Will Derham

Love these!
#History #Heritage #Ireland

Ooooh! What’s the book? Sounds right up my street! 🤓

Loving the suits lads 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

Is there an online option? Sounds fascinating! 🤓

😂😂😂 - keep at it!

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I have several of the Kaweco Sport types and they’re great. They fold up to half the size and fit snugly and discretely in any pocket.

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I cannot recommend the fine ladies and gents of PenWorld highly enough …

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You can’t fake that type of local charm 😆

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Find of the day (by pure chance - I went in for all of 6mins when I was waiting on the bus) - the works of David Roberts. Large format. A steal at €20 in Oxfam #Books, Parliament St, #Dublin

Super! Thanks for these Dorothy! I’ll get stuck in tomorrow - hot water bottle for tonight 😎

Thanks Dorothy - this looks like exactly the kind of thing I was looking for! 🙏🏻

Anybody know of a place in #Dublin that would repair an electric blanket? The controls are gone and would rather get it fixed than throw it out … 🥶
#SpeirGorm

RIP Diane Keaton
My favourite picture of her where everyone else is giving it their best Blue Steel & she looks like she’s just wandered in off the street looking super cool.
She was allowed to wear her own clothes & her wonderful personality shines out.
What a unique talent & human being.

Very much looking forward to getting stuck into this new book from @marcmulholland.bsky.social bringing peasants to centre off Irish history

“Ulysses” by Tennyson (a nineteenth century poem, but focuses on ageing) - just a thought 🤷🏻‍♂️

Greetings from Lismore and the sunny south east ☀️

“What is unlawful is: genocide, the deadly blockade of Gaza, the use of starvation as a weapon of war, and the piracy of civilian vessels and abduction of all those on board.” 3/3

“Unarmed people of conscience, abducted in international waters. This is piracy. This is kidnapping. The flotilla did not break any laws."

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Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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Gardaí publish facial reconstruction in bid to identify skeletal remains found on Cork greenway The woman’s skeletal remains were discovered in January 2021.

Gardaí have issued a renewed appeal for help in identifying the skeletal remains of an elderly woman discovered during works on the Midleton to Youghal Greenway in east Cork more than four years ago
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Fun fact, to me anyway 🤓

Averil Deverell came of age pre-independence, being “presented” to George V in St Patrick’s Hall, Dublin Castle, in 1911.

The first woman to practice at the Bar in Ireland, she did so … from St Patrick’s Hall, which served as the Law Library from 1923-31 #History #Heritage

Following the destruction of the Four Courts in June 1922, the State Apartments at Dublin Castle were fitted up as a temporary legal home.

What must Deverell have thought entering St Patrick’s Hall that 2nd time? From debutante to barrister in less than a decade.
#History #Heritage #Law #Ireland

Fun fact, to me anyway 🤓

Averil Deverell came of age pre-independence, being “presented” to George V in St Patrick’s Hall, Dublin Castle, in 1911.

The first woman to practice at the Bar in Ireland, she did so … from St Patrick’s Hall, which served as the Law Library from 1923-31 #History #Heritage

“More than 100,000 different pieces of clothing have been burned or binned or dumped somewhere on earth in the time it has taken you to read this sentence.”
#Climate #Environment #ClimateChange #Clothes #Fashion #FastFashion

“Ireland is the second largest producer of textile waste in Europe after Belgium, consuming 53kg of textiles per capita per annum – more than double the European average.”

#Climate #Environment #ClimateChange #Clothes #Fashion #FastFashion

The shocking waste in the clothes we wear With clothes consumption spiking across the developed world, new rules to tackle the resulting environmental damage are long overdue

“The production of textiles generates between 5 and 10 per cent of the world’s greenhouse gases, which is more than air travel and shipping combined.”
#Climate #Environment #ClimateChange #Clothes #Fashion #FastFashion

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* “had” - bloody autocorrect 🤦🏻‍♂️

Sorry to hear that. As an historian, I though it has much merit. Having to delete posts that ring uncomfortably too true is an indictment of our times.