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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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.
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‘They killed civilians in their beds’: chaos and brutality reign
Appalling events and genocide is occurring in Sudan 👇
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Appalling events and genocide is occurring in Sudan 👇
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘They killed civilians in their beds’: chaos and brutality reign after fall of El Fasher
Thousands have fled the North Darfur city in terror with stories of the Rapid Support Forces attacking and killing civilians
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:41 AM
‘They killed civilians in their beds’: chaos and brutality reign
Appalling events and genocide is occurring in Sudan 👇
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Appalling events and genocide is occurring in Sudan 👇
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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I was delighted to speak at the 8th National Monuments Service Annual Archaeology Conference at Trinity College Dublin on 18 October, presenting on 'Dykes as Deeds'. More on my Archaeodeath blog: howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/w...
Within/Without: The Archaeology of Partitions
Walls bring people together and render communities asunder. They create and recreate mobilities and identities. The role of partitions, and how they constitute and reproduce social and political id…
howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I was delighted to speak at the 8th National Monuments Service Annual Archaeology Conference at Trinity College Dublin on 18 October, presenting on 'Dykes as Deeds'. More on my Archaeodeath blog: howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/w...
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Keep hearing people say ‘in the age of AI’. We’re not in an age of AI: we’re in an age of corporate rapacity in which AI is being pushed on society and institutions but that actually has little or no intrinsic role in our everyday lives the way religion or culture or language or art does.
October 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Keep hearing people say ‘in the age of AI’. We’re not in an age of AI: we’re in an age of corporate rapacity in which AI is being pushed on society and institutions but that actually has little or no intrinsic role in our everyday lives the way religion or culture or language or art does.
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If that's the case:
Why hasn't BBC done due diligence & spoken with an archaeologist.
Why hasn't the archaeologist put on record what happened to highlight metal detecting hobby best practice.
Why are both pieces focussed on finder, one being a puff piece for a metal detecting machine.
Why hasn't BBC done due diligence & spoken with an archaeologist.
Why hasn't the archaeologist put on record what happened to highlight metal detecting hobby best practice.
Why are both pieces focussed on finder, one being a puff piece for a metal detecting machine.
October 23, 2025 at 9:52 AM
If that's the case:
Why hasn't BBC done due diligence & spoken with an archaeologist.
Why hasn't the archaeologist put on record what happened to highlight metal detecting hobby best practice.
Why are both pieces focussed on finder, one being a puff piece for a metal detecting machine.
Why hasn't BBC done due diligence & spoken with an archaeologist.
Why hasn't the archaeologist put on record what happened to highlight metal detecting hobby best practice.
Why are both pieces focussed on finder, one being a puff piece for a metal detecting machine.
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October 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Whether it's Musk, whether it's OpenAI, it is concerning to see big tech pushing its way into the heritage fields. Esp. the right-wingers, for which there is a lot out there about why they're interested in these fields, etc. It's DEEPLY disappointing seeing archaeologists opening the door for them.🏺
I am once again telling you that taking money from Musk makes you complicit in his instrumentalization of cultural heritage to support his beliefs. Taking funding from amoral entities is, in my opinion, not ethical and it is in fact harmful. www.finestresullarte.info/en/news/elon...
Elon Musk donates $1 million for archaeological sites in Rome
Through the Musk Foundation, the foundation established in 2021 to support international humanitarian and scientific projects, Elon Musk, has chosen to fund a program dedicated to Rome's archaeologica...
www.finestresullarte.info
October 21, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Whether it's Musk, whether it's OpenAI, it is concerning to see big tech pushing its way into the heritage fields. Esp. the right-wingers, for which there is a lot out there about why they're interested in these fields, etc. It's DEEPLY disappointing seeing archaeologists opening the door for them.🏺
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Due to popular demand the "Words on the Wave" exhibition will extend it's run until Monday 27th Oct. Don't miss your last chance to see these unique early medieval treasures at the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare St.
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
Words on the Wave: Ireland and St. Gallen in Early Medieval Europe | Archaeology | National Museum of Ireland
Discover how science, art, archaeology and the study of script help reveal the links between Ireland and Europe
www.museum.ie
October 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Due to popular demand the "Words on the Wave" exhibition will extend it's run until Monday 27th Oct. Don't miss your last chance to see these unique early medieval treasures at the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare St.
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
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COMING SOON: a key source of information for heritage management practitioners throughout Europe and beyond. Find out more and pre-order your copy ➡️ bit.ly/3KJAm2L
October 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
COMING SOON: a key source of information for heritage management practitioners throughout Europe and beyond. Find out more and pre-order your copy ➡️ bit.ly/3KJAm2L
Quin Friary has a fabulous covered cloister, tonnes of wicker centring and a resident cat who will pause to say hello on his daily hunt. My kind of heritage site! #Irisharchaeology
October 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Quin Friary has a fabulous covered cloister, tonnes of wicker centring and a resident cat who will pause to say hello on his daily hunt. My kind of heritage site! #Irisharchaeology
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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
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How to get away with murder in medieval Ireland. Duinetháide murders, where the killer didn't leave a trace or a body, carry all the intrigue of a classic murder mystery, explains Viktoriia Krivoshchekova @dias.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
How to get away with murder in medieval Ireland
Duinetháide murders, where the killer didn't leave a trace or a body, carry all the intrigue of a classic murder mystery
www.rte.ie
September 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
How to get away with murder in medieval Ireland. Duinetháide murders, where the killer didn't leave a trace or a body, carry all the intrigue of a classic murder mystery, explains Viktoriia Krivoshchekova @dias.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...