Marion McGarry
@marionmcgarry.bsky.social
Irish heritage, folklore, material culture, design. Author of books: Irish Customs and Rituals & much more. Contributor to RTE Brainstorm. MA / PhD / SFHEA… but no SL. All views my own.
https://www.rte.ie/author/1241485-marion-mcgarry/
https://www.rte.ie/author/1241485-marion-mcgarry/
After a rather stressful week, why not enjoy a Friday treat by rewatching this documentary about the cultural attaché to Greece 😍
November 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
After a rather stressful week, why not enjoy a Friday treat by rewatching this documentary about the cultural attaché to Greece 😍
The whole piece is sadly hilarious actually. Read it before it’s taken down
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 AM
The whole piece is sadly hilarious actually. Read it before it’s taken down
Heartening to see growing interest in these topics and thanks to @rte.ie allowing me a platform to educate the public about old Irish traditions:
another ‘most read’ piece on @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
@atu-ie.bsky.social @oflynnatu.bsky.social
another ‘most read’ piece on @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
@atu-ie.bsky.social @oflynnatu.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Heartening to see growing interest in these topics and thanks to @rte.ie allowing me a platform to educate the public about old Irish traditions:
another ‘most read’ piece on @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
@atu-ie.bsky.social @oflynnatu.bsky.social
another ‘most read’ piece on @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
@atu-ie.bsky.social @oflynnatu.bsky.social
President Higgins kindly provided us with the foreword for the book ‘See The Wood From The Trees’, which documents the story of storm felled trees felled from the Áras that he had gifted to be used by furniture design students @atu-ie.bsky.social
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November 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
President Higgins kindly provided us with the foreword for the book ‘See The Wood From The Trees’, which documents the story of storm felled trees felled from the Áras that he had gifted to be used by furniture design students @atu-ie.bsky.social
artisanhouse.ie/product/see-...
artisanhouse.ie/product/see-...
As so many are sharing memories of President Michael D Higgins as he departs Áras an Uachtaráin, here’s a selected highlight of my visit there in 2018 when he let us pet the dogs… 😍 he was a great president and will be missed
November 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
As so many are sharing memories of President Michael D Higgins as he departs Áras an Uachtaráin, here’s a selected highlight of my visit there in 2018 when he let us pet the dogs… 😍 he was a great president and will be missed
Amazing sunrise marking the start of the Celtic New Year on 1st November / Samhain, the Christian Feast of All Saints Day.
At Carrowmore megalithic site, Sligo, the chamber at Listoghill faces the Ballygawley Mountains & sunrise in this position coincides with the start and the end of winter.
At Carrowmore megalithic site, Sligo, the chamber at Listoghill faces the Ballygawley Mountains & sunrise in this position coincides with the start and the end of winter.
November 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Amazing sunrise marking the start of the Celtic New Year on 1st November / Samhain, the Christian Feast of All Saints Day.
At Carrowmore megalithic site, Sligo, the chamber at Listoghill faces the Ballygawley Mountains & sunrise in this position coincides with the start and the end of winter.
At Carrowmore megalithic site, Sligo, the chamber at Listoghill faces the Ballygawley Mountains & sunrise in this position coincides with the start and the end of winter.
My annual Hallowe’en brack appreciation post… looking forward to enjoying this in about two days with a strong cupán tae 😀
October 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
My annual Hallowe’en brack appreciation post… looking forward to enjoying this in about two days with a strong cupán tae 😀
Who doesn’t love an Irish cottage?
‘Lost Houses’ showcases forgotten homes & overlooked architectural fragments in Galway City’s rich cultural & social landscape, in the Architecture At The Edge exhibition 2025 👏 Visited with students from BA Design @atu-ie.bsky.social @oflynnatu.bsky.social
‘Lost Houses’ showcases forgotten homes & overlooked architectural fragments in Galway City’s rich cultural & social landscape, in the Architecture At The Edge exhibition 2025 👏 Visited with students from BA Design @atu-ie.bsky.social @oflynnatu.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Who doesn’t love an Irish cottage?
