A wonderful wrong answer on The Chase.

Clannad - Theme from Harry's Game (Official HD Video) YouTube video by ClannadVEVO

RIP Moya Brennan, a wonderful singer, composer, harpist, sister of Enya, and gave - with Clannad - the first ever performance in Irish on Top of the Pops. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zHT...

I won’t ruin the surprise so ☺️

Thought it was good, though it does get a bit Fraggle Rock towards the end

It is - congrats!

That cover!

Also true of research in general, where serendipity is often the source of discovery

Thought Nonesuch was terrific

Jesus, they weren’t bloody joking.

Ah that's lovely. Used to live there, miss the place

Doing grand, pal. If a little soggy x

Every day this year here, Damien. I mean to say..

Isn’t it? Oh man..

Oh no.

Small blame, girl

Well now. How're you feeling about it. Or is it too soon to know?

😄

hahahaha

She gave it eyes. And a soul 👀

You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:

What a gem ✨

Folks, I would like to talk for a moment about ghost stories.

When I'm working in the outdoors I spend all day listening to podcasts and audiobooks, and it is now heading for Christmas (or at least, the shortest day, Yule, Saturnalia, whatever your flavour of folkloric winter solstice). [thread>]

Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape It is not likely to be a hefty volume because the vast majority of the material has been lost in the mists of time. But the remnants of a language spoken in parts of the UK and Ireland 2,000 years ago are being collected for what is being billed as the first complete dictionary of ancient Celtic. The dictionary will not be huge because relatively few words survive, but experts from Aberystwyth University say they expect they will end up with more than 1,000 words. Continue reading...

Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic

Relatable Corvid

Oh that’s amazing! It was such a wonderful book, remember it well

Myers Briggs test for Irish men:

Hello it's me the leader of the party full of landlords that has been in power your whole adult life and created the housing crisis we now refuse to resolve.

I'm here to tell you it's actually the foreigners' fault.

Gardaí check 1980s death certificates in bid to identify Cork skull Investigators have established the remains belong to a woman who died between 1985 and 1987

This gets very dark towards the end.. 👀 www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.

Screenshot of a one star trip advisor review of an hotel which reads a potential death trap wrapped up in tired glitz

New bio, thank you Tripadvisor