Franco-Irish Literary Festival | Alliance Française Dublin

Unfortunately sick kiddo means I am missing this today. But it looks great, and it's all free: Franco-Irish literary festival, Dublin Castle. www.alliance-francaise.ie/filf/#/

Cowslips were believed to symbolise the keys of heaven, made clear in their German name ‘Himmelschlüssel’(keys to heaven). Cowslips also get a mention in The grete herball (1526) where the reader is being told that they grow at the foot or on the sides of hills in ‘watery places’.

🦋 Hello BlueSky! 🧠

We’re the UK’s network for early career historians, supporting those nearing the end of their doctorate or early in their post-doc. We Partner with @ihr.bsky.social + more, offering career development, networking, + events showcasing the latest in historical research. 🔍✨ #HL+

Review: [Untitled] on JSTOR Diana Spencer, The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 95 (2005), pp. 275-278

🙄😉😎 with some nods to John, I I put a lot about Columella in my Roman Landscape book (the cabbages stuff is also v cool); Columella is way canon by now. The Columella bits in John’s Hortus book also spread the word (as I said in mainstreaming JRS www.jstor.org/stable/20066...) 🤗

Primroses (small pale yellow flowers; spear-shaped green leaves) growing on grass in the sunlight.

Primroses!

📢 Breaking news! Our chapter "Lasting
Impressions: Archaeology and Community Engagement
in the Xeros River Valley (Cyprus)" is out! 🎉

doi.org/10.4324/9781...

L'abitudine sempre più stanca di scrivere a mano e in corsivo

I love handwriting & use a fountain pen. Yet it tends to be for letters, or meetings where I want to process information. I still have the pen “lump” on my middle finger. But I expect my students may not have that (de)formation. I wonder… www.today.it/blog/scrittu...

Thank you! It was such a perfect moment!

Golden glow. Canal scene. Rippling water foreground. Centre, moorhen perched on submerged bench in front of bank spattered with daffodils.

Walked back to the flat from work and there was such a glow to the canal and its creatures.

Sunshine casting shadows along a red-brick path. Ornate open gate to fore. Grass and to the rear, and red-brick campanile. University campus scene.

Exhausted and sneezy after our offer-holder day. I was dosed up on paracetamol and decongestant and really enjoyed the conversations with future interdisciplinarians. But I’m feeling the crash now…

Yup!

Happy International Women’s Day / Lá Idirnáisiúnta na mBan💜

Check out this poster recently shared with us of Poetry Ireland’s “Mna na hEorpa / Women of Europe” #InternationalWomensDay celebration in 1993!

Today and everyday we celebrate Irish and International women in poetry 💪

A room of seated people looking towards a large flatscreen monitor.

What a joy to collab with the very brilliant Siobhán Doyle today at Cork Public Museum as we spoke about Harry Clarke’s Stained Glass @nmireland.bsky.social in partnership with @crawfordartgallery.bsky.social. This was week 3 in the Friends of Crawford Art Gallery’s spring lecture series.

There are as you say so many great people working in the field. And if one then moves to non-Anglophone…😎

Geriatric Italian here! But also with an NY sub that I do read 🙄🤣

This is a great list. But Eleanor Leach, and books by my amazing colleagues Henriette van der Blom and Hannah Cornwell could very nicely be added 🥳

Birds of a more advanced age tended to belt out older songs that were less common among the population as a whole

This is awesome. Just like us, older birds sing hits from when they were young
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

a man in a helmet is touching the nose of another man in a helmet . ALT: a man in a helmet is touching the nose of another man in a helmet .

Me asking my 11-year old son if he finds something funny about the title of the movie Mickey 17

Driftwood organs, anatomical
study by Tony Fredriksson

Image above is a photograph of Nell McCafferty by Brian O'Neill. Taken in May 2014. CC BY-SA 3.0

#31beerherstories and we are honouring Nell McCafferty, legendary activist, writer, and campaigner for a woman's right to drink pints, just like their male counterparts.

In the late 1970s, McCafferty and thirty comrades entered the premises of Neary’s and each ordered a brandy... 🧵

#skystorians

Fab! I love vicariously following others’ research adventures 🥰

I was just about to interject… 😉

Intermediate Phoenician and Punic – Inscriptions

#ResearchTraining

The ICS are offering two free, online semi-intensive courses in #Phoenician from 15 April - 26 April.

Elementary level: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/eleme...
Intermediate level: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/inter...

Applications close on 22 March

Caught up in a departures bottleneck at DUB right now. Adverse weather conditions leading to runway closure and multiple flights in holding pattern. We might get away 90mins late. Maybe.

Just downloading some episodes…

A pair of barn owls over scrubland, one is top left and flying out of the left side of the image, the other bottom right and flying out of the right side.

A barn owl in flight with it's wings outstretched, heading almost directly at the camera.

A Barn owl in flight, wings outstrecteched from one side of the frame to the other flying directly towards the camera.

Owl hunting over scrubland, flying towards the camera, it's head turned slightly to it's left as it scans the ground.

Every day there has been a pair of barn owls hunting in the field next to my evening dog walk.

A few minutes of quiet magic and wonder every day :)

If you’re excavating a prehistoric stone circle in Ireland in the 1940s, and you don’t have a site hut - sure, just build one of turf from the dig?

Prof Seán P. Ó Ríordáin’s excavations at Grange, Co. Limerick, published in 1951. We are tidying UCD School of Archaeology’s archives today

Happy Heard Four Goldcrests Singing On My Walk Day to those who celebrate.

Join us for a one-day symposium on the 12th June at the Marine Institute, Furnace, Co. Mayo where we will present new research focused on the biodiversity within @WildNephin & discuss the possibilities for the Nephin Forest + ecological restoration potential in the wider landscape 🌲

Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) in Latin and in the History of the British Isles, c.1100-1500 – AO1974DD at University of St Andrews An academic position as a Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) in Latin and in the History of the British Isles, c.1100-1500 – AO1974DD is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more deta...

Team! We are looking for a new *permanent* medievalist-Latinist to work with us at St Andrews!
#medievalsky

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD844/a...