@collyhedgehog.bsky.social
Worked in Special Ed. Enjoy cinema,theatre,politics,books,
genealogy,woodcrafts, gardening, oh you know,the usual stuff. Social Justice for all and an end to all kinds of Human Slavery 🙏 On the bright side a laugh or two a day is the best tonic ever! 🇬🇧🇮🇪
genealogy,woodcrafts, gardening, oh you know,the usual stuff. Social Justice for all and an end to all kinds of Human Slavery 🙏 On the bright side a laugh or two a day is the best tonic ever! 🇬🇧🇮🇪
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On this day 29th December 1975
“Radical new legislation” introducing a woman's right to equal pay and status came into force in the UK
(Picture: A Second Picture Dictionary, artist: Eric Winter)
“Radical new legislation” introducing a woman's right to equal pay and status came into force in the UK
(Picture: A Second Picture Dictionary, artist: Eric Winter)
December 29, 2025 at 8:35 AM
On this day 29th December 1975
“Radical new legislation” introducing a woman's right to equal pay and status came into force in the UK
(Picture: A Second Picture Dictionary, artist: Eric Winter)
“Radical new legislation” introducing a woman's right to equal pay and status came into force in the UK
(Picture: A Second Picture Dictionary, artist: Eric Winter)
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Gone to the printer and soon to be released…
Launching in the Royal Irish Academy on Monday 1 December at 5:30pm.
Further details to follow.
“Christmas prezzies sorted, so…” 🎄
#Childhood #Ireland #IrishHistory
wordwellbooks.com/index.php?ro...
Launching in the Royal Irish Academy on Monday 1 December at 5:30pm.
Further details to follow.
“Christmas prezzies sorted, so…” 🎄
#Childhood #Ireland #IrishHistory
wordwellbooks.com/index.php?ro...
Childhood and the Irish: a miscellany
Childhood and the Irish: a miscellany
wordwellbooks.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Gone to the printer and soon to be released…
Launching in the Royal Irish Academy on Monday 1 December at 5:30pm.
Further details to follow.
“Christmas prezzies sorted, so…” 🎄
#Childhood #Ireland #IrishHistory
wordwellbooks.com/index.php?ro...
Launching in the Royal Irish Academy on Monday 1 December at 5:30pm.
Further details to follow.
“Christmas prezzies sorted, so…” 🎄
#Childhood #Ireland #IrishHistory
wordwellbooks.com/index.php?ro...
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If you're after something to watch and haven't seen it already, Riot Women in BBC1 is fantastic, great cast, great story, another Sally Wainright belter! Superb.
October 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
If you're after something to watch and haven't seen it already, Riot Women in BBC1 is fantastic, great cast, great story, another Sally Wainright belter! Superb.
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There's also the vexed question of who counts as a "foreigner". Long-term Commonwealth residents? Irish citizens? No doubt Badenoch has thought it all through ....
So latest Tory wheeze is to ban foreigners from accessing benefits. Naturally there's no detail. Refugees already recognized as such by the UK? People on spousal visas? Will foreigners who have paid NICs for decades be stripped of their pensions? I hope journalists are asking Stride and Badenoch.
October 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
There's also the vexed question of who counts as a "foreigner". Long-term Commonwealth residents? Irish citizens? No doubt Badenoch has thought it all through ....
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Do you have Irish roots? The Irish govt is looking for your feedback! Please complete the survey to inform engagement between Ireland & the 70 million or so Irish living outside of the island! www.ireland.ie/en/irish-dia... Please share!
Global Irish Survey: Consultation for Irish Diaspora Strategy | Ireland.ie
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is pleased to announce that it is undertaking an extensive consultation process to inform the Government’s new Diaspora Strategy.
www.ireland.ie
August 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Do you have Irish roots? The Irish govt is looking for your feedback! Please complete the survey to inform engagement between Ireland & the 70 million or so Irish living outside of the island! www.ireland.ie/en/irish-dia... Please share!
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The Telegraph today carries a news story about someone paying £7.4 million for a handbag (Hello, Lady Bracknell!). And an opinion piece describing a wealth tax as a ‘moral abomination’. What a time to be alive.
July 11, 2025 at 8:23 AM
The Telegraph today carries a news story about someone paying £7.4 million for a handbag (Hello, Lady Bracknell!). And an opinion piece describing a wealth tax as a ‘moral abomination’. What a time to be alive.
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Congratulations to my @historytcd.bsky.social colleagues @petercrooks.bsky.social and @cwallacedublin.bsky.social and their team @virtualtreasury.bsky.social on repurposing 30 June as a joyful day of archival discovery through their extraordinary work
Worldwide interest expected as 19th-century Irish census records recovered and put online
Worldwide interest expected as 19th-century Irish census records recovered and put online
Almost all 19th-century census records were destroyed but some have been recovered as part of the Virtual Treasury project
www.irishtimes.com
June 30, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Congratulations to my @historytcd.bsky.social colleagues @petercrooks.bsky.social and @cwallacedublin.bsky.social and their team @virtualtreasury.bsky.social on repurposing 30 June as a joyful day of archival discovery through their extraordinary work
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#WorldHumanistDay In A world where you can be anything, be kind!
June 21, 2025 at 10:25 AM
#WorldHumanistDay In A world where you can be anything, be kind!
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Dear USA
Deploying troops against civilians will not go well.
Yours
Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Deploying troops against civilians will not go well.
Yours
Great Britain and Northern Ireland
June 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Dear USA
Deploying troops against civilians will not go well.
Yours
Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Deploying troops against civilians will not go well.
Yours
Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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The world’s wealthiest dynasty is growing even richer exploiting the failures of a floundering system of special needs education failing many British families. My @inews.co.uk column asks why the government is making cuts before tackling profiteering by financial sharks? inews.co.uk/opinion/the-...
The world’s wealthiest dynasty is growing richer from Britain's SEND crisis
Voracious sharks of private equity are exploiting the crisis afflicting special educational needs
inews.co.uk
June 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The world’s wealthiest dynasty is growing even richer exploiting the failures of a floundering system of special needs education failing many British families. My @inews.co.uk column asks why the government is making cuts before tackling profiteering by financial sharks? inews.co.uk/opinion/the-...
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This is going to sound incredibly earnest and preachy but fuck it.
Support creative people. Buy their stuff. Share it on here. Music, art, words, whatever. Things made by humans for humans.
Support creative people. Buy their stuff. Share it on here. Music, art, words, whatever. Things made by humans for humans.
May 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This is going to sound incredibly earnest and preachy but fuck it.
Support creative people. Buy their stuff. Share it on here. Music, art, words, whatever. Things made by humans for humans.
Support creative people. Buy their stuff. Share it on here. Music, art, words, whatever. Things made by humans for humans.
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Stephen Mangan performs ‘I see you dancing, Father’ by Brendan Kennelly #brendankennelly #poetry #speirgorm www.theguardian.com/books/video/...
Stephen Mangan performs I See You Dancing, Father by Brendan Kennelly – video
The actor reads a poem in memory of his father. "I like to think of the younger, happier man." The film is part of a series to mark Celebration Day 2025 – a new annual moment, held on the last bank ho...
www.theguardian.com
May 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Stephen Mangan performs ‘I see you dancing, Father’ by Brendan Kennelly #brendankennelly #poetry #speirgorm www.theguardian.com/books/video/...
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God the tabloids and Brexit dinosaurs were boring today… 🦖
Braying the same “betrayal” lines they’ve brayed since they got what they wanted… then found they had no benefits in it whatsoever.
Still they came out today to play victim yet again.
But the world has moved on.
Braying the same “betrayal” lines they’ve brayed since they got what they wanted… then found they had no benefits in it whatsoever.
Still they came out today to play victim yet again.
But the world has moved on.
May 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
God the tabloids and Brexit dinosaurs were boring today… 🦖
Braying the same “betrayal” lines they’ve brayed since they got what they wanted… then found they had no benefits in it whatsoever.
Still they came out today to play victim yet again.
But the world has moved on.
Braying the same “betrayal” lines they’ve brayed since they got what they wanted… then found they had no benefits in it whatsoever.
Still they came out today to play victim yet again.
But the world has moved on.
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In March I wrote the West Yorkshire moors are a National Park in all but name www.wildway.info/p/lets-explo... today it's confirmed it will become a National Nature Reserve www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Brontë country to become protected national nature reserve
The 1,274-hectare Bradford Pennine Gateway links eight nature sites and includes landscape that inspired sisters
www.theguardian.com
May 13, 2025 at 10:54 AM
In March I wrote the West Yorkshire moors are a National Park in all but name www.wildway.info/p/lets-explo... today it's confirmed it will become a National Nature Reserve www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Take note everyone, food for thought.
