@breathingfire.bsky.social
Heritage/history and Medieval stuff, Accidental advocate. Mother. She/her. An American in Galway. Rights are not pie.
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‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
So you can send Dairy Milk Chocolate but not Cheese & Onion crisps because "no dairy"? 🙃 #Spéirgorm www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
An Post advises customers over sending parcels to US
As people turn to thinking of preparing their Christmas parcels to send, An Post is advising customers of new rules which mean certain items can no longer be mailed to the United States.
www.rte.ie
November 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
So you can send Dairy Milk Chocolate but not Cheese & Onion crisps because "no dairy"? 🙃 #Spéirgorm www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
#IrishBookWeek: Share an Irish Bookshop charliebyrne.ie
October 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
#IrishBookWeek: Share an Irish Bookshop charliebyrne.ie
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“Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.”
To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five-word response.
Use this 5-word phrase when someone is rude to you—it's like 'holding up a mirror,' says public speaking expert
When we encounter a rude person, our first instinct might be to fire back with a snarky comment. But that's not the right move, says public speaking expert John Bowe. Here's the perfect response to instantly shut down rude behavior.
cnb.cx
October 6, 2025 at 6:35 AM
“Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.”
What I need now is a #ChristopherGuest #CoenBros collab sequel to both #AMightyWind and #InsideLlewynDavis, please and thank you. youtu.be/lSwO-k-RqNA?...
Inside Llewyn Davis - Please Mr. Kennedy
YouTube video by CBS Films
youtu.be
October 6, 2025 at 6:55 AM
What I need now is a #ChristopherGuest #CoenBros collab sequel to both #AMightyWind and #InsideLlewynDavis, please and thank you. youtu.be/lSwO-k-RqNA?...
Will figurehead carving classes include enchantments and how to make the figureheads into homes for magical guardian spirits?
Fancy a career change and saving a critically endangered craft or heritage skill from extinction? Have a look at these. I'm currently undecided, but glass eye making and clay pipe making are top of my list! 👁️
September 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Will figurehead carving classes include enchantments and how to make the figureheads into homes for magical guardian spirits?
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Apparently wearing a raspberry beret (the kind you find in a second hand store), this cheeky red-crested, tiny-tongued tessellated serpent features on a mid 4th century #Roman mosaic from Dorchester
Found in Durngate Street in 1905, it's now in @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social
📷 Sept 2024
#MosaicMonday
Found in Durngate Street in 1905, it's now in @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social
📷 Sept 2024
#MosaicMonday
August 4, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Apparently wearing a raspberry beret (the kind you find in a second hand store), this cheeky red-crested, tiny-tongued tessellated serpent features on a mid 4th century #Roman mosaic from Dorchester
Found in Durngate Street in 1905, it's now in @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social
📷 Sept 2024
#MosaicMonday
Found in Durngate Street in 1905, it's now in @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social
📷 Sept 2024
#MosaicMonday
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He had me at 'serious gourmet shit'.😆
July 31, 2025 at 12:47 PM
He had me at 'serious gourmet shit'.😆
Happy birthday to the lovely @ailsod.bsky.social !
a woman in a blue shirt is being brushed by a man in a red jacket
ALT: a woman in a blue shirt is being brushed by a man in a red jacket
media.tenor.com
July 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Happy birthday to the lovely @ailsod.bsky.social !
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Please check on your disabled friends and neighbours in the path of the tsunami.
Many can’t evacuate without help.
Many are critically dependent on electricity to power wheelchairs, breathing equipment & more.
They can’t flee easily and don’t deserve to be left behind.
Many can’t evacuate without help.
Many are critically dependent on electricity to power wheelchairs, breathing equipment & more.
They can’t flee easily and don’t deserve to be left behind.
July 30, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Please check on your disabled friends and neighbours in the path of the tsunami.
Many can’t evacuate without help.
Many are critically dependent on electricity to power wheelchairs, breathing equipment & more.
They can’t flee easily and don’t deserve to be left behind.
Many can’t evacuate without help.
Many are critically dependent on electricity to power wheelchairs, breathing equipment & more.
They can’t flee easily and don’t deserve to be left behind.
