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Wikimedia Community Ireland is a non-profit, volunteer-driven organisation that promotes the creation, promotion, and dissemination of free knowledge.
https://linktr.ee/wikimedia.ie
We are looking for a new Irish Language Officer to join the team ☘️

Get your applications in before Monday!

✨Tuilleadh eolais anseo: wikimedia.ie/2025/10/17/o...
Job Opportunity: Oifigeach Gaeilge (Irish Language Officer) - Wikimedia Community Ireland
Is é Pobal Wikimedia Éireann, an eagraíocht náisiúnta chleamhnaithe de chuid Fhondúireacht Wikimedia in Éirinn, ag lorg Oifigeach Gaeilge. Is post lánaimseartha é seo agus deis iontach don iarrthóir c...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
🏛️📸 The winners of Wiki Loves Monuments Ireland 2025 are here! Nearly 1,000 entries celebrating Ireland’s built heritage 🌍 Huge thanks to our judges & partners Heritage Keepers @burrenbeotrust.bsky.social 💚

See the winning photos: wikimedia.ie/2025/11/05/w...
November 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
🎈We’ve signed the Open Heritage Statement, a global call to action to advance equitable access to public domain heritage and inform future international policy. @creativecommons.bsky.social

➡ Add your signature: openheritagestatement.org

#OpenHeritageStatement #TAROCHCoalition #CreativeCommons
November 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
🧬To promote the #WikiScience, we have launched a collection of bilingual postcards that can be found at libraries, galleries, museums and universities across Ireland now!

✨To enter the contest, submit your photographs to Wikimedia Commons in November.

🔗 Info: tinyurl.com/47v5zf6t

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November 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
✨Oíche Shamhna Shona Daoibh!✨🎃
Báirín breac and colcannon were traditionally used for fortune-telling.

Read more on #Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barmbrack
October 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Éamonn (Vicipéideoir), Amy (an tOifigeach Gaeilge reatha le @wikimediaireland.bsky.social ) agus An Dr @kscanne.bsky.social ag ár seastán ag Aonach @oirnagaeilge.bsky.social

#OnaS25
October 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Someone needs to write this legend a #Wikipedia page. RIP Mr Manhattan, founder of an amazing Irish business! www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-...
Manhattan Popcorn founder Donal O’Neill dies aged 92
Known as "Mr Manhattan", Mr O'Neill founded the company in his mother's kitchen in 1957
www.dublinlive.ie
October 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
🎃#Halloween & #Samhain traditions: Apple bobbing🍏🍎

Appropriated from the Roman Army, in Celtic times young people tried to bite into apples floating in water. The winner would be the next to get married. Apples were a sign fertility and abundance.

🌟Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_b...
October 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
♠️The Púca🌙
As the veil grows thin, let’s look back at how our ancestors inspired #Halloween.

The púca (Irish for spirit) is a creature of Celtic folklore. They were said to be shape-changers that could take the appearance of a human disguise.
Creepy!
✨Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%BAca
October 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
🎉 Happy 13th Birthday, #Wikidata!

We’re celebrating the volunteers who connect knowledge — and spotlighting Anne-Karoline Distel, who uses Wikimedia, Wikidata & #OpenStreetMap to document Ireland’s historical forges 🔗

Learn more 👉 wikimedia.ie/2025/10/29/h...

#OpenData #IrishHeritage
Happy 13th Birthday, Wikidata! How one Wikimedian uses Wikidata to document Forges in Ireland - Wikimedia Community Ireland
Happy 13th Birthday, Wikidata! Facts don’t stand alone; they connect, forming the web of knowledge that shapes how we understand the world. Thirteen years ago, Wikidata was created to store and link t...
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October 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
👻Ghost Turnips to Pumpkins🎃

#Halloween is a key part of #IrishHeritage

The transformation of the humble turnip to the elaborately carved pumpkins we know & love today has to be one of the biggest glow-ups of all time!

Find out more on #Vicipéid and #Wikipedia 🌏
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack-o%...
October 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
One week to go! ⚛️🍄📸✨🔭

The Wiki Science Competition 2025 opens on 1 November.
Share your photos of science, nature, and research and contribute to open knowledge worldwide.
Details: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons...

#WikiScience #OpenKnowledge#Photocontest#winprizes
October 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Táimid ag lorg Oifigeach Gaeilge (lánaimseartha) - is deis uathúil í seo chun tacú leis an nGaeilge sa spás digiteach agus le forbairt na Vicipéide! #SíógNabPost #AnGhaeilge

Tuilleadh eolais anseo: wikimedia.ie/2025/10/17/o...
October 21, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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@wikimediaireland.bsky.social ag earcú. Táimid ag lorg Oifigeach Gaeilge (lánaimseartha) - is deis uathúil í seo chun tacú leis an nGaeilge sa spás digiteach agus le forbairt na Vicipéide! #SíógNabPost #AnGhaeilge

Tuilleadh eolais anseo:
wikimedia.ie/2025/10/17/o...
Job Opportunity: Oifigeach Gaeilge (Irish Language Officer) - Wikimedia Community Ireland
Is é Pobal Wikimedia Éireann, an eagraíocht náisiúnta chleamhnaithe de chuid Fhondúireacht Wikimedia in Éirinn, ag lorg Oifigeach Gaeilge. Is post lánaimseartha é seo agus deis iontach don iarrthóir c...
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October 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Do you want to shape the future of the Irish language?☘️

Wikimedia Community Ireland is seeking an Irish Language Officer to lead our efforts in developing the Irish language across Wikimedia projects, with a special focus on #Vicipéid!

For more: wikimedia.ie/2025/10/17/o...
Job Opportunity: Oifigeach Gaeilge (Irish Language Officer) - Wikimedia Community Ireland
Is é Pobal Wikimedia Éireann, an eagraíocht náisiúnta chleamhnaithe de chuid Fhondúireacht Wikimedia in Éirinn, ag lorg Oifigeach Gaeilge. Is post lánaimseartha é seo agus deis iontach don iarrthóir c...
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October 17, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Téigh ar cuairt chugainn ag Oireachtas na Samhna 2025 i mBéal Feirste!☘️

📍Gheobhaidh tú muid ag ár seastán in Aonach an Oireachtais (Halla 1, Leibhéal 1, ICC) ón Déardaoin go Satharn.

Tar agus abair ‘haigh’ linn! 🌐

wikimedia.ie/2025/10/16/t...
Téigh ar cuairt chugainn ag Oireachtas na Samhna 2025! - Wikimedia Community Ireland
Táimid an-sásta a fhógairt go mbeidh Amy (ár nOifigeach Gaeilge) agus Éamonn (Vicipéideoir ón bpobal) i láthair ag Oireachtas na Samhna 2025 i mBéal Feirste ag deireadh na míosa seo! Is féile chultúrt...
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October 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
☘🌏The next Wikimedia Community Ireland monthly online meet-up will be happening slightly earlier this month, on October 21st at 6pm. 🎉

All welcome! 🌈
More info: wikimedia.ie/2025/10/15/j...
October 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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The FRA survey highlights worsening inequalities and rising discrimination. Read 👉 buff.ly/h6J2vsa #GCNnews
October 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Ban-aisteoir, stiúrthóir agus léiritheoir Meiriceánach ba ea Diane Keaton, a rugadh Diane Hall (5 Eanáir 1946 - 11 Deireadh Fómhair 2025)

⭐ Léigh tuilleadh ar #Vicipéid ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_K...

Íomhá: es:Ruven Afanador, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
October 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Catherine Connolly is an Irish independent politician who has served as a TD for the Galway West since 2016.
She is an independent candidate in the 2025 #presidentialelection.

🌎Read or add more #reliable #neutral #verifiable info on #Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catheri...
Catherine Connolly - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Heather Humphreys is an Irish Fine Gael politician who served in various cabinet positions from 2014 to 2025. She is the Fine Gael nominee for the 2025 Irish #presidentialelection.

🌎Read or add more #reliable #neutral #verifiable info to #wikipedia : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather...
Heather Humphreys - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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🎧 Need to archive oral histories? Join OHNI & @dri.ie for the Archiving Oral History ONLINE workshop, covering processes to ensure collections are preserved for future generations. #OralHistory

💻Friday 21st November, 3-5:30pm
🎟️Member €35/Non-Member €50
oralhistorynetworkireland.ie/event/archiv...
October 6, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Happy #WorldPostDay 💌
This image, titled 'Sorting the mail in Galway 1930' is from the collection Delivering the mail - how the Post Office worked, deposited in the DRI by An Post Museum & Archive.
#PostalHistory #SortingTheMail
October 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM