I got cake and ice cream. Mainland decadence.

Goodnight from Paul Hayes, the valves of his radio set-up glowing in anticipation of capturing transmissions from ghost cosmonauts. Goodnight from Appledown Farm, its sleepers dream-shivered as one of the Folk Without Shadows glides the lane. Goodnight from Hookland.

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Rush hour on Sherkin. And the Bull McCabe himself. #Speirgorm #Cows #Ireland

The Sunday head on you after the session. #speirgorm

Stephen Colbert and David Letterman throwing things off the Ed Sullivan Theater. Colbert: “Anything you’d like to say, Dave?” Letterman: “In the words of the great Edward R. Murrow to CBS: ‘Good night and good luck, motherfuckers.’”

Become a legend. Buy an island pub. The Jolly Roger is for sale. Sherkin Island, County Cork. #Speirgorm #Ireland #Pub www.hodnettforde.com/properties/t...

Frederick Judd Waugh, American (1861-1940), Freshening Breeze, oil on canvas, 76.2 x 101.6 cm, private collection

The Dukes of Cultural Hazzard

Ladybird as Gaeilge - dhá leabhar aistrithe ag Mairéad Ní Ghráda ( léaráidí le Eric Winter agus Robert Lumley) #ladybird #speirgorm

Come to Sherkin Island. Get a BA in Visual Art with TUDublin. See the world differently. Maybe stay a spell longer... 4 years. Part time. Contact Jesse Jones [email protected] www.tudublin.ie/study/underg... #speirgorm #art #Ireland

Life is short - enjoy yourself: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/KD...

Little something for the weekend. A David Attenborough sample opens this Orb remix from back in the day. Never found it source. m.youtube.com/watch?v=4S-X...

The local island pub has been colloquially renamed "The Strait of Hormuz". Because no one knows if it is open or closed. #speirgorm #localgossip

Back in Baltimore. All is well at the Fiddle Fair.

Lovely little video showing Sherkin Island artists and how the environment shapes them. #Speirgorm #Art www.irishtimes.com/video/video/...

The road to Cushendall. Tom Petty soundtrack. #Speirgorm #Antrim #Ireland

Got schtuck in the Donegal rush hour traffic today. #Speirgorm

It's grim up North.

Sunday dusk. Bank Holiday. Rain coming. #speirgorm

The sky above tonight.

The Waterboys are on their island tour.

Happy Mayday from the isles. #Bealtaine #Mayday #Spiergorm #Beltane

A glorious Beltane to all who celebrate. 🔥

Bealtaine Eve in front of the fire. Gorse & Primrose flower at the doors... #speirgorm

The first of May was sacred to Beltené, one of the names of the god of Death, the god who gives life to men and takes it away from them again. Thus it was on the feast day of this god that the sons of Miled began their conquest of Ireland.” Source: Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. 3/4

May your gods go with you.

The river runs through it, like. #cork

Recession ahoy!

I have now seen the South Mall Toaster. Up Cork. #speirgorm

When routine bites hard, and the stomach is low And the hunger is high, but the spit is slow

Penguin by Designers (cover grid by Romek Marber) (2007), David Pearson https://a-g-i.org/design/penguin-by-designers

A minute waiting for the last ferry. Sherkin Disco Bus + Belle & Sebastian. #speirgorm

Sherkin Disco Bus Friday!

Ok, yeah. He does look like that.

The Harbour (Talkabout the Beach, 1975) Artist: Harry Wingfield

Andrew Wyeth, American (1917-2009), Squall, 1986, tempura on panel

An island art work in progress by Mona O'Driscoll of Sherkin Island. Mona stood in each spot, dropped a GPS marker, added a short note on the name & story. Maps are not the territory but Mona's art work is her island life & spaces that she maps. #speirgorm #islands #art felt.com/map/Sherkin-...

I have an essay in @dauntbookspub.bsky.social's Over the Water: Essays on Islands. It features real, imaginary and islands from art; Sylvia Plath's on Inisbofin, Napoleon and how working with Alice Maher had a spooky echo of Hagstone. New substack about it here: open.substack.com/pub/momentso...

Cork Man with his jacket. Páirc Uí Chaoimh: Michael Jackson fans at the Cork stadium in July 1988 www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...

Windy. But not wet. A fine day of bluster ahead.

Nigel in his shed. #spéirgorm #speirgorm #sheds

Just glimpsed the first two Swifts.

All my adult will was required to stop me buying wholesale Haribo.

This tree in London looks full of leaves but is actually covered in parakeets.

Dark moon rising tonight.

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That's nice, but very fresh on the wind. Straight off the Atlantic bang cool. #spéirgorm

This video of a Ukrainian Yak-52 crew taking down drones with a shotgun is incredible, but the music is deeply, and profoundly inappropriate. There was really only one option. So I've fixed it.