Ciara Quill
@ciaraquill.bsky.social
Lecturer/teacher of 🇫🇷&🇩🇪 in Ireland
Interests: art, travel, education #edchatie MFL, food,wine, photography, film, history,🇪🇺, France, Germany
Kerrywoman living & working in Cork
Love Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Rome, London, Naples, Marseille, Venice, Kerry💚💛
Interests: art, travel, education #edchatie MFL, food,wine, photography, film, history,🇪🇺, France, Germany
Kerrywoman living & working in Cork
Love Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Rome, London, Naples, Marseille, Venice, Kerry💚💛
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Day 2082 #ArtKicksCovid19 "Good Friends II (Berta and Capi)” (1882) Albert Edelfelt. Gothenburg Museum of Art. One of Finland’s most important artists, Edelfelt worked, like many of his Nordic artist colleagues, in Paris for a long time. At the start of his career, he focused on history paintings,
Day 2082 #ArtKicksCovid19 "Good Friends II (Berta and Capi)” (1882) Albert Edelfelt. Gothenburg Museum of Art. One of Finland’s most important artists, Edelfelt worked, like many of his Nordic artist colleagues, in Paris for a long time. At the start of his career, he focused on history paintings,
November 26, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Day 2082 #ArtKicksCovid19 "Good Friends II (Berta and Capi)” (1882) Albert Edelfelt. Gothenburg Museum of Art. One of Finland’s most important artists, Edelfelt worked, like many of his Nordic artist colleagues, in Paris for a long time. At the start of his career, he focused on history paintings,
Artle - mystery art, every day!
A hidden work of art, six guesses to work out what it is. Now slightly easier.
artle.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Day 2081 #ArtKicksCovid19 “La Fenêtre à Tanger” (1912) Henri Matisse. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. This is an example of Matisse's paintings after the colourful revolution of his Fauvism period. After several trips outside France Matisse became interested in the Islamic art of North Africa
November 25, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Day 2081 #ArtKicksCovid19 “La Fenêtre à Tanger” (1912) Henri Matisse. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. This is an example of Matisse's paintings after the colourful revolution of his Fauvism period. After several trips outside France Matisse became interested in the Islamic art of North Africa
Day 2080 #ArtKicksCovid19 "La Goulue at the Moulin Rouge" (1892) Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. MoMA New York. Toulouse-Lautrec was born on this day in 1864. La Goulue (The Glutton), Louise Weber, was an ambitious country girl who became famous dancing the cancan. Nicknamed for her insatiable appetite
November 24, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Day 2080 #ArtKicksCovid19 "La Goulue at the Moulin Rouge" (1892) Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. MoMA New York. Toulouse-Lautrec was born on this day in 1864. La Goulue (The Glutton), Louise Weber, was an ambitious country girl who became famous dancing the cancan. Nicknamed for her insatiable appetite
My next door neighbours decided to put up all their Christmas decorations and outside lights today.🤨
The rush to put Christmas decorations up in November has me stumped.
People say they want to have them up before the Late Late Toyshow (which is on 5 Dec!)
Mine won’t be going up until next month!🎄
The rush to put Christmas decorations up in November has me stumped.
People say they want to have them up before the Late Late Toyshow (which is on 5 Dec!)
Mine won’t be going up until next month!🎄
a string of christmas lights on a white background
ALT: a string of christmas lights on a white background
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November 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
My next door neighbours decided to put up all their Christmas decorations and outside lights today.🤨
The rush to put Christmas decorations up in November has me stumped.
People say they want to have them up before the Late Late Toyshow (which is on 5 Dec!)
Mine won’t be going up until next month!🎄
The rush to put Christmas decorations up in November has me stumped.
People say they want to have them up before the Late Late Toyshow (which is on 5 Dec!)
Mine won’t be going up until next month!🎄
Reposted by Ciara Quill
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
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November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
We never heard the end of it from Cork people when Cillian Murphy won the Best Actor Oscar.
Here’s hoping the wonderful Jessie Buckley (and Kerrywoman!) wins the Best Actress Oscar in 2026 for her performance in the film adaptation of “Hamnet.”💚💛 #Kerry #Ciarraí #Hamnet
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Here’s hoping the wonderful Jessie Buckley (and Kerrywoman!) wins the Best Actress Oscar in 2026 for her performance in the film adaptation of “Hamnet.”💚💛 #Kerry #Ciarraí #Hamnet
www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
Timothée Chalamet to Frankenstein: 10 of the hottest tips for the 2026 Oscars race
BBC critics choose their top picks among the Academy Awards' runners and riders – and reveal whose hopes may have gone cold.
www.bbc.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:23 PM
We never heard the end of it from Cork people when Cillian Murphy won the Best Actor Oscar.
Here’s hoping the wonderful Jessie Buckley (and Kerrywoman!) wins the Best Actress Oscar in 2026 for her performance in the film adaptation of “Hamnet.”💚💛 #Kerry #Ciarraí #Hamnet
www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
Here’s hoping the wonderful Jessie Buckley (and Kerrywoman!) wins the Best Actress Oscar in 2026 for her performance in the film adaptation of “Hamnet.”💚💛 #Kerry #Ciarraí #Hamnet
www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
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November 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Artle – the daily art exploration game.
Discover artwork and guess the artist in 4 tries. A new artist puzzle is available daily.
