@neiljackman
Archaeologist at Abarta Heritage & Tuatha Ireland. Passionate about public archaeology and enthusiastic about old ruins. Author of guidebooks to the #WildAtlanticWay & #IrelandsAncientEast Explore Ireland with me at @tuatha.ie
So crazy that Ireland exports around 90% of the food we produce, and at the same time imports around 83% of its fruit and veg. As Mick Kelly so eloquently puts it, "food security isn’t just about calories. It’s about access to fresh, nutritious food that supports public health." #spéirgorm
The shattered ruin of a castle tower, perfectly reflected in the blue waters of Lough Oughter, Cavan
Clogh Oughter Castle • Cavan
The castle was built by William Gorm de Lacy in the 13th century.
Clogh Oughter Castle was the very last Irish stronghold to fall to Cromwell’s forces when it was bombarded by cannon until the garrison finally surrendered.
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm #DiscoverIreland
People from this part of the world lack the durable carapace that other nations have developed to cover their sense of shame.
An aerial view of Magheranrush Court Tomb, an arrangement of upright stones set on a hillside in County Sligo, Ireland
Magheranrush Court Tomb • Sligo
Magheranrush (also known as Deerpark) Court Tomb is set high in a wood above Lough Colgagh. It dates to the Neolithic period, around 3600—3200 BC.
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺
Congratulations Paddy! Very exciting
Very excited to get up and running with this one: awarded £1.5m AHRC Standard Grant for Landscapes of Catastrophe, a project examining the context and impact of the Great Irish Famine www.qub.ac.uk/schools/NBE/...
Just watched a reel by the CEO of Instagram, giving tips on how to avoid burnout on social media.
One of the people responsible for making sure that your posts rarely get shown to the people who follow you, unless you pay Meta.
Keep on that hamster wheel guys, we just need to batch and prep more 🤗
I had an absolute blast at PROJECT HAIL MARY. Shame is succumbed to too-many-endings syndrome.
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I enjoyed the book, though I agree with your article about the last third of it.
Surely can't be as bad as the Return of the King for multiple endings?
I remember watching that in a cinema, as the credits *finally* arrived, a fella bellowed "last half hour of that film was pure f**king hell!"
The social contract has been utterly broken. Short-term selfish greed set above all.
European (and NATO)
leaders must stop with the pious fraud and provide unequivocal support for Sánchez’s truth-telling
We’re teaching experimental archaeology and archaeological excavation skills this next two weeks at @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social
Popped into our early medieval roundhouse
Makes you think of the thinginess of things, but especially the overwhelming woodiness of the past
A view through one of the cloister arches to the tower of Jerpoint Abbey. The carving of a dragon like beast can be seen on the cloister arch.
In today's edition of our MonumentMonday newsletter, we take a trip to Kilkenny to visit a true medieval marvel – the wonderful Jerpoint Abbey.
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Kilkenny #Medieval #DiscoverIreland #IrelandTravel
Hoppers is good fun. There's one or two parts that might be a little much for younger children, but both me and our 8 year old enjoyed it.
Two puffins billing on the Great Saltee Island
Puffin pic as reparations
Puffins, orca, pinemarten (also wolves, polar bears, rooks and ravens)
I am not good at counting, sorry.
A small grey pillar stone stands proudly from the leaf strewn ground of Inchagoill Island. It has a depiction of two crosses on the visible face, and the inscription LIE LUGUAEDON MACCI MENUEH in Insular half uncial script
The Luguaedon Stone • Inchagoill Island
This small stone pillar stands close to the early church of Teampall Phadraig.
It bears one of the earliest inscriptions of Irish in the Latin alphabet. It reads:
LIE LUGUAEDON MACCI MENUEH
THE STONE OF LUGUAEDON, SON OF MENUEH
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm 🏺
Might be a genius idea to bring your own clamp so no one will clamp you.
Large stones arranged in a circle in a field. Within the circle of larger stones, there are many smaller stones.
The Dragon's Teeth • Beaghmore • Tyrone
The foothills of the Sperrin Mountains has a wealth of prehistoric monuments.
This Bronze Age stone circle at Beaghmore is filled with hundreds of small upright stones, earning it the name ‘the Dragon’s Teeth’.
#SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺
1/3 There is and End of Days feel about Western Hegemony right now. A half millennia in which the West hoarded much of the world’s wealth, plundering, colonising and burning through fossil fuels, is ending in a paroxysmal, Trumpian blunder.
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A wooden flask or bottle from the early medieval period found in Leitrim, Ireland and now on display in the National Museum of Ireland Archaeology in Dublin
Leather bottle • Leitrim
This leather bottle or flask was found deep in a bog in Cloonclose, County Leitrim.
From the decoration, it is believed to date to the early medieval period, making the bottle at least a thousand years old.
#Ireland ##SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺 #EarlyMedieval
Though maybe on reflection, I didnt resist too much.
Personal growth that can only be measured by microscope.
I was going to follow this up with quite a spicy take about the countless millions spent on advertising Ireland's incredible heritage to tourists, versus the complete lack of funding and resources for heritage organisations and staff.
But I will resist. Personal growth and all that.
Wholly agree with this. The National Museum needs to be properly supported.
Haha I do think he went for the lowest possible effort, wooly geansaí and a raincoat = job done.
Our 8 year old decided to dress up as me for it. I have never simultaneously been so proud and so mortified.
Although these shitehawks seem to go on about Ancient Greece and Rome, they obviously haven't paid much attention to the parts about hubris, and where that leads to.
Not for me, no.
A frost tipped field leads to mature trees and distant hills beyond, a rook flies across a pale blue sky
Beautiful morning here in South Tipperary 🔆