‘Lost Houses’ showcases forgotten homes & overlooked architectural fragments in Galway City’s rich cultural & social landscape, in the Architecture At The Edge exhibition 2025 👏 Visited with students from BA Design @atu-ie.bsky.social @oflynnatu.bsky.social
‘Lost Houses’ showcases forgotten homes & overlooked architectural fragments in Galway City’s rich cultural & social landscape, in the Architecture At The Edge exhibition 2025 👏 Visited with students from BA Design @atu-ie.bsky.social @oflynnatu.bsky.social
If I won the lotto I would buy these beauties at the Adam’s Auctioneers Important Irish Art auction taking place next week… [1/2]
September 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
If I won the lotto I would buy these beauties at the Adam’s Auctioneers Important Irish Art auction taking place next week… [1/2]
The fear this evening… 🙈
September 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The fear this evening… 🙈
It’s August 31st
August 31, 2025 at 3:23 PM
It’s August 31st
Beautiful evening at the Bohea stone: the sky lit up and looked as if we might witness the ‘rolling sun’ phenomena, but the clouds gradually obscured the sun’s descent down Croagh Patrick.
Amazing Neolithic monument with 5,000 year old carvings. A great place to end National Heritage Week 🙌
Amazing Neolithic monument with 5,000 year old carvings. A great place to end National Heritage Week 🙌
August 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Beautiful evening at the Bohea stone: the sky lit up and looked as if we might witness the ‘rolling sun’ phenomena, but the clouds gradually obscured the sun’s descent down Croagh Patrick.
Amazing Neolithic monument with 5,000 year old carvings. A great place to end National Heritage Week 🙌
Amazing Neolithic monument with 5,000 year old carvings. A great place to end National Heritage Week 🙌
Hello from the revolving Corleck head exhibit at Cavan County Museum 🥰
August 20, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Hello from the revolving Corleck head exhibit at Cavan County Museum 🥰
Happy Big Lady Day! Today’s the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Traditionally called Big Lady Day in Ireland, it was a much loved day off from harvest work, people visited and socialised at Marian shrines and holy wells like this: Lady’s Well at Dunowen, Cork
August 15, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Happy Big Lady Day! Today’s the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Traditionally called Big Lady Day in Ireland, it was a much loved day off from harvest work, people visited and socialised at Marian shrines and holy wells like this: Lady’s Well at Dunowen, Cork
Proof that this little beaut of a dolmen really does exist and is not confined to the realm of my imagination #amdrawing
Benbulben in the background looking fab and I did take artistic licence… go see all for yourself at Carrowmore in Sligo and if you do, please leave nothing behind #LeaveNoTrace
Benbulben in the background looking fab and I did take artistic licence… go see all for yourself at Carrowmore in Sligo and if you do, please leave nothing behind #LeaveNoTrace
August 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Proof that this little beaut of a dolmen really does exist and is not confined to the realm of my imagination #amdrawing
Benbulben in the background looking fab and I did take artistic licence… go see all for yourself at Carrowmore in Sligo and if you do, please leave nothing behind #LeaveNoTrace
Benbulben in the background looking fab and I did take artistic licence… go see all for yourself at Carrowmore in Sligo and if you do, please leave nothing behind #LeaveNoTrace
Fisherman’s cottage at Glencolmcille Folk Village. No electricity or running water. All meals cooked over the hearth. Complete darkness at night apart from the fire or lamp, & when they go out spiritual protection offered by statues, St Brigid’s crosses, and the power of prayers. #Donegal
August 7, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Fisherman’s cottage at Glencolmcille Folk Village. No electricity or running water. All meals cooked over the hearth. Complete darkness at night apart from the fire or lamp, & when they go out spiritual protection offered by statues, St Brigid’s crosses, and the power of prayers. #Donegal
Greetings from Downpatrick Head, where according to folklore the evil Crom Dubh met his demise, having been banished to Dún Briste by St Patrick 😀
August 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Greetings from Downpatrick Head, where according to folklore the evil Crom Dubh met his demise, having been banished to Dún Briste by St Patrick 😀
As today’s St Swithin’s Day: read about this and more weather forecasts according to Irish folklore.
