Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social Working on archaeology, heritage, memory, and knowing the past as Prof in Radical Humanities at UC Cork. Specializes in post/conflict and post/colonial contexts inc fieldwork in Ireland and Caribbean. Unapologetic focus on social justice.
Feljin Jose @feljin.ie It's pronounced Fel-jin!
Councillor for Phibsborough, Glasnevin, Drumcondra, Cabra & Ashtown @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social
Spokesperson for Transport @greenparty.ie
Ciara Breathnach @ciarab.bsky.social Professor of Irish Gender History, scholar of modern Irish socio-economic, cultural and health history. Recent book https://global.oup.com/academic/product/ordinary-lives-death-and-social-class-9780198865780?cc=ie&lang=en&
Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com B3ta.com, @fesshole.bsky.social, @anonopin.bsky.social
Emma Gilleece @emma-gilleece.bsky.social Architectural historian with a passion for early to mid 20th century Irish architecture. Read my series 100 Buildings for Culture section of @rte.ie website
Elizabeth Halligan | Booksky 💙 📚 @elizabethhalligan.bsky.social Book lover 📚 | Hmong translator bridging worlds 🌏 | Systems theorist & consciousness researcher. Email: elizabethrohasean@gmail.com. To donate: https://venmo.com/u/Elizabeth-Rose85
Conor Heffernan @physcstudy.bsky.social Lecturer At Ulster University. Historian of health, fitness and physical culture. Co-host of Boys We've Seen podcast. I also run history of fitness website, physicalculturestudy.com
Thomas Pynchon @tompynchon.bsky.social American novelist noted for dense and complex novels
Parody?
ricard gomà @ricardgoma.bsky.social Profe de Ciència Política UAB/IGOP.
Institut Metròpoli. Municipalisme,
polítiques urbanes, transició ecosocial.
La solidaritat és la tendresa dels barris.
https://www.institutmetropoli.cat/ca/
https://ricardgoma.blogspot.com/?m=1
The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays — ✍️ submissions welcome. We also have a mighty fine prints shop.
https://publicdomainreview.org
Urban Research & Practice @journalurp.bsky.social Journal of European Urban Research Association (EURA) | Cross-disciplinary journal with a focus on urban studies | We publish original academic papers along with policy and practice papers
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
Mike @mikeyashworth.bsky.social Ex-London Underground and retired back to "The North" - transport, design history, things industrial, architecture & heritage - all tickle my fancy. Postings often link to my Flickr account for more things!
Fandom Critics @fandomcritics.bsky.social Sharing the best worst reviews and other movies content
Paul Clerkin, Archiseek.com @archiseek.bsky.social Irish architecture history https://www.archiseek.com since 1996, football fan (all strains), drinker of tea (all strains), likes beer (all strains). Also likes strainers and trains.
#YNWA #architecture #irisharchitecture
Des @desdelboy.bsky.social basic (L) eu 43.
“Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.”
Jean-Michel Basquiat.
“This groove is out of fashion, These beats are 20 years old”
David Byrne.
“Time is the most valuable commodity”
Mike D
Proud to be a MDANT
Cllr Honore Kamegni, Deputy Lord Mayor of Cork @cllrhonorekamegni.bsky.social Former Deputy Lord Mayor of Cork, Green Party Councillor for Cork City South East, and formerly the postman in Douglas and Rochestown for 14 years.
Mémoire2cité @memoire2cite.bsky.social le Logement Collectif* dans tous ses états..Histoire & Mémoire de l'Habitat / Archives ANRU / Rétro Banlieue / Renouvellement Urbain / Urbanisme / HLM 🐈⬛ https://twitter.com/Memoire2cite https://www.facebook.com/memoire.decite
Michael Moynihan @mikemoynihanex.bsky.social Irish examiner books, city column, other duties. Live in Cork. It begins, as it must, with our mutual friend’s predecessor.
Development Geographies Research Group (RGS-IBG) @devgeogsrg.bsky.social Development Geographies Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).
https://developmentgeographiesrg.org/
Dr Caitríona Ní Laoire @cnilaoire.bsky.social
Dieter F. Kogler @dfkogler.bsky.social Economic Geographer at University College Dublin. Innovation Studies, Geography of Innovation and Evolutionary Economic Geography. https://www.rknowledge.org/ & https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KaDjTvoAAAAJ&hl=en #innovation #science #networks
Dr Jenny Woodley @jennywoodley.bsky.social Historian and Lecturer. US History. Race and Memory. Current project: Mourning at the Museum
Louise O Donnell @louodonnell.bsky.social Cork 🙌🏻 | Norrie ⛰️ | Mature Student 📖 | Work @ Homeless Services 🤝 | Cyclist 🚴 | #SocDems 💜 | Activist ✊🏻 | Co-Founder Trans+ Pride Cork 🏳️⚧️ | Queer 🌈 |
Francesco Fragomeni @fragomeni.bsky.social Contemporary daguerreotypist and historian building cameras and working in 19th century photographic processes.
Other apps I barely use:
Instagram.com/FrancescoFragomeni
Sarah Roddy @seroddy.bsky.social Social historian of modern Ireland based at Maynooth University.
Mary O’Shaughnessy @maryoshaughnessy.bsky.social PhD|CUBS|UCC Research Supervisor of the Year 2019|UCC Excellence in Teaching Award 2021|UCC Staff Recognition Award 2023|https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6875-0359
Breffní Lennon @breffnilennon.bsky.social Research Fellow at @ucc.bluesky.social. An environmental social scientist with a background in geography, I am interested in the social, environmental, and economic challenges of the energy transition.
https://research.ucc.ie/profiles/blennon@ucc.ie
John F. Cryan @jfcryan.bsky.social VP Research & Innovation, University College Cork @ucc.ie @uccresearch.bsky.social |PI @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social |Prof Dept. Anatomy & Neuroscience |MRIA @ria.ie|
Stress, Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis, Brain-Body Interactions, Research Policy
UrbanLab Galway @urbanlabgalway.bsky.social A place to collective imagine a better future for Galway and everywhere.
Yay Cork @yaycork.bsky.social What to eat, drink and do in Ireland's tastiest city.
Rozanne Stevens @rozannestevens.bsky.social Wholefood chef, cookery tutor and broadcaster working in sustainability at the intersection of SDG3 and SDG12. #zerowaste #SDGs #sustainability #adoptdontshop #circulareconomy
Dublin and Cape Town
EoghanOC @corcaioch.bsky.social Husband, dad, teacher, sea kayaker and imperfect human. Lover of nature & the great outdoors. But more importantly from Cork! 🔴⚪️
Music 🎸🤘🏽 // Books // History // the Sea // Proud Sanctuary Runner // Fun // LFC
#SpéirGhorm
Trina Golden @trinagolden.bsky.social Here for #EdChatIE
@_fromtinyacorns_ on Instagram
Keelin O’Donoghue @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social Obstetrician & MFM | Lead @ Pregnancy Loss Research Group | Professor, UCC | PI, INFANT | Lead, Guidelines @ NWIHP
https://www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancyloss/
#PregnancyLoss
#FetalMedicine
#ReproductiveHealth
#MedSky
Paraic Hegarty @paraichegarty.bsky.social Co-owner @kerrsbookshop
Open. Books.
Humans. Computers.
Science. Fiction.
Art. Architecture.
Poetry. Prose.
Hope. History.
Myth. Legend
Dub in West Cork. Leftie. Doubtful Quaker
AI-free zone
Lenka Forrest @lenkaforrest.bsky.social New space, new ideas? 💡
Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim @mocksim.bsky.social Tech-artist. Much spillage here. Selective posts on exhibitions, new work & events: https://bsky.app/profile/mocksim-latest.bsky.social Site: https://mocksim.org
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Solar Sarah @solarwindsarah.bsky.social geologist working in renewable energy - yes they need geologists too and i'd rather not sell my soul to oil&gas thank you
Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social Cartoonist/Illustrator/Doodlemonger | Sí/í/YerWan | "Keer-ee-uhk" | 🇮🇪
📨 Work Queries: ciaraioch.art@gmail.com
🎨 Prints: https://www.ciaraioch.com/artprints
📜 Newsletter: https://www.ciaraioch.com/newsletter
🫙 Tip Jar: https://www.ciaraioch.com/tip-jar
Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com Historian of intimacy and revolution in 1920s-40s Europe. New project: anti-Nazi vegetarians.
Author of Irish Book Awards shortlisted HOTEL LUX — about a hotel in 1920s Moscow — and radical history newsletter Archive Rats:
archiverats.substack.com
@edgearchitecture.bsky.social @edgearchitecture.bsky.social
Munster Technological University @mtu.ie 🎓 MTU is a multi-campus technological university, with six campuses across the South-West region in Cork and Kerry. www.mtu.ie
#University #Ireland #Cork #Kerry #Munster #HigherEd
RCN: 20206029
Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social Historian of protest, political movements, public space in Britain.
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contested-commons
https://historyofpublicspace.uk
Croydon and Rochdale
@ruralmodernism on Insta.
🇱🇹🇺🇦 🏳️⚧️ ally.
She/her
Matthew Whitfield @matthewwhitfield.bsky.social buildings, politics, miscellaneous
Everybody's gay, Kimmy. It's the 90s.
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgs.org We are the UK’s learned society and professional body for geography, supporting geography and geographers across the world.
Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie Fostering excellence and scholarship to enrich society, e. 1785.
Home to the RIA Library, 8 research programmes & a publishing house.
www.ria.ie
Reg. Charity No. 20003524 - Reg. Revenue No. CHY 2795
Emma Ward @emmawardjournalist.bsky.social Disabled Irish Traveller Activist| Freelance Journo|Content Creator| Public Speaker|Inquiries by email only!| Social media&email below|Views My Own
https://linktr.ee/emmawardjournalist
Noel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social Professor | Climate and Energy Policy | Director of Climate Justice and Just Transformations Lab at SSU | bit.ly/NoelHealySSU
Julian Agyeman @julianagyeman.bsky.social Critical urban planning professor @ Tufts UEP. From Yorkshire UK, living in Cambridge MA, USA. Originator of the concept of #justsustainabilities. Editor-in-Chief of Local Environment. Website: julianagyeman.com
Destenie Nock, PhD @destenie.bsky.social Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Energy Affordability. Energy & Climate Justice. Macro Energy Systems Modeling. CEO - Peoples Energy Analytics. Named a 2024 Science Defender. Nonfiction rep: @laurieabkemeier. Fiction rep: @ajvanbelle
Seamus Whelehan Broadcast Journalist & Producer Cork's RedFM @seamuswhelehan.bsky.social OPINIONS MATTER
Headlines and deadlines -
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning- Albert Einstein
Opinions are my own.
Got a story you want to share? PM.
Seán O Regan @seanoreganie.bsky.social Personal Account
Director DFA Ireland for Middle East Gulf Unit
Former IE Ambassador to Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Slovenia, Bosnia Hercegovina
Served also in Beijing, Brussels, Ankara and Helsinki.
Work, Rugby, Shapes.
Fiona Kearney @fkearney.bsky.social Curious about this and other worlds. Director @glucksman.bsky.social, University College Cork, Ireland. Left-handed. She/her.
www.glucksman.org
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
Den M @mousketeer.bsky.social Cork like. Artist, Historian, chef, retired and broken from rugby, emotional support human for a yap of dogs. PWD, GNC, nearing OAP, proudly Socialist, and absolutely Queer.
Graham Clifford @grahamclifford.bsky.social Founder Sanctuary Runners (Sanctuaryrunners.ie) - One Town One Voice (Onetownonevoice.ie) and Translate Ireland (Translateireland.ie) - #BeSound
The Glucksman @glucksman.bsky.social Award winning contemporary art museum on the campus of University College Cork.
Open 11am-5pm, Tuesday to Sunday. Closed Mondays.
www.glucksman.org
Gearóid O’Brien @gearoidobrien.bsky.social French, CSPE and History teacher, lecturer in CSPE Pedagogy at University College Cork, author of the CSPE textbook Call to Action and co-author of A Teacher's Handbook on Global Citizenship Education in the Post-Primary Classroom
fabio iapaolo @fabio-iapaolo.bsky.social Urban geographer and digital media scholar @PoliMi | Associate editor AI & Society
El ✨ @yakowa.bsky.social Full-time animal loving nerd | 🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | Cork LGBT Archive | UCC Computer Science | UCC Bród Society | A little too obsessed with Urban Planning & Transport Infrastructure | Helicopters, my beloved
Des @despod.eurosky.social Yes we have no bananas. In Cork.
Mary Corcoran @mcorcoran.bsky.social Deputy Lifestyle Editor @echolive.bsky.social
Veli-Pekka Kivimäki @vpkivimaki.bsky.social Intelligence analyst by day, OSINT in academia, engineer at heart. Now: Finnish Security and Intelligence Service. Adjunct, Johns Hopkins. Past: Finnish Defence Forces, Bellingcat, Microsoft, Nokia.
Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social I digitally investigate stuff, somehow my findings travel from spreadsheets to international media and research collectives; views are my own.
Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social Visual investigations at the FT. Architect who won a Pulitzer.
Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social Visual Investigations at The New York Times
Logan Williams @obtusatum.bsky.social Mountains and websites; maps and birds; context collapse. Projects: https://subject.space/. Work: Data, research and technology for investigations @bellingcat.com. Personal account, posts/opinions are my own. New York via Amsterdam and Oregon.
Tina O'Toole @isdoighliom.bsky.social Reader, writer, teacher of literature @unioflimerick.bsky.social. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Restore Clock Tower @restoreclocktower.bsky.social A campaign to restore Cobh's Clock Tower, a listed building (https://tinyurl.com/Old-Town-Hall), owned jointly by Cork County Council and the Port of Cork.
Tom corby @tomcorby.bsky.social Artist@Atmospheric Research Collective
https://www.atmospheric-collective.org, honorary visiting Professor, University of Westminster
Ben Cowell, Historic Houses @bencowell.bsky.social Director general, Historic Houses. Author, The British Country House Revival (2024).
Lisa @lizalu.bsky.social A guest on an island where the grass is greener, the rain is wetter, and magical cuppas solve all sorts of problems. Living beings before profit.
Tom Hickey @tomhickey.bsky.social Retired Irish Examiner chief sub-editor, facial disfigurement blogger. Memoir in the works. Love news, sports, books, genealogy, writing. Corkman. Blog at https://tomhickeytom.wordpress.com
ChryssaD @chryssad.bsky.social Opinionated Greek feminist engineer. Cork woman. Likes technology, books, equality and cats. Personal account. She/her
LGBTQ+ ally Transrightsarehumanrights
Dean Phelan @deanphelan.bsky.social Feminist political geographer at University College Dublin. Interested in food, urban just transitions, minoritisation, extreme politics & Chinese geographies.
Internet Geography @internetgeography.bsky.social Resources to support teaching and learning in geography. 💻 https://www.internetgeography.net #geographyteacher 👕👉 http://internet-geography.teemill.com
Karol Mullaney-Dignam @historiankarol.bsky.social ▪︎ Cultural, Social, Public Historian
▪︎ Associate Professor @ulhistory.bsky.social
▪︎ Ireland 🇮🇪
#RightToTheCity Global Platform @righttothecity.bsky.social Action-oriented advocacy network committed to social change by promoting the #RightToTheCity as a core value for policies & actions worldwide🌐
👀Stay tuned!👇
Ronan Gingles [ex-Mr_Ro_Jangles🐦] @ronangingles.bsky.social Echo chamber yodeller.
Raised on a diet of cheap 1980s RTE Czechoslovakian cartoons.
"A smorgasbord of sustainability, urban development & innovation" [LinkedIn blah].
Warning: Our lived experiences may differ.
🇮🇪*🌍*🗞*🌃*🎦*😏*⚽️🦁🏉🏐
#Cork via Brussels & Meath
Planning Theory & Practice @planningtheory.bsky.social The official feed of Planning Theory & Practice, academic journal about urban space and place.
LCC municipal @lccmunicipal.bsky.social London County Council, Greater London Council, pre- and post-1965 boroughs in London (+ occasional forays outside of the capital). Municipal stuff from the past that lives on today. Oh, and new towns, shopping centres, infrastructure etc.
lccmunicipal.com
Catriona Riddell @catrionariddell.bsky.social Strategic planner looking for some healthy debate about all things planning & development, local government & politics! Will also be hoping for some music chat on this thread!
Tricia O @t-os.bsky.social Corkonian Planning Architecture Society Environment
Irish Cycling Campaign @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social Irish rep for European Cyclist Federation
Member of Irish Environmental
https://www.irishcyclingcampaign.ie/
The Cork Coypu @corkcoypu.bsky.social It's really me. I have the birth cert to prove it
Kevin Burke @kevburkeie.bsky.social Urban Planner specialising in sustainable transport. Liveable cities advocate. Daon-Phoblacht Chorcaí.
Robster 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 🏴 @unilecturerrob.bsky.social Bristolian (Gashead) exile in the North West. A decade in practice/ two decades in academia. Centrist. Back to practice shortly!
Ben Castell @bencastell.bsky.social The town planner
Robbie Calvert @robbiecalvert.bsky.social All things urbanism and environmentalism. Head of Policy and Publics Affairs @rtpiplanners.bsky.social
Pádraig Collins @padc92.bsky.social Local Authority Planner, Planning Policy/Forward Planning🌆
Football Fan ⚽️
Cork, living in Dublin, formerly in London
David Gash @davidgash.bsky.social In the world of comms & public affairs at Fáilte Ireland and advocating for sports with the Federation of Irish Sport. Cork-born, now calling Meath home, with a keen interest in Irish politics and sport.
Claire Mercer @clairemercer.bsky.social Professor of Human Geography, LSE, UK. Research on urban peripheries, housing and social class. Africa, Tanzania, Dar es Salaam.
Rosaleen @clonrf1.bsky.social Mother, wife, wine drinker, interior designer, gardening, reading. Had years of fun on Twitter before it went to the dogs.
Aimie Brennan @aimiebrennan.bsky.social Dean of Education at Marino Institute of Education (www.mie.ie) | 🇮🇪 Teacher Educator #ITE #EducationalResearch #EdPolicy | Sociologist | Founder of STER (www.ster.ie) | Views = Own #SpéirGhorm
Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social Canadian Urbanist and Chief Planner for the City of Toronto 🇨🇦
Journal of British Studies @jbritishstudies.bsky.social Journal of British Studies is the publication of @thenacbs.bsky.social
and is the critical resource for scholars of British culture from the Middle Ages to the present.
Jules Grandin @julesgrandin.bsky.social 🌍 Cartographe