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Mrs Vicky Day @mrsvickyday.bsky.social · 9h

The best saggy old cloth cat there ever was 😍

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John Creedon @johncreedon.bsky.social · 16h

Huge gratitude to everyone who encouraged and helped me get to here. It's not something I will ever take for granted. Míle buíochas. linktr.ee/johncreedoni...

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Mrs Vicky Day @mrsvickyday.bsky.social · 11h

Congratulations John! 👏👏👏🥳

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Mrs Vicky Day @mrsvickyday.bsky.social · 11h

Ah, those colours! Beautiful 😍 You should definitely be getting paid a commission by the tourist board 😉

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 14h

A west of Ireland #painting, "Clew Bay and Nephin" came from cycling along the bay enjoying when some islands aligned with one of my favourite mountains. Was a bit taken aback once when a couple of visitors from the US told me this painting was why they chose to holiday in Mayo. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear

Landscape format in painterly acrylics on canvas. Sunny day with white fluffy clouds all but filling pale blue sky in top half of painting. Foreground is 3 horizontal strips of pale blue water with strips of land between them, green grassy with grey stones along water's edge. Furthest strip of green land is divided into fields by parallel walls running down its slope towards the viewer and has a cottage on a flat section at the bottom of it, clumps of dark green trees at the top by both edges, and some dots of sheep on its slope. Behind, a blue triangular shape of a distant mountain with a rounded peak dominates the top half of the painting with the bottom of both sides nearly reaching the edges of the painting in behind those clumps of dark trees. Touches of red show through along the edge of the mountain. Signed top left in dark blue, Liam Daly

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Mrs Vicky Day @mrsvickyday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I assume there must be a B*rke family member in there somewhere…

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Mrs Vicky Day @mrsvickyday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I vaguely remember some hints or veiled references being made in the media coverage at the time to her husband and how he’s involved in or has connections with the judges, organisers or some such…

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

A west of Ireland #painting "Stone Walls, Galway Bay" came out of a day where I left Galway city on a bicycle and cycled out west into a world of walls and wonder. Stones, I like stones. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear #Scape

Landscape format in painterly acrylics on canvas. View across 3 small fields on undulating mounds, each field enclosed by blue-grey dry-stone walls with two of the walls built over the top of each mound such that in parallel they arch horizontally across the painting, and the other two walls going diagonally from the left edge such that overall the walls are in a zig-zag pattern. Inside them is rough green grass ranging from yellow to wine and almost black elements, and the corner of the field in the bottom left corner of the painting is a messy orange. The walls have dark blue shadows between the stones but with larger black shadows in the foreground. Smaller stones are along the top. Beyond the walls in the top half of the painting is a horizontal band of very pale, almost white, water of the bay running the full width of the picture, with on the far side on the left along the horizon a headland of flat pale blue. The sky is deep yellow with loose paler yellow smokey bands to suggest clouds. Signed top right in dark blue, Liam Daly

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Mrs Vicky Day @mrsvickyday.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It’s joyful! And has me craving cabbage and potatoes 😋

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Mrs Vicky Day @mrsvickyday.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Lovin’ the #SpookySeason colour palette on this one 🎃

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A west of Ireland #painting, "Mayo Bog" I painted following a day where I had cycled north through Ballycroy and kept stopping just to enjoy the bog. There's not a lot else to say except I think we're quite lucky in Ireland to have the bogs that we do. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear

Landscape format in painterly acrylics on canvas. In expressive brush marks are a yellow sky with orange under-painting breaking through, a peaked patchy dark hill of oranges and blues sitting on the horizon to the right with some lime green fields at its base, and the edge of a distant blue hill on the left edge. The rest of the painting, the bottom two-thirds, being the flatness of the yellow ochre bog running across the full width of the painting, and in the foreground cut away revealing the maroon cut turf, with grasses, some long, and bog plants in front of it along the bottom rendered in blues, oranges, yellows, and whites. Some white is on top of the flat stretch of the bog across the middle, perhaps flowers, and some dark lines suggestive of tracts or cuts. Signed top left in dark blue, Liam Daly

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A west of Ireland #painting "Burren Walls" came out of several trips to the karst landscape of County Clare where I was entranced by its fields of stone. And I do like a wall. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear

Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. On flat land of limestone karst rendered in colours of lilac, pale blue and grey, with black crevices and white highlights, is a stone wall running horizontally across the full width of the painting, with the distinctive burren stones, narrow and slanted, with crevices running lengthways. In the distance is another wall running across the full width of the painting, and distant dark lines indicate more further back before the horizon of a muted blue low tree-line with a couple of buildings dotted in among them. Further back on the left are paler blue trees or hills in the distance. There is a small tree with a leaning straight thin almost white trunk midway back on the right, with a dense small clump of dark olive foliage leaning to the right and a green bush around its base. Some flecks of light olive flora litter the fields of stone. Sky is white fluffy clouds on pale blue. Signed bottom right in dark blue, Liam Daly

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Mrs Vicky Day @mrsvickyday.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Beautiful! 😍 I can almost feel the Autumn sun on my face 🌞

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

From my ongoing series of autumnal trees is the #painting "Golden Leaves IV". This was a tree I would see when I had a little dog and we'd walk just to enjoy seeing the leaves on and off the trees. There'd be the odd jump into piles of leaves too, though the dog just watched. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear

Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. Silhouette of a tree's branches with some autumnal leaves, as viewed from underneath, against a rich blue into turquoise sky. Most leaves are gone so the tree is a scattering of roughly painted jagged shaped yellow leaves with olive and ochre shading, towards the outer edges mostly, and deep orange leaves mostly in the upper centre, with some white or red details but mostly the tree is a network of unleafed black branches coming off its three central vertical branches which grow from where the trunk splits off picture left of centre at the bottom up at a slight angle towards the centre of the top. The blue of the sky is a slight gradient of darker higher up and lighter in the bottom. Signed bottom right in dark blue, Liam Daly

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 07/10/2026

Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying

Use of artificial intelligence
By registering with ISBN Canada, you declare that your book was created by a human author. You may use AI tools only for limited support tasks, such as brainstorming ideas, checking grammar, or formatting your book. You must not use AI to generate the text, create the artwork, or translate the book. ISBN Canada does not issue ISBNs for works whose content is primarily generated by AI. LAC is currently reviewing its policy regarding the use of AI content creation and our guidance is subject to change.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

On the seventh anniversary of THIS image, here's a funny story about the elephants, Naomi Wolf and the absurdity of online nostalgia.

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Mrs Vicky Day @mrsvickyday.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It’s Wednesday - and we all know what that means… it’s #weeklywaterford time! 🤩

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Mrs Vicky Day @mrsvickyday.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ooh, is it Wednesday already?!? Must be #weeklywaterford time! 🥳

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Úna-Minh (That's my first name!) 🔜 AdventureX @unaminh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

WARNING: As an author, I am receiving A LOT of scam messages from folks pretending to be literary agents, