Niamh Mac Cabe
@niamhmaccabe.bsky.social
Writer, artist, stylite.
Fair to middling spinster.
Magpie apologist.
Good at everything.
Spouting nonsense from my roost in northwestern Ireland
https://niamhmaccabe.wixsite.com/mysite
Fair to middling spinster.
Magpie apologist.
Good at everything.
Spouting nonsense from my roost in northwestern Ireland
https://niamhmaccabe.wixsite.com/mysite
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Mask for battle horse of a samurai, mid-19th c, Japan.
November 26, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Mask for battle horse of a samurai, mid-19th c, Japan.
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This is the kind of enquiry I can get behind. Shimmering forever.
I will be spending today trying to figure out if, in English, one shimmers *with* something or *from* something, if there’s a difference, and if we have to choose:
November 26, 2025 at 8:07 AM
This is the kind of enquiry I can get behind. Shimmering forever.
Wonderful, James, I enjoyed the trip ✨️
For anyone who can’t get out, or just fancies a change of scene. I took a walk into the mountains behind my house, then stopped at the hermitage of Mary Magdalene on the way down. Welcome to the Kingdom of Aragón.
It’s windy mind..bring a coat.
Abrazos a tod@s.
It’s windy mind..bring a coat.
Abrazos a tod@s.
November 26, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Wonderful, James, I enjoyed the trip ✨️
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A man's thoughts are a choral symphony with a recurring theme established early on that wanders through variations but always returns to "What a fine fellow I am." Now and then the symphony is interrupted, each time with seeming finality, by a single drumbeat, of "I am no good." Then it resumes.
November 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
A man's thoughts are a choral symphony with a recurring theme established early on that wanders through variations but always returns to "What a fine fellow I am." Now and then the symphony is interrupted, each time with seeming finality, by a single drumbeat, of "I am no good." Then it resumes.
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ICYMI we're open for submissions of #microfiction. Please click on the link for our guidelines #MicroMonday #callforsubmissions #submissionsopen fictivedream.com/submission-g...
November 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
ICYMI we're open for submissions of #microfiction. Please click on the link for our guidelines #MicroMonday #callforsubmissions #submissionsopen fictivedream.com/submission-g...
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Very pleased to share an essay on the craft (& crafting) of essays in the Irish Writers Handbook 2026. Thank you to @ruthmckee.bsky.social for commissioning. @booksireland.bsky.social
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November 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Very pleased to share an essay on the craft (& crafting) of essays in the Irish Writers Handbook 2026. Thank you to @ruthmckee.bsky.social for commissioning. @booksireland.bsky.social
wordwellbooks.com/index.php?ro...
wordwellbooks.com/index.php?ro...
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Annie Glass :
Apres Swim, n.d.
Sculpture wire & glass beads
35 x 25 x 23 cm
Further description in the alt text 👇
Apres Swim, n.d.
Sculpture wire & glass beads
35 x 25 x 23 cm
Further description in the alt text 👇
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Annie Glass :
Apres Swim, n.d.
Sculpture wire & glass beads
35 x 25 x 23 cm
Further description in the alt text 👇
Apres Swim, n.d.
Sculpture wire & glass beads
35 x 25 x 23 cm
Further description in the alt text 👇
Good morning to the Cat Weavers
Leonora Carrington :
Cat Tapestry, c.1950s
Wool
Museo Nacional de Arte INBA
Cat Tapestry, c.1950s
Wool
Museo Nacional de Arte INBA
November 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Good morning to the Cat Weavers
⭐️
Writing Box with Eight Bridges (lacquered wood) by OGATA Korin, 18th century, National Treasure of Japan
November 25, 2025 at 12:18 AM
⭐️
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Cork County Council Library & Arts Services funding opportunities for the Arts sector. Proposals are invited for arts projects, activities & events taking place in Cork County in 2026. Deadline 9 Jan. Info sessions in local libraries and online in Nov/Dec
www.corkcoco.ie/en/news/appl...
www.corkcoco.ie/en/news/appl...
Applications Invited for Cork County Council Arts Funding
Cork County Council has announced details of its 2026 funding opportunities for the Arts sector.
www.corkcoco.ie
November 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Cork County Council Library & Arts Services funding opportunities for the Arts sector. Proposals are invited for arts projects, activities & events taking place in Cork County in 2026. Deadline 9 Jan. Info sessions in local libraries and online in Nov/Dec
www.corkcoco.ie/en/news/appl...
www.corkcoco.ie/en/news/appl...
