Local honey is the new local beer

Do you get a discount if you’re going to see your own stuff

My son, Alex, won Best Director at the Fresh Film, Young Filmmaker of the Year. Alex & Theo Saccomano made 'Fisher Boy', edited by Evgeniy Stelmaks. 'Fisher Boy' is beautiful if you have 15 minutes. @rteradio1.bsky.social youtu.be/Hve6GG77s7o?...

Bluesky is basically introverts gone wild.

My friend in Greece sends this, summer gathering easterly

From Santorini

Sound evening's drum, morning's bell Shut the door lamp pillow Gray ashes poked glowing warmth Lie listening to rain's window -Su Tung-P'o (after Watson) Cid Corman

Is there a #lepidopterist in the house? I think this is a Pale Beauty moth sleeping on the side of my house. Any suggestions? #moths #butterflies #lepidopterology

The photographer David Walter Banks talking about his work in the Okefenokee swamp. His images of alligators are amazing. Highly recommend his book with the good people of @bittersouth.bsky.social

I'm so delighted to be involved in setting up a symposium on 17th C Scotland. It now has a @bsky.app presence. Early-modern researchers, please give us a wee follow, and consider joining us on 11 June @scot17thcentury.bsky.social

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.

Met a new friend at the park, 10/10

Fellow Athenians

It's easy to miss this scene when walking down the High Street in Falmouth, Cornwall, UK, but it's one of my favourites in the town.

The Friends will be hosting the first cemetery Open Day of the year on Sunday 19th April. Come and join us on a guided walk starting at 2.00pm.

So many turned up at the High Court in support of Lough Neagh eel fisher Mr Conlon, a bigger room had to be found. Read all about what happened as a the Moortown man launched a legal challenge against DAERA in a new 'David vs Goliath' case here... theearthscorr.substack.com/p/no-stone-s...

We are delighted to welcome Sinéad Morrissey back to HomePlace to discuss her remarkable literary career and her new memoir, Among Communists, in conversation with Jan Carson. 📅 Friday 17th April ⏰ 7.30pm 🎟️ £15 Book your tickets now > tinyurl.com/3u5e9wu9

I had news this morning of a dear friend who had been ill and passed away at the weekend. He was older and had a loving family and a good life, but I remember him today for his growing up in Brooklyn in an Irish family, his parents having emigrated from Galway, his father a city employee…

Pulitzer-worthy

A major refinery in Ireland is feeding aluminium into the Russian arms industry.

Isaac Newton discovering Pink Floyd (1660)

Sad to read such archaic commentary, and to think the individual was once both a governor of the university and a minister for education. The cold house motif is the register of a failed generation. Everyone deserves better. www.newsletter.co.uk/education/fo...

Reisebegleitung back to its 'all bets are off' default. Love the trains, hate the network 💔. Anyway, Heidelberg is not devoid of charm, what?

the Dublin launch of my book: 22 April, 6.30 at Notre Dame Dublin, O'Connell House, 58 Merrion Square. Bígí Linn. www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

More visitors to Dublin should walk out here, it gives a totally different sense of the city, from an earlier century, like taking the ferry down the Thames

My conclusion is that stupidity is underestimated in hubris, and in tragedy

On a radio segment to remember the broadcaster Michael Lyster there is a clip of a show he did asking where people where when they first heard a song and someone said they were cutting turf when they heard Life on Mars and that is perfect spacy west of Ireland, as Kevin Barry calls it

I have successfully surrouded all the Indians. - General Custer.

✨ #photography #oldlens

I noticed this causeway at the pond here I walk, at the far end from where the beavers are. I imagine this is their doing too.

Imagine an Irish city like this

My friend is in Santorini

Orange Rock Posy #Lichen. NWT, Canada. Lichen is about 2cm, top to bottom. #fungi #fungifriends #botany

I heard so much about this when I was home I am intrigued to read it

The West Kennet longbarrow earlier today, with Silbury Hill behind. #Avebury

I may contain multitudes, but I do not scale