jewish families took in hundreds of their children. They were starving.
“We knew they wouldn’t forget. They wanted to repay the debt.”
“We knew they wouldn’t forget. They wanted to repay the debt.”
October 4, 2025 at 10:03 AM
“When the Irish dockers went out on strike in 1912, it was a terrible time. Jewish families took in hundreds of their children. They were starving.
“We knew they wouldn’t forget. They wanted to repay the debt.”
“We knew they wouldn’t forget. They wanted to repay the debt.”
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Delighted to finally finally see this in real life 😂 Available to order here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/single-mo...
Book launch details to come...
Book launch details to come...
October 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Delighted to finally finally see this in real life 😂 Available to order here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/single-mo...
Book launch details to come...
Book launch details to come...
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“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
October 2, 2025 at 2:56 AM
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
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Three Irish citizens among activists detained as Israeli forces seize flotilla ships, organisers say. Thinking of Sarah Clancy - all eyes on the flotilla #speirgorm jrnl.ie/6832196
Three Irish citizens among activists detained as Israeli forces seize flotilla ships, organisers say
The Global Sumud Flotilla is now just 45km from Gaza, but over a dozen Israeli warships are approaching.
jrnl.ie
October 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Three Irish citizens among activists detained as Israeli forces seize flotilla ships, organisers say. Thinking of Sarah Clancy - all eyes on the flotilla #speirgorm jrnl.ie/6832196
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So grateful to @sonjatiernan.bsky.social & editors of #Saothar50 for opportunity to write on Irish housewives. By mad coincidence my ma was interviewed about her everyday experiences in 1968 & that features in my new article. #familyhistory #femaleactivism
dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/specia...
dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/specia...
September 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
So grateful to @sonjatiernan.bsky.social & editors of #Saothar50 for opportunity to write on Irish housewives. By mad coincidence my ma was interviewed about her everyday experiences in 1968 & that features in my new article. #familyhistory #femaleactivism
dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/specia...
dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/specia...
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Scene representing #October, from the 15th-century Très Riches Heures — taking place at what would now be the centre of Paris (a block or two south of l'École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts). More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/labors-of-the-months-from-the-tres-riches-heures
October 1, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Scene representing #October, from the 15th-century Très Riches Heures — taking place at what would now be the centre of Paris (a block or two south of l'École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts). More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/labors-of-the-months-from-the-tres-riches-heures
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Google deletes history:
Google just erased 7 years of our political history
Google appears to have deleted its political ad archive for the EU; so the last 7 years of ads, of political spending, of messaging, of targeting - on YouTube, on Search and for display ads - for countless elections across 27 countries - is all gone.
We had been told
www.thebriefing.ie
September 29, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Google deletes history:
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I'd no idea that random Irish-MAGA chancer in Indonesia was posting mad stuff about Micheál Martin and Jim Gavin on X until the Irish Times and Independent helpfully signal-boosted him with stories on their homepages.
September 23, 2025 at 8:35 AM
I'd no idea that random Irish-MAGA chancer in Indonesia was posting mad stuff about Micheál Martin and Jim Gavin on X until the Irish Times and Independent helpfully signal-boosted him with stories on their homepages.
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Shame on UCD. #Spéirgorm #Spéirghorm
UCD has joined a new European Union-funded research project alongside Israel’s Technion
electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-...
UCD has joined a new European Union-funded research project alongside Israel’s Technion
electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-...
University College Dublin teams up again with Israel's Technion
Irish authorities are under an obligation to act against genocide.
electronicintifada.net
September 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Shame on UCD. #Spéirgorm #Spéirghorm
UCD has joined a new European Union-funded research project alongside Israel’s Technion
electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-...
UCD has joined a new European Union-funded research project alongside Israel’s Technion
electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-...