Beatrice O 🐝

Visual Artist, arts writer, feminist, art and ecology

[Beatrice O 🐝 @Obeatrice]

Excited to announce my new solo exhibition coming up @TaylorGalleries Kildare St, Dublin. 'Overwintering on the Moon' runs from 1-17 February 2024 #contemporaryart #contemporaryirishartist #contemporarypainting

[Beatrice O 🐝 @Obeatrice]

@TCDResearchColl @tcdlibrary @explorearchives @dalykeeks That is my uncle Vincent Kinane there on the back of the truck. Very emotional to see ❤️

[Beatrice O 🐝 @Obeatrice]

My stepmother Dr Máire Delaney #WomeninscienceIreland

[WiMIN @WomenMedIreland]

#SundayWiMIN23 Week 43: Dr Máire Delaney (née de Valera, 1945–2002)

Dr Máire Delaney was an Irish medical doctor in the fields of psychiatry, anatomy and pathology. She was best known for her research on 'bog bodies'.

She was born in Dublin in 1945. Her mother was from Carndonagh on the County Donegal coast. Her father, Eamon de Valera Jr., was a professor and consultant gynaecologist at the National Maternity Hospital, Dublin. Her grandfather was Éamon de Valera, the former Irish President. She was educated at St Louis High School, Rathmines, a convent school, and University College Dublin (UCD) where she qualified as a medical doctor in 1971.

She married Tom Delaney, an archaeologist specialising in the mediaeval period, and moved to Belfast where he worked at the Ulster Museum. She trained in psychiatry and also reported on archaeological anatomy and pathology. When her husband died, she returned to Dublin with their two daughters, finally settling in the village of Ballyboughal. She got remarried, to Pat O'Connell.

After working as a psychiatric registrar, her interest in archaeology led her to teaching at UCD followed by a lectureship in anatomy at Trinity College. In her research, she engaged the assistance of many experts worldwide to understand the chemistry of tissue preservation in bog people.

In 1999, she and her archaeologist colleague, Nóra Bermingham, began studying a bog body found in Offaly. She was co-author, with Bermingham, of The bog body from Tumbeagh (Wordwell, 2005). The novelist, Erin Hart, based the pathologist character Nora Gavin from her book False Mermaid on Delaney after interviewing her.

Throughout her life, she had been eagerly involved in amateur drama. She was well known for her singing and was a supporter of traditional dance and music; along with her second husband, she was a member of the Góilín Club in Dublin. After some months of illness, she died and her funeral was held in Ballyboughal.

Delaney was one of 14 Irish women scientists celebrated on International Women's Day in 2016.

[From Wikipedia; photo taken from Irish Research Council]

[ARTnews @artnews]

Anna Boghiguian is well-known for work that mines various historical happenings for political meaning, taking up subjects such as the salt trade and Virginia Woolf’s writing. https://t.co/liUKBkyIJM

[VisualArtistsIreland @VisArtsIreland]

Next up at Get Together 2023 we have “Artists Speak”
This is an opportunity to be inspired and hear from Cornelius Browne, Bernadette Doolan @bdetted, Anthony Cullen @acullenart and Beatrice O’Connell @Obeatrice about their work.#gt2023

📸Cornelius Browne; courtesy of the artist

[Beatrice O 🐝 @Obeatrice]

Thank you to @VisArtsIreland for inviting me to present at the Artists Speak talk this afternoon online as part of the VAI Get Together 2023 #visualartistsireland #visualartspractice #irishart #multidisciplinaryart #painting

[Beatrice O 🐝 @Obeatrice]

#northernlightssligo #nightskySligo Photo by Diarmaid Marrinan

[Beatrice O 🐝 @Obeatrice]

@IrishTimes 😂first time ever to hear him described as ‘wordy’ and ‘cerebral’, ‘bland’ and ‘vacuous’ more like

[Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @IrishRainforest]

Eating less meat is *vital* to reversing ecological and climate breakdown, for several reasons.

But the biggest of all is the *colossal* opportunity cost of livestock displacing wild ecosystems.

Deeply worrying that @EPAIreland felt obliged to yield on basic scientific facts.

[Beatrice O 🐝 @Obeatrice]

@sdublincoco this would be nice.. #biodiversitystrategysouthdublin

[Little Green Space 🦋 @LGSpace]

There are so many green spaces in our towns and villages that are over-mown or sprayed, but which could instead be boosting biodiversity and bringing nature back into our lives like this corner of Cambridge. RT if you agree 🐝

[The Bee Guy @the_beeguy]

People asking us about big #bumblebees they’re noticing on the wing at this time of year.
Here’s a quick 🙄 thread explaining.
Please #retweet as the more people who know that these are queens the more likely that someone will help some out meaning more colonies next year.
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[Beatrice O 🐝 @Obeatrice]

@GemmaTipton I thought I would be cheeky and draw your attention to The Taylor Galleries @TaylorGalleries Summer Group Exhibition. The gallery have been quietly curating exhibitions since 1978. Delighted to be showing work alongside Janet Mullarney #irishart

[Beatrice O 🐝 @Obeatrice]

My new work now showing @TaylorGalleries Summer Group Show until August 30. Honoured that my paintings are displayed alongside a beautiful sculpture by Janet Mullarney, I’ve loved her work since I first saw it in the ‘90’s #contemporaryirishart #taylorgalleries #irishart

[Bridget Fox @WTBridget]

Some amazing listening here from @WoodlandTrust veteran Pete Leeson

"Throughout the series, Pete discovers how land managers are adapting and responding to the nature crisis we all face, while navigating the economic challenges within farming today."

https://t.co/yuFnL4xV3b

[Beatrice O 🐝 @Obeatrice]

@catherineeats great article in the IT. Maybe @sdublincoco could take some lessons from the @DubCityCouncil plan for the Santry river instead of chopping trees down and approving the over engineered Whitechurch Stream project https://t.co/9VtaV1RfCG

[Beatrice O 🐝 @Obeatrice]

@archehistory @ParisZarcilla Cat Dad you may be interested in this, epic cat champion movie to follow? #catdadgoals

[Beatrice O 🐝 @Obeatrice]

https://t.co/3T81QDSgcF

[Beatrice O 🐝 @Obeatrice]

#sinead had the bravery to be authentic in an inauthentic place, a place that tried to hide people such as her, that attempted to sideline bolshie women, that demeaned female sexuality, and that rejected rebelliousness. @UnaMullally @IrishTimes

[Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway]

This is great from @IrishRainforest outling the strong contrast between what we could achieve for nature and people, versus the dangerous road the farm orgs have embarked on

https://t.co/v983c71m9S