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Will Derham

@willderham.bsky.social

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Would-be architect, printer, gym-goer, baker... actual curator & author, among other things. Currently working in a castle. Views are my own.

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Will Derham @willderham.bsky.social · 2h

Ooooh! What’s the book? Sounds right up my street! 🤓

Will Derham @willderham.bsky.social · 1d

Loving the suits lads 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

Will Derham @willderham.bsky.social · 2d

Is there an online option? Sounds fascinating! 🤓

Will Derham @willderham.bsky.social · 2d

😂😂😂 - keep at it!

Will Derham @willderham.bsky.social · 2d

I have several of the Kaweco Sport types and they’re great. They fold up to half the size and fit snugly and discretely in any pocket.

www.penworld.eu/pen/kaweco.h...

KAWECO belongs to one of the oldest brands on the market. For more than 135 years KAWECO pens are an integral part of the High-Class assortments. Kaweco insistently focuses on the thin line between tr...

www.penworld.eu

Will Derham @willderham.bsky.social · 2d

I cannot recommend the fine ladies and gents of PenWorld highly enough …

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Will Derham @willderham.bsky.social · 17d

I had to buy a replacement pen recently. The box arrived with a hand-written note and three sherbet lemons. This is the kind of customer service that should be standard 👌🏻

🍬 🍋 🖋

Will Derham @willderham.bsky.social · 3d

You can’t fake that type of local charm 😆

Will Derham @willderham.bsky.social · 3d

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Will Derham @willderham.bsky.social · 3d

Find of the day (by pure chance - I went in for all of 6mins when I was waiting on the bus) - the works of David Roberts. Large format. A steal at €20 in Oxfam #Books, Parliament St, #Dublin

Will Derham @willderham.bsky.social · 3d

Super! Thanks for these Dorothy! I’ll get stuck in tomorrow - hot water bottle for tonight 😎

Will Derham @willderham.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks Dorothy - this looks like exactly the kind of thing I was looking for! 🙏🏻

Will Derham @willderham.bsky.social · 3d

Anybody know of a place in #Dublin that would repair an electric blanket? The controls are gone and would rather get it fixed than throw it out … 🥶
#SpeirGorm

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 4d

RIP Diane Keaton
My favourite picture of her where everyone else is giving it their best Blue Steel & she looks like she’s just wandered in off the street looking super cool.
She was allowed to wear her own clothes & her wonderful personality shines out.
What a unique talent & human being.

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Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social · 4d

Very much looking forward to getting stuck into this new book from @marcmulholland.bsky.social bringing peasants to centre off Irish history

Will Derham @willderham.bsky.social · 8d

“Ulysses” by Tennyson (a nineteenth century poem, but focuses on ageing) - just a thought 🤷🏻‍♂️

Will Derham @willderham.bsky.social · 11d

Greetings from Lismore and the sunny south east ☀️

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 14d

“What is unlawful is: genocide, the deadly blockade of Gaza, the use of starvation as a weapon of war, and the piracy of civilian vessels and abduction of all those on board.” 3/3

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 14d

“Unarmed people of conscience, abducted in international waters. This is piracy. This is kidnapping. The flotilla did not break any laws."

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 14d

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 14d

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

www.youtube.com

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 13d

Gardaí have issued a renewed appeal for help in identifying the skeletal remains of an elderly woman discovered during works on the Midleton to Youghal Greenway in east Cork more than four years ago
jrnl.ie/6832755

Gardaí publish facial reconstruction in bid to identify skeletal remains found on Cork greenway

The woman’s skeletal remains were discovered in January 2021.

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Will Derham @willderham.bsky.social · 15d

Fun fact, to me anyway 🤓

Averil Deverell came of age pre-independence, being “presented” to George V in St Patrick’s Hall, Dublin Castle, in 1911.

The first woman to practice at the Bar in Ireland, she did so … from St Patrick’s Hall, which served as the Law Library from 1923-31 #History #Heritage

Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 15d

#BiographyoftheWeek from the Dictionary of Irish Biography

'Women shall be admitted on precisely the same terms as men.’ (King's Inns, January 1920)

On 23 December 1919 the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act was passed, allowing women admission to the legal and other professions.

Will Derham @willderham.bsky.social · 15d

Following the destruction of the Four Courts in June 1922, the State Apartments at Dublin Castle were fitted up as a temporary legal home.

What must Deverell have thought entering St Patrick’s Hall that 2nd time? From debutante to barrister in less than a decade.
#History #Heritage #Law #Ireland

Will Derham @willderham.bsky.social · 15d

Fun fact, to me anyway 🤓

Averil Deverell came of age pre-independence, being “presented” to George V in St Patrick’s Hall, Dublin Castle, in 1911.

The first woman to practice at the Bar in Ireland, she did so … from St Patrick’s Hall, which served as the Law Library from 1923-31 #History #Heritage

Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 15d

#BiographyoftheWeek from the Dictionary of Irish Biography

'Women shall be admitted on precisely the same terms as men.’ (King's Inns, January 1920)

On 23 December 1919 the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act was passed, allowing women admission to the legal and other professions.

Will Derham @willderham.bsky.social · 15d

“More than 100,000 different pieces of clothing have been burned or binned or dumped somewhere on earth in the time it has taken you to read this sentence.”
#Climate #Environment #ClimateChange #Clothes #Fashion #FastFashion