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Cycling. Public Historian. Northern Ireland (the border bit). Daughter of a Weaver. www.digitalfilmarchive.net A piece of archive film for every occasion. Also: https://bsky.app/profile/nornirongirl1981.bsky.social

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Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @beebsymca.bsky.social · Nov 16

Here's an article I wrote for the Irish Times a few years ago,
looking at what archives tell us about ourselves and the not-too-distant past.

Seeing the future through the past - News

Over 127 years of moving images from Northern Ireland, featuring amateur and professional films from 1897 to 2024, brought to you by Northern Ireland Screen.

digitalfilmarchive.net

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Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @beebsymca.bsky.social · 10m

That's such a lovely idea. What a kindness.

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Ken Bartley @kenbartley.bsky.social · 2h

I am in the Ulster Museum, until Christmas, thanks to Neil Shawcross and the Royal Ulster Academy

#art #usletrmuseum

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Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 13h

Did Meat Loaf play in YOUR local bingo hall on his 1990 Irish tour? Find out here! www.tumblr.com/abstractanal...

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💬 0 🔁 1 ❤️ 2 · Meat Loaf 1990 Irish tour dates/Ireland’s Ballroom circuit · With the death of Meat Loaf aka Michael Lee Aday (1947-2022), I remembered he played a tour of Ireland in 1990. I d…

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Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @beebsymca.bsky.social · 24m

TOP TUNE

Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 11h

Top ten in Ireland this week in October 1993: Stakka Bo with 'Here We Go'. Yeah, I'm bopping around involuntarily to this now, same as you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGNK...

Stakka Bo - Here We Go

YouTube video by StakkaBoVEVO

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Anne-Marie @amflynn.bsky.social · 1h

Here you go! It doesn't paint Ballina in a great light ... or maybe it does 😈

www.u2songs.com/shows/1980_0...

u2songs | 1980-05-10 U2, Town Hall Theatre, Ballina, Ireland |

U2Songs.com

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Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 13h

I'll Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Play Moate, Co. Westmeath Again). Only a couple of years before his 1993 comeback, Meat Loaf was reduced to touring the provincial towns of Ireland: here's a brilliant piece on how that went for him www.loudersound.com/features/mea...

Meat Loaf, a flying wheelchair, and the greatest story ever told
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By Ronan Casey ( Classic Rock ) last updated 21 January 2022
In 1989 Meat Loaf's career was floundering, and he was booked on a tour of small Irish halls. It did not go according to plan

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 1h

This is a crucial point

And why the ‘stay on X/Twitter so you don’t cede the public square’ is such a nonsense argument

It isn’t Hyde Park, it’s a billionaire controlled algorithm *designed* to spread far right ideologies

James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 9h

A lot that could be said about this but if you look on Twitter it’s noticeable that the replies and quote tweets are *overwhelmingly* telling him he shouldn’t have apologised and even attacking him for doing so. That’s the feedback loop certain users are plugged into now, and it has consequences.

Calgie
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I wish to apologise to Zarah Sultana MP for my inappropriate response to a message on X. It was wrong of me to do so and I am sorry.

Taking a break from X to prioritise my mental health.

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Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @beebsymca.bsky.social · 2h

Vermeer makes my heart soar. I wept standing in front of The Little Street.

This is amazing even though I'm not fond of AG-D, who always puts himself central in all he does.

Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring finally gets a name

Historian Andrew Graham-Dixon has a radical new theory about the life and beliefs of the Dutch master

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Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @beebsymca.bsky.social · 1d

The wee nose.
Lilly is a wee rescue from Wexford. You never know!

Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @beebsymca.bsky.social · 2d

That's what I said! 😂😂😂

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JayShi @jamessh0000.bsky.social · 2d

I like rich teas but I've never had them as a main course

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Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @beebsymca.bsky.social · 2d

😂😂😂

Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @beebsymca.bsky.social · 2d

Ah Neil, she's gorgeous.
Any relation to our Lilly?!

Lilly is a wee terrier X with big ears, a greying face and loads of love to share.

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Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @beebsymca.bsky.social · 2d

They take hospitality very seriously in Fermanagh.

My hotel room where I had the choice of three beds.

"Would you like a wee biscuit with your coffee?"

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 2d

The Irish writer Lee Dunne, who died a couple of years ago, told me that he fought with his publishers for the right to have his books put out in paperback first, as he knew most of his readers couldn't afford hardbacks (he lost).

Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 2d

My strongest book-related belief is that the paperback should come first and then the hardback after for people who want a fancy edition.

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 4d

So far TODAY Israel has:

- bombed Gaza City
- bombed Khan Younis
- shot and killed five Palestinians in Gaza City
- refused to open the Rafah border crossing
- announced they would once more block aid

This is what a "ceasefire" with Israel looks like. This is what it has always looked like.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 5d

An acquaintance was showing me a funny video on his phone yesterday and I noticed that his WhatsApp had two interestingly-named groupchats:

The Lads
The Lads (No Declan)