Marion McGarry
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Irish design, literature, history, heritage. Author ‘Irish Customs and Rituals’. Lecturer @atu_ie Views my own.
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You don’t need to be a Joycean or know the story, the words here are simply beautiful.
From
#TheDead
a short story by James Joyce, set on 6th January. Stunning final paragraph from what is said to be the greatest short story in the English language
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Serious question:
Why do people in rural Ireland wave at, or say hello to, strangers who pass by in the road? Is there a theory(s) or a conclusive answer? Do any
#twitterstorians
, folklorists, academics, historians, anyone, know of any research or publications on this topic?
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Saw a documentary about
#RichardHarris
- spotted this in the background & realised I’ve been driving by “The Field” ALL THIS TIME on the way to work 😮
@ATU_Connemara
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Look what's just been delivered to my house... so excited to finally hold a copy of my new book!
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Delighted to announce my latest book is out now!
‘Irish Customs: How Our Ancestors Celebrated Life and the Seasons’ is available from all good bookshops or directly from
@OrpenPress
here...
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Anyone know who took this picture of a wintry Glencolmcille folk village in Donegal? It’s fabulous!
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In fairness, with views like this it can be hard to concentrate on the road… it’s like driving through a painting 🥲
#KillaryFjord
#Connemara
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It’s that time of year again, time to remind you of the traditional Irish Hallowe’en turnip.
Scarier, cheaper and way more sustainable than any of the plastic tat in the shops! And you can eat them, too!
This one is on display in the folklife collection of
@NMIreland
(Mayo)
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Paul Henry (1876-1958) painted this village in 1928 when Irish thatched cottages were common. Picturesque, but damp and draughty to live in! Full of admiration of the ability of our ancestors to survive (and often thrive) on what little they had
#ReflectionsOnResilience
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Lovely illustration representing the belief in all things strange that once underpinned Irish rural life. Micheál Mac Liammóir (1899-1978), ‘West of Ireland Fairy Scene’ via
@WhytesDublin
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A museum model of Knock village in 1879 by Colin Patten aka unveiled this week at Knock Museum, Mayo. Was delighted to advise Colin on some architectural aspects, his work is truly extraordinary
#twitterstorians
#irishcottage
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Pilgrimage to see Art’s tomb. The Lament for Art O’Leary is the greatest poem of the 18th century, composed by his widow Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill in the old Irish tradition associated with keening at wakes.
Listen / watch below
@UCC
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31st Jan is St Brigid’s Eve, a time to celebrate in the old Irish calendar. The bright green St Brigid’s crosses signify spring is almost here, and with it better times ahead🤞
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Typical types of furniture and its placement in Irish cottages. Fascinating stuff from E. Estyn Evans’ book ‘Irish Folk Ways’ (1957).
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Ruined stone cottage by the Atlantic coast in north Sligo.
#VernacularArchitecture
#IrishCottage
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Just some beautiful traditional
#IrishShopfronts
Most date from 19thCentury
Colourful, unique and crudely classical
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In Leitrim’s only dedicated bookshop
@TheReadingRoomB
fitting location as the book’s dedicated to the late Eddie, a Leitrim man and proud father of the author 😍
‘Irish Customs & Rituals’ is as popular as ever - avail in bookshops nationwide or at
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Moonlit night, Connemara coast by Ciaran Clear (1920-00)
#IrishArt
#MoonPaintings
#IrishArtHistory
#IrishCottages
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Today is the first Sunday in Lent, once known in Ireland as Chalk Sunday. People drew on the backs of those who were unmarried with chalk, as shown in this illustration depicting events in Kilkenny. Thankfully the custom has died out 😂
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A close-up of one of those bumps you see on most mountain tops in Sligo 😉
They’ve lasted around 5000 years… hope they’ll survive so that future generations can appreciate their ancestors’ building achievements…
@opwireland
?
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Many traditional
#IrishShopfronts
date from the
#19thCentury
- they are colourful & full of character
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Found this illustration of medieval Gallowglass and Irish ‘kern’ soldiers while researching a short piece on woodkernes. Artist: Marc Grunert
@archillu
#marcgrunert
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This claypipe was bought (but never used) for my grandfather’s wake many years ago. The other pipes used at the wake were ritually broken in two and buried after the funeral, a common and very old Irish folk custom.
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Benbulben looking amazing today. Pic taken from the summit of nearby Knocknarea at Queen Maeve’s grave
#MySligo
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Another stunning moonlit painting by Victorian artist John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893), goodnight all!
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Happy
#NationalDrawingDay
everyone!
I'm busy researching and writing today so here's a recent pen / ink drawing by me of an Irish thatched cottage.
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I did all the illustrations for the forthcoming book ‘Irish Customs and Rituals: How our ancestors celebrated life and the seasons’. Available soon
@OrpenPress
Here’s a sneak preview of the cover.
The author was unbelievably fussy, rejected many drawings 😉
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Gave an interview in today’s
@businessposthq
on the topic of Irish Halloween traditions, and they sent a photographer to capture me with my - by now requisitory - carved turnip. My effort is not as scary as the famous one in
@NMIreland
to be fair!
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Lough Gill: It's said a monastic bell lies under the lake, may still be heard ringing on calm days
#FolkloreThursday
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Like a painting: a stunning burst of April sun today, at Leenane graveyard overlooking Killary Fjord
#Connemara
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Inside the Keash caves, looking out over beautiful
#Sligo
on this sunny spring day.
The caves were said to be the home of the
#Morrigan
Celtic goddess of war
#Ireland
#IrishLegends
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#Belfast
born artist Gerard Dillon 1916-72 painted bold and colourful scenes of the west of Ireland
@wildatlanticway
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Remembrance candles for ancestors at Halloween. Chairs arranged around the fire, whiskeys left out for two in particular. My first year without both Mam and Dad. Despite their absence from the mortal realm they continue to give me strength and resilience ♥️🔥
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After a long hiatus here is my NEW blogpost: Cabin Fever: the dwellings of the Irish rural poor discusses living conditions in Famine Ireland
@UCCHistory
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Child asleep under patchwork fields in
#Ireland
I love this painting by artist Barry Maguire
#WildAtlanticWay
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Irish Cottages with 'shawlies' in snow by
#IrishArtist
Markey Robinson (1918-1999)
#SnowScene
#WinterLandscape
#SnowInArt
#Advent
#IrishCottage
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Fairy bridge dated 1836, a gothic revival folly at Rockingham (rebranded as
#LoughKeyForestPark
)
#folklorethursday
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Happy winter solstice all (tech speaking it occurs 22nd Dec this year). After today it’s perfectly acceptable to say “there’s a grand stretch in the evening”! Looking forward to what the coming year will bring!
Pic: Moonlight by Ciaran Clear (1920-2000)
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This is the actual road I travel to work
@GMITOfficial
its the N59 near Killary
#Connemara
#Unchanged
Painted by Bartholomew Watkins1833–91
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Happy birthday Bram Stoker! The Dracula author was born
#otd
in 1847 in this house in Marino Crescent, Dublin
@irishgeorgian
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Good evening all you cool cats and kittens 😉
For
#Covink19
here’s my drawing of a toasty traditional Irish fireside. Hope you’re all well.
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You may have missed: this brilliant short story by Kevin Barry which features the landscape of Sligo, notably the Ox Mountains and Keash Caves
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For
#IrishMuseumsOnline
Knock Museum, Mayo currently closed but look at the extraordinary detail on its model village display. As it looked 1879, made by Colin Patten I advised on Colin on some architectural aspects of the model.
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A painting by Petrus Van Schendel (1806-1870) a Dutch-Belgian artist specialized in nighttime scenes
#moonpaintings
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‘Crows in snow’ by Mildred Anne Butler (1858-1941) an Irish artist, who worked in watercolour and oil of landscape, genre and animal subjects
#snowinart
#advent
#winterlandscape
#irishart
#snowscene
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Even the humble gorse bush was legislated for under old Irish Brehon laws, it was considered a useful ‘scrub’ plant for cleaning chimneys and lighting fires. It’s botanical name is ulex europaeus, but it’s also known as furze or whins
#seethewoodfromthetrees
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We’re in the ‘borrowed days’ of weatherlore: the Irish folktale goes that the old Brindled cow boasted March’s harsh weather couldn’t kill her, so March borrowed 3 days from April unleashing such bad weather that it killed her and skinned her, too (1/2)
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While researching today I discovered this depiction of Michael Collins by
@noelmurphy_art
This is layered, rich, complex, messy and shows that sometimes, paintings can capture so much more than photos
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The Split Rock, Easky,
#Sligo
If you run through this 3 times, the stone will close upon you
@FolkloreThursday
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Ancient Irish people had much respect for, identified with and even worshipped trees.
Irish Brehon Laws classified tree types and included varying penalties for damage to them.
Its a fascinating area about which I currently
#amwriting
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Jack B Yeats illustration of woman carrying seaweed in a creel basket.
Making kelp from seaweed was one of the oldest traditional industries to flourish round the coasts of Ireland.
Fascinating article here by Douglas Harper
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No visit to West Cork is complete without stopping off at Drombeg stone circle to do a makey-uppy flower ritual at the Druid’s Altar 😀
#StandingStoneSunday
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An ancient ruin…
inside a c.5000 year old Neolithic cairn at Carrowkeel
another pun shamelessly lifted off
@JackmanNeil
😀
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Moon rising this evening in rural Sligo: in the distance that’s Carrowkeel and the big hill on the right is Keshcorran. Hoping to catch a glimpse of the Aurora Borealis later in the other direction 🙌
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Flowers still blooming at ruined dwellings are a poignant living link to the souls who once lived there
#IrishCottages
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Sheep in moonlight, a watercolor by Percy French c.1914. They are still to be seen today on backroads in the west of Ireland, blocking cars and giving filthy looks to drivers 😜
@BealachanDoirin
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I thought Ireland had gotten rid of its slum landlords, profiting from, and preying on, the weak?
