Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸
@beebsymca.bsky.social
Cycling. Public Historian.
Northern Ireland (the border bit).
Daughter of a Weaver.
www.digitalfilmarchive.net
A piece of archive film for every occasion.
Also: https://bsky.app/profile/nornirongirl1981.bsky.social
Northern Ireland (the border bit).
Daughter of a Weaver.
www.digitalfilmarchive.net
A piece of archive film for every occasion.
Also: https://bsky.app/profile/nornirongirl1981.bsky.social
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Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸
@beebsymca.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Seeing the future through the past - News
Over 127 years of moving images from Northern Ireland, featuring amateur and professional films from 1897 to 2024, brought to you by Northern Ireland Screen.
digitalfilmarchive.net
Here's an article I wrote for the Irish Times a few years ago,
looking at what archives tell us about ourselves and the not-too-distant past.
looking at what archives tell us about ourselves and the not-too-distant past.
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I was at Boro once and the team were trying some flouncy passes, and a bloke behind me shouted “FOR FUCK SAKE. IF YOU’RE GOING TO DO IT TO IT RIGHT!” and I sang “do it with me”. He bought me a pint. #TOTP
December 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I was at Boro once and the team were trying some flouncy passes, and a bloke behind me shouted “FOR FUCK SAKE. IF YOU’RE GOING TO DO IT TO IT RIGHT!” and I sang “do it with me”. He bought me a pint. #TOTP
We watched this yesterday as we do every year. This little thread has added to my love of The Wrong Trousers and Foley artists even more.
Well, it’s the day after Wallace and Gromit rode again – and it’s the 31st anniversary of the first appearance of the greatest sound effect in the history of the motion picture, so here’s the story of how (I found out how) they made it...
December 26, 2025 at 10:37 PM
We watched this yesterday as we do every year. This little thread has added to my love of The Wrong Trousers and Foley artists even more.
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The Cure guitarist and keyboard player Perry Bamonte has died aged 65, the band have said
The Cure guitarist Perry Bamonte dies aged 65
The Cure guitarist and keyboard player Perry Bamonte has died aged 65, the band have said.
www.rte.ie
December 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The Cure guitarist and keyboard player Perry Bamonte has died aged 65, the band have said
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Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without a Doctor Who special or Morecambe and Wise, so here's a tribute to both.
(made during lockdown with my eldest son, Rory, and Colin the House Dalek) #DoctorWho
(made during lockdown with my eldest son, Rory, and Colin the House Dalek) #DoctorWho
December 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without a Doctor Who special or Morecambe and Wise, so here's a tribute to both.
(made during lockdown with my eldest son, Rory, and Colin the House Dalek) #DoctorWho
(made during lockdown with my eldest son, Rory, and Colin the House Dalek) #DoctorWho
The Wren, The Wren - Lisa O'Neill
YouTube video by Lisa O'Neill
youtu.be
December 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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I do however commend them for speaking about it to the press, that takes some guts because they're going to get a lot of stick, but it might stop others being similarly stupid. Having 'influencers' admit they're wrong will do more good than all of us old hands moaning about them
ex Park Ranger here
ex Park Ranger here
December 26, 2025 at 9:50 AM
I do however commend them for speaking about it to the press, that takes some guts because they're going to get a lot of stick, but it might stop others being similarly stupid. Having 'influencers' admit they're wrong will do more good than all of us old hands moaning about them
ex Park Ranger here
ex Park Ranger here
"But once you're out there, there's no turning back, and it's not as easy as it looks like on the screen."
A generation is about to FAFO.
A generation is about to FAFO.
'Overconfident' young men prompt multiple rescues from Yr Wyddfa
Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team say winter weather can turn a manageable day extremely dangerous.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
"But once you're out there, there's no turning back, and it's not as easy as it looks like on the screen."
A generation is about to FAFO.
A generation is about to FAFO.
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If, like me, you did NOT get the ONE thing you wanted from Santy (a 95-year-old bachelor farmer with plenty land and a bad cough), treat yourself to a print from an Irish doodler instead - big discounts across the shop, including on bundles, so go on. Go on go on go ON.
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints
December 26, 2025 at 9:16 AM
If, like me, you did NOT get the ONE thing you wanted from Santy (a 95-year-old bachelor farmer with plenty land and a bad cough), treat yourself to a print from an Irish doodler instead - big discounts across the shop, including on bundles, so go on. Go on go on go ON.
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints
www.ciaraioch.com/artprints
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Tom Baker's Christmas message 2025
YouTube video by Tom Baker Official
youtu.be
December 26, 2025 at 8:08 AM
For the day that's in it, I've taken a Baileys to bed.
December 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
For the day that's in it, I've taken a Baileys to bed.
Hyper-local crack.
Choose Newry 26
YouTube video by Gino Lynch
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Hyper-local crack.
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This Doonesbury was published 43 years ago:
December 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This Doonesbury was published 43 years ago:
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Alison: He's in Hawaii!
Mum: He never came to Scotland. Prestwick doesn't count.
A: He did, he was in Edinburgh and then went SW over Galloway towards Dublin.
Mum: No, he didn't.
A: Hang on, I'm talking about FlightRadar Santa. Who are you talking about?
Mum: Elvis.
Mum: He never came to Scotland. Prestwick doesn't count.
A: He did, he was in Edinburgh and then went SW over Galloway towards Dublin.
Mum: No, he didn't.
A: Hang on, I'm talking about FlightRadar Santa. Who are you talking about?
Mum: Elvis.
December 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Alison: He's in Hawaii!
Mum: He never came to Scotland. Prestwick doesn't count.
A: He did, he was in Edinburgh and then went SW over Galloway towards Dublin.
Mum: No, he didn't.
A: Hang on, I'm talking about FlightRadar Santa. Who are you talking about?
Mum: Elvis.
Mum: He never came to Scotland. Prestwick doesn't count.
A: He did, he was in Edinburgh and then went SW over Galloway towards Dublin.
Mum: No, he didn't.
A: Hang on, I'm talking about FlightRadar Santa. Who are you talking about?
Mum: Elvis.
George. 😪
George Michael - December Song (I Dreamed Of Christmas) 2010
YouTube video by georgemichaelVEVO
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
George. 😪
This is the most beautiful Christmas story.
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
This is the most beautiful Christmas story.
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Did you know that each region of Ireland has its own figure who traditionally delivers presents on Christmas Eve??
December 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Did you know that each region of Ireland has its own figure who traditionally delivers presents on Christmas Eve??
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i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry
merry christmas xx
merry christmas xx
A real Good Samaritan
One act of kindness that befell Leeds writer Bernard Hare in 1982 changed him profoundly. Here he tells his story.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry
merry christmas xx
merry christmas xx
One of my favourite Christmas stories.
The most stressed out I've ever been about Christmas was when I was 16 and I got my first ever job, working at M&S in Dundrum. As soon as I started I kept hearing these myths about the Christmas Eve Waste Sale, where all the food that wasn't sold on the 24th was marked down 90%.
December 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
One of my favourite Christmas stories.
It's been so lovely to see the community cinemas go from strength to strength.
Northern Ireland has a wonderful cinema heritage. They were such places of refuge for decades with even small towns sometimes having two and Belfast having hundreds.
Northern Ireland has a wonderful cinema heritage. They were such places of refuge for decades with even small towns sometimes having two and Belfast having hundreds.
Banbridge: Communities brought together by cinema
The society's aim was to screen films that were less likely to be found in mainstream cinemas.
share.google
December 25, 2025 at 1:11 AM
It's been so lovely to see the community cinemas go from strength to strength.
Northern Ireland has a wonderful cinema heritage. They were such places of refuge for decades with even small towns sometimes having two and Belfast having hundreds.
Northern Ireland has a wonderful cinema heritage. They were such places of refuge for decades with even small towns sometimes having two and Belfast having hundreds.
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Birmingham Bullring wishes all its patrons a very Merry Aptio Setup Utility and a Happy New BIOS Information ✨
December 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Birmingham Bullring wishes all its patrons a very Merry Aptio Setup Utility and a Happy New BIOS Information ✨
This solicitor in Newry has found some weird time wormhole.
December 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This solicitor in Newry has found some weird time wormhole.
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I’m old enough to remember when "You won’t believe what happens next!" was clickbait, not US government policy.
December 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I’m old enough to remember when "You won’t believe what happens next!" was clickbait, not US government policy.
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Here we go: TCM REMEMBERS, 2025 edition. See if you can make it through this without getting something in your eye.
TCM Remembers 2025 | TCM
YouTube video by Turner Classic Movies
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Here we go: TCM REMEMBERS, 2025 edition. See if you can make it through this without getting something in your eye.
The Son is cooking Christmas dinner. Asked him how he was going to do the veg.
"I'll figure it out".
We're either going to die or have a Chinese later.
"I'll figure it out".
We're either going to die or have a Chinese later.
December 24, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The Son is cooking Christmas dinner. Asked him how he was going to do the veg.
"I'll figure it out".
We're either going to die or have a Chinese later.
"I'll figure it out".
We're either going to die or have a Chinese later.
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Castleford, Yorkshire, Christmas 1976, by Chris Killip. Terraced house and coal mine with a fence made of old house doors and a child looking out of the window.
December 24, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Castleford, Yorkshire, Christmas 1976, by Chris Killip. Terraced house and coal mine with a fence made of old house doors and a child looking out of the window.