Edwina Guckian
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Mother, dancer, choreographer, film maker, producer, folklore nerd, director @aircdamhsa & @leitrimdance , proud Leitrim woman, dancing my way through life.
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Moment of possible self combustion with the excitement! My book is now in Hodges Figgis, Dawson St, Dublin.
✨ Sparks from the Flagstones - a treasury of Irish Folk Traditions & Calendar Customs.
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My brother is the lock keeper at Rooskey. He had all closed up last night to head home when a duck asked him to open the gates one more time for some important travellers heading north on the Shannon.
#Leitrim
@Irelaiw
@IrishWaterways
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I was up on O Rourke’s Table this week picking bog cotton and came across the old dancing platform. I’m working on a new project promoting Leitrim. This is one of the magic places that will feature. Looking forward to lots of music & dancing with friends up here again some day 💛
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We made a little video about delivering the St. Brigid’s crosses to our neighbours and the traditions around it.
It’s part of a bigger video and project by
@AircDamhsa
called The Year in Ireland which you can watch here:
Thanks to
@artscouncil_ie
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As part of my work on the Markievicz Award I’m looking to speak with people from all over Ireland who were at houses dances, crossroads dances & dances in halls from roughly the 1930s - 60s period. Particularly those that might have stories from the impacts of the 1935 Dance🧵
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We decided to stay at home in Ireland for our honeymoon and hit the road for 2 weeks in the VW. We had no plan other than to start in Donegal and travel the Wild Atlantic Way to Cork turn around and make our way back up again, stopping at any music festival or sessions we 🧵
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Oíche Bhríde! Today is the day you pick the rushes, make the crosses and leave them on your door step for Brigid to bless as she travels across the land tonight with her white cow. Don’t forget to leave a piece of cloth on the hedge tonight too.
#stbrigid
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Visitors to our county are horrified when they see these sites but to the locals this has just become the norm.
This is Leitrim being decimated by our governments forestry policy which is funded by the taxpayers.
@SaveLeitrim
#CommunitiesNotConifers
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Serious landslides at Dawn of Hope Bridge. Drumkeerin Co Leitrim yesterday. Loads of water flowing off forestry plantation floor and clearfells. Land abuse and the bridge weakened by haulage of massive loads? Our
#Leitrim
peatlands flowing down our rivers?? Why?
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So honoured to have been invited on the show and share a little of my work. Thanks to the team for the opportunity. Tried my best to get Tommy to lilt so I could do a few steps!😆
#tommytiernanshow
@Tommedian
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Drone footage shows the cumulative effects of wide scale plantation
@coilltenews
forestry at the Dawn of Hope Bridge bog slide in Drumkeeran No EIA on any plantation in
#Leitrim
to date & almost 20% of the total county planted. It is having a MASSIVE environmental impact
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The cuckoo has landed here on the farm and the rest aren’t a bit impressed. When you hear the cuckoo sing for the first time each year it’s said whatever you’re doing at that moment, you’ll be doing for the rest of the year. Hope you’re dancing! 😄
#Leitrim
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Not cool
@SixOClockShow
. Not cool at all! Comhghairdeas
@SileSeoige
👸🏻
Gaeilge is our culture. It’s who we are. And it is very much alive! ✊
Sickened to see an Irish presenter stand up and shake hands over such a comment.
Not to mention inviting a guest to talk about our national language and commenting "Have we got subtitles at some point?"
@SixOClockShow
deleted the post before we can see their lack of quality...
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The same fields, townland, landscape, sunset, the same family of cows, new life, same view and time of year. The same consistent feeling of contentment in this moment since my childhood. The same feeling of knowing I’m in the right place and firmly rooted here. Home.🫶
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This is infuriating! The ash dieback is evident in every hedgerow across Ireland. A disease brought here from imported ash trees by DAFM for the forestry industry. Now they’re importing hawthorns and once again a disease is killing our hedgerows and beautiful whitethorns.
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What a special night for a community of seed growers and joy spreaders in Leitrim. The Mummers’ Parade tonight in Mohill. Thanks to everyone that join us!
#TheMummersJoin
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My winter alarm clocks, the whooper swans, are walking across the lake today.
