Free talk in Dublin on the wildlife in the poetry of Seamus Heaney by Dr Paul Cusack, former Principal of the College of Amenity Horticulture at the National Botanic Gardens #SpeirGorm #Dublin #poetry
Girl aged 2 sitting on chair with baby in long white dress on her lap, with woman in white nurse’s uniform crouching on right of image helping to hold baby
The newly released census of Ireland for 1926 shows “General trained and maternity nurse” Caroline Cassidy as a ‘visitor’ in my grandparents’ house. Now I know the name of the woman looking after my newborn mother in this photo. She’s the baby on her sister’s lap. #SpeirGorm #census #familyhistory
#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
# 308
Despite the small size of their brains #bumblebees are really really good at navigation.
They navigate on a par with vertebrates and in certain aspects their sense of direction is better than that of humans.
#bees
#nature
#insects
#saturday
IGRS Top Research Tip #203: If your ancestors lived in the Irish Free State, formed in 1922, then check out the terrific 1926 Census database, launched today: nationalarchives.ie/collections/...
Vibrant street art in Limerick, Ireland. A standard street bollard is painted as a bright blue octopus head, with its tentacles sprawled playfully across the pavement for a local scavenger hunt.
🐙 Painted Octopus — By Lumen Street Theatre in Limerick 🇮🇪 This Is Clever (14 Photos): streetartutopia.com/2026/04/17/c...
Volume 42: Aidan O Hanlon presents The Formicidae of Ireland: An updated checklist of native and exotic ant species. Subscribe at irishnaturalistsjournal.org #IrishNaturalistsJournal #Zoology #Entomology
A parallel row of indentations in the rock of Valentia Island, trace fossils of a tetrapod
Tetrapod Trackway • Valentia Island
Around 350-400 million years ago, a metre-long amphibious creature ventured out of a cool pool to make its way ponderously across the sticky mud to bask in the warming sun.
Remarkably, you can still see its footprints on Valentia Island, County Kerry.
#Ireland
Chef in prison stripes that could be either Brendan Gleeson or filmmaker Paul Duane
Just eat it… or else you’ll be having it again for breakfast
Man (Dr Peadar McArdle) standing at a lectern with tv screen to left
Great launch today for another book by Dr Peadar McArdle on Irish geology history, this time the legendary G. Henry Kinahan and his equally capable wife Harriette www.choicepublishing.ie/index_files/...
Two female botanists stand by a lake, with grassland behind; they are smiling, holding aquatic plants they have fished out of the lake for identification
We're looking to recruit a manager for 2 fabulous botanical projects in Ireland:
#AquaticPlantProject
#IrishGrasslandProject
You'll be coordinating expert-led field events & developing training materials for botanists at all skill levels.
2 days per week.
Apply by 25 May:
bsbi.org/about/news/l...
The remains of a rare 3-metre-long Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) being loaded into a trailer.
🦈 The remains of a rare 3‑metre Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) has been recovered from the Sligo coast -it's the first recorded stranding of this deep‑sea species in Ireland. A unique opportunity to learn more about one of the world’s most mysterious sharks.
www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/R...
Brown Bears roamed the Irish landscape until 3,000 years ago and there’s now a map of the fossil sites online based on my review paper in @injournal.bsky.social #ursus #bearhistory maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/445
Shipman?
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Joey Batt
"Basking sharks are back in Dingle bay 🇮🇪
Just in time the first basking sharks have surfaced around Dingle bay and other locations on the West coast of Ireland"
Read here archive.ph/2026.04.14-0...
National Museum of Ireland’s collection at ‘significant risk’ due to inadequacy of storage building which is two football pitches in size. Some major challenges ahead. #museums #SpeirGorm
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
Kickstart your career with the OPW.
Apply for the Horticultural Graduate Development Programme 2026 at the National Botanic Gardens.
Gain hands-on experience and expert training.
Apply: gov.ie/opwjobs
#OPWCareers #GraduateProgramme
Now recovered by staff of the National Museum of Ireland - Natural History, a Greenland Shark from Sligo #sharks #SpeirGorm #GreenlandShark probably about a century old which is only a young adult by the standards of this species
A fresh Spring day at the Cliffs of Moher. The waters below stirred in to a boiling froth of seafoam.
County Clare, Ireland.
Cormacscoast.com walking tours
There are actually no current plans in Ireland to reintroduce wolves, wild boar or hyenas (or lynx, woolly mammoth, giant deer, bears, lemmings, arctic fox). Apologies for the joke!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBjT...
Volume 42: Smyth et al. Present a survey of the biodiverse urban wildlife sanctuary ‘The Grove’, plant and bird species recorded, their interactions and current threats and pressures. Subscribe at irishnaturalistsjournal.org #IrishNaturalistsJournal #Zoology #Botany #Ornithology
Large historic United States flag laid flat, showing a grey‑blue canton with white stars and red and off‑white horizontal stripes, with a single person in a lab coat reaching up to adjust or examine the lower stripes from the bottom edge.
🚩A rare chance to see history unfurled.🚩 For Catalpa 150, the National Museum of Ireland will display the Catalpa Flag for 2 days only - 18–19 April 2026 at Collins Barracks.
At over 4m x 3m, its size means it can’t be shown long‑term in a standard gallery. www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
I picked up one of these over fifty years ago and it fueled a career in palaeontology. Mind blowing that corals lived on the floor of a shallow sea that stretched to Moscow, with Ireland south of the equator, when there were more days in the year because earth was spinning faster
I picked up one of those over fifty years ago and it fueled a career in palaeontology. Mind blowing that corals lived on the floor of a shallow sea that stretched to Moscow, with this part of the world south of the equator, when there were more days in the year because earth was spinning faster
We also had Woolly Mammoth, Spotted Hyena, Wild Horse, Lemmings, Arctic Fox and Wild Cat. Looking forward to the reintroduction of hyenas in particular
