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Tuatha

@tuatha.ie

The interconnected lakelands of Lough Erne in County Fermanagh is a truly rewarding place to explore.

Surrounding its calm waters, you can discover many echoes of the past. With enigmatic idols, island monasteries, and Plantation castles.

#Fermanagh #SpéirGhorm #IrishSky

An aerial view of the monastic complex on Devenish Island, Lough Erne, Fermanagh

A stone idol known as the Dreenan Figure on Boa Island

November 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM Everybody can reply

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Glenn Quigley

@glennquigley.bsky.social

☘️ A new gay paranormal romance novel set in 1980s rural Ireland 🇮🇪

🐻 Bear main characters
👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 Gay romance
🇮🇪 Ireland
☎️ 1980s setting
🌙 Witchcraft & paranormal
🐑 Farm
❄️ Winter
🌶️ Spicy/open door
🧚‍♂️ Folklore frights
📚 272 pages

🔗 Mybook.to/heartofthewren

#irishsky #irishwriter #irishauthor #irishbook

October 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM Everybody can reply

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Rose Young

@roserosey.bsky.social

Oscar Wilde hit the nail on the head with his view on fox hunting
"the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable"
#irishsky #speirgorm

October 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM Everybody can reply

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Mahoganygaspipes

@mahoganygaspipes.bsky.social

#irishsky
#speirgorm

Kerry Dexter @kerrydexter.bsky.social · 19d

#Ireland ☘️ has interesting stories of #Halloween 🎃 to tell. Learn about that at @perceptivetravel.bsky.social #travel #history perceptivetravel.com/blog/2018/10...

Halloween and Ireland: Bonfires, Barmbrack, Ancestors

At Halloween in Ireland you may find commercial celebrations -- but there are customs which hint of beliefs from much earlier times too.

perceptivetravel.com

October 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM Everybody can reply

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Bevan Thomas

@bevanthomas.bsky.social

#BookChatWeekly #AncientSky #BookSky #MythologySky #FolkloreSky #IrishSky #CelticSky #FairySky #Mythology #IrishMythology #CelticMythology #Folklore #IrishFolklore #CelticFolklore #Ireland #Celtic #Literature #Adventure #Quest #Fairy #Faerie #Otherworld

October 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM Everybody can reply

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Mahoganygaspipes

@mahoganygaspipes.bsky.social

#irishsky
#Spéirghorm

Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · Oct 3

As a spoken language, Irish predates English by a millennium.

Its early writing system, Ogham, written vertically as a series of lines and strokes, has an alphabet based on trees.

October 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM Everybody can reply

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Shane

@shanerazor.bsky.social

Go on Shane! Delighted for him. Thank god he's from Offaly and not Mayo. #RyderCup #speirgorm #irishsky

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · Sep 28

Shane Lowry makes his birdie to split a point with Russell Henley, Europe retains the Ryder Cup

September 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM Everybody can reply

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Áine Keenan

@ainekeenan.bsky.social

Perfect joy excludes even
the very feeling of joy,
for in the soul ﬁlled
by the object no corner
is left for saying ‘I’.

Simone Weil, 20th century

#Photography #Wisdom #Spirituality #Poetry #SpeirGorm #IrishSky #Ladakh #India #PortraitPhotography #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

Eight members from three generations of a Tibetan Buddhist family pose for a portrait in a combination of traditional and contemporary clothing. Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India.

September 21, 2025 at 4:28 AM Everybody can reply

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Glenn Quigley

@glennquigley.bsky.social

My next book takes place in the run up to Wren Day and you might think I made that up but I didn't! Wren Day is a real thing! Wrenboys exist! You can read all about them in my latest blog post:

🔗 glennquigley.com/wrendaywrenb...

#irishsky #writingcommunity #folklore

Wren Day, Wrenboys, and HEART OF THE WREN - GlennQuigley.com

On Wren Day, Wrenboys, and the inspiration for Heart of the Wren by Glenn Quigley. Heart of the Wren is a gay paranormal romance novel set in 1980s Ireland.

glennquigley.com

September 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM Everybody can reply

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Soolahhoops.com

@soolahhoops.com

This sounds cool!