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November 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Day 2079 #ArtKicksCovid19 “Portrait of Armand Roulin” (1888) Vincent Van Gogh. Museum Folkwang, Essen. The subject of the portrait is the 17-year-old Armand Roulin, oldest son of the post-master Joseph Roulin. In the summer of 1888, van Gogh became good friends with his neighbour in Arles.
November 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Day 2079 #ArtKicksCovid19 “Portrait of Armand Roulin” (1888) Vincent Van Gogh. Museum Folkwang, Essen. The subject of the portrait is the 17-year-old Armand Roulin, oldest son of the post-master Joseph Roulin. In the summer of 1888, van Gogh became good friends with his neighbour in Arles.
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November 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Day 2078 #ArtKicksCovid19 "Three Machines" (1963) Wayne Thiebaud. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Thiebaud’s lushly painted representations of American bakery, delicatessen and restaurant food displays challenge our preconceptions about what we should consider worthy subjects for fine art,
November 22, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Day 2078 #ArtKicksCovid19 "Three Machines" (1963) Wayne Thiebaud. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Thiebaud’s lushly painted representations of American bakery, delicatessen and restaurant food displays challenge our preconceptions about what we should consider worthy subjects for fine art,
What a dope…..
The sacked schoolteacher stood outside the gates of the Co Westmeath school and made a video in which he accused the judge who has ordered his imprisonment of defaming him
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Wanted Enoch Burke comes out of hiding and goes to Wilson’s Hospital School
Enoch Burke, whom gardaí have been seeking to arrest and commit to prison since Tuesday, came out of hiding today and went to Wilson’s Hospital School.
www.independent.ie
November 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
What a dope…..
I have to say I’m really liking the new Kerry GAA jersey! 💚💛
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I have to say I’m really liking the new Kerry GAA jersey! 💚💛
Four of my favourite works by René Magritte.
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Four of my favourite works by René Magritte.
Day 2077 #ArtKicksCovid19 “The Art of Conversation” (1963) René Magritte. Private Collection. Magritte was born on this day in 1898. The painting shows two men wearing bowler hats and overcoats floating or standing against a cloudy sky. Below, there is a landscape: hills or mountains, greenery and
November 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Day 2077 #ArtKicksCovid19 “The Art of Conversation” (1963) René Magritte. Private Collection. Magritte was born on this day in 1898. The painting shows two men wearing bowler hats and overcoats floating or standing against a cloudy sky. Below, there is a landscape: hills or mountains, greenery and
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Some 23,000 people died unnecessarily from Covid because the British government’s response to the pandemic was “too little, too late”, a damning official report has concluded
23,000 died because government Covid response ‘too little, too late’
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November 20, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Some 23,000 people died unnecessarily from Covid because the British government’s response to the pandemic was “too little, too late”, a damning official report has concluded
I sound like the Grinch but I really don’t get
1. All those people putting Christmas lights & decorations up in early November
2. The obsessive pushing of Late Late Toy Show treat boxes
3. Christmas Eve Box with festive pyjamas etc…don’t most kids get enough stuff on Christmas Day as it is?
1. All those people putting Christmas lights & decorations up in early November
2. The obsessive pushing of Late Late Toy Show treat boxes
3. Christmas Eve Box with festive pyjamas etc…don’t most kids get enough stuff on Christmas Day as it is?
November 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I sound like the Grinch but I really don’t get
1. All those people putting Christmas lights & decorations up in early November
2. The obsessive pushing of Late Late Toy Show treat boxes
3. Christmas Eve Box with festive pyjamas etc…don’t most kids get enough stuff on Christmas Day as it is?
1. All those people putting Christmas lights & decorations up in early November
2. The obsessive pushing of Late Late Toy Show treat boxes
3. Christmas Eve Box with festive pyjamas etc…don’t most kids get enough stuff on Christmas Day as it is?
Artle - mystery art, every day!
A hidden work of art, six guesses to work out what it is. Now slightly easier.
artle.uk
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Day 2076 #ArtKicksCovid19 "Madame Bonnat, the Artist's Mother" (1893) Léon Bonnat. Musée d’Orsay. This painting is a very personal work. Rather than a commissioned portrait, it likely reflects Bonnat’s emotional connection, respect and a sense of filial duty. He was known for a realist style
November 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Day 2076 #ArtKicksCovid19 "Madame Bonnat, the Artist's Mother" (1893) Léon Bonnat. Musée d’Orsay. This painting is a very personal work. Rather than a commissioned portrait, it likely reflects Bonnat’s emotional connection, respect and a sense of filial duty. He was known for a realist style
Catherine/Kate, Princess of Wales, looks stunning in a green velvet evening gown by a German fashion label Talbot Runhof based in Munich. The jewellery is fab too. She is attending the Royal Variety Show in London this evening.
November 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Catherine/Kate, Princess of Wales, looks stunning in a green velvet evening gown by a German fashion label Talbot Runhof based in Munich. The jewellery is fab too. She is attending the Royal Variety Show in London this evening.
I do love my newly framed print of Claude Monet’s “Meules/Grainstacks” (1891) bought at Museum Barberini in Potsdam in July. It’s my favourite painting in the permanent collection. It sold for $110.7 million at Sotheby’s New York back in 2019 making it the most expensive Monet work ever sold.
November 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I do love my newly framed print of Claude Monet’s “Meules/Grainstacks” (1891) bought at Museum Barberini in Potsdam in July. It’s my favourite painting in the permanent collection. It sold for $110.7 million at Sotheby’s New York back in 2019 making it the most expensive Monet work ever sold.