@MetEireann
#Leitrim
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I got to dance with my friend Clodagh last week and it felt great. We called to her grandparents house as we made our way round to the older generation in our community singing, dancing and playing music on their door step. The Mummer’s Project
@creativeirl
@leitrimcoco
#Leitrim
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Out delivering our Brigid’s crosses to all the neighbours.
Beannachtaí Lá Fhéile Bríde! ✨
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Do you know of anyone who can make the straw hen’s nest or the sugan chair? We’re looking to get in touch with them as part of .
There doesn’t seem to be many people left with these old skills.
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Brontanas Nollag is fearr and just in time for Santa.
Nell Annie Ní Ruairc 💝
Tá mo chroí lán!
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Zak Moradi and his family, like many others who have made Leitrim their home, have made our communities and county a wonderfully cultured, diverse & welcoming place to live. We are lucky to have them. Isn’t this the way it should be? End direct provision!
#TommyTiernanShow
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Tonight we danced with the dead on the hills of Leitrim for the last night of Samhain. Were any of us recognised as the living and brought back to the Otherworld? We’ll know more tomorrow!
Thanks to the
@artscouncil_ie
for their support and to Mother Nature for playing ball!
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Heard the curlew calling down at the lake so I went to the window to see if I could spot her. Thanks curlew! I nearly missed this.
#Leitrim
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We are so proud of our wonderful communities and diverse county. We're calling on all Leitrim people and those who have visited from across the world to share this video far and wide using
#EnjoyLeitrim
"Come to Leitrim - it could change your life." - Michael Harding
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The younger generation of mummers are our around Boyle in Co. Roscommon bringing a tune, step and song through the windows of the older generation in the area. 🌟
@creativeirl
@AircDamhsa
@roscommoncoco
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It is a massive honour to be chosen as Leitrim Person of the Year by the Leitrim Guardian & to be celebrated by the people of my own county. So proud to represent Leitrim for you this year. Míle buíochas Leitrim Guardian team, Pat Gallagher & all my family & friends today. 💚💛
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My friend Charlie Perpoil made me 6 Leitrim chairs today. Inspired by the Hands Series by David & Sally Shaw - Smith& their work on the Leitrim chair, we made a short documentary on how to make the chair. Check it out here:
@leitrimcoco
@HeritageHubIRE
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What a special night for a community of seed growers in Leitrim. The Mummers' Parade in Manorhamilton last night was powerful! Thanks to everyone that joined us from Leitrim and all corners of Ireland. We danced the night away at The Mummers' Join at the 🧵
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Day 1 of my year at St. Patricks’s Campus Drumcondra as artist in residency. Butterflies in my belly stepping through these doors just as I had in September 2005 on my first day of college here.
Thanks to the YPCE team at the
@artscouncil_ie
and
@DCU
for their support.
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Today’s the day! You’ll find the Mummers on the roads of Leitrim from now until the 6th January. Anyone can be a mummer, jsut dress in colourful disguise. Spread the word and join in at any of the locations below.
Visit
@HeritageHubIRE
@leitrimtourism
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I’m making a list of cures in Irish Folk Medicine to share with children at
@AircDamhsa
culture camps this summer. Dockins for nettle stings, bread soda for sunburn, boiled whin bush flowers for sore throat, water gathered in a hollow stone for warts…have you any cures to share?
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The wren has built her nest in the Wren Boys hat at the North Leitrim Men's Group.
@creativeirl
@LeitrimArts
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It’s tradition to celebrate around the bonefire tonight on the 23rd June. All you need to do is light a fire and gather your family & friends around it. Better again if you have musicians & dancers! It’s always one of the most special nights of the year. For me and my brothers🧵
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It’s an honour to be chosen as a recipient of the Countess Markievicz Award.
Over the next year I’ll be researching the role of Irish women in dance in the first half of the 20th century & the impact of society, dancehalls & 1935 Dance Hall Act on them.
Comhghairdeas to the 10 artists receiving up to €25k each as part of
@Centenaries
#MarkieviczAwards
The aim is to develop their craft and produce great art commemorating the role of women from 1912➡️1923
Lovely to meet some of the artists 💚
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Getting a head start on the St. Brigid’s crosses. Sending a few made from straw to my friends in Japan.
