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Nicholas Allen

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‘Somewhere, well out, beyond’ Late Heaney (Oxford University Press, January 26, https://bit.ly/40oRn76) Archipelagos/ Coasts/ Oceans

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Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 3h

That chapel is one of the most unexpectedly evocative places I have ever been, set in the suburbs and the images rising in weird light from the black

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 17h

Fascinating to learn of Brian Friel’s Translations being staged in Senegal.

Ireland's iconic play 'Translations' hits Dakar stage • FRANCE 24 English

YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English

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Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 6h

Terrible news, this is just up the road from the Penn Center National Historic National Landmark District, which is one of America‘s great sites of reconstruction, and one of the nation’s first schools for formerly enslaved people.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 6h

Four killed and 20 injured in mass shooting in US

Incident occurred early on Sunday in a bar in South Carolina

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Tom Duffin Photographer @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social · 1d

This Autumn might be the best one I've seen in Edinburgh if the fine weather keeps up

#Autumn #Fall #Edinburgh

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 4d

last rose

Last beauty in white of the season. Thinking of Rilke’s rose.

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Kelly Rebar @kellyjeanrebar.bsky.social · 9h

This is up the road, late on an October day. #fall #leaves #abstract

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Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 10h

For the blue humanities crowd

bikepedantic @bikepedantic.bsky.social · 11h

Spotted at the start of the HONK parade: SCUL put half an aluminum canoe on an old Urban Arrow!

Half of an aluminum canoe on the cargo bed of an urban arrow

Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 11h

Groovy

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Dr. David Clare @davidclareabu.bsky.social · 11h

As someone raised in the diaspora and a past member of various bands, 🎸 I’m delighted to see my latest journal article (“Key Preoccupations in the Work of English Rock Artists of Irish Descent”) out in the latest issue of STUDIES: AN IRISH QUARTERLY REVIEW!:
www.studiesirishreview.ie/product/key-...

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Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 11h

Cool, that’ll stick, and besides the birds I find it’s such a great way to be aware of nature in general

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Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 11h

One for @npitchford.bsky.social

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 21h

Californian Morning' (mid 20thc) by US artist and printmaker Emmy Lou Packard (1914-1998) #WomensArt

Print featuring a line of different wild plants in silhouette with a singing blackbird perched in one and a dragonfly flying above, all in front of the ocean under an orange sun

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Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 11h

I love the radio at home, the Laois county final is on and the commentator said the two teams are so close they share the same priest

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Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 11h

Great bird

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J @jaseomcn.bsky.social · 11h

There’s your Glossy Ibis (North Bull Island, Santry Outflow)

Glossy ibis, along with egrets, mallards, hooded crow.

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Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 11h

🙏 it went well, easier than last year, I have perfected the old guy late surge

Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 12h

The hare and the tortoise

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Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 1d

Mind yourself

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Circling The Square @circlingpoetry.bsky.social · 1d

A terrific celebration of Seamus Heaney's work. Well worth listening back to.
The editors of 'The Poems of Seamus Heaney', Rosie Lavan and Bernard O'Donoghue, will be at this year's Cicling The Square, talking to Declan O'Driscoll.
Booking details:
www.thesourceartscentre.ie/whats-on/eve...

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Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 1d

Ta, and they think I ate chips

Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 1d

I am getting ready for tomorrow by eating crisps

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 1d

Duomo #Siena #Italy

Beautiful in the floodlight.

A view over the rooftops to the floodlight Duomo with its black & white striped stonework

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Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 1d

This Irish project grew from records damaged in the civil war and thought for a century to be ruined. They might have an idea. Best of luck

Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder would the good people of @virtualtreasury.bsky.social have any experience or suggestions for recovering such material