I just checked and this event has understandably been cancelled, no doubt over safety and transport concerns. Hopefully it will be rescheduled.

No Time to Die should absolutely have been a Jane Bond film, she's got shit to sort AND a budget meeting to chair.

National Monument No.140: Grianán of Aileach Cashel, Carroweagh, Speenougue, Toulett, Co. Donegal. RMP Number: DG047-012005- Copyright and Photo Credit ©Photographic Archive, NMS heritageireland.ie/unguided-sit... #MonumentMonday #NationalMonumentMonday

#WorldOceansDay. ‘No daughter of mine will leave home except as a married woman’. Born on Valentia Island, self-taught marine biologist Maud Delap was the first person to successfully breed jellyfish in captivity. Our colleague Angela Byrne has put together a short reel about her life.

After all the rain, this evening feels like Christmas 🥰

Beyond Anglo‑Saxons, Celts and Vikings: DNA uncovers a dynamic history of migration to Britain Each of us tells a story about who we are, often tracing our identity back through an imagined line of ancestors; but what does DNA tell us? | Jay Silverstein @uk.theconversation.com @centralbylines.co.uk

Today is World Peatlands Day! Peatlands are crucial for climate, water and biodiversity. Peat extraction and drainage can have negative consequences for Ireland's waterbodies and river habitats.  ❗This is one of the Top 10 pressures on the health of Irish rivers and lakes. #worldpeatlandsday

Here we go…… 🎉launch day for Big Meadow Search 2026 🎉 Please help us add more dots to the UK, Ireland and Channel Island map. You can search any grassland between now and 31st August. No fancy methodology, just amble around and see what you see. More below

The first of our Wych Elm seedlings for 2026 - only 10 days from collection to germination. These could be over a metre tall by October and have all been collected from trees which show signs of resistance to Elm disease.

The late Manchán Magan illustrating how a single paltry word in English has a rich tapestry of multiple words and meaning in Irish. A beautiful extract from his ‘Thirty Two Words for a Field’.

After Google's drastic AI shift, DuckDuckGo saw a staggering 30.5% growth in just one day! What does this tell us about user preferences in the search landscape? The shift in power dynamics could change everything. Curious? 👀

"Most surprisingly, the Norman Conquest of 1066 appears to have been largely an elite process." Scientists once again riding to the rescue of historians, who had previously assumed 1066 was a largely peasant-driven enterprise. theconversation.com/beyond-anglo...

Friends, it's a special year for John & I...later this year we'll be 20 years married!!! 💌 Any suggestions on where would be nice to go for a couple of nights in Europe? Nice walks, nice people, good food...so excited!! #minibreak #anniversary #love

Nicolaus Copernicus, astronomer, revolutionised science with heliocentric theory of the universe, died #OTD 1543; landmark work De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium published 1543. Harmonia Macrocosmica, Andreas Cellarius, 1661 (Marriott Library)

English, physician and physicist, William Gilbert, was born 24 May 1544?/1540 #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/m...

Cambridge polymath, William Whewell, was born 24 May 1794 #histsci whewellsghost.wordpress.com/2010/09/15/a...

✨ If you're struggling with present times, this might help: where I discover an amazing work of art hidden in plain sight in Richmond, Yorkshire: 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...

A milestone. For the first time ever, we have surpassed 2 million books on our website. That is 2 million books available to you through an independent, online bookshop. With competitive shipping prices. Shop local. www.kennys.ie

Great idea, animals on coins!

A massive thanks to Thomas @tomfitz.bsky.social for this article. blog.thomasfitzgeraldphotography.com/blog/2026/5/...

🤔 Not for everyone, but if you crave continuity and ❤️ ancient places like St. Nicholas, Alfold you might like my Genius Loci Digest - an architectural photographer’s camper-van-camino through the British Isles - posted weekly. Subscribe for free here: www.digest.andymarsh...

What do the MacCarthy Cup and prehistoric bog butter have in common? Muiris O’Sullivan and Liam Downey explore the evolution of hurling, Gaelic football and camogie over centuries of Irish history in this contribution to the Know Your Monuments series. archaeologyireland.ie/2018/03/19/e...

Gàidhlig air a' mhapa Loch na Bèiste ~ Loch of the beast Mapa William Roy 1747-55 William Roy map 1747-55 #AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic #Maps #gachlatha

A life spent paying attention to nature - celebrating the volunteers who make nature and bog restoration happen www.tocharwetlands.ie/blog/hugh-sh... #Abbeyleix #Bogs @communitywetlands.bsky.social #spéirghorm

A really deep read on European alternative to US tech companies. I’ve begun switching and already use: - Ecosia as a search engine - Vivaldi as a browser - HereWGo for maps - Proton for email Lots more to explore in the article!