‘WE ARE KNOWN FOREVER BY THE TRACKS WE LEAVE’
Inscription carved on a very comfortable bench in the beautifully tranquil Queen Elizabeth 2nd SilverJubilee Gardens in Bewdley Worcestershire
‘WE ARE KNOWN FOREVER BY THE TRACKS WE LEAVE’
Inscription carved on a very comfortable bench in the beautifully tranquil Queen Elizabeth 2nd SilverJubilee Gardens in Bewdley Worcestershire
May 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Take note everyone, food for thought.
‘WE ARE KNOWN FOREVER BY THE TRACKS WE LEAVE’
Inscription carved on a very comfortable bench in the beautifully tranquil Queen Elizabeth 2nd SilverJubilee Gardens in Bewdley Worcestershire
‘WE ARE KNOWN FOREVER BY THE TRACKS WE LEAVE’
Inscription carved on a very comfortable bench in the beautifully tranquil Queen Elizabeth 2nd SilverJubilee Gardens in Bewdley Worcestershire
The tomb of King John of England 1199-1216 in the magnificent Worcester Cathedral which I discovered on a visit there earlier this week. Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com l had a word in his ear to let him know he could possibly be losing a castle in Limerick at some stage soon😉
May 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The tomb of King John of England 1199-1216 in the magnificent Worcester Cathedral which I discovered on a visit there earlier this week. Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com l had a word in his ear to let him know he could possibly be losing a castle in Limerick at some stage soon😉
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No I’m fine, got something in my eye just there. Yeah.
May 4, 2025 at 9:51 AM
No I’m fine, got something in my eye just there. Yeah.
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If true, that this was posted by him, it is indeed very offensive.
Less than two weeks after Pope Francis's passing, the man who is the poster child for the Seven Deadly Sins posted a picture of himself depicting him as the Pope.
This is not only offensive to millions of Catholics but is a stark insight into the mind of a deeply disturbed individual.
Appalling.
This is not only offensive to millions of Catholics but is a stark insight into the mind of a deeply disturbed individual.
Appalling.
May 3, 2025 at 9:51 AM
If true, that this was posted by him, it is indeed very offensive.
So pleased the wisteria has survived its savage pruning last Autumn and is now back in full bloom again. It had completely overgrown its support structure and was about to collapse, so drastic measures were needed. Lucky for me my son did all the hard work with a little help from the gnomes.
May 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
So pleased the wisteria has survived its savage pruning last Autumn and is now back in full bloom again. It had completely overgrown its support structure and was about to collapse, so drastic measures were needed. Lucky for me my son did all the hard work with a little help from the gnomes.
The Centaura Montana has woken up from its winter slumber and opened its first bud today. Good ground cover perennial, plus happily produces a second flowering if you give it the ‘Chelsea Chop’ at the end of May. Likes a bit of staking as otherwise can end up looking as if the cat has slept in it!
April 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The Centaura Montana has woken up from its winter slumber and opened its first bud today. Good ground cover perennial, plus happily produces a second flowering if you give it the ‘Chelsea Chop’ at the end of May. Likes a bit of staking as otherwise can end up looking as if the cat has slept in it!
The Peony tree putting on an excellent show again this year with blooms as big as cabbages! Wish I knew which peony tree it is, I bought it at a market many years ago and unfortunately lost the label, would be so grateful if anyone out there could tell me its name please.
April 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The Peony tree putting on an excellent show again this year with blooms as big as cabbages! Wish I knew which peony tree it is, I bought it at a market many years ago and unfortunately lost the label, would be so grateful if anyone out there could tell me its name please.
Inclusion, tolerance and respect for others, not a bad goal to set.
The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.
Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
April 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Inclusion, tolerance and respect for others, not a bad goal to set.
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Cooper: Wow, his image is being shown on a monitor.. that's why you hear people actually applauding. They're applauding President Zelenskyy when he appeared on some of the Jumbotrons
April 26, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Cooper: Wow, his image is being shown on a monitor.. that's why you hear people actually applauding. They're applauding President Zelenskyy when he appeared on some of the Jumbotrons