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Israel has blocked the entry of all humanitarian aid into Gaza as it demands Hamas agree to a US plan for a ceasefire extension

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'Rathlin Golden Hares' by Angela Harding, UK artist and printmaker. In #folklore the hare is often associated in #March with madness, due to the antics of their wild mating dances #Spring

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Gardaí are seeking the public's help in tracing the whereabouts of Eamon Tsekiri (24) who has been reported missing from the Sheriff Street Dublin 1 area since Sunday. Eamon was last seen at around 5:00am on Sunday morning in the Sheriff Street and IFSC areas of Dublin 1.

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So we can't pay the young son of a Hamas minister to narrate a BBC documentary But we can put the son of a KGB agent in the House of Lords, paying him to make our laws 🤷‍♂️

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Radical students from the Glasgow School of Art who dubbed themselves 'The Immortals' (c.1894) including artists (back :) Frances MacDonald, (middle L-R :) Margaret Macdonald, Katharine Cameron, Janet Aitken, Agnes Raeburn and Jessie Keppie #womensart

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'Pomegranates.' John Singer Sargent was an inveterate traveller and this work was probably made while staying at the Villa Longa in Valldemossa, Mallorca in the autumn of 1908. It is a statement about colour and light, the relationship between form and texture.

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Munch painted this work in 1890 while living in the Parisian suburb of Saint-Cloud, at a time when he made a number of nocturnal window scenes. His friend, the Danish poet Emanuel Goldstein, posed for the top-hatted figure silhouetted in the moonlight.

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Detail from the Art Nouveau gesso panels by Glasgow School artist Margaret Macdonald, c.1907 #WomensArt

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ANNOUNCING A MAJOR NEW @EmpirePodUK SERIES: IRELAND & EMPIRE Episode One- COLONISING IRELAND: Henry VIII, Elizabeth I & The Tudor Conquest of Ireland

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In George Henry's 'The Hedgecutter,' from 1886, we can see the influence on modernist painting by the French pastoralist Jules Bastien-Lepage; a major influence on the Glasgow Boys who had put on their first exhibition at the city's Institute of Fine Arts the previous year.

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Attending art school at eleven, by his twenties Diego Rivera was counted among the most influential figures of the Parisian art scene of the early 20thC including Picasso, Modigliani and Braque. This work was painted in 1904 when he was 18 and at the San Carlos Academy, Mexico.

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'My Studio Door, Tangier.' was painted in 1924 as Sir John Lavery took an extended tour of north Africa and the Riviera. Apart from visiting Fez, Rabat and Marrakesh, the height of the journey was a month's stay at Tangier, from mid-January to at least the middle of February.

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Queen of Spades, 1909, by Margaret Macdonald, one of the defining artists of the Glasgow School #womensart

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'Jeune paysanne Bretonne.' In the early 1890s Roderic O’Conor painted many portraits of Breton women involved in domestic tasks. Here he has used slightly exaggerated colours inspired by the paintings of his friend Gauguin and a striping method inspired by van Gogh.

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Fréderic Bazille died at the age of 29; he painted just over sixty pictures, none of which were sold during his lifetime. His early demise prevented him from taking part in the flourishing of impressionism and sharing the success of Monet and Renoir, who he painted in 1867.

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Safety at work is not just physical. It's about your mental well-being. It's about your workload being reasonable. It's about respect and dignity for you and your colleagues. And the best way to protect each other? #JoinAUnion

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Charles Rennie Mackintosh made his reputation at the turn of the 20thC as an architect and designer of great originality. In 1914, he left his native Glasgow, and by the time he painted 'Peonies,' (c1920) he was living in London where his work had never been fully appreciated.

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'The Greyhound.' (1908) John Lavery's picture depicts the drawing room at the British Legation at Tangier with the diplomat Sir Reginald Lister and Lavery's daughter Eileen. Sitters in Lavery's interiors are often subsidiaries to some other object in the room, in this case the greyhound.

