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M Lonergan
@mlonergan.bsky.social
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Graphic art + visual communication | bit of Gaeilge | buddhist, queer, #actuallyautistic | diversity + intersectionality | she/her/they/them | 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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My two favourite books telling the story of the relationship between the Irish state and the arts. To read them is to see many things change across time, and also to recognise that certain things just keep arising, over and over again in slightly different guises.
#speirgorm #artscouncil #arts
Two books side by side. Book on left is ‘A School of Art in Dublin since the 18th Century - A History of the National College of Art & Design’ by John Turpin. Book on right is ‘Dreams and Responsibilities - The State and the Arts in Independent Ireland’ by Brian P Kennedy. Excerpt from Dreams and Responsibilities by Brian P Kennedy. Text reads: After the Treaty, the Ministry of Fine Arts was abolished but nobody told the Secretary, Labhrás Breathnach. He wrote to Diarmuid O hEigeartaigh, Secretary to Dáil Eireann: 'Would you kindly let me know if anything has been definitely decided about this Dept. I have not received any official instructions yet as to its termination so I am undecided whether to stay or not'. O hEigeartaigh replied that the Department of Fine Arts had been merged with the Department of Education. It did not re-emerge for another sixty years.
June 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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www.subset.ie in Smithfield, D7. #spéirgorm #streetart #streetphotography
Street art portrait of man’s face on cement wall in laneway. Dumped mattress and bed frame in front of mural.
June 2, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Bikes in the rain, Stoneybatter, Dublin 7. #spéirgorm #dublin7 #streetphotography
Rainy evening, Dublin. Four parked bikes reflected in puddles on water-logged street. Shops and restaurants in background.
May 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Jacket potato with petrichor. Nom.

#spéirgorm #rain #stoneybatter #ireland #streetphotography
Bike lane in heavy Summer rain. Rainwater flowing down street. Rooster potato sitting in the water, near the kerb. Cyclist passing. Bicycle wheel reflected in the puddles.
May 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Told ye
Irish Times. Photograph of collapsed derelict cottages in Ranelagh, Dublin. Text reads: ‘Construction Industry Federation owes €140,000 in derelict levies at €23m site of Dublin 6 terrace collapse.’
May 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Every time anyone says, 'I don't believe in Dublin,' there’s another bit of the city somewhere that falls down dead.
#tinkerbelleffect #dublin #speirgorm
Public refuse bin on pavement outside Dublin City Council offices. Sunny day. Text on bin says, ‘Believe in Dublin’.
May 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Posting the lock screens now #spéirgorm
Phone Lock Screen. Image is jackdaw flying over a bilingual street sign pointing to car park.
May 6, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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A3 print with small selection of illustrations by meself for Rody Gorman’s ‘Buile Shuibhne | Sweeney’s Madness’. (GRMA to Eadweard Muybridge.) Images are projected as part of an IMRAM multimedia performance with Rody, Diane Ní Channáin, & Seán MacErlaine. @imramfeile.bsky.social #spéirgorm #gaeilge
A3 page with twelve printed images telling the story of Sweeney’s Madness.
May 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Superb exhibition. Evie Hone & Mainie Jellett merged European Cubism with Irish culture and spirituality to create a visual language that was wholly new here. Vibrant & compelling. Don’t miss it. www.nationalgallery.ie/art-and-arti...
Cubist, abstract painting in gold frame. Rhythmic shapes vibrating against each other in rich colours.
May 2, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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A very Dublin day #spéirgorm
Black and white photograph. City street scape. Rainy day. Wide street. Traffic lights and road signs. Woman and child wearing anoraks with hoods up are crossing the road.
April 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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I was down for a visit last Thursday. The Suir Blueway is fantastic.
River on bright sunny Spring day. Clear blue sky. Hills in background. Clear water.
April 14, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Screenshot of online dictionary. Text reads: sky-blue (also sky blue) 1 adjective spéirghorm
January 22, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Georges St Arcade building, Dublin, looking beautiful today. Thinking again, with gratitude, of owner Gwen Layden, who suspended rents during Covid lockdowns because, in her words, it would have been immoral to do otherwise. #speirgorm
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Victorian red brick building lit up by sunshine. Blue sky.
January 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Same architecture practice designed the Leinster House Pavilion for visitors and security. I can’t find the drawings for that one but I’m imagining something like this.
Whistler’s Mother in a contemporary architectural setting.
January 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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There’s also this semi-transparent woman with a hover-purse.
Detail of architect’s drawing. Looks like gen AI because figure is semi transparent, with missing details.
January 13, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Spotted the lad from Edward Hopper’s ‘Nighthawks’ sitting in the architect’s drawing of Dublin City Council’s new Merrion Square café. They need to raise the shelf height stat cos his elbow is just hovering in mid-air there. #spéirgorm
Architect’s drawing of cafe space Man sitting at café counter Nighthawks painting by Edward Hopper Detail of Nighthawks painting by Edward Hopper
January 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Live from our bathroom: Count Duckula, Queer As Duck, and Captain Ducktanic.
Three rubber ducks. One is a vampire duck, one is in LGBTQ+ colours, and one is dressed in a Titanic captain’s uniform.
December 29, 2024 at 12:52 PM
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Live from our tree
Yellow rubber duck with red Santa hat hanging on Christmas tree with lights and baubles.
December 29, 2024 at 12:16 PM
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It’s grim tbh
Bizarre AI generated image of humanoids touching foreheads. One is wearing a shiny, melty, silver helmet, and the other is wearing some kind of bling, gold chain mail. Green grass and stone building in background.
December 19, 2024 at 10:01 AM
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Textured, abstract background in shades of blue. Overlaid text reads: Léine spéirghorm / Déagóir gruama / Éide scoile
December 11, 2024 at 10:58 AM
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Dublin Comic Arts Festival #DCAF @dublincomicarts.bsky.social @littledeercomics.bsky.social
Phenomenal work agus an-mhuintearas idir na daoine. Ar fheabhas! #spéirgorm #graphicnovel #comics #graphicart #drawing
Man in black and white skeleton body suit with grinning skull mask over face, and long hair under hood, holding arms out with hands spread. Woman leaning in, smiling behind face mask. Art prints displayed on table.
December 8, 2024 at 5:28 PM
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Quiz results. 13 out of 15. Text reads: Not quite Dr Mc Cullagh, but you clearly know your Sean Crowes from your Cathal Crowes.
December 4, 2024 at 10:20 PM
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Neidín | Ceann Mara | Kenmare. Maidin inniu. #spéirgorm #naspéiríní
Harbour/bay/estuary seascape, low tide, west cost, Ireland. Early morning, after days of storm conditions. Sense of calm and tranquility. Blue sky with some pure white clouds low on horizon. Sea very still, and reflecting sky like a mirror. In forefront, rocks and seaweed.
November 25, 2024 at 11:04 PM
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Ziggy (age 6yrs + 1 day) and The Immortal Mouse
#cat
Orange and white cat sitting on floor with grey toy mouse.
November 21, 2024 at 11:57 PM
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It’s Ziggy’s 6th birthday and she’s having a bad whisker day.
Ginger cat. Close up of face. Looks irate. Whiskers pointing in all directions.
November 20, 2024 at 10:50 AM