'there were some beautiful thoughts written in it in violet ink that she bought in Hely's of Dame Street for she felt too that she could write poetry'
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B. B. Borstal buoy.
Timeless Colours@timelesscolours
1960s, Borstal Boa Legend, writer & playboy Brendan Behan in Dublin Zoo, boa constrictor draped around his neck, a living scarf. Children watching from safe distance, small dog looking nonplussed at his feet, a surreal tableau. How we really got the snakes out of Ireland? 🐍😂
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@BrigidLaffan @EamonDelaney10 Glas Tuathail, O'Toole's Stream.
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This post box in Glasthule predates the establishment of the Irish state- it was installed before Queen Victoria died in 1901 & rebranded green with the establishment of the Irish state
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William Nagle (1853 -1923), Harry Clarke, Joshua Clarke (1858-1921) at 33, North Frederick Street, Dublin.
Harry was raised in Dublin, where his family lived above their church decorating and stained glass studios on North Frederick Street.
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Letter from Harry Clarke, 2 February, 1925, on his newly designed stationery.
Thanks his friend Thomas Bodkin for his appraisal of the window in Studio Magazine and inviting him to “crack a bun” at a Dublin café on the following Thursday.
The Irish Times@IrishTimes
Harry Clarke plaque marks birthplace of Dublin ‘genius of light and colour’ irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/0…
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@PatrickHawe Beautiful Harry Clarke windows. Thanks, Patrick.
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Stained glass window, St Mary of the Rosary Church, Cong, County Mayo.
Earley Studio, Dublin
My 📷
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'He read where his finger opened.'
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Diversidad literaria@Diverliteraria
📚 Uno empieza comprando libros, tomándolos y termina leyéndolos, pero en mi caso ya es una obsesión. Compro libros y ni siquiera los leo: los acaricio. Tengo muchos libros que no he leído y sé que no voy a leerlos jamás, pero los compro y me gusta tenerlos cerca. 🖊️ R. Bolaño
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@BiancoDavinci @wordsworth1966 (S)table.
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Undead.
Bram Stoker, Auditor of Trinity College Historical Society and fellow Committee members 1872.
Irish History Bitesize!@lorraineelizab6
#Otd 1770: @TheHist had its 1st meeting! 1 of 2 debating societies of @tcddublin. Traced back to club formed by Edmund Burke 1747! Oldest undergraduate student society in the world🌍! Members e.g. Wolfe Tone, Bram Stoker, Edward Carson, Douglas Hyde, Thomas Moore, Robert Emmet!
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'does anybody hereabouts remember Caoc O'Leary, a favourite and most trying declamation piece by the way of poor John Casey and a bit of perfect poetry in its own small way. Never about the runaway wife coming back, however much devoted to the absentee.n
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John Keegan Casey (22 Aug 1846 #Mullingar #Westmeath-17 March 1870 #Dublin). 8, moved to Co #Longford. 'Poet of the Fenians'. 15, wrote "The Rising of the Moon" about 1798! In 1867 Rising; prison Mountjoy! Didn't recover 🪦Glasnevin dib.ie/biography/case… youtube.com/watch?v=oEJP8z…
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'—I mean to say, Haines explained to Stephen as they followed, this tower and these cliffs here remind me somehow of Elsinore.'
Advertisement card, Cluitheoirí na hEireann, The Irish Players c. 1902.
Design, Seaghan Mac Cathmaoil [John Campbell]. Actor, Diarmuid Trench (Haines).
🪙 Beothach@GaelicRevival
Some captures from the very rare "Calendar of the Saints: Patric" (1906) illustrated by Belfast-born Seaghan MacCathmhaoil, who also illustrated Mary Ann Hutton's "The Táin" (1924).
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Shamrock pen.
'Maistre Sheames de la Plume'
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We’re delighted to see that former RHA President and Ennis native Mick O’Dea will serve as Grand Marshal for the Ennis St Patrick’s Day parade.
The fun gets underway at 11am tomorrow in the Co. Clare town.
📷 Mick O’Dea PPRHA and Mayor of Ennis, Mary Howard. Photo: Eamon Ward.
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'... John O'Leary against Lear O'Johnny ...'
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Died on this day, 1907.
Portrait by John Butler Yeats, born on this day, 1839 .
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'Clever idea Saint Patrick the shamrock'
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Timeless Colours@timelesscolours
c1916, Selling the Shamrock ☘️ Against the muted backdrop of foggy Dublin in 1916, two young girls clad in green cloaks sell sprigs of fresh shamrock. Oblivious to the impending historical shift, just weeks before the Rising, they continue the St. Patrick's Day tradition. ☘️
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Life & Ledger, Limerick.
'Gerty MacDowell loves the boy that has the bicycle.'
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Dr Paul O'Brien@FearStairLmk
Lost shopfronts of #Limerick
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