I am sorry to hear that Martin Naughton has died. I had occasion many years ago to lunch in his Stackallen House home and saw more Jack Yeats in the bathroom than in most galleries, and a really glorious Lavery if memory serves. Condolences to his friends and family.

Born in Strabane, Co. Tyrone, Dunlap was just 29 years old when he was entrusted with printing the first copies of the American Declaration of Independence on the night of 4 July 1776.

Pleased that the Haiku Foundation and Maeve O'Sullivan picked a haiku of mine as Haiku of the Day. It's at this link. Theme for month of July is birds.

Cobh Ramblers give drums and megaphones to the kids at the matches for fun and atmosphere. Amusingly this means a high-pitched ‘w**kers’ can frequently be heard piercing the sea air.

Is it the shortest car ferry in Ireland, from Passage to Rushbrooke in Cork? I love it.

I did a little guerilla arranging

The mouth of Belfast Lough

On a dark and wet morning Belfast wears its brightly painted murals like blusher on a corpse

Starry Night Over the Rhône

Bald eagles love the beach

I think that’s cheating

. in this world one knows neither the beginning nor the end the waves of the ocean come from offshore and go away -Monk Shinkei (tr. Hiroaki Sato)

that’s quite a short flight, even for twenty five quid

From today’s Irish Times x

"A day is nothing: there is just time to become yourself, and then night is upon you." – Petronio Álvarez

Finished Late Heaney by @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social a careful and perceptive reading of post-Nobel Heaney. Even allowing for the bias of my pre-existing affection and respect for Nicholas, this was hugely impressive. This is not simply an analysis or a dissection ... (contd.)

Well, I made it into the window of No Alibis

one reset I'd personally appreciate: behind the insistence that we must offer the electorate a little bigotry is the idea that commoners are more bigoted than the richer and more educated, who can be appealed to with high minded policy. but then you Ctrl+F "phrenology" in the Epstein files

after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered.. the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls.. and bear unfaltering, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection. Proust

This mugshot of 19-year-old Kurt Cobain is an iconic piece of music history (1986) www.reddit.com/r/Historical...

the street which is the battlefield which is the street Anna Burns, Milkman

Vincent van Gogh Portrait of Joseph Roulin Arles, early 1889 Star mariner, steered by earth light