Lorraine Mulholland
@lorraineelizab6.bsky.social
Ex-teacher! Author! Paperback of my book, St Brigid & Other Amazing Irish Women can be ordered through Columba Books or bookshops! I write about early medieval Irish saints & their monasteries/convents! Next book progressing well!
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Saint Brigid & Other Amazing Irish Women is my book! Publisher Columba Books! Whether you're a teacher, church leader, parent/grandparent, any adult, or age 9+...its for you! 23 stories, 23 tasks, tonnes of facts, myths/folklore, cool quiz & more! Like an encyclopaedia of ALL Irish female saints!
It seems bluesky is more dead than Twitter/X. I still have 17.8K lovely interactive followers on X. Over 400 followers on bluesky yet most have no interest in medieval Irish church history or in showing their appreciation. I have better things to do so will have another break from bluesky.
September 29, 2025 at 9:16 AM
It seems bluesky is more dead than Twitter/X. I still have 17.8K lovely interactive followers on X. Over 400 followers on bluesky yet most have no interest in medieval Irish church history or in showing their appreciation. I have better things to do so will have another break from bluesky.
Posted this 3 hours ago. Is there something wrong with it #medievalsky or is all of bluesky asleep? Yesterday's posts nearly all got 0 likes, only 3 got 1 like.
If you follow me, please please click like every so often! #hagiography #saints #medieval
If you follow me, please please click like every so often! #hagiography #saints #medieval
29 Sept: Feast Day of St Michael the Archangel. Greatest of all the Archangels and honoured for defeating Satan in the war in heaven! Skellig Michael, "Michael's Rock", Co. Kerry named for him! 618 steps! 6 clocháin. Monastery founded 6th-8th C until c. 12th C. @unesco.org World Heritage Site 1996!
September 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Posted this 3 hours ago. Is there something wrong with it #medievalsky or is all of bluesky asleep? Yesterday's posts nearly all got 0 likes, only 3 got 1 like.
If you follow me, please please click like every so often! #hagiography #saints #medieval
If you follow me, please please click like every so often! #hagiography #saints #medieval
Today is Michaelmas! St Michael the Archangel is greatest of all the Archangels and honoured for defeating Satan in the #war in heaven! Not a myth to Christians. Skellig Michael, Co. Kerry, Ireland, named for him! 618 steps! 6 clocháin. Monastery founded 6th-8th C. A UNESCO site! #MythologyMonday
September 29, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Today is Michaelmas! St Michael the Archangel is greatest of all the Archangels and honoured for defeating Satan in the #war in heaven! Not a myth to Christians. Skellig Michael, Co. Kerry, Ireland, named for him! 618 steps! 6 clocháin. Monastery founded 6th-8th C. A UNESCO site! #MythologyMonday
"I tell you the thing does not belong to any world that you and I have lived and worked in – it is part of our dream world." George Bernard Shaw on Skellig Michael.
29 Sept: Feast Day of St Michael the Archangel.
📷Skellig Michael Cruises #medievalsky #saints #hagiography #ChurchHistory #Ireland
29 Sept: Feast Day of St Michael the Archangel.
📷Skellig Michael Cruises #medievalsky #saints #hagiography #ChurchHistory #Ireland
September 29, 2025 at 5:45 AM
"I tell you the thing does not belong to any world that you and I have lived and worked in – it is part of our dream world." George Bernard Shaw on Skellig Michael.
29 Sept: Feast Day of St Michael the Archangel.
📷Skellig Michael Cruises #medievalsky #saints #hagiography #ChurchHistory #Ireland
29 Sept: Feast Day of St Michael the Archangel.
📷Skellig Michael Cruises #medievalsky #saints #hagiography #ChurchHistory #Ireland
29 Sept: Feast Day of St Michael the Archangel. Greatest of all the Archangels and honoured for defeating Satan in the war in heaven! Skellig Michael, "Michael's Rock", Co. Kerry named for him! 618 steps! 6 clocháin. Monastery founded 6th-8th C until c. 12th C. @unesco.org World Heritage Site 1996!
September 29, 2025 at 5:42 AM
29 Sept: Feast Day of St Michael the Archangel. Greatest of all the Archangels and honoured for defeating Satan in the war in heaven! Skellig Michael, "Michael's Rock", Co. Kerry named for him! 618 steps! 6 clocháin. Monastery founded 6th-8th C until c. 12th C. @unesco.org World Heritage Site 1996!
29 Sept: Feast Day of St Sedrach & his relics, possibly marking their arrival at Tamlachta/ #Tallaght, #Dublin (Prof Elva Johnston). Described "modest, bashful, excellent" in MartG. Founded by St Máel Ruain (d. 792). Inspiration for Céli Dé/Culdees. Centre of learning. Site of St Maelruain's CoI.
September 29, 2025 at 5:30 AM
29 Sept: Feast Day Ss Cíarán son of Íar a bishop, "hallowed" Nessán of Uladh/Ulster, "beautiful, wondrous" Colmán & Comgall. Little-known saints in medieval Irish martyrologies. Not known when or where they lived. Quotes from 12th century Martyrology of Gorman 📷High Crosses © @nmireland.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 5:25 AM
29 Sept: Feast Day Ss Cíarán son of Íar a bishop, "hallowed" Nessán of Uladh/Ulster, "beautiful, wondrous" Colmán & Comgall. Little-known saints in medieval Irish martyrologies. Not known when or where they lived. Quotes from 12th century Martyrology of Gorman 📷High Crosses © @nmireland.bsky.social
29 Sept: Feast Day of St Columba/Columm. Columba means 'dove'. A symbol of the Holy Spirit and of peace! A different saint to the great St Columba of Iona! O'Hanlon suggested #Tecolm parish, Ballyadams barony, Co. #Laois as his church. 📷 @StandingStoneIE www.thestandingstone.ie/2010/05/teco...
September 29, 2025 at 5:13 AM
29 Sept: Feast Day of St Columba/Columm. Columba means 'dove'. A symbol of the Holy Spirit and of peace! A different saint to the great St Columba of Iona! O'Hanlon suggested #Tecolm parish, Ballyadams barony, Co. #Laois as his church. 📷 @StandingStoneIE www.thestandingstone.ie/2010/05/teco...
5 out of 7 of my posts for Irish saints yesterday, 28th Sept, had 0 likes. The others had 1 like. Happens most days.
If you are interested in the medieval Irish church I'd appreciate a quick 'like' on the posts, not this one!
#medievalsky #medieval #hagiography #saints #IrishSaints #ChurchHistory
If you are interested in the medieval Irish church I'd appreciate a quick 'like' on the posts, not this one!
#medievalsky #medieval #hagiography #saints #IrishSaints #ChurchHistory
September 29, 2025 at 4:22 AM
5 out of 7 of my posts for Irish saints yesterday, 28th Sept, had 0 likes. The others had 1 like. Happens most days.
If you are interested in the medieval Irish church I'd appreciate a quick 'like' on the posts, not this one!
#medievalsky #medieval #hagiography #saints #IrishSaints #ChurchHistory
If you are interested in the medieval Irish church I'd appreciate a quick 'like' on the posts, not this one!
#medievalsky #medieval #hagiography #saints #IrishSaints #ChurchHistory
Reposted by Lorraine Mulholland
Families Join us for an Open Day: Words on the Wave – Ireland & St. Gallen exhibition
🗓️ Sat 4 Oct | 11.00–16.00
📍 NMI, Kildare St
Talks: Maeve Sikora (11:30), Dr Ó Riain (12:30), Prof Ó Cróinín (14:30)
Take part in free Workshops & handle replica artefacts
🎟️ Free admission
museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
🗓️ Sat 4 Oct | 11.00–16.00
📍 NMI, Kildare St
Talks: Maeve Sikora (11:30), Dr Ó Riain (12:30), Prof Ó Cróinín (14:30)
Take part in free Workshops & handle replica artefacts
🎟️ Free admission
museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
September 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Families Join us for an Open Day: Words on the Wave – Ireland & St. Gallen exhibition
🗓️ Sat 4 Oct | 11.00–16.00
📍 NMI, Kildare St
Talks: Maeve Sikora (11:30), Dr Ó Riain (12:30), Prof Ó Cróinín (14:30)
Take part in free Workshops & handle replica artefacts
🎟️ Free admission
museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
🗓️ Sat 4 Oct | 11.00–16.00
📍 NMI, Kildare St
Talks: Maeve Sikora (11:30), Dr Ó Riain (12:30), Prof Ó Cróinín (14:30)
Take part in free Workshops & handle replica artefacts
🎟️ Free admission
museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
Reposted by Lorraine Mulholland
Kells Priory • Kilkenny
From a distance, Kells Priory has the appearance of a large castle with high walls and strong towers, but despite its military appearance, it was a place of prayer.
The priory was founded in around c.1193 for the Augustinian canons.
#Ireland #Medieval #DiscoverIreland
From a distance, Kells Priory has the appearance of a large castle with high walls and strong towers, but despite its military appearance, it was a place of prayer.
The priory was founded in around c.1193 for the Augustinian canons.
#Ireland #Medieval #DiscoverIreland
September 28, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Kells Priory • Kilkenny
From a distance, Kells Priory has the appearance of a large castle with high walls and strong towers, but despite its military appearance, it was a place of prayer.
