(Dr) Rena Maguire
@justrena.bsky.social
Archaeologist. This gun's for hire on small finds. Educator. Iron Age/ early med material culture . Likes horses and old stabby pointy things. "Ain't nothin' like me - except me" (Raccoon, 2014). Usually optimistic. She/her/thon wan. Personal views only
Bluesky is not a "liberal bubble". It's just one of increasingly few public spaces where Nazis get called out, and if that makes you uncomfortable, you need to think about that.
Its such a patriarchal thing isnt it? Phallic rockets from a misogynst harming the mythical.embodiment of femininity.
SpaceX latest: Abandoned rocket about to slam into moon at high speed
I watched the Highland dancing, the bagpipes, the trad, rhe Afghani fusion... And oh! The impromptu seisuns on the trains! Find it hard to understand the odd loyal son and daughter who complain about this. They must be very sad inside themselves all the time
The first Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann to take place in Belfast has seen a 95% footfall increase in the Northern Ireland capital
Fleadh in Belfast leads to 95% increase in footfall
The first Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann to take place in Belfast has seen a 95% footfall increase in the Northern Ireland capital.
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If it wasnt for Belfast Live and @tg4.bsky.social Id feel miserable at missing the Fleadh. Yesterdays images of sheer joy, oh Belfast my Belfast! This is what you really are and now they know it!
An Irish artist has helped establish a children's centre in Gaza that provides food, education and psychosocial support to children displaced by the war. Adam Doyle, better known as Spicebag, tells us why he helped create Ionad Hind Rajab. jrnl.ie/7117887
'They're just kids': The Irish-backed centre giving Gazan children a place to play
Irish artist Adam Doyle, aka Spicebag, says Ionad Hind Rajab is about giving displaced children “a break from the horror around them”.
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I really just want a peaceful place to chat and stuff. I dont want the other sorts here at all. They wreck everything
The new CEO of Bluesky wants to change Bluesky from being a leftist bubble. The thing is, there’s nothing wrong with being a leftist bubble: the idea that everything has to be all-encompassing and suitable for everyone is a trap. 🧵 1/4
I never liked the comedy of Jimmy Cricket, seeing it as a mockery of Irishness in a culture and time when we were already seen as subhuman. But there is no disputing that as himself, Mulgrew was a good and decent person. Guess his success was the last laugh on the Brits. Go.easy now, good man.
Im delighted that unionists are participating in thr Fleadh. Music is bigger than any of us. This one celebrates us all, joyfully and thats why it is an important event for the city. Ulster Scots, marching band, pipes, and new arrivals fusing Bhangra with trad...it is us in all our effed up glory.
Very cool that you can walk about Belfast and hear music like this rn
I dont ever wabt @bikesnbukes.eurosky.social to.know this. And Americans please dont lep me for this, but as someone who was a killer at rounders in her youth. Id love to do the baseball thing
and Denae Benites hits the first home run in Women's Pro Baseball League history!
A delicate Lammas dress from 1902 by Gustav Beer, richly decorated with silken wheat stalks, for drinking chouchen and telling fortunes in an old country garden, as a great golden moon rises in the dark Breton sky.
Jeanne Gibson, known worldwide as Rosie the Riveter, passed away on 29th July 2026 at the remarkable age of 100. Thank you Jeanne for giving women a symbol of strength when we were told we had none. 💋💪🏻💘
Giandis, giandis catte Protect thie folk of Dunbaur Hurry furry moggie Go gyve them courage Move at sped. - anon. c.1338-1400
As we get older, perhaps being on the reasonably right side of history and respecting people of good faith, even if not our faith, is the ultimate expression of punk?
The godmother of punk Patti Smith met Pope Leo XIV this morning.
A woman from Mayo won the first Tour de France for women! How is this not common knowledge……oh, yeah cos it’s a woman. 🙄 What an incredible feat! 🚲 ♀️ 🙏 @clodaghfinn.bsky.social column For telling the ♀️stories #SpeirGorm
Clodagh Finn: The Mayo woman who won the first Tour de France for women
The memory of the last time the Sam Maguire went west, 75 years ago, is etched in local consciousness, yet a remarkable international win by a Ballina cyclist just a few years later remains little-kno...
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When the kitten gets caught dien the back of the sofa snd you use a camogie stick to lift him out....
Im shocked at thr death of Glen Hansard. A lovely soul. Met him several times in past employment
When you've just discovered squirrel and mouse tv...
And if any Hollywood moghul needs an Iron Age material culture specialist, to.get the look right, im available ;)
We clearly need the Táin Bó Cúailnge! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A1...