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The Wild Gees
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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 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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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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oh the weather outside is frightful
the lack of snow is not delightful
the temperature's way too high
we're gonna die, gonna die, gonna die
December 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Through the 19th century, Britain adopted a coercion-led "exceptional" powers approach to colonial governance in Ireland

This was designed to crush dissent, particularly the anti-colonial variety

The imperial boomerang sometimes takes its time to return to the metropole.
Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide.

When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.

Happening under a Labour Government.
🚨BREAKING: GRETA THUNBERG ARRESTED UNDER TERRORISM ACT FOR SUPPORTING 'PALESTINE ACTION PRISONERS'
December 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Died #Onthisday 1958 Dorothy McCardle, writer & republican and as she says herself 'a propagandist, unrepentant and unashamed’ historyireland.com/dorothy-maca...
December 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Except for some gender critical ráiméis from the countess person, this is quite a positive article on 10 years since the Irish Gender Recognition Act passed - most people, as one interviewee said, are ‘happy to let trans people get on with it’. #speirgorm www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘For the first time, she could tell people who she was’: Ireland’s gender recognition decade
Ireland’s 2015 Gender Recognition Act was born in an era of optimism and consensus, but as gender-critical activism grows so does debate whether it can hold
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Santa told us that people that don’t add alt text are getting coal in their stocking this year.
December 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Al Jazeera’s Gaza journalists and their families have been repeatedly targeted by the Israeli army since the start of the war on Gaza. Yet they continue to report, undeterred.

Watch the film, The Price of Truth EP 2: aje.me/thepriceoftr...
December 23, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Please share. Thanks
December 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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A pioneering Alpinist rises again
Lizzie Le Blond was one of a kind. She shattered Victorian conventions not only by climbing mountains but by photographing them. Now, a new documentary puts the Irish woman back in the spotlight.

www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...
Lizzie le Blond, the pioneering Alpinist, rises again
Lizzie Le Blond was one of a kind. She shattered Victorian conventions not only by climbing mountains but by photographing them. Clodagh Finn reports on a documentary that puts the Irish woman back in...
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December 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Massive thanks to @clodaghfinn.bsky.social for shout out to Digital archives in her latest column, to recent comments I made at launch of #ExploreYourArchive campaign with @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social as our new ambassador, and for encouraging all to

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Clodagh Finn: Hark! An overlooked Aladdin’s Cave of festive entertainment
At Christmas, people often binge-watch Netflix or stockpile books, but there is a wonderful array of digital archives to be enjoyed too
www.irishexaminer.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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As much as I love Christmas, at this time of year I often feel the urge to get out and about to explore some of our incredible ancient landscapes.

So for this edition of our Monument Monday newsletter, I thought I'd share some of my favourite places for a good winter walk.

#Ireland #SpéirGhorm
December 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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'And what is a view? A view is where we are not. Where we are is never a view.'
December 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Visiting Knockroe Passage Tomb for the Winter Solstice is always a lovely way to mark the year.

Here's a short video of this morning's experience 🔆

#Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Solstice
December 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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The Irish/Gaeilge word for 'solstice' is 'grianstad' which can be translated literally as 'sun stop'.

Which is very nice.

Directly reflecting the Latin 'Solstitium' - 'sun stopped'.

(17thC sun image - BM)
December 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Stepsisters: Stories from the Irish (Ed. Brian Ó Conchubhair and Tara MacLeod)

Editor Tara MacLeod on the publication of an outstanding new anthology of stories from multi-generational Irish women writers. No women……? Despite the significant role played by women such Anges Farrelly/Úna Ní…
Stepsisters: Stories from the Irish (Ed. Brian Ó Conchubhair and Tara MacLeod)
Editor Tara MacLeod on the publication of an outstanding new anthology of stories from multi-generational Irish women writers. No women……? Despite the significant role played by women such Anges Farrelly/Úna Ní Fhaircheallaigh, Bríd Ní Chinnéide, Norma Borthwic/Bhortuic, Úna Dix, Brighid Ní Loingsigh, Helena Concannon and others as editors, collectors and translators, males overwhelmingly dominated the Irish-language literary scene during the Revival, Free State and post-World War II years.
www.writing.ie
December 22, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1863–1941) features in today's @infinite-women.com newsletter. A portrait painter, suffragist and social campaigner from Co. Down, she was first woman elected to Dublin Corporation. Mary Ann McCracken was her great aunt #SpeirGorm

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Sarah Cecilia Harrison - Infinite Women
Irish painter and social campaigner; in 1912 she became the first woman to be elected to Dublin corporation.
www.infinite-women.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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The painter Anne Madden has died at her home in Dublin. She was 93 years of age. One of the leading Irish artists of the 20th century, she became known for her epic canvases inspired by the Burren in Co Clare and its megalithic monuments.
Irish artist Anne Madden dies aged 93
The painter Anne Madden has died at her home in Dublin. She was 93 years of age.
www.rte.ie
December 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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This is very disappointing, until the corporations complicit in apartheid Israel's genocide of Palestinians feel the consequences, it will rage on. #GazaGenocide
Confirmed: GAA votes to retain Allianz as sponsors 
www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/ar...
Confirmed: GAA votes to retain Allianz as sponsors
The association’s Management Committee voted in favour of continuing the relationship
www.irishexaminer.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Born #OnThisDay 1866 in Surrey, Maud Gonne Irish revolutionary & activist. In 1900 she co-founded Inghindhne na hEireann & remained an activist all her life📸with son Sean 1906 irishfamilydetective.ie/colourisation
December 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Cloudy ot not, using modern technology to allow us to continue to witness something the people who lived on our island built in connection with the seasons and the universe thousands of years ago is pretty cool, actually
December 21, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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#OtD 21 Dec 1848 escaped enslaved people, Ellen and William Craft, boarded a steamship in Savannah, Georgia, heading to Philadelphia where they arrived at Christmas. They then dedicated their lives to abolition and women's suffrage stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9355...
December 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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The same people who "love Christmas" so much that they put up a tree in November also take it down on Boxing Day *the actual literal second day of Christmas*. They also then complain about how much the hate January. Well folks, you did it to yourselves! We invented Christmas observence for this!
December 21, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Just to remind you that the livestream of the solstice sunrise from Newgrange starts 12 hours from now.

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Newgrange Winter Solstice 2025 | Heritage Ireland
Newgrange is the best known of the 3 great passage tombs in the Brú na Bóinne complex. The passage and chamber are aligned in a
heritageireland.ie
December 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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To celebrate #Newgrange #WinterSolstice @opwireland.bsky.social 21/12/2025 have a listen to my piece 'Day Trip to Newgrange with my Grandmother When I Was a Little Girl' 👉 www.iambapoet.com/wave/19-rhon... #WinterSolstice #Ireland 🌀☀️🌀 www.iambapoet.com/wave/19-rhon...
December 20, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Published by the National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company in 1917, this little book's pages are entirely blank. More on it here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/why-women-should-not-vote
December 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM