Perry O'Donovan

[National Library of Ireland @NLIreland]

🧵 How beautiful is this #embroidered #map sampler of #Ireland by Sarah Curran? Coloured silk threads on a piece of satin backed with linen canvas, mounted in a modern frame and glazed, 1801.

🪡 Zoom in to see the detail: https://t.co/UdqVfgZa5Y.

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‘All it took to escape this godforsaken division [the Championship] was two years, 190 points, 176 goals, 56 wins, one play-off final defeat, and a 91st-minute winner at the end of all that.’ (A Rob Conlon/Square Ball quote.)

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@lexkze Hi there

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@lexkze Yes indeed!

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@lexkze Hiii

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INCREDIBLE SCENES! 🔥 The All Blacks perform the Haka in front of France ... https://t.co/5p1Dqzazc5 via @YouTube

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And Donald Shrugged: Read Jack Smith's unsealed court filing that says Trump 'resorted to crimes' after 2020 election https://t.co/7PoS3xL6gt

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I’ve done some shameful things to sell my books. But there’s a line even I can’t cross https://t.co/yBMKxD9WiX

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How do civilisations collapse? Ask Lee Anderson https://t.co/z54fFrWxvn

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Eileen Aroon https://t.co/MPPpzbYQrj The 'Mull of Kintyre' of the 1740s

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@DalrympleWill @EmpirePodUK Wonderful. Love the Empire pod. Both the Indian one and the Ottoman series. In today's episode, on Saudi Arabia, at one point you wonder if SA is the only state named after one man. Surely Bolivia honours Simon Bolivar?

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Gentlemen are requested not to strike the servants https://t.co/dBDD6podHZ

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Empire: on the upside https://t.co/BB5y6TjAVA '...the pride of red tunic and swagger stick...' #BritishEmpire #Empire #Imperialism

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The War in Ukraine in Pictures https://t.co/itswBroEfA #Ruscism #Russia #Ukraine #WarInUkraine

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From Venice at 3am on a winter's morning to the first stirrings of spring https://t.co/cs3hY5OaNN #JanMorris #Venice #Spring

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Venetian sounds https://t.co/zkAKzaFm6p 'To hear the bells of Venice it is best to come at Christmas, when the air is mist-muffled, and the noises of the city are deepened and richened, like plum-duff.'

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Postcard from Venice https://t.co/esdI2O52DN In Venice the Orient began... silks, emeralds, marbles, brocades, velvets, porphyry, ivory, spices, scents, apes, ebony, indigo, slaves, great galleons, mosaics, rubies, and all the gorgeous commodities of Arabia, China and the Indies.

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Christmas in Vermont https://t.co/arG5oljPHZ My Christmas card for this year, a digital (and environmentally friendly) version of the traditional Christmas card: a word picture portrait by Alistair Cooke from December 1976, an account of a Christmas in snowy Vermont

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A History of Ukraine https://t.co/ZUwz6eAdgx With Greeks, Jews, Romans, Muslims, Vikings, Mongols, Tartars, Teutonic knights, Poles, Russians, fascists, communists, nationalists, corporate raiders and full-blown gangsterism, Ukraine’s story is epic — A Song of Ice and Fire epic.