Dr Éimear O'Connor
@artanddiaspora.bsky.social
Art Historian, author, artist, gardener.
Interested in wildlife, plants, archaeology, music, glass & research.
Biographer of Irish artst, Seán Keating (1889-1977). Hon.member of the RHA & RUA. Director of Collections and Access NMI. All opinions my own.
Interested in wildlife, plants, archaeology, music, glass & research.
Biographer of Irish artst, Seán Keating (1889-1977). Hon.member of the RHA & RUA. Director of Collections and Access NMI. All opinions my own.
www.museum.ie/en-IE/About/...
AKII role @nmireland.bsky.social - Antiquities Division with a focus on Dublin Excavations - Viking Dublin.
AKII role @nmireland.bsky.social - Antiquities Division with a focus on Dublin Excavations - Viking Dublin.
Vacancies | National Museum of Ireland
Welcome to the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin & Castlebar covering Archaeology, Decorative Arts, Folk & Country Life, & Natural History.FREE Exhibitions
www.museum.ie
November 27, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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AKII role @nmireland.bsky.social - Antiquities Division with a focus on Dublin Excavations - Viking Dublin.
AKII role @nmireland.bsky.social - Antiquities Division with a focus on Dublin Excavations - Viking Dublin.
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Explore Ireland’s transformation over 150 years
The new #ChangingIreland galleries at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, offer unique access to 20th & 21st century history through everyday & extraordinary objects.
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
The new #ChangingIreland galleries at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, offer unique access to 20th & 21st century history through everyday & extraordinary objects.
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
October 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Explore Ireland’s transformation over 150 years
The new #ChangingIreland galleries at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, offer unique access to 20th & 21st century history through everyday & extraordinary objects.
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
The new #ChangingIreland galleries at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, offer unique access to 20th & 21st century history through everyday & extraordinary objects.
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
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Choral Music Live in Clarke Square!
Join us this Saturday for Nesodden Sangkor, a Norwegian choir, performing folk songs, sea shanties & classics. Led by Stefan Ibsen Zlatanos.
📅 Sat 25 Oct
🕛 12–1pm
📍 National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
Join us this Saturday for Nesodden Sangkor, a Norwegian choir, performing folk songs, sea shanties & classics. Led by Stefan Ibsen Zlatanos.
📅 Sat 25 Oct
🕛 12–1pm
📍 National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
October 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Choral Music Live in Clarke Square!
Join us this Saturday for Nesodden Sangkor, a Norwegian choir, performing folk songs, sea shanties & classics. Led by Stefan Ibsen Zlatanos.
📅 Sat 25 Oct
🕛 12–1pm
📍 National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
Join us this Saturday for Nesodden Sangkor, a Norwegian choir, performing folk songs, sea shanties & classics. Led by Stefan Ibsen Zlatanos.
📅 Sat 25 Oct
🕛 12–1pm
📍 National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
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Over 9,000 specimens safely tracked & stored as the National Museum of Ireland refurbishes the Dead Zoo. Faith Nolan shares how location control supports conservation, research & exhibitions. #Museumology #RegistrationCorner #NMIBlog #NaturalHistory www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...
October 3, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Over 9,000 specimens safely tracked & stored as the National Museum of Ireland refurbishes the Dead Zoo. Faith Nolan shares how location control supports conservation, research & exhibitions. #Museumology #RegistrationCorner #NMIBlog #NaturalHistory www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...
royalulsteracademy.oess1.uk
The Royal Ulster Academy annual exhibition open call will close in early July. Artists across all art forms can enter through this link.
The Royal Ulster Academy annual exhibition open call will close in early July. Artists across all art forms can enter through this link.
RUA - OESS2
royalulsteracademy.oess1.uk
June 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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The Royal Ulster Academy annual exhibition open call will close in early July. Artists across all art forms can enter through this link.
The Royal Ulster Academy annual exhibition open call will close in early July. Artists across all art forms can enter through this link.
