Three silver ring components photographed on a white background: two sculpted animal head terminals with bared teeth and detailed fur texture shown from the front and side, and a plain silver ring band engraved with small stick‑figure human motifs around the exterior.

When you flee from a wolf: Silver” by @ncad-ireland.bsky.social Jewellery student Freija Greenhill, inspired by the Finnish proverb Kun menee sutta pakoon tule karhu. Part of The Weight of Words at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks. Free entry.
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

Cam Ye By Atholl / Bonnie Prince Charlie / Charlie's March on fiddle YouTube video by Jenna Moynihan

Beautiful fiddling & drone by the talented Jenna Moynihan:
youtube.com/shorts/B6uHm...

And @lisaoneillmusic.bsky.social wrote a great song about her… open.spotify.com/track/5QgD09...

Colored-pencil card drawing of Phil Lynott

Thin Lizzy’s “Jailbreak” was released 50 years ago today.

linocut of a black cat snarling and biting someone on the forearm

mood

There are so many books here that mean a lot to me. Am honoured that Constellations is among them.

The @irishbookawards.bsky.social are celebrating 20 years and looking for your favourite winner of the last two decades.

Vote here: form.typeform.com/to/cSuK4oPu #IrishBooks #20YearsOfIBA

Record deaths in US immigration custody expose systemic failures Families, advocates and lawmakers say poor care, opaque investigations and bureaucracy leave deaths unexplained

Concentration camps.

Use the term. Do not stop using the term until this current American regime falls and the camps are liberated. Then use the term in The Hague.

This is Trumpism. This is white nationalism. This is he moral gutter into which America has fallen.

Painting of two glass jars and one food tin each with a bunch of spring flowers and blossom on twiggs placed inside all on a white surface

Artwork by Pamela Grace, contemporary artist and printmaker living and working in Galloway, Scotland #womensart

Suitcases full of medical supplies for Cuba.

We're busy packing suitcases of medical aid to bring to Cuba tomorrow. 🇮🇪 🇨🇺

GRMA to all who've assisted us source it (special thanks to Dr David Hickey).

The USA is illegally and savagely strangling the island and crippling its people.

A green line drawing of a stained glass window with the figure of Saint Patrick in the centre. The artifact is a printed stamp with the orange word "Éire" and "€1" at the top.

Lá Fhéile Pádraig // Happy St Patrick's Day!

The Digital Repository of Ireland holds digital collections from Irish cultural heritage organisations as well as research data from and about Ireland. Browse our repository at dri.ie to connect with records of Irish social and cultural heritage.

For St. Patrick's Day, @foylesforbooks.bsky.social asked Irish writers to recommend Irish books they love. Some great recommendations, inc. @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social on Molly Keane - everyone please read Good Behaviour. In shocking news, I picked Maeve Brennan.
www.foyles.co.uk/further-read...

The Irish nation has lost one of it's finest jewels. Dolores Keane has left us. Comhbhrón ó chroí le muintir Uí Chéin.

This is one of those sentences that starts great and gets more awesome with every word

103 day exposure of the rising sun over Boston's Fenway neighborhood made from the Lansdowne commuter rail station.
cc @universalhub.com #solargraphy #pinholephotography

Colored-pencil card drawing of the Dude

“The Big Lebowski” hit theaters on this date in 1998.

A photo of an Irish road sign for Banna Strand

There’s always money in the

What skyscraper? Snow squal hides both Hancock buildings, as seen from Charles station @universalhub.com

Limerick @ipsc.bsky.social out in solidarity with our Palestinian sisters and brothers yesterday. There is no ceasefire, apartheid Israel continues to murder Palestinians every day, Gaza is under complete, illegal siege, as is much of the West Bank. Our government deepens complicity #FreePalestine

#DailyPictureTheme #Rail One of my grandfather's many RR photos: Train from Col[umbus] Ave. Boston July 1914 Dana D. Goodwin photo.

Boston's North End just before sunrise this morning. #BostonSunrise #BostonWeather #Helicopters #AerialPhotography

Colored-pencil card drawing of Alysa Liu skating

Team USA’s Alysa Liu, drawn in the style of the 1888 Goodwin Champions multi-sport set

Colored-pencil card drawing of Fred Rogers with puppet

“Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” made its national TV debut on this date in 1968.

Wow.

I just finished an episode all about the mysterious murder ballad Rose Connolly / Down in the Willow Garden. Out today for Patreon subscribers and out in about 6 months for everyone else. If you can't wait that long but also can't afford to support FDN on Patreon then just let me know. X

Valentine’s Day is often seen as a celebration of timeless, universal love, but in fifteenth-century Ireland love could also be treated as a medical condition. Evidence of this survives in a manuscript called the Book of the O’Lees (RIA MS 23 P 10 (ii)).

Andrew Ranken 1953-2026

Star of the County Down

#ThePogues Star of the County Down #AndrewRanken open.spotify.com/track/3fx8bH...

It is currently 'packs of coyotes walking across the Charles River' cold outside.

Today, St Brigid’s Day, marks three years since Ireland’s first public holiday named after a woman. It’s a chance to celebrate the vital role women play in Irish culture and history.

Discover St Brigid's story on the @dib.ie www.dib.ie/biography/brigit-brighid...

Lila Iké learned what "self-love" means with her Grammy-nominated album Lila Iké's full-length debut album, Treasure Self Love, has been nominated for a Grammy. Iké spoke to All Things Considered about being one of the only women ever to receive a nomination for best reggae album.

Lila Iké's full-length debut album, Treasure Self Love, has been nominated for a Grammy. Iké spoke to All Things Considered about being one of the only women ever to receive a nomination for best reggae album. n.pr/4ao0eeH