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Neil Jackman

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Archaeologist at Abarta Heritage & Tuatha Ireland. Passionate about public archaeology and enthusiastic about old ruins. Author of guidebooks to the #WildAtlanticWay & #IrelandsAncientEast Explore Ireland with me at @tuatha.ie

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 2h

A new museum dedicated to the life of the explorer Ernest Shackleton opens in Athy in Co Kildare today.

New museum on life of Ernest Shackleton opens in Kildare

A new museum dedicated to the life of the explorer Ernest Shackleton opens in Athy in Co Kildare today.

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 10h

My hometown (left 26 years ago though, both changed a bit since!)

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 12h

Absolutely nothing. Total arrogance and lack of any sort of ethical guardrails. All goes bang, but the right people earned a fortune off the misery. NAMA protected the ones they valued. The rest of us peasants didn't matter.

And here we go again. Only this will be harder to spin to blame all of us.

Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 12h

Silver linings and all that

Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 12h

I wholly believe it will. Most Emperor's New Clothes nonsense since the South Sea Bubble.

And who'll be left picking up the pieces? Normal people as usual.

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 12h

After the 2008 crash, there was an opportunity to do things differently.
Absolutely no lessons learned.

I swear if they bet the house on AI, I am going fully feral when it all crashes down again.

Proper Mad Maxing it.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 13h

The Irish Times view on the AI bubble: Ireland at risk if its bursts

Warnings from the IMF and Bank of England draw parallels with the 2000 dotcom boom

www.irishtimes.com

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 16h

Dr Angela Byrne, author of Irish Historic Towns Atlas no. 32, Ballyshannon//Béal Átha Seanaidh, talks about what new perspectives it can offer on the history of the town.

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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 14h

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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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 18h

Utility I think. There are a few around.

Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 18h

One day, one day 😪

A yeti crab with the caption 'this creature has adapted to the crushing pressure and oppressive darkness'

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Office of Public Works @opwireland.bsky.social · 19h

The Winter Solstice draw took place yesterday at Brú na Bóinne Visitor Centre!

38 lucky winners will experience sunrise inside the Newgrange Chamber this December.
Over 16,000 people entered from Ireland and around the world.

More 🔗 cutt.ly/Cr2IvNoQ

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 19h

A different mentality altogether about civic space

Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 20h

Small things like grids, utility and manhole covers can make a real difference to the feel and character of a place.

Just look at the difference between the iron ones and the shitty boring plastic, cheapest value tender version here in Clonmel.

A circular cast iron water cover with ornate celtic revival decoration and the word uisce

A cast iron utility cover with E Channon & Sons ornately embossed

A subrectangular cast iron water cover with celtic revival knotwork decoration and the text Uisce Quality Irish

A boring plasticy looking modern circular cover with the words Water Uisce

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Christian Cooijmans @ccooijmans.bsky.social · 21h

Very happy to finally see this in the flesh today: the remains of an early tenth-century calendar from Landévennec, Brittany, whose entry for the year 913 contains an annotation that the local coastal monastery of Winwaloe was attacked by vikings during that year.

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A medieval manuscript page from the tenth century, on vellum. Text in black ink and red rubrication using Carolingian miniscule.

A marginal annotation on a manuscript, containing the (abbreviated) Latin sentence: 'Eodem anno destructum est monasterium sancti winualoei a normannis' (translation: 'In the same year, the monastery of saint Winwaloe was destroyed by Northmen').

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 22h

Fantastic! Looks like a beautiful setting too.

Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like a cracker! Is it believed to be Iron Age or Viking?

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Lars S. Sørensen @handansken.bsky.social · 1d

This is a good example of "Trust me! I'm an archaeologist!" There is the remains of a burial mound here! #Archaeology

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like an absolute beast!

Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 1d

Was driving on a dark wet night last week, and someone was parked on the same side of the road as the oncoming traffic with their full beams left on. So dangerous, couldn't see a thing. Those LED headlights should be banned.

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 1d

Appears so, strange times these.

Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 1d

Aha! Thought it looked a bit strange. He was Royal Engineers attached to the Royal Ulster Rifles and landed at Sword.

Thank god the Americans had better leaders back then!

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 1d

Here's my grandad and his mates training for the big antifa day out on 6th June 1944

Troops from the Royal Engineers and Royal Ulster Rifles training with a machine gun in advance of D Day, (my grandad is the fella holding the magazine)

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 1d

I bought a cottage pie but I couldn't move in 😪

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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 1d

Illaunloughan • Kerry

This tiny early monastic island has an oratory, a clochán, a well and a gable-shrine on a leacht (drystone altar).

The monastery was excavated in the 1990s by Claire Walsh and Jenny White Marshall, who found that the monastery generally dated between the 7th–9th centuries.

An aerial view of the small island of Illaunloughan and its early monastery, with Portmagee in the background

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Dr Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 13d

New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core

Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology

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