Portrayal by Artemisia Gentileschi.
Maddalena Casulana (1544–1590) was an Italian composer, lutenist, and singer. In Venice, her book of madrigals for four voices, "Il primo libro di madrigali", was the first printed and published work by a woman in Western music history. #CelebratingWomen
I understood everything in the abstract all the way down to "yielding a simple grammar" and then I guess it just became too simple for me to understand 😉
Having an unexpected WFH day today, thanks to this. It was stationary even before the L5395 (Ballynamona), so I turned around and came home. I feel sorry for the commuters who have to show up in their workplace so they have no choice but to stick it out, and they'll have the same coming home.
Gaumont's 1912 Chronochrome color process. Unlike most other early natural color experiments, Chronochrome was three colors (good old Red Green Blue RGB) AND it was commercially released.
The film was black and white, filters provided the color and it was finicky as hell so it didn't catch on.
First page of a copy of Handel's Messiah showing manuscript music
Tonight the Irish Baroque Orchestra & Choir perform Handel's Messiah in Dublin Castle, for the anniversary of its premiere in Dublin on 13th April 1742. Our manuscript was copied by John Mathews in 1761 & is full of information about variant settings & early performance
Shades of Catherine Tate's Posh Mum character!
I've just signed the open letter, calling on Jim O'Callaghan to stand up for a fair immigration process that keeps people safe and keeps our families and communities whole. Will you add your name? action.uplift.ie/campaigns/in...
I have an 18thC map of Cork that shows rivers where several of our streets now lie, and TBH, this sounds like it would be lovely!
Yes, I know what date it is. . . 😜
TBH, I don't think it looks worth $160M, but that's just me. Nice script on the new name though 😉
Woman at the window of a bare, clean house. Who is outside? Child, ghost, spirit? Friendly, frightening? You say. By Jacob Vrel, whose day is today.
He was certainly afraid of Vietnam-style combat in Vietnam.
It's a bit blowy here today. I do hope that nice Mr Starmer's flight doesn't have to be diverted to Farranfore 😉
17ty century tin glaze pottery sherd from a charger or plate. Blue on white, the glaze is cracked, showing a fern and partial flower painted in a free-style design.
Sherd of blue on white C17th tin glaze charger or plate from the foreshore. Blowsy fern with partial flower, hand painted. Tin glaze was a type of earthenware pottery covered in lead glaze, creating a white, opaque look showcasing different types of decoration. Known as maiolica in Italy.
Perspective of Gallway." (British Library shelfmark: Maps K. Top.53.40.b.) Made about 1690. #Galway #Gaillimh
My first lapse was quickly followed by a panicked return to the fold. I read The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail at around 14, believed every word of it, then convinced myself I was going to hell for it. 😄 Now I'd read it with a red pen and gouge out the pages writing "SOURCE?!" every few sentences 😂
Speaking as a (lapsed) Catholic, it's far from that performative nonsense I was reared!
And daffodils, butterflies and bees! Sailboats, and fishermen, things of the seas!
If you share my earworm you're either Irish or old (that's me on both counts 🙃)
Everything 😉
Read and share all over..he nails it
Free, onlyne, searchable Middel Englisshe Dictionarye. "The world's largest searchable database of Middle English lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500."
quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-eng...
A large stuffed folder of files with the title “Epstein” is seen with what looks, at first glance, like a red page marker sticking out of the bottom. On closer inspection it is the bottom of a Trump red neck tie. French newspapers once again showing the kind of basic journalistic integrity lacking from most US national newspapers - whose collective negligence has helped ensure a man implicated in the world’s most notorious sex trafficking ring gets to remain President. That the orange pedo felon remains in office is a plague on all their houses. Cunts, one and all.
The cartoon that appeared this week on the front page of France’s most influential national newspaper, Le Monde
Brilliant work by the cartoonist, Guffo.
It's official, picking up litter is actually good for your mental health. If that wasn't enough, every piece of plastic removed is no longer a danger to our marine life.
When you take some time to pick up litter, you are saying, 'this place matters, and I'm a part of it'.
@cleancoasts.bsky.social
My story yesterday; the Irish Times and I broke this now-international story and I am hoping he'll have some resolution and that this case will draw ever more scrutiny to the horrific conditions and circumstances in which so many detainees are held.
In the latest episode of Taking the Biscuit, my Christmas card to my cousin (posted on 23rd December) finally arrived today.
N.B. We live in the same (relatively small) city. . .
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
X-men and The Golden Girls.
a golden girls tv/movie crossover: thread
The dog is going "I'm a horse, honest! Can I have a carrot?" 🙂
Isn't it a bit close to the anniversary of getting rid of the monarchy? 😉
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
"And here's their latest release, Let Them Fall On Ice" 😉
