@solanga.bsky.social
No hay banda.
Can you call yourself a University without an Arts faculity? I wonder what the NUI legislation says. Galway University without a Department of Irish? Its inconceivable.
27.02.2026 12:45 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Is fánach an áit a bhfaighfeá gliomach.
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“An entire system of comharran – Gaelic navigational marks – surrounds the islands… A wealth of knowledge about the creatures which populate these fishing grounds is also encoded within the Gaelic language.”
—by @tonguetiedfilms.bsky.social
#MotherLanguageDay
theconversation.com/how-scottish...
Lenin, Michael Collins & Ho Chi Mihn all lived in London at the same time. Make a good addition to your radical chic universe.
18.02.2026 13:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I always blame the dog too.
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Anthony of Padua - Francisco de Zurbarán
In La Smorfia, 13 is a lucky number associated with the feast day of Anthony of Padua. Friday 17th, on the other hand, is a day of ill omen. 17 is associated with death, XVII is an anagram of VIXI, an acronym of 'I have lived'. Friday 17th November is worst of all (All Souls Day is in November)
13.02.2026 09:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Day 2161 #ArtKicksCovid19 “The Irish Girl” (1843) Ford Madox Brown. Yale Center for British Art. This portrait that reveals Brown’s commitment to social realism long before his association with the Pre-Raphaelites. The young woman confronts the viewer directly,
13.02.2026 06:34 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Old Lufthansa pilot joke/cabin announcement: "We are cruising at 38000 feet over the border between France and Germany" Passed the Duchy (of Luxembourg) on the left hand side".
11.02.2026 07:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wexford People Newspaper Headline - "Controversial bollards to be removed in March"
@worldbollardassoc.bsky.social
Breaking...
Overheard in a Brussels restaurant many years ago:
"If the Dutch lived in Ireland, they coud feed the world,
If the Irish lived in Holland, they would all drown"
THE IRISH TIMES In a disaster. the skeleton of society is laid bare. Politicians need scapegoats when their inability to make hard strategic decisions is exposed. Whether it be Met Éireann. the Habitats Directive, the freshwater pearl mussel civil society groups, or local authority officials. blame has to be ascribed somewhere. But who rezoned the floodplains, who allowed housing closer to river banks than was wise. who has drastically underfunded climate-adaptation measures for the past 20 vears?
"In a disaster, the skeleton of society is laid bare."
02.02.2026 11:10 — 👍 20 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1
Welsh local authority buy 16 houses for £2.75 million pounds due to flooding caused by climate change.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
John Sweeney: Blaming Met Éireann for floods is a distraction. Who rezoned the floodplains?
02.02.2026 07:04 — 👍 21 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 5
Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, painting by Hans Holbein the Younger
This is Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger. Not to be confused with his father, Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder - Elizabethan poet, diplomat & dissident.
'They flee from me that sometime did me seek...'
Map showing new and reopened stations in the South East
Waterford (population 60,079) & Wexford (pop. 21,524) can easily sustain a rail service between them. In Scotland there are 8 daily trains between Fort William (pop. 15,757) and Mallaig (pop. 701). The South East has the existing infrastructure to deliver a top class rail network.
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Catchment based flood management is standard in Europe (eg River Severn in UK). Ireland still invested in traditional 'arterial drainage' flood management mindset of straightening and dredging waterways. Dredging a river in its tidal zone (eg Enniscorthy) is questionable. Look upstream for answers.
30.01.2026 10:13 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
Summary:
In case of emergency, contact your local GAA club.
Its nothing to do with us
- The Government
“Snow was general all over Ireland...” It’s the perfect day to curl up with some Smyrna figs & one of the great short stories - #JamesJoyce’s The Dead from #Dubliners - set at a party for the Feast of #Epiphany
Read by Jonathan Forbes for @BBCRadio3 @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Aged 4, put my foot into my father's old Wellington boot in the garden shed containing a wasps nest. 15 stings. Upside is I now have superpowers.
06.01.2026 12:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I saw this on MTV in the early 80s & I'm still having nighmares about it.
youtu.be/AvJiyOPmsJs?...
University written exams as we know them are a product of standardisation during the Industrial Revolution.
A return now to the Medieval 'viva' oral exam system? Complete with audience of peers, drunken mob and court jester to enliven proceedings during the boring bits.
One can only hope.
Tony Harrison, remembered by Simon Armitage.
The poet laureate on taking inspiration from a man who ‘waged class war through his writing’.
https://bit.ly/49bMulz
You seriously have to wonder if they will even break ground before the AI bubble pops.
27.12.2025 10:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Why did the decide to make it entirely from chocolate?
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