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Patrick Brannigan
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In Choirs; on board of Housing Rights NI, worked at QUB Belfast
An Dún/music/nature/whatever resonates....
Hannah Sanders and Ben Savage perform songs from their latest album, The Strangers' Share, on The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe.

Some of their own new songs.
Hannah a superb singer.

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January 15, 2026 at 2:48 PM
January 15, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Gosh, that link generates a page with "You are in queue for Seamus Heaney Homeplace. When it is your turn, you will have 10 minutes to enter the website".
At seamusheaneyhome.com I found
January 15, 2026 at 8:44 AM
There do be a headless monster from the deep: St John's Point

#Lecale #LeathCathail
#CountyDown
#SpéirGhorm
January 13, 2026 at 5:32 PM
St John's Point - the Lighthouse and the views there.

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#CountyDown
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January 13, 2026 at 5:29 PM
#Rossglass beach including picture from there across Minerstown beach to the Dromara Hills...

#Lecale #LeathCathail
#CountyDown
#SpéirGhorm
January 13, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Search for "Northern Ireland" yields these accounts
January 13, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Harbourside Art - the #Titanic passing Ardgjass Old Harbour and Lighthouse, April 1912.

#Lecale #LeathCathail
#CountyDown
#SpéirGhorm
January 13, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Ardglass views, most of the trawlers are out. Tough gig for the mariners.

#Lecale #LeathCathail
#CountyDown
#SpéirGhorm
January 13, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Sun crowned by trees.

The atmospheric light at Audleys Castle, NT Castleward.

#Lecale #LeathCathail
#CountyDown
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January 10, 2026 at 9:05 PM
The atmospheric light at Audleys Castle, NT Castleward.

With the views from the elevation.

The castle probably dates from around the 15th century, the Audleys, an Anglo-Norman family held land in the area in the 13th century.

#Lecale #LeathCathail
#CountyDown
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January 10, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Towards Slieve Patrick and the rising sun over frost-covered drumlins.

#Lecale #LeathCathail
#CountyDown
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January 10, 2026 at 9:43 AM
This is the setting for the #Woodpecker, Strangford Woods.

#Lecale #LeathCathail
#CountyDown
#SpéirGhorm

The Woodland Trust are doing a consultation about the development of these woods, contact them at www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/about-us/whe... to get involved.
January 9, 2026 at 7:48 PM
A very choppy, pardon the pun,clip of a #Woodpecker at work high up on a tree. Strangford Woods.

#Lecale #LeathCathail
#CountyDown
#SpéirGhorm
January 9, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Strangford - both ferries in view.

#Lecale #LeathCathail
#CountyDown
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January 9, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Late afternoon light, looking over Strangford Lough to Portaferry. The ferry has just docked.

#Lecale #LeathCathail
#CountyDown
#SpéirGhorm
January 9, 2026 at 6:24 PM
January 9, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Slightly used TV, street-wise

#Holyland
#Belfast
#SpéirGhorm
January 8, 2026 at 4:29 PM
With ALT text
January 8, 2026 at 9:05 AM
Extracts from Harry Clarke's stained glass "The Eve of St Agnes" - commissioned in 1923 by Harold Jacob for his father’s house in Ailesbury Road, Dublin. Clarke took his inspiration from John Keats’s poem of the same name.
Hugh Lane Gallery
Harry Clarke 17 March 1889 – 6 January 1931)
#SpéirGhorm
January 6, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Slieve Donard and Slieve Commedagh from Newcastle Beach, County Down.

#CountyDown
#SpéirGhorm
January 6, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Northern Mournes from Newcastle Beach, County Down. Irish Sea to left, Assumption church to right.
Wind v cold
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#SpéirGhorm
January 6, 2026 at 5:40 PM
A cacophony of corvidae.
A brief glimpse of the evening frenzy.

#Lecale #LeathCathail
#CountyDown
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January 5, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Palm House, Botanic Gardens with the rhododendron in flower.

#SpéirGhorm
January 5, 2026 at 3:43 PM
January 5, 2026 at 8:52 AM