Doire
@doirea.bsky.social
Trainee pensioner. Cat PA. Bernadettista. Amateur Local Historian. Derry til I die.
100 times this.
It’s long past time for a general boycott full stop.
The National
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The National
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October 19, 2025 at 10:39 AM
100 times this.
Not for the first time.
some of the columnists are making themselves look absolutely deranged over this i must say
October 19, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Not for the first time.
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One thing this election seems to be showing is that the influence of the Indo, Mail etc has declined considerably. Nobody is listening anymore. #aras25
October 19, 2025 at 10:23 AM
One thing this election seems to be showing is that the influence of the Indo, Mail etc has declined considerably. Nobody is listening anymore. #aras25
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Sophie Woodrow, contemporary ceramics artist who creates odd ceramic figures #womensart
September 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Sophie Woodrow, contemporary ceramics artist who creates odd ceramic figures #womensart
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I'm self-radicalizing online to become a better gardener and cat aficionado. 🌱😻
September 14, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I'm self-radicalizing online to become a better gardener and cat aficionado. 🌱😻
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'Solar System' quilt by Ellen Harding Baker of Cedar County, Iowa, US in 1876, she used her textile work as a teaching aid for her lectures on astronomy in the small towns of her state.
Find out more in the 1st @womensart1 book,
'Unravelling Women's Art'....
Find out more in the 1st @womensart1 book,
'Unravelling Women's Art'....
September 14, 2025 at 5:21 AM
'Solar System' quilt by Ellen Harding Baker of Cedar County, Iowa, US in 1876, she used her textile work as a teaching aid for her lectures on astronomy in the small towns of her state.
Find out more in the 1st @womensart1 book,
'Unravelling Women's Art'....
Find out more in the 1st @womensart1 book,
'Unravelling Women's Art'....
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I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.
Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit
Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.
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Someone braver than me needs to get a friend, go to a protest, one of you with a 'I support PA' sign and the other hold a UVF flag.
See what happens.
See what happens.
August 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Someone braver than me needs to get a friend, go to a protest, one of you with a 'I support PA' sign and the other hold a UVF flag.
See what happens.
See what happens.
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It’s quite easy to cling to free speech absolutism when you are not the target of a promised ethnic cleansing. The “marketplace of ideas” is a legitimising myth for such politics of annihilation, and “debating” ethno-nationalism is nothing more than the gamification of another’s humanity.
March 17, 2025 at 8:48 AM
It’s quite easy to cling to free speech absolutism when you are not the target of a promised ethnic cleansing. The “marketplace of ideas” is a legitimising myth for such politics of annihilation, and “debating” ethno-nationalism is nothing more than the gamification of another’s humanity.
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Forget armed bodyguards: I need someone to invent an Auntie app. It pairs you with an Auntie (any gender/race) about a generation older than you. They spend the day on the phone with you, tell you not to worry because you’re amazing, and make you give the phone to strangers so they can talk you up
February 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Forget armed bodyguards: I need someone to invent an Auntie app. It pairs you with an Auntie (any gender/race) about a generation older than you. They spend the day on the phone with you, tell you not to worry because you’re amazing, and make you give the phone to strangers so they can talk you up
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I never want to hear another American joke about the French surrendering quickly. They had an actual resistance.
February 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I never want to hear another American joke about the French surrendering quickly. They had an actual resistance.
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The equivalent of a Category 2 hurricane due to hit County Clare in the next few hours
January 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
The equivalent of a Category 2 hurricane due to hit County Clare in the next few hours
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A poem I wrote to perform at Glastonbury on the anniversary of Sinead O Connor’s death. Today would have been her 58th birthday - a truly great artist - “they buried me, but they didn’t know I was a seed”
December 9, 2024 at 12:15 AM
A poem I wrote to perform at Glastonbury on the anniversary of Sinead O Connor’s death. Today would have been her 58th birthday - a truly great artist - “they buried me, but they didn’t know I was a seed”
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Scarred For Life advent calendar door seven: THE TOMORROW PEOPLE, a show with one of the moodiest title sequences of the 70s, and some of the trippiest visuals...
December 7, 2024 at 4:03 PM
Scarred For Life advent calendar door seven: THE TOMORROW PEOPLE, a show with one of the moodiest title sequences of the 70s, and some of the trippiest visuals...
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At Guedelon in France, they are building a C13th castle using only C13th techniques. (Do go: it's fabulous.) People often question the usefulness of experimental archaeology.
Well, sometimes it turns out to be handy to have people around who know how to build large early medieval buildings...🤔
Well, sometimes it turns out to be handy to have people around who know how to build large early medieval buildings...🤔
Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it
November 29, 2024 at 8:53 AM
At Guedelon in France, they are building a C13th castle using only C13th techniques. (Do go: it's fabulous.) People often question the usefulness of experimental archaeology.
Well, sometimes it turns out to be handy to have people around who know how to build large early medieval buildings...🤔
Well, sometimes it turns out to be handy to have people around who know how to build large early medieval buildings...🤔
This is a great movie - and if you're ever struggling to explain the term "gaslit" to someone, just tell them to watch it.
Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer in a publicity still for Gaslight (1944)
December 7, 2024 at 3:55 PM
This is a great movie - and if you're ever struggling to explain the term "gaslit" to someone, just tell them to watch it.
Fabulous thread for the day that's in it. #NotreDame
Notre Dame in Paris re-opens this wkd.
I'm a cathedral nerd. Here are some things that you might not notice about it – just from that one photo.
THREAD.
1. You can see straight down the nave to the apse. No medieval English cathedral has that.
I'm a cathedral nerd. Here are some things that you might not notice about it – just from that one photo.
THREAD.
1. You can see straight down the nave to the apse. No medieval English cathedral has that.
December 7, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Fabulous thread for the day that's in it. #NotreDame
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Happy birthday to #StColumba, born #OTD in Gartan Co #Donegal though he fell in love with #Derry and became our patron saint. Even though he didn't found the city, as the legend has it, he loved it and you'll find him all over the city, from churches to holy wells to statues to publishers.
December 7, 2024 at 9:44 AM
Happy birthday to #StColumba, born #OTD in Gartan Co #Donegal though he fell in love with #Derry and became our patron saint. Even though he didn't found the city, as the legend has it, he loved it and you'll find him all over the city, from churches to holy wells to statues to publishers.
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The Gregg Wallace stuff really is like an increasingly shitty advent calendar.
December 3, 2024 at 10:52 PM
The Gregg Wallace stuff really is like an increasingly shitty advent calendar.
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Funny that at no point do the Media suggest that billionaires are unaffordable and that they need an 80+% tax on them, like they had in the 1970's.
December 3, 2024 at 11:59 PM
Funny that at no point do the Media suggest that billionaires are unaffordable and that they need an 80+% tax on them, like they had in the 1970's.
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Christmas Stalls in Bantry in aid of MSF in Gaza 6th December 11-2pm Marino Church.
December 3, 2024 at 10:24 PM
Christmas Stalls in Bantry in aid of MSF in Gaza 6th December 11-2pm Marino Church.
🤣🤣🤣
Excellent coz 4 minutes is about all the exercise I do. (Four minutes of brisk walking to the kitchen to cut myself a piece of cake.)
Four minutes of daily exertion can halve heart attack risk in women, finds study
December 3, 2024 at 11:59 PM
🤣🤣🤣
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Derry Girls or Senna...
We know what's going to happen here.
'Senna was a Derry man.'
When is a blue plaque going up to note that a Brazilian racing legend lived here?
Joking aside, nice to see the city being used as a location for another big show.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainmen...
We know what's going to happen here.
'Senna was a Derry man.'
When is a blue plaque going up to note that a Brazilian racing legend lived here?
Joking aside, nice to see the city being used as a location for another big show.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainmen...
Surprise as new Netflix series on Brazilian racing legend Senna shows couple moving to Derry
A new Netflix documentary about Ayrton Senna has surprised viewers with some scenes more reminiscent of an episode of Derry Girls rather than that of the Brazilian motorsport legend.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
December 1, 2024 at 5:26 PM
Derry Girls or Senna...
We know what's going to happen here.
'Senna was a Derry man.'
When is a blue plaque going up to note that a Brazilian racing legend lived here?
Joking aside, nice to see the city being used as a location for another big show.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainmen...
We know what's going to happen here.
'Senna was a Derry man.'
When is a blue plaque going up to note that a Brazilian racing legend lived here?
Joking aside, nice to see the city being used as a location for another big show.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainmen...
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All titles now available from colmcillepress.com
December 1, 2024 at 9:04 PM
All titles now available from colmcillepress.com
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Was trying to explain to my husband how Michael Lowry is a somewhat controversial figure in Irish politics, but @wikipedia.bsky.social did it for me.
November 30, 2024 at 10:39 PM
Was trying to explain to my husband how Michael Lowry is a somewhat controversial figure in Irish politics, but @wikipedia.bsky.social did it for me.