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Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. Coastal scene with a bay of pale blue coming in from the right in the foreground to a stony shoreline of orange and dark magenta, almost black, seaweed and grey rocks. Further back, running across the centre line the rocks and seaweed are a paler magenta and peach, and the water a paler blue with a hint of teal. The land behind the rocky shoreline is a patchwork of lime green and olive green very small rough fields enclosed by dozens of undulating grey dry stone walls. Some bushes are in foreground behind a broken wall by the shore at the bottom of the picture. Further back about two-thirds of the way up the painting, just left of centre, is a small single story cottage of cream, with a grey roof, almost blending into the walls and fields around it. Some dark trees are dotted around in the far fields before the horizon where there are clumps of very dark blue-green pine trees contrasting with the pale field. Behind them is a wine narrow slope on the left, a large dark blue mountain sloping up to the right edge, a large paler turquoise pyramidal mountain behind it left of centre, and other steep mountains behind, receding in paler shades of blue. Sky is watery smokey white and pale blue of a sunny day with light indistinct clouds and very light touches of yellow and even green towards the left. Signed bottom right in magenta on the blue water, Liam Daly

A new #painting. "Cill Chiaráin". Kilkieran if you prefer. One ridiculous perfect day in South Connemara I was painting by the side of a road. Everywhere I looked I saw more paintings I knew I'd paint later. This is later. I love this part of the world. Love it. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm #MountainMonday

Photograph of moon rising over still green water with white gold reflections

'Moonrise' by Frances Seward, UK born contemporary abstract photographer based in New Mexico #WomensArt

Colored-pencil card drawing of Sinéad O’Connor

Sinéad O’Connor’s “The Lion and the Cobra” was released on this date in 1987.

Colored-pencil card drawing of Shohei Ohtani

Colored-pencil card drawing of Max Scherzer

Shohei vs Scherzer, World Series Game 7

Green and yellow cover of Dracula

Did you know that Burns Library has a copy of Dracula translated into Irish? This 1933 volume was translated by Seán Ó Cuirrín and features cover art by Dublin born artist Austin Malloy. Want to look at it yourself? Visit us!

YouTube video by LankumDublin Lankum - Ghost Town (Official Video)

New from Lankum: Ghost Town.

Incredible, and just in time for Samhain.

Photography of two little sculpted carved turnip head earrings #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art #Samhain #Halloween

Yours truly wearing them (white woman with dark brown hair)

“Are you wearing the-“
“The poorly but enthusiastically sculpted Samhain turnip earrings I made a few years ago? Yeah, I am.”

Coming up in #Dorchester on Nov. 8.

This was one my best, we’re carving Irish Halloween turnips today, in homage to the ur-turnip from 1943 from Ballyfin, Co Donegal, in National Museum of Ireland

@nmireland.bsky.social
#Halloween #Samhain #OicheShamhna

I talked a lot of shit when I was trying to get everyone to turn off Desperate Housewives and Sunday Night Football. But if that's the crooked path to pop culture immortality, so be it. Thanks for the shoutout, jeopardyofficial@bsky.social

In an era of techno-dystopia, Sudan Archive's 'The BPM' imagines a liberated future On her stunning new album The BPM, the multi-instrumentalist Sudan Archives explores the freedom of augmented reality and technology through the sounds of club music.

On her stunning new album The BPM, the multi-instrumentalist Sudan Archives explores the freedom of augmented reality and technology through the sounds of club music. n.pr/3WRL7CF

Thanks for supporting The Dublin Pub which has gone into the bestsellers list upon release.

An honour to be there with not one but THREE titles from the legendary Manchán Magan. His loss will be deeply felt for a long time, and I will miss our chance encounters in the Blackpitts and beyond.

Books Ain’t Screens

A thrill see Michael Collins' slippers finally on display in the #ChangingIreland exhibition @nmireland.bsky.social. Seems a long time since @brendamalone.bsky.social & I made them a social media sensation! Great to see a packed house for the launch this eve. #michaelcollins #museum #exhibition

In memory of Manchán Magan

New podcast. Remembering the legendary and irreplaceable Manchán Magan who died last week. And revisiting our first chat where he told me his life story. ❤️

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Stylised illustration of busy highways over a river full of ships with buildings in the distance

Artwork by contemporary artist Angela Smyth #Saturday

Shoutout to one of my fave tweets ever of all time

Smart seagulls in Marino, Dublin. Fool the worms into thinking it’s raining.

7" of Gregory Isaacs - All I Have Is Love on Torpedo label. Released in 1975. Produced by Sydney Crooks.

All I Have Is Love is an all-time Gregory Isaacs tune.

It was also the title track of his 2nd LP on Trojan in 1976. Lyrically similar to the earlier Loving Pauper, this is Gregory at his most vulnerable and heartfelt best...

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#reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky

The Kiltinane church Sheela Na Gig – a strange, naked, stone female figure, with one hand raised, and the other holding open her vulva. The stone was actually sideways when she was found, but it's easier to see her and her... features this way

It’s 185 years to the day since a man called Thomas O’Conor wrote a report about a stone figure on a church in Kiltinane, County Tipperary. This wouldn’t be especially notable if we didn’t also consider what the statue looked like, because this was the first written use of the term Sheela-na-gig

#144 | Three Whales and the Universe: Motherfoclóir Meets Manchán Magan Podcast Episode · Motherfoclóir · 09/17/2020 · 42m

One of my favorite episodes of Motherfoclóir. Manchán Magan talking about all the wonderful thing that Manchán was prone to talk about. @theirishfor.bsky.social @darach.bsky.social @thekavofficial.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

Manchán 🕯️

@jtkantor.bsky.social we need some 2013 mojo .. would you ever play Three Little Birds?

Colored-pencil card drawing of Robert Redford and Paul Newman

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1969 Topps

I'm delighted to announce that Episode LXIII is finally finished and online for your enjoyment and responsible consumption. This one is a focused look at Shape Note singing in the United States. campsite.bio/firedrawnear X

On the 40th anniversary of the death of Norah Hoult Today is the 40th anniversary of the death of Norah Hoult, an Irish writer who, despite a massive output – 23 novels and three short story collections – is not mentioned with any regularity in convers...

🧵Irish writer Norah Hoult was born today in 1898. Despite publishing 27 books (and banned more than John McGahern and Edna O'Brien), her work has been hugely overlooked. I included stories by her in The Long Gaze Back and The Art of The Glimpse.

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"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued. "If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:

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To Create, Not Recreate Fiddle player Liam O’Connor and concertina player Cormac Begley have recently released an 11-track duet album, 'Into the Loam'. Adrian Scahill reviews.

// To Create, Not Recreate // bit.ly/41oWm8C

Fiddle player Liam O’Connor and concertina player Cormac Begley have recently released an 11-track duet album, 'Into the Loam'. Adrian Scahill reviews.

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