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Lorraine Mulholland @lorraineelizab6.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks Miky. Xx

Lorraine Mulholland @lorraineelizab6.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks Steve. Had an underactive thyroid so v tired and had to take a break from book writing since July. Need to get on with it now.

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Lorraine Mulholland @lorraineelizab6.bsky.social · 10d

No my twitter followers are most definitely not bots. I have friends from all over the world on there.

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Lorraine Mulholland @lorraineelizab6.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks for all your kind likes Steve. But you're nearly the only person clicking like on my posts so I have to call bluesky a day after 2 prolonged attempts over the past year. I need to get on with my next book, & frankly bluesky is a total waste of my time. However my 17.8K on X respond to my Xs.

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Lorraine Mulholland @lorraineelizab6.bsky.social · 10d

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.

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Lorraine Mulholland @lorraineelizab6.bsky.social · 10d

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

Lorraine Mulholland @lorraineelizab6.bsky.social · 10d

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!

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Lorraine Mulholland @lorraineelizab6.bsky.social · 10d

📷St Michael's Victory over the Devil, a 1958 sculpture by Jacob Epstein on the wall of the new Coventry Cathedral, England. ©DeFacto 📷Aerial view of the Skelligs ©Heritage Ireland 📷Clocháin or beehive huts, and graves, on Skellig Michael. ©Irish News #war #MythologyMonday

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Lorraine Mulholland @lorraineelizab6.bsky.social · 10d

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

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Lorraine Mulholland @lorraineelizab6.bsky.social · 10d

"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

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Lorraine Mulholland @lorraineelizab6.bsky.social · 10d

🎨12th century manuscript @britishlibrary.bsky.social 📷Skellig Michael © @KarbusGeorge & BBC.

Lorraine Mulholland @lorraineelizab6.bsky.social · 10d

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!

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Lorraine Mulholland @lorraineelizab6.bsky.social · 10d

📷Cross ©@SDCClibraries. 📷 @StMaelruainsCoI © @DublinsOutdoors. 📷Font called St Maelruain's Losset. Losat = Old Irish for wooden trough used for kneading bread. Similar in shape to the lossets they used in their homes? ©Patrick Comerford #medievalsky #hagiography #saints #IrishHistory #ChurchHistory

Lorraine Mulholland @lorraineelizab6.bsky.social · 10d

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.

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Lorraine Mulholland @lorraineelizab6.bsky.social · 10d

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

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Lorraine Mulholland @lorraineelizab6.bsky.social · 10d

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...

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Lorraine Mulholland @lorraineelizab6.bsky.social · 10d

📷 @visitcauseway.bsky.social x2, Art Ward, @WalkNI

Lorraine Mulholland @lorraineelizab6.bsky.social · 10d

29 Sept: Feast Day of St Murgal mac Ninneda (d. 769), Abbot of Rechru. Probably #Rathlin Island, Co. #Antrim or possibly #Lambay Island, #Dublin. O'Hanlon favoured Rathlin. 📷Rathlin founded by either St Columba, St Comgall or St Ségéne mac Fiachna, abbot of Iona?

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Lorraine Mulholland @lorraineelizab6.bsky.social · 10d

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

Reposted by Lorraine Mulholland

National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 10d

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...

An Incipit (opening letter) with two birds from the St. Gallen manuscript Priscian Institutiones Grammaticae, Cod. Sang 904, p. 25. © Stiftsbibliothek St Gallen.

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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 11d

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

Sheep graze in front of a tower at Kells Priory

A view through the gatehouse into Kells Priory

An aerial view of the extensive ruins of the medieval priory at Kells County Kilkenny

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Lorraine Mulholland @lorraineelizab6.bsky.social · 11d

🎨Leona Divine from Co. Derry. 📷Screenshot from my book 📗St Brigid & Other Amazing Irish Women. 23 stories of Irish female saints, 23 activity tasks, lots interesting facts, myths/folklore, fun poetry, 343 saint name checklist, 20 lesser-known saints, cool big quiz & more! #medievalsky #hagiography

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Lorraine Mulholland @lorraineelizab6.bsky.social · 11d

"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

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Lorraine Mulholland @lorraineelizab6.bsky.social · 11d

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

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Lorraine Mulholland @lorraineelizab6.bsky.social · 11d

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

Lorraine Mulholland @lorraineelizab6.bsky.social · Sep 8

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.

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Lorraine Mulholland @lorraineelizab6.bsky.social · 11d

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

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