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It was amazing to see everyone again.
See you next week on #BookologyThursday ✨
art by Tove Jansson
See you next week on #BookologyThursday ✨
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#BookologyThursday #Celtic: `There was an admirable, noble king in the high-kingship over Ireland, namely, Eochaid Airem. ...The first year after he ascended the throne, a proclamation was made throughout Ireland that the feast of Tara was to be celebrated, and that all the men of Ireland
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November 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
#BookologyThursday #Celtic: `There was an admirable, noble king in the high-kingship over Ireland, namely, Eochaid Airem. ...The first year after he ascended the throne, a proclamation was made throughout Ireland that the feast of Tara was to be celebrated, and that all the men of Ireland
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#FolktaleWeek prompt #4: Book
Brigid was the Celtic goddess of poetry & wisdom. Christian monks later made Brigid the Saint of poets. It seemed only fitting I should quote an Irish poet here: the divinely talented @nikitagill.bsky.social
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Brigid was the Celtic goddess of poetry & wisdom. Christian monks later made Brigid the Saint of poets. It seemed only fitting I should quote an Irish poet here: the divinely talented @nikitagill.bsky.social
@FolktaleWeek
#FolktaleWeek2025
#FolktaleweekBook
November 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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In Egyptian mythology, Goddess Seshat was the ruler of books, recorder of measurements, inventor of writing and was powerful with wisdom and knowledge.
Day 4 of @folktaleweek #books
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Day 4 of @folktaleweek #books
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November 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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#bookologythursday #celtic: #lugh had finally managed to be admitted to the feast at Tara.
`Then the great flag-stone, to move which required the effort of four-score yoke of oxen, Ogma hurled through the house, so that it lay on the outside of Tara. This was […]
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`Then the great flag-stone, to move which required the effort of four-score yoke of oxen, Ogma hurled through the house, so that it lay on the outside of Tara. This was […]
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November 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
#bookologythursday #celtic: #lugh had finally managed to be admitted to the feast at Tara.
`Then the great flag-stone, to move which required the effort of four-score yoke of oxen, Ogma hurled through the house, so that it lay on the outside of Tara. This was […]
[Original post on hear-me.social]
`Then the great flag-stone, to move which required the effort of four-score yoke of oxen, Ogma hurled through the house, so that it lay on the outside of Tara. This was […]
[Original post on hear-me.social]
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Great feasts in literature remind readers of an ancient truth. Food is memory. Food is magic. Food is the story before the story. #BookologyThursday
Art: Brescian Antonio Rasio
Art: Brescian Antonio Rasio
November 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Great feasts in literature remind readers of an ancient truth. Food is memory. Food is magic. Food is the story before the story. #BookologyThursday
Art: Brescian Antonio Rasio
Art: Brescian Antonio Rasio
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#bookologythursday #celtic: `There was an admirable, noble king in the high-kingship over Ireland, namely, Eochaid Airem. ...The first year after he ascended the throne, a proclamation was made throughout Ireland that the feast of Tara was to be celebrated […]
[Original post on hear-me.social]
[Original post on hear-me.social]
November 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
#bookologythursday #celtic: `There was an admirable, noble king in the high-kingship over Ireland, namely, Eochaid Airem. ...The first year after he ascended the throne, a proclamation was made throughout Ireland that the feast of Tara was to be celebrated […]
[Original post on hear-me.social]
[Original post on hear-me.social]
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“If Bacchus ever had a color he could claim for his own, it should surely be the shade of tannin on drunken lips, of John Keat's 'purple-stained mouth', or perhaps even of Homer's dangerously wine-dark sea.” -Victoria Finlay
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Bacchanalian Scene - Richard Dadd by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble
Bacchanalian Scene - Richard Dadd
As a young, successful artist, Richard Dadd killed his father and was declared criminally insane. He spent the rest of his life confined to a mental institution, wher...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
“If Bacchus ever had a color he could claim for his own, it should surely be the shade of tannin on drunken lips, of John Keat's 'purple-stained mouth', or perhaps even of Homer's dangerously wine-dark sea.” -Victoria Finlay
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/3459... #art #BookologyThursday #bookchatweekly
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/3459... #art #BookologyThursday #bookchatweekly
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“Black pepper mixed with a lion’s ear, the grunt of a pig, an oyster’s stomach & a cuckoo’s fart” – a satirical cough medicine recipe in @roslynpotter.bsky.social’s examination of food, health, & poetry in #medieval & #earlymodern Scotland
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‘Better byde the cuiks, nor the mediciners’: food and poetry in medieval and early modern Scotland (c. 1400–1650) - The Bottle Imp
Fresh seafood, heather honey, oats, dulse seaweed, and kale: Scotland’s larder is increasingly enjoyed on a world stage featured on Michelin star menus and even touted as ‘cult’ cuisine. Our earliest ...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
“Black pepper mixed with a lion’s ear, the grunt of a pig, an oyster’s stomach & a cuckoo’s fart” – a satirical cough medicine recipe in @roslynpotter.bsky.social’s examination of food, health, & poetry in #medieval & #earlymodern Scotland
#BookologyThursday
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2024/11/bett...
