Just heard that tickets for this workshop are selling well already. Do come and join us in Dingle in November. It's a brilliant festival in a stunning place. dinglelit.ie/news/event/h... #Spéirgorm #writingcommunity #Ireland #Dingle #Books @dinglelit.bsky.social @gaiabanks.bsky.social

I wondered what Richard Branson would look like without a beard so I photoshopped it…

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This review is well worth reading. It touches on so many issues I've been thinking about on pre-Christian belief, modern pagans, and our connection to ancient places. Many of these themes came up on our tour of the Hill of Tara with Muiris yesterday...

Explore Ireland's archaeology with our free #MonumentMonday newsletter! In today's edition we visit an enigmatic megalithic tomb in County Leitrim. #Archaeology 🏺 #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Leitrim #DiscoverIreland

#journorequest - looking to talk to adults in Ireland who live at home with their parents due to lack of affordable housing. DM today if any thoughts. Shares appreciated.

It really isn't rocket science. Stop allowing housing to be treated as a commodity with rip off rent, provide high quality state-supported childcare, and put better protection in for workers. If people have the basics covered, they are more likely to have children.

Beautiful morning here in South Tipperary 🌞

Just back from a wonderful #TuathaTour of Tara and the Hill of Slane with Professor Muiris O'Sullivan. Muiris gave a wonderful insight into the interwoven stories of Tara's archaeology, history & mythology. With great chats about the search for meaning and monumental landscapes through time.

A few pictures from today's @tuatha.ie Tour of the Hill of Tara and the Hill of Slane. @neiljackman.bsky.social organized another great tour! 😀☘️

Perfect morning for our @tuatha.ie tour of the Hill of Tara with Professor Muiris O’Sullivan! 🌞

I still think the Aran Islands should be part of Clare. Geologically, historically and vibe-ally a part of the Burren.

Weekends are for Wandering! How about a walk at Derrigimlagh Bog in Connemara? This haunting landscape of blanket bog is full of stories. It was also the site where pioneering aviators Alcock and Brown crash-landed, successfully completing the world's first non-stop transatlantic flight. #Ireland

You can see the Tully Lough Cross in the Words on the Wave exhibition in @nmireland.bsky.social Words on the Wave is in its final weeks, so do visit before this brilliant exhibition closes! Hear all about it in this episode of our Amplify Archaeology Podcast www.abartaheritage.ie/words-on-the...

Another typical morning in town after Culture Night, sean-nós singers left strewn around the footpaths, poets carelessly stuffed under park benches, a lone interpretive dancer being gently blown around the square

Tonicha Upham, Death Rituals: The Rūs and 'Vikings' in Arabic and Persian, is available #OpenAccess until 2 October. #MedievalSky www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Not bitter at all 🍋

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.

I seem to have written a buke

Open edition giclée prints of my latest piece, ‘Rhinoceros Dichroma’ are now available, from only £40! www.artbasket.co.uk/prints?tag=S...

It's brilliant when you see a bad decision overturned by An Coimisiún Pleanála (the Planning Authority). A lovely 18/19th century vernacular farmyard complex was about to be demolished here in Tipperary to very marginally increase crop yield, but thankfully the commission has now firmly said no.

River Blackwater: "This kill will reverberate out through the system, to the birds, bats, otters & other animals which fed on fish and insects from the river, having a much greater impact than thousands of dead fish" Dr Elaine McGoff, Head of Advocacy An Taisce www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

The Gateway into Glendalough Thought to date to around the 12th century, this is a rare surviving example of an early monastic gatehouse in Ireland. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #IrishHistory #Medieval #DiscoverIreland

🔨 See flint knapping in action! Join the Irish Antiquities team at the Culture, Creativity, Archaeology & Sport Marquee, Gov of Ireland Village, @ the #NationalPloughingChampionship today, Thurs 18 Sept, 11:30–12:15. Explore prehistoric tools & what they tell us! www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/T...

How to delete your account without agreeing to the new TOS: In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.

The DPC’s response (we might do something if the data broker is in Ireland) is pathetically weak. This is data culled from an app or app. Those app or apps are on the Irish App Stores. This data can be cut off at source, today. But their institutionally induced coma approach simply avoids action

Deleted my Academia account last night.

The Rock of Dunamase • Laois The shattered ruin of the once mighty castle on the Rock of Dunamase still dominates the landscape. It was constructed to guard fiercely contested border lands between the Norman colonists and powerful Irish families like the O'Moores. #Ireland #Medieval #Archaeology 🏺

The Carrowmore Visitor Centre in Co. Sligo is now open! Minister Kevin 'Boxer' Moran visited to mark the reopening. Explore one of Europe's key prehistoric sites until 3 Dec 2025. Learn more: https://cutt.ly/orVVd4Cg Plan your visit: heritageireland.ie #Carrowmore #Sligo #HeritageIreland #OPW

President Higgins: Some of the EU's strongest members are "deciding to stay silent in watching emaciated children in what is a human, man-made really atrocious infliction on people." "The EU will find it extraordinarily difficult to ever be a union in any sense" when these members are silent. - IT

Early Irish & Celtic Studies Research Seminars this semester at Maynooth. In person only, but everyone is welcome. @ceilteachomn.bsky.social

Annaghmore Dolmen • Leitrim This small Neolithic portal tomb in the south of County Leitrim is likely at least 5,500 years old. Portal tombs are often found near routeways, perhaps a hint that this road has a bit more antiquity than it looks! #Ireland #IrishHistory #Archaeology 🏺 #SpéirGhorm

If I ever pulled together a heist crew, it would just be so hard to find a date everybody can do

It's all gone abit Middle Earth tonight as the 50mph gusts 🌪️ subside & the autumn sun breaks through 😮 #LotR

For anyone who has travelled through the Boyne Valley, the round tower at Donaghmore is something that can't fail to catch the eye. In today's edition of our #MonumentMonday newsletter, we visit this soaring symbol of the past to discover its story. #Ireland #BoyneValley #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺

I may end up at a significant cognitive disadvantage, but I won't be wedgied 100 times a day for looking like a massive dork.

A showery September Sunday here in Clonmel, Tipperary, with a real autumnal feel. The perfect sort of day for a good walk to Carey's Castle. Always wonderful to get into the woods here, especially as the season turns. 🍂 #Ireland #SpéirGhorm

Have you ever passed through the Dromana Gate? This fairy-tale gateway in the Hindu-Gothic style is beautifully set over the Blackwater River in County Waterford. The gate was made by locals to greet Henry Villiers-Stuart and his new bride, Theresia Pauline Ott, on their return from honeymoon.

Yesterday was the big day: The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project celebrated the end of four years of intensive work (2021-5) with the launch - in the venerable rooms of the Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie - of the new, revised and hugely updated 𝕆𝕘𝕙𝕒𝕞 𝕚𝕟 𝟛𝔻 database and website. /1

The youngfella and I have finally finished the Lego model of Shackleton's Endurance! At one stage, I thought it might end up looking more like the poor Endurance does today, but we got there in the end! 🚢

I visited this site shortly after the damage was reported. Shocking indeed. Good to see this outcome, but that damage cannot be undone. BBC News - Damage to historic site 'a significant loss to society' www.bbc.com/news/article...

This decorated copper axe dates to around 1900-1700 BC, the beginning of Ireland's Bronze Age. It was found deep in a bog in Brockagh, County Kildare. The anaerobic bog preserved the leather sheath and its strap remarkably well. See it on display in @nmireland.bsky.social #Archaeology 🏺 #Ireland

My personal favourite is this jaunty little wolverine stepping out of the past. Carved onto a bone pendant around 14,000 years ago and found in the Grotte de Eyzies in the Dordogne, France. 🏺

The Gaulstown Dolmen • Waterford This Neolithic portal tomb known as the Gaulstown Dolmen likely dates to around 3800–3400 BC. It is beautifully set in an atmospheric glade at the foot of a hill known as Cnoc na Cailligh (the Hill of the Witch). #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺

Great opportunity to visit the brilliant Words on the Wave exhibition this evening! The @nmireland.bsky.social is open until 8pm tonight and next Thursday.

It's #LoveDonegal Day! Not only is Donegal one of the most beautiful parts of Ireland, but it is rich in history. Here are just four of my favourite places to discover the story of Donegal: 1. The Grianán of Aileach 2. Glencolmcille 3. Beltany Stone Circle 4. Dísert #Ireland #SpéirGhorm

Ding ding, round 2! Second part of Dev on @rteone.rte.ie tonight at 9.35. From Nobber to the Áras, Spike Island to Stradbally, Leinster House to London, we look at Dev’a Rule - and some of the people he dealt with along the way. #DevDoc

Highly significant acceptance by her that countries *can and do* act on their own on this. No objection is voiced by Commission President this morning. This is crystal clear: Ireland has no “EU law” fig leaf left to delay us. We can enact the OTB tomorrow. #otb #speirgorm

It’s #LoveDonegal Day and to celebrate the best county in the entire world you can get 15% with the code DONEGAL today only. And if you want a little A6 Donegal heart you can just leave a note saying Up Donegal in the order comments.

We enjoyed the wonders of Fore today on a fine day of fieldwork around County Westmeath. Fore Abbey is a wonderful example of a medieval monastic complex that spans across centuries.