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Mrs Vicky Day
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A Dublin #painting from way back. "Seven Buildings, Four Stories" was painted out of a love of buildings, the shapes they throw at you, and how they talk to a street. #art #SpeirGhorm
Landscape format in textured and very loose acrylics on canvas panel. Narrow buildings of different heights joined together in a terrace. Shops at street level. Upper stories from left to right are coloured pink, white, teal, orange, pink, blue, and red. Lots of loose thick black lines are used for outlines and details. All have some architectural details like corner stones, arches or panels. Most windows are yellow. Four buildings have straight flat tops; two have elaborate ornamental pointed features, and the orange one in the centre has points of pediments above each of 3 windows. Footpath along bottom is orange. Sky is yellow in diagonal strokes perpendicular to the textured dark blue and red strokes underneath. Signed top left, Liam Daly '93
January 22, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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January 22, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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Every #Wednesday we'll share a #waterford. Respond with your own (4 lines; 8, 4, 4, 8 syllables; ABBA rhyming scheme). These are slices of feel-good art so keep them positive!

#waterfordrhyme #poetrysky #poetry #irishhaiku #poetrycommunity #PoetsOnBluesky #skypoets #writingcommunity #spéirghorm
Image of a waterford printed in black on a white brick background. Flow On Lovely River by David Ryan Suir, the Blackwater and Barrow. Waters of fame, flow all the same. But fair is the Bride of Tallow. Note: this is a geographic waterford about the River Bride, Co. Waterford
January 21, 2026 at 11:28 AM
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waterfordrhyme.bsky.social
Every #Wednesday we'll share a #waterford. Respond with your own (4 lines; 8, 4, 4, 8 syllables; ABBA rhyming scheme). These are slices of feel-good art so keep them positive!

#waterfordrhyme #poetrysky #poetry #irishhaiku #poetrycommunity #PoetsOnBluesky #skypoets #writingcommunity #spéirghorm
Your weekly waterford. The Waterford Rhyme by Kevin MacAlan. The waterford is hard to write, you have to count the write amount of syllables and lines: it's tight!
January 7, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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Every #Wednesday we'll share a #waterford. Respond with your own (4 lines; 8, 4, 4, 8 syllables; ABBA rhyming scheme). These are slices of feel-good art so keep them positive!

#waterfordrhyme #poetrysky #poetry #irishhaiku #poetrycommunity #PoetsOnBluesky #skypoets #writingcommunity #spéirghorm
Image of a waterford printed in black on a white brick background. The Bell Epoch – by Alan Murphy The local press she'll put you in Jo Bell's her name Writing's her game The Lois Lane of Cappoquin. [Note: this is a biographic waterford about Waterford-based journalist and writer Annie Jo Bell]
January 14, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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themadridreview.com/submissions Happy New Year! Feliz Año Nuevo! #Happynewyear #poetry #submit #submissions
January 1, 2026 at 5:12 AM
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ciaraioch.bsky.social
Don't think I've spoken to a single artist who didn't struggle this Christmas, and I spoke to a lot, so even if it's not my work I'd really encourage people to try to support a local artist that you like instead of big corporations - every single sale makes a real, tangible difference to their life.
ciaraioch.bsky.social Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · Dec 26
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.

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Cartoon of myself gesturing at some prints with a description of the type available, a variety of gallery-quality giclée prints of original art on Hahnemühle textured paper and hand-printed lino prints printed locally, shipped to Ireland and beyond in environmentally-friendly packaging, ideal as gifts. The word SALE is in large letters above it in red. #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art #BuyIrish #TraditionalArt #HandDrawn #HandMade
December 28, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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December 29, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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unaminh.bsky.social
as someone who has been working remotely since 2015, i promise you employers, saying everyone does their "best work in person", is absolutely not true.
December 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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At Xitter and Facebook, scammers claiming to offer “marketing services” to writers are rampant – and like vermin sneaking aboard a ship they're following us here. Let’s stop ‘em with this handy moderation list! #author bsky.app/profile/inventingrea...
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December 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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As much as I love Christmas, at this time of year I often feel the urge to get out and about to explore some of our incredible ancient landscapes.

So for this edition of our Monument Monday newsletter, I thought I'd share some of my favourite places for a good winter walk.

#Ireland #SpéirGhorm
An aerial view of Deerpark Court Tomb, consisting of an arrangement of upright stones on a hilltop in County Sligo Ireland
December 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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mollytwomey.bsky.social
🎁 Poem-a-day advent calendar 🎁 Day 21 is 'Tumor Response' from 'Blue Opening' by Chet'la Sebree 💙 @tinhouse.bsky.social
Cover of blue opening is a blue background with gold splatters TUMOR RESPONSE At North Star Bar, my aunt and I ordered most of the appetizers on the menu: rockfish bites, a pound of steamed shrimp, lemon-pepper hot wings. Over the feast, I saw her cry for the first time about the glioblastoma, about the invasive brain-tissue shift that would only extend her life by months. She murmured something about hair loss, and I searched for what to say-wishing her fate was one I could delay. It's gonna be alright, she whispered, recomposing. Careful, hands dusted in Old Bay, as she wiped what we were both digesting from her face. Will you take me to the water, she asked as she returned to peeling the carapace off a shrimp's body, exposing its pink flesh.
December 21, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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eolai.bsky.social
A #painting so. "Swallows, Wall" came out a time when I sat in front of a wall in Waterford painting it while the swallows swirled and swooped around me, then I got on my bicycle and before sunset cycled along the Copper Coast. Good times. I like walls. And birds. #art #SpeirGhorm #ArtAdventCalendar
Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. Section of a low stone wall with two swallows flying just above it. Stones in wall are yellow. They are larger at the bottom and small at the top. Gaps between them are blue and black with faint touches of red. In front of them low down are 3 or 4 small bushes with a handful of green and red and blue leaves growing from a band of brown soil along the bottom edge. Above the wall the tops of plant stalks on the far side peep over, and above them the very dark blue swallows, their long scissor tails and their wings extended back, are swooping causing the pale blue and white sky to swirl with their flight. Signed in red top left, Liam Daly
December 21, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Looking forward to tuning in!
kevinmacalan.bsky.social Kevin MacAlan @kevinmacalan.bsky.social · Dec 19
Looking forward to reading at the launch of Swerve 5 this evening. It’s online, so come one, come all! Kicks off at 8pm.

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December 19, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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We enjoyed this unexpected crow cameo from this year’s #waterford competition poster
Poster for the second annual waterford competition from 2025
December 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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waterfordrhyme.bsky.social
A great way to #SupportTheArts this #Christmas is to #ShopLocal
allgumsblazing.bsky.social Alan Murphy @allgumsblazing.bsky.social · Dec 9
It's been a blizzard of Christmas Fairs recently in West Waterford, with one more to go in the Fusion Centre, Dungarvan on Saturday. Here's me and @jobell-writer.bsky.social taking it all very seriously. My "gear" (books, cards, prints etc) is also available here: www.avantcardpublications.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Get #waterfording!

