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Rita Larkin

@bellitum.bsky.social
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Retired teacher of English & French Onetime art historian. Books. Dogs. Gaeilge. Latin. Born 1948. From Tipperary. Lives in Clontarf, Dublin. Used to blog at bellitumsblog.wordpress.com

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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hurley - noun Hurl - verb
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
No Maureen Dowd in The Irish Times today. No quiz night on BBC tonight. A dreary Monday.
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I 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.
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Alan Kelly @akellyucc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
To be fair, Ireland is well used to rich elderly Americans coming over and rambling aimlessly #speirgorm
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Why 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?
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Saying 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.
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Not the bin. TCD book sale?
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 23/08/2026
The 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.
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Annual Michael Collins commemoration to take place
The 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.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Yes, it does sound familiar.
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
She's getting worse.
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
There are a lot of sportspersons who speak like that I’ve noticed.
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
That wonderful sculpture of Shaw & his men was executed by the same sculptor who did the Parnell monument in Dublin.
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A dreadful monotone. If a teacher read in that tone the pupils would switch off.
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Joyce's g'aunt
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Scéal - in the 1890s my g'aunt was in th'Ursuline as a boarder. She wished to enter there. Dowry was £1000. Out of the question. She shopped round. Sth Pres in Cork took her for £500. Money well spent. Now stretched in next grave to Nano Nagle. James Joyce's aunt Sr Alicia O'Connell is nearby.
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Sounds like she had been in ‘Th’Ursuline’ . No salvation outside it it was thought at one time.
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Well honest to God. Is the ICA still a thing? Your one does not sound like a native.
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Oh to be middle aged again. The things I could do which are impossible at 77.
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Nobody gets things or picks things up any more. Everybody ‘grabs’ things.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
On 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.
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Lined
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
A tainted wether of the flock, meetest for death Round belly with good capon luned. I'm having a rush of verse.
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Mary Grace Scary Face @emgeekay.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I choose fighting climate change over defense spending, AI, and data centres. I choose my grandchildren and our planet.
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Uafásach.
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
'Hurley' i dTiobrad Árann.
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Alan Titley i Scéal san IT inniu. Tá an ceart aige #hurley
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Years ago I remember a debate as to what Prince William's title should be. It was before he was made Duke of Cambridge. One person suggested Duke of Connaught. They haven't a clue.
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Watching Schama's History of Britain on BBC4. Heard him use the term 'County Connaught'.
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Less than 48 hours to go to the release of #census1926. I’m all excited.
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Me nerves #czeirl
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Marc de Faoite @marcdefaoite.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
If you just read one thing today ... #SpeirGorm pghrev.com/as-close-as-...
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As Close as I Can Get to an Articulation of Irish Identity - Pittsburgh Review of Books
I 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
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Jessie has done it. Yay!
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
And it never struck any of them that Jack is a version of John.
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
They’re telling us the most popular baby names of last year. As my mammy used to say ‘All following one another chicken cum plock’.
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Winter Olympics over at last so quiz night is back on BBC2. #RELIEF
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Carole (Ducky) (IrPsych) @caroleducky.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
youtu.be/_tmRw_z3Crs?...
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Joyce Grenfell - Lumpy Latimer
YouTube video by Quityertalkin
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Quiz night on BBC2 has been sidelined in favour of the Winter Olympics. 😡
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
From what I have observed over the years Americans like algebra, the Dow Jones, the Super Bowl, the flag, guns and peanut butter & jelly.
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Derek Hollingsworth @derekholly7.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
The 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...
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The Ancient Origins of St. Brigid’s Day and Imbolg
Imbolc 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…
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Horrible world. Let us hope Eavan Boland was there only the once.
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
I suspect you have more than that.
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Annual 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.
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
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Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I’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?
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Why Donald Trump has the mind of a cat www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Why Donald Trump has the mind of a cat
Making sense of the 47th US president is not easy, but a 17th century philosopher could have the answer
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Rita Larkin @bellitum.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
RTE 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
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