Conor Houghton
@conjh.bsky.social
I find language confusing.
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So pleased to see my piece published! Based on my PhD thesis, my article looks at two Irish poets who have resisted translation in differing ways…
Thank you so much to @wasafirimag.bsky.social for this opportunity!
Thank you so much to @wasafirimag.bsky.social for this opportunity!
Irish translator and scholar @ellenfcorbett.bsky.social explores how some Irish writers have resisted or deferred the translation of their work into English — given the minoritisation of the Irish language and its 'definitely endangered' status.
Read the full essay here:
Read the full essay here:
Against English: The Irish Poets Who Have Refused Translation
Irish translator and scholar Ellen Corbett explores how some Irish writers have resisted or deferred the translation of their work into English — given the…
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July 14, 2026 at 6:26 PM
So pleased to see my piece published! Based on my PhD thesis, my article looks at two Irish poets who have resisted translation in differing ways…
Thank you so much to @wasafirimag.bsky.social for this opportunity!
Thank you so much to @wasafirimag.bsky.social for this opportunity!
Brexit was stupid but surely it is just another symptom rather than a cause: there is a childishness born of empire that refuses responsibility and seeks to externalize blame.
nobody in British politics seems to want to say it but the single biggest driver of their inability to keep a prime minister for any length of time is that Brexit was stupid and ruinous and made everyone’s lives worse
June 22, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Brexit was stupid but surely it is just another symptom rather than a cause: there is a childishness born of empire that refuses responsibility and seeks to externalize blame.
Roses are red
Starmer is not
You aren't Andy Burnham
But I still think you're hot
Starmer is not
You aren't Andy Burnham
But I still think you're hot
June 21, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Roses are red
Starmer is not
You aren't Andy Burnham
But I still think you're hot
Starmer is not
You aren't Andy Burnham
But I still think you're hot
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the tragic thing is that it's really only the top twenty or thirty dads who make real money out of it, you can be the hundredth best dad in the world and you're mostly working as a dad coach.
tired of the "#1 dad" nonsense. if you're a dad, stop treating it like a joke and post your actual national dad ranking. i'm # 492,018, which is actually really high up there, but more importantly it lets me enter ranked dad lobbies where i can get matched up for fistfights with dads of my caliber
June 21, 2026 at 6:56 PM
the tragic thing is that it's really only the top twenty or thirty dads who make real money out of it, you can be the hundredth best dad in the world and you're mostly working as a dad coach.
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I would like to see Iran (IRN) play Brunei (BRU)
June 21, 2026 at 7:16 PM
I would like to see Iran (IRN) play Brunei (BRU)
Roses are red
Algae is green
If you were a reflecting pool
I'd pretend you were clean
Algae is green
If you were a reflecting pool
I'd pretend you were clean
June 21, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Roses are red
Algae is green
If you were a reflecting pool
I'd pretend you were clean
Algae is green
If you were a reflecting pool
I'd pretend you were clean
Some days you're Andy Burnham, some days you're Josh Simons.
May 14, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Some days you're Andy Burnham, some days you're Josh Simons.
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Tá a fhios agat go bhfuil tú (sách) Gaelaithe nuair a mbíonn ort an leagan Gaelainne d'fhocal a fheiscint chun an leagan Béarla a thuiscint i gceart!
Benedict = Beannacht - ar ndóigh!!
Comhartha deas DAS - an seana-cheann é n'fheadar?
Benedict = Beannacht - ar ndóigh!!
Comhartha deas DAS - an seana-cheann é n'fheadar?
May 13, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Tá a fhios agat go bhfuil tú (sách) Gaelaithe nuair a mbíonn ort an leagan Gaelainne d'fhocal a fheiscint chun an leagan Béarla a thuiscint i gceart!
Benedict = Beannacht - ar ndóigh!!
Comhartha deas DAS - an seana-cheann é n'fheadar?
Benedict = Beannacht - ar ndóigh!!
Comhartha deas DAS - an seana-cheann é n'fheadar?
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You really can’t overstate the significance of this diagram in understanding the U.K.’s political paroxysm.
Also, having understood it, you are now better informed than every U.K. politician and media outlet.
Check out the very detailed write up explaining how it was created.
Also, having understood it, you are now better informed than every U.K. politician and media outlet.
Check out the very detailed write up explaining how it was created.
May 12, 2026 at 10:26 PM
You really can’t overstate the significance of this diagram in understanding the U.K.’s political paroxysm.
Also, having understood it, you are now better informed than every U.K. politician and media outlet.
Check out the very detailed write up explaining how it was created.
