'Three white horses on the Liffy' by Irish landscape painter Letitia Marion Hamilton (1878-1964) #WomensArt #summer

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Lovely #Pride Storytime followed by Rainbow Reads at #Drogheda Library for #DroghedaPride week Big shout out to all the Drogheda library staff for their support for the #LGBTQ community & their families & for creating a safe & welcoming space for those in the pursuit of knowledge

Another disgraceful ambush tonight in a library by far right agitators. Tomorrow Fórsa trade union will unveil further detailed advice to members working in libraries on to how protect yourself and the demands we are making of management. Join Fórsa trade union #JoinAUnion

Travellers from UK and Ireland are climbing Croagh Patrick today for charities. The response? Close pubs etc in area. What other community has to deal with such acceptable racism. ?

eat my cloaca

Wonderful news the Book of Lismore is on display again! When it came to The Glucksman in 2011, Profs John Carey, Máire Herbert & James Knowles cowrote Travelled Tales - Leabhar Scéalach Siúlach describing the MS. You can read an extract at: ucc.ie/en/smg/newseve…

Dr Kevin Murray also wrote an article for Cork Historical and Archaeological Society in 2021 discussing the contents of the MS: Murray, Kevin ‘The Book of Lismore: Manuscript and Contents’, Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Ser. 2, Vol. 126, (2021),  pages 4-22.

Bring back the 1960 LOTR pins.

It's not yet 11am and there have already been 300 checkouts from our Digital Library this morning - with 3,686 checkouts in the first 11 days of the month. #LoveReading #Ebooks #Audiobooks #DigitalMagazines #SchoolLibrariesMatter

Comhghairdeas ó chroí lenár gCeann Scoile an Dr Kevin Murray as an dea-scéal a fuair sé chun taighde a dhéanamh ar ‘The Disappearing Text’ — memory, place and Gaelic identities. The case of ‘Acallam na Senórach’ ‘The Dialogue of the Ancients’. research.ie/2023/12/12/min…

i just know picasso would love the bug on wikipedia’s mobile version that makes the pie charts go beserk

Interim information sources for British Library manuscripts Dear readers, we ask for your kind assistance in sharing this blogpost. It lists freely available printed and online resources relating to our ancient, medieval and early modern manuscripts blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…

We were so fortunate to not only experience some sunlight inside Newgrange but this phenomenal sky. "Called the Mother of Pearl cloud formation or Nacreous Clouds. They form in the worlds polar regions in winter, and only exist at high altitudes in the stratosphere

Liuer gre swurt (lee-uo-er gree swurt) / Sunrise

A magical girl series where the girls transform into violent blood hungry werewolves

In #JapaneseFolklore futakuchi onna is a #yokai that looks like a normal woman, but who is actually hiding a second mouth under the hair on the back of her head. Endlessly hungry, she stuffs whatever food she finds into this ravenous extra mouth. #FolkloreSunday

The reliquary containing the severed head of St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) would be such a beautiful kit for LEGO.