Des FitzGerald
@fitzgeralddes.bsky.social
RHA Gallery | Dublin City FM (2003-23) | Le Cool Dublin (2010-16) | 🇪🇺
Don't miss Words on the Wave – Ireland and St. Gallen in Early Medieval Europe at the @nmireland.bsky.social - it ends next week. Congratulations to all who put together such a beautiful book to accompany the exhibition 👏
October 16, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Don't miss Words on the Wave – Ireland and St. Gallen in Early Medieval Europe at the @nmireland.bsky.social - it ends next week. Congratulations to all who put together such a beautiful book to accompany the exhibition 👏
Always think of my college days in Bath back in the 1990s when reading Seamus Heaney - today's Irish Times has a previously unpublished poem about his two sisters.
October 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Always think of my college days in Bath back in the 1990s when reading Seamus Heaney - today's Irish Times has a previously unpublished poem about his two sisters.
Letter of the week - perhaps year, in today's Irish Times...
September 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Letter of the week - perhaps year, in today's Irish Times...
The race for Irish President 🗳 is on!
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The race for Irish President 🗳 is on!
I'm looking forward to hearing @ianleslie.bsky.social talking all things Beatles next week at the Pavilion Theatre - enjoying his book and now tempted by other Fab Four titles...
July 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I'm looking forward to hearing @ianleslie.bsky.social talking all things Beatles next week at the Pavilion Theatre - enjoying his book and now tempted by other Fab Four titles...
A little bit of a #Bloomsday saunter around Dublin last Monday 📚
June 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
A little bit of a #Bloomsday saunter around Dublin last Monday 📚
Some vintage Citroën cars spotted on a recent Dalkey ramble 😍
May 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Some vintage Citroën cars spotted on a recent Dalkey ramble 😍
Wonderful to watch Canadian Carter Johnson win the First Prize at the 2025 Dublin International Piano Competition in the National Concert Hall last night 👏
May 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Wonderful to watch Canadian Carter Johnson win the First Prize at the 2025 Dublin International Piano Competition in the National Concert Hall last night 👏
Wonderful sunset on Killiney Hill yesterday evening - I need to go up there more often for these!
May 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Wonderful sunset on Killiney Hill yesterday evening - I need to go up there more often for these!
It was @brayjazz.bsky.social Festival time again this weekend.
Saw the Finnish 🎺 Verneri Pohjola & his band at the Mermaid Theatre last night. His bass player father, Pekka Pohjola, worked with Mike Oldfield.
Brilliant music from them and the opening act, the Francesco Turrisi Trio 👏
Saw the Finnish 🎺 Verneri Pohjola & his band at the Mermaid Theatre last night. His bass player father, Pekka Pohjola, worked with Mike Oldfield.
Brilliant music from them and the opening act, the Francesco Turrisi Trio 👏
May 5, 2025 at 10:31 AM
It was @brayjazz.bsky.social Festival time again this weekend.
Saw the Finnish 🎺 Verneri Pohjola & his band at the Mermaid Theatre last night. His bass player father, Pekka Pohjola, worked with Mike Oldfield.
Brilliant music from them and the opening act, the Francesco Turrisi Trio 👏
Saw the Finnish 🎺 Verneri Pohjola & his band at the Mermaid Theatre last night. His bass player father, Pekka Pohjola, worked with Mike Oldfield.
Brilliant music from them and the opening act, the Francesco Turrisi Trio 👏
I've been an Observer reader since around 1990, long before it was a Guardian owned publication. Today marks the first issue under new ownership.
Sadly in Ireland, we're not getting the higher grade paper stock. Apart from that, still very much recognisable as the Observer 🗞
Sadly in Ireland, we're not getting the higher grade paper stock. Apart from that, still very much recognisable as the Observer 🗞
April 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM
I've been an Observer reader since around 1990, long before it was a Guardian owned publication. Today marks the first issue under new ownership.
