In Pursuit of Spring - Day 9 - “If it had snowed all the way down from Scotland, I would still have found spring inside this church - for the bench ends are alive with the most delicious foliate carving - green men, mythical creatures, birds and other animals.” 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...

Jack Shanahan, retired US Air Force General and first Director of the Department of Defense Joint Artificial Intelligence Center:

Spring 2026, Archaeology Ireland (Vol 40 No 1, Issue 155) is published on 6 March. From revisiting the 1930 Sheebeg excavation to new insights into megalithic art & Great War training sites, this issue highlights the vitality of archaeology in Ireland today. Available nationwide & to subscribers.

Altar Wedge Tomb • West Cork This small wedge tomb on the coast of West Cork dates to c.2500 BC. Thousands of years after it was first built, this ancient monument took on new spiritual meaning when it was used as a mass rock during the time of the Penal Laws, when Catholic worship was forbidden

Always a fascinating podcast!

Outstanding @caseynewton.bsky.social analysis (of course) of the Anthropic/DOD fight. www.platformer.news/anthropic-pe...

If you missed Monday’s seminar by Dr Paddy Gleeson on ‘Landscapes of kingship: governance, rule and territory in early Medieval Ireland’, there’s a recording at: m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wpl...

The base features horsemen, warriors, animal herding scenes and enigmatic centaurs (pictured) with classical mythological references. 📷 Anne T More: http://www.megalithi...

Tonbridge Castle, Kent. The gatehouse was built by Richard de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford or his son Gilbert. Construction took 30 years, being completed in 1260. The gatehouse shares many similarities with the ones at Caerphilly Castle built by Gilbert in 1268–1271. #pencil #drawing

“An entire system of comharran – Gaelic navigational marks – surrounds the islands… A wealth of knowledge about the creatures which populate these fishing grounds is also encoded within the Gaelic language.” —by @tonguetiedfilms.bsky.social #MotherLanguageDay theconversation.com/how-scottish...

This 1594 edition of the works of Virgil was given to H. Bouhereau in 1613. It was kept in the family & travelled with our first librarian, Élie Bouhéreau (1643-1719) from his native La Rochelle to exile in Dublin, where it has been on the shelves of Marsh's Library since 1707.

Create a #genealogy will: protect your family history - You may have researched your ancestors for centuries, but do you have a plan for all that work after you leave? southafricanresearcher.com/create-a-gen...

Brilliant. #NatureRecovery #EcosystemRestoration #Rewilding

I’ve been doing A LOT of historic newspaper searching recently. A note to everyone & particularly in Irish newspapers, if searching for Mc also search for M’ e.g. for McGlade also search for M’Glade #genealogy

Death notices are magic when they list sisters’ and daughters’ married names. Even better when that tells you sisters are still alive in the 1980s tho’ there has been no trace of them since single passenger list entry in 1920s! #genealogy

18 Feb 1634: Thomas Carew's 'Coelum Brittanicum' performed at Whitehall #otd - Inigo Jones' set designs are still extant (Albert Bierstadt Museum). Charles I took part.

The Spectrum Bursts: #SeamusHeaney & the Visual Arts 🎨 Step into Heaney’s creative circle — T. P. Flanagan, Colin Middleton, Barrie Cooke & Dimitri Hadzi. Discover how these friendships shaped their artistic vision: https://www.nli.ie/news-stories/stories/spectrum-bursts-seamus-heaney-visual-arts

In Pursuit of Spring - Day Three - “Standing there in Portmahomack with the wind scudding off the firth, I realised that this small peninsula generated so many parallel worlds.” www.digest.andymarsh...

🤔 In case you didn't know - here's a bit more about me and my work, my values, my hopes and fears as a creative in today's world: www.digest.andymarsh... - please share if you can. Thank you. ☺️

In Pursuit of Spring - Day 2: "It was at that instant that the sharp easterly dropped and beyond the forest of Rothiemurchus, the snow bones of Creag Dhubh tousled the clouds into thin wisps of galloping guilloche." 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...