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poetryid.bsky.social PoetryID @poetryid.bsky.social · Dec 14
#poetry practitioners - have a try at the #waterford. One verse, four lines, rhyming ABBA, with 8,4,4 and 8 syllables.
@kevinmacalan.bsky.social
December 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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What a marvel! 👏👏👏
#waterfordrhyme #irishhaiku
allgumsblazing.bsky.social Alan Murphy @allgumsblazing.bsky.social · Dec 14
The waterford is catching on! 😉
poetryid.bsky.social PoetryID @poetryid.bsky.social · Dec 13
We had a seasonal session of #poetry writing at our last #workshop for the year. The theme was winter #waterfords, a #waterford being a four-line poem of 8,4,4 and 8 syllables rhyming ABBA.
December 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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mollytwomey.bsky.social
🎁 Poem-a-day advent calendar 🎁 Day 14 is 'A Line from Merwin' from 'Father's Father's Father' by Dane Holt @carcanet.bsky.social 🌹
Cover of Holt's book is an orange body shape superimposed on 3 other orange body shapes A LINE FROM MERWIN W. S. Merwin writes 'I could do anything' about the year both his parents died. What do you make of that? I wonder what the nurse who carried the dose of mercy to our mother did for the rest of her shift, if she paused to think about her hands on the steering wheel. We could do nothing for our mother. I held her pulse at arm's length. I couldn't smoke, not for fear I'd miss the instant one breath failed to follow another, but for fear the smell of smoke would make my sister think our father's ghost was there to collect his wife. The part of me that wishes I was that ghost is not the part of me that wants to get through this cigarette alive. This cigarette burns like a single autumn. I could do anything. I could do anything. I could do anything. What do you make of that? The answer can be nothing.
December 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Remember to #ShopLocal and #SupportLocalArtists this #Christmas
allgumsblazing.bsky.social Alan Murphy @allgumsblazing.bsky.social · Dec 9
It's been a blizzard of Christmas Fairs recently in West Waterford, with one more to go in the Fusion Centre, Dungarvan on Saturday. Here's me and @jobell-writer.bsky.social taking it all very seriously. My "gear" (books, cards, prints etc) is also available here: www.avantcardpublications.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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eolai.bsky.social
A small #painting. "Scurmore" I painted for a friend's round-number birthday a couple of years back. It depicts the entrance to her childhood home in County Sligo. #art #SpeirGhorm #ArtAdventCalendar
Landscape format on mixed media paper. Picture in black ink line and bold bright watercolours. Shows entrance to house from rural road. Curved stone walls guide you in between trees and heavy vegetation of greens and blues and reds including ivy and tree foliage. Through the trees the windowed gable end of a grey stone house can be seen past a small yellow field on the right. Larger darker yellow field is on left. Sky gaps are left white. Signed bottom right: Liam Daly
December 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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eolai.bsky.social
Here, a #painting to look at. "Lilac Sheep" I painted because, well I like sheep. And their shapes. And for a wonderful moment in my life I lived among them. This went to a good home many years ago. #art #SpeirGhorm #ArtAdventCalendar
Landscape format in painterly acrylics on mat board. Sky in shades of violet, painted by palette knife and flecked with red and blue. Bottom half is a field of yellows similarly painted by knife and flecked with small touches of blue and red, and with bits of green showing in places. Three sheep stand in the field, their bottom halves contrasting with the yellow, their top halves with the sky. They are lilac with black heads, their bodies painted in broad expressive brushstrokes, their heads, legs and outlines painted in very dark blue, almost black, with palette knife making angular lines and edges. Beyond shape, which show ears, there are no features visible on the dark faces. The left sheep is facing forwards, the middle one is side on turned to the right but head turned to face viewer, and the one on right is further away, facing forwards with head down grazing. The hard edge horizon of field to sky behind the torsos of the sheep rises a little from left to right.
December 7, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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December 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Irish & UK Non-Fiction Writers & fans - there's a new indie publisher in town! #FULLSET has just launched. Run by Blathnaid Healy & Eoin Purcell - two hugely experienced (& lovely) people. You can follow them on Insta here www.instagram.com/fullsetbooks/ & check out their info here fullsetbooks.com
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December 5, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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eolai.bsky.social
Here, have a #painting. "Ballycroy" came out of an amazing day's cycle in the west of Ireland which started in Westport and ended up in Bangor Erris - the highlight of which, in a day of many highlights, was the County Mayo wonderland of Ballycroy.
#art #SpeirGhorm #ArtAdventCalendar
Landscape format in acrylic on canvas. A road coming out of the centre of the bottom of the painting heads diagonally right then bends hard left and disappears into a landscape of open bog rendered as a fiery orange with red and green bushes. In the distance on the left there is a small white cottage and behind it a large violet rocky mountain that tapers down to the right with more mountains further away on the right and coloured a light purple. A sliver of water is in front of them. The sky is a light aqua blue with long large white fluffy clouds. The road surface is dark, matching the violet of the jagged mountain on the left and contrasting with the surrounding bog and with its road markings of dashed white lines down the centre and dashed yellow lines marking the edge of the road. The bog has pinks and yellows peppered throughout and more colours along the road edges where there are small ridges and or ditches with touches of yellows and grey-greens. Signed bottom left, Liam Daly
December 5, 2025 at 9:18 PM