Good night from Dublin! If you want to check out my available one-off original drawings, they’re here: robbohan.etsy.com

Today's frog is the upper Amazon tree frog.

Amazing! A caillach could be an old woman or a goddess pretending to be an old woman. This is just such a magical work!

🧵 It’s grey, wet & raining in Dublin. Winter tends to be a dark drab month, so I think we really need colour & comfort. That’s why my one-off drawings are all about vibrant colour, exciting images & mellow ideas. Scroll down in this thread to see the works [1]

Voice Club is a voice coaching scheme set up by @essehouse.bsky.social to offer subsidised sessions for people looking to learn the basics of transfeminine vocal control in relaxed, online sessions If you register, you can try a group taster session for just £7.50 www.essehouse.co.uk/voice-club-1

TW Suicide trans children Every year about 200 children die due to suicide in the UK % of trans kids in population is 0.7% Expected trans suicide rate = 1.4 In 2021 a devastating 22 children took their own lives. 15.7 times the expected rate! In 2021 the UK ended de facto trans healthcare.

It’s still raining, both outside & inside my flat. My ceramics collection is looking good catching the leaks! Meanwhile, in Ranelagh, my feet were firmly on Wicklow granite!

Good morning

Irish Social Democrats have insisted Ireland must not "bow down to bullies" when Taoiseach Micheál Martin meets Trump at the White House on St Patrick's Day. Govt policy is to humour Trump & keep a low profile, lest his fascist regime interfere in Ireland as much as Biden.

No person with disabilities, trans person or refugee would describe Sir Stormfront as ‘decent’. It shows how the Labour elite are so out of touch with regular people. 1 in 4 ppl has a disability in the UK. Where is this supposed decency? He’s even implicated in a genocide! FFS!

This is what a real president looks like. Irish President Catherine Connolly got quizzed on global affairs by young activists on the final day of her visit to Northern Ireland. Connolly was elected by proportional representation.

Won’t someone think of the paedophile’s close & intimate friends?! It’s hard to think of anyone with this level of arrogance or lack of shame.

[1] A mindscape is a depiction of the emotion & sense of the subconscious. The silhouette contains representations of a structure that hints at the nervous system & thoughts of the woman. Nerves work in combining electricity & biochemistry & lay down memory & experience in the mind.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Who says Brexit wasn’t brilliant? Brexit fan & billionaire, Sir James Dyson, is loving it from his new ~€35m ‘private paradise’ Estate* in Ireland.

I’m going to say this, yet again, the camera you choose does not make you a great photographer. For most people [& even some real art photographers] your smartphone is perfect! Being precious about your retro or vintage camera is tragic*

We’re used to rain in Ireland. A lot of rain, & I mean a lot. But this year’s rainstorms mean that Dublin has had its 2nd wettest January since 1948 [Climate change is going to make Ireland significantly wetter*].

Just in: Senator Tim Scott, the only Black US Republican pSenator exclaims ‘I never thought leopards would eat my face’ Trump posts image of Black people [the Obamas] as apes*. Note the Senator is so spineless he doesn’t call for impeachment of KKK Trump.

So a N Ireland Unionist MP told the president of Ireland ‘you’re in our country, now’ & was outraged she didn’t use the neologism ‘Londonderry’ & went on to call her ‘the president of the republic of Ireland’. The President of Ireland is her correct address* [1]

Having to wear shoes, or see toes, is the work of the devil*.

There are a lot of 19th & 20th C painters of still life who give pleasure. Few, however, achieve the poetry of Nicholson. He’s not a great artist, but he is a very satisfying one!

Morning Run! A little gray now but it should be sunny later. Cold 28°F. I ran 6 miles ... it's been a while. 6 miles in 40m:31s. #Running #ForestTrail #6Miler #RunningFitness

As every recognised respected scientific expert has RELENTLESSLY said! If you’re against trans ppl in sport, you are supporting bigotry. Facts matter - looking at you IRFU & RFU.

Read about Yellow Star-of-Bethlehem on its #PlantAtlas2020 page: plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9... View a distribution map, open tabs to read about conservation status or view the Gallery (7 lovely pix!) & learn which 2 plant species are outcompeting Yellow Star-of-Bethlehem in Northern England.

Here is the librarian To sort your books Thrillers Scottish Interest Religion General novels And many copies Of the collected works Of Robert Burns Well thumbed Paper edges soft for memories I sit in your kitchen Remembering your sister Painting the fence #PegsPoyums

Quite a good interview between Couric & Aaron Parnas. The latter trained as a lawyer & has a sharp mind. Katie brings Aaron thru a summary of what the Epstein Files reveal about specific powerful people & the fact that co-conspirators are inevitably redacted! Some survivors are not!

Divisio topicorum: Victory with palm branches in both hands and a crown on her head St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 855; Grammatica, De rhetorica, Institutiones II, De natura rerum, Miscellaneous; middle of the 9th century; St. Gall; p.260 (www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

Circus Girl | Helene Schjerfbeck

I’m not sure if you saw me in my cameo role in the Melania documentary? I play her moral conscience. Blink & you’ll miss me! My trout pout is definitive.

Winter blue sky 🔵 #trees #woodland #treeclub

Was using VPN to search for art supplies in UK & forgot to switch it off. It was shocking to have pop ups demanding my age & to prove it! I know it’s to ‘protect kids’. However, it seems to me that the social media companies need to be regulated, rather than giving up & trying to hide it from kids!

Here’s what the UK Labour govt got in exchange for providing military, weapons & logistics support to the far right Israeli govt, in their genocide* in Gaza. Maybe all those Labour MPs, who get financial support from the ‘friends of Israel’ lobby groups**, might reconsider?

Liverwort in the woods. These are some of the oldest terrestrial plants on Earth, with fossil evidence indicating they were among the first organisms to colonize land around 475 million years ago. Try wrapping your head around that. The magic of an Irish rainforest. 🌏

As news comes in on a scary case of a TV star’s mother going missing, it’s critical to understand that US Black women & girls are disproportionately impacted in this area - representing about 40% of victims. To lose a family member in this way is horrific & needs to be addressed, for everyone.

Some good news for New Yorkers! An exquisite masterpiece by one of my favourite Renaissance artists, Perugino, is coming to town! Go see it you lucky people!

A constant false theme of the far right is they are ‘protecting’ kids from minorities. Their core online shock troops are ‘incels’ - yet more than half of ‘incels’ advocate Child Sex Abuse. The Epstein files, & reports like this, show that for fascism as always, every criticism is an admission.

The thing about the moral corruption in the British Labour Party is that this chump is not the outlier. This is a political party, & government, removing human rights from trans ppl to appease the far right. It’s a govt that treats ppl with disabilities as lesser & treats protest as terrorism.

I'm super honored to announce that my book Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lviv has won the Rachel Feldhay Brenner Award in Polish-Jewish Studies from the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America. I am so grateful that Janowska's story is reaching a wider audience.

Shrooms will save your life. All life is there! Read more about how fungi are the secret behind existence as we know it. A kingdom that is overlooked, to our peril, & is at threat from humanity & global warming. Mycorrhizal end of days matters.

Some people understand intuitively that by supporting human rights, they not only lift up their own community - the raise the standing of all communities. Shirley Chisholm, first Black woman elected to the US Congress & first woman to run for Democrat POTUS nomination was one such.

[1] Given that the mid-terms are America’s last chance to fight fascism & that already the regime is acting counter to free & fair elections, there is going to be a need for independent election observers as well [one rumour is that ICE will patrol voting lines to arrest ppl]. This will be a…

In Ireland we rarely use ‘one’s’ but do use ‘your’. The former is seen as elitist, whilst the latter is neutral Hiberno-English. However other countries consciously, or subconsciously, think of ‘your’ as accusatory. I always feel odd using ‘one’ but not everyone can read real English 😉

Your opinion is not equal to anyone’s lived experience, even if you have ‘facts’. I can always tell when an ego is landing in that they write replies over three posts. So much so, I just block. If someone tells you something, that goes against your perception, maybe your perception is wrong & …

At different periods of history there have been two sides to contemporary experience, gaining & falling. The authoritarian & the diverse. Art actually helps us see this in the comparison between the Neo-Classical & the Baroque, Beauty & the sublime or man & woman. It is the actual culture war [1]

[1] Joy is important & what could be happier than sitting & singing to the trees & flowers in a garden?! Singing in the Garden (2026) | Original pen & ink on paper drawing by Robert Bohan

If you read one thing today, this essay is it. The level of profound research & awareness in this piece is fantastic - ‘art history can engage the material record without aestheticizing violence or claiming total recovery’ A great account to follow & learn!

My algorithm today is flashing up lots of knitting. And you know, it’s great to see so many people enjoy their craft. Plus with at least two big needles I see them as the vanguard of art warriors!

Many have attacked religion, based on the terrible abuse scandals. However, it’s important to remember that some survivors have gained comfort from their religion & that Christianity was not the problem, the hierarchy was [& in some cases, is]. I think this account helps explain [1]

[1] Depending on your perception you can decide what a work of art means, & that’s OK. Curators can interpret whatever they like but it’s what matters to you. So this might be the journey through life or cute robins! 3 Robins on a Voyage (2020) | Original pen & ink on paper drawing by Robert Bohan

To mark St Brigid’s Day, the oldest Irishwoman in Liberia, Sr Ann Kelly presented a St Brigid’s cross to the youngest Irishwoman in Liberia, Maeve Begley. Today we celebrate the legacy of courage & compassion that has been passed down through generations of women in Ireland. Irish Embassy, Liberia.