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Orla Breslin
@stitchlily.bsky.social
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Designer/Maker, and sometime organiser w a bit of humanities too. Sí/í she/her
Let's get the Occupied Terrorites Bill passed!! 🇵🇸🇱🇧
https://my.uplift.ie/petitions/enact-the-occupied-territories-bill

Corca Dhuibhne, Ireland. 🇮🇪
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Burning of the Hare, Effigy Ceremony for Óiche Samhain in Killorglin, part of An Feile Eile festival.
I have such a grá (love) for small local community festivals, they are the true heartbeat of Ireland 🎃 🖤

#Kerry #Chiarraí #SamhainChiarraí
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November 1, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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She will be sorely missed in the Dáil, always a well spoken, articulate, firm voice of reason, just like Michael D was.

The only choice for a modern, accepting, diverse, multicultural, and yet proudly Irish, Ireland.
#ImVotingForConnelly
#CatherineForPresidant
Poster for Irish presidential election. The shape of an old fashioned stamp, with the text I'm voting for Catherine connelly
October 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Amazing little workshop with Wafa'a Mustafa Zeniah learning the basics of tatreez and seeing her beautiful work up close.
Good to remember the beauty of Palestinian culture, despite all the doom, their craft, food and sense of community. ♥️

I won a fab little 🇵🇸 🧵🪡 box too in the raffle.
Sample of Palestinian embroidery called Tatreez, made up of little x stitches to form a pattern. I made a mini Palestinian flag. Raffle goodie box which includes tatreez embroidery kit, threads, hoop, needles, as well as small books on tatreez and Palestine, and a can on Palestinian Cola.
May 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Today I was late for work, not because of traffic jams, or school runs, but because of a wee fledgling who was hanging around a dangerous location with little shelter. After contacting our local go-to-rescue lady, it was monitored and eventually moved to a safer location, away from dogs and gulls. 🕊️
A fledgling, a young grey collared dove bird, slightly camouflaged, sitting on a grape vine inside a glass greenhouse, looking comfortable and safe.
April 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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10th of May, Palestinian Tatreez workshop in Tralee and Killarney. Book here:
www.mariaswoolshop.ie/products/325...

🇵🇸🇵🇸
#FreePalestine #AllEyesOnGaza
Poster for a Palestinian Tatreez workshop, in Tralee 12pm, and Killarney 5pm on Saturday 10th May. Supported by Maria's Wool Shop in association with Kerry ISPC. Image of woman in traditional Palestinian dress with detailed embroidery, doing some colorful embroidery on black cloth
April 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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The most beautiful flowers in my garden are back. Warms my heart to see them every Spring, each time getting just one or two extra stems, a number crop of 15 stems so far this year.

The wee bainne bó bleachtáin. 🌼

#Cowslips #SpringFlowers #IrishWildflowers
Cowslips, wild Irish native flowers, green stems with drooping delicate yellow flowers
April 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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A rare sight in rural Ireland these days, swarms of insects flying above a small road.
I remember as a kid this being commonplace. Mouth shut, eyes squinting as I walked or cycled through swarms of flying critters.

#BiodiversityCrisis
April 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Whirlwind trip to the capital of the Rebel County yesterday as an unpaid chauffeur/parent. Had some time to kill, so joined in not one, but 2 protests! 🤩 1 for International Women's Day, the 2nd for Palestine.

A girl's gotta do what a girl has to do to stop patriarchy and genocide. ♀️🇵🇸
Large group of people with banners standing outside Cork City courthouse protesting ongoing patriarchal issues, particularly the treatment of rape victims in Irish courts. Large group of people with banners and Palestinian flags walking through Cork City, protesting the ongoing genocide of the people of Gaza.
March 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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The blue after the morning storm. It is indeed #SpéirGhorm.
After several days in Ireland with no sunshine, this picture shows a bright wide blue sky, with tree tops just at the bottom.
February 20, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Thurs 20th Feb, simultaneous film screenings across coastal communities in Ireland and Scotland. #Shanshula, is a documentary which focuses on the struggles endured by Palestinian community in Gaza.