My piece in @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social
@atu-ie.bsky.social @oflynnatu.bsky.social
t.co/QPwcsDn6GX
My piece in @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social
@atu-ie.bsky.social @oflynnatu.bsky.social
t.co/QPwcsDn6GX
July 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
As today’s St Swithin’s Day: read about this and more weather forecasts according to Irish folklore.
My piece in @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social
@atu-ie.bsky.social @oflynnatu.bsky.social
t.co/QPwcsDn6GX
My piece in @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social
@atu-ie.bsky.social @oflynnatu.bsky.social
t.co/QPwcsDn6GX
Great to have this piece exclusively published on @atu-ie.bsky.social
website for ‘Yeats Day’ recently. The poet is associated with Sligo but here I write about his Galway home. Shows how it’s possible to have a foot in both counties at once 😉
@oflynnatu.bsky.social
www.atu.ie/news/a-tower...
website for ‘Yeats Day’ recently. The poet is associated with Sligo but here I write about his Galway home. Shows how it’s possible to have a foot in both counties at once 😉
@oflynnatu.bsky.social
www.atu.ie/news/a-tower...
June 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Great to have this piece exclusively published on @atu-ie.bsky.social
website for ‘Yeats Day’ recently. The poet is associated with Sligo but here I write about his Galway home. Shows how it’s possible to have a foot in both counties at once 😉
@oflynnatu.bsky.social
www.atu.ie/news/a-tower...
website for ‘Yeats Day’ recently. The poet is associated with Sligo but here I write about his Galway home. Shows how it’s possible to have a foot in both counties at once 😉
@oflynnatu.bsky.social
www.atu.ie/news/a-tower...
Honestly hope this story starts it going viral again…
June 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Honestly hope this story starts it going viral again…
The watercolour fun continues… Leenane graveyard up the road from Devilsmother mountain, both on the N59
June 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The watercolour fun continues… Leenane graveyard up the road from Devilsmother mountain, both on the N59
Annual visit to the Bohea stone outside Westport. Covered in 5000 year old rock art, with view of Croagh Patrick, old beliefs may be associated with sun spectacle. More on summer solstice and ancient sun worship in my piece below 👇 @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
June 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Annual visit to the Bohea stone outside Westport. Covered in 5000 year old rock art, with view of Croagh Patrick, old beliefs may be associated with sun spectacle. More on summer solstice and ancient sun worship in my piece below 👇 @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Recently published my 50th article for @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social and it was great to see this mentioned in the latest ATU Magazine, now available at the link below 👇
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@oflynnatu.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Recently published my 50th article for @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social and it was great to see this mentioned in the latest ATU Magazine, now available at the link below 👇
issuu.com/atlantictech...
@oflynnatu.bsky.social
issuu.com/atlantictech...
@oflynnatu.bsky.social
Some headline in today’s Business Post…painful to see public money being spent in a way described as fiscally incontinent and yet our government is unwilling to invest comparatively paltry amounts for common sense projects such as reopening the railway from Sligo to Galway
June 15, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Some headline in today’s Business Post…painful to see public money being spent in a way described as fiscally incontinent and yet our government is unwilling to invest comparatively paltry amounts for common sense projects such as reopening the railway from Sligo to Galway
Sick of all the AI in the ether, so am drawing more and more, mostly ancient stuff, like this dolmen in Sligo
June 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Sick of all the AI in the ether, so am drawing more and more, mostly ancient stuff, like this dolmen in Sligo