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Neil Jackman

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Archaeologist at Abarta Heritage & Tuatha Ireland. Passionate about public archaeology and enthusiastic about old ruins. Author of guidebooks to the #WildAtlanticWay & #IrelandsAncientEast Explore Ireland with me at @tuatha.ie

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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 9h

Are you heading for a historical hike this weekend?

Try our selection of free articles on places to visit, and filter by location, accessibility, whether it's good for kids or dogs, as well as by period, site type etc. Or combine filters to find your perfect day out!
www.tuatha.ie/best-places-...

A hiker takes in the view from Two Rock Mountain in the Dublin Mountains, Ireland

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 11h

Great couple of days. Especially getting to see the figures at White Island etc. There is a wealth of heritage around Lough Erne!

Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 11h

Incredible that we still treat rivers as sewers, conduits to wash away toxicity, or things to be feared and tamed with concrete.

It would be transformative for our lives, biodiversity, and landscape if we treated them with respect.

Robert Macfarlane's Is A River Alive should be required reading

Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 12h

Glad to help! I was at Devenish with Chris last week. He has an incredible way of reading a building, fascinating to see.

Makes a poor prehistorian at heart like myself take comfort in our rudimentary stone arrangements

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 12h

An absolute bargain at €14.99. Full of fantastic images and nice short insights into the different towers, their architecture and meaning
obrien.ie/round-towers...

Round Towers of Ireland

Round Towers of Ireland; From Glendalough in the Wicklow mountains to Tipperary’s Rock of Cashel and Offaly’s Clonmacnoise, from Aghagower in County Mayo to County Dublin’s Clondalkin, Round Towers Of...

obrien.ie

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 12h

If you don't already have a copy, his new one on round towers is really good.

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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social · 12h

A sensible person snaps up any publication by Christiaan Corlett that's offered for sale, because elusive isn't the word. Maybe 'fugitive'.

'Here Lyeth: The 18th century headstones of Wicklow' (2015)

heritage.wicklowheritage.org/topics/event...

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 22h

That's some lineup! Sounds brilliant

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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 1d

I visited the @nmireland.bsky.social today for a bit of research, but I also took the opportunity to revisit the Words on the Wave exhibition, before it ends on October 24th.

It really is wonderful and you've only two weeks left, so do go and see it before it's gone!

#Ireland #SpéirGhorm

Page from the Irish Gospels of St Gall that dates to the 8th century AD. This shows an illustration of the Second Coming / Last Judgement.

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 1d

A new museum dedicated to the life of the explorer Ernest Shackleton opens in Athy in Co Kildare today.

New museum on life of Ernest Shackleton opens in Kildare

A new museum dedicated to the life of the explorer Ernest Shackleton opens in Athy in Co Kildare today.

www.rte.ie

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 1d

My hometown (left 26 years ago though, both changed a bit since!)

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely nothing. Total arrogance and lack of any sort of ethical guardrails. All goes bang, but the right people earned a fortune off the misery. NAMA protected the ones they valued. The rest of us peasants didn't matter.

And here we go again. Only this will be harder to spin to blame all of us.

Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 1d

Silver linings and all that

Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 1d

I wholly believe it will. Most Emperor's New Clothes nonsense since the South Sea Bubble.

And who'll be left picking up the pieces? Normal people as usual.

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 1d

After the 2008 crash, there was an opportunity to do things differently.
Absolutely no lessons learned.

I swear if they bet the house on AI, I am going fully feral when it all crashes down again.

Proper Mad Maxing it.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 2d

The Irish Times view on the AI bubble: Ireland at risk if its bursts

Warnings from the IMF and Bank of England draw parallels with the 2000 dotcom boom

www.irishtimes.com

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 2d

Dr Angela Byrne, author of Irish Historic Towns Atlas no. 32, Ballyshannon//Béal Átha Seanaidh, talks about what new perspectives it can offer on the history of the town.

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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 2d

Bohonagh Stone Circle • West Cork

This lovely little stone circle is another example of the rich Bronze Age archaeological heritage of West Cork.

When excavated in the late 1950s, archaeologists discovered a shallow pit containing a few fragments of cremated bone in the middle of the circle.

A small stone circle under a blue if slightly cloud streaked sky in West Cork Ireland

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 2d

Utility I think. There are a few around.

Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 2d

One day, one day 😪

A yeti crab with the caption 'this creature has adapted to the crushing pressure and oppressive darkness'

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Office of Public Works @opwireland.bsky.social · 2d

The Winter Solstice draw took place yesterday at Brú na Bóinne Visitor Centre!

38 lucky winners will experience sunrise inside the Newgrange Chamber this December.
Over 16,000 people entered from Ireland and around the world.

More 🔗 cutt.ly/Cr2IvNoQ

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 2d

A different mentality altogether about civic space

Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 2d

Small things like grids, utility and manhole covers can make a real difference to the feel and character of a place.

Just look at the difference between the iron ones and the shitty boring plastic, cheapest value tender version here in Clonmel.

A circular cast iron water cover with ornate celtic revival decoration and the word uisce

A cast iron utility cover with E Channon & Sons ornately embossed

A subrectangular cast iron water cover with celtic revival knotwork decoration and the text Uisce Quality Irish

A boring plasticy looking modern circular cover with the words Water Uisce

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Christian Cooijmans @ccooijmans.bsky.social · 2d

Very happy to finally see this in the flesh today: the remains of an early tenth-century calendar from Landévennec, Brittany, whose entry for the year 913 contains an annotation that the local coastal monastery of Winwaloe was attacked by vikings during that year.

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A medieval manuscript page from the tenth century, on vellum. Text in black ink and red rubrication using Carolingian miniscule.

A marginal annotation on a manuscript, containing the (abbreviated) Latin sentence: 'Eodem anno destructum est monasterium sancti winualoei a normannis' (translation: 'In the same year, the monastery of saint Winwaloe was destroyed by Northmen').

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 2d

Fantastic! Looks like a beautiful setting too.

Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 2d

Looks like a cracker! Is it believed to be Iron Age or Viking?

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