If you are in Kerry, come to Dingle, Fenit, Tralee

#Palestine #Gaza
@ipsc.bsky.social
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Poster for film screening of Shansula, which lists ventures in Tralee, Dingle, and Fenit. Event starts at 7pm, sharp on 20th Feb, 2025. Organized by the Kerry Friends of Palestine.
February 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Dashes of sunshine and some lovely lenticular clouds in Kerry today, (before the big ones took over)

#SpéirGhorm #CloudSpotting #Kerry
Lenticular clouds that look like a stack of pancakes, round, flat, layered. Surrounded by the usual big heavy grey Irish clouds, just taking over
February 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Heres my latest #IKEAHack! You too can get this designer look *blank* with just $300 of kit from IKEA! I was quoted $1000 for a built in *blank*, but instead I simply bought IKEA *blänk*, used €600 power tools, €200 paint, $900 worth of free labour, all made in my spare garage the size of your house
Image of a very cosy reading nook. A passageway lined with bookshelves and books leaving to a cushioned reading seat overlooking a window. Image take from UnSplash website.
February 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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What better way to celebrate Bridget and Imbolc, a mighty woman and the coming of Spring than a lovely community event in An Díseart, with ceol, comhrá, and of course, Crosóg Bhríde. Seeing the buds on the trees, daffodils about to flower 🌱, winter is over.
Looking through a sculpted willow archway, and leaf covered path, across the gardens to the building of An Díseart, a centre for Irish spirituality and cultures, in the heart of Dingle town, in Kerry, Ireland.
February 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Not sure how I ended up on The Farmers Journal beef section email list, but as a long time vegetarian, I don't think it's the right fit for me, esp when I had to google what 'AI calves' are, thinking it was some dystopian cloned calf brought up by a robot mother cow. 😱

#SpéirGhorm #DefNotAFarmer
Snippet from an email with text saying "...weanlings healthy. A live demo with suckler cows and AI bred calves will take place in association with Munster Bovine".
January 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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It's #Crafterday (it's a thing, trust me). What are you working on today?

I'm making Kumihimo braids, a Japanese technique of braiding that you can do with minimal tools. Haven't made them in years, and they'll go towards something else I'm making (a surprise!)

#Crafts #Kumihimo
2 Kumihimo braids and scissors - you can get beautiful fancy tools or you can use a cardboard circle with grooves. Strands of wool are overlapped to form a long colourful braid, like a woolen cord. Great for beginners and kids to do, but it's an ancient Japanese technique for making cords for samurai armour.
January 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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If you're fascinated by weather and sea stats, keep an eye on buoy M6, on the Ireland's Digital Ocean website, he's right out there on his owneo, and in for a hellofa night 😱🌊

www.digitalocean.ie
Cover poster for the movie 'A Perfect Storm', a small fishing boat is sailing almost vertical up an enormous and very scary wave.
January 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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For fecks sake people, use the frigging alt text. It's getting ridiculous now, how many are not. It's really easy to do.

Your 300 witty characters are not more important than being an inclusive community. The very ones who made @bsky.app what it is. Be grateful.

#SpéirGhorm #FriggingUseAltText
Accessibility settings in the BlueSky app, showing a button you can switch to require alt text before posting. I also have a button on to make the alt text badge bigger
January 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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not sure if there's an official term for the opposite of doomscrolling. But I did it - zoom rolled my way up and down backroads, singing like a kid, to take a long lunch on Ventry beach. It's hard to feel joy with so much shite going on but, gods, it's important.

#SpéirGhorm #ChorcaDhuibhne
A bike kitted out for frequent travel with panier bags, extra lights, even a side mirror, chained to a small bike rack, overlooking a wide sandy beach, with vast bright blue sky. The beach is deserted, but looks lively to walk along.
January 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Can you spot the beautiful wader in this photo? (Not the seagulls, obvs). Have been hearing this fella for weeks around Dingle Bay, but only caught sight on today's walk. Wondering if it's one of the sadly endangered Irish breeding birds, or just a visitor to our shores.

#Birdwatch #spéirghorm
Dingle bay with a few seagulls sitting in the waters edge, with a stoney seaweed on the shoreline with a camouflaged rare Curlew - a long legged, long beaked, specked brown wader. Sadly, there are thought to be only 100 breeding curlews left in Ireland, most of the curlews you see are seasonal visitors
January 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Lake Mirrormere in Dimrill Dale, east of Khazad-dum.

Oh, no, sorry, wrong lake. It's Coole Park, in Co. Galway

#Spéirghorm #CoolePark #LOTR
Scenic photo of a still lake, in Coole Park, co. Galway, reflecting a vast ckear blue sky above. In the foreground is a barren tree trunk and low lying stones, across the lake in the distance is land covered in small trees, perhaps willow and hazel.
January 3, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Lá an Dreoilín sa Daingean Uí Chúis 🐦🥁🪈

#LáanDreoilín #WrensDay #Dingle #CorcaDhuibhne
December 26, 2024 at 8:59 PM
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Don't like sharing photos with no alt text in them, @president.ie should do better, BUT this photo is too wonderful not to share.

Our Miggeldy accepting credentials from the new Palestinian ambassador, H.E. Jilan Abdaljamid 🇵🇸❤️
(the day after the Israelis said they are closing their Irish embassy)
President Michael D Higgins, whose nickname is Miggeldy, hosted a credential ceremony at Áras an Uachtaráin. In this photo he is shaking hands with the new Ambassador of the State of Palestine, H.E. Jilan Abdaljamid. Both are facing the camera in a formal pose, shaking hands, in front of a grand fireplace. Our beloved Miggeldy, a small round old man with wisps of white hair, a revered intellectual and poet, is wearing a dark three piece suit, looking cute and cuddly as he always is, Abdaljamid is wearing a beautiful white traditional Palestinian dress, possibly a thobe, long white draping dress with exquisite detailed red embroidery. A momentous day as Ireland officially recognizes the state of Palestine. 🇵🇸❤️
December 17, 2024 at 8:08 PM
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Have just donated €396 to @medicalaidpal.bsky.social.
Thank you so much to the sound people of Kerry, for picking up one of my little crocheted keyrings and donating to MAP. 🙏❤️

Still a few left, in Púca cafe in Dingle and Hazels Nuts About Vintage shop in Killarney! 🇵🇸🍉

#FreePalestine #SpéirGhorm
Crocheted heart keyrings, in the Palestinian flag colours, green white and black, with a mini red heart in the centre Email from Medical Aid Palestine saying thank you for a donation of €396 in honour of the sound people of kerry
December 14, 2024 at 5:20 PM
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Around 24 hours without electricity or internet. It's a good time to go through the pen & pencil jars & sort them out. Nothing worse than a pen running out half way through the job or a pencil lead breaking after sharpening*.

(*sharpening with the sharpener, not a pointer or a topper)

#spéirghorm
A piece of paper with tandome lines drawn using lots of different colours and pens, testing each one out to see if it's working. There are a pile of pens and a jar of pencils and markers in the background as well as a small pile of waste from sharpening pencils A pencil sharpener in action with a pencil that has just been sharpened. In Ireland there are different colloquial ways of calling the sharpening tool, such as sharpener, topper and pointer. Sometimes it's an urban/rural divide, or it can be inherited, expressions passed down the family line.
December 8, 2024 at 3:44 PM
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Lovely new (to me) book, 'Stitching the Intifada - Embroidery and Resistance in Palestine', by Rachel Dedman.
My embroidery skills are a bit lacking, so I'm doodling while learning about tatreez. I think I'm in love with the 'Pasha Tent' patterns & may need to break out the graph paper.
#Palestine
A small book, green cover with a design of Palestinian embroidery on the cover. Beside it is some stylized sketches and drawings of embroidery patterns from the book, markers, pencils, rubber and pencils sharpener. I love drawing patterns, it's like mindfulness colouring book, and I like to draw patterns from books to help me remember the styles.
December 4, 2024 at 6:45 PM