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Paint, pencil, charcoal, camera, mandolin, button accordion, trad, Bach, the sea, the mountains, the woods, féileacáin, home grown food, #commongroundbray, climate science, biodiversity he/his
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Street art in Cork #art #davidattenborough #cork

Rough and ready sourdough hit cross buns. Happy Easter.

Last week there was a large frog flat out on top of the frozen garden pond. I thought it was dead but it wasn't frozen solid so I slid it to an unfrozen corner of the pond and it sank to the bottom. This morning it swam up from the bottom as I peered in. I think it gave me a thumbs up.

Cork city across the rooftops with the four-faced liar (church of St Anne in Shandon usually shows a different time on each ckockface) #art #acrylic #cork #ireland

Waiting for the 09:37 into Dublin #birds #photography

A work of art... and I can eat it! #sourdough

Brilliant. Martyn Turner puts it in the back of the net once again.

#Killiney bay looking from the Vico bathing place towards the Wicklow mountains. #art #watercolour

#watercolour #art

Traditional Irish dancing in #Ennis with Mick Kinsella on harmonica and Josephine Marsh on accordion. #traditionalirishmusic

Chair scrapyard in #Ennis friary #photography

Looking across the #IrishSea from #Dalkey before sunset. #JoanBaez had a swim here today. #acrylic #art

Little Egret, Broad Lough, Wicklow #charcoal #birds

Is that a friendly face? Glad I had a stream between me and him. #art #pencil

This hoodie is waiting to share my lunch #birds #killineybay

One image goes a long way to explaining why Ireland is among the most nature-wrecked places on Earth: sheep + sitka.

Bridge over the Lough Allen Canal, Drumshanbo. The painting is a bit chocolate boxy but brings back memories of trad sessions in Drumshanbo. #drumshanbo #acrylic #traditionalirishmusic

#acrylic #art

Great session last week with Eamonn Walsh on uilleann pipes and Mary Kelly on harp and piano. #traditionalirishmusic #uilleannpipes #harp #comhaltas

A tour-de-force of scholarship and detective work: Fara Dabhoiwala reveals that a portrait of an 18th-century Black scientist, long dismissed as a caricature, is in fact a record of the man's mastery of Newtonian physics—and the only painting made in 1759 of the return of Halley's comet.

In 1970 the richest 1% had about 4x the wealth of the average person, and the richest 0.01% had about 30x. Now the richest 1% have 12x the wealth of the average person, and the richest 0.01% have 1000x. This is the problem.