TV show pitch: ‘Tome Team’, where a group of rare books librarians and book historians are sent to investigate an uncatalogued library for interesting incunabula, marginalia and provenances - and they have just three days to do it.

1940 Irish language scif-fi book Manannán by Máiréad Ní Ghráda It is the first Mecha Robot outside of Japan and mention of a Gravity assist in fiction. It was never republished or translated.

An Editor's Love Letter to Public Libraries nicenews.com/culture/nice...

Irish Arts Review 1990-91: The last of the Dublin Silk Weavers.

Tower Crane being built by the end of Crane lane opposite Dolphin House. More info on Dolphin House via @archiseek.bsky.social www.archiseek.com/1896-dolphin...

The Quiet Girl/An Cailín Ciúin is free to watch on ARTE until the 6th of March. #spéirgorm www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyx2...

Albert Renger-Patzsch, Fungi Lepiota procera ca. 1930 - Gelatin silver print

Richard Pare, Shabolovka Radio Tower, Russia. Architect : Vladimir Shukhov, 1922

Margaret Bourke-White, Construction of Fort Peck Dam, 1936

A recent purchase & interest; late C19 magic lantern slides.

1961 - No.10 Donald Street, Winnipeg #winnipeg #winnipegarchitecture www.archiseek.com/1961-no-10-d...

Nice book for a tenner in Oxfam Parliament Street, Dublin today. Some lovely photographs.

Popping up the shops.

Progress on rebuilding the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) Mackintosh building could be decided by an insurance arbitration hearing next month

Picked up today for €4, Ottoman Architecture 1977.

Frei Otto Exibition Dublin March 1976.

Interesting find today, 1979-80 TCD Student Union Guide.

I think the current president of the RIBA is in need of an atlas & a history book.

6 FEB: @msp-archive.bsky.social will be releasing over 2,580 new files in the public domain. The files relate to 1,089 individuals/veterans who served during the Irish Revolution (1916-1923). This release brings the total nominal entries on our database to 22,032. share.google/fodhyupD9nE7...

#OnThisDay, 2 February 1878, the formal opening of the Victoria Baths Club at Butterbiggins Road took place on completion of its #TurkishBaths, reported as being 'the only specimen we have in #Glasgow of the Moorish style of architecture'. 'Aquatic football' (ie, water polo) devised here 🗃️ #C19th

Happy Feast Day of St. Brigid! Here’s the tower of St. Brigid’s Church, Ottawa, by James R. Bowes, 1890.

From The Dublin Historical Record, December 1975 - Dublin Custom House - The River Heads. Picked up today.

Today is Imbolc, an ancient Celtic festival marking the beginning of Spring and the return of light and life. Wouldn't this be the perfect time of year to have a festival to highlight Glasgow's fantastic architecture by lighting up as much of it as possible? #glasgow #architecture #imbolc

Good find today in Oxfam Parliament Street. I didn't need to spend too many pennies.

Visiting the teeniest, tiniest, sweetest, most romantic, saddest, dotiest wee Chapel in Ireland (and possibly the second smallest in the world) the Costello Memorial Chapel in Carrick-on-Shannon #Leitrim #Ireland. Gorgeous

I see the Ormonde hotel site, Dublin, is now for sale.

📷 Palaces of Ottoman Princesses (Sultanas) Nâciye & Nazime Sultan, Kuruçeşme, Istanbul, 1890s

Mulligan’s used to have a no-phones policy. The barmen would sneakily shoot the worst transgressors with a super soaker, then quickly stash it and give a quick wink to witnesses before carrying on serving.

NEWS: C20 is delighted that Norwich Sports Village, the only concrete shell structures in the UK designed by pioneering Swiss engineer Heinz Isler, has been Grade II listed. The graceful, tent-like canopies are only 10mm thick and a masterpiece of engineering. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/heinz-i...

Lovely glass of wine & small bites in Fíon eile in Phibsborough earlier with @jobw.bsky.social . Well worth a visit. fioneile.ie/pages/about

Found via @hughpearman.bsky.social thanks

And let's not forget his work in Ireland www.archiseek.com/tag/niall-mc...

Congratulations to Irish architect Níall McLaughlin, who is to receive 2026 Royal Gold Medal for architecture. Educated in Dublin and studied architecture at University College Dublin between 1979 and 1984.

1941 - DUTC Club, Earl Place, Dublin #dublinarchitecture www.archiseek.com/1941-dutc-cl...

Always loved the fact that the DUTC had symbols for their tram routes back in the day.

Munster & Leinster Bank Dame Street completed 1877, now AIB. Designed by Thomas Newenham Deane based on the TCD Museum Building. Some lovely detailing. More info via @archiseek.bsky.social www.archiseek.com/1877-allied-...

Trinity College Dublin Old Library exhibition designer

This week in 1941 a fire broke out above the state apartments in Dublin Castle. Firefighters worked hard to salvage irreplaceable paintings and furniture. Over 100 feet of roof collapsed and the upper two floors were severely damaged

For any of you interested in early modern beer, Dublin Castle, or just history and food in general, this series of talks and tastings I have helped put together might be of interest 🍻🧐 #History #Heritage #Food #Beer #SpeirGorm www.eventbrite.com/cc/brewing-p...

From the 1988 Irish Arts Review. By Vivien Igoe & Frederick O'Dwyer - Early views of the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham.

The 1st #strawhouse in Europe was renovated after ~100 years. I asked the cncp-feuillette.fr about problems with the renovation for a lecture: "We didn't need to carry out any major renovations, just plastering and limewash paint, because it was in very good condition."

Dublin photo from 1922 by Ellen F. O'Connor via Boston public Library.View towards Chancery Place/Four Courts.Buildings to the left = North Elevation of Chancery Place flats. Green space to the right is now the walled garden. More info via @archiseek.bsky.social www.archiseek.com/1935-chancer...

New one for me; the "Bunch of keys" house & the Barley fields at the top of what would become O'Connell Street in Dublin. From Desmond Moore's Dublin's yesterdays 1994.

The cabbage has been maintained by the Sweeney family in the Donegal village Gortahork since 1910 when Owen Sweeney bought the original seeds from Scotland. It is a fairly unique large drumhead cabbage that may actually be a lost cabbage variety from the island of Skye in Scotland.

The RIBA has signed a deal to move the four million items in its historic drawings and archives collection to the National Archives in Kew, south-west London, while it seeks a permanent new home for the collection

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

William Whyte, The University: A History in Stone, Silk, and Blood - @harvardpress.bsky.social, August 2026 www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Good piece by @barmas.bsky.social for the cider review. Craft Cider vs. Craft Beer: Where Are the Trends? cider-review.com/2026/01/17/c...