Mixed Messages
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Mixed Messages
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Tony McGrath. Using signs, advertisements and messages as the inspiration for observation and comment - enlightened and otherwise

Commemoration. Memorials. Graves. Headstones.

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Maybe it is an age thing but the pub on the bottom is so much more preferred to the one on the top

..... and I don't know either
November 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
-S̶p̶e̶c̶t̶e̶m̶u̶r̶ ̶A̶g̶e̶n̶d̶o̶

#SpectemurLibris
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November 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Art challenge:
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just sculptures.
#blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture

Day 2/20

Kindred Spirit, Alex Pentek, Midleton, Co. #Cork
November 30, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Everyday is a learning day
November 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
November 29, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I thought the term was 'polesetter'

But maybe as soon as qualifying ends, the 'polesetter' becomes the 'polesitter'
November 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Art challenge:
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just sculptures.
#blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture

Day 1/20

Dog trough - #SeamusMurphy - Patrick's St, #Cork
November 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Timoleague

The CoI church is much more a reason to visit
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Perchance, are there any/many other Daniel OC Woz Here plaques?????
November 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Similar spot for memorial stones

Newcastle, Co. Down - sent to me by a work colleague, after chatting about the window cill at the chapel

Maybe it is a 'thing' ......

#StoneArt #SpéirGhorm
November 24, 2025 at 8:32 AM
-S̶p̶e̶c̶t̶e̶m̶u̶r̶ ̶A̶g̶e̶n̶d̶o̶

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Purchase prompted by 91/92 bus

Absolutely perfect reading in single sitting in a pub of a Friday
November 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
How many times can one watch the same movie??????
November 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Anyone with 'Exgeterce' care to educate as to its meaning.

#Cork

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November 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I remember smiling when I first spotted that Stencil Art some years ago on White St
November 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
A Memento Mori For Bridges

#Cork

As you are now so once was I,
As I am now so you shall be

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November 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Why overlay a telecoms access cover with tactile paving and grout such that the access cover is sealed and does not have a lifting eye.

#Cork

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November 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Keep On Rockin'

Not a bad life motto - at 79

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November 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
When two wrongs are more logical than one......

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November 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Good morning

#Cork
November 9, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Cut this photo out of paper when reproduced in 1987 and had on a pinboard for years

Photo by Eric Luke - www.bbc.com/news/uk-nort...

Of Vivienne Hillery who spent more than half her life in the Áras www.findagrave.com/memorial/200...
November 9, 2025 at 8:42 AM
-S̶p̶e̶c̶t̶e̶m̶u̶r̶ ̶A̶g̶e̶n̶d̶o̶

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November 9, 2025 at 8:22 AM
̶S̶p̶e̶c̶t̶e̶m̶u̶r̶ ̶A̶g̶e̶n̶d̶o̶

#SpectemurLibris
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November 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
There are times when one sees a snip of an article that one must take lesson 2 of 20 and buy the paper
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
#Locklocks

Mary Elmes (damaged) Bridge #Cork
November 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
A #Lovelocks type of morning

#Cork
November 8, 2025 at 7:55 AM