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Aoife Bhreatnach
@aoifeb.bsky.social
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Swears, writes, Gaeilge is fáilte. She/í
Makes Censored, a podcast about dirty books and films https://shows.acast.com/censored
Research interests: sex and death
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tg4.bsky.social
⚰️WOULD YOU BE willing to be buried alive in a coffin for two months, if you thought it would make you rich and famous?

👀 Beo faoin bhfód @TG4TV

www.thejournal.ie/beo-faoin-bh...
Beo Faoin Bhfód: The Irish man who was buried alive in 1968
A new documentary, on TG4 later this month, tells the story of Mick Meaney and his strange quest.
www.thejournal.ie
November 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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marcocathasaigh.bsky.social
Dochreidte ag an pointe seo. Tá na treoirlínte seo (chomh maith le cionníollacha teanga, atá b'fheidir chomh tábhachtach) geallta le fada an lá. Níl sé inghlactha le géarchéim titíochta ag cur leis an ngéarchéim teanga. @greenpartyie.bsky.social #spéirgorm
thejournal.ie The Journal @thejournal.ie · 4d
Gaeltacht planning guidelines which various ministers have promised to be delivered soon on numerous occasions since 2022 will now not be delivered appear to be on the long finger once again. #Gaeilge
jrnl.ie/6873220t
Surprise and criticism as Gaeltacht planning guidelines delayed again until 2027
Campaigners for Gaeltacht housing are bitterly disappointed over the lack of urgent measures in the housing plan published today.
jrnl.ie
November 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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nordaltsee.bsky.social
Soundabout - I love it #SpeirGorm
hannahdaly.ie Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 4d
There's a roundabout in Cork where even during the worst traffic, drivers unfailingly allow others to merge in a "zip" by local custom. Driving through it restores my faith in society, every time.

I just found out it's known as the "soundabout", and that's just wonderful.
November 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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davidandress.bsky.social
The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."

Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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morbidminute.bsky.social
The rise in taxidermy fandom means certain types of bats are being decimated at alarming rates. Bats are protected in western countries, so if you see taxidermied bats for sale, big warning.

Be a considerate gloom cookie, please.

unfortunatecadaver.com/pages/the-un....
The Unethical Practice of Bat Taxidermy
Given the critical role bats play in ecosystems and the numerous threats they already face, it is unethical to engage in bat taxidermy. Conservation efforts should prioritize protecting these essentia...
unfortunatecadaver.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
aoifeb.bsky.social
It just gets better
antiqueight.bsky.social Antiqueight @antiqueight.bsky.social · 5d
I have spent quite a bit of time looking all this up because there is a Twopothouse and a Twopot river but while Twopothouse and NEW Twopothouse are in the general vicinity of each other, Twopot river is nowhere near them. Meanwhile Buildings of Ireland claims an Oldtwopothouse...
November 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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djwalker.bsky.social
Starry starry night
Paint you palette blue and grey

~ Vincent ~ Don McLean

St Luke’s, Douglas, Cork 🇮🇪

#photography
#nature
#landscape
#autumn
#star
#nightsky
#silhouette
#EastCoastKin
#speirghorm
#PhotoHour

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A nighttime photograph of St Luke’s church with a tall steeple silhouetted against a softly glowing sky. Stars are visible above, and the gravestones from the cemetery fill the foreground. The church is dimly illuminated with a faint blue light, creating a serene yet haunting atmosphere.
November 12, 2025 at 9:29 AM
aoifeb.bsky.social
One of my favourite placenames
irishplacenames.bsky.social Irish Place Names @irishplacenames.bsky.social · 5d
New Twopothouse, Co. Cork.

From an 18th century coaching inn, the 'Two-Pot House Inn'. When the Cork to Limerick road was built a new coaching stop was opened and named 'New Two-Pot-House' to distinguish it from the coaching stop on the older road.

#speirgorm
A satellite view of New Twopothouse, Co. Cork
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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cpgorski.bsky.social
In case you wondered, there's probably exactly one person who has licked the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Threads screenshot: ceforys 2h In honor of Threads going all in on Edmund Fitzgerald lore this year, l'd like to share one of my strangest parenting moments. We took my then 4 year old son and his little buddy (whose special interest was maritime disasters) to the Dossin Great Lakes Museum in Detroit for a screening of a documentary about the wreck; we got some LOOKS when we showed up but the kids were great, save for one moment when my kid decided to LICK A PIECE OF RECOVERED DEBRIS as it was being passed around.
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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squeefulraven.bsky.social
This may be fake, but it made me giggle anyway! 😆 Florence + The Machine rocks!!! I think she would be happy with this review! 😅

#FlorenceAndTheMachine #Review #SpéirGorm #SpeirGorm #Music #MusicReview
thomasfortenberry.bsky.social Thomas Fortenberry @thomasfortenberry.bsky.social · 7d
Read this psycho review and marvel at the depths of evangebabble.
November 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
aoifeb.bsky.social
Not inaccurate but probably still controversial...
cjamcmahon.bsky.social Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social · 6d
I don't think it's controversial to suggest that the way that Ireland has developed a particular culture around the Presidency doesn't exactly look particularly republican. We would have handled a constitutional monarchy just fine #aras25 #speirgorm
November 11, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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eibhlinniccolla.ailbhean.co-shaoghal.net.ap.brid.gy
Cù Chulainn nuair a thachair e ri Sgàthach
Screenshot of Spike Spiegel saying "I love the kind of woman that can kick my ass"
October 29, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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libertiesbelle.bsky.social
#SpéirGorm

www.rte.ie/news/dublin/...
Pope to be asked to settle Dublin's cathedral question
Pope Leo is to be asked to settle one of the outstanding issues of the Reformation that has affected Dublin for 500 years.
www.rte.ie
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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tupped.bsky.social
this thing hides posts it judges as ‘rude’, by some US standard. Thereby silencing most of the conversations in Ireland and Scotland, at least.
astridoverthere.bsky.social I said abolish and I fucking meant it @astridoverthere.bsky.social · 11d
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
Screenshot of the top of a Bsky feed, with a red circle around the hamburger menu in the top left.
November 8, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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selkies.bsky.social
This says so much about us, dazzled by a speck of melanin
fliglman.bsky.social Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · 10d
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
sallow (comparative sallower, superlative sallowest) (of skin) Yellowish. (most regions, of light skin) Of a sickly pale colour. (Ireland) Of a tan colour, associated with people from southern Europe or East Asia.
November 8, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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lynbw.bsky.social
This is brilliant. We need this here too, we need Irish leftie losers #speirgorm
mostlybree.kitrocha.com Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 12d
I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.
November 6, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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niamhroisin.bsky.social
This is on today at 6pm in Maynooth! Looking forward to it! #skystorians #speirgorm #speirghorm
November 6, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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sarahsbrannen.bsky.social
The book-banners are organized. This is not trivial.
maggietokudahall.bsky.social Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 14d
If you were ever wondering what we're up against, this is a website book banners created to train people to get books banned in their own communities.

I found my kids' school in here, and the books this website suggests I get banned from their library.

www.takebacktheclassroom.com/school-detai...
Take Back the Classroom
www.takebacktheclassroom.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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beerwithsubtitles.net
Always better when @philipb-h.bsky.social is subbing but, of all the problems with Ireland's immigration system, an extended bit on returning emigrants' driving licenses (of all things) seems...cursory? Lots of hoopla regarding the recent R1 presenter shuffle, zero about *producers*.

#SpeirGorm
November 3, 2025 at 11:40 AM
aoifeb.bsky.social
Can't decide if I should call this shameless or shameful.
November 3, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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wendylyon.bsky.social
Wow the IT actually printed my letter

#speirghorm
A chara, - In January 1989, the British Minister Douglas Hogg stated that some solicitors were “unduly sympathetic to the cause of the IRA”. Three weeks later Pat Finucane was murdered by loyalists. It is widely accepted in Ireland that there was a consequential link between these two events. Will there be a similar recognition of the responsibility political leaders bear for inciting violence in the wake of the horrific arson attack on a centre for international protection applicants in Drogheda on Hallowen night, only days after the Tánaiste described migration numbers as “too high”? - Is mise Wendy Lyon
November 3, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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johnraimo.bsky.social
It's worth reading Mary McCarthy's 1986 review of Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale." Not for how she misjudges its achievement but more for what McCarthy, a brilliant writer and intellectual, couldn't see—and to judge how far America has come since then. #Skystorians archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
November 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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despod.bsky.social
It's like the 12th with all the orange boats in Cork. #Speirgorm
Carraig Aonair, Cailin Or, Aethra and Ocean Guardian
November 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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anburcach.bsky.social
For those keeping count, Simon Harris "took to social media" to decry the shooting of Charlie Kirk the following day. He's gone cycling today, apparently.
philipoconnor.bsky.social Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 15d
'Member all the Irish wankers bemoaning "political violence" when Charlie Kirk was murdered - has anyone seen if they have anything to say about the attempted murder of women and children in the Drogheda IPAS centre?
No?
Funny, that.
November 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM