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Released in December '81, this mighty 12" by Eek A Mouse is telling the half that is rarely told in Christmas songs.

Precision backing by Roots Radics with Scientist at the mixing desk...

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#reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky
12" of Eek A Mouse - Christmas A Come on Greensleeves label. Released in 1981. Produced by Linval Thompson. Backed by Roots Radics. Mixed by Scientist at Channel One.
December 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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fortpointer.bsky.social
Here’s what it looks like from the bridge. In a way, Don got lucky because it didn’t blow out of the Channel..
December 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Libraries bring people together through learning, connection, and belonging. With your support, they can remain places where everyone belongs—today and for generations to come.

Make a year-end gift to support libraries: bit.ly/ForOurLibraries2025.

“In my hometown the library has become my elderly dad’s social lifeline. He visits the library a couple of times a week, checks out large-print books, and reads newspapers he can no longer afford to subscribe to, but the best is simply getting out of the house, going to a place where he feels welcome.” Royce, Southern California Give now to support libraries. American Library Association. For Our Libraries.
December 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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eolai.bsky.social
Another west of Ireland #painting. "Connemara Cottage" came from a day cycling in circles in north Connemara up and down hills and onto a beach, looking for roads that didn't exist while making memories that lasted forever. And I kept coming back to this scene. #art #SpeirGhorm #ArtAdventCalendar
Landscape format in painterly acrylics on canvas. View across fields, that dip in the foreground, to a white bungalow sitting above the dip on the flat top with 3 round-peaked pale blue and purple mountains in the distance behind. The house is facing the viewer in shadow with the left gable visible in bright sunshine. The roof is lilac grey with two sky lights. Foreground grass has orange strokes and yellow dots scattered among the lighter greens before a dry stone wall of greys, lilacs, pinks, blues and almost white, while behind it fence posts and a dark wine hedge run across sloping down to the left. Mid-ground yellow-green fields have several scattered loose large rocks, and stone walls sloping down to the left with dark green bushes at the top on the right. Sky is thick pale cloud with very pale blue seeping through and its lower smokey parts touching the rounded mountain peaks. Signed bottom right in the pale grey of the stone walls, Liam Daly
December 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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eolai.bsky.social
A #painting for your enjoyment. "Stone Walls, Galway Bay" came from a day I cycled happily into a wonderful world of walls, thinking one day I'll have my own garden and in the middle of it I will build a wall that stands alone serving no function other than being a wall. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear
Landscape format in painterly acrylics on canvas. View across 3 small fields on undulating mounds, enclosed by blue-grey dry-stone walls with two of the walls built over the top of each mound such that they arch horizontally across the painting, and the other two walls going diagonally from the left edge such that overall the walls are in a zig-zag pattern. Inside them is rough green grass ranging from yellow to almost black elements, and the corner of the field in the bottom left is a messy orange. The walls have dark blue shadows between the stones but with larger black shadows in the foreground. Smaller stones are along the top. Beyond is a band of very pale, almost white, water of the bay running the full width of the picture, with on the far side on the left along the horizon a headland of flat pale blue. The sky is deep yellow with loose paler yellow smokey bands to suggest clouds. Signed top right: Liam Daly
March 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Becoming a U.S. citizen takes years and involves immigrants acquiring a green card, extensive interviews, background checks, classes and a citizenship test. The naturalization ceremony is the final step to the process, where the oath of allegiance and a citizenship certificate are granted. Immigrants approved to be naturalized went to Faneuil Hall Thursday - known as the country's cradle of liberty - for that long-awaited moment to pledge allegiance to the United States. But instead, as they lined up, some were told by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials that they couldn't proceed due to their countries of origin.
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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If a rose can go by any other name and still smell as sweet, then "Little Cambridge," now known as Brighton, can still be just as historic and cool.
WATCH: WBZ NewsRadio's Jeromey Russ Explores "Little Cambridge" | WBZ NewsRadio 1030
If a rose can go by any other name and still smell as sweet, then Little Cambridge, now known as Brighton can still be just as historic and cool.
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December 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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ciaraioch.bsky.social
Manannán Mac Lir - son of the sea, ancient warrior, powerful sea god, and member of the Tuatha Dé Danann in Irish mythology - commands a ferocious sea on a stormy day 🌊

Prints are available here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
Illustration of Manannán Mac Lir stretching a hand out over a stormy sea towards a currach. The print is overlaid on a photo of a stormy sea. #Art #BlueskyArt #Ireland #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #TraditionalArt #HandDrawn
December 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Mothers who lost sons at the Little Bighorn & on USS Maine; Widows of Antietam & Gettysburg; veterans who lost limbs and narratives of loss and murder. Some of the 720+ stories in the "Yankee Pensioners in Ireland 1845-1905 Interactive Map": storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/4e3d...
Yankee Pensioners in Ireland 1845-1905: An Interactive Map
An interactive map with biographical info and addresses of 700+ women, men and children who received U.S. pensions in 19th century Ireland.
storymaps.arcgis.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Watch /listen to Boston’s mayor Michelle Wu live her dream..

