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Tony McGrath. Using signs, advertisements and messages as the inspiration for observation and comment - enlightened and otherwise Commemoration. Memorials. Graves. Headstones. readingthesigns.weebly.com

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Mixed Messages @signsthereading.bsky.social · 35m

A plaque recording that the field was a cillín was erected in 2003

Some unknown time afterwards, a stone was erected to remember Maurice John Breen who lay inside the cillín since 1949 - flowers and teddy bears followed

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Mixed Messages @signsthereading.bsky.social · 40m

#31DaysOfGraves Day 13 Inside

Upto not long a go some were not permitted to be buried INSIDE the parish cemetery, inside consecrated ground.

Unbaptised babies, non-Catholics, suicides were not allowed inside. Many were buried in Cillíní - small liminal spaces, bits of fields

#Derrymore #Kerry

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22h

I know it’s the most obvious thing in the world but it’s really sad that so many people have absolutely no desires or dreams in life except to accumulate money and our entire world is becoming a fucking pit because of it

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Mixed Messages @signsthereading.bsky.social · 22h

Me, I'm just a lawnmower - you can tell me by the way I walk.

𝖂𝖊𝖗𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖎𝖒𝖊𝖗 @wertheimer.bsky.social · 1d

Selling England By the Pound

Genesis
13 Oct 1973
#MusicSky🎶

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Mixed Messages @signsthereading.bsky.social · 22h

Beat that for coolness

Yr Spooky Friend Camille @yrouttasight.bsky.social · 1d

#31daysofgraves Day 13: Skeleton

Nmjc, hbu?

Mixed Messages @signsthereading.bsky.social · 23h

#31DaysOfGraves Day 13 - Skeleton

A more conventional skeleton
#Kilmurry, #Limerick

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Mixed Messages @signsthereading.bsky.social · 23h

#31DaysOfGraves Day 13 - Skeleton

If one of definitions for SKELETON is something reduced to its minimum form or essential parts, does this qualify as a Headstone Skeleton

#Kilrush, Co. #Clare

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Mixed Messages @signsthereading.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like a sticker response campaign

Mixed Messages @signsthereading.bsky.social · 1d

And South Mall

Mixed Messages @signsthereading.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like Phase 2 has started

Not a light pole around City Hall without a cable-tied flag - all effectively at half mast ( or half light pole)

Mixed Messages @signsthereading.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like #CemeteryCorvids

jen @jenzsky.bsky.social · 1d

The Guardian…

#31DaysofGraves #monochrome
#cemetery #cemetaries #photography
#classicmono #b&w #birds

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 1d

#31daysofgraves • Military 🪦

Drummer Trevor Mower (d.1920) 🪦

📍Cathays Cemetery 🪦

#Wales #History

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Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social · 2d

#31DaysOfGraves - 12 Notable woman. The lonely grave of Betty Corrigall on the border of the parishes of Walls and Hoy #Orkney in my #OnePlaceStudy #NorthWallsAndBrims Notable now for the sadness and poignancy of her story Read more here: www.scottish-places.info/features/fea...

A white gravestone (fibreglass actually) surrounded by a white picket fence tiny against a backdrop of brown heather and hills.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 2d

New in our online store! Unisex sweatshirts embroidered with the logo of the International Brigades – tens of thousands of working-class volunteers who travelled to Spain to help the fight against the fascists in the civil war. With global shipping: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/int...

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Mixed Messages @signsthereading.bsky.social · 2d

Two thoughts:

I had never seen a first name called SPRING before

Why is her mother's name not on headstone?

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Old Thurles @oldthurles.bsky.social · 2d

#31DaysOfGraves Day 12 - Notable Woman

Grave of Lena Rice, only Irish winner of Wimbledon Ladies Singles title, at New Inn, Co. Tipperary. @wimbledonltc.bsky.social @icshc.bsky.social

White marble grave memorial with black text

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Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery (KAVS) @listerlanecem.bsky.social · 2d

Remembering a few buried in unmarked public graves, who died on this day in:

Edward MacClea, died 1845, aged 36 years, tailor
Mary Ann Moor, died 1857, aged 11 days
Frederick Mitchell Sykes, died 1862, aged 8 months
Elizabeth Boyle, died 1868, aged 7 years
Joseph Aitken, died 1868, aged 5 years