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The Drumsna Mummers are out today with a song, step, story and a tune on our communities doorsteps.
Next locations here:
@HeritageHubIRE
@creativeirl
#Leitrim
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So much positivity and so much negativity all in one tiny video. No one owns Irish dance. But we own our bodies. No one is able to tell you how you should and shouldn’t move your body to music. You can dance whatever way you want in this world.
@LittleSimz
doing just that! 🙌
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If you’re in Leitrim, watch out for all the mummers across the county over the next 2 weeks visiting our older community members. ✨
Thanks to
@leitrimcoco
@creativeirl
@HSELive
@leitrimdevco
for supporting our project and
@rte
for spreading the word.
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This is the 21st door in AMACH To The Field in the townland of Derreens. An Doirín - the little oak wood.
There’s nobody left here to tell the story of this townland as nobody can live here now. It’s 100% covered in conifer plantations. Derreens was once a thriving farming🧵
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My heart could burst for this little Leitrim man bringing home the All Ireland Sean Nós dancing title today from the Fleadh in Mullingar. Hup Tom Cullen! 🙌👞👞 Check him out on
@TG4TV
tonight for Fleadh TV.
@fleadhcheoil
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Tá mo chroí lán!
What an incredible night with the best of people.
Thanks to all my wonderful friends that joined me on stage last night. An honour and a joy! 💛
#Gradam25
@GradamCeoilTG4
@TG4TV
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Giorra - Hare
My favourite early morning visitors to our garden.
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The 15th of July was one of the wettest days of the year. St. Swithin’s Day. If folklore is to be believed, if it rains on this day it’ll rain for 40 days. We’re on day 37 now! ☔️ … 3 more to go until the sun reappears?
@MetEireann
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Such exciting news to share with you all! The Mummers projects is being rolled out across Leitrim this December thanks to
@leitrimdevco
and
@HSELive
. The project funds musician, singers and dancers in 12 areas to visit 144 elderly people and perform for them on their doorsteps.🎻
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Thrilled to have been awarded funding from
@CreativeIrl
&
@leitrimcoco
for Sowing the Seed. Over 150 oat growers now taking part, preparing for harvest shortly & making mummer costumes and more. There’ll be a fierce clatter of mummers across Leitrim this Christmas!😆 🌾
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Calling all Leitrim People across the world. Tomorrow sees the launch of a beautiful new video online showcasing Leitrim as a place to visit, enjoy, explore and experience but also as an invigorating and diverse place to live. We’d love if you would share it using
#EnjoyLeitrim
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How about a Eurovision entry in our own Irish language? No gimmicks or backing tracks or graphics. Just raw Irish voices rooted in their land, history and tradition.
#Eurovision
#ireland
📌 Chum Tom a’ tSeoighe an t-amhrán álainn seo faoin Aird Mhóir. Clann óg as an Aird Mhóir, Caoimhe, Rónán agus Séamus Ó Flatharta atá á chur i mbéal an phobail don chéad uair. 🎶
🎥 Léirithe ag
@AniarTV
. Maoinithe ag
@EnaGaeltachta
,
@ForasnaGaeilge
agus
@CloIarChonnacht
.
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It’s easy to dance when you’ve got great music! Even if you are half dressed as a mummer, wearing your fathers old suit, have trousers falling down, your belly stuffed with a huge woolly jumper and boots a size too big for you…😂
🧵
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The Mummers Project: We’re visiting the older generation in our communities in Leitrim again this week. Knocking on their doors and playing tunes outside, singing, dancing & just chatting. It means an awful lot to them(and us!) Maybe it’s something you could do in your community?
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At midnight tonight don’t forget to open your back door to let out the old year and open your front door to welcome the new year in.
And then take down the door to have a dance on it!😆 Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh go léir ó Liatroma ⭐️
#Welcome2023
#IrishTraditions
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So delighted to meet my friends from
@cce_japan
today at
@fleadhcheoil
Mullingar and cheer them on as they performed in the senior ladies set dancing competition. And they brought the house down! 🙌
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Well this is fierce exciting! National Geographic have featured the Mummers and our Sowing the Seed project in their December magazine. Well done everyone! 🌟
@creativeirl
@leitrimcoco
@leitrimtourism
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A fine Leitrim musician, character, storyteller and gentle soul has left us today but all he has given us in music, memories and friendship over the years will be forever cherished.
