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On a mission to seek out women's histories, prehistories and mythologies and share our adventures. Interested in under-told stories of all women 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Check out our blog: http://thewildgees.com/

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The Wild Gees @thewildgees.bsky.social · Jan 21

We're officially not on Twitter anymore but we have <10% of the followers we had there, so please give us a follow.

Here's the latest from the Wild Gees blog - a guest post about some midnight #SheelaNaGig activism: The Banksy Sheelas of Sussex
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A print of a Sheela na Gig in the branches of a tree at night.

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Orla Egan she/her @orlaegan1.bsky.social · 8h

#Cork #speirgorm

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 9h

Let no man throw a stone at the foreigner; he may hit his own clan.

- James Connolly 1908. Recalled in Cork 2025.

Seagull approves.

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 15h

Died #Onthisday 1969 Louise Gavan Duffy, educator, suffragist & nationalist who founded Scoil Bhríde, Ireland’s first Gaelscoil for girls. She was at the GPO during the #EasterRising & recalls that time in this interview from @RTEArchives rte.ie/archives/201...

Louise Gavan Duffy

The subject of this episode of 'Self Portrait' is nationalist and educator Louise Gavan Duffy, daughter of Sir Charles Gavan Duffy.

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Karen Sugrue 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🇵🇸 @karsugrue.bsky.social · 1d

Homophobia 🤝 transphobia

Growing up in the 70s, 80s, & 90s we heard the exact same stuff - word for word - being said about gays and lesbians.

#transrightsarehumanrights

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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 2d

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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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 3d

Steve's Pyke's Scribendi: Portraits of Irish Writers 1985-2025 launches at Photo Museum Ireland tonight. It features over 100 portraits, inc. Naoise Dolan (who we're thinking of), Edna O'Brien, Colm Tóibín, Iris Murdoch, John McGahern @lilliputpress.bsky.social www.lilliputpress.ie/products/scr...

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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 3d

Significant blow today for Stella O'Malley & her anti-trans advocacy organisation Genspect, as their spurious defamation action against Irish therapist, Leonie O'Dowd, is added to "The Gallery of Shame" by CASE (Campaign Against SLAPPs in Europe.) www.the-case.eu/gallery-of-s...

Gallery of Shame – CASE

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 3d

Died #Onthisday 1943, the fascinating #Wexford born Kathleen A. Browne, agriculturist, writer, and politician & imprisoned for a short time in Wexford jail for flying the tricolour over Rathronan Castle during Easter week www.dib.ie/biography/br...

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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 3d

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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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 3d

Delighted to be at the launch of Saothar 50: the journal of the Irish labour history society (ILHS),50 years in publication. A wonderful collection of essays on labour, class,women,etc. excited to see the new exhibit at the ILHS archives-the banner of the Irish Women Workers Union (IWWU) #speirgorm

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 3d

Here's how you can help make a book of 19th century fairy tales available for everyone to read for free.
Frances Brownes was a 19th century Irish poet ("the blind poetess of Donegal"), whose best-known work is Granny's Wonderful Chair, an 1857 fairytale collection. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances...

The only photo of Frances Browne, circa 1879

Frontispiece from the 1906 edition of Granny's Wonderful Chair, illustration by Dora Curtis.

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The Wild Gees @thewildgees.bsky.social · 3d

Our fault for having nearly the same name! We're the history nerds, they're the super talented creative ones. We share a love of Gees!

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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 23d

"Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions", a conference exploring how partitions shape who we are. Join a day of dialogue on how we divide and connect across time.

🗓 Sat 18 Oct 2025, 9:15–17:30
📍 Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin

🌍 In-person and online: 👉 bit.ly/Within-Without

8th National Monuments Service annual archaeology conference

Within|Without: the archaeology of partitions

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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 3d

Fairly sure the group involved here also protest outside the homes of migrants and were outside the home of a family friend. MLAs outside Alliance who talked about legitimate concerns when protests happened aren't mentioning that today.

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The Wild Gees @thewildgees.bsky.social · 3d

We adore our near name-sharers The Wild Geeze and this defo deserves a share 😍
Send them their due respect
www.instagram.com/thewildgeeze...

Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 3d

This video on trees and forests by the brilliant @thewildgees.bsky.social isn't only great craic, it's jam packed with truth bombs.

Give it a watch!
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Any Oaks? The Wild Geeze

YouTube video by The Wild Geeze

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The Wild Gees @thewildgees.bsky.social · 3d

We ❤️ this so much, but it's not us. You'll find the amazing Wild Geeze (with a Z) on Insta
www.instagram.com/thewildgeeze...

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The Wild Gees @thewildgees.bsky.social · 3d

We are huge fans (and pals) of The Wild Geeze but can't take credit for this amazing video. We chose our slightly differently spelt names at random around the same time then found each other on the old site. Don't think they're here, though defo on Insta
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Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 4d

Not going to share 'grift' but Heather Humphreys has just said that I'm a man and the gender recognition act should be changed. Please do not vote for or give a preference for her. Having someone as president who thinks this way would be absolutely awful for minorities #SpeirGorm

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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 5d

'Prayer Stone’ • Inis Mór

This small stone was found at Temple Breccan on Inis Mór. The stone bears an Irish inscription:

OR[ÓlT] AR BRAN N AILITHER

'Pray for Bran the Pilgrim'.

It is likely to date to c.8-10th century. You can see it on display in the National Museum of Ireland.

#Ireland

A small round stone with a flat top incised with a cross. It bears an inscription in early Irish

Temple Brecan (also known as the Seven Churches) on Inis Mór, the Aran Islands. The ruins of stone medieval churches underneath a bright blue sky with wisps of white cloud.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 5d

"Anti-migrant protesters mirror the same prejudice that once tarred all Irish people as terrorists and drunks" [Malachi O'Doherty Belfast Telegraph]

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Amina Samee @aminasamee.bsky.social · 5d

Ireland’s one sided approach towards Israel? …Or a just, humane and equitable approach towards a colonised and brutalised people?

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 5d

“As friends of Ireland and strong advocates for a close relationship between Ireland and the United States, we write to express our deep concern over Ireland’s one-sided approach to Israel, a vital ally of the United States,” say 23 members of Congress.

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202... #otb

US lawmakers intensify warnings to Taoiseach over Occupied Territories Bill

Politicians warn of problems for US firms in Ireland if law conflicts with American antiboycott rules

www.irishtimes.com

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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 5d

Julia Roberts, Leonard and Hungry Paul narrator

'Leonard and Hungry Paul is such a magical book. I am delighted to be a tiny part of this novel becoming a television series.'

@bookcornerhx.bsky.social
@thebookseller.com
@foylesforbooks.bsky.social

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Leonard and Hungry Paul cast and Director on telling a story about kindness, friendship, and the quiet heroism of everyday life -

The feel-good series stars Alex Lawther, Laurie Kynaston and Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, with Julia Roberts as narrator

www.bbc.co.uk

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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 5d

#OnThisDay, 7 Oct 2006, Russian journalist Anna Politkovskava is assassinated in her Moscow apartment block.

She had been doggedly reporting on human rights abuses by Russian forces in Chechnya.

photo of Anna Politkovskava at an event. She is a white woman with grey hair.

photo of the floral tributes and signs outside Anna's apartment after her murder.

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Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann @poetryireland.bsky.social · 6d

We are supporting and standing with Sarah Clancy and all those who advocate for human rights in Palestine.✊

Listen to Sarah here reading her poem ‘Cherishing for Beginners’ from the Brinkerhoff poetry film series.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBiu...

Sarah Clancy - "Cherishing for Beginners"

YouTube video by Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · May 27

Alt txt in the genocide
Image description #1:
The warm hand of the father
The warm hand of the daughter
Together clasp the cold son.
Image description #2:
Please
Don't make me write another
I beg you
How many hauntings
Must we bear
Omar Sakr

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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 7d

Labbacallee • Cork

Labbacallee is Ireland’s largest example of a wedge tomb.

The name Labbacallee derives from Leaba Chaillí, which can be roughly translated to ‘The Hag’s Bed’.

Archaeologists discovered the remains of an adult woman, a man, and a child. All dating between 2456–1776 BC.

Labbacallee Wedge Tomb under old trees in North Cork

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