Irish Tourism's roots run deep: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
All you need to know about the origins of Irish tourism
Here are some of the major events, colourful players and curious facts which shaped the early years of Irish tourism
www.rte.ie
July 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Irish Tourism's roots run deep: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Words on the Waves at the National Museum of Ireland this summer, featured in the Smithsonian
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
These Medieval Monks Scribbled Notes in the Margins of Their Books More Than 1,000 Years Ago
A new exhibition in Dublin showcases historic manuscripts written in Irish monasteries. The show also features medieval artifacts, such as a rare book shrine found in a river in the 1980s
www.smithsonianmag.com
July 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Words on the Waves at the National Museum of Ireland this summer, featured in the Smithsonian
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
This will be fun then follow along. I would love to know if any of the legs of this journey would be accessible for a wheelchair user. Our family has been thinking about Europe by rail from Ireland's West coast 🤔
Dublin to Munich by ferry and train. A live thread 🧵. The journey begins by taking a Dublin bike to the Point. There is a bus that goes to the terminal but I decide to walk along the new Dublin Port Greenway as I have extra time. Walk takes about an hour but it's beautiful.
June 27, 2025 at 5:59 AM
This will be fun then follow along. I would love to know if any of the legs of this journey would be accessible for a wheelchair user. Our family has been thinking about Europe by rail from Ireland's West coast 🤔
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Brighten your day. Historian rediscovers a pre-Incan method of water storage, gets money to restore the existing structures, and the town he grew up in now has access to water 10 hours a day, up from 1/2 hour per day. The details are v. cool.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
A map, a myth and a pre-Incan lagoon: the man who brought water back to a drought-ridden town
When historian Galo Ramón uncovered a long-forgotten pre-Incan water system in Ecuador, he set about restoring it, and helped transform the landscape and livelihoods
www.theguardian.com
June 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Brighten your day. Historian rediscovers a pre-Incan method of water storage, gets money to restore the existing structures, and the town he grew up in now has access to water 10 hours a day, up from 1/2 hour per day. The details are v. cool.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Medieval emoji culture is real.
I give you the itchiest inhabitants of the Book of Kells, because even in a Gospel, there’s room for a joke.
I'm revisiting Donncha MacGabhann's chapter in 'Medieval Humour: Expressions, Receptions and Functions' and I am having great fun.
#medievalsky #BookofKells
I give you the itchiest inhabitants of the Book of Kells, because even in a Gospel, there’s room for a joke.
I'm revisiting Donncha MacGabhann's chapter in 'Medieval Humour: Expressions, Receptions and Functions' and I am having great fun.
#medievalsky #BookofKells
May 31, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Medieval emoji culture is real.
I give you the itchiest inhabitants of the Book of Kells, because even in a Gospel, there’s room for a joke.
I'm revisiting Donncha MacGabhann's chapter in 'Medieval Humour: Expressions, Receptions and Functions' and I am having great fun.
#medievalsky #BookofKells
I give you the itchiest inhabitants of the Book of Kells, because even in a Gospel, there’s room for a joke.
I'm revisiting Donncha MacGabhann's chapter in 'Medieval Humour: Expressions, Receptions and Functions' and I am having great fun.
#medievalsky #BookofKells
Everyone is very welcome to join the CELT Open Day Celebrating Biodiversity Week and our Ancient and Native Woodlands. At the Slieve Aughty Centre on the 24th of May. 1/4
www.celtnet.org/events/celt-...
www.celtnet.org/events/celt-...
CELT Open Day | CELT
Celebrating our Ancient Woodlands & Nature Restoration for National Biodiversity Week
www.celtnet.org
May 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Everyone is very welcome to join the CELT Open Day Celebrating Biodiversity Week and our Ancient and Native Woodlands. At the Slieve Aughty Centre on the 24th of May. 1/4
www.celtnet.org/events/celt-...
www.celtnet.org/events/celt-...