Rest in peace Ben Lennon. Ní bheidh a leithéid arís ann.
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Another special night at Effrinagh Crossroads Dance. Music, song, dance, community, friends, family. Magic!
Buíochas everyone ❤️
#Leitrim
#BonefireNight
@artscouncil_ie
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122 hectares of conifer plantation licences applied for Leitrim in January & February so far this year. That’s 81 Croke Parks with no life in any of them as townland after townland disappears. That’s adding to the 30,000 hectares already planted with no E.I.A every carried out.
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A great start today with the Mummers across Leitrim and beyond. Thanks to the captain mummers for rounding up the troupes and everyone for all your energy, positivity and support. Many more days to go! 😄👍
Join the fun:
@HeritageHubIRE
@creativeirl
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Well this nearly made my heart burst with happiness! I sent out organic oat seed in the post to my friend Joe O Malley on Clare Island back in April and look at the harvest he has produced.
Another great man from Clare Island, Bernie Winters, played a big role…🧵
@creativeirl
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Since the first lockdown of 2020 we’ve been calling to the doorsteps of elderly people across Leitrim bringing them some music, song, dance & company as the mummers. The project is back again for December and what a lovely surprise to have them arrive at my door tonight.
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“Come to Leitrim - it could change your life." - Michael Harding
Excited to launch my new video this Thursday 1.30pm online via Leitrim Tourism.
#ThisIsLeitrim
featuring artists Michael Harding, Eleanor Shanley, Seamus O’ Rourke and Charlie McGettigan.
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An Environmental Impact Assessment is required for forestry applications of 50h or more. 30,000 hectares are planted in Leitrim and there has never been an EIA. The cumulative effect!
Shutting us up is not the answer. Address the real problems
@pippa_hackett
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Missing dancing with my friends tonight to the Tulla Céilí Band at Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy. Don’t know when we’ll all get to dance together again but it sure was nice to do it virtually. 😊👞👞
@ss_willieclancy
#setdancing
#tulla
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A figure of the West Kerry for Séamus ❤️
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Brigid's crosses, Imbolc, Spring, Biddy Boys and all the traditions we celebrate tonight and tomorrow for St. Brigid. Welcome to the first episode in our new series The Year in Ireland
@AircDamhsa
Full video here:
Supported by
@artscouncil_ie
#Brigid
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“We’re all living in Oppenheimer’s world – so I’d really like to dedicate this to the peacemakers everywhere. Go raibh míle maith agat.” 🙌
#CillianMurphy
making our hearts burst with pride in Ireland this Monday morning.
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After first heading off to St. Patrick’s College Drumcondra after my leaving cert in 2005 I’m thrilled to be returning once again. This time as Artist in Residence at the campus for 2022-2023 as part of the
@artscouncil_ie
YPCE residencies.
So excited for this opportunity!
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Today’s the day! We kick off Mummers’ Season from now until 6th of January. Catch the Carrick Mummers at 1.30pm today at Carrick on Shannon town clock. All welcome to join in. Just come in disguise.🎄
#TheMummersJoin
@LeitrimLive
@leitrimcoco
@leitrimtourism
@HeritageHubIRE
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Filming today with 27 year old Shane Cronogue on his 15 acre organic farm outside Drumsna Co Leitrim. He is raising Kerry cows, native to Ireland and one of the oldest breeds here dating back to 2000BC.
Kerry Cow - Buinín
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Neir a puff of wind nor a sinner about.
What a day!
Sheemore, Leitrim.
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I’m so tired of fighting forestry. Fighting the government. Fighting policies. Fighting money. Watching our land being destroyed as the simple gifts of nature slip away from us never to return.
