Kevin Mc Kenna

@jnrbaker Hope you're ok Andy

Wow…that’s a first. Just got attacked by a lad outside O’Gara’s in #Stoneybatter - completely unprovoked. All I knew is suddenly I was being punched in the face by someone I never even saw coming. Careful out there folks…

@FearghalRua @Sinead_Doyle I love people who are for the birds:) hope you had a great birthday Fearghal. Amazing cake!

@CensoredPod A beauty, happy hounding.

5 day headache due to the latest irresponsible media coverage. Could do with some assistance from colleagues to protect academics like myself who are dealing with sensitive history & face a backlash. Poor news coverage feels like a juggernaut coming at you on the pavement

@shirleyclerkin @FearghalRua Ireland has 300,000km of hedgerows compared with only 500,000km in all of Britain. We're very lucky to have them and it's our duty to protect them.

Plantwatch: a climate solution is hidden in the hedgerows theguardian.com/science/2021/a…

@DaraghCassidy @EXECUTIVESTEVE Are you suggesting that The Swan, a beautiful Georgian pub, and the buildings next to it be turned into a Weatherspoons? The image on the top is Upper Camden St, while the one below is Aungier St, with The Swan on the right!

@EXECUTIVESTEVE This is the stunning redevelopment job they did. Old, run down, dilapidated, graffiti riddled, rat infested and litter strewn buildings are more of a blight on our city than a few Wetherspoons.

A mere 200 yards from the old George Bernard Shaw, which was shut down because concentrations of large pubs were supposedly out of line with the development plans for that historic area.

I'm taking action to support the call for basking #sharks to be legally protected in Ireland. Will you join me by signing this petition? my.uplift.ie/petitions/prov… via @UpliftIRL

@FearghalRua Have you been lucky enough to see the Great Crested Grebe's mating dance?

The ritual was abolished by a proclamation of the Lord Mayor in 1772. "Irish Builder" 15 Jun 1877. It was reinvented in the nineteenth century as "Riding the Fringes". This was a much reduced route and with much less pomp and ceremony. "Freeman's Journal",17 Oct 1877.

databases.dublincity.ie/chainwhite/whi… This civic ritual, first mentioned in 1192, was performed every three years by the seventeenth century. The route taken (with minor alterations) tried to follow the one of 1603, recorded in the White Book of Dublin held at Dublin City Library and Archives.

With the easing of the 5k travel limit this week I decided that Riding the Franchises would be a good way of reclaiming the city. I may be the first person to have done this in nearly 250 years. #ridingthefranchises Check out my activity on Strava: strava.app.link/Aqw3HhjTwfb

Remembering in the convent sometimes gave a nod to practical, ever-present dangers too. The convent at Liège was a victim of fire in 1733 and here we see the nuns in the 1770s being asked to say a Hail Mary nightly 'that we may be preserved from fire'. @PalaceGreenLib CHS/C5/8.

@stephanecrouzat Vive la République de Côte d'Ivoire!

Souvenir outfit from my staff

@FearghalRua Cootehill?

@irishhistory The arrival of the Cistercians in 1142, the thin end of the colonial wedge!

Answers please. Single most important event in Irish history? I’ll go with the Act of Union. We are still dealing with the fall out. What do you think?

@FearghalRua Impressive!

@FearghalRua @OGOMProject Spooky!

DEAD MAN'S FINGERS or Xylaria polymorpha, alluded to in Act IV Scene 7 of Hamlet; a saprobic fungus, it's an inhabitant of forest & woodland areas, usually growing from the bases of rotting or injured tree stumps and decaying wood #GothicNewWorlds #BotanicalGothic

@fallon_donal Appalling treatment, sorry to hear this.