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norn irish living in norn france
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These are fantastic
Page from the remarkable Model Book of Calligraphy (1561–96), a collaboration across many decades between a master scribe, the Croatian-born Georg Bocskay, and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel. More here: buff.ly/2...

Prints for sale here: publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/artist/j...
November 30, 2025 at 10:41 PM
+1 in my little Frankenstein collection is Ahmed Saadawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad in which a (new) monster gets a very modern setting. Here with George Bess' excellent graphic version (@glenatbd.bsky.social) and a fine #map of the original tale by Literary Maps
#book #booksky
November 30, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Enniskillen's Boatyard Distillery and their Old Tom #Gin, aged in Pedro Xímenez sherry casks, served on ice (or here, on all of Mt Everest in guise of ice)

See more here www.boatyarddistillery.com/range/old-to...

#Ireland
November 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The complex tale of Grimbergen beers & how the Euro giants carve up the market. French Grim is brewed by Kronenbourg (Carlsberg); Belgian Grim by Alken-Maes (Heineken). But there is also a micro brewery at the abbey where a monk is brouwmeester. All use the 1128 date & the phoenix logo.

#beer
November 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Got my ticket for London baby

#music
Michael Shannon/Jason Narducy & Friends Lifes Rich Pageant 40th Anniversary UK/IRL Tour tickets ON SALE NOW

September 1 Bristol
September 2 Brighton
September 4 London
September 5 Manchester
September 6 Leeds
September 8 Edinburgh
September 9 Glasgow
September 11 Dublin
September 12 Belfast
November 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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The first Coca-Cola bottle sold to the public, launched in 1894.

It surprisingly contained about 3.5 grams of cocaine.
November 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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PJ Harvey's fifth studio album 'Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea' was released on this day in 2000.

The album's artwork was photographed by Maria Mochnacz, with design by Mochnacz and Rob Crane. This contact sheet is from the album cover photo shoot.

pjharvey.lnk.to/linkBS
October 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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The @nlireland.bsky.social is inviting people to step back into the #kitchens of Ireland’s 18th and 19th-century big houses with the release of centuries-old #winter #recipes for food lovers and amateur cooks to recreate at home: www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...
Recreate 18th and 19th-century warming winter recipes at home
The National Library of Ireland (NLI ) is inviting people to step back into the kitchens of Ireland’s 18th and 19th-century big houses with the release of centuries-old winter recipes for food l...
www.advertiser.ie
November 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 9:43 AM
So my Open Gate Baltimore glass survived the trip home in the hold luggage, yay!

#guinness #beer #beersky
November 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Barrel-Aged Stock Ale from Guinness Open Gate: deep, warm, and dangerously easy for 10%.

Rating: 4.00

#GuinnessOpenGate #BarrelAgedBeer #StockAle #CraftBeer #BaltimoreBeer #BarrelAged #TheBeerAdviser #OneSipYouGetThePicture #onesip #UntappdIsDeadToMe
November 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Violence, érotisme et dissidence selon Sacha Cambier de Montravel
Violence, érotisme et dissidence selon Sacha Cambier de Montravel
Avec ses tableaux à l’esthétique souvent inspirée de la Renaissance, le peintre Sacha Cambier de Montravel pose son regard critique sur le monde actuel.
hommeurbain.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Le meilleur jeune peintre vivant du 21ème siècle, Sacha Cambier de Montravel aka le Brueghel du Wokistan ou le Bosch de l’apocalypse queer, expose en ce moment ses toiles à la galerie DS à République et il faut y aller car c’est merveilleux ❤️‍🔥 #boss

dsgalerie.com/fr/expositio...
January 31, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Visited the Gothiques exhibition @louvrelens.bsky.social. Plenty of works from the original gothic period but also right up to date with modern works inspired by them, including goth culture and comic books

#art
November 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
So, so you think you can tell
Lager from ale...

#beer #PinkFloyd
November 23, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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🇮🇪 Irish diaspora — countries with the highest population.

🔎 Maps Interlude
November 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I never, ever buy those sickly sweet imperial pastry stouts. But this is a Blueberry Cheesecake Imperial 𝘗𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘳, so, that's OK? Tbf it's very nice and hides its 12% abv quite well. Emperor's are in deepest darkest Leicestershire, but my can was brewed by Dugges in 🇸🇪

#beer #lego #StarWars
November 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Back to Duvel, this time for their Imperial Blond. Strong & malty. Not sure it adds a lot beyond the standard Duvel though, I'd probably rather 2 of those than 1 of these

#beer #bier #beersky
November 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The same song / Not the same song

Which do you vote for? J Mascis or Baby Huey

#music #nowplaying
November 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
What #language did YOUR ancestors speak?
🗣️ Spoken varieties in Europe, circa 1815.
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Catching up with De Katsbier's 2021 edition of Yule (whisky infused imperial stout), with illustration by Alfred Crowquill. The stout is as good as ever
#beer
November 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
A throwback Books&Beers from a few years back, De Katsbier again with the 2021 Ostara, a strong Belgian ale, with @christinahenry.bsky.social 's Alice, imagining an Alice in an altogether different Wonderland. Both featuring the March Hare imagery
#book #booksky #beer #alice #LewisCarroll
November 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Look at these students, getting up to all sorts of high jinx
For #InternationalStudentsDay, enjoy this glimpse of #student life in Parliament Square at @tcddublin.bsky.social. Captured by photographer #ElinorWiltshire in 1964; catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls0....
November 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Books & Beers #11 is another repost from over there since I just stumbled across the photo again. @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social 's Brussels Beer City, with the beer he brewed with Brussels Beer Project, Sctch 1920

Read the story here www.beercity.brussels/home/2020/sc...

#beer #beersky #booksky
November 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM