Chris Doyle
@gollygee2004.bsky.social
Dad at Home, Surfer at Ocean, Classicist originally, now a Medieval History Lecturer, & other interesting things surely, posts in a personal capacity, from London to Mayo...West of Ireland
https://www.universityofgalway.ie/history/
https://www.universityofgalway.ie/history/
Leaflets for Open Day
October 4, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Leaflets for Open Day
Gave a talk on early medieval Irish beekeeping laws last Tuesday evening to an audience that included a Zoologist specialising in honeybee genetics as well as some practising beekeepers...no pressure then! I learned some new things about bees in turn😃 #medievalireland #brehon #bees #bechbretha
September 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Gave a talk on early medieval Irish beekeeping laws last Tuesday evening to an audience that included a Zoologist specialising in honeybee genetics as well as some practising beekeepers...no pressure then! I learned some new things about bees in turn😃 #medievalireland #brehon #bees #bechbretha
Comhaontas i gCoinne Cinedhíothú
September 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Comhaontas i gCoinne Cinedhíothú
September 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Murmuration at New Quay, Co. Clare, earlier today
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September 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Murmuration at New Quay, Co. Clare, earlier today
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Getting jobs finished on our 200+ year old house before teaching begins.....new fascia and soffit, replacing and fixing slipped bangor slates....chimney next...
August 25, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Getting jobs finished on our 200+ year old house before teaching begins.....new fascia and soffit, replacing and fixing slipped bangor slates....chimney next...
My review of Patrick Gleeson's tremendous book 'Landscapes of Kingship in Early Medieval Ireland AD 400-1150' (IrishTimes 23/08/25). Very hard to do it proper justice in 800 words, but already it has led me to redesign my medieval Irish lecture modules @historyatgalway.bsky.social #medievalireland.
August 25, 2025 at 8:24 AM
My review of Patrick Gleeson's tremendous book 'Landscapes of Kingship in Early Medieval Ireland AD 400-1150' (IrishTimes 23/08/25). Very hard to do it proper justice in 800 words, but already it has led me to redesign my medieval Irish lecture modules @historyatgalway.bsky.social #medievalireland.
Native Irish black bees (Apis mellifera mellifera) in the back garden
July 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Native Irish black bees (Apis mellifera mellifera) in the back garden
#medievalsky
Afternoon walk with Lucky down the ancient lane from our house past 2 early medieval stone cathairs/cashels (Cahermore and Cahershanbacky). In Rahasne turlough (ca. 650 acres), biggest in Ireland, usually dry this time of year. Recent rains however say otherwise.... #burrenlowlands
Afternoon walk with Lucky down the ancient lane from our house past 2 early medieval stone cathairs/cashels (Cahermore and Cahershanbacky). In Rahasne turlough (ca. 650 acres), biggest in Ireland, usually dry this time of year. Recent rains however say otherwise.... #burrenlowlands
July 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
#medievalsky
Afternoon walk with Lucky down the ancient lane from our house past 2 early medieval stone cathairs/cashels (Cahermore and Cahershanbacky). In Rahasne turlough (ca. 650 acres), biggest in Ireland, usually dry this time of year. Recent rains however say otherwise.... #burrenlowlands
Afternoon walk with Lucky down the ancient lane from our house past 2 early medieval stone cathairs/cashels (Cahermore and Cahershanbacky). In Rahasne turlough (ca. 650 acres), biggest in Ireland, usually dry this time of year. Recent rains however say otherwise.... #burrenlowlands
New potatoes and peas 🫠
July 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
New potatoes and peas 🫠
Ah, takes me back...
July 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Ah, takes me back...
A book my Grandmother kept. She was a QA at Salerno, Anzio, Cassino and eventually Greece during the Civil War there
July 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM
A book my Grandmother kept. She was a QA at Salerno, Anzio, Cassino and eventually Greece during the Civil War there
This is a page from my Grandmother's diary in 1943 during the invasion of Italy. She was a theatre sister in the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service. At this point in the diary, she off the coast of Salerno, soon to be at Anzio, later still at Monte Cassino.
July 8, 2025 at 9:46 PM
This is a page from my Grandmother's diary in 1943 during the invasion of Italy. She was a theatre sister in the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service. At this point in the diary, she off the coast of Salerno, soon to be at Anzio, later still at Monte Cassino.
Hehe😃 here's some shots of our brazier blazing the day/night away...
June 21, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Hehe😃 here's some shots of our brazier blazing the day/night away...
Since March 2024 there's a weekly trade union solidarity action @universityofgalway.bsky.social , part of a wider campus wide coalition calling for: ceasefire; stopping the Genocide, ending the illegal Israeli Occupation; our employer (and others in the HE Sector) to disclose, divest and sanction
June 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Since March 2024 there's a weekly trade union solidarity action @universityofgalway.bsky.social , part of a wider campus wide coalition calling for: ceasefire; stopping the Genocide, ending the illegal Israeli Occupation; our employer (and others in the HE Sector) to disclose, divest and sanction
At @universityofgalway.bsky.social since March 2024 there's a weekly trade union solidarity action part of wider campus wide coalition calling for: ceasefire; stopping the Genocide ending the illegal Israeli Occupation; our employer (and others in the HE Sector) to disclose, divest and sanction
June 12, 2025 at 10:14 PM
At @universityofgalway.bsky.social since March 2024 there's a weekly trade union solidarity action part of wider campus wide coalition calling for: ceasefire; stopping the Genocide ending the illegal Israeli Occupation; our employer (and others in the HE Sector) to disclose, divest and sanction
At Yousef Al-Helou's 'The Phoenix of Gaza' documentary in the Druid Theatre Galway. Beautiful picture of life in Gaza city, summer 2023, most of which has been destroyed since. Yousef gave well over an hour of Q&A after, accompanied by our own Catherine Connolly, TD in the Dáil (Irish Parliament).
April 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
At Yousef Al-Helou's 'The Phoenix of Gaza' documentary in the Druid Theatre Galway. Beautiful picture of life in Gaza city, summer 2023, most of which has been destroyed since. Yousef gave well over an hour of Q&A after, accompanied by our own Catherine Connolly, TD in the Dáil (Irish Parliament).
Blackthorn out in force
April 7, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Blackthorn out in force
Trip home through the mountains between Mayo and Galway
April 3, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Trip home through the mountains between Mayo and Galway
Too beautiful to not share, Doolough Valley, between Counties Mayo and Galway
April 2, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Too beautiful to not share, Doolough Valley, between Counties Mayo and Galway
Had lovely experience talking to the Westport Beekeepers Association about medieval Irish bee laws 🐝. Surf in morning at Louisburgh...hopefully🤞 🏄♂️
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April 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Had lovely experience talking to the Westport Beekeepers Association about medieval Irish bee laws 🐝. Surf in morning at Louisburgh...hopefully🤞 🏄♂️
@historyatgalway.bsky.social @galwayclassics.bsky.social @campsgalway.bsky.social #medievalireland @celticstudiesmu.bsky.social @scs-dias.bsky.social
@historyatgalway.bsky.social @galwayclassics.bsky.social @campsgalway.bsky.social #medievalireland @celticstudiesmu.bsky.social @scs-dias.bsky.social