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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Well cuz what you don’t see are the keys to the boat it stole to get across the Channel.
November 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Well cuz what you don’t see are the keys to the boat it stole to get across the Channel.
Why does this headline suggest this bird has committed a crime?
"Missing flamingo thought to be living in France"
"Missing flamingo thought to be living in France"
Flamingo missing from Cornwall park appears to be in France
New photos show a flamingo on a beach in Finistere, which could be the one missing from Cornwall.
share.google
November 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Why does this headline suggest this bird has committed a crime?
"Missing flamingo thought to be living in France"
"Missing flamingo thought to be living in France"
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The Ladybird look
The quilted anorak, 1973.
(Did we all have one?)
Artist: Martin Aitchison
The quilted anorak, 1973.
(Did we all have one?)
Artist: Martin Aitchison
November 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The Ladybird look
The quilted anorak, 1973.
(Did we all have one?)
Artist: Martin Aitchison
The quilted anorak, 1973.
(Did we all have one?)
Artist: Martin Aitchison
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The Assembly voted no confidence in Education Minister Paul Givan, yet he stays in post. Why? 🤷🏻♂️
Mal O’Hara : “Stormont has limited mechanisms for ministerial accountability. A majority of MLAs backed the motion, but it failed because it didn’t meet the cross-community threshold.
1/3
Mal O’Hara : “Stormont has limited mechanisms for ministerial accountability. A majority of MLAs backed the motion, but it failed because it didn’t meet the cross-community threshold.
1/3
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The Assembly voted no confidence in Education Minister Paul Givan, yet he stays in post. Why? 🤷🏻♂️
Mal O’Hara : “Stormont has limited mechanisms for ministerial accountability. A majority of MLAs backed the motion, but it failed because it didn’t meet the cross-community threshold.
1/3
Mal O’Hara : “Stormont has limited mechanisms for ministerial accountability. A majority of MLAs backed the motion, but it failed because it didn’t meet the cross-community threshold.
1/3
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
Is it me? Am I expecting too much of people?
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Is it me? Am I expecting too much of people?
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Was really struck by what a lovely inspiring exercise this is, like a primary school version of Mary Oliver’s Instructions for living a life
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Was really struck by what a lovely inspiring exercise this is, like a primary school version of Mary Oliver’s Instructions for living a life
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it
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LEVI'S - THE STRANGER (1971): This psychedelic Levi jeans advert is a beautifully animated work of art (rotoscoping in action!). Spoken word jazz legend Ken Nordine provides the cool voiceover.
November 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
LEVI'S - THE STRANGER (1971): This psychedelic Levi jeans advert is a beautifully animated work of art (rotoscoping in action!). Spoken word jazz legend Ken Nordine provides the cool voiceover.
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
In much happier news, we have welcomed Walter in our family today.
We will miss Max forever but Walter has had a horrible life and that stops now.
Look at him!!!
We will miss Max forever but Walter has had a horrible life and that stops now.
Look at him!!!
November 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
In much happier news, we have welcomed Walter in our family today.
We will miss Max forever but Walter has had a horrible life and that stops now.
Look at him!!!
We will miss Max forever but Walter has had a horrible life and that stops now.
Look at him!!!
Still think of the male heritage practitioner who smugly wondered if he'd be welcome at our "Women in Heritage" event, then turned up loudly late, stretched his arms out so he took up three seats, went for coffee and loo breaks throughout, then did a "more of a statement than a question" thing.
November 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Still think of the male heritage practitioner who smugly wondered if he'd be welcome at our "Women in Heritage" event, then turned up loudly late, stretched his arms out so he took up three seats, went for coffee and loo breaks throughout, then did a "more of a statement than a question" thing.
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This morning, Sunday, Radio 4's religiously inclined cousin to the Today programme casually revealed the 1970s post boy charged with handling the rats in formaldehyde that the Boomtown Rats wanted to distribute across the US as a publicity stunt is now Pope Leo XIV. I'm sure I didn't dream this.
November 9, 2025 at 9:54 AM
This morning, Sunday, Radio 4's religiously inclined cousin to the Today programme casually revealed the 1970s post boy charged with handling the rats in formaldehyde that the Boomtown Rats wanted to distribute across the US as a publicity stunt is now Pope Leo XIV. I'm sure I didn't dream this.
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Siegfried Sassoon
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Siegfried Sassoon
Yes all the statues and gaudiness and the "Arc d'Tr*mp" is vile but think of the fin there's going to be in tearing them down.
Statue Topple GIF
Alt: Statue Topple GIF
media.tenor.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Yes all the statues and gaudiness and the "Arc d'Tr*mp" is vile but think of the fin there's going to be in tearing them down.
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Sitting with my legs crossed.
November 9, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Sitting with my legs crossed.
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Good morning Bluesky. What's the most ridiculous thing that you've been told is "gay"? Or at least "gay when a man does it"?
I'll start: birthday parties.
I'll start: birthday parties.
November 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Good morning Bluesky. What's the most ridiculous thing that you've been told is "gay"? Or at least "gay when a man does it"?
I'll start: birthday parties.
I'll start: birthday parties.
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30 million dead, The Somme, painting created by Mary Bishop 1976 in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital where she was compelled to live.
Aged 4 when her father was killed in WWI, the reverberations of his death & her mother’s vast grief traumatised & distressed Mary for the rest of her life
Aged 4 when her father was killed in WWI, the reverberations of his death & her mother’s vast grief traumatised & distressed Mary for the rest of her life
November 9, 2025 at 10:48 AM
30 million dead, The Somme, painting created by Mary Bishop 1976 in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital where she was compelled to live.
Aged 4 when her father was killed in WWI, the reverberations of his death & her mother’s vast grief traumatised & distressed Mary for the rest of her life
Aged 4 when her father was killed in WWI, the reverberations of his death & her mother’s vast grief traumatised & distressed Mary for the rest of her life
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Terry Griffiths vs Cliff Thorburn. The Crucible, 1983.
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Terry Griffiths vs Cliff Thorburn. The Crucible, 1983.
Within all the science work, which I can't even pretend to understand, is such a complicated story of collaboration. Not to detract from the terrible person that Crick was.
If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Within all the science work, which I can't even pretend to understand, is such a complicated story of collaboration. Not to detract from the terrible person that Crick was.
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Remembering Minnie Riperton on her birthday. Here she is performing Inside My Love on the Midnight Special in 1975. Watch the full show, which also includes Lovin' You and Adventures in Paradise at
📺▶️ youtu.be/jBmqT8eu4SY
📺▶️ youtu.be/jBmqT8eu4SY
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Remembering Minnie Riperton on her birthday. Here she is performing Inside My Love on the Midnight Special in 1975. Watch the full show, which also includes Lovin' You and Adventures in Paradise at
📺▶️ youtu.be/jBmqT8eu4SY
📺▶️ youtu.be/jBmqT8eu4SY
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Every event should be remembered! Atlantic Avenue in North Belfast.
November 8, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Every event should be remembered! Atlantic Avenue in North Belfast.
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this thing hides posts it judges as ‘rude’, by some US standard. Thereby silencing most of the conversations in Ireland and Scotland, at least.
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 8, 2025 at 8:46 AM
this thing hides posts it judges as ‘rude’, by some US standard. Thereby silencing most of the conversations in Ireland and Scotland, at least.
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World: “This fellow is deathly pale!”
Ireland: “Hey, check out the tan on yer man!”
Ireland: “Hey, check out the tan on yer man!”
My favourite Hiberno-English-ism isn't any of the obvious ones, it's the fact that when we say "sallow" we mean the opposite of what everyone else means. It's not sickly yellow, it's healthy, positive
November 8, 2025 at 8:59 AM
World: “This fellow is deathly pale!”
Ireland: “Hey, check out the tan on yer man!”
Ireland: “Hey, check out the tan on yer man!”
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Exododus. Movement of Jah Peopolul
November 8, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Exododus. Movement of Jah Peopolul
Gillian Anderson apparently masters the non-existent Northern Ireland accent.
I know we're obsessed with spotting this but it's not hard to be when dozens of different ones are all defined as the same thing.
And we do it ourselves: those horrible generic N Down radio ad voices that come from nowhere
I know we're obsessed with spotting this but it's not hard to be when dozens of different ones are all defined as the same thing.
And we do it ourselves: those horrible generic N Down radio ad voices that come from nowhere
Trespasses: Gillian Anderson steals every scene in this miraculous TV heartbreaker
Trespasses: Gillian Anderson steals every scene in this miraculous TV heartbreaker
Lola Petticrew and Tom Cullen’s chemistry in this tale of secret passion during the Troubles will floor you. But it is Anderson as a sour, ragey alcoholic who truly mesmerises
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Gillian Anderson apparently masters the non-existent Northern Ireland accent.
I know we're obsessed with spotting this but it's not hard to be when dozens of different ones are all defined as the same thing.
And we do it ourselves: those horrible generic N Down radio ad voices that come from nowhere
I know we're obsessed with spotting this but it's not hard to be when dozens of different ones are all defined as the same thing.
And we do it ourselves: those horrible generic N Down radio ad voices that come from nowhere