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#archivalmaterial #charitableorganisations #Dublin

#archivalmaterial #charitableorganisations #Dublin1830 #lyinginhospital #womenworking #nursesnames #beyond22 #virtualrecordtreasury

#sunburnt 🔎 #face #application #planning

#sunburnt 🔎
#face
#application
#planning

#seniorschoolgeographybook Ireland described as

#seniorschoolgeographybook

Ireland described as a flying saucer. Ok, I made that up although who's to say it's not? 😜. The land mass is described as the shape of a saucer here in this school geography book, flat in the middle,raised at the edges. Described in the shadow of its larger, more powerful neighbour and all because it had no coal🧐🤔😳

#thecatwhogotthecream
#pre-partition #saucer

#window#sun #shadowplay

#window#sun #shadowplay

Wrong adapter = no Pepe Sanchez 🫤👂🎶🎙️#lazysunnysundays

#kingofthecastle #spottedwhileoutrunning #daredev

#kingofthecastle #spottedwhileoutrunning
#daredevil
#strangeronabridge

#thepartysover #happybirthdaysister🎂🎈🎉 #w

#thepartysover #happybirthdaysister🎂🎈🎉 #weekendtoremember

#turnupforthebooks #☀️🕶️

#turnupforthebooks #☀️🕶️

Ships on the river Liffey on a map of Dublin as it

Ships on the river Liffey on a map of Dublin as it was in 1610. Map produced in 1790. Source: Dublin City Library, Pearse Street, Dublin - Thanks to Lorraine McLoughlin, Dublin City Archivist for showing me this.

"The Liffey was previously named An Ruirthech, meaning "fast (or strong) runner". The word Liphe (or Life) referred originally to the name of the plain through which the river ran, but eventually came to refer to the river itself. The word may derive from the same root as Welsh llif (flow, stream), namely Proto-Indo-European lē̆i-4, but Gearóid Mac Eoin has more recently proposed that it may derive from a non-Indo-European word borrowed from the original language spoken in Ireland before the arrival of the Celts. It was also known as the Anna Liffey, possibly from an anglicisation of Abhainn na Life, the Irish phrase that translates into English as "River Liffey". James Joyce embodies the river in Finnegans Wake as "Anna Livia Plurabelle".
Source Wikipedia

#upsidedownworld #intheworldwedwell #fromwhosepers

#upsidedownworld #intheworldwedwell #fromwhoseperspective

#ontheroadagain #thelongroad 'I would say that k

#ontheroadagain #thelongroad

'I would say that knowing is a road' Anne Carson

The call of the blossoms

The call of the blossoms

#swanage #thatimeofyearagain #nesting #warmth #gro

#swanage #thatimeofyearagain #nesting #warmth #growingaswan

#someonesdoor #Dreamcatcher 'Ethnographer Franc

#someonesdoor
#Dreamcatcher

'Ethnographer Frances Densmore in 1929 recorded an Ojibwe legend according to which the "spiderwebs" protective charms originate with Spider Woman, known as Asibikaashi; who takes care of the children and the people on the land.

'As the Ojibwe Nation spread to the corners of North America it became difficult for Asibikaashi to reach all the children. So the mothers and grandmothers weave webs for the children, using willow hoops and sinew, or cordage made from plants. The purpose of these charms is apotropaic -meaning having the power to avert evil influences or bad luck- and not explicitly connected with dreams:

Even infants were provided with protective charms. Examples of these are the "spiderwebs" hung on the hoop of a cradle board. In old times this netting was made of nettle fiber. Two spider webs were usually hung on the hoop, and it was said that they "caught any harm that might be in the air as a spider's web catches and holds whatever comes in contact with it."

from flat to round- from grounded to flight – this

from flat to round- from grounded to flight - this becomes that, the magic of hot air.

#bathballoons
#hotairballoon

Noun; pilgrim, a person who travels or wanders in

Noun; pilgrim, a person who travels or wanders in foreign lands.

#forallthoseonthemoverightnowacrosstheglobe

#keepingitinperspective #smokeyrobinson #newalbum2

#keepingitinperspective #smokeyrobinson #newalbum2023
#stillgoingstrong

The practical side of attending meetings in Belfas

The practical side of attending meetings in Belfast in the 1970's:

1. Where to park your car safely.

These are the kind of details that are not remembered or thought about, their significance not noted. But reading this helped me recall what life was like at that time and how it impacted on our lives in ways we have forgotten.

My father would have attended many of the NICRA meetings in the city in the late 70's early 80's. He/we lived in a small village about 100 miles west from there or to put it another way, Belfast is 100 miles east from the village of Beragh 🥳. My father had studied at the teaching training college in the city in the early 1950's so knew his way around and was more aware than most where he could park. Even so he had his car trashed on more than one occasion.

#thetimestheyareachangin #ornot #familyarchives

#2photos #superimposed #crymeariver #aprilshowers

#2photos #superimposed #crymeariver #aprilshowers #waitingforspring

#human #nonhuman #legs #arms #eyes #tooth

#human #nonhuman #legs #arms #eyes #tooth

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