16 Apr 1693: Dudley Loftus, #Dublin lawyer, antiquarian, orientalist & annalist, aged 75, m. Lady Catherine Mervyn #otd Due to his age the match was considered scandalous (eebo)

Went for a bit of a wander in #Dublin
— the Ha’penny Bridge
#Ireland

Just found this French site with lots of slow travel itineraries. It even lists some from Dublin.

I was both amused and concerned by the mention of Dublin in their note about ferry emissions at the bottom of their home page.

#SlowTravel #Ireland #Dublin #France

https://www.hourrail.voyage/en#:~:text=It%27s%20hard%20to%20imagine%20a%20two%2Dday%20citytrip%20to%20Dublin%20by%20train%20and%20ferry...

Beware! Newstalk's Henry Keane is prowling DCU's Glasnevin campus.

I'm still finishing up the slides for my talk that I'll be giving next week at DjangoCon Europe 2025

I've got some music playing in the background from Irish bands that I've always listened to: U2, The Cranberries, Van Morrison

I try to connect with Ireland and Dublin through music

Is this something you do before a trip or a conference?

BTW I wait for you for my talk
https://www.paulox.net/2025/04/25/djangocon-europe-2025/

I will be on #djangoconeurope2025 next week in #Dublin

Whom will I meet there? Would love to connect upfront to meet some familiar faces next week.

https://fosstodon.org/@djangoconeurope/114337173488823876

Broken tech, torn clothes, wobbly furniture?

Fix it at the FREE Repair Café this Sat (19 Apr) at TOG Hackerspace, between 2–6pm!

Volunteers from @tog will help you repair your stuff — no experience needed!

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/repair-cafe-tickets-1277906194829?aff=oddtdtcreator #RepairCafe #Dublin

My brother is making a short musical documentary focusing on O'Connell St over Easter weekend.

He and the more experienced members of the production crew are working pro-bono, but they are looking for a few quid to pay the junior crew and to make sure everyone is fed!
If you are interested in supporting, there's a gofundme here

https://www.gofundme.com/f/qna4mc

Get some #Dublin rock into ya

https://open.spotify.com/track/469d5BNae99knRggeaqA0n

14 Apr 1627: Junior fellows of Trinity College #Dublin elect Robert Ussher as Provost #otd The Senior fellows elect Joseph Meade. In the end, the Crown appointed William Bedell, future translator of the #Bible to #Irish #Gaeilge (eebo)

14 Apr 1599: Robert Earl of #Essex arrives in #Dublin #otd (BMT) having almost drowned en route - that might that have been better for himself?

At the Freelance Forum conference in Dublin about to listen to Karlin Lillington’s session “Skynet for Journalism? Dealing with ‘Artificial Intelligence’”

#Ireland - The rise of repair cafes: ‘It’s not sustainable to keep buying new stuff’
A resurgent repair culture has a bottom-up energy, but change is also coming from the top, with the EU’s Right to Repair Directive

by Sylvia Thompson
Mon Jan 20 2025 - 05:00

"At repair cafes across the island of Ireland, volunteers fix small pieces of furniture, household electrical appliances and clothing at community venues for free. This movement, which started about 10 years ago – but stalled during the Covid-19 pandemic – is gathering pace again as a kickback against the perils of #overconsumption and as a response to #environmental and cost-of-living crises.

"Tomorrow afternoon, in an industrial unit in #Dublin12, a repair cafe will take place, a community event in which a group of volunteer fixers will repair everything from broken toasters, kettles, coffee machines and air fryers to garments needing new zips or buttons.

"The #DublinMakerRepairCafe in Unit 2B, Motor City, Kylemore Road, #Dublin 12, is one of a number of repair cafe gatherings held throughout the island. Volunteer #fixers also show up for repair events organised in "#CommunityCentres, #libraries and third-level colleges.

" 'I’d do a repair cafe every weekend if I had enough volunteers. I can’t meet the demand from libraries, county councils and community groups,' says Jeffrey Roe, a software and hardware engineer who also runs Tog Hackerspace, which hosts the D12 repair cafes four times a year.

"He says there are three types of people who turn up with broken items to be repaired for free at these community events.

" 'There are the environmentally conscious people who want to get things fixed rather than consume more valuable resources by purchasing new things,' says Roe. 'There are people who want things fixed for sentimental reasons – say a food mixer their mother used or a toy they played with that they want to give to their children. And then, there are the cost-conscious people who find the cost of getting something new too high.' "

Read more:
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025/01/18/the-rise-of-repair-cafes-its-not-sustainable-to-keep-buying-new-stuff/

#RepairCafes #RightToRepair #BuildingCommunity #ReduceReuseRepair #ReuseRepair
#RepairCafésIreland #SolarPunkSunday

Final day of Dublin trip yesterday, back to normal cool drizzle so we loitered in National Gallery's Portrait collection (which is oddly difficult to track down), and then found ourselves in the Last Bookshop. What a place. Couldn't quite get to grips with the filing system, but it was fun trying.

They have some pretty cool illusions at World of Illusions in #Dublin. This one’s a black and white photo with a coloured grid superimposed. You perceive the image in colour. (Zoom in to see the details.)

The tearooms that Dublin City Council built in Palmerston Park have been finished for months now with no sign of a tenant and the council won't open the toilets to the public without a tenant there to look after them. #Rathmines #Dublin @dublininquirer