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‘Somewhere, well out, beyond’ Heaney/ Archipelagos/ Coasts/ Oceans
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Coleraine, cold rain

‘The rector loved all insects, and was said to encourage the ingress of wasps to church; he had a sharp sense of the sins of society, and sometimes he used to denounce us from the pulpit.’ A recollection of St Colman’s Church, Farahy by #ElizabethBowen, who died #onthisday in 1973.

Sundown, River Lagan, Belfast

View from Rathlin Island just a moment ago. You can see across to Scotland at the end

‘When the past can be erased, when peasant life in Europe can be diminished with such speed, Joyce is concerned about what this does to the very notion we have of the past.’ Colm Tóibín on an exploration of Irish rural life: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Archipelagists and Lilliputians might like to know there will be an event at @lilliputpress.bsky.social (62-3 Sitric Road, Dublin 7) at 6pm on Thursday 20 March 2025 to celebrate publication of ‘News of the World’ by Andrew McNeillie. All welcome, ‘from Rhydamman to Inis Mór.’

The trouble is, once I started imagining they were taking selfies I couldn’t unsee it

Bundi Aki looks like he's been in several wars 😂 #WALvIRE

Friday night run, on the Bohs @ronanhession.bsky.social

This just in: one of our Library Assistants rescued a bumble bee using a library fetching card. He assures us that the bee "had a big nectar breakfast and then buzzed off". Phew! 🐝 This job involves more than cataloguing books, folks!

Virgil, Eclogue VIII Trans. David Ferry ‘Farewell to woods, let all be ocean now’

📷Harry Gruyaert. Kerry. 1988.

1933, with golf

You say King, I think Yorktown

A carpet of snowdrops at @sussex.ac.uk

Thus offshore usage recreates the surrounding landscapes; like a poet I know who finds his lines by glancing along titles on library shelves, so the fisherman low among the waves raises his eyes and picks words off the land with which to write sentences on the sea Tim Robinson

Incredible marginal face/manicule/face-icule, in a manuscript of Boethius’ De consolatione philosophiæ. Copied in England in the twelfth century and now MS Dd.6.6 @theulspeccoll.bsky.social #manicule

The North and South aspect. Of South Wick. Today Papay Orkney

Barnacle geese, spearhead. Orkney Papay Islandofbirds

My favourite neighbourhood tree is about to blossom

Journal 'Archipelago' is a sea road of wonder, a word wave washing north from Skellig, through Srúthan to Sula Sgeir, rippling & sparkling up the shore east to Selborne & SE1. To be allowed on board the 'good ship' recent edition is a joy.Thank you Skipper www.clutagpress.com/2024/11/24/a...

Western Meadowlark at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge in Commerce City, Colorado. I’m looking forward to hearing their song again. #photography #birds #colorado #wildlife #more #adventure

A view of the Sperrins for you @neilhegarty.bsky.social

My daughter is in the north for the weekend

Even the trees are risen

Paul Muldoon

Two Herons over Hecla.

Michael Hartnett. ‘A Farewell to English’

As a botany undergrad, I studied mycology. Fungi were thought of as non-green plants in the kingdom Plantae. Now, thanks to modern genetics, we know that fungi are more like very slow animals, in the clade Opisthokonta. A mushroom is closer to your dog than to a tree.

Out the back just now, grackles in their hundreds

Spring in the year of the great stupidity

Waiting for Winter One of my favorite wood and images.

Happiness is