I’ve no idea who these two ladies are, but they have quite literally got the best seats in town today! ☀️ #Summer #Dublin #SpeirGorm

As a teacher of English, I can definitively state that yes, this is exactly what happened. Particularly, the curse words. ◡̈

Some gray catbirds migrate more than 2,000 miles from Central America to New York City to eat pepperoni pizza in Bryant Park. 🪶

This promises to be a great talk! #History #Heritage #LGBTQ #Queer #Dublin #Ireland #SpeirGorm

REMINDER: Eurovision starts tonight, and Israel is still in. Don't play along. Boycott it. Culture should never be used to whitewash genocide, settler-colonialism and aparthied. #esc #eurovision #boycotteurovision #esc2026

Boycott the Eurovision Song Contest. #eurovision #esc #boycotteurovision

And a glimpse of what else lies within … Available now in all good bookshops, as they say! #History #Heritage #Art #Architecture #Ireland

Delighted to finally get a copy in my hands - Vol. 02 of the “Irish Heritage Studies” journal, produced by Gandon Editions for the @opwireland.bsky.social - particularly tickled than an image from my own piece was chosen for the cover 🤓 #History #Heritage #Art #Architecture #Ireland

The Four Courts in Dublin, proudly sticking its head above the skyline of #Dublin - I do love how, from the bus, you can see through the rotunda 👌🏻

Stop! 🛑 … and admire the flowers 🪻

Watching the Louth match with the mammy (a native of the wee county) #LúAbu

An arresting oil entitled 'Hay Wagon' by one James C. Morris (who I must admit I’ve never heard of). Currently at €320 - a bargain! #History #Heritage #Art #Dublin www.southdublinauction.com/catalogue/lo...

An arresting oil entitled 'Hay Wagon' by one James C. Morris (who I must admit I’ve never heard of). Currently at €320 - a bargain! #History #Heritage #Art #Dublin www.southdublinauction.com/catalogue/lo...

This is ridiculously addictive … Like DuoLingo, it’s interesting to look at how gamification can aid education. #Geography #Education #Maps www.maptap.gg April 24 92🏆 99🎯 87🎉 92🏆 83😁 Final score: 890

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Possibly one of the most bizarre things I’ve come across on the streets of #Dublin …

Possibly one of the most bizarre things I’ve come across on the streets of #Dublin …

Curiously, I've not seen anything about this important and horrifying book in an Irish newspaper: www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

"Many readers, and surely most Irish readers, will finish this book in a state of white-knuckled rage, mingled with sorrow and at least a pang of guilt. It is a detailed, thoroughgoing and appalling account of the Magdalene laundries ..." #Spéirghorm #SpeirGorm www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

“In a regime distinguished by its excessive inhumanity, the Magdalene laundries were its deep end. […] These were not peripheral: they were Ireland’s main carceral institution.” #History #Heritage #Ireland www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

“It would take seven years to rehome the collection if 2,500 objects were moved from the current location to a new facility every day.” That’s a lot of planning right there!

Cartoon by Gábor Pápai, a well-known Hungarian political cartoonist.

Does anyone know if there is a history of Coyne and Bellier, the French infrastructure engineers (particularly dams)?

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I’d say ‘irony is dead’, but in truth it died a long time ago … 🤦🏻‍♂️ www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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Impressive view from the temple at Mount Congreve yesterday, looking out over the River Suir. I’m not much of a plants person, but the colours and shapes and variety of some of the plants were stunning! #History #Heritage #Garden #Waterford #Ireland

‘Remains of the Day’ has just started on TG4 - that’s my evening sorted 👌🏻

Exhibit A, the Duke of Wellington’s slippers @ Apsley House @apsleyhouse.bsky.social Exhibit B, Michael Collins’s slippers @ N.M. of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social All I’m saying is, fighting Irish men seem to have liked their comforts … #History #Heritage #Dublin #London #Ireland #England

Daffodils trying to escape their parkland prison …

🏛️ There are 96 small basins beneath the minaret balcony of the Küçük Mecidiye Mosque, designed to collect rainwater from above so that birds can drink from them, Istanbul, 1848

Completely taken by these stations of the cross at St Catherine’s Church, the work of Scott Erickson … #Art #GraphicDesign #Dublin #Easter

Winding down a stressful week glancing up at the ceiling of one of Dublin’s finest public houses. Frustratingly (perhaps joyously?), none of the lines line up on the camera, but I can assure you that through the human lens it was quite pleasing … #History #Heritage #Architecture #Dublin #Pints 🍻

Really looking forward to picking up a copy of this! #History #Heritage #LGBTQ #Ireland #NorthernIreland 🏳️‍🌈

The clocks going forward today made us wonder - what's the earliest reference to a clock in the VRTI? 🤔🕰️ How about this from 1336 - in the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland! A clock-maker on St Patrick's Street, Dublin 😀 www.virtualtreasury.ie/item/RSAI-Al...

Remember to change those clocks! ⏰ Shelmarks: MS. Bodl. 421, fol. 004v MS. Laud Misc. 570, fol. 28v MS. Rawl. D. 1220, fol. 032r #BritishSummerTime

I came across these flowers yesterday and am absolutely fascinated! The checkerboard pattern looks so … engineered 🧐 As an absolute ignorant when it comes to plants, anybody know what they are? I wouldn’t mind trying to get some for my own garden 🪴

I think I should try this before I judge … but where? 👀 🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞

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Keen garderobe-gogglers may be interested to learn that I've spent part of today writing a good chunky section on latrines for The Buildings Archaeologist book, including this reconstructed one in the parlour chamber of Bayleaf (now at the Weald & Downland Living Museum).

#AI produces work based on our previous work (the vast amount of information it has been trained on). Are we now approaching a situation where the next generation can only produce summaries of what has already been done? Are we losing the ability to ‘learn’ ?

The word “settler” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Suggests a soft, gentle landing in a place and putting down roots in an unopposed way. What you see is clearly not gentle “settling”. The world “colonist” or “coloniser” would be far more apt.

What appears to be a beautiful embossed and gilded leather wall-hanging here, which an A1 fox 🦊 #History #Heritage #Art #Design

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I am glad that I snatched this today #RachaelHouse #Queerjoy

Oh, that’s very nice - PhD on migrant labour and craft in the 18th century

On my rambles yesterday I passed this unexpected gate lodge on Ninth Lock Road in Clondalkin. Saw it from the bus and made a point of walking by it later … quite charming in its own way 🙃 #History #Heritage #Architecture #Dublin #Ireland

Not the ideal angle, but then you take what you can get … (A step to the right and I’d have got the corner of the pediment) St Audeon’s Church, #Dublin in the setting sun ☀️ #History #Heritage #Architecture #Ireland

“Is that scagliola?” I hear you cry. Yes, yes it is … (hidden below many layers of paint) 👨🏻‍🎨 #History #Heritage #Architecture #Conservation #Ireland