
Patrick Hawe
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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? 🐍😂




Harry Clarke plaque marks birthplace of Dublin ‘genius of light and colour’ irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/0…


📚 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



#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!


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…




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).


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. ☘️

Lost shopfronts of #Limerick
