#rteinvestigates
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Eighteen months after publication and its had to be reprinted! Thanks to everyone who has supported my book ‘The Irish Cottage’ 🙏 Delighted with its success
@OrpenPress
#Irishcottages
#irisharchitecture
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1 Feb is
#StBrigidsDay
It marks the start of spring in the Celtic calendar
Read more about the day’s celebratory traditions in
#Ireland
#otd
#FolkloreThursday
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Irish artist Ciaran Clear (1920-2000) was a genius painter of moonlight. Here's his 'After the Famine, Mayo'
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Irish cottages on the Donegal coast by Rowland Hill (1919-1979). A Belfast born artist, he specialized in landscape paintings usually featuring the Northwest of Ireland
#irishart
#irishvernaculararchitecture
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When artist Paul Henry (1876-1958) painted this village in 1928 he did so when thatched houses were common in the west of Ireland. Beautiful looking, but uncomfortable to live in by today’s standards! Such villages have all but disappeared.
#IrishCottage
#irishArt
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Mildred Anne Butler (1858 – 1941) was an
#IrishArtist
from Co. Kilkenny who specialised in landscape scenes, birds and animals, here’s her ‘Shades of Evening’
#womenartists
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Gorgeous drawing of a Co. Galway cabin from the 1930s, via the Irish Folklife Architectural Drawing Collection, viewable on the National Museum of Ireland website here:
#IrishHeritage
#IrishVernacularArchitecture
#IrishCottages
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Alpine scenes at Kylemore Lake
#Connemara
today: it was fffreezing!!
#commute
#drivehome
#sneachta
#mountains
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#DYK
‘Iarmhaireacht’ is an Irish word meaning “the loneliness felt at dawn”
More little known Irish words in this great article by
@theirishfor
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Known for his
#IrishCottages
& landscapes, here is his 'Incoming tide with moonlight' by
#PaulHenry
1876-1958
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Irish straw chair, 19thC, NMI Mayo
Lack of timber led to use of alternative furniture materials
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Oíche na Gaoithe Móire / the Night of the Big Wind: a devastating wind storm swept across Ireland
#OTD
in 1839
For more, see this article by B. Haggerty:
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If you’re bored, and in need of festive inspiration, check out the hashtag
#snowinart
for a mini Christmassy art exhibition... I’ve been Tweeting about winter scenes, some by Irish artists. Enjoy!
#IrishArt
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The only traffic was sheep!
Scenes from this morning's commute through
#Mayo
and
#Galway
#notraffic
#connemara
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‘Kitchen Power: Women's Experiences of Rural Electrification’ is currently at National Museum of Ireland (Country Life). It’s the flagship exhibition but the museum had to close due to Covid19, so I’m bringing it to you here as part of
#IrishMuseumsOnline
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Soft day. Stopped off at the Aasleagh Falls on the way home, it’s where The Yank met his sticky end in The Field 🥲
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An Irish village believed to be Ferns Co.Wexford around 1870 Henry A Hartland (1840-1893)
#IrishVernacularArchitecture
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It's May Eve: After sundown, don't forget to put flowers on your doorstep to prevent bad luck entering your home. Any cows should have flower garlands tied to their tails and have a go at some fortune telling while you're at it! More here:
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This lovely little object hails from the days when producers put patterns on their butter. It's a wooden butter stamp from
@NMIreland
of Country Life in Castlebar, Co. Mayo
#PatternedIrishButter
#IrishCustoms
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Going back: 1860s painting of Irish Emigrants waiting for the train in Ballinasloe, Galway by Erskine Nicol (1825-1904), Tate Gallery
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THREAD: In need of some escapist online reading material, exhibitions or art, on Irish cottages and vernacular architecture?
Here are some of my favourites...
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31 Jan: Eve of
#StBrigid
Don’t forget to leave a cloth outside overnight to be blessed by the saint as she passes through the skies.
This will be your ‘brat Bride’ said to prevent illness
#Ireland
#OTD
#folklorethursday
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Assessing the damage & time to repair: 'Rethatching' by Gerard Dillon (1916-71)
#IrishArt
#irishcottage
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Drew some cows recently, with Carrowkeel and Keshcorran Hill in the distance
#amdrawing
#mylocal
#Sligo
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A lone hawthorn tree (aka whitethorn). Just fascinated by these weird looking trees so prolific in the Irish countryside. I’ve written about superstitions surrounding them, and other rural folk beliefs in my forthcoming book
#IrishCustoms
coming soon via
@OrpenPress
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