Look what we have here then.

Lovely evening at Castle Books, Castlebar talking about soprano Margaret Burke Sheridan for the Linenhall’s Culture Night Trail. @atumayo.bsky.social @atu-hrg.bsky.social @oflynnatu.bsky.social

Tully Lough Cross • c.8th-9th Century AD This is a rare example of an early altar cross. It is constructed of decorated tinned and gilt bronze sheets affixed to an oak wood core. The cross has a number of decorated bosses and panels that show a human figure flanked by beasts with gaping jaws.

Taking place this Friday! #culturenight @oflynnatu.bsky.social @justinkerr123.bsky.social @perryshare.bsky.social @atu-ie.bsky.social

Agnes Kasparkova, 90-Year-Old Czech former agricultural worker who turned her small village into an art gallery by painting traditional Moravian motifs on the local houses. The project went on for over 13 years #WomensArt

I’ll be speaking about Castlebar in the Sheridan era and Margaret’s childhood in Castlebar on Friday as part of a culture night celebration of Margaret Burke Sheridan. All welcome. @atu-hrg.bsky.social @atumayo.bsky.social

How cute is this?! A little owl, made for me by a former student.

Slightly diminish a book: Reasonable expectations.

Join us at the Annual Monsignor Patrick J Corish Lecture 2025 where Prof David I. Kertzer, Brown University, will give the lecture on "Eugenio Pacelli and the Vatican’s Irish Plan to Save Baptized Jews (1938-1939)". Register here - www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-annual...

Make sure to turn off the AI settings in Academia.edu independent.academia.edu/HowardWillia... Thanks to @fortrenn.bsky.social and @downham.bsky.social for the heads up! There's already more than enough intellectual theft within and around the academy thank you very much! AI can jog on!

The Catholic Historical Society of Ireland’s annual conference will take place in Dublin, 22 November 2025 on ‘O’Connell & his Legacy’ - I’ll be speaking about spaces, buildings & the Catholic public sphere in the campaign for Emancipation. Share widely! #speirgorm www.eventbrite.ie/e/oconnell-a...

A number of Four Courts Press books can now be borrowed on archive.org. Four Courts is a key publisher of works on Irish history, and this means some out of print edited collections on early modern history are now more readily available. And you can read some of my articles there too! For example:

In February 1896, two men ploughing a field unearthed one of the greatest prehistoric treasures ever found on the island of Ireland – the Broighter Hoard. #Archaeology 🏺 #SpéirGhorm #Ireland

Beautiful day to give a tour of Errew priory and nearby nunnery for Mayo Historical & Archaeological Society. @atumayo.bsky.social @atu-hrg.bsky.social

It's a while since I've used irishgenealogy.ie - have they removed the ability to order a photocopy of register entries? I can't find a link now - can anyone help? #IrishGenealogy

I'm giving a talk in Abbey, Co. Galway for Heritage Week on the Carthusians and Franciscans in Kinalehin in the medieval period. This was Ireland's only house of the Carthusians. All welcome. @atumayo.bsky.social @atu-hrg.bsky.social

The Annals of the Four Masters were completed and signed #OTD 1636. This is the signature page (UCD-OFM Ms A13). The Annals are a chronicle of Irish history from AM 2242 to AD 1616. They were written, in Irish, between 22 January 1632 and 10 August 1636. www.isos.dias.ie 1/3

In the 1860s Daniel O'Connell organised what became known as Monster Meetings #HappyBirthday #DanielOConnell

It’s apple season. #speirgorm

Unique exhibition on the Civil War in East Mayo | Connaught Telegraph www.con-telegraph.ie/2025/07/26/u...

The High Kirk of Edinburgh: St Giles’s. #edinburgh #scotland #architecture

9 July 1441: d. Jan Van Eyck #painter #otd (National gallery London)

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Spotted in Düsseldorf - so much for not putting your valuables on public display #cheese

Some lovely orchids around Lough Lannagh in Castlebar and one in the carpark of a certain German supermarket. #speirgorm

The Moylough Belt Shrine • Sligo • c.8th Century This shrine was found in a Sligo bog and takes the form of a belt. Each of the plates enclosed a fragment of a simple leather belt that presumably belonged to an early saint. You can see it on display in the National Museum of Ireland

A very busy (sunny) day on campus today, hosting librarians from across ATU for their annual gathering, plus the launch of the George Moore International Conference which we will host in May 2026. Books were the theme of the day! @atu-ie.bsky.social @justinkerr123.bsky.social @oflynnatu.bsky.social

Great discussions and plenty of smiles at our Mayo Rising event, which focused on creatively thinking about sustainable directions for Mayo's future. @atu-ie.bsky.social @oflynnatu.bsky.social @justinkerr123.bsky.social

One of the advantages of being secretary of Swift Conservation Mayo… #WillWriteStuffForBiscuits

15 June 1534: Henry VIII's commissioners visit the #Franciscan House at #Greenwich #otd The friars are resolved "to live & die in the observance of St Francis' religion" The first & last chapters of the 1223 Regula Bullata speak of communion with the Roman Pontiff (Getty Museums)

#WBYeats #YeatsDay Happy Birthday creepy guy

We had a lovely time welcoming the swifts back to ATU Mayo today, with music, song, poetry and a short talk from swift champion Lynda Huxley. @atu-ie.bsky.social @atumayo.bsky.social @oflynnatu.bsky.social @justinkerr123.bsky.social

"Aurora' by UK artist and printmaker Rebecca Vincent #WomensArt

Sunday morning stroll. #speirgorm #ireland #sunshine

It’s a picture postcard kind of day at ATU Mayo. @atumayo.bsky.social @atu-ie.bsky.social @oflynnatu.bsky.social @justinkerr123.bsky.social

A lovely calm morning for Darkness into Light in Castlebar. @pietahouse.bsky.social #darknessintolight #speirgorm

A very sad and devastating statement from the internationally known silversmith, Séamus Gill, whose studio was broken into at Easter. His entire collection & work in progress were stolen. Séamus worked with Brian Clarke and Michael Good on applying anti-clastic raising to Iron Age ribbon torcs.

Watercolour circus tent 🎪 #watercolour #painting

A day late for World Curlew Day, but here’s my watercolour and ink curlew for the occasion. #watercolour #painting #worldcurlewday #curlew

Wooden Easter eggs and a spot of acrylic paint (and possibly the one time ever I’ve made a half decent attempt at a treble clef). #speirgorm

Speckled wood butterfly and cherry blossoms with blue skies today. #speirgorm

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

Lovely day to explore some local sites as part of the Genealogy module with my ATU Mayo History & Geography students. @atu-ie.bsky.social @atumayo.bsky.social @justinkerr123.bsky.social @oflynnatu.bsky.social

Really is a #speirgorm kind of day in Ireland.

Congratulations to our second year ATU Mayo History & Geography student Fiacre Ryan who contributed to the newly published volume ‘Wired Our Own Way’ which features in today’s Irish Independent. @atu-ie.bsky.social @atumayo.bsky.social @oflynnatu.bsky.social @justinkerr123.bsky.social

Very enjoyable workshop with students on the MSc in Outdoor Education, Sustainability and Wellbeing at ATU Mayo today. We were drawing, making, singing and enjoying nature. @atumayo.bsky.social @oflynnatu.bsky.social @justinkerr123.bsky.social

Our fourth year History & Geography students inking some lino prints as we explore the techniques used to create images in the Tudor period. @atumayo.bsky.social @atu-ie.bsky.social @oflynnatu.bsky.social @justinkerr123.bsky.social

If any of your published works were included in #Meta’s #pirated AI training dataset, you can send Meta's CEO a letter telling them that they don't have the right to use your books. @AuthorsGuild.bsky.social have created a template letter 👇 in case it's useful actionnetwork.org/letters/auth...

Excellent evening lecture by Dr Brian Dornan at ATU Mayo on the heritage of the Inishkea Islands. Part of our series with Mayo Historical & Archaeological Society. @atumayo.bsky.social @oflynnatu.bsky.social @justinkerr123.bsky.social