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Mark Maguire

@markmaguireb.bsky.social

Works #museum #education. Here for the #art, #comics, #SciFi, #news | Photos mine or otherwise credited. Followers with bio, activity, etc. more likely to become mutuals | ☘️ #SpeirGorm / #SpéirGhorm | 🐘 @MarkMaguire@mastodon.ie | 🧵 @markbmaguire

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Mark Maguire@markmaguireb.bsky.social · 6d ago

Labourer/ agricultural labourer/ Farmer/ Farm labourer/ Hunting Groom I’ve to go back to the late 1700s before there is a hint of a part-time tailor … after that, the records all fade away

Sanditon Charlotte: I'm Merely a Laborer

Alt: TV’s Sanditon character Charlotte saying bashfully “I'm Merely a Laborer”

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Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 7d ago

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

Mark Maguire@markmaguireb.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Listening to an Acast podcast … just now, of all times, running an ad for that Irish golf hotel owned by TACO. They insist on saying his surname multiple times in the space of a few seconds, with a little burst of Gaeilge at the end.

eolaí the artist@eolai.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Time for a #painting. From a few years ago, "Mayo Shed" came out of an idyllic day in the west of Ireland where I cycled from County Galway north and around the back of Croagh Patrick. This was an outbuilding I enjoyed seeing before coming in Louisburgh as I headed towards Clew Bay. #art #SpeirGhorm

Landscape format in acrylic on canvas. In a field of long yellow grass a large outbuilding with rusted corrugated roof occupies left half of painting with very dark shadow side facing viewer. It extends beyond the left edge of the painting. Wooden posts holding a wire fence run diagonally through foreground. Tall yellow-flowered weeds stand out against the dark shadow side of the outbuilding while bright grey gable end with small windows is in sun. Behind into the right half of the picture is a smaller outbuilding and in the top left corner above the corrugated roof is green foliage of a tree-top. At the far end of the field, visible by the right edge, is a hedgerow of very dark green with brighter uneven top. Beyond it are pale turquoise and purple hills in front of pale blue mountains, the furthest one with a distinctive conical peak reaching up to near the top of the painting. Sky is light blue with large white soft clouds. Signed bottom right in dark blue on the long yellow grass, Liam Daly
IrishPhilosophy@irishphilosophy.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"Upon 1 February, when the Irish, Hebrideans, and Manx were (presumably) feasting in honour of Brigid, the British were expected to eat only bread and drink only water. Then the next day dawned and (in the words of a fourteenthcentury Shropshire monk, John Mirk) churches ‘made great melody’"

John McCafferty@jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 6mo ago

2 Feb: Candlemas, the feast of Presentation & Purification Traditional day of misrule & riot in 16th, 17th centuries #otd (BM)

Rónán Hession@ronanhession.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The Public Lending Right statements have just been issued. (Writers get a payment for every time the books are borrowed.) Thank you to all the library users who borrowed my books over the past year. As a library user/fan myself, I am honoured to be part of the library system.