IT'S FASCISM!!

my back garden holiday
was with the butterflies
from where I imagined
a world of warmth
and blue and everything

3.X.25

word-mntn (Airgiod Meall, Silver Tump)

word-mntn (Creag an Choin-Leth, the half-dog half-wolf crag, or lurcher's crag)

Today I will discuss House of Beamish. I think I remember the plot from history class, but we were all quite drunk Much like Downton Abbey, House of Guinness is best treated as a delightful hallucinatory cheese dream

I wrote about House of Guinness/Beamish/Buckfast

www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

I wrote about House of Beamish www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Landscape format in acrylic on canvas. On far side of a pale grey-green field with tufts of short vertical strokes of green and blue, is a small dark-green broken hedgerow about one running horizontally, about one quarter the way up from the bottom, and from it grow 2 trees both with twisting branches of green and red without foliage and then some clumps of blue-green foliage just at their extremities. Beyond trees is another field, rendered as a narrow strip of blazing orange and at far side is line of trees and bushes in paler blue-green than the near hedgerow. Sky is pale blue in the top half with some strips of clouds high up, but the bottom half of the sky directly behind the trees down to the horizon is one large dark mass of billowing clouds topped with lighter fluffy edges of almost white. Signed bottom right: Liam Daly

Have a #painting. "West Cork Trees" came out of cycling past these lads several times out west of Clonakilty where I would catch a glimpse of them through a gap in a hedgerow and despite how far they were away they would always arrest me. I hope they're doing ok. #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear #BlueSkyMonday

Here is a wee selection of my badger art, past and present, to celebrate #NationalBadgerDay
earthandsandbyanna.etsy.com
#art #badgers #painting #natureart
#MHHSBD

A small drawing of a swallow in flight with a background of a landscape with a field and electricity pylons. The drawing is on slightly off white paper. Swallows are small birds with dark, glossy-blue backs, red throats, pale underparts and long tail streamers. They are extremely agile in flight and spend most of their time in the air. An original art work Colour pencil and mixed media on acid free toned artist paper 5 by 7 inches (12.7 by 17.8 cm). Sold unframed

As swallows spend most of there time in the air, I had to draw one in flight. This drawing is available in my Folksy shop now...
folksy.com/items/8543600

#Swallow #BirdIllustration #Birds #BirdDrawing #OriginalArt #Drawing #Painting #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #bsnm

Already two years since I painted this. I need to play with my inks again 😭💖

#inktober #ArtVideo #ink #painting

Conny Jager (contemporary Canadian artist)
"Autumn Beauty," 2015
Watercolor
11 x 14 in
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

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"Masters of the house"
Oil painting

#art#traditionalart
#animalpainting#catspainting
#oilpainting#oiloncanvas
#InternationalCatDay

Wild goat
Oil painting

#art#traditionalart
#animalpainting#animalportrait
#oiloncanvas

"The river"
Oil painting
(Unfinished)
#art#traditionalart
#oilpainting
#landscapepainting

Via @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

It’s happening. They’re firing on civilians in Chicago.

Poem of the Week: Redacted A new work by Eileen Casey

Poem of the Week: Redacted

Breda O'Brien: One day we will have redress schemes for the children failed by Ireland’s care system We must stop outsourcing the care of vulnerable young people

Breda O'Brien: One day we will have redress schemes for the children failed by Ireland’s care system

Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell ‘infested with bedbugs’ Exclusive: Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water Environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg has told Swedish officials she is being subjected to harsh treatment in Israeli custody after her detention and removal from a flotilla carrying aid to Gaza, according to correspondence seen by the Guardian. According to the correspondence, Israeli forces are also reported by another detainee to have taken photographs where Thunberg was allegedly forced to hold flags. The identity of the flags are unknown. Continue reading...

Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell ‘infested with bedbugs’

‘Harsh treatment’: Irish aid flotilla detainees ‘kicked, cable-tied’ in Israeli custody Volunteers trying to reach Gaza taken to notorious Ktzi’ot prison complex in Negev desert, lawyers say

‘Harsh treatment’: Irish aid flotilla detainees ‘kicked, cable-tied’ in Israeli custody
Volunteers trying to reach Gaza taken to notorious Ktzi’ot prison complex in Negev desert, lawyers say
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Nutrition Program for Mothers and Infants May Run Out of Money Within Weeks Nearly 41 percent of U.S.-born infants participate in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, which may not have enough funding for an extended government shutdown.

If the government remains shut down, a program that feeds more than six million low-income mothers and their children is likely to run out of funding within the next two weeks, advocates and government officials say.

Journalist Mario Guevara Is Deported After Being Held for Over 100 Days

The Salvadoran journalist was arrested in June while covering a “No Kings” protest outside Atlanta. Those charges were dropped, his lawyers said. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Galway woman detained by Israeli Forces on Gaza Aid flotilla The boats were intercepted by IDF on arrival

"Sarah Clancy updates: Israeli Forces detain Galway woman on Gaza Aid flotilla."
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Take a moment to enjoy This Moment by Eavan Boland

Remembering Manchán Magan - conversations from the RTÉ archives Writer and broadcaster Manchán Magan, who has died aged 55, was a man who often described himself as having 'one foot in the other world'.

Remembering Manchán Magan - conversations from the RTÉ archives www.rte.ie/culture/2025...