The priory was founded in around c.1193 for the Augustinian canons.
#Ireland #Medieval #DiscoverIreland
From a distance, Kells Priory has the appearance of a large castle with high walls and strong towers, but despite its military appearance, it was a place of prayer.
The priory was founded in around c.1193 for the Augustinian canons.
#Ireland #Medieval #DiscoverIreland
"there was a ‘hop, hop, hop’ & a whole husk of #hares bounded past! That was unusual, as there were so many and they often preferred to be out in the fields rather than in the forest..." Find out what happens afterwards in the Astounding Attracta story in my book! #sligo #medievalsky #FolkloreSunday
September 28, 2025 at 7:20 AM
"there was a ‘hop, hop, hop’ & a whole husk of #hares bounded past! That was unusual, as there were so many and they often preferred to be out in the fields rather than in the forest..." Find out what happens afterwards in the Astounding Attracta story in my book! #sligo #medievalsky #FolkloreSunday
Like the kingly salmon Lí Ban could leap higher than a man, even up over the weirs (where she knew to be extra wary of humans)! The fishermen on the river knew to fish with their wickerwork baskets, just below them! Read my mermaid story in my Brigid book! 📷mine #medievalsky #WorldRiversDay
September 28, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Like the kingly salmon Lí Ban could leap higher than a man, even up over the weirs (where she knew to be extra wary of humans)! The fishermen on the river knew to fish with their wickerwork baskets, just below them! Read my mermaid story in my Brigid book! 📷mine #medievalsky #WorldRiversDay
28 Sept: Translation of St Disibod's Relics. This is referred to in AD 1143. His relics were placed in a marble coffin, behind the high altar.
#medievalsky #medieval #hagiography #saints #Irishsaints #church #ChurchHistory #IrishHistory
#medievalsky #medieval #hagiography #saints #Irishsaints #church #ChurchHistory #IrishHistory
8 Sept: Feast Day of St Disibod (d. 700). Irish. 10 years in Frankish empire with Giswald, Clemens & Sallust; Vosges/Ardennes. Guided by dream, went to Rhineland-Palatinate, #Germany. After death monastery founded #Disibodenberg. Normans/Hungarians destroyed. St Hildegard of Bingen wrote Life/Vita.
September 28, 2025 at 6:23 AM
28 Sept: Translation of St Disibod's Relics. This is referred to in AD 1143. His relics were placed in a marble coffin, behind the high altar.
#medievalsky #medieval #hagiography #saints #Irishsaints #church #ChurchHistory #IrishHistory
#medievalsky #medieval #hagiography #saints #Irishsaints #church #ChurchHistory #IrishHistory
18 May, 28 Sept: Feast Days of St Conval/Conwall (d. c. 630). Irish-born missionary to East Renfrewshire, #Scotland. Churches at Inchinnan (buried there), Pollokshaws & near Barrhead. Carried by a stone across Irish Sea to Inchinnan! 📷"St Conval's Chariot" (behind Argyll Stone) ©Rosser1954
September 28, 2025 at 6:20 AM
18 May, 28 Sept: Feast Days of St Conval/Conwall (d. c. 630). Irish-born missionary to East Renfrewshire, #Scotland. Churches at Inchinnan (buried there), Pollokshaws & near Barrhead. Carried by a stone across Irish Sea to Inchinnan! 📷"St Conval's Chariot" (behind Argyll Stone) ©Rosser1954
28 Sept: Feast of St Dairi the Widow. In Irish, widow, 'baintreach', means 'a woman who ploughs', because in the absence of her husband a widow is forced to undertake this arduous work for herself (Omnium Sanctorum Hiberniae)!? Not the only female saint who did manual labour! e.g. St Brigid farmed!
September 28, 2025 at 6:19 AM
28 Sept: Feast of St Dairi the Widow. In Irish, widow, 'baintreach', means 'a woman who ploughs', because in the absence of her husband a widow is forced to undertake this arduous work for herself (Omnium Sanctorum Hiberniae)!? Not the only female saint who did manual labour! e.g. St Brigid farmed!
28 Sept: feast Day of St Iunaill the infirm from territory of Corco Baiscinn/Loop Head peninsula, #Clare (Prof Elva Johnston). Part of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) was filmed at Loop Head! The rock eroded away from peninsula known as Diarmuid & Gráinne's Rock or Lover's Leap! 📷© @LoopHeadLH
September 28, 2025 at 6:13 AM
28 Sept: feast Day of St Iunaill the infirm from territory of Corco Baiscinn/Loop Head peninsula, #Clare (Prof Elva Johnston). Part of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) was filmed at Loop Head! The rock eroded away from peninsula known as Diarmuid & Gráinne's Rock or Lover's Leap! 📷© @LoopHeadLH
28 Sept: feast Day of St Findio/Findias of Áru/Aran Islands, Co. #Galway x2! 2 Saints of same name. 📷Inis Mór/Inishmore. St Enda founded a monastery there & most of the great Irish saints had some connection with Aran Islands! www.saintsandstones.net/saints-enda-...