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For all the bookshop people out there, a new fund has been set up by Books at One to support 20 bookshops around Ireland with up to €5k each for a community event of their choosing. To apply, all the details are here. Do make sure your local bookshop knows!
www.booksatone.ie/win-up-to-e5...
www.booksatone.ie/win-up-to-e5...
Win up to €5,000 for your bookshop with the Books at One Community Prize Fund - Books At One
Books at One Community Prize Fund Through the Books at [...]
www.booksatone.ie
May 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
For all the bookshop people out there, a new fund has been set up by Books at One to support 20 bookshops around Ireland with up to €5k each for a community event of their choosing. To apply, all the details are here. Do make sure your local bookshop knows!
www.booksatone.ie/win-up-to-e5...
www.booksatone.ie/win-up-to-e5...
Research is essential to all that we do @nmireland.bsky.social
Delighted to attend the All-Island Research Culture Network's Conference 2025: Principles to Practice in Belfast today.
@ucdresearch.bsky.social
Delighted to attend the All-Island Research Culture Network's Conference 2025: Principles to Practice in Belfast today.
@ucdresearch.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Research is essential to all that we do @nmireland.bsky.social
Delighted to attend the All-Island Research Culture Network's Conference 2025: Principles to Practice in Belfast today.
@ucdresearch.bsky.social
Delighted to attend the All-Island Research Culture Network's Conference 2025: Principles to Practice in Belfast today.
@ucdresearch.bsky.social
May 4, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Bullfinch on the niger seed feeder.
May 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Bullfinch on the niger seed feeder.
May 1, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Chasing rainbows on a Sunday afternoon.
Wicklow.
Wicklow.
April 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Chasing rainbows on a Sunday afternoon.
Wicklow.
Wicklow.
Sunday in the garden.
First peacock butterfly with first tulips, 6 April 2025.
#dublingarden #pollinators #butterflies #tulips
First peacock butterfly with first tulips, 6 April 2025.
#dublingarden #pollinators #butterflies #tulips
April 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Sunday in the garden.
First peacock butterfly with first tulips, 6 April 2025.
#dublingarden #pollinators #butterflies #tulips
First peacock butterfly with first tulips, 6 April 2025.
#dublingarden #pollinators #butterflies #tulips
Happy bee and hover fly on willow catkins busily providing an early source of pollen.
#Bees #hoverflies #Dublingarden #pollinators
#Bees #hoverflies #Dublingarden #pollinators
March 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Happy bee and hover fly on willow catkins busily providing an early source of pollen.
#Bees #hoverflies #Dublingarden #pollinators
#Bees #hoverflies #Dublingarden #pollinators
Dawn chorus, 12 March 2025.
Good morning
Good morning
March 12, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Dawn chorus, 12 March 2025.
Good morning
Good morning
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“Glass is a means to elucidate the space between, where air and light sing. Petters' images are suspended in space, yet connected to the earth, so that her viewers see her world as a butterfly or mayfly might.” Dr @artanddiaspora.bsky.social reviews Yanny Petters’ work in The Irish Arts Review.
March 8, 2025 at 11:25 AM
“Glass is a means to elucidate the space between, where air and light sing. Petters' images are suspended in space, yet connected to the earth, so that her viewers see her world as a butterfly or mayfly might.” Dr @artanddiaspora.bsky.social reviews Yanny Petters’ work in The Irish Arts Review.
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Three reasons to join our free, online 'blended learning' training programme with facilitator Anthony Soares:
● Identify & define challenges in your community
● Find out about building sustainable partnerships
● Discover how to design, develop & implement projects
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● Identify & define challenges in your community
● Find out about building sustainable partnerships
● Discover how to design, develop & implement projects
crossborder.ie/.../pro.../o...
March 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Three reasons to join our free, online 'blended learning' training programme with facilitator Anthony Soares:
● Identify & define challenges in your community
● Find out about building sustainable partnerships
● Discover how to design, develop & implement projects
crossborder.ie/.../pro.../o...
● Identify & define challenges in your community
● Find out about building sustainable partnerships
● Discover how to design, develop & implement projects
crossborder.ie/.../pro.../o...
I have many interests, including writing of all sorts & gardening & wildlife, as well as my exciting role among my colleagues @nmireland.bsky.social. This is the first goldfinch of 2025 to visit my garden. My favourite birds, he's in after the seeds on my verbena plants.
March 2, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I have many interests, including writing of all sorts & gardening & wildlife, as well as my exciting role among my colleagues @nmireland.bsky.social. This is the first goldfinch of 2025 to visit my garden. My favourite birds, he's in after the seeds on my verbena plants.
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In the Spring 2025 issue of the Irish Arts Review. Congrats to OCG artist Yanny Petters for featuring in this 6-page review of her verre églomisé practice. Thanking the IAR & Dr Éimear O’Connor @artanddiaspora.bsky.social. Some of the featured works are available at the #OlivierCornetGallery
February 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
😊
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Where is this ointment when we need it?
February 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Where is this ointment when we need it?
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"Our ambition for 2025 and always, is to spark conversation!"
RTE's Evelyn O'Rourke met with Lynn Scarff, the Director of the National Museum of Ireland, to discuss the National Museum of Ireland's 2025 Programme of events and exhibitions. #NMI2025
www.rte.ie/.../0204/149...
RTE's Evelyn O'Rourke met with Lynn Scarff, the Director of the National Museum of Ireland, to discuss the National Museum of Ireland's 2025 Programme of events and exhibitions. #NMI2025
www.rte.ie/.../0204/149...
February 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Our ambition for 2025 and always, is to spark conversation!"
RTE's Evelyn O'Rourke met with Lynn Scarff, the Director of the National Museum of Ireland, to discuss the National Museum of Ireland's 2025 Programme of events and exhibitions. #NMI2025
www.rte.ie/.../0204/149...
RTE's Evelyn O'Rourke met with Lynn Scarff, the Director of the National Museum of Ireland, to discuss the National Museum of Ireland's 2025 Programme of events and exhibitions. #NMI2025
www.rte.ie/.../0204/149...
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Join Clodagh Doyle, Keeper of the Folklife Collection at the National Museum of Ireland, for a special talk on love, marriage, and matchmaking traditions.
Sat, 8 Feb 2025, 2–3 PM #NMI2025
National Museum of Ireland – Turlough Park
Free, but booking is required!
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
Sat, 8 Feb 2025, 2–3 PM #NMI2025
National Museum of Ireland – Turlough Park
Free, but booking is required!
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
February 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Join Clodagh Doyle, Keeper of the Folklife Collection at the National Museum of Ireland, for a special talk on love, marriage, and matchmaking traditions.
Sat, 8 Feb 2025, 2–3 PM #NMI2025
National Museum of Ireland – Turlough Park
Free, but booking is required!
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
Sat, 8 Feb 2025, 2–3 PM #NMI2025
National Museum of Ireland – Turlough Park
Free, but booking is required!
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
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📣 We're Hiring: Head of #SpecialCollections
Responsible for leading and overseeing the management of a major department of the @nlireland.bsky.social as well as contributing to its strategic planning and overall management.
⭐ Info + apply: www.nli.ie/about-us/wor...
📆 #Apply by: 3pm, 7 March 2025
Responsible for leading and overseeing the management of a major department of the @nlireland.bsky.social as well as contributing to its strategic planning and overall management.
⭐ Info + apply: www.nli.ie/about-us/wor...
📆 #Apply by: 3pm, 7 March 2025
January 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
📣 We're Hiring: Head of #SpecialCollections
Responsible for leading and overseeing the management of a major department of the @nlireland.bsky.social as well as contributing to its strategic planning and overall management.
⭐ Info + apply: www.nli.ie/about-us/wor...
📆 #Apply by: 3pm, 7 March 2025
Responsible for leading and overseeing the management of a major department of the @nlireland.bsky.social as well as contributing to its strategic planning and overall management.
⭐ Info + apply: www.nli.ie/about-us/wor...
📆 #Apply by: 3pm, 7 March 2025