Roisin Markham

finally got around to writing about a series of things I’ve been involved in since January Futures and longterm governance: policy making round tables, policy design, a report I wrote and more importantly a policy brief. The direction of future travel roisinmarkham.com/2026/06/01/f...

"Enjoying tonight does not mean forgetting about the suffering in Gaza. "It means celebrating the humanity and life that Palestinians have fought so hard to protect." -Liam Cunningham at Macklemore

Congratulations to Alana Mahon O'Neill for 'Death of a Library' which received a special mention from the A&SL Blog Post Competition judges. They praised the originality and creativity of the piece, highlighting the strong ending which brought it to a memorable and thought-provoking conclusion.

Good because that's literally the goal www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

Historians of sexuality who talk about the late twentieth century. Please note that England is not Britain. Scotland exists, as does Scottish history and historiography.

I still think there is great wisdom on this book

I am enjoying this Poetry collection it’s like very short stories and an interesting chat after see alt text for more information do you know Ó Tuama’s work? he’s a poetry podcast with on being onbeing.org/series/poetr... I love it’s a global poetry collection voices from everywhere

Sunday Sugarloaf #SpeirGorm

Does John Banville think artists have a duty to take a stance on moral issues? His stand is apparently for amorality. www.independent.ie/irish-news/s...

ahahahaha no A.I. Companies Want to Write the Rules Governing Themselves. Can They Be Trusted? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/m...

For two years, student-led protests have raged against Aleksandar Vučić and his corrupt government in Serbia. Today, in parliamentary elections, he was toppled. One of the most sustained protest movements in recent European history has succeeded. Resistance works.

Credit @pbfcomics.bsky.social

I wonder how much we under estimate the force of nature on us I mean literally we build houses of concrete and glass yet the 3 little pigs fable comes to mind storms, weather, erratic wind, rain low falling barometric pressure biologically impacts your mood biologyinsights.com/does-low-bar...

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who spared a thought for my country today, who amplified information about the coup d’état attempt, and worried about Brazil’s democratic future—the world’s democratic future. We won! Women won! The Amazon won! Young people won! Democracy won! Hope won!

The whole world no longer smells like cigarettes.

🌎 Forests, grasslands, peatlands and coastal wetlands are vital to people and the planet. What will it take to conserve these ecosystems? Explore new insights from #SystemsChangeLab on the critical shifts needed: bit.ly/482kiRT

Such phenomenal news - few elections matter to all life on Earth than those in Brazil! 🇧🇷 www.irishtimes.com/world/americ...

Incredible gender difference in voting intention in Brazil.

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

Congratulations to #Lula_da_Silva & the Brazilian people It will be very helpful to #freepalestine if you end the strong diplomatic & trade ties of 🇧🇷 with 🇮🇱 Any relations with these creatures makes you complicit in #gazagenocide. Clear your hands Sir.

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

"The State collectively is so far away from doing everything it can (to improve road safety) that a bit of victim blaming is a nice distraction."

Huge thanks to @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social for the perfect event to close my #IrishBookWeek east coast signing tour - and to everyone, including fellow-authors, who came and joined in the brilliant book-chat regardless of Dublin's ominous storm warnings! #spéirgorm #booksky📚💙 #AWinterWedding

My piece in @thejournal.ie today about the incredibly frustrating experience of trying to combat invasive plant species in Ireland. In particular, the lack of urgency or even halfhearted support from the state or councils when communities are willing to do most of the hard work locally.

Who else had one of these at home?

Thanks to Ciara Ní Bhroin for writing this piece on the DRCC consent ad row - props to @aidanobrien.bsky.social who gets a mention www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

John Peel passed away on this day in 2004 in memory of him here’s a link to Dave Strickson’s archive with over a thousand Peel Sessions each with accompanying YouTube clips Enjoy davestrickson.blogspot.com/2020/05/john...

but do politics attract a rare (or maybe not so rare) breed of particular gobshites asking for a friend

This year’s Irish Hallowe’en turnip, and a handful of those of from years past (they don’t always make it, if they rot before dessicating) #Hallowe’en #Samhain

I’ve never seen nor heard of a Califlower mushroom - it looked like a very busy seaweed upside down - bright creamy colour so I’m not sure it’s identified right… anyone good about identifying #fungi the other one was bridal veil stinkhorn first time seeing one in a Wexford woodland

Fragment of a wood-block print on linen. Egypt, Mamluk period, 1200s-1300s. (The Cleveland Museum of Art)

The Shannon, before the storms #speirgorm

I listen to a fair amount of Irish news podcasts and something I have noticed recently is the term 'Far Left' seems to have bedded in as an absolute given. Like everyone has accepted this is real? Who the hell is the 'Far Left'??

sitting in front of the sea at Cahore in my togs am I convincing myself to get in?