Also, having understood it, you are now better informed than every U.K. politician and media outlet.
Check out the very detailed write up explaining how it was created.
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I am absolutely here for @oliver.ie 's motion at tonight's Cork City Council meeting (referred to a relevant committee).
May 11, 2026 at 1:36 PM
I am absolutely here for @oliver.ie 's motion at tonight's Cork City Council meeting (referred to a relevant committee).
It's all kicking off in Henrietta Park.
May 9, 2026 at 6:14 PM
It's all kicking off in Henrietta Park.
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LSD saints. Beatus of Liébana, Commentarius in Apocalypsin, Burgos ca. 1180. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991.232.6.
#medieval #medievalart
#medieval #medievalart
May 9, 2026 at 5:00 AM
LSD saints. Beatus of Liébana, Commentarius in Apocalypsin, Burgos ca. 1180. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991.232.6.
#medieval #medievalart
#medieval #medievalart
Lá eile i dtír na n-amadán is na n-arrachtach.
May 8, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Lá eile i dtír na n-amadán is na n-arrachtach.
"I'm not going to walk away and plunge country into chaos"
May 8, 2026 at 2:45 PM
"I'm not going to walk away and plunge country into chaos"
If you can't find me tomorrow it's because I'm busy trying to remember why I moved to this stupid country and sewing coins into my coat lining.
May 8, 2026 at 1:30 AM
If you can't find me tomorrow it's because I'm busy trying to remember why I moved to this stupid country and sewing coins into my coat lining.
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Anybody questioning spends on active travel infrastructure should also be questioning every cent 'wasted' on car infrastructure. How much is spent on car parking by state bodies on a daily basis?
www.rte.ie/news/politic...
www.rte.ie/news/politic...
€127k bike shed at Kerry hospital a 'pure waste' - SF
The building of a bicycle shed at University Hospital Kerry, which cost €127,000, is a "pure waste" and another slap in the face to families who are at breaking point, the Dáil has heard.
www.rte.ie
May 7, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Anybody questioning spends on active travel infrastructure should also be questioning every cent 'wasted' on car infrastructure. How much is spent on car parking by state bodies on a daily basis?
www.rte.ie/news/politic...
www.rte.ie/news/politic...
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Today many in this country are being asked to answer, in secret, the question "are you an asshole?"; some people say we should think of the elections as a referendum on Starmer, I am thinking of it as a referendum on national-assholery. Another one.
May 7, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Today many in this country are being asked to answer, in secret, the question "are you an asshole?"; some people say we should think of the elections as a referendum on Starmer, I am thinking of it as a referendum on national-assholery. Another one.
Questionable Contents is literally the only thing Monday to Fridays have on the weekend.
I guess until we figure out how to make my website be alive again I will be posting comics over here www.jephjacques.com/comics
and on my patreon
www.patreon.com/jephjacques
and on my patreon
www.patreon.com/jephjacques
Comics — Jeph Jacques
www.jephjacques.com
May 4, 2026 at 11:04 AM
Questionable Contents is literally the only thing Monday to Fridays have on the weekend.
worst hack ever.
oh cool, my website got hacked and they deleted everything and changed all the passwords. sick. love that for me
May 4, 2026 at 11:03 AM
worst hack ever.
The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this . . .
April 26, 2026 at 7:52 AM
The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this . . .
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Desmond Morris was very important to me because he wrote about gay people in his book The Naked Ape and it was the first time I'd ever read or heard a description of gay people that wasn't sneering or judgemental. It was thrilling.
About 40 years later I had a chance to tell him so.
RIP Mr Morris
About 40 years later I had a chance to tell him so.
RIP Mr Morris
Let us salute the rogue genius of Desmond Morris, ape-watcher and last of the Surrealists, gone at 98. Here he is, less than 2 years ago, with his Man Ray tribute work - the photographic lips are those of Diana Dors, whom he dated in the 40s when she was still Diana Fluck.
April 20, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Desmond Morris was very important to me because he wrote about gay people in his book The Naked Ape and it was the first time I'd ever read or heard a description of gay people that wasn't sneering or judgemental. It was thrilling.
About 40 years later I had a chance to tell him so.
RIP Mr Morris
About 40 years later I had a chance to tell him so.
RIP Mr Morris
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Kate O'Brien had left Ireland by the #1926Census but this photograph of her was taken that year. Her first play, Distinguished Villa, was a huge success in 1926 which allowed her to become a full-time writer.
April 19, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Kate O'Brien had left Ireland by the #1926Census but this photograph of her was taken that year. Her first play, Distinguished Villa, was a huge success in 1926 which allowed her to become a full-time writer.