Every single UK/Irish media report on trans people is just a recycling of the hatred & false conspiracies applied to lesbians, gay & bi people in the past. Every single one. And here’s the proof with dates & articles. Transphobia is recycled homophobia.

View from Nelson's Pillar at the top of Sackville Street (O'Connell Street), Dublin. c.1921. The pillar was destroyed on 8th March 1966 by a republican bomb. #visitdublin #vintagedublin #timetravel

My old Uni, Trinity College Dublin, marking the number of Palestinian students who will never graduate. This war must end. The EU & US must work together to broker a peaceful two state solution in line with UN resolutions.

A tin bath full of tulips and wallflowers. I was aiming for the ‘Turkish carpet’ colours and I think I’ve got that effect, despite a few rogue yellows popping up. #tulips #upcycledgarden

One week to go until the first in our lunchtime lecture series with papers from Dr Máire Kennedy TCD Early Modern History and Dr Jason McElligott Marsh's Library on the topic of institutional and private libraries in early modern Ireland.
🔗 Free, but booking required: bitly.ws/3ideF

An exciting #postdoc opportunity Maynooth University to study the palaeoecology of ancient woodlands! Part of the Ancient Woodlands Ireland Project, funded by
Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and National Parks and Wildlife Service universityvacancies.com/maynooth-unive…

Nature is just so beautiful!

My baby, the Royal School of Needlework Collection and Archive website, is now live! First up are 100 objects that represent the breadth and depth of our holdings. I’ve put my heart and soul into this, as have my wonderful team of volunteers. Do check it out! collections.royal-needlework.org.uk/home

In the spring of 1972
John Myers, then in his late twenties, started taking portraits of his neighbors in and around the town of Stourbridge, in England’s West Midlands.

Tomorrow 20 #IrishTravellers from all over Ireland will take over the floor of the Seanad Chamber.
Tune in and support us.
I am speaking on the need for a Traveller employment strategy to lift us out of the poverty trap!

Fantastic news. Solidarity to my Swedish friends! Human rights matter!

A front garden full of Cuckoo flower, Cardamine pratensis down my road. Shame about the bins. BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

Tomorrow I will deliver a speech in the Seanad on a number of issues, but the main focus is on the need for a national traveller mental health strategy to be implemented now.

Howling that Dublin Bus actually named the recovery truck for busses Buspidéal (Bus Hospital)

Dear Rishi Sunak UK Prime Minister

In 2017 I was awarded an honorary OBE in recognition of my services to the eradication of slavery. I am now returning this as it is something which I can no longer, in good conscience, keep”

aidanjmcquade.com/2024/04/16/let…

Harry Clarke’s exquisite ‘Floral Ornament’ from St Peter, Phibsborough. Created from ‘cullets’ (off-cuts of glass)
Seen on the Stained Glass Museum Dublin Study Tour
#StainedGlass

Handsome William Holden was BOTD in 1918 and died in 1981 at 63. Pictured face down in a swimming pool in Billy Wilder's 'Sunset Boulevard' (1950), one of the greatest hustler movies of all time. My movie 'Hustler White' (1996) was a very loose in every sense of the word remake

Clouds gathering above Hampton Court Palace about to give the tulips a water!

The government have been forced to allow my motion on disability justice to passcalling for:

-End to Means testing

-Increase in Disability and Carers allowance

-Increased PA hours

Govt should beware that disabled people will not let them forget what they have now supported

The frequency of use of the word 'unqualified' in student reviews of women teaching engineering is so high compared to that for both men and women in other disciplines that it barely fits on the graph. Lads, do you really think unqualified women get to teach tech at universities?