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(Dr) Rena Maguire

@justrena.bsky.social
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Archaeologist. This gun's for hire on small finds. Educator. Iron Age/ early med material culture . Likes horses and old stabby pointy things. "Ain't nothin' like me - except me" (Raccoon, 2014). Usually optimistic. She/her/thon wan. Personal views only

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Today is #HobbitDay because Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were both born on September 22nd. Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves. Anyway it's a good day to come and boromir #Tolkien books. 📚
A shelf of books by JRR Tolkien
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
No one is disposable, including the canary ❤️🦜✊
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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ifypu suspect me as overly quiet, check local venues like.this....
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"When I think of global climate change, my heart sinks at the enormity of such a challenge, and the tendency is to lose hope. Yet, if Magan and Daltun have shown us anything, it is that we can all improve the world right here, on our doorstep, acre by acre." www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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I’ve lived in city centres for 20 years, and my dream of planting a native Irish forest is getting urgent
Manchán Magan and Eoghan Daltun have shown us we can improve the world right here on our doorstep, acre by acre
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Professor Darkness @professordarkness.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Crime scene, Dun Laoghaire style
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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
And within hours he will be just another antisemite. Pfft. Hero to zero just like that.
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Professor Darkness @professordarkness.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Wtaf denmark ?
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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Grateful for today. Grateful for each snd all of you rascals here. Yiu may not know it but you make the difference. Thank you.
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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Eoghan Daltun called in with a book & more importantly, a vision to rewild Ireland. 🌿 Setting the Land Free follows the people restoring bogs, forests, coastlines & native species across Ireland, Scotland and Costa Rica. It is optimistic, which is so what we need. @irishrainforest.bsky.social
Eoghan Daltun stands beside the Chapters bestseller wall holding his book, Setting the Land Free. More copies are displayed at number seven on the shelf behind him.
Author Eoghan Daltun stands outside Chapters Bookstore holding Setting the Land Free. The shop’s green Bookshop of the Year 2025 signage fills the window behind him.

Side view of Eoghan Daltun signing a copy of Setting the Land Free at the Chapters counter, with a tall stack of the book waiting beside him.
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Irish Independent @independent.ie · 17/09/2026
Ploughing in pictures: A day in the life at the Ploughing Championships 2026 www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...
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Ploughing in pictures: A day in the life at the Ploughing Championships 2026
The Irish Independent Photographer Mark Condren
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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The important parts of this are that they are smol.and cute
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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Today, 17 September, is #NationalFoxDay. Fox Ian Hamilton Finlay Published in Glasgow Beasts, an a Burd: haw, an inseks, an, aw, a fush with papercuts by John Picking and Pete McGinn (The Wild Flounder Press, 1961) .
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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Must be the radiotherapy making me snuffle up
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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Nai we're suckin' diesel! Ooh where do i start? With what i was brougt up on maybe? music.youtube.com/watch?v=2kVN...
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I'm so Lonesome I Could Cry (Remastered 2016)
YouTube video by Hank Williams - Topic
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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"You know she beat me at darts and then she beat me at pool " Aye, well that Galway Girl would bate ye at anything, Ed, cos, morals.
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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Jeezo. Not even laat rites and theres some making moves to step into my stylish yet affordable shoes. Not so fast, baby pussy, plenty of life in the oul girl yet....
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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Oh Ed. You wont be in Galway anytime soon,so.
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Shawan Chowdhury @shawan-chowdhury.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Nice editorial from @natecoevo.nature.com featuring several papers recently published on the fate of 🦋 under climate change, including our 🦋 paper. doi.org/10.1038/s415... @monashbiol.bsky.social @monashscience.bsky.social
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Loki @lokideburca.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The taoiseach was at a golf tournament/maga rally.
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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Best side.eye, the woman is.the ultimate iron fist in a vekvet glove
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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Not imprrssed by this rip.off of Kneecap
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/09/2026
A geologist in California who was surveying a San Mateo County creek stumbled upon a preserved Pacific mastodon molar estimated to be at least 10,000 years old. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/u...
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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
You or me.would be vibrating with excitement and gratitude for diplomatic gifts which get loaded onto.the likes of chump. They likely buck.them aff to some unappreciated corner :/
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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
There are a few old churches, still functional, where no matter what part of @hookland.bsky.social ypu may be in, youll smell the candles and incense. ST Marys of Chapel Lane is one of those. Built in 1783 by Dissenter money, under the fervent belief that all should be safe to practice their faith
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Victor Luftig @vl1959.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The fine Irish poet and editor Pat Boran just posted this on FB (shared here with his permission): DOONBEG Thoughts and prayers for Trump on his golf course. The record for fascist dictators emerging unscathed from bunkers isn’t always the best.
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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Vertigo angustior says go home, ya bum to Doze-off Donny .
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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Not welcome
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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
An cupla focal..
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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My word, taking the soup costs 5k now. Inflation on souls has risen fron 1847....
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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A different time, when the wprld was so very connected that september.I remember you as big hearted, good souls - Dean and Delucca, the lesser archivists of the pentagon....those who got caught in the weight of history as towers tumbled. We love and remember you without the politics, just as people.
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Guilherme Nunes @guilhernunes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
capybaras garden
painting of capybaras in a mini waterfall in a garden
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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I love Bsky for these kimds of posts. Just. Effusiveness, innocent energy and curiosoty and wanting to share.. Now i want all the reesons for turtles being awesome.
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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
So very saddened to see the results of Saxony Anholt. I found Magdeberg one of the kindest places i visited as part of the Dead Pony Tour 2014-18. Gruff and charming. But then, i am very very white ....
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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
There's a long history of far right targeting the RNLI for their role saving lives at sea. Nigel Farage once described the RNLI as a 'migrant taxi service'. Far-right going into the water in Portsmouth last night was likely an attempt to draw RNLI in for attack. Donate to the RNLI, link below.
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The curious tale of how RNLI lifeboat crews became a target for right-wing hate
The RNLI found itself in the crosshairs of the right-wing media for its commitment to saving people in trouble without prejudice.
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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Its very much back. Its nasty. I got mine in hospital where it wasnt suspected.
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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"Early medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100. The evidence from archaeological excavations" Aidan O'Sullivan, Finbar McCormick, Thomas R. Kerr & Lorcan Harney (2021 reprint with new bibliographical essay) Royal Irish Academy, Dublin Available for €9.99 from Royal Irish Academy shop.ria.ie/products/ear...
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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My man.
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Dictionary of Irish Biography @dib.ie · 31/08/2026
#DIBLives #OTD 1913 Ireland's first 'Bloody Sunday' took place when James Larkin, disguised as an elderly clergyman, addressed a crowd from the balcony of the Imperial Hotel. The Dublin Metropolitan Police baton-charged the crowd, killing two and injuring hundreds. www.dib.ie/biography/la...
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John DeBaptiste @johndebaptiste.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I wish governments would help people live their lives happily and respectfully, they way they need to for their hearts and souls Good god surely thats not a lot to ask in this day and age ?
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Florence @flore14.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
🐾 A soldier paints his unit's adopted strays on pages of old soviet propaganda, burnt for warmth at the front. Now russia is systematically burning 🇺🇦's publishing houses. One fire gave life, the other is trying to erase a culture. Fund the unit defending it! 🙏 See below ⤵️
“Those who go into the light” by Ihor Husev. This series features cats and dogs adopted by his unit in the winter 2025-2026, as strays were drawn to the warmth of the field stove. The fuel for the stove was old soviet propaganda. Husev uses them as canvas for his strays.
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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Life a little more normal today. Managed a long cool shower ( still cant remove the sharoie spots from my stomach), track bottoms. Fave Carrig Donn hoodie and a conference paper to finish. The district nurse saved me from pnemonia i think with fast treatment. Feeling much better
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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Opening your electric bill after having the fan on 24/7 for three months. Oil on canvas. 🎨: Ramon Casas, 1899
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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Its #caturday
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
❓Who were the Colums? Mary Colum was an influential reviewer and critic, feared for her rapier wit by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Her husband Padraic Colum was a successful author of children’s stories, a poet, playwright and essayist, and like Mary a political activist.
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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"In the 1920s, bishops, north and south, stood sentinel against the moral dangers of the jazz-dancing, cigarette-smoking, short-dress-wearing modern woman." Flappers and the Jazz Age: edited by Eileen Hogan and Louise Ryan @clodaghfinn.bsky.social #SpéirGhorm www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...
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Clodagh Finn: The Irish flappers who defied the bishops to bring the Jazz Age to Ireland
A new book opens the most surprising — and utterly delightful — window on the rich social and cultural life of Irish women in the early part of the 20th-century... to the utter disgust of many (male) ...
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The beautiful chaos of a used bookstore is unmatched.
Looking into bookstore from
The street at night
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