@SaveLeitrim
The new Forest Strategy has no plan for protecting bogs, ground-nesting birds and other sensitive habitats from commercial forestry
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There’s me being only delighted with myself today outside
@libersligo
, one of my favourite bookshops in Ireland. Seeing my book in the window alongside some of my favourite children’s authors John & Fatti Burke, Peter Donnelly and Paddy Donnelly is just a magic moment🧵
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That was one of the best weekends I’ve had in a long time. From the Iron Mountain Festival to the counter of Mulveys Pub in Ballinaglera with the finest of company. Up Leitrim!
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St. Swithin's Day today. If it rains today it’ll rain for forty days & forty nights!
It happened last year…and didn’t stop!☔️ My grandad Hughie was a firm believer in this day’s predictions. The sun is shining in Leitrim this morning. Come on child of Prague don’t let us down!🤞
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Thanks everyone for all the lovely words in person, messages, comments, phone calls and emails over the past few days. Just catching up with them all now. Appreciate every single one of them.
Míle míle buíochas! 🩵
@Tommedian
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It appears all living souls made it back from the hills of Leitrim and none were brought to the Otherworld by the dead on the Last Night of Samhain. The costumes worked and the dead didn’t recognise us as the living! 😄
Photos by Cían Flynn.
Thanks to
@artscouncil_ie
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It is March and the clear felling is relentless all across Leitrim. These huge areas being cut out will soon be planted with sitka spruce again and in 40 years time the next generation will still be dealing with this mess. What kind of legacy is this to leave?
@pippa_hackett
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Today is May Eve! We travel the roads & fields picking the yellow May flowers from the hedges. Then we visit all the houses and sprinkle the flowers on their doorsteps. It keeps the fairies away as they like to cause lots of trouble at this time of year. We pick yellow flowers🧵
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If you have to cut your lawn, then give these flowers a skip. The orange tip butterfly only lays their eggs on the cuckoo flower. You can see the tiny orange egg here. It’ll hatch in a few weeks and eat the flower. 🧡
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100 years ago tonight, New Year’s Eve 1921, Jimmy Gralton first opened the dance hall in Effrinagh, Co. Leitrim and there was music and dancing into the new year. Tunes could be heard there again tonight to celebrate the event.
#Leitrim
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Oíche Bealtaine 🌼
Don’t forget to sprinkle mayflowers on your door step this evening.
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The mummers are out in Manorhamilton, Kiltyclogher & Kinlough visiting the older generation in the communities this Christmas. Thanks to Dee Armstrong for rounding this gang up. We’re lucky to have her in Leitrim! 🙌
@creativeirl
@leitrimcoco
@leitrimdevco
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A little dose of innocent delight for Twitter today. My little girl got her first pair of dancing shoes yesterday. I think she hit the 120 decibels trying them on! 😆
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The generation I grew up watching. I so miss them and their spontaneity. If you asked them would they call themselves dancers, they’d say no. Yet they’d be out dancing most nights!
Door Dancing Dance Off, Keadue, Co. Roscommon (1981)
#reelingintheweird
#ireland
#irishdancing
#onlyinroscommon
#onlyinireland
#reelingintheyears
#irish
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My heart is full leaving
@FeileRoiseRua
Árainn Mhór. A more welcoming, generous and wholesome community you could not find. An honour to dance a few steps with Brían & Diarmuid
@yevagabonds
this morning at the grave of Róise Rua. 🧜🏻♀️🌊
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Very excited to share my new children’s book with
@LepusPrint
and illustrated by Andrea Rossi. It is a journey through Irish folk traditions & calendar customs that have been celebrated by our ancestors for thousands of years.
Available from 1st Feb 2024
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My neighbour, Willie Stewart, of
@nyahhrecords
released today a brilliant collection of Irish folk and sean-nós tracks, inspired by the song collecting of Alan Lomax but with a twist: most of them were recorded in pubs and homes on mobile phones.
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Nollaig na mBan shona daoibh go léir!It’s a beautiful day, Nollaig Bheag, one we’ve always celebrated in my family.
So grateful for all the women in my life that helped shape the life I live and love today; those still with me and those gone before me. ⭐️
#NollaignamBan
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“Here is Brigid, dressed in white.
Give her a penny on this night.”
The biddy boys would usually be out on St. Brigid’s Eve calling from house to house playing music, dancing and carrying a Bríd Óg doll made of rushes. Don’t forget to leave out a cloth on the hedge tonight.
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