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Michael McGovern
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Paint, pencil, charcoal, camera, mandolin, button accordion, trad, Bach, the sea, the mountains, the woods, féileacáin, home grown food, #commongroundbray, climate science, biodiversity
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Street art in Cork #art #davidattenborough #cork
May 4, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Rough and ready sourdough hit cross buns. Happy Easter.
April 18, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Last week there was a large frog flat out on top of the frozen garden pond. I thought it was dead but it wasn't frozen solid so I slid it to an unfrozen corner of the pond and it sank to the bottom. This morning it swam up from the bottom as I peered in. I think it gave me a thumbs up.
January 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Cork city across the rooftops with the four-faced liar (church of St Anne in Shandon usually shows a different time on each ckockface)
#art #acrylic #cork #ireland
January 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Waiting for the 09:37 into Dublin
#birds #photography
January 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
A work of art... and I can eat it! #sourdough
January 12, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Reposted by Michael McGovern
Brilliant. Martyn Turner puts it in the back of the net once again.
December 4, 2024 at 5:30 PM
#Killiney bay looking from the Vico bathing place towards the Wicklow mountains. #art #watercolour
January 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
December 31, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Traditional Irish dancing in #Ennis with Mick Kinsella on harmonica and Josephine Marsh on accordion. #traditionalirishmusic
December 21, 2024 at 2:13 PM
Chair scrapyard in #Ennis friary
#photography
December 16, 2024 at 9:46 AM
Looking across the #IrishSea from #Dalkey before sunset. #JoanBaez had a swim here today.
#acrylic #art
December 12, 2024 at 7:58 PM
Little Egret, Broad Lough, Wicklow #charcoal #birds
December 7, 2024 at 10:17 AM
Is that a friendly face? Glad I had a stream between me and him. #art #pencil
December 5, 2024 at 1:08 PM
This hoodie is waiting to share my lunch #birds #killineybay
December 4, 2024 at 9:01 AM
Reposted by Michael McGovern
One image goes a long way to explaining why Ireland is among the most nature-wrecked places on Earth: sheep + sitka.
December 4, 2024 at 7:32 AM
Bridge over the Lough Allen Canal, Drumshanbo. The painting is a bit chocolate boxy but brings back memories of trad sessions in Drumshanbo.
#drumshanbo #acrylic #traditionalirishmusic
November 30, 2024 at 8:40 AM
November 28, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Great session last week with Eamonn Walsh on uilleann pipes and Mary Kelly on harp and piano.
#traditionalirishmusic #uilleannpipes
#harp
#comhaltas
November 28, 2024 at 9:20 AM
Reposted by Michael McGovern
A tour-de-force of scholarship and detective work: Fara Dabhoiwala reveals that a portrait of an 18th-century Black scientist, long dismissed as a caricature, is in fact a record of the man's mastery of Newtonian physics—and the only painting made in 1759 of the return of Halley's comet.
Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due
The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...
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November 26, 2024 at 2:02 AM
Reposted by Michael McGovern
In 1970 the richest 1% had about 4x the wealth of the average person, and the richest 0.01% had about 30x.

Now the richest 1% have 12x the wealth of the average person, and the richest 0.01% have 1000x.

This is the problem.
November 25, 2024 at 10:00 PM