September 28, 2025 at 6:11 AM
28 Sept: feast Day of St Findio/Findias of Áru/Aran Islands, Co. #Galway x2! 2 Saints of same name. 📷Inis Mór/Inishmore. St Enda founded a monastery there & most of the great Irish saints had some connection with Aran Islands! www.saintsandstones.net/saints-enda-...
28 Sept: Feast Day of Ss Díarmait mac Lucharid & unknown Gilla. St Díarmait was bishop of Cluain Finn-Aighne. O'Hanlon suggested it was at Fidhnacha in West Connacht where great battle fought in 1094; Fidnach Maige Réin/ #Fenagh, Co. #Leitrim. Monastery there founded by St Caillín in 5th C.
September 28, 2025 at 6:08 AM
28 Sept: Feast Day of St Fíachra. A bishop. Described as "chaste was the cleric" in the 12th century Martyrology of Gorman. O'Hanlon placed him in the parish of #Culfeightrin, barony of Cary, Co. #Antrim. 📷St Patrick's church (RC), Culfeightrin, Ballyvoy, Ballycastle, Co. Antrim ©my photo
September 28, 2025 at 6:05 AM
28 Sept: Feast Day of St Fíachra. A bishop. Described as "chaste was the cleric" in the 12th century Martyrology of Gorman. O'Hanlon placed him in the parish of #Culfeightrin, barony of Cary, Co. #Antrim. 📷St Patrick's church (RC), Culfeightrin, Ballyvoy, Ballycastle, Co. Antrim ©my photo
16 July, 28 Sept: Feasts St Sinach MacDara of Cruach meic Daro/St MacDara's Island, #Galway. 6th C. Patron seafarers! Building 10th C; tiles mimic wood shingles. Fishermen dipped sails x3 while passing. Mass, boats blessed. Wooden statue of saint burnt, in past! www.galwaytourism.ie/st-macdaras-...
September 28, 2025 at 5:54 AM
16 July, 28 Sept: Feasts St Sinach MacDara of Cruach meic Daro/St MacDara's Island, #Galway. 6th C. Patron seafarers! Building 10th C; tiles mimic wood shingles. Fishermen dipped sails x3 while passing. Mass, boats blessed. Wooden statue of saint burnt, in past! www.galwaytourism.ie/st-macdaras-...
Hoping to get a review copy of this! #medievalsky @headofzeus.bsky.social
New research may rewrite origins of the Book of Kells, says academic
Exclusive: Author challenges assumption monks on Iona created manuscript, instead positing its origins are Pictish
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
Exclusive: Author challenges assumption monks on Iona created manuscript, instead positing its origins are Pictish
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
New research may rewrite origins of the Book of Kells, says academic
Exclusive: Author challenges assumption monks on Iona created manuscript, instead positing its origins are Pictish
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Hoping to get a review copy of this! #medievalsky @headofzeus.bsky.social
Reposted by Lorraine Mulholland
I've got fantastic news! Co. Down author/illustrator Conor Busuttil spotted my St Brigid book in Belfast City airport in the WHSmith! Brilliant news! Didn't know she was there! If you've seen her out in the wide world, I'd love you to send me her photo too!
St Brigid & Other Amazing Irish Women.
St Brigid & Other Amazing Irish Women.
September 25, 2025 at 9:43 AM
I've got fantastic news! Co. Down author/illustrator Conor Busuttil spotted my St Brigid book in Belfast City airport in the WHSmith! Brilliant news! Didn't know she was there! If you've seen her out in the wide world, I'd love you to send me her photo too!
St Brigid & Other Amazing Irish Women.
St Brigid & Other Amazing Irish Women.
Reposted by Lorraine Mulholland
She's now available in PAPERBACK in the USA! You can order through the link! 🛒🛍️📗
"Saint Brigid & Other Amazing Irish Women" is now available in paperback!
Young readers will learn about old Ireland and its female heroes by exploring the history, mythology and folklore!
💻️: https://tinyurl.com/5n8bc7zm
#stbrigid #ireland #irishfolklore
Young readers will learn about old Ireland and its female heroes by exploring the history, mythology and folklore!
💻️: https://tinyurl.com/5n8bc7zm
#stbrigid #ireland #irishfolklore
September 26, 2025 at 6:03 AM
She's now available in PAPERBACK in the USA! You can order through the link! 🛒🛍️📗