Playing with Yo Yo Ma.. 🥰
November 23, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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gummyarts.bsky.social
The debut album by the Raincoats was released on this date in 1979.
Colored-pencil card drawing of the Raincoats
November 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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eolai.bsky.social
A new #painting. "Cill Chiaráin". Kilkieran if you prefer. One ridiculous perfect day in South Connemara I was painting by the side of a road. Everywhere I looked I saw more paintings I knew I'd paint later. This is later. I love this part of the world. Love it. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm #MountainMonday
Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. Coastal scene with a bay of pale blue coming in from the right in the foreground to a stony shoreline of orange and dark magenta, almost black, seaweed and grey rocks. Further back, running across the centre line the rocks and seaweed are a paler magenta and peach, and the water a paler blue with a hint of teal. The land behind the rocky shoreline is a patchwork of lime green and olive green very small rough fields enclosed by dozens of undulating grey dry stone walls. Some bushes are in foreground behind a broken wall by the shore at the bottom of the picture. Further back about two-thirds of the way up the painting, just left of centre, is a small single story cottage of cream, with a grey roof, almost blending into the walls and fields around it. Some dark trees are dotted around in the far fields before the horizon where there are clumps of very dark blue-green pine trees contrasting with the pale field. Behind them is a wine narrow slope on the left, a large dark blue mountain sloping up to the right edge, a large paler turquoise pyramidal mountain behind it left of centre, and other steep mountains behind, receding in paler shades of blue. Sky is watery smokey white and pale blue of a sunny day with light indistinct clouds and very light touches of yellow and even green towards the left. Signed bottom right in magenta on the blue water, Liam Daly
September 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
'Moonrise' by Frances Seward, UK born contemporary abstract photographer based in New Mexico #WomensArt
Photograph of moon rising over still green water with white gold reflections
November 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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gummyarts.bsky.social
Sinéad O’Connor’s “The Lion and the Cobra” was released on this date in 1987.
Colored-pencil card drawing of Sinéad O’Connor
November 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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gummyarts.bsky.social
Shohei vs Scherzer, World Series Game 7
Colored-pencil card drawing of Shohei Ohtani Colored-pencil card drawing of Max Scherzer
November 1, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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burnslibrary.bsky.social
Did you know that Burns Library has a copy of Dracula translated into Irish? This 1933 volume was translated by Seán Ó Cuirrín and features cover art by Dublin born artist Austin Malloy. Want to look at it yourself? Visit us!
Green and yellow cover of Dracula
October 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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unamullally.bsky.social
New from Lankum: Ghost Town.

Incredible, and just in time for Samhain.
Lankum - Ghost Town (Official Video)
YouTube video by LankumDublin
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October 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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ciaraioch.bsky.social
“Are you wearing the-“
“The poorly but enthusiastically sculpted Samhain turnip earrings I made a few years ago? Yeah, I am.”
Photography of two little sculpted carved turnip head earrings #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art #Samhain #Halloween Yours truly wearing them (white woman with dark brown hair)
October 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Coming up in #Dorchester on Nov. 8.
October 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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aidanosullivan.bsky.social
This was one my best, we’re carving Irish Halloween turnips today, in homage to the ur-turnip from 1943 from Ballyfin, Co Donegal, in National Museum of Ireland

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#Halloween #Samhain #OicheShamhna
October 27, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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I talked a lot of shit when I was trying to get everyone to turn off Desperate Housewives and Sunday Night Football. But if that's the crooked path to pop culture immortality, so be it. Thanks for the shoutout, jeopardyofficial@bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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On her stunning new album The BPM, the multi-instrumentalist Sudan Archives explores the freedom of augmented reality and technology through the sounds of club music. n.pr/3WRL7CF
In an era of techno-dystopia, Sudan Archive's 'The BPM' imagines a liberated future
On her stunning new album The BPM, the multi-instrumentalist Sudan Archives explores the freedom of augmented reality and technology through the sounds of club music.
n.pr
October 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Thanks for supporting The Dublin Pub which has gone into the bestsellers list upon release.

An honour to be there with not one but THREE titles from the legendary Manchán Magan. His loss will be deeply felt for a long time, and I will miss our chance encounters in the Blackpitts and beyond.
October 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Books Ain’t Screens
October 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM