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Elly ☘️

@ellyj.bsky.social

🌹Belfast woman, Wife, lover Mother to 4 big kids + 2 rescue terriers. I love books,film and music of most genres and a lot of other stuff. I live a quiet life mostly

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 7h ago

The Hozier and Jessie Buckley cover of Fairytale of New York is out now, and Hozier has revealed it was a daunting prospect to cover the Christmas classic. The cover is part of a Shane MacGowan tribute album, titled 20th Century Paddy: The Songs of Shane MacGowan. jrnl.ie/7225435

Here’s the Hozier and Jessie Buckley cover of Shane MacGowan’s Fairytale of New York

Hozier admitted he felt ‘somewhat daunted by the prospect’ when he realised that he ‘might end up tackling ‘Fairytale of New York’.

jrnl.ie

Elly ☘️@ellyj.bsky.social · yesterday

Love this! Spent many a happy holiday in Westport. This brings back lovely memories

eolaí the artist@eolai.bsky.social · yesterday

Another west of Ireland #painting "Westport Bridge" came from several visits to the Co. Mayo town, but especially from the time I arrived there by bicycle and sat looking at this view as I always do. A few hours later it was time to cycle on to friends and good times. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear #UrbanGaze

Landscape format in painterly acrylics on canvas. View across river by humpbacked stone bridge on the left side to a street which runs away up a hill a little to the left. Water is very dark alizarin and blue, though almost black except for a step-weir where the falling water is white and pale yellow. Bridge has arches and dark hanging baskets full of mostly red and yellow flowers. River wall has gap with 3 steps down to water above the step-weir. Sky is a painterly yellow. Green foliage of tree encroaches from right on upper half. Buildings from right edge on leftwards up the slope are 2 stories, and in the upper stories are coloured yellow, white, cream, orange, purple, red, yellow, and blue, with shop and pub fronts at street level where they are, right to left, pink, blue, and almost black before they become obscured by the bridge and river wall. Many upper storey windows have flowers in window boxes. A banner of blue, yellow, and green hangs across the street. A black lamp-post is on the path at the top of the few steps down to river. Signed top left, Liam Daly

@murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 7d ago

“Why was Ulster Resistance decommissioning never on the agenda and still isn’t? Why the inexplicable impunity?” ~Brian Feeney The Irish News ☕️🥐

Elly ☘️@ellyj.bsky.social · last wk.

I love this! If you’ve ever been to Cobh this is as close as it gets (imo)

eolaí the artist@eolai.bsky.social · 2w ago

Anyway. Here's a #painting "Cobh VI" was painted probably because I'd already painted five other pictures of the Cork harbour town. Oh and because I love squares and rectangles, and attaching mesh to a painting was great for texture and for the challenge. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear #Scape

Landscape format in acrylics on board with mesh tape attached where buildings are painted. Front view of four streets on a hill, one above the other in a general rainbow impact of yellows, reds, blues, whites, oranges, and pinks set into the olive green of the hill. The lower 3 streets are horizontal bands and the highest one slopes up from left to right. Bottom street is terrace of white 3-story houses with spots of yellow breaking through from under the mesh. The top story of each house is dormer windows set into the roofs which, all joined together, are dark blue and brown with narrow white chimneys. The terrace is truncated at the right edge and finishes close to the left edge. In front of it along the bottom of the painting is blue strip of water with rippling dark reflections of the windows. Just above and behind the white terrace is the 2nd lowest street, a multi-coloured terrace of 3 and 4 story narrow buildings with street level shop fronts which are mostly of different colours to their upper stories. Top 2 streets are each a multi-coloured terrace of about 20 narrow residential buildings, each 2 window bays wide. Distinct from each other at differing heights, roofs are of slate rendered in dark blues, alizarin and browns. Between streets is light green of grass banks or bushes. Stand alone teal 2-storey house sits on top just left of centre with line of full foliage trees behind. Stand alone large 2-storey white house is at top on right at end of highest street. The small amount of sky visible above the tree line at the top of the hill is pale aqua. Signed bottom left in red, Liam Daly

eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 2w ago

A west of Ireland #painting "Twelve Bens from Inver" was painted because I like mountains and I like bogs, but then who doesn't...? Cycling past such views I find mountains tend to look like blue walls that make me wonder what is on the other side, and how to get there. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear

Landscape format in painterly acrylics on mat board. Top of rough lilac and blue dry-stone wall along bottom edge and beyond to the horizon is a bog with two pale lilac bodies of water. Along the horizon against a yellow-orange sky is a blue jagged group of steep mountains. The bog is olive coloured closer to the viewer with dots of pink, and in the distance beyond the water bodies it's a paler orange. Everywhere it is littered with grey rocks and blue shadows, and immediately behind the wall in the foreground it is in shadow of blue, green, purple and maroon. Signed bottom right in blue on wall, Liam Daly

Elly ☘️@ellyj.bsky.social · 2w ago

Some interesting trick or treaters at my door this evening. There was a headless horseman (brilliant!), a scary plague doctor and what looked like an anatomically correct skeleton accompanied by a miniature Buzz Lightyear and BoPeep with a stuffed sheep

eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · last mo.

A #painting from the northwest of Ireland, "Benbulben and Benwiskin" I painted because of what a magnificent sight Benwiskin is, and the shapes of Sligo in general make me happy. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear

Landscape format in acrylics. A painting of horizontal features. Across the bottom is a strip of orange grass punctuated lightly with some dark blue and purple blades and some yellow flowers. It has a jagged top edge with some individual blades extending. Beyond it are 3 horizontal strips of water separated by narrow maroon strips of rocks. Each body of water gets a darker shade of blue the further away it is. A headland comes out from the right edge halfway across the picture, and it, like a headland on the far side of all the waters, is a series of horizontal colours of wine and greens, with the far one topped by graphical slivers of yellow and orange. Behind that is a sloping pale green hill on the left with fields of slightly different bright shades of green radiating down. Behind it is a sliver of a very dark blue hill. Then, dominating the picture is the monolith of Benbulben, a curved rectangle coming out from the right three-quarters of the way across the picture, with in the space to the left behind it the sharp peak of Benwiskin in pale blue rising up. The sky is a very pale turquoise. Signed bottom right in red on the orange grass, Liam Daly.

Elly ☘️@ellyj.bsky.social · 3w ago

very well deserved! This one woman show deserves all the support we can give her!

Bridge Books Dromore@bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social · 3w ago

I was a fun sponge yesterday, but today I have GOOD news! I’ve made the final in the @irishbookawards.bsky.social! I'm over the moon to represent N.I/The North and to be in such wonderful company. I've no notions of winning, I'm just delighted to be in the final. I'm going to need a new frock!

eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · last mo.

A #painting from the north of Ireland "Slemish" came from a day where a good friend showed off parts of Antrim and I asked to stop at this view of the iconic mountain as I found the landscape reminded me of cycling in the then newly independent (north) Macedonia. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear #MountainMonday

Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. Foreground is ditch of long grass in dark blue with red and yellow feathery highlights bending to the right. Beyond we look down on land in shades of cream which rises to a high gently undulating horizon and through its centre a horizontal band of a patchwork of fields in shades of reds and oranges. In midnight blue are chains of blobs representing trees separating some fields, and thin straight lines representing hedgerows separating other fields. Also in the same midnight blue, if a touch paler, is the stand-alone whale-shaped mountain of Slemish on the horizon with its top disappearing into sky which is all clouds in smokey whites and very pale greens. Dots of white houses punctuate the landscape near trees in the middle red patchwork band and along an s-shaped road in the distance approaching the mountain. Signed top right in dark red, Liam Daly

eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · last mo.

A west of Ireland #painting "Poulnabrone VI" came out of several trips to County Clare and the iconic portal tomb in the Burren. I sometimes look at this picture of my painting when I want to feel better about the colour orange. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear #ColorADay #OrangeSun #StandingStoneSunday

Portrait format in painterly acrylics on canvas. Under and against a yellow-to-pale-orange cloudy sky, with short orange wavy strips, are the Purple-blue grey upright stones and the flat slab that is the capstone of the tomb on a raised area of tangerine grass and lilac limestone karst. Shadows under the capstone and on edges of stones on ground are black. Horizon is about two-thirds of the way up the painting. Signed bottom left in dark blue on a lilac piece of limestone, Liam Daly

Rascal: Mother Of Hogs 🐾 📷 🌿 🎨 🦔@badrascal.bsky.social · 4w ago

Belfast area folk, where do you go for tyre checks? I can't face the sensory overload of my usual place today & could do with a trustworthy check before the MOT this week. (Please share for views)

eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · last mo.

A Dublin mixed media #painting. "Christchurch from the Quays" was painted because I loved the site and the views ever since I visited it in the 1970s when the protests were happening about the then planned Civic Offices. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear #Scape

Landscape format. Black ink line and colour water media on paper. Foreground is top of balustraded humpbacked O'Donovan Rossa Bridge showing 2 of its arches underneath painted black. Its stones are pale blue, lilac and white. Past the purple river wall on the right is the 4-story end building of Merchants Quay in lighter purple with some blue stones and black windows. On the left is the end of the modern Civic Offices, with rich blue squares of glass and a supporting isolated columnar pillar. Through the gap between the two buildings is the cathedral with square steeple at the top of the grassed and treed hill, in a mixture of pale blue and lilac with green-grey roof, and around the arched black windows is yellow detailing. Signed bottom left in black ink, Liam Daly

eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Back to an Irish landscape #painting "Muckish from Falcarragh" Once upon a time I regularly had a 12 km cycle to buy milk when I'd made a pot of tea and realised I was without milk - again. This was a view on the rush back to the waiting pot. I lived in a cottage beside the gap. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear

Panorama format in painterly acrylics on canvas. A whale-shaped mountain of blue with purple sits against a painterly canary yellow sky. In front runs a brown-green lilac ridge, fading to the right edge with a pass a little left of the centre of the painting through to the left edge of the mountain. In front of the ridge is a strip of bog then a road left to right dotted with white cottages between the line of dark bushes and trees. From there about two dozen green fields run parallel down a slope towards the viewer, separated by small dark hedgerows, until they go out of sight behind a near hedgerow of dark blue and purple which runs across the full width of the painting and marks the edge of 2 warm green fields which run horizontally sloping up to the right a little and separated by smaller similarly coloured hedgerow. Signed bottom right in dark blue on the bright green field, Liam Daly

Philip Larkin Society @plsoc.bsky.social · last mo.

National Poetry Day seems like a good excuse to share one of Larkin's most loved poems, a deceptively complex and resonant piece of writing.

Elly ☘️@ellyj.bsky.social · last mo.

Apologies for the poor quality. However this article by the excellent Brian Feeney in the Irish News does far more explaining than you’ll get anywhere else. Worth a read imo!

A photo of an item in the Irish regarding the ‘dispute’ on Garvaghy Road Portadown News by Brian Feeney. Lots of historical background worth exploring

eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My #painting "The Long Walk II" was painted when me and my bicycle sat in Galway by Claddagh Quay. Rain then softly landed on my face. And made the painting look funky. Then it got much heavier and washed all the paint off the canvas. So I returned the next day and started over. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear

Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. View across rich blue rippling water to narrow band across the centre of the painting consisting of a street of about two dozen terraced houses, the leftmost being 4 stories and the rest a mixture of 2 and 3 stories high, above a band of dark blue that is a quay wall. Windows and doors are dark simple soft rectangles. Houses are single colours of, from left to right, blue, 5 white 2-story houses, blue, yellow, pale green, brown, white, maroon, red, pale green, white, blue, brown, yellow, blue, yellow, white, and yellow. Slated roofs are dark blue. Sky is stormy yellow mixed in with patches of green and red, dark in patches near the top, brightest at the bottom above the roofs. The water closest to the dark quay wall has less rippling and shows a dark shimmering reflection of the houses. Foreground includes some grass and flagstones of curved quayside on left. Signed top left in dark blue, Liam Daly

Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 2mo ago

These are the deaths connected to the parade route that got the go ahead today. Telling residents that they need to build bridges feels particularly perverse

Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨@ciaraioch.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Beoga records, merch and tickets: www.beogamusic.com/store Aaron Rowe records, merch and tickets: www.aaron-rowe.com#merch

Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨@ciaraioch.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Beoga and Aaron Rowe pulling out of Sheeran's tour is so admirable. Putting principles in front of career is incredibly brave and I hope they get huge support because of it.

Elly ☘️@ellyj.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A rainbow stretches across a blustery autumn sky with Cave Hill just visible in the middle distance. Hard to believe we’re midway through September and into the season of ‘mists and mellow fruitfulness’ (Keats)

A rainbow stretches across a blustery blue and white
background autumn sky with Cave Hill to the north of Belfast just visible in the middle distance. There are trees and shrubs in the foreground and a very green field. Taken today near my home

eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A #painting from County Cork. "Cobh II" was painted one day when cycling between friends in Carrigtwohill and Carrigaline, both of whom I'd originally met online, and I took in Great Island specifically to paint the Cork harbour town. The painting was finished when back home. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear

Landscape format in painterly acrylics on canvas. View of town on a hillside as seen from a pier. Under a yellow painterly sky a gothic blue cathedral with a steeple on the left end sits on top of the town. Below it and to the left is a row of tall dark blue supporting stone arches under the green stone boundary wall and walkway which drops down to a jumble of blue slate roofs. Along the bottom across the full width of the painting is the front street scene of 7 buildings, each with 3 stories though of varied heights, and joined together save for one gap. They have shop fronts at street level, upper stories are coloured, left to right, pink, white, yellow, orange, red, teal, and yellow, with contrasting window frames and details including dormer windows. Buildings are 3 or 4 window bays wide, all narrow windows coloured in a blue or a black. A couple of small trees with a ball of bright green foliage are on the left, and up beside the cathedral there is one at the left end and 2 at the right. Parts of the fronts of other buildings are visible in gaps up the hill to the top on the right. Signed top right in blue on yellow sky, Liam Daly

eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A #painting from Ireland's southwest. "Skibbereen, Main Street" came from a moment when I arrived by bicycle in the west Cork town facing these four fabulous buildings so I stayed there stopped, sitting on my saddle, just staring until I had painted them in my head. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear #UrbanGaze

Landscape format in painterly acrylics on canvas. Front view of terrace of four 3-story buildings with shop fronts at street level. Upper stories of leftmost building is light brown with "C Connolly" on fascia of maroon and peach shopfront, next is taller and blue-green with no signage visible on its grey-green shopfront, next is yellow and same height as blue-green one, with "Pierce Hickey" on white fascia below a clock and line of flowers and above the shopfront of orange trim, and rightmost is a lower height and a very pale blue, almost white. Each building is two window bays wide save for the rightmost which is cropped at the third window. The rightmost building has gold lettering of Field's Coffee on its dark green fascia and below it the windows and doors are all topped with white arches. All windows of upper stories have white trim, with the first story of the two central buildings having a white triangle over each. All roofs are slate of a smokey blue violet, and chimneys a muted grey-green and purple. Sky is painterly orange, more yellow lower down beyond the left edge of the leftmost building. Foreground is street surface of purple brushed brokenly over red with a triangular turquoise traffic island housing two planters of blooming flowers, a street sign and directional signs. Signed bottom left in blue, Liam Daly

