A portrait-oriented telephoto view of the triangular top of a church spire almost silhouetted against a dark blue dusk sky with a single very bright ‘star’ next to it. The spire is tall and sender, taking almost the entire height of the frame to taper to a point. The spire is arranged vertically about a third of the way in from the left, and the ‘star’ (Venus) sits in the upper-right of the image. A band of cloud frames the top of the scene, and the top of a street-lit hedgerow the bottom.

This shot of Venus setting next to the spire of the St. Patrick's College #Maynooth chapel deep in dusk was a learning opportunity — I had no idea the image processing pipeline in the iPhone 17 ProMax had been upgraded to extend night mode across all lenses, including the 8x telephoto!

A low close shot of small wild flowers with a child’s playground visible behind in soft focus. The flowers are purple and beak-shaped, with the blooms appearing in little clusters at the top of short stems. The stems are covered in leaves, bigger at the base, and getting smaller higher up the stems. The leaves are pointed, dark green, and very textured. The playground consists of two pointed towers with slides of various kinds emanating from them. They evoke a medieval castle but are distinctly modern, painted in bright red and teal green

Red Deadnettles at the playground in the harbour field in #Maynooth. #Bloomscrolling

A diptych showing the base of a bronze sculpture on the left and the top on the right. The base consists of an open book with the inscription “In Memoriam Patrick J. Corish 1921-2013” with a tree sprouting from the spine of the book with roots running acorns the book to the ground. The top is a sphere made of many leaves.

There is something very appropriate about this memorial to the Ecclesiastical History professor Patrick Corish in the Juinior Gardens In St. Patrick's College #Maynooth — a tree of knowledge growing out of a book.

A low and close view of a small flowering plant growing through brown fallen leaves with a grassy area with bare trees visible behind in soft focus, and a blue sky with thin white clouds above. The plant has three little pastel-yellow flowers with four notched petals. The flowers are raised over a clump of dark green leaves with a texture like savoy cabbage.

Primroses under the trees in St. Patrick's College #Maynooth. #Bloomscrolling

A portrait-oriented dusk telephoto view of a skyline silhouetted against a rapidly darkening sky with a few clouds and one “star” visible between the clouds in the top-right. The sky is a deep dark blue at the top of the frame and brightens to an orangey yellow at the horizon. The skyline consists of the silhouettes of some trees and of an appartement block with lit widows.

The “evening star” Venus setting over the silhouette of the @maynoothuniversity.ie student apartments seen from some distance away at the edge of #Maynooth suburbia on the bridge at Mariavilla. #Astrophotography

23 Mar 1535: Sir William Brereton scales the walls of #Maynooth Castle #otd crying: "St George, St George", he then placed his standard on the turret (JMcC)

23 Mar 1535: Sir William Skeffington takes #Maynooth Castle by bribery in the wake of the #Kildare rebellion #otd

Come and experience The Easter Triduum at Maynooth. All ceremonies take place in the College Chapel with musical accompaniment from the College Chapel Choir.

Everyone welcome.

#sppu #maynooth #stpatricks #easter #spcm

Prof John Barton, University of Oxford, will deliver the next @irishtheolquart.bsky.social Lecture on the 20th of April, 7:30pm, in an Online Zoom Webinar.

Please RSVP at specialevents@spcm.ie.

#stpatricks #maynooth #theology #publiclecture

Students of SPPU, along with the Maynooth Catholic Society, undertook a pilgrimage to the Irish College in Paris last week 🇫🇷

#stpatricks #maynooth #pilgrimage #paris

A square face-on view of a three to four inch white flower with five long slender widely spaced petals and a conical mound of red stamens at the centre. The bare branches of the tree the flower is growing on, and more flowers are visible behind in soft focus, and behind that, in very soft focus, is a red bricked wall.

Magnifiscent Magnolia — this perfect specimen in growing on a relatively young tree in the public space around some relatively new apartments in #Maynooth. The flowers are more open and slender than the more traditional varieties I see elsewhere around the village. #Bloomscrolling

A portrait-oriented wide landscape view along a curve in a rural canal at dusk. The canal is mirror-smooth and arcs through the scene from the right foreground to the left and then back to a vanishing point in the right mid-ground. A yellow-fronted dark green train with white doors and two prominent headlights approaches in the mid-ground on the far (right) bank of the canal and it’s shape and lit windows are reflected in the water. The light is fading so the entire scene is relatively dark, and the sky is a navy blue colour. The silhouettes of bare trees can be seen in the distance.

When you're standing in a beautiful dusk scene it's always tempting to shoot into the setting sun and get those amazing oranges, but when you turn the opposite way you get cool rich blues which can be beautiful in their own way! #IrishRail #Maynooth #RoyalCanal

A near-silhouette dusk landscape shot dominated by a lightly clouded sky coloured bright orange at the horizon, fading to salmon pink and then blue higher in the darkening sky. The silhouette of a train with two headlights reflected in a still body of water dominate the mid-ground. A curving path running along the near edge of the water is just visible in the foreground.

An evening #IrishRail commuter train pulling away from #Maynooth along the banks of the #RoyalCanal as it starts its journey towards Dublin, bring home students after a busy day studying in #MaynoothUniversity.

A square crop of an orange lightly clouded sky reflected in a mirror smooth canal, framed on three sides by inside or a stone arch bridge and its reflection. A foot path breaks the symmetry on the right, narrowing the canal to let the path under the bridge too.

An amazing sunset under Pike Bridge on the #RoyalCanal east of #Maynooth yesterday evening.

Catholicism in Ireland has been declining for decades. Are young people coming back? After years of bad news and declining numbers, is Catholic Ireland experiencing a revival—particularly among young men?

Rev Dr Michael Shortall shared some thoughts on the Irish Church and St Patrick's College in America Magazine. Thanks to Kevin Hargaden for facilitating.
www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

#sppu #spcm #stpatricks #maynooth

A close view of a heart-shaped wicker wreath decorated with painted eggs and little wooden butterflies & flowers hanging on a window with square panes.

Someone in #Maynooth really loves Easter 🙂

This is so beautiful and also pretty much concisely sums up so much of what I’m learning in my Spatial Justice course! #maynooth #speirgorm

Tagging my spatial justice professor: @pbresnihan.bsky.social

A square black and white view of a big light-shaded bird with a long neck standing at the edge of still water knecht out looking down. The shape is reflected in the inky black water.

A Grey Heron focused on finding lunch on the far bank of the #RoyalCanal near #Maynooth.

Day 1175 of #1200daysofwalking #100faysofwalking #stpatricksday #parade #maynooth

#StPatricksDay Parade in #Maynooth earlier today.

This mechanised St Paddy gave the driver of the vehicle carrying it some visibility issues..

A landscape view looking down a rural canal from the left quay side as it widens into a small harbour. A barge is moored up in the mid-distance, and a yellow-fronted railcar-type train passes opposite the barge along the right bank. The sky overhead is overcast, but the scene is sunlit.

An #IrishRail Commuter train passing the Duke's Harbour on the #RoyalCanal at Pike Bridge east of #Maynooth opposite the entrance to Carton House. The sun peeped through the racing clouds at just the right moment!

A black and white top-down shot of a cycle lane road marking with an inverted triangle road marking above it

As a comparison to this utterly cattywampus cycle lane road marking in #Lucan, here’s a more normal Irish one in #Maynooth (though a little carelessly stencilled)

A portrait-oriented low but relatively wide view of a sea of mostly yellow but some white & yellow foot-and-a-half tall trumpet shaped flowers growing on stalks rising over clumps of foot-tall dark green grass-shaped leaves along the the grassy verge at the edge of a suburban road under bare trees. The flowers disappear into the distance, and traffic lights, road signs, and a car can be seen in the background in slightly soft focus.

Looking back at the most recent keepers in my camera roll, it seems clear the Irish just love planting daffodils in all colours and sizes, and sometimes, in impressive volumes! This spectacular display graces the roadside at Tesco in #Maynooth. #Bloomscrolling

14 Mar 1535: Sir William Skeffington begins the siege of #Maynooth Castle, the rebel Fitzgerald stronghold #otd - it ended in bribery & a fake 'pardon' followed by a slaughter of most of the besieged on 23rd (WMurphy)

Seminars running as part of our Economics Seminar Series 2025/26. Join us Friday's @ 3pm in the Edgeworth Room in Rhetoric House on the South Campus. We welcome guest speakers from far and wide, for presentations on a variety of interesting topics.

#EconomicsSeminarSeries #MaynoothUni #Maynooth

💛👏A big well done to Charles Seaman and colleagues from SPPU and MU on a successful Daffodil Day coffee morning for the Irish Cancer Society

If you would like to donate, please see fundraise.cancer.ie/fundraisers/...

#sppu #stpatricks #maynooth #daffodilday

A low close view of small blue flowers with a shallow depth of field. The flowers are growing at the edge of a street curb and consist of 4” flowering stalks with small little blue spherical bell-shaped blooms reminiscent of blueberries, but much lighter in colour. The stalks are growing up between dark green waxy grass-shaped leaves. A car, wall, and some bare trees are visible behind in very soft focus.

Some lovely little blue Grape Hyacinths brightening up suburbia 🙂 #Maynooth #Bloomscrolling

A wide portrait-oriented shot of a grey overcast sky reflected in a canal with a big bare tree and its reflection framing the left edge, and a yellow-fronted silver and dark green train and its reflection dominating the mid-ground as it approaches from right to left along the far bank.

Peacefully grey — an #IrishRail InterCity accelerating out of #Maynooth along a mirror-smooth #RoyalCanal on a dull but perfectly still Irish spring afternoon.

A selective colour shot of a yellow flower lying in front of a stone plaque where the entire shot is in black and white other than the flower. The plaque reads “this tree is to commemorate all the Maynooth men who fought in the 1916 Easter rising — 12th May 1991”

A little early, but someone placed a single daffodil flower on the commemorative plaque under the tree planted to remember the Irish Easter Rising which triggered Irelands's eventual full independence from the UK in the little park next to St. Mary's Band Hall in #Maynooth. #Bloomscrolling

A clump of foot-tall trumpet-shaped flowers with white petals around the ‘trumpet’ and yellow trumpets. The flowers are bathed in soft sunlight, and growing atop tall stalks raising them up over a tight clump of dark green grass-like leaves.

These lovely white and yellow Daffodils are brightening up the footpath between #Maynooth train station and the village — must really be cheering up the commuting students on their way to lectures 🙂