The delicate little female flower of the Hazel tree ❤️ such a tiny little beauty.... @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social @claireissimo.bsky.social @communitywetlands.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social

Being right next to the sea, we tend not to get really low temperatures. Unlike Achnasheen, which is roughly half way between the Atlantic and the North Sea, and can get; well... this cold:

My journey has started - in pursuit of Spring. Day 1 finds me in the Upper Tweed Valley at a remarkable church linked to St. Mungo. 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...

📝 Field Notes from my Camper-van-camino: Hadrian's Wall and Kirkoswald www.digest.andymarsh...

Beautiful explosion of colour from @yvesbroeckx.bsky.social 🧡❤️

Whoa, amazing 😍

Early. And you know what they say about the early bird… …it annoys the bejesus out of all the other #birds that just want a lie on, with all that morning-energy chirpy chirping and worm hunting. Get yourself a late worm before going to bed so you’re not so hungry in the morning you little freak… 1/2

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A fourth‑generation farming family is putting mid Wales on the map, with a diversification project which is quickly becoming one of the UK’s leading astrotourism destinations

The US administration’s insanity on vaccines continues to have ramifications across the world – it is not that America will miss out on these potential new vaccines. It is that they simply won’t happen at all. (Or at least they’ll be indefinitely delayed.)

Valentine’s Day is often seen as a celebration of timeless, universal love, but in fifteenth-century Ireland love could also be treated as a medical condition. Evidence of this survives in a manuscript called the Book of the O’Lees (RIA MS 23 P 10 (ii)).

When girls grow up and become women, they can be ANYTHING they want, they don’t need permission from anyone | Yumna Zahid Ali

Great story!

Without doubt Andy’s ‘Pursuit of Spring’ will, in photographs and words, be a journey worth following.

When people hear the words astro tourism, they often imagine a telescope, a clear night and a quick look at the stars. Especially in and around the Cambrian Mountains, it means something far deeper, wilder and more meaningful✍️ Dafydd Wyn Morgan wp.me/p8Mk4U-1e1s

Heart breaking interview with an MP and abuse survivor who bravely keeps speaking out. Listen to the whole interview. We hear you Natalie ❣️

Snowdrop time at Howick Hall #FootpathFriday #Snowdrops #Northumberland

In Archaeology Ireland (Summer 2015), Nora White, Gary Devlin & Fionbarr Moore explored 3D recording of ogham inscriptions. Now you can explore the ogham stone at Kilmalkedar Church in high-resolution 3D via The Discovery Programme. sketchfab.com/3d-models/ki...

📷 Taken with the tilt shift lens: The magnificent Romanesque nave at Norwich Cathedral is crowned with a later vaulted ceiling that has one of the most remarkable series of bosses depicting scenes from creation to the last judgement.

This is a big loss. An EBV vaccine especially might well help reduce multiple sclerosis (although it'll take time to tell). But seeing friends & their families whose lives have been impacted over decades MS, it's hard not to feel anger at this Luddism from the Trump administration and its lackeys.

Case of drawing instruments of gilt brass. The four sides are engraved with classical female figures: Peace, War, Poverty and Abundance. Made in London, 1565-1575 by 'Barthelemewe Newsum' (British Museum)

📝 Field Notes from my Camper-van-camino: The Churches of Romney Marsh www.digest.andymarsh...

The Saxon baptistry at St. Peter, Barton-upon-Humber might be even older than the C10th tower. Both were built (in part) with Roman stone transported by river from Yorkshire. Many burials beneath are older than the church.

It's St Gobnait's feast day, so who was Cork's medieval beekeeper @liber-ray.bsky.social @ria.ie looks at the life and times of Ireland's lesser-known patron saint of bees and beekeeping www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Late afternoon sun on the Shieldaig Peninsula highlighting the relief of the ancient rock.

✨John Ruskin described Lincoln Cathedral as “out and out the most precious piece of architecture in the British Isles.” Its grandeur is unmatched, but the medieval Romanesque details—like the west front door—feel truly otherworldly, as if from another planet. 🪐