Sharon Slater

Yesterday drove from Belfast to Limerick, today up to Meath and back. Tomorrow, there shall be no driving!

1970s & 80s Ireland is the setting for my new memoir - This Boy's Voice - as I negotiate Boarding School, Boot Boys, Broadcasting, Babies, Relationships & Rathmines! A story of failure & frolics on the journey home to me. Now available to pre-order. I hope you enjoy. Thank you.

Tell people whose work has helped you that it has done so, as receiving these kinds of messages can be a huge boost. I was getting very jaded.

Today would have been my brother Con's birthday so I've bought myself a kaleidoscope and am going stare through that for awhile.

Night terrors, so much fun! I get them but it's the person who sleeps with me who suffers.

Only 71,850 people have registered to vote in the new Higher Education constituency for the Seanad, despite a potential electorate of between 800,000 and 1,000,000 graduates. The unified 6-seater is open to graduates of over 80 higher level institutions, not just the historic TCD and NUI.

I find it very amusing when someone I follow on socials posts 3 anti Ai stories and follows it up with a very clearly Ai generated video of something "cute".

Safety And The City Research Project: The launch of a new publication on public (un)safety in Limerick City takes place on Wednesday 16th of Sept. in Wickham Way at 6:30pm. Join us and discuss how we can better use urban space and create a Limerick for us all. Catering provided by the Lilac Bakery.

Feel like putting my out of office on. Not going anywhere but have a lot of catching up to do.

In 1860, a local landowner tried to interfere with public access to a ruined church & graveyard on his land in Killone, Co Clare. Letters to the paper give us a sense of the local reaction - ‘for he who wars with the handful of dust at his feet is no friend to the living’ (Munster News, 14 Jan)

Not everything needs to have an app.

Going to be up at 4am for a 6am flight, check in on the other side isn't until 3pm, it's going to be a long day 😆

Trying to find an image of one man with an unusual name but his uncle with the same unusual name happened to be more famous!

I've so many different social media accounts with various levels of privacy, yet there is so much I want to yell into the world that I don't put on any of them or if I do it gets deleted very quickly.

Ormston House is 15! On 16 August 2011, Ormston House launched its very first exhibition. Since then we have developed and delivered 125 exhibitions and projects, both on and off-site. We have produced over 520 multi-disciplinary events and collaborated with over 500 artists and practitioners.

If anyone's in Limerick tomorrow I'll be talking about hairy folklore at the Hunt Museum at 7! Come along to hear about hairy poets, mermaids and remedies for baldness. www.limerick.ie/discover/wha...

Suggestions please. I've been contacted by someone with a collection of 1920s/1930s academic books, maths, woodwork, Irish, poetry. Looking for a new home for them.

Why do we still need Pride they ask. www.bbc.com/news/live/c3...

What period of history do you find most interesting? For me it is the Victorians who have somehow laundered their reputation into being the pinnacle of prim and proper but the records beg to differ!

News today that the National Archives has taken their genealogy site offline indefinitely. Find where to get the collections elsewhere here: cbgenealogy.ie/nai-collecti... #IrishGenealogy #AncestryHour #GenHour #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

Headstone in Quin Abbey, Co. Clare to two sisters who died during the sinking of RMS Leinster in 1918.

The other day I accidentally said "Love You" instead of thank you the person who dropped down my coffee in a cafe. That's it, I've done life now.

Got my Pride on in Limerick today. Yesterday a stranger sat beside me on a bench and told me about the hate crime he committed against a Trans Woman, and people wonder why we still need Pride!

Giving a tour for Limerick Pride next Friday. Made the poster, it may be rubbish but no Ai was used in its production.

Go team go! Beat the other team! Sports!

Hinge snapped on the front gate this evening. Going to be fun trying to figure out how to fix that tomorrow. Wish me luck!

As we near the deadline for the Graduate Artist Affiliate Scheme we are looking back at the various forms our artist residencies have taken over the years. #OrmstonHouseAt15

Got to represented EuroPride2028 in Áras an Uachtaráin yesterday. Bring out the gays!

#DIBLives To celebrate #Pride 2026, this week we are featuring members of Ireland's LBGTQ+ community. In the 18th century Lady Eleanor Butler & diarist Sarah Ponsonby, better known as the 'Ladies of Llangollen' lived together as 'romantic friends' or 'damned Saphists'. www.dib.ie/biography/bu...

oh permanent full-time pre-1800 job at Limerick! Deadline 14 August -- start of the job in January 2027. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRU993/a... #earlymodern #MedievalSky #Skystorians #Jobfairy

In 1852, part of the Gort Estate at Oatlands in Roxborough, Limerick was bought by a local wine merchant & grocer, James Rowand of William Street, Limerick. A potent sign of the decline of the Ascendancy class and growth of the middle class in Ireland. The Gort estate in Galway was also sold. /2

Robbed from Insta, so very very true!

Season 2 Episode 4 of the podcast is out now for your listening pleasure shows.acast.com/67d2b2474e9d...

“Is this Ireland’s earliest hurley? A possible 7th century AD cammán from Skehacreggaun, Mungret, Co. Limerick” Aidan O’Sullivan UCD School of Archaeology, & Cathy Moore, describe a carved wooden object from Skehacreggaun, Mungret, Co. Limerick dated to 7th century

*cough* Limerick Castle *cough* ... curses John Ferrar!

The guy who wanted me to explain racism to him emailed me after I blocked him on Facebook.

Interesting to see the majority of the Dáil still consider women to be hysterical creatures who can't be trusted to know their own minds.