Fintan O'Mahony

For 40-something years I followed this club through very thick and awful thin. The biggest fan I know was by brother Conor who would have been f-ing and blinding with joy at the TV tonight. We are Champions. Walk on. buff.ly/3eCUPkS #lfc #LiverpoolareChampions

In search of Banksy, Reuters found the artist took on a new identity buff.ly/NKkBWUs #art

The education horseshoe by @HeatherBellaF, interesting read, wherever you are on the horseshoe buff.ly/ZyYxM2H #edchatie

Miriam Toews Reads Elephant by Raymond Carver on @nyerfiction podcast. No better way to spend an hour buff.ly/pCwx7Bx #podcast #reading #fiction

The Economic War — @passportirish podcast on Ireland in the 1930s buff.ly/3XjowZd #history #edchatie

Habermas is Dead. Will his ideas live on? From @hoyer_kat buff.ly/02we4Gm #history #philosophy

Memorizing History Facts, So What? • @thoughtstretchr podcast with Lauren Brown (@USHistoryIdeas), Jonathan Dallimore, and @AstorAaron about the role of facts and critical thinking in teaching history. buff.ly/92Eg0F2 #edchatie #history

On St Patrick's Day. Ladybird books were published in many different languages - including Irish (Artists: Eric Winter and Robert Lumley)

Here's an investigation into a crucial question: why don’t players ever position themselves to the side of the box* at penalties? Here's a case for it being a worthwhile tactic, inspired by Corinthians Feminino and, er, Pythagoras' theorem. nytimes.com/athletic/70699…

This Matthew Shenoda poem from @newyorker was the highlight of my week #poetry

Sebastian Smee on Edouard Brandon’s tiny but absorbing painting of a Jewish man reading, Juif Lisant. • Clicking through to the Degas mentioned here sent me back to the Met, and reminding me to go out into the world and see things buff.ly/lVPCnnW #art

Where to find media to consume instead of doomscrolling, a truly superior substack worth subscribing to buff.ly/5cBrlPR #edchatie

The Anglo-Irish Agreement: 40 Years On • @_talkinghistory podcast with @danmulhall, Daithí Ó Ceallaigh from @dfatirl and @anmailleach discussing the before, during and after of a turning point in Irish history buff.ly/JAZt1W6 #history #edchatie

Elena Gosalvez Blanco on working for Patricia Highsmith for @yalereview • almost as unsettling as a Highsmith novel buff.ly/hERDGaz #reading

Here's @TheFrankSkinner reading WH Auden, in particular listen to Musée des Beaux Arts, a poem I love a lot because I taught it so often. Attached is Bruegel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus buff.ly/PLHcaot #edchatie

The privileged life and tragic death of an 11-year-old Tipperary girl over 100 years ago • @rositaboland in @irishtimes on @tipperarymuseum exhibit on Petronell Grubb is a great reminder of the importance of the display of local history buff.ly/D8nZIHy #history #edchatie

Aftershock: The War on Terror from @lrb podcast is an amazing detailed look at everything that followed 9/11 buff.ly/OTWFM9o #history #politics

Green and Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861-1865, on @rtehistoryshow @irishacw joins @mylesdungan1 to discuss Irishmen who fought for the Union whose stories are revealed in forgotten U.S. pension files, amazing research buff.ly/lwot1Rs #history #edchatie

Flooding in South-East • @rtearchives reminder of Clonmel flooding in 1990, flood relief is worth it when you remember the old days buff.ly/aACJBgP #Clonmel

How I love the @nytimes Metropolitan Diary buff.ly/1pBxvcV #reading #living

The Joke, from @TheTruthFiction, an archivist in the future finds a single surviving joke, and risks her job to uncover its meaning, discovering forbidden laughter along the way. Great restart to this podcast feed buff.ly/QvVMTz6 #fiction #shortstory