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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

🕯️🦇👹 If you happen to find yourself in belfast on halloween Samhain Flash Day at Skullduggery Tatú. October 31st 75 Dublin Road Belfast 🕯️Find us on Instagram.🕯️

A poster for a tattoo flash event that consists of a carved Halloween or Samhain turnip sitting on an old wooden table with text that reads

"Skullduggery Tatú
Samhain Flash Day
Oct 31st
Helen Skullduggery
TKD Tattoo
BOTC
75 Dublin Road
10am-6pm"

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Another long shift deep down in the drinking a little bit of cider and drawing a whole lot of flash mines.

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

There he is. Relaxing after a hard day of sleeping or protecting the gaff from evil spirits or wandering between various sources of food and water while hooting and hollering. The magic man.

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"There he is now, look, alone in his polytunnel with his pitiful competition onions, neglected for two weeks in Cuba. A no-rosette situation for Mr Galbraith."

A black and white photograph of competition winning leeks taken at the Belfast autumn fair

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I realised today that I've not posted on here in an age so here's a new thing I'm currently working on. A cheap and cheerful mini zine concerning Belfast, portals and psychogeography 🌀🌀🌀📍📍📍 #tattoozine #belfasttattoo #irelandtattoo #scabwitch #folktattoo #folkart #psychogeography

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Thugamar fein an samhradh linn Samhradh, samhradh, bainne na ngamhna Thugamar féin an samhradh linn Samhradh buí na neoinín glégheal Thugamar féin an samhradh linn

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

A visit to Cailleach Bhéaras House, Slieve Gullion, Co.Armagh 8/6/25 The highest surviving Burial Cairn in Ireland. The music is "Whirling, Swirling and Demented" by Ziggurath #neolithic #bronzeage #megalithic #ireland

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Minninglow Hill Painted from memory on a brick wall with a mixture of acrylic and masonry paint I found in the shed when I moved into my house, with a brush that I found on the floor... (A thread)

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Tattoos and japery at Skullduggery Tatú

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Fun conversations and enlightening linguistic links between homelands the other day with Lauren-

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The Church came to the Tree. Tattoo design inspired by Sacred Trees and Holy Wells. Available to be tattooed #tattoo #belfasttattoo #tattoobelfast #folklore #folktattoo

Black and white photo of a tattoo design. A stylised hawthorn tree in the shape of a crucifix with a shroud hung over the branches

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Some new designs based on the work of Albrecht Dürer, ready to be tattooed. #tattoo #belfasttattoo #tattoobelfast #dürer

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

"the little bird that whistled shrill from the nib of its yellow bill a note let go o’er Belfast Lough— a blackbird from a yellow whin" Ciaran Carson

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Slieve Croob, County Down. A new years day walk with friends to visit the source of the River Lagan and the remnants of the Neolithic cairn at the summit #ireland #irishlandscape #neolithic #riverlagan

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I love how each comment gets more laughably ridiculous until we reach, at almost blistering speed, "woke IRA".

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Béal Feirste- OPENING NIGHT 12TH OF DECEMBER @ BOUNDARY TAPROOM 6-9PM NEST:NEAD A group exhibition and silent auction to raise money for organisations working with unhoused folks in NI. This is shaping up to be a really great exhibition and a chance to raise money for a very worthy cause. 🙏🙏🙏

NEST:NEAD is a group exhibition of over 30 individuals from artists to community groups that have painted and decorated birdhouses. All birdhouses have kindly been made by NI Conservation Volunteers. The exhibition will be held at Boundary Taproom 12-15 of December.
Opening night is on 12 December 6-9pm.
A silent auction will be held with all proceeds going to The Simon Community and Anaka Women's Collective.

(My piece is called PROTECTION, inspired by apotropaic marks and spells.)

Picture of the front of a bird box, covered in carved "pinwheel" protective marks and rusted nails.

(My piece is called PROTECTION, inspired by apotropaic marks and spells.)

Picture of a bird box, covered in carved "pinwheel" protective marks and rusted nails.

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

There is a certain type of older British male mind that firmly believes, with an almost unshakable conviction, that it valiantly fought and died in both the first and second world war.

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Gurranes, or The Three Fingers, Three Ladies, Five Fingers. County Cork, Ireland. #standingstonesunday

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

As he was coming home from the rakes of the town With the meadows being green and the grass just cut down As she should chance to stumble all in the new-mown hay "It's love me now or never" this bonnie lass did say #tattoos #woodcuttattoo #folktattoo #folk

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

"Christmas is now drawing near at hand."

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Selene, goddess of the moon. Moon itself. "Splendid queen of night, all-seeing power, bedecked with starry light, lover of vigilance, the foe of strife, in peace rejoicing, and a prudent life: fair lamp of night, its ornament and friend, who givest to nature's works their destined end." #tattoos

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The Ballybeen Longstone. Erected in the bronze age, this stone now stands on a patch of grass in a housing estate. Some local folklore says that when a cock crows at midnight, the stone turns 360° around. #standingstone #bronzeage #ballybeen #northernireland

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I love the standing stones that end up (millennia after being hauled into places of presumably deep significance by our ancestors) on housing estates, in gardens, on golf courses and on the edge of suburbs. #neolithic #standingstones #megaliths #bronzeage

A black and white photograph of a large standing stone on a lawn with a house in the distance

A black and white photograph of a large standing stone near a neat brick wall and a well trimmed garden hedge, surrounded nearly mown grass. The sea can be seen in the distance, along with telephone lines and two large trees

A black and white photograph of a large standing stone, jagged and almost triangular shaped, standing on a neat golf course that rolls gently downhill towards some small trees

A black and white photograph of a large standing stone standing in a lush grass field. A large hedge can be seen in the distance

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

A Hagstone and snow on the distant hills.

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Anyone else believe in the existence of gnomes and goblins?

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

"The wild one, the skipper, the hug-the-ground, the lurker, the race-the-wind, the skiver, the shag-the-hare, the hedge-squatter, the dew-hammer, the dew-hoppper, the sit-tight, the grass-bounder, the jig-foot, the earth-sitter, the light-foot, the fern-sitter, the kail-stag, the herb-cropper"

A black and white photograph of a woodcut style tattoo on a forearm. The design depicts a hare leaping over an old butter churn and beneath the churn is a curved bough of Hawthorn in bloom

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

"Grey recumbent tombs of the dead in desert places, Standing Stones on the vacant wine-red moor, Hills of sheep, and the howes of the silent vanished races, And winds, austere and pure!" (From To S. R. Crockett by Robert Louis Stevenson) Tattoo and photography by me.

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Buried 'neath mound on hilltop, Old Bones lie in the ground. Old Bones are the ground. Silent mound upon the hill. Hill upon Hill. Bone and soil and thorn. The locals say they see Lights here. Lights that dance upon the Hill when the May is in bloom.

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B O T C tattoo @botctattoo.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

My name is Alex, I hail from the pastoral/industrial depths of the English Midlands, I live in Belfast and I work at Skullduggery Tatú where I make tattoos and artwork inspired by the folk psychedelia of these sacred and haunted islands.

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