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Early career researcher. Neurodiversity and criminal justice. Yapping into the void. Sharing passing thoughts on books (mostly fantasy, mostly queer), Formula 1, and, from time to time, law. 🌈

The front cover of Babel by R.F. Kuang, which depicts a black-and-white 19th-century Oxford, accompanied by the words "An Arcane History".
The UK/Ireland cover of Taylor Jenkins Reid's book Atmosphere, with the subtitle A Love Story. The cover shows a rocket in the distance heading towards space while foregrounding the clouds painted pink and orange by the sun, contrasting with the clear blue sky through which the rocket flies.
An eclectic collage. Predominant colours are blue and purple. The word hello appears in the top left corner, spelled out in gold letters atop an effervescent backdrop. Next to it, a feather. The word carbolic on yellowed paper atop a velvety piece of fabric depicting part of a bird's wing. The jeopardy of life on yellowed paper draws the eye to a flash of shiny green and gold paper next to an eye that appears above the word power. Who has it? Who doesn't? A 1960s era man with his hands on his hips, perhaps - he has been cut off at the waist. The words "they're dynamic" on yellowed paper next to a hot air balloon on blue paper. Beauty. purple card, the sun, a goddess. Mushrooms. A purple pipe cleaner sculpture. You can always depend on bees. And googly eyes. A 1960s era white woman and child with a large X through them. Girl. War. I would be lost without.
eily_may's January 2026 Reads from the Storygraph. The graphic shows three different book covers with star ratings. Now She is Witch by Kirsty Logan - 3.75 stars. Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid - 3 stars. Babel by RF Kuang - 4.75 stars.
The front cover of RF Kuang's Babel. The cover is in grayscale with "Babel" inscribed from top to bottom. The cityscape of Oxford serves as a backdrop, filled with dreaming spires and rising domes. Several birds are also depicted on the front cover.
A lightly snow covered backyard with a crisp blue sky and wispy clouds. A garage and boundary wall as well as the gable end of a house are portrayed along with the best dog, Tiny, a sheepdog who loves treats more than working.
The front cover of Kirsty Logan's novel Now She is Witch. The cover is a dark navy with the title surrounded by a thorn wreath of leaves, berries, and mushrooms. Also depicted on the cover is a half moon, a dagger, a butterfly, a wolf and a hare.
Front covers of books I read in 2025 from left to right: Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron. Now for the Samantha Shannon section: Day of Fallen Night, The Priory of the Orange Tree, The Bone Season, The Mime Order, The Pale Dreamer, The Song Rising, The Mask Falling, The Dark Mirror and The Dawn Chorus. Then finished out the year with The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski, Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins, The Almanac A Seasonal Guide to 2025 by Lia Leendertz, Instant Witch by Megan Archer.
The front cover of The Almanac A Seasonal Guide to 2025 by Lia Leendertz. The front cover is a dark blue and features illustrations of the moon, shooting stars, a bird, dandelions and ferns. The front cover also has text that reads "The original and bestselling almanac."
A screenshot from Progress Ireland's 25 solutions to solve the housing crisis in Ireland. On the left is their logo which looks like three stylised right sides of houses put together? To the right is a prominent donate button. The text of the webpage reads: To reduce the cost of delivering apartments, the Minister for Housing, Local Government, and Heritage can use a National Planning Statement to: Reduce the minimum size of apartments. Suggested sizes: studios, 25m2; 1 bed 35m2; 2 bed 55m2; 3 bed 65m2. Reduce the minimum proportion of units in a development that must exceed that minimum size. Reduce or remove the requirement for dual-aspect; remove the restriction of the number of units per core. Remove or reduce the requirement for apartments to have private amenity space, ie balconies. Remove the restriction on the mix of units. Add an exemption of the requirement to have a lift in four-storey apartment buildings in Part M of the Technical Guidance Documents.
A graphic showing @eily_may's September 2025 Reads from StoryGraph. The front cover of Suzanne Collins' Sunrise on the Reaping is shown with a five star rating. The front cover is purple with a gold flint striker depicting a snake and a bird with their mouths open.
The front cover of a hardback edition of Suzanne Collins' Sunrise on the Reaping. The cover of the book is a rich purple inscribed in red with a snake and a bird facing one another. Both the snake's mouth and the bird's beak are open, suggesting an antagonism between them. Beneath them lie a number of points which could symbolise the sun, or perhaps are pointed spears. I haven't finished the book so please don't come for me on interpretation of the cover!!!
Three houseplants in a window, two of which are carnivorous. A Nepenthes hangs from the window handle with large cups that trap insects. The Nepenthes has four light green cups with red rims around the opening of the cups. On the windowsill is a pitcher plant, with long stems and wide openings to lure unsuspecting insects. The stems are green and the tops of the plant are red. Alongside the pitcher plant is a begonia with dark petals. The photo is framed by a purple and cream curtain to the right, and you can see through the window to a front garden lawn and cobble driveway. Trees and hedgerows are also visible in the background
The front cover of Naomi Klein's Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World. The book cover is black with the word Doppelganger repeated in white font, getting more blurry as it descends the length of the cover. The Penguin Books logo is on the bottom right of the book cover, and there's also a purple circle that says it was the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2024 winner.
The front cover of Marie Rutkoski's The Midnight Lie. The picture depicts a bottle containing a blue flower with pink petals. Curled around the bottle are two snakes. Flower motifs surround the edge of the cover.
Driver of the day vote for Nico Hulkenberg, 27, Kick Sauber. Nico Hulkenberg is pictured - a white man with blond spiky hair wearing the Kick Sauber gear in black and green with Stake the most prominent sponsor
A title slide for a presentation that reads: The Challenge of Neurodiversity for Criminal Responsibility, Eilís Ní Chaoimh, Centre for Disability Law and Policy, University of Galway. The slide contains two images. One is an infinity sign in pastel colours, a symbol used to represent neurodiversity. The other is the logo for the University of Galway/Ollscoil na Gaillimhe. It is a maroon circle with an image in white of the quadrangle at the university. Above and below the image is the word Gaillimh/Galway.
A weaving piece in the nonbinary flag colours of black, purple, white and yellow. The word REST is spelt out in black thread and in capital letters
A seated person weaves on a handheld loom. The picture is taken from behind their shoulder. Two laptops can be seen in the shot displaying a sign language interpreter and a zoom webinar. The person is weaving in an auditorium and the seats and podium at the front are visible. The person weaving is white, has short brown hair, is wearing glasses, watermelon earrings, a maroon top with a blue lanyard and blue trousers. They have a purple bracelet on their right wrist.
A graphic showing eily_may's May 2025 reads. The front covers of each of the books are pictured along with eily_may's rating. All books are by Samantha Shannon. From left to right: The Mask Falling, 3 stars; The Dark Mirror, 4.25 stars and The Dawn Chorus, 1 star.
Screenshot of my driver of the day vote for George Russell for Mercedes
A video tour of Kenny's bookstore showing numerous shop aisles where books are stacked on the floor
The front cover of Samantha Shannon's The Dark Mirror. The cover is predominantly blue with a gold motif. It depicts flowers and stylised images which may be of Venice. In the background, a coffee cup can be glimpsed with drawings of faces on it.
