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Claire Nolan
@drclairenolan.bsky.social
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Researcher, archaeologist, heritage & wellbeing, social & ecocultural value of archaeology, prehistory/early history, landscape, peatlands, mindfulness, ecopsychology, music………… Web: https://ucc-ie.academia.edu/ClaireNolan
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Claire Nolan @drclairenolan.bsky.social · 21d
Honoured to have contributed to this awesome volume! Well done to @justrena.bsky.social and @saveknockiveagh.bsky.social!
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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 22d
Here it is.
The newborn book.

My thanks as always to #Trivent Publishing for a beautiful job.

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Knock Iveagh: Memory and Materiality in a Community Landscape Cover eBook
Edited by Rena Maguire, Veronica Kelly, Arlene Pattison, Anne Harper Publication date: September, 2025 Pages: 159, 29 images ISBN 978-615-6696-92-2                        Paperback, €31.00 ISBN 97...
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The Discovery Programme @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social · 47m
You are warmly invited to The Discovery Programme’s Martin Doody Memorial Lecture 2025:
"Animal Kin, Animal Others in Early Bronze Age Britain”

It will be delivered by Prof Joanna Brück of @ucddublin.bsky.social

Sign up here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/martin-doo...

Thurs 4 Dec
7.30pm
Online
Free
Martin Doody Memorial Lecture 2025
The Discovery Programme's annual Martin Doody Memorial Lecture, delivered this year by Prof Joanna Brück of University College Dublin
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 1h
Just extraordinary to witness this nature-hating government sabotaging Labour’s own legacy. And for absolutely no reason: nature protection isn’t blocking development - it’s a necessary prerequisite for it (& for everything else, come to that…)
Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’ say green groups
Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law
www.theguardian.com
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Kim @kim4thebabies.bsky.social · 7d
RIP Queen
Jane Goodall Jane Goodall Jane Goodall Jane Goodall
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Richard Roche @rrocheneuro.bsky.social · 6d
Very sad to hear this, had a lovely chat with him about art and the brain for his Almanac podcast, and he became a real champion for our CúChulainn books. A fascinating, interested and kind soul, RIP a chara
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 6d
The writer, broadcaster and documentary maker Manchán Magan has died at the age of 55, his family has confirmed
Broadcaster and scríbhneoir Manchán Magan dies aged 55
The writer, broadcaster and documentary maker Manchán Magan has died at the age of 55, his family has confirmed.
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Claire Nolan @drclairenolan.bsky.social · 6d
What did one context say to the other when it saw the archaeologist coming? ‘Quick, act natural’!
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Jack O'Lantern 🎃 @muninnherself.bsky.social · 8d
#DailyMegalith #TombTuesday

Coom wedge tomb, nr #Ballinskelligs #CountyKerry #RepublicofIreland (2025).
Handy for the road (despite an electric fence) and in an absolutely beautiful setting with views across Ballinskelligs Bay towards Waterville.

🏺
A beautiful sunny September day with blue skies, fluffy clouds and strong shadows. The tomb is set in rough pasture, and photographed from the unusual open antechamber or portico end, with the large capstone and chamber visible beyond.
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Claire Nolan @drclairenolan.bsky.social · 8d
Yeah, very special spot✨✨
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Claire Nolan @drclairenolan.bsky.social · 10d
So cool!
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Claire Nolan @drclairenolan.bsky.social · 11d
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KateU @kateullman.bsky.social · 11d
The southern row of Les Alignements du Moulin, Sainte-Just in Brittany. Great place to visit - this stone row just one of many megalithic sites on Les Landes de Cojoux. #StandingStoneSunday
A cloudy by blue sky provides a background for several tall standing stones in alignment. The stones are grey in colour.
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Chris Bond @vibracobra23.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11d
The pecked stones of an altar with niche at Mnajdra Megalithic Temple Complex near Qrendi on Malta. Photo taken on 21 March 2014.

#Mnajdra #malta #megaliths #StandingStoneSunday
Three large pecked stones, two uprights and a lintel, surround four similar but smaller stones, through which a rectangular opening or niche can be seen.
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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 11d
Labby Rock Portal Tomb • Sligo • c.3500BC

This distinctive dolmen is a place steeped in myth and legend. Its name Labby derives from the Irish 'leaba', as it is another location where Gráinne and Diarmuid slept as they fled from Fionn mac Cumhaill.