#BookologyThursday
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2024/11/bett...
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#bookologythursday #celtic: #lugh wanted to attend the feast at Tara but the doorkeeper had denied him entry and questioned him. Thereupon `the doorkeeper went into the palace and declared all to the king. “A warrior has come before the enclosure,” said he […]
[Original post on hear-me.social]
[Original post on hear-me.social]
November 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
#bookologythursday #celtic: #lugh wanted to attend the feast at Tara but the doorkeeper had denied him entry and questioned him. Thereupon `the doorkeeper went into the palace and declared all to the king. “A warrior has come before the enclosure,” said he […]
[Original post on hear-me.social]
[Original post on hear-me.social]
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Medieval literature treated feasting as a moral test. Knights in Arthurian tales were judged by how they shared bread and wine long before they proved themselves by sword. Hospitality was the first chivalry. #BookologyThursday
November 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Medieval literature treated feasting as a moral test. Knights in Arthurian tales were judged by how they shared bread and wine long before they proved themselves by sword. Hospitality was the first chivalry. #BookologyThursday
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#BookologyThursday #Celtic: #Lugh wanted to attend the feast at Tara but the doorkeeper had denied him entry and questioned him.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
#BookologyThursday #Celtic: #Lugh wanted to attend the feast at Tara but the doorkeeper had denied him entry and questioned him.
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Our own egg of a Sunday morning … If heaven has a taste it must be an egg with butter and salt … and a mug of sweet golden tea
Frank McCourt / Angela’s Ashes
Marcella Cooper #BookologyThursday
Frank McCourt / Angela’s Ashes
Marcella Cooper #BookologyThursday
November 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Our own egg of a Sunday morning … If heaven has a taste it must be an egg with butter and salt … and a mug of sweet golden tea
Frank McCourt / Angela’s Ashes
Marcella Cooper #BookologyThursday
Frank McCourt / Angela’s Ashes
Marcella Cooper #BookologyThursday
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#BookologyThursday #Celtic: `After Bres, Nuada was again in sovereignty over the Tuatha De. At that time he held a mighty feast at Tara for them. Now there was a certain warrior on his way to Tara, whose name was Lug Samildanach.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
#BookologyThursday #Celtic: `After Bres, Nuada was again in sovereignty over the Tuatha De. At that time he held a mighty feast at Tara for them. Now there was a certain warrior on his way to Tara, whose name was Lug Samildanach.
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In The Hobbit, the unexpected party begins with food... seedcakes, cold chicken, ale, cheese, mince pies. Tolkien understood that adventures often spark from crowded tables and empty cupboards. #BookologyThursday
November 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
In The Hobbit, the unexpected party begins with food... seedcakes, cold chicken, ale, cheese, mince pies. Tolkien understood that adventures often spark from crowded tables and empty cupboards. #BookologyThursday
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#bookologythursday #celtic: #lugh wanted to attend the feast at Tara but the doorkeeper blocked his way asking: “Who is there?”
“Here there is Lug Lamfada (i.e., Lug Long-Arm) son of Cian son of Diancecht and of Ethne daughter of Balor. Fosterson, he, of […]
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“Here there is Lug Lamfada (i.e., Lug Long-Arm) son of Cian son of Diancecht and of Ethne daughter of Balor. Fosterson, he, of […]
[Original post on hear-me.social]
November 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
#bookologythursday #celtic: #lugh wanted to attend the feast at Tara but the doorkeeper blocked his way asking: “Who is there?”
“Here there is Lug Lamfada (i.e., Lug Long-Arm) son of Cian son of Diancecht and of Ethne daughter of Balor. Fosterson, he, of […]
[Original post on hear-me.social]
“Here there is Lug Lamfada (i.e., Lug Long-Arm) son of Cian son of Diancecht and of Ethne daughter of Balor. Fosterson, he, of […]
[Original post on hear-me.social]
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"'I have not yet breakfasted'.
She spoke as if she belonged to an anti-sausage league or a league for the suppression of eggs. There was a bit of silence".
"Jeeves And The Unbidden Guest"
P.G. Wodehouse
#BookologyThursday
She spoke as if she belonged to an anti-sausage league or a league for the suppression of eggs. There was a bit of silence".
"Jeeves And The Unbidden Guest"
P.G. Wodehouse
#BookologyThursday
November 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"'I have not yet breakfasted'.
She spoke as if she belonged to an anti-sausage league or a league for the suppression of eggs. There was a bit of silence".
"Jeeves And The Unbidden Guest"
P.G. Wodehouse
#BookologyThursday
She spoke as if she belonged to an anti-sausage league or a league for the suppression of eggs. There was a bit of silence".
"Jeeves And The Unbidden Guest"
P.G. Wodehouse
#BookologyThursday
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#BookologyThursday
You might not think from looking at it, but Grassholm Island was reputed to be a site of great revelry!
According to the Mabinogion, after the bloody slaughter of the war in Ireland, Manawydan and the other survivors of the war spent eighty years feasting here!
You might not think from looking at it, but Grassholm Island was reputed to be a site of great revelry!
According to the Mabinogion, after the bloody slaughter of the war in Ireland, Manawydan and the other survivors of the war spent eighty years feasting here!
November 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
#BookologyThursday
You might not think from looking at it, but Grassholm Island was reputed to be a site of great revelry!
According to the Mabinogion, after the bloody slaughter of the war in Ireland, Manawydan and the other survivors of the war spent eighty years feasting here!
You might not think from looking at it, but Grassholm Island was reputed to be a site of great revelry!
According to the Mabinogion, after the bloody slaughter of the war in Ireland, Manawydan and the other survivors of the war spent eighty years feasting here!
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Lord Byron had cup made out of a monk's skull found on the grounds of his home, Newstead Abbey.
It could hold an entire bottle of claret, and was passed around 'in imitation of the Goths of old', among the Order of the Skull that Byron had founded at Newstead.
#BookologyThursday #gothic #booksky
It could hold an entire bottle of claret, and was passed around 'in imitation of the Goths of old', among the Order of the Skull that Byron had founded at Newstead.
#BookologyThursday #gothic #booksky
November 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Lord Byron had cup made out of a monk's skull found on the grounds of his home, Newstead Abbey.
It could hold an entire bottle of claret, and was passed around 'in imitation of the Goths of old', among the Order of the Skull that Byron had founded at Newstead.
#BookologyThursday #gothic #booksky
It could hold an entire bottle of claret, and was passed around 'in imitation of the Goths of old', among the Order of the Skull that Byron had founded at Newstead.
#BookologyThursday #gothic #booksky
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#BookologyThursday #Celtic: `After Bres, Nuada was again in sovereignty over the Tuatha De. At that time he held a mighty feast at Tara for them. Now there was a certain warrior on his way to Tara, whose name was Lug Samildanach.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
#BookologyThursday #Celtic: `After Bres, Nuada was again in sovereignty over the Tuatha De. At that time he held a mighty feast at Tara for them. Now there was a certain warrior on his way to Tara, whose name was Lug Samildanach.
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Good Morning!
We’ve got wonderful news for you!
Absolutely delighted that Horatio Clare’s We Came by Sea has been shortlisted for the 2025 #NeroBookAwrds. It’s a very impressive shortlist.
The paperback is now at the printers and is available for pre order!
@horatioclare.bsky.social
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We’ve got wonderful news for you!
Absolutely delighted that Horatio Clare’s We Came by Sea has been shortlisted for the 2025 #NeroBookAwrds. It’s a very impressive shortlist.
The paperback is now at the printers and is available for pre order!
@horatioclare.bsky.social
#BookSky
November 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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#bookologythursday #celtic: `After Bres, Nuada was again in sovereignty over the Tuatha De. At that time he held a mighty feast at Tara for them. Now there was a certain warrior on his way to Tara, whose name was Lug Samildanach. And there were then two […]
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[Original post on hear-me.social]
November 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
#bookologythursday #celtic: `After Bres, Nuada was again in sovereignty over the Tuatha De. At that time he held a mighty feast at Tara for them. Now there was a certain warrior on his way to Tara, whose name was Lug Samildanach. And there were then two […]
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[Original post on hear-me.social]
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Under the pseudonym “Meg Dods”, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781–1857) wrote THE COOK & HOUSEWIFE’S MANUAL, a cookbook which also includes the various doings of the fictitious Cleikum Club – “a small gathering of absurd diners who do not much like or trust each other”
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November 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Under the pseudonym “Meg Dods”, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781–1857) wrote THE COOK & HOUSEWIFE’S MANUAL, a cookbook which also includes the various doings of the fictitious Cleikum Club – “a small gathering of absurd diners who do not much like or trust each other”
#BookologyThursday
#BookologyThursday
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Paragraph Planet is always seeking your 75-word #flashfiction with one piece having been published on its home page every day since 2008. Https://www.paragraphplanet.com/submission.php #writing #writingcommunity #authors #microfiction
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November 20, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Greek mythology is filled with divine banquets where ambrosia grants immortality and nectar glows like gold. A single taste could bind a mortal to Olympus forever, proof that food in myth is always more than it seems. #BookologyThursday
Art: Jan van Bijlert
Art: Jan van Bijlert
November 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Greek mythology is filled with divine banquets where ambrosia grants immortality and nectar glows like gold. A single taste could bind a mortal to Olympus forever, proof that food in myth is always more than it seems. #BookologyThursday
Art: Jan van Bijlert
Art: Jan van Bijlert
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"Every day there were elaborate parties of pleasure – fishing, hunting, dancing, games, feasting. The guests hardly slept at all but spent the night playing practical jokes on one another."
Angela Carter, 'Bluebeard'
#BookologyThursday
Food, feasts & festivals
Angela Carter, 'Bluebeard'
#BookologyThursday
Food, feasts & festivals
November 20, 2025 at 11:52 AM
"Every day there were elaborate parties of pleasure – fishing, hunting, dancing, games, feasting. The guests hardly slept at all but spent the night playing practical jokes on one another."
Angela Carter, 'Bluebeard'
#BookologyThursday
Food, feasts & festivals
Angela Carter, 'Bluebeard'
#BookologyThursday
Food, feasts & festivals