#Ireland #NationalPloughingChampionships #NationalMuseumofIreland #IrishHeritage #Irish #IrishSky

National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · Sep 17

Join the Irish Antiquities Division of the National Museum of Ireland for live craft demonstrations at the National Ploughing Championships 2025!
Discover traditional skills and explore Ireland’s rich archaeological heritage in action. #ThePloughing
www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/T...

Kids get stuck into a pottery demonstration hosted by the Irish Antiquities division.

A pottery demonstration hosted by the Irish Antiquities division.

September 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM Everybody can reply

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Áine Keenan

@ainekeenan.bsky.social

It makes no difference
if you're black or white
If you're a boy or a girl
If the music's pumping
it will give you new life
You're a superstar.

Madonna, 20th century

#Photography #Wisdom #Poetry #SpeirGorm #Ireland #IrishSky #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBlueSky #ArtofBlueSky #Landscape #Nature

Eight Irish Limousin cows clustered in a row behind an electric wire in a field of luscious green grass beneath a grey, white and blue sky. In terms of characteristics, the rump is well-rounded, thick and well-descended, and the body is large with a well-muscled back and loin. Famous for its wheaten to dark red colour, its horns are average sized and point forward, but can also be polled.

September 16, 2025 at 6:00 AM Everybody can reply

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Áine Keenan

@ainekeenan.bsky.social

You must remember this
A kiss is just a kiss
A sigh is just a sigh
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by

Herman Hupfeld, 20th century

#Photography #Wisdom #Poetry #SpeirGorm #Ireland #IrishSky #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBlueSky #ArtofBlueSky #Landscape #Nature

Two trees, one green-leafed and a lower one red-leafed, lean into each other side-by-side against a multi-hued sky at dusk.

September 14, 2025 at 3:15 AM Everybody can reply

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Áine Keenan

@ainekeenan.bsky.social

I can buy myself flowers
Write my name in the sand
Talk to myself for hours
Say things you don't understand ...

Miley Cyrus, 21st century

#Photography #Wisdom #Poetry #SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #India #Roses #IrishSky #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBlueSky #ArtofBlueSky #StreetPhotography

Elderly, dark-skinned Indian street vendor with a large oval-shaped woven basket of freshly-picked, hot pink roses for use in home pujas (rituals). He is dressed in a shirt and dhoti with cream sandals on his feet and a cloth bag over his left wrist. In the background, bicycles, mopeds and motorcycles line the dusty laneway. Ramana Nagar, Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India.

September 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM Everybody can reply

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Áine Keenan

@ainekeenan.bsky.social

We had joy, we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song
Like the seasons, have all gone

Jacques Brel, 20th century

#Photography #Wisdom #Poetry #Rivers #SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #IrishSky #Eire #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBlueSky #ArtofBlueSky #LandscapePhotography

Bare legs under a print knee-length skirt lead to feet with painted toenails dipping in a slow-moving still river in the bright sunshine.

September 10, 2025 at 7:30 AM Everybody can reply

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Mahoganygaspipes

@mahoganygaspipes.bsky.social

#Spéirghorm
#irishsky

This, I did not know

Roger #NoKings Ramjet @rogerthedodger.bsky.social · Sep 9

We have Tories over here as well 😉

September 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM Everybody can reply

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Áine Keenan

@ainekeenan.bsky.social

Surely there will be a
teahouse where we can
drink among plum blossoms
on our way to the other world.

Michael O'Brien, 20th century

#Photography #Wisdom #Poetry #SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #India #IrishSky #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBlueSky #ArtofBlueSky #StreetPhotography

Indian streetside chaiwala with a long mustache wearing a sleeveless vest, lungi and belt and having three horizontal white lines of ash on his forehead to symbolise his devotion to Lord Shiva. He stands proudly beside his charcoal-fired copper urn and aluminium containers in which he prepares tea by boiling a mixture of water and milk, often with a spice mixture called chai masala, and then adds tea leaves and sugar, and strains the drink into a container before serving the tea in small glasses.

September 9, 2025 at 6:38 AM Everybody can reply

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Áine Keenan

@ainekeenan.bsky.social

The beauty of things —
is in the beholder's brain —
the human mind's translation
of their transhuman
intrinsic value.

Robinson Jeffers, 20th century

#Photography #Wisdom #Poetry #SpeirGorm #Ireland #Malaysia #IrishSky #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBlueSky #ArtofBlueSky #StreetPhotography

Four young children with their backs to the camera watch a street puppet show in Penang, Malaysia.

September 8, 2025 at 6:45 AM Everybody can reply

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Áine Keenan

@ainekeenan.bsky.social

Too lazy to be ambitious,
I let the world take care of itself.
Listening to the night rain
on my cabin roof,
I sit comfortably,
with both legs stretched out.

Ryokan, 19th century

#Photography #Wisdom #Poetry #SpeirGorm #Ireland #India #IrishSky #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBlueSky #ArtofBlueSky

Silhouetted image at dusk of family of five langur monkeys sitting on the corrugated roof of the Old Hall, Sri Ramanasramam, Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India where Ramana Maharshi graced his devotees.

September 5, 2025 at 8:50 AM Everybody can reply

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Áine Keenan

@ainekeenan.bsky.social

Somewhere over the rainbow,
bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why, then, oh, why can't I?

Harold Arlen, 20th century

#Photography #Wisdom #Poetry #Spirituality #Birds #Landscapes #Rainbow #SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #IrishSky #Eire #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBlueSky

A half-arc of a rainbow passes through a mostly dark-grey sky with a streak of vivid bright blue. It is reflected on the surface of a passing river. In between, green rushes, lawns and trees dissect the image.

September 4, 2025 at 6:56 AM Everybody can reply

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Áine Keenan

@ainekeenan.bsky.social

A smile relieves a heart that grieves
Remember what I said
I’m not waiting on a lady
I’m just waiting on a friend

Mick Jagger, 20th century

#Photography #Wisdom #Poetry #Spirituality #SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #IrishSky #Eire #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBlueSky

A man and a woman sitting alone on opposite aisles of the DART, the overground local rail train in Dublin, Ireland.

September 3, 2025 at 6:50 AM Everybody can reply

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Cate Mac an Fhailghigh ☘️

@theothercb.bsky.social

Who needs lessons about Ireland's history when there's such a thing as "Derry Girls"?

"They ran out of spuds" 💀

#irishsky

January 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM Everybody can reply

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Soolahhoops.com

@soolahhoops.com

Uaimheanna na Céise

#Sligeach #UaimheannanaCéise #keshcorrancaves #sligo #soolahswildfairyadventures #irishsky #irelandsky #ancientireland #irelandimmersion #ireland2024 #ancientireland #eire

November 20, 2024 at 9:14 PM Everybody can reply

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Rhyan E. Romaine

@rhyanr.bsky.social

Ok, "The Fighting Fat Asses" was funny. Nicely done, Paul Mescal.

#SNL #SNL50 @saturdaynightlive.bsky.social #IrishSky 🇮🇪

Photograph I took of my television. Paul Mescal, the Irish actor, is performing his opening monologue on Saturday Night Live. There is a graphic over his shoulder of a fake sports mascot called The Fighting Fat Asses.

December 8, 2024 at 1:37 PM Everybody can reply

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Soolahhoops.com

@soolahhoops.com

Part of the Torc Waterfall
#torcwaterfall #irelandsky #irishsky #ireland #ireland2024 #waterfall #waterfallsky #waterfalls

November 28, 2024 at 7:31 PM Everybody can reply

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Cole Dowden

@coledowden.bsky.social

A few questions for the Mob.

Does anyone this guy like anyone?

Does anyone like this guy?

Does this guy know ANYTHING?

Is there a group of people, place, or things this guy hasn't offended?

Did Trump do ANY vetting of #shadyvance

#voteblue

www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...

#Irishsky

JD Vance blames higher crime rates on 'wave of Irish immigration'

JD Vance made a shocking comment about immigrants in the clip from 2021

www.irishstar.com

August 16, 2024 at 8:26 AM Everybody can reply

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