Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026No Maureen Dowd in The Irish Times today. No quiz night on BBC tonight. A dreary Monday. 000
Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I have a sneaking feeling that a bunch of old guys in funny hats & without a single seanfhocal between them might be enraged at the huge success of the Belfast Fleadh. 031
Reposted by Rita LarkinAlan Kelly @akellyucc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026To be fair, Ireland is well used to rich elderly Americans coming over and rambling aimlessly #speirgorm 39519
Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Why do white people who resent people with darker skin spend a considerable part of their lives sitting in the sun so that they might have darker skin also? 120
Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Saying it again. I thank God for that extra bowl of stirabout our forebears must have got. Otherwise we might now be in Tennessee, Kentucky or some other ‘shithole’ state in the Trumpian world. 010
Reposted by Rita LarkinRTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 23/08/2026The annual commemoration of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins will take place at Béal na Bláth in Co Cork, marking 104 years since his death during the Civil War.rte.ieAnnual Michael Collins commemoration to take placeThe annual commemoration of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins will take place at Béal na Bláth in Co Cork, marking 104 years since his death during the Civil War. 03110
Reposted by Rita LarkinJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Yes, it does sound familiar. 622113025025
Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Nobody gets things or picks things up any more. Everybody ‘grabs’ things. 050
Reposted by Rita LarkinMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12/06/2026On the day before Elon Musk becomes the world's first trillionaire, all I can think about is that time in 2021 when the head of the UN World Food Program asked Musk to donate $6 billion to save 42 million people from starvation and he refused. 321284509
Reposted by Rita LarkinMary Grace Scary Face @emgeekay.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I choose fighting climate change over defense spending, AI, and data centres. I choose my grandchildren and our planet. 1327
Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Alan Titley i Scéal san IT inniu. Tá an ceart aige #hurley 220
Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Watching Schama's History of Britain on BBC4. Heard him use the term 'County Connaught'. 290
Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Less than 48 hours to go to the release of #census1926. I’m all excited. 040
Reposted by Rita LarkinMarc de Faoite @marcdefaoite.bsky.social · 17/03/2026If you just read one thing today ... #SpeirGorm pghrev.com/as-close-as-...pghrev.comAs Close as I Can Get to an Articulation of Irish Identity - Pittsburgh Review of BooksI can’t write with any authority about Irish identity in the modern world because I’d have to speak for millions of people and I can barely do so for myself 1207
Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 27/02/2026They’re telling us the most popular baby names of last year. As my mammy used to say ‘All following one another chicken cum plock’. 130
Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Winter Olympics over at last so quiz night is back on BBC2. #RELIEF 020
Reposted by Rita LarkinCarole (Ducky) (IrPsych) @caroleducky.bsky.social · 10/02/2026youtu.be/_tmRw_z3Crs?...youtu.beJoyce Grenfell - Lumpy LatimerYouTube video by Quityertalkin 011
Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Quiz night on BBC2 has been sidelined in favour of the Winter Olympics. 😡 220
Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 03/02/2026From what I have observed over the years Americans like algebra, the Dow Jones, the Super Bowl, the flag, guns and peanut butter & jelly. 130
Reposted by Rita LarkinDerek Hollingsworth @derekholly7.bsky.social · 01/02/2026The Origins of St. Brigid's Day & Imbolg. I look at the origins of what is now a Public Holiday in Ireland. Imbolg is one of the four Gaelic festivals; Brigid, a Saint & Goddess. I'd be very grateful for RTs! #StBrigidsDay #Brigid #Imbolg #LáFhéileBríde irishlanguagematters.com/2026/02/01/b...irishlanguagematters.comThe Ancient Origins of St. Brigid’s Day and ImbolgImbolc is one of the four seasonal Gaelic festivals: Imbloc, Bealtaine, Lúnasa, Samhain. In Ireland, we now have Public Holidays marking each of these with Imbolc being the most recently created, i… 2117
Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Annual tribute to the foreBrigids (and Mary Brigid) God bless and save us all. May Patrick, Brigid and Colmcille guard each wall. May the Queen of heaven and the angels bright Keep us in our house from harm this night. 030
Reposted by Rita LarkinJoel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · 22/01/2026I’ll never be able to accept that so many people chose to put Trump in power. You have to wonder if a population can be more misinformed in the internet age than in preliterate societies? 081
Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Why Donald Trump has the mind of a cat www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...irishtimes.comWhy Donald Trump has the mind of a catMaking sense of the 47th US president is not easy, but a 17th century philosopher could have the answer 162
Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 15/01/2026RTE radio celebrating 100 years. I recall being told of the old guy who was taken aback on hearing the radio in the neighbours’ kitchen “Have them nothin’ to do only sing in’ and jiggin’ in the middle of the day?” @aodhbc.bsky.social 061
Reposted by Rita LarkinWilliam Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 14/01/2026let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark. 111083318
Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Rampant cocaine use by normally decent people is Trump-level hypocrisy www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...irishtimes.comKathy Sheridan: Rampant cocaine use of normally decent people is Trump-level hypocrisyCocaine is so readily available you can order a ‘bump’ from a handy menu over WhatsApp. But hypocrisy is as rampant as the drug 130
Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Trump’s Walmart warmongering in Venezuela isn’t empire building, it’s entertainment www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...irishtimes.comFintan O’Toole: Trump’s Kmart coup in Venezuela isn’t empire building, it’s entertainmentCapturing Maduro and putting him on display is US president's version of a Roman emperor’s triumph, entertainment for a senile king 020
Reposted by Rita LarkinOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/01/2026"An aide to Farage when he was an MEP, tells Crick that his boss hated policy meetings. “He was totally out of his bloody depth. Intelligent people – he was scared of them. He has an inferiority complex about education and highly qualified people.” www.theguardian.com/books/2022/f....theguardian.comOne Party After Another: The Disruptive Life of Nigel Farage review – the man who broke BritainMichael Crick’s gripping and vivid study of Mr Brexit is full of revelatory stories, but pulls its punches at the end 23411158
Reposted by Rita LarkinGillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 02/01/2026#poetry #harlempoets #mamdani 0226
Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Not long now. Can’t wait. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...irishtimes.comDiarmaid Ferriter: Here’s one thing to look forward to this year – the release of the 1926 CensusOpening of this material will facilitate much research, and for many the chance to place our own family story in context 020
Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Programme on Daniel O'Connell at 6.30 on RTE tonight followed by quiz night on BBC2. Yeah. 000
Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Annual Christmas treat. Watching Lady and the Tramp. 000
Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Frank McNally on 19th century engineering project that linked Tipperary with ‘civilisation’ www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...irishtimes.comFrank McNally on 19th century engineering project that linked Tipperary with ‘civilisation’Fr Edmond Walsh was a late vocation, having previously worked as a carter 010
Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Christmas special University Challenge (Alumni) tonight and tomorrow night on BBC2 at 7.30 pm 020
Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 13/12/2025The woman who enchanted Proust – Frank McNally on the rise and fall of Gladys Marlborough www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...irishtimes.comThe woman who enchanted Proust – Frank McNally on the rise and fall of Gladys MarlboroughGladys, meanwhile, entertained herself and guests with memories of countless former lovers 020
Reposted by Rita LarkinCiara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 03/12/2025First year selling my art at Christmas without the Other site, where most of my sales came from, as well as losing US orders to new tariffs, so it'll be a tough one - I put huge work into every order, so even if you can't buy, shares help get them in front of eyes. GRMA! www.ciaraioch.com/artprints 5204243
Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 26/11/2025RTE did a box pop on whether Dublin airport should be renamed Seán Lemass airport. 2 individuals said they had never heard of SL. I’m in a weakness. 381