🦋OK, I did it. This was my favourite platform - the one where I was most likely to find inspiring articles, beautiful artworks & dorky wit. Hoping to find something similar once again! I hope those of you I only know here will find me over there, where I remain yours, Rothweeee.

A fantastic pause in cataloguing spent incoherently babbling at Tom and Dominic about the Annals of the Four Masters and the Cathach.

RIA Library is pleased to announce our participation in the CERL Internship Placement and Grant scheme for 2025. The RIA Library project aims to describe & sample provenance marks in the collection of Charles Haliday (1789–1866), for the Provenance Digital Archive (PDA) of CERL.

Enjoying @totallydublin over my Sunday coffee & thrilled to see @ITMADublin's excellent publication on Pigot featured! However, as romantic as 'lost' manuscripts may be, I'm sorry to say they're mundanely catalogued & available for public consultation. 😉 ria.ie/collections/archival-…

"Happy new year and I hope this email finds you well" How your email finds me: 🖼️ Dante pulling a head from the ice, from The Vision of Hell by Dante Alighieri luna.manchester.ac.uk/luna/s…

Saw Oswald Reeves' lovely tabernacle in the Honan Chapel over Christmas... ashamed to say I didn't know he did the war memorial in the church I sing in (Phibsboro) until I spotted it in Nicola Gordon Bowe's selected writings the other day!

When you hit your GoodReads goal 🔥🔥🔥

✨Written at age 15, "Oíche Nollag" from Máire Mhac an tSaoi's wonderful collection, Margadh na Saoire (1956). Published by renowned Irish language publishers, Sáirséal agus Dill and cover design by Anne Butler Yeats, this copy comes to us via the Máire Ní Chinnéide collection.✨

"Everything is fine" Ethiopia, 17th c. #fire #burninghouse #meme #dog #mabaaseyon #africanmeme #africanart

Adding these as well. Honestly don't understand how I am still single.

Christmas no. 2 in Dublin Central. Voting is exciting... #Election2024

Very busy and tiring day helping to organise the @LaiRBG annual seminar today, but having seen this Instagram post from the wonderful Folded Leaf press, I would say our objectives are achieved and I couldn't be happier! 🫡

The Annual Seminar is here! Mary Plunkett of Belgrave Private Press is making is making us all feel very jealous of her "shed" here in the lovely surroundings of @NLIreland ! #bookcraft

Privileged to live in Ireland's maddest constituency. I'll be insulating the attic with this pile. Still waiting on The Monk to call...

Longfield-Roberts Collection at @Library_RIA.

Our tiny choir started practicing carols with hardcore banqueting hall vibes. I said I felt like I should be wearing cross-gartered yellow stockings and they laughed heartily at my joke. I feel so seen. 🥹 open.spotify.com/track/6F1iw…

Today is #EYADecisions day! We're here to remind you about the most important decision you need to consider today. Choice: Will I attend the @LAIonline Rare Books Group seminar on Friday 29th November? Option 1: Yes Option 2: Also yes (who could say no?) eventbrite.ie/e/bookcraft-ti…

🎁We need your support once again.❤️🖤 Bohemian FC, collaborating with @BangBangD7 in our eight annual Toy Drive, is aiming to raise €55,000 to bring joy and hope during the festive season to children living in Direct Provision. This is made possible logistically by the @TheRDS who provide space, @SmythsToysIRE who assist with toy selection and our long term partners @DHLExpressIre who deliver in their sleighs. 👉Donate here: gofund.me/6e1d89a7 Thanks to all you sound heads, we've been able to demonstrate the generosity of Irish people to thousands of children over the years. Since 2017, what began with gifts for 100 kids in Clondalkin has grown into a powerful community effort, reaching children in Direct Provision across Ireland. Every year, our collective effort has grown, and with it, the impact you’ve had on so many young lives. As one 7 year old told us last year "thank you for not forgetting about us".

Jeanne de Montbaston and her husband Richard writing and illuminating manuscripts in their Paris-based workshop. (Bnf, ms fr. 25526, f. 77v) You can see one of Jeanne's manuscripts on display in our #MedievalWomen exhibition! blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscr…