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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A Dublin mixed media #painting. "Christchurch from the Quays" was painted because I loved the site and the views ever since I visited it in the 1970s when the protests were happening about the then planned Civic Offices. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear #Scape

Landscape format. Black ink line and colour water media on paper. Foreground is top of balustraded humpbacked O'Donovan Rossa Bridge showing 2 of its arches underneath painted black. Its stones are pale blue, lilac and white. Past the purple river wall on the right is the 4-story end building of Merchants Quay in lighter purple with some blue stones and black windows. On the left is the end of the modern Civic Offices, with rich blue squares of glass and a supporting isolated columnar pillar. Through the gap between the two buildings is the cathedral with square steeple at the top of the grassed and treed hill, in a mixture of pale blue and lilac with green-grey roof, and around the arched black windows is yellow detailing. Signed bottom left in black ink, Liam Daly

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Back to an Irish landscape #painting "Muckish from Falcarragh" Once upon a time I regularly had a 12 km cycle to buy milk when I'd made a pot of tea and realised I was without milk - again. This was a view on the rush back to the waiting pot. I lived in a cottage beside the gap. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear

Panorama format in painterly acrylics on canvas. A whale-shaped mountain of blue with purple sits against a painterly canary yellow sky. In front runs a brown-green lilac ridge, fading to the right edge with a pass a little left of the centre of the painting through to the left edge of the mountain. In front of the ridge is a strip of bog then a road left to right dotted with white cottages between the line of dark bushes and trees. From there about two dozen green fields run parallel down a slope towards the viewer, separated by small dark hedgerows, until they go out of sight behind a near hedgerow of dark blue and purple which runs across the full width of the painting and marks the edge of 2 warm green fields which run horizontally sloping up to the right a little and separated by smaller similarly coloured hedgerow. Signed bottom right in dark blue on the bright green field, Liam Daly

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Elly ☘️ @ellyj.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Keyhole or not it’s still surgery! Take it easy. Don’t rush back in to work. Speaking from experience

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Elly ☘️ @ellyj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yep 👍 me too My last quarter bill was £70 so that’s a plus

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Elly ☘️ @ellyj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If would’ve incensed my mum! 😆

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Elly ☘️ @ellyj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I really do not remember that! Could have been censored by parents if there was even a hint of sex

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Elly ☘️ @ellyj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I really don’t! Although I think I’ve heard that song 🧐

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Elly ☘️ @ellyj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You’ve lost me 🤷‍♀️😆

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Elly ☘️ @ellyj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is also true and we’re not compelled to watch it

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Elly ☘️ @ellyj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Or be as outrageous as they can get away with! Hype the thing up as a ‘must see’ and let it run

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Elly ☘️ @ellyj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I doubt very much they were thinking about any of that but I’m inclined to agree. It’s far from it we were reared

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Elly ☘️ @ellyj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I did wonder if you’d set up camp in the garden

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Elly ☘️ @ellyj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You’re also showing us stuff we wouldn’t usually see which is great altogether. Who knew they have a whole secret life going on?!

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Elly ☘️ @ellyj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You’d think now that I don’t go out to an office I would watch a lot more but I don’t Currently watching Slow Horses on Apple TV and just finished Silo. Hacks was a great watch too. I detest reality tv

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Elly ☘️ @ellyj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I mean ‘social media personality’?? Aren’t we all really? And a Love Island host? Don’t know what that is but I’m thinking big brother- esque which is why I definitely wouldn’t watch it

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Elly ☘️ @ellyj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don’t feel so bad now 😂

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Elly ☘️ @ellyj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You’re very good looking out for the hogs like that ❤️

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Elly ☘️ @ellyj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I know..right? Jaysus it just gets worse

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Elly ☘️ @ellyj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’ve went over those faces again and I’m stumped. No idea at all but then I don’t watch a lot of tv these days

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Elly ☘️ @ellyj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes I definitely watched that as I like him. He’s a real character. I remember one when Gloria Hunniford was in it and she was truly abysmal. Lovely woman but just couldn’t dance!

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Elly ☘️ @ellyj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Must be on a follow spree as they followed me too 🤷‍♀️

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Elly ☘️ @ellyj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I gave up on Strictly a few years ago when they started taking it too seriously..I mean it’s only dancing 💃 🕺

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Philip Larkin Society @plsoc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

National Poetry Day seems like a good excuse to share one of Larkin's most loved poems, a deceptively complex and resonant piece of writing.

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Elly ☘️ @ellyj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Excellent Irish News article by Feeney which deserves highlighting. I didn’t know the half of it!

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Elly ☘️ @ellyj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Out of them all I can confidently say I know or am aware of 12 of them 😆 Scraping the celebrity barrel I’d say!

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Elly ☘️ @ellyj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Apologies for the poor quality. However this article by the excellent Brian Feeney in the Irish News does far more explaining than you’ll get anywhere else. Worth a read imo!

A photo of an item in the Irish regarding the ‘dispute’ on Garvaghy Road Portadown News by Brian Feeney. Lots of historical background worth exploring

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Elly ☘️ @ellyj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ah good luck and I’ll look forward to reading that!

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Elly ☘️ @ellyj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ah no! The legend that was Dez 💔

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My #painting "The Long Walk II" was painted when me and my bicycle sat in Galway by Claddagh Quay. Rain then softly landed on my face. And made the painting look funky. Then it got much heavier and washed all the paint off the canvas. So I returned the next day and started over. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear

Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. View across rich blue rippling water to narrow band across the centre of the painting consisting of a street of about two dozen terraced houses, the leftmost being 4 stories and the rest a mixture of 2 and 3 stories high, above a band of dark blue that is a quay wall. Windows and doors are dark simple soft rectangles. Houses are single colours of, from left to right, blue, 5 white 2-story houses, blue, yellow, pale green, brown, white, maroon, red, pale green, white, blue, brown, yellow, blue, yellow, white, and yellow. Slated roofs are dark blue. Sky is stormy yellow mixed in with patches of green and red, dark in patches near the top, brightest at the bottom above the roofs. The water closest to the dark quay wall has less rippling and shows a dark shimmering reflection of the houses. Foreground includes some grass and flagstones of curved quayside on left. Signed top left in dark blue, Liam Daly

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

These are the deaths connected to the parade route that got the go ahead today. Telling residents that they need to build bridges feels particularly perverse

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Elly ☘️ @ellyj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am so very sorry to hear this sad news. She was such a wonderful woman and so very interesting to interact with Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Beoga records, merch and tickets: www.beogamusic.com/store Aaron Rowe records, merch and tickets: www.aaron-rowe.com#merch

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Elly ☘️ @ellyj.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A rainbow stretches across a blustery autumn sky with Cave Hill just visible in the middle distance. Hard to believe we’re midway through September and into the season of ‘mists and mellow fruitfulness’ (Keats)

A rainbow stretches across a blustery blue and white
background autumn sky with Cave Hill to the north of Belfast just visible in the middle distance. There are trees and shrubs in the foreground and a very green field. Taken today near my home

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Elly ☘️ @ellyj.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Ah Surely not! You can’t be more than 40 something ish?

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Elly ☘️ @ellyj.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Or if prefixed by ‘sean’ it’s an old church as in the anglicised ‘Shankill’ which does have an old church

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Elly ☘️ @ellyj.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My dad too! And my mum’s and let’s not mention the immersion heater 😆

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Elly ☘️ @ellyj.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I know isn’t it just shocking?! I’m telling them all to put an extra layer on in the evenings and keep moving!

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A #painting from County Cork. "Cobh II" was painted one day when cycling between friends in Carrigtwohill and Carrigaline, both of whom I'd originally met online, and I took in Great Island specifically to paint the Cork harbour town. The painting was finished when back home. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear

Landscape format in painterly acrylics on canvas. View of town on a hillside as seen from a pier. Under a yellow painterly sky a gothic blue cathedral with a steeple on the left end sits on top of the town. Below it and to the left is a row of tall dark blue supporting stone arches under the green stone boundary wall and walkway which drops down to a jumble of blue slate roofs. Along the bottom across the full width of the painting is the front street scene of 7 buildings, each with 3 stories though of varied heights, and joined together save for one gap. They have shop fronts at street level, upper stories are coloured, left to right, pink, white, yellow, orange, red, teal, and yellow, with contrasting window frames and details including dormer windows. Buildings are 3 or 4 window bays wide, all narrow windows coloured in a blue or a black. A couple of small trees with a ball of bright green foliage are on the left, and up beside the cathedral there is one at the left end and 2 at the right. Parts of the fronts of other buildings are visible in gaps up the hill to the top on the right. Signed top right in blue on yellow sky, Liam Daly

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A #painting from Ireland's southwest. "Skibbereen, Main Street" came from a moment when I arrived by bicycle in the west Cork town facing these four fabulous buildings so I stayed there stopped, sitting on my saddle, just staring until I had painted them in my head. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear #UrbanGaze

Landscape format in painterly acrylics on canvas. Front view of terrace of four 3-story buildings with shop fronts at street level. Upper stories of leftmost building is light brown with "C Connolly" on fascia of maroon and peach shopfront, next is taller and blue-green with no signage visible on its grey-green shopfront, next is yellow and same height as blue-green one, with "Pierce Hickey" on white fascia below a clock and line of flowers and above the shopfront of orange trim, and rightmost is a lower height and a very pale blue, almost white. Each building is two window bays wide save for the rightmost which is cropped at the third window. The rightmost building has gold lettering of Field's Coffee on its dark green fascia and below it the windows and doors are all topped with white arches. All windows of upper stories have white trim, with the first story of the two central buildings having a white triangle over each. All roofs are slate of a smokey blue violet, and chimneys a muted grey-green and purple. Sky is painterly orange, more yellow lower down beyond the left edge of the leftmost building. Foreground is street surface of purple brushed brokenly over red with a triangular turquoise traffic island housing two planters of blooming flowers, a street sign and directional signs. Signed bottom left in blue, Liam Daly

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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

An cupla focal..

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Another west of Ireland #painting "Westport, High Street" came from a time I was cycling in County Mayo and after climbing up this hill I stopped because I was feeling a bit blue. And yellow and purple. Westport is beautiful from so many angles; I'll be painting it again #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear #Scape

Landscape format in painterly acrylics. Under a canary smoky yellow sky with touches of orange breaking through, we are looking downhill at the far side of a street of 2-story houses stepping down, most of which are in pale yellows, with pale purple and blue slate roofs that have touches of navy, and red indicating the slates, and are punctuated by white and yellow chimneys. Only the path of the left side of the street is visible by the left edge of the painting, until the bottom of the hill when the street bends right bringing the houses on the left side into view. Road surface is blue with central dashed white line, and paths are bright yellow with a tall dark streetlamp in the left foreground. Cars parked on both sides mostly in whites and blues. Small narrow trees with sparse green foliage are dotted along both sides of the street, but at the top on the right side is a large tree having dark foliage of violet and blue and some red highlights that reaches the top of the painting. Purple and blue roofs of other streets are at bottom of hill punctuated by glimpses of yellow gables and a couple of taller green square buildings with roofs. On far side of town is a mass of trees of violet and dark blue across the full width of the painting. Beyond is a flat-topped hill with a parallel row of grey-green fields. In this distance on the horizon are pale blue rounded hills on the right and a soft pyramidal one in the centre. Signed bottom right in dark blue on the pale blue road surface, Liam Daly

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A County Kerry #painting. "Looscaunagh Lough" I painted based on a day where I had been painting in Kenmare then packed up and cycled up into the mountains, over Moll's Gap and up there, high above Killarney National Park, I stopped by this lake. Because hey. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear

Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. Glimmering lake, with reeds running across the foreground of varying greens, from off-white to warm olive to loud green to almost blue, some topped with small brown balls. There are uneven yellow-green grass slopes on the left leading to rocks in the water. The far side of the lake in a band running horizontally across the centre has lime grassy slopes, dark green bushes mostly on the right, and further back rocky olive outcrops with a large clump of dark blue-green pine trees peaking on a mound right of centre with several orange brown long vertical trunks visible at the bottom of that peak. The water has dark bands of reflections of the dark trees between the sparkling very pale blue and white areas. There are also some touches of horizontal strokes of lilac particularly in the foreground. Sky is very pale blue save for feint white fluffy clouds. Signed top left in turquoise, Liam Daly

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Elly ☘️ @ellyj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Omg the pink Arans. Beautiful! I love pictures like this

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Elly ☘️ @ellyj.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Have you tried Erdinger alcohol free beer? It’s marketed as an energy drink in Germany. My other half swears by it

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