📍Loci: ✨1620 And The Year Of Paradox www.digest.andymarsh...

The Renaissance Artist, Albrecht Dürer, who wrote a maths book the first to be printed and published in German, was born 21 May 1471 #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/a...

Its #HillfortsWednesday & i just got back from doing a lap of Ireland 🇮🇪 & we need to talk about all the ringforts! a🧵👇

The article explores the Brusselstown Ring site as a major settlement cluster of the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age, revealing new insights into settlement structures and social organization in later prehistoric Ireland. Read it in Antiquity (April 2026): doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

I am so happy that these art deco Belfast street lamps - made for the Millfield Foundry in the 1930s and originally placed on the Boyne Bridge - have been repurposed for the new central rail station!

Can't say this enough, but Comment is Freed is the best subscription you can buy if you're interested in politics (and there are a lot of good ones about). Great analysis, which I don't always agree with, but which I know has a lot of depth.

"Tagann móimint i saol gach duine, go dtarlaíonn athrú agus maidir leis na daoine go mbuailimíd leo ar an gclár seo, sé'n t-athrú ná gur bhog siad siar" 💚 Moving West 🍃 Dé Máirt 02/06 🕢 19:30

Characterful Lewis Chessmen! 12th-century chess pieces with wonderfully expressive eyes! 👀 From a large gaming hoard found on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, in 1831. National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh 📷 by me #MedievalMonday #Archaeology

On this day in 1727, Duncan McCay was baptised at Clonca (Cloncha), Co. Donegal. The parish register has been lost but transcripts survive in the Journals: tinyurl.com/mccay1727 Learn about the Journals at MemsDead.com #OTD #Genealogy #IrishGenealogy #Donegal

Ireland does that... Absolutely crammed with world class ring forts, abbey complexes & dolmens 🤔

Just couldn't contain myself til #HillfortsWednesday to squeeeee about all the ringforts! 😭😭 Ireland is the most ridiculous country & what an incredible wealth of ancient places on its south west coast! Heading out for more today

Vikings Traded Falcons with Medieval Baghdad, Study Finds. www.medievalists.net/2026/05/viki...

Biodiversity Week spotlight on Monaghan 🌱 ✨ IWT Monaghan Branch have just released their project Seeds of Inspiration, in collaboration with the Monaghan Biodiversity Office: iwt.ie/seeds_of_inspiration See iwt.ie/events for details on their two events #BiodiversityWeek2026

Hot, fresh soda bread, anyone? 🍞 If you tried your hand with buttermaking last week, maybe it's time to give soda bread a try... You only need four ingredients: plain flour, bicarbonate of soda, salt and buttermilk → bit.ly/3RBmqLm #FarlFriday #FoodHeritage #IrishRecipes

Out today: latest report by @katyhayward.bsky.social and me on the views of voters in Northern Ireland on Brexit, the Windsor Framework and UK-EU Relations. Some key findings 👇 Full report available via @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social at: www.qub.ac.uk/sites/post-b...

📢Taith Gerdded Gwydr Lliw Caerdydd / Stained Glass Walking Tour of Cardiff 🗓️13/06/2026

A woolly solution to NI's peatland problems? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Such a contrast with the neighbouring non-native conifer plantation - roll on the Coillte plan to remove the conifers and encourage native woodland regeneration and blanket bog restoration in the wider Derryclare area!

Thrift and sea campion in full bloom along the coast of Iorras Aithneach, Conamara at the moment! #WildflowerHour

Beautiful views from An Eochair, a small quartzite peak at the east side of the Twelve Bens / Beanna Beola

😯 It's that amazing Bradford bookshop - more 📸 and 📝 in today's Digest: "I think of it all, the building and the bookshop: the glorious all encompassing whole of it. Consonance bleeding into the capitals, hyperbole evaporating from the hammer-beam.." 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...

A' Chruach and Inverie Bay #Knoydart #Inverie #Scotland www.damianshields.com

For the benefit of the small flurry of recent followers: Uniformbooks are available direct: uniformbooks.co.uk and may also be ordered through any bookshop; and online, Blackwells, for example, carry all of our titles, and offer free delivery. blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/search?keyword=uniformbooks

Striking conversions to a bookshop and libraries. Wonderful that these amazing original structures have been repurposed in such an attractive and useful way