#Ireland #SpéirGhorm 🏺 #Archaeology #Folklore
A megalithic tomb consisting of a large capstone covered in moss and heather, supported by upright stones. A non native wood is planted behind the tomb
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Claire Nolan @drclairenolan.bsky.social · 12d
Super exciting! Congrats!!🎉
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Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social · 14d
Anyone who buys clothes from Tesco, M&S, Dunnes or Penneys/Primark (Dunnes in particular) should watch @rte.ie Primetime's meticulously researched expose of forced labour in cotton production in China and how it gets into Irish and UK shops. You'll find it on RTE player.
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Claire Nolan @drclairenolan.bsky.social · 17d
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Mike McLean @mikemenhirmclean.bsky.social · 17d
Stone row beside Lough Salt, Barnes Lower NE, Co. Donegal , Ireland. September 2025
With @drclairenolan.bsky.social

#StandingStoneSunday #Donegal
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Claire Nolan @drclairenolan.bsky.social · 18d
Love this!
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Claire Nolan @drclairenolan.bsky.social · 18d
Barnes Lower stone pair, Co. Donegal with @mikemenhirmclean.bsky.social. If you look closely you’ll see the cup marks! #StandingStoneSunday #RockArt
Photo of a large standing stone with rock art surrounded by grass and blue sky with white clouds Photo of a two standing stones with rock art surrounded by grass and blue sky with white clouds
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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 21d
The southern stone of the Devil's Arrows 👿 - the 2nd tallest standing stone in the British Isles.

Nobody knows how old it is, but it probably dates to the Neolithic, so time time between 4000 and 2500 BC...

#archaeology #prehistory #ancient #Yorkshire🏺
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Claire Nolan @drclairenolan.bsky.social · 21d
Honoured to have contributed to this awesome volume! Well done to @justrena.bsky.social and @saveknockiveagh.bsky.social!
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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 22d
Here it is.
The newborn book.

My thanks as always to #Trivent Publishing for a beautiful job.

trivent-publishing.eu/home/214-404...
Knock Iveagh: Memory and Materiality in a Community Landscape Cover eBook
Edited by Rena Maguire, Veronica Kelly, Arlene Pattison, Anne Harper Publication date: September, 2025 Pages: 159, 29 images ISBN 978-615-6696-92-2                        Paperback, €31.00 ISBN 97...
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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 22d
Here it is.
The newborn book.

My thanks as always to #Trivent Publishing for a beautiful job.

trivent-publishing.eu/home/214-404...
Knock Iveagh: Memory and Materiality in a Community Landscape Cover eBook
Edited by Rena Maguire, Veronica Kelly, Arlene Pattison, Anne Harper Publication date: September, 2025 Pages: 159, 29 images ISBN 978-615-6696-92-2                        Paperback, €31.00 ISBN 97...
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Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · 23d
Love that the @nmireland.bsky.social are at the #ploughing. Farmers are often really important custodians of heritage in Ireland, as well as knowing a huge amount about field names, local histories, & climate histories. #speirgorm
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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 23d
Come and meet the team from the National Museum of Ireland at the National Ploughing Championships, Screggan, Tullamore, Co. Offaly, taking place from 16th to 18th September 2025.
www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/T...
Meet our education team at the Ploughing Championship 2025 Put your questions to the Irish Antiquities division at the Ploughing 2025 Minister of Culture, Communications and Sport Patrick O'Donovan met the Irish Antiquities division, at the Ploughing Championship 2025.
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Heide Wrobel Nørgaard @heidewnoergaard.bsky.social · 24d
#StandingStoneSunday a tour through the Nature National Park #MolsBjerge, Jutland, Denmark. The Porskær #Megalith has a roofstone that was splittet in the middle and is one of the largest constructions in DK with in all 35 stones. 🏺 #stoneage #archaeology #bronzeage
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The Smell of Water @smellofwater.bsky.social · 25d
Machrie Moor November 2011 #StandingStoneSunday
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Kevin Burns @kevinburns.de · 26d
Calanish / Calanais stones - Isle of Lewis , Scotland #blueskyphotography #photography #ancient
detail from Calanish / Calanais stones , Isle of Lewis , Scotland
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