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It's the first working week of May, and of course that means I'm going back to work! My work days vary, but if anyone is thinking of visiting, just let me know. I can always pop in to be your guide 😁
#TourGuide #Workhouse #IrishTourism
www.irishworkhousecentre.ie
#TourGuide #Workhouse #IrishTourism
www.irishworkhousecentre.ie
Home - Irish Workhouse
info@irishworkhousecentre.ie
www.irishworkhousecentre.ie
May 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
It's the first working week of May, and of course that means I'm going back to work! My work days vary, but if anyone is thinking of visiting, just let me know. I can always pop in to be your guide 😁
#TourGuide #Workhouse #IrishTourism
www.irishworkhousecentre.ie
#TourGuide #Workhouse #IrishTourism
www.irishworkhousecentre.ie
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Irish currency design was dope, we all know this, but here's one note that never made it into circulation. The £100 Pirate Queen, Grace O'Malley.
(cancelling a high denomination note featuring the image of a smuggler because it might be used in smuggling is very delicious)
youtu.be/eS4xbUnFuZw?...
(cancelling a high denomination note featuring the image of a smuggler because it might be used in smuggling is very delicious)
youtu.be/eS4xbUnFuZw?...
May 4, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Are you planning to get out and about this Easter weekend?
Choose your own adventure with our exclusive articles and itineraries that help you to discover Ireland's wonderful archaeology, heritage, and story-filled landscapes.
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm #DiscoverIreland #Wildatlanticway
Choose your own adventure with our exclusive articles and itineraries that help you to discover Ireland's wonderful archaeology, heritage, and story-filled landscapes.
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm #DiscoverIreland #Wildatlanticway
April 19, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Are you planning to get out and about this Easter weekend?
Choose your own adventure with our exclusive articles and itineraries that help you to discover Ireland's wonderful archaeology, heritage, and story-filled landscapes.
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm #DiscoverIreland #Wildatlanticway
Choose your own adventure with our exclusive articles and itineraries that help you to discover Ireland's wonderful archaeology, heritage, and story-filled landscapes.
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm #DiscoverIreland #Wildatlanticway
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Delighted to read of this new exhibition in @nmireland.bsky.social featuring seventeen Irish manuscripts loaned from Switzerland’s Abbey of Saint Gall!
(incidentally Gall is said to have been one of those early saints who accompanied Columbanus from Bangor)
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
(incidentally Gall is said to have been one of those early saints who accompanied Columbanus from Bangor)
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Millennium-old monks’ manuscripts return to Ireland for exhibition
Books include religious scriptures and scribbled jokes, giving glimpse of daily lives of early medieval Irish monks
www.theguardian.com
April 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Delighted to read of this new exhibition in @nmireland.bsky.social featuring seventeen Irish manuscripts loaned from Switzerland’s Abbey of Saint Gall!
(incidentally Gall is said to have been one of those early saints who accompanied Columbanus from Bangor)
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
(incidentally Gall is said to have been one of those early saints who accompanied Columbanus from Bangor)
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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For any tourists visiting these shores this summer, I recommend this detailed map of Britain, Ireland and the Orkneys, from “Topography Of Ireland” by Gerald Of Wales (1187)
April 14, 2025 at 5:40 AM
For any tourists visiting these shores this summer, I recommend this detailed map of Britain, Ireland and the Orkneys, from “Topography Of Ireland” by Gerald Of Wales (1187)
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Just captured the most amazing rainbow I have ever seen!
April 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Just captured the most amazing rainbow I have ever seen!
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In today's edition of our free #MonumentMonday newsletter, we take a look at how field names can hold the hidden histories and stories of a landscape.
April 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
In today's edition of our free #MonumentMonday newsletter, we take a look at how field names can hold the hidden histories and stories of a landscape.
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“This Is the Community’s Wealth”: New Insight into the Galloway Hoard www.medievalists.net/2025/02/comm... #Medieval
“This Is the Community’s Wealth”: New Insight into the Galloway Hoard - Medievalists.net
An inscription on one of the arm-rings from the Galloway Hoard may finally have been deciphered, offering fresh insights into the origins of this extraordinary Viking-Age treasure trove.
www.medievalists.net
April 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
“This Is the Community’s Wealth”: New Insight into the Galloway Hoard www.medievalists.net/2025/02/comm... #Medieval