Program for the upcoming conference "Law and..." Reflections on interdisciplinarity and law with Early Career Academics in Ireland and the UK. Date: June 12th 2025 Place: NUI Building, Merrion Square, Dublin, Ireland Programme reads: 9.30-9.45 Welcome coffee and registration 9.45-10.00 Welcome Statements Ooonagh Breen (UCD, Sutherland School of Law) Organising Committe Representative (TBA) 10.00-11.15 Panel 1: Law and new areas: expanding the object of research Chair: Prof. Aoife O'Donoghue (QUB School of Law) Dr Sofia Kartalova (Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Nottingham): Ambiguity in EU Law: Reflections on the Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable in the Study of Law and Language Butch Madikizela (PhD researcher, University of Pretoria): Jurisprudence and Sociology: An Integraive Epistemic Approach [online] Isabele Vilaca (LLM Candidate, Dublin City University): Human rights at the crossroads: anthropology, power and subaltern resistance Eamonn Rea (PhD researcher, Queens University Belfast): Law and... something? Conceiving a framework for disgust's relationship to criminal law 11.15-12.30 Panel 2: Law and new methods: expanding the researcher's toolkit Chair: Isabel Arce Zelada (UCD School of History) Dr Robyn Gill Leslie (Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oslo): Documents suspended in time: linguistic and temporal challenges to transitional justice in South Africa Eilís Ní Chaoimh (PhD Researcher, University of Galway): The Methodological Challenge of Legally Defining Neurodiversity Yang Qiu (DPhil Law Student, University of Oxford): "Law and Collective Memory" in the "Socialist" Global South: Methodological Potentials and Challenges [online] 12.30-1.3.30 Lunch and coffee
A screenshot of the captcha for the petition to end conversion therapy in the EU which reads FagG.
A person with crutches attempting to open a gate into a ruined 19th Century Irish church in the Mayo countryside. The person is white, had short brown hair and is wearing sunglasses, a beige t-shirt, blue skirt and bright red crocs. Unusually there isn't a cloud in the bright blue sky. The surrounding landscape is mountainous, with rock visible amongst the grass.
Gideon Glick as Tobias Bell in Étoile. Tobias sits on the ground with his arms around his knees. He is a white man with brown hair and a serious expression. He wears noise-cancelling headphones, a red t-shirt, black pants and a black, green and red jacket. He is surrounded by the opulence of the French ballet national - the room where he sits has gold columns and a painting of a man and woman dancing the ballet. In the painting, the woman wears a flowing pink dress, and the man wears a grey skirt around his waist with his chest exposed. Gold adorns most of the room, which is lit by two candelabras.
A graphic from the storygraph showing @eily_may's April 2025 Reads: The Song Rising by Samantha Shannon
A screenshot of Samantha Shannon's Instagram story from her Spring Q&A session. The question asked: Will the bone Season have a happy ending. The answer: bittersweet!
Digital cover of the Dawn Chorus, a Bone Season novella by Samantha Shannon. The cover depicts many purple roses with stylised gold elements.
Front cover of Samantha Shannon's The Mask Falling, book four in her Bone Season series. The colour scheme of the cover is predominantly pink and turquoise with gold accents. Contains a stylised depiction of the Eiffel Tower and the signature flowers on the cover.
A page in a handwritten commonplace book that reads as follows: The Song Rising, Samantha Shannon (Book Three of the Bone Season) 5 April 2025. "When you dream of change, it shines bright, like fire, and burns away all the rot that came before it. It's swift and inexorable. You cry for justice and justice is done. The world stands with you in your fight. But if there was one thing I had learned in these last few weeks, it was that change had never been that simple. That kind of revolution existed only in daydreams."
Front cover of Samantha Shannon's The Song Rising with a book clip. The colour scheme is predominantly purple and pink and contains daffodils and stylised images of London buildings
A graphic showing @eily_may's March 2025 reads from the storygraph. From left to right: The Priory of the Orange Tree (5 stars), The Bone Season (3.5 stars), The Mime Order (4 stars) and The Pale Dreamer (2.5 stars). All books are by Samantha Shannon.
Front cover of Samantha Shannon's The Pale Dreamer. Cover is predominantly red with a large number of poppies.
An eclectic side table from left to right - two ceramic little boys, a ficus ginseng, a diffuser, a snake plant and a selection of essential oils
A photograph of page 196 of the Mime Order
Front cover of Samantha Shannon's The Mime Order, book two in the Bone Season series. The colour scheme is purple, red and gold and it depicts a stylised Big Ben and Tower of London along with roses
A signed copy of The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon made out to the author of this post!
Front cover of Samantha Shannon's The Bone Season on a grey sofa with a multicoloured rug in the background. The cover depicts a stylised Radcliffe Camera and Oxford spires as well as depictions of foxgloves and poppies. The colour scheme is red and blue. This is a revised edition containing the author's preferred text.
Front cover of Samantha Shannon's The Priory of the Orange Tree on a grey sofa with a purple bookmark. The front cover depicts a blue dragon strangling a stone tower and appears against an orange background with a medieval-esque town in the foreground
An image from the storygraph app showing @eily_may's February 2025 reads. The cover of Samantha Shannon's A Day of Fallen Night is depicted with a five star rating. The cover of Shannon's book has a stylised blue dragon with yellow and pink.
A smiling person with blue hair, wearing sunglasses, peers through a square hole in a wall (Annaghdown Abbey)
An open laptop on a laptop stand with a Bluetooth keyboard in front of it. Laptop stand has two stickers. One says chronic illness club. The other says hop on in terfs with a picture of a bin
A selection of artwork from @morayahpaper. From left to write, a gold foil postcard depicting a large curvy woman with big hair with the phrase "piss off with your fat shaming", a selection of stickers including a book that says "the gay agenda", "onions don't make me cry" "sweet sweet beans" with a pink and blue moka pot and a thumbs up emerging from a body of water that says "nice". Also included is a notepad with four cartoon cats
A copy of Samantha Shannon's The Priory of the Orange Tree depicting a tower encircled by a blue dragon. The background colour of the book is a rich yellow and there is an old looking townscape in the foreground
Front cover of Samantha Shannon's A Day of Fallen Night which depicts a highly stylised blue dragon
A page from Kate Golden's forthcoming book "If Not for My Baby" which reads as follows: Without thinking, I bring my hand up to his cheek and feel the course scruff under my palm. He's more of a man than any I've met. If he told me he ate tree bark and slept in caves, I'd believe him. "Does it bother ye?", he asks, voice rough, "I'll shave it." I shake my head. "Don't you dare." Gently he strokes his thumb down my palm and along my wrist. His eyes seem almost painted with want. "I'm nearly a decade older than ye." "Eight years," I counter. "Or, seven and a half, maybe. When's your birthday?" His lips twitch. "That's a cheatin' man's way of counting." "We're both consenting adults. You aren't the first guy in his thirties I've kissed." The new look on his face could dent steel, "Is that so."
Photo depicts a town at dusk viewed from the quayside with the moon visible in a navy sky.
A tuxedo cat lying in a curve with her belly up on a brown fluffy cushion. She is sleeping and looks very content.
Graphic showing @eily_may's January 2025 reads and ratings as follows: Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth, 2.5 stars; Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, 4 stars; Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron, 3 stars
A tabby cat sitting on a sofa wearing a blue onesie and holding a plate of cookies
A picture of a clear plastic box containing assorted candles
Parking instructions from Apcoa
Front cover of Kalynn Bayron's Cinderella is Dead which depicts a young black girl with mid-length curly hair staring determinately at us. She appears somewhat disheveled and is wearing a silvery-blue dress and butterfly clips in her hair
Front cover of The Palgrave Handbook of Research Methods and Ethics in Neurodiversity Studies edited by Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist and David Jackson-Perry. The cover is predominantly blue but contains a picture of a multicoloured giraffe and a zebra
Front cover of Samantha Shannon's A Day of Fallen Night. The cover depicts a blue dragon
A pastel purple notebook with a sticker proclaiming it to be 'Eilís' Commonplace Book'. The notebook is covered in stickers of flowers, a dragonfly and a bee.
A copy of James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room placed upon a green blanket. The cover depicts a branch with brown autumnal leaves.