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'Kirkwall Fair.' (1888) Although Arthur Melville was not regarded as one of the Glasgow Boys, he was seen by them to be a kindred spirit. As this picture shows, he was undoubtedly one of the greatest watercolourists of his generation.

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Paul Henry painted 'Dawn, Killary Harbour' in the early summer of 1921 - the final painting of his Achill period. The softer tones of grey and mauve dissolve together making the long inlet of Killary a romantic place, cut off from the world and the wild Atlantic ocean beyond.

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This morning, cultural institutions across Britain announced 'Turner 250,' a year-long festival of special exhibitions and events. Taking place throughout 2025, the programme celebrates 250 years since the birth of our greatest painter, JMW Turner. Details to follow.

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Harry Kernoff's vivid depiction shows Ringsend, Dublin in 1935. Located on the south bank of the River Liffey, it was named from the Gaelic Roinn Aun or Sea Point and in the 17thC took over from Dalkey as Dublin's main port before going into commercial decline in the 20thC.

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'Carrying the Catch.' (c1950) Markey Robinson's paintings are very popular and turn up at almost every Irish art auction, but then he was amazingly prolific and made a vast number of paintings estimated to be in excess of 10,000.

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'The Dance on the Shore,' from 1900 is one in a series of 22 pictures Munch painted called ‘The Frieze of Life,' of which the most famous image is 'The Scream.' The works were conceived as a part of an epic exploring the progression of modern emotional life through themes of Love, Anxiety and Death

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Although the location is unknown, this archway is similar in style and subject to the architectural studies painted by John Singer Sargent in southern Spain in 1879, especially in the treatment of light, the honey coloured tones of the pillars and the cool greens of the recess.

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Rockwell Kent - The Trapper, 1921.

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Rockwell Kent travelled to Greenland on three occasions between 1929 and 1935 when this picture, 'Iceberg, Sledge-dogs,' was painted. Each time he lived in Igdlorssuit, on Ubekjendt Eiland (Unknown Island). It was during his 1935 trip Kent wrote his book about life in Greenland called 'Salamina.'

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'Switzerland in Winter.' John Lavery visited the fashionable resort of Wengen in Switzerland in 1912-13 producing mountain landscapes which favourably compare with John Singer Sargent's alpine scenes of the period.

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'Portrait of Francis Bacon.' During WW2, Rodrigo Moynihan was recruited as an official war artist through the support of Kenneth Clark, the Director of the National Gallery in London. This later led Moynihan to his appointment as the head of painting at the Royal College of Art soon after the war.

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Beautiful lady aurora paintings in the sky in NW Donegal right now

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Old postcard showing the shorefront and abbey in Rathmullan

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A view over Lough Swilly from Rathmullan, Co. Donegal, 2023 #photography #ireland #eire #donegal

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Christmas Mental Health Support SAMARITANS (24/7, open for everyone) call: 116123 email: [email protected] CALM (5pm - midnight every day, open for everyone) call: 0800585858 WhatsApp: 02045876634 PAPYRUS (24/7, under-35s only) call: 08000684141 text: 88247 #ChristmasEve #ChristmasDay #BoxingDay

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George Percy Jacomb-Hood's picture (1916) records Lawrence Oates walking from a tent into a blizzard with the words 'I am just going outside, and may be some time,' before sacrificing himself in an effort to save others in Captain Robert Falcon Scott's doomed South Pole expedition.

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William Orpen's work belongs to his series of 'Night' paintings between 1906 to 1908 in which his wife, Grace reclines by a window through which a cobalt-blue sky at late dusk can be seen. The setting is his house at 13 Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London.

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Formalism, a powerful abstract sense, distinguishes William Orpen from his peers. Where they focus on a seamstress or a woman reading, he often pulls back to take the eye up to a ceiling or off to a window as in 'Window in a London Street,' from 1901.

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What a letter.

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