Sadly in Ireland, we're not getting the higher grade paper stock. Apart from that, still very much recognisable as the Observer 🗞
Sadly in Ireland, we're not getting the higher grade paper stock. Apart from that, still very much recognisable as the Observer 🗞
The madness of the Trinity College Dublin Bookfair - I may have bought too many 😅
February 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The madness of the Trinity College Dublin Bookfair - I may have bought too many 😅
Happy New Year from Sandycove, Co. Dublin 🍾 #happynewyear #2025
December 31, 2024 at 11:45 PM
Happy New Year from Sandycove, Co. Dublin 🍾 #happynewyear #2025
Happy New Year from Sandycove 🍾
December 31, 2024 at 11:43 PM
Happy New Year from Sandycove 🍾
It isn't St Stephen's Day in Ireland without a photo on the cover of the Irish Times of Christmas Day swimmers leaping into the Forty Foot - and @turnercartoons.bsky.social annual calendar release. So good I had to buy it twice 🤪
December 26, 2024 at 1:00 PM
It isn't St Stephen's Day in Ireland without a photo on the cover of the Irish Times of Christmas Day swimmers leaping into the Forty Foot - and @turnercartoons.bsky.social annual calendar release. So good I had to buy it twice 🤪
Spotify Unwrapped as useless an endeavour as ever. Won't argue with this guy at #1 however 🤪
December 4, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Spotify Unwrapped as useless an endeavour as ever. Won't argue with this guy at #1 however 🤪
Fergus Martin's sculpture 'Barrel', (2019).
Showing as part of 'Kites above the Castles', at Mary Lavin Place, Wilton Park, Dublin 2.
Open daily 11am – 5pm. Ends Saturday.
🖱 caga.ie/events/group-show-kites-above-the-castle
Showing as part of 'Kites above the Castles', at Mary Lavin Place, Wilton Park, Dublin 2.
Open daily 11am – 5pm. Ends Saturday.
🖱 caga.ie/events/group-show-kites-above-the-castle
November 20, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Fergus Martin's sculpture 'Barrel', (2019).
Showing as part of 'Kites above the Castles', at Mary Lavin Place, Wilton Park, Dublin 2.
Open daily 11am – 5pm. Ends Saturday.
🖱 caga.ie/events/group-show-kites-above-the-castle
Showing as part of 'Kites above the Castles', at Mary Lavin Place, Wilton Park, Dublin 2.
Open daily 11am – 5pm. Ends Saturday.
🖱 caga.ie/events/group-show-kites-above-the-castle
Stockholm last weekend - one of my favourite cities.
November 17, 2024 at 5:44 PM
Stockholm last weekend - one of my favourite cities.
Spotted this fine looking chap at the @rcsi.bsky.social this evening...
October 23, 2024 at 8:03 PM
Spotted this fine looking chap at the @rcsi.bsky.social this evening...
Who doesn't love some weather-beaten signage...
September 7, 2024 at 11:30 AM
Who doesn't love some weather-beaten signage...
At the Ukulele Hooley festival in Dún Laoghaire's People's Park today 🌺
August 25, 2024 at 4:34 PM
At the Ukulele Hooley festival in Dún Laoghaire's People's Park today 🌺
Last chance to see this pair of paintings together - which hasn't happened since 1889.
The National Gallery of Ireland has reunited the Frick Collection’s 'Mistress and Maid' (1666/7) by Johannes Vermeer with the National Gallery’s 'Woman Writing a Letter, with her Maid'. (1670/1).
Ends Sunday.
The National Gallery of Ireland has reunited the Frick Collection’s 'Mistress and Maid' (1666/7) by Johannes Vermeer with the National Gallery’s 'Woman Writing a Letter, with her Maid'. (1670/1).
Ends Sunday.
August 16, 2024 at 6:13 PM
Last chance to see this pair of paintings together - which hasn't happened since 1889.
The National Gallery of Ireland has reunited the Frick Collection’s 'Mistress and Maid' (1666/7) by Johannes Vermeer with the National Gallery’s 'Woman Writing a Letter, with her Maid'. (1670/1).
Ends Sunday.
The National Gallery of Ireland has reunited the Frick Collection’s 'Mistress and Maid' (1666/7) by Johannes Vermeer with the National Gallery’s 'Woman Writing a Letter, with her Maid'. (1670/1).
Ends Sunday.
Dún Laoghaire Baths, around noon last Saturday 🌬
March 13, 2024 at 7:21 PM
Dún Laoghaire Baths, around noon last Saturday 🌬