(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 2mo ago

An cupla focal..

eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Another west of Ireland #painting "Westport, High Street" came from a time I was cycling in County Mayo and after climbing up this hill I stopped because I was feeling a bit blue. And yellow and purple. Westport is beautiful from so many angles; I'll be painting it again #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear #Scape

Landscape format in painterly acrylics. Under a canary smoky yellow sky with touches of orange breaking through, we are looking downhill at the far side of a street of 2-story houses stepping down, most of which are in pale yellows, with pale purple and blue slate roofs that have touches of navy, and red indicating the slates, and are punctuated by white and yellow chimneys. Only the path of the left side of the street is visible by the left edge of the painting, until the bottom of the hill when the street bends right bringing the houses on the left side into view. Road surface is blue with central dashed white line, and paths are bright yellow with a tall dark streetlamp in the left foreground. Cars parked on both sides mostly in whites and blues. Small narrow trees with sparse green foliage are dotted along both sides of the street, but at the top on the right side is a large tree having dark foliage of violet and blue and some red highlights that reaches the top of the painting. Purple and blue roofs of other streets are at bottom of hill punctuated by glimpses of yellow gables and a couple of taller green square buildings with roofs. On far side of town is a mass of trees of violet and dark blue across the full width of the painting. Beyond is a flat-topped hill with a parallel row of grey-green fields. In this distance on the horizon are pale blue rounded hills on the right and a soft pyramidal one in the centre. Signed bottom right in dark blue on the pale blue road surface, Liam Daly

eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A County Kerry #painting. "Looscaunagh Lough" I painted based on a day where I had been painting in Kenmare then packed up and cycled up into the mountains, over Moll's Gap and up there, high above Killarney National Park, I stopped by this lake. Because hey. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear

Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. Glimmering lake, with reeds running across the foreground of varying greens, from off-white to warm olive to loud green to almost blue, some topped with small brown balls. There are uneven yellow-green grass slopes on the left leading to rocks in the water. The far side of the lake in a band running horizontally across the centre has lime grassy slopes, dark green bushes mostly on the right, and further back rocky olive outcrops with a large clump of dark blue-green pine trees peaking on a mound right of centre with several orange brown long vertical trunks visible at the bottom of that peak. The water has dark bands of reflections of the dark trees between the sparkling very pale blue and white areas. There are also some touches of horizontal strokes of lilac particularly in the foreground. Sky is very pale blue save for feint white fluffy clouds. Signed top left in turquoise, Liam Daly

Elly ☘️@ellyj.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#DollyParton RIP What a legend in her own lifetime

Elly ☘️@ellyj.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I’m on holiday. What a great view for an after dinner Evening light in the Galtee mountains in the Glen of Aherlow Tipperary Ireland 🇮🇪

Bridge Books Dromore @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social · 3mo ago

PROSTRATE, NOT POSTATE!!

Bridge Books Dromore@bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It's that time of year again when I lay myself prostate before you & ask for your vote in the Irish Bookshop Awards. It takes two seconds to vote & saying something nice isn't even compulsory! You’ll find Bridge Books Dromore in the drop-down menu 👇 Love Les x www.anpost.com/Irish-Booksh...

Bing44 @bing44.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My final thoughts. What will the legacy be of what looks like the biggest Fleadh ever? Because tomorrow morning Belfast goes back to normal: empty units, boarded-up buildings, gridlocked roads, a taxi system that falls apart when people actually need it, and Sunday trading laws from another age.

Bing44 @bing44.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Belfast Fleadh has been an absolute triumph. I’ve never seen Belfast so alive. Music coming from every direction, packed streets, and a real buzz about the place. Whatever the organisers did, they absolutely nailed it.

Elly ☘️@ellyj.bsky.social · 3mo ago

No mention of the Fleadh in Belfast on @news.rte.ie I mean Jaysus! The city is heaving with people the atmosphere is off the scale electric yet zero coverage from down the road 🤷‍♀️