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Patrick Brannigan

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In Choirs; on board of Housing Rights NI, worked at QUB Belfast An Dún/music/nature/whatever resonates....

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · Jan 4

This is but one version of my work history. In it, I'm suggesting that social interactions are vital, hint at issues around managerialism and corporatism (see later episodes!); and how singing in a work choir was life changing...
www.qub.ac.uk/sites/StaffG...

BLOG: Gestetner to Office 365: Looking back on my time at Queen's

www.qub.ac.uk

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 22h

Mainie Jellett (1897-1944) Abstract, 1922. Oil on canvas:
"By the late 1920s, Jellett had, with, her friend and fellow painter Evie Hone, introduced an appreciation of modern painting to Ireland"

#UlsterMuseum
#SpéirGhorm

In 1921-22, Jellett studied in Paris with Albert Gleizes, an early exponent of Cubism. In 1923, she exhibited two Cubist works in Dublin that were criticised for their modernity by George Russell. By the late 1920s, Jellett had, with, her friend and fellow painter Evie Hone, introduced an appreciation of modern painting to Ireland.

This has irregular shapes in browns, orange, and grey ranges.

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 14h

I decided to stop posting there though I still have an account. I am not keen on posting to Instagram at is another manifestation of Meta. Browsing perhaps is different on any of the platforms

Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 16h

Mushroom bells!

#Lecale #LeathCathail
#CountyDown
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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 18h

John Lavery - Daylight Raid from my Studio Window., 1917. Donated by Lavery, 1929, #UlsterMuseum
Planes from both sides about to engage in a dogfight. Watched by Hazel, his wife.

The details, scale and the perspective are fascinating.

#SpéirGhorm

141.5 by 89.9 cm

Through the oversized window

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 18h

N side of the Mournes, from #Rossglass.

In the mid-distance, a Heron, Cormorants and more stationed on the rocks. Nearby Oystercathers on the tide line.

#SpéirGhorm

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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 20h

I did not think that Palestine could make my heart break any more than 2 years of outright murder perpetrated could. But the images of millions "going home " to rubble is devastating. I want to know when they get help, when the rebuilding starts. When is the sovereign state ?

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 18h

Good piece by Malachy Clerkin.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 1d

Malachy Clerkin: The Jim Gavin fiasco was a long overdue humbling for GAA exceptionalism

Micheál Martin had his head turned by Gavin’s football success, forgetting it’s just a sport, no better or worse than the rest

www.irishtimes.com

Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 21h

The astonishing, Common Hornbeam in Botanic Gardens. #Belfast

Planted in 1828

Shortlisted for tree of the year in 2019.

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 21h

Muisiriún

#Lecale #LeathCathail
#CountyDown
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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 21h

Yes, a brother showed me crocuses from his garden. It's so mild.

Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 22h

Buds and flowers, Botanic Gardens, #Belfast
Rhododendron, Tutsan,Hebee
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Harry Burton @hbtoons.bsky.social · 1d

My cartoon in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social. uploaded again as I had scuppered Heather's surname!

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 1d

Seán Keating: Slán Leat, a Athair/Good Bye Father ... depicts a scene of departure on Inisheer, the smallest of the Aran Islands, off the coast of County Galway. A priest is returning to the mainland and his parishioners have gathered on the beach to bid him farewell.
#UlsterMuseum
#SpéirGhorm

Under a big skyscape and by the sea, a huddle of people with the priest, mostly all with their backs to the painter while the rower waits in the boat.

Slán Leat a Athair (Goodbye, Father)

Date
1935

Medium
oil on canvas

Measurements
H 175.9 x W 175 cm

Accession number
BELUM.U589

Acquisition method
gift from the Thomas Haverty Trust, 1941

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 1d

No no, you don’t understand- I was talking about all women giving oral sex while competing for anything , not just the presidential candidates! Glad it clear that up, all is well now ❤️

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you. I'll look though, I'd prefer not to use Insta.

Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 1d

Jack B Yates, On Through the Silent Lands
The title of this painting is thought to derive from the lines in 'Remember', a poem by Christina Rossetti, 'Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land'.
#UlsteMuseum, I am really loving this picture more.

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JACK BUTLER YEATS

-1957

On Through the Silent Lands

Oll on canvas 326x68.3 cm
Signed bottom left, Purchased 1962

The painting depicts a stromped man walking toward the edge of a thickly painted landscape of rich earth colours. Beneath him, a bridge crown wide river and beyond stretches a country of high shimmering mountains and gaudy painted luminous lakes.

Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 1d

Only #BBCradio3 folk on this "channel" that I'm aware of:

@hannahcfrench.bsky.social

@tommckinney.bsky.social

@petroc.bsky.social

Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 1d

That sounded so lovely, By the Sea, Anna Phoebe.

annaphoebe.bandcamp.com/album/sea-so...

Sea Souls, by Anna Phoebe

12 track album

annaphoebe.bandcamp.com

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 1d

The #folklore of the forest was used to provide protection 🧿
Recite this old Scots charm as you bind a rowan cross with seven inches of twine the colour of its deep red berries:
“Rowan tree and red thread / make the witches tine* their speed”
(*lose) #ForestFriday
📸 23 Sept, 2025 #Northumberland

A rowan tree copse in all its autumn glory

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 1d

She asset-stripped an entire country and squandered the money to buy votes. Most of the problems with Britain today can be traced back to her disastrous social and economic experiment.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge? | Martin Kettle

Today’s politicians need to learn that she is not the answer to contemporary problems, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

www.theguardian.com

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing to hear TS is reviving CDs sans players!

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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 1d

2/3 Irish Presidential candidates having some kind of fucked up landlord stuff going on really is a bit on the nose as far as a metaphor goes for the absolute state of this place

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 1d

Michael and Scott, students living in the Holylands area of #Belfast, plan for one last house party - one final blowout to see off graduation with a bang.

I know it as the Holyland...

I'm not posting the comment about J Nebitt below it.
Book -
belfastfilmfestival.eventive.org/films/66f7c7....

Poster on Gable in Carmel St
Main actors
A film by Paddy Duffy.
On release

Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 1d

It's horrendous, the Palestinian folk must be fearful too, that this may a short-lived hope.