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Our Poetry Ireland Partnership Scheme is now open to applications for support towards poetry readings, workshops and activities taking place between 1st Jan. to 30th June 2026. ✨
Submissions close on December 3rd at 5pm.
Details and application form at form.jotform.com/253214513849...
Submissions close on December 3rd at 5pm.
Details and application form at form.jotform.com/253214513849...
November 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Our Poetry Ireland Partnership Scheme is now open to applications for support towards poetry readings, workshops and activities taking place between 1st Jan. to 30th June 2026. ✨
Submissions close on December 3rd at 5pm.
Details and application form at form.jotform.com/253214513849...
Submissions close on December 3rd at 5pm.
Details and application form at form.jotform.com/253214513849...
That moon!
"Winter garden,
the moon thinned to a thread,
insects singing." Basho Matsuo
(images: Matazo Kayama)
the moon thinned to a thread,
insects singing." Basho Matsuo
(images: Matazo Kayama)
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 AM
That moon!
🎬 I'm delighted to have this piece published in Channel, thank you to Cassia, Simon, and Lauren 🎞️
And there, beyond the range of the live camera's tick-tick-ticking, an infant clings to his young mother, his grip strong enough to secure him.
@niamhmaccabe.bsky.social, 'Pan and the Ironwood', Channel Issue 13
channelmag.org/issue-13/
@niamhmaccabe.bsky.social, 'Pan and the Ironwood', Channel Issue 13
channelmag.org/issue-13/
November 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
🎬 I'm delighted to have this piece published in Channel, thank you to Cassia, Simon, and Lauren 🎞️
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Ernst Haeckel. Discomedusae, 1904
November 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Ernst Haeckel. Discomedusae, 1904
Thx, Kirsten!
I love 'The architecture of a forest", so well put.
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I love 'The architecture of a forest", so well put.
📦
Thoroughly enjoying my copy of @agnimagazine.bsky.social a haunting story sewn into the architecture of a forest by @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social and gorgeous art by Lia Purpura!!
What do you think?
What do you think?
November 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Thx, Kirsten!
I love 'The architecture of a forest", so well put.
📦
I love 'The architecture of a forest", so well put.
📦
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Contemporary Mumbai artist and Global citizen Rithika Merchant, whose paintings draw on various cultures, religions, myths and archetypal storytelling.
The Pollinator, 2023
#ContemporaryArt #Mythology
The Pollinator, 2023
#ContemporaryArt #Mythology
November 22, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Contemporary Mumbai artist and Global citizen Rithika Merchant, whose paintings draw on various cultures, religions, myths and archetypal storytelling.
The Pollinator, 2023
#ContemporaryArt #Mythology
The Pollinator, 2023
#ContemporaryArt #Mythology
Fair dues
In Warwickshire, pulped hares’ brains were given to calm restless new-born infants. It is recorded that in Alscot, up until the 20th C, a party of villagers would visit the lady of the manor to request a hare’s head so that its brains may be used for this purpose.
November 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Fair dues
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Children in a traditional minobashi raincoat going to a new year's event. The photograph was taken in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, in 1956 by the photographer Hiroshi Hamaya.
The children are wearing traditional Japanese raincoats made of straw called "mino"
The children are wearing traditional Japanese raincoats made of straw called "mino"
November 22, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Children in a traditional minobashi raincoat going to a new year's event. The photograph was taken in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, in 1956 by the photographer Hiroshi Hamaya.
The children are wearing traditional Japanese raincoats made of straw called "mino"
The children are wearing traditional Japanese raincoats made of straw called "mino"
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 22, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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The ‘Fool's Cap World Map’, from 1590. The print uses a jester's face to display the world map of the time - Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Currently part of the British Library’s ‘Secret Maps’ exhibition.
November 21, 2025 at 5:33 AM
The ‘Fool's Cap World Map’, from 1590. The print uses a jester's face to display the world map of the time - Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Currently part of the British Library’s ‘Secret Maps’ exhibition.
Top tier fact, thank you.
Across all the planets in the milky way the average number of trees per planet is at least 30
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Top tier fact, thank you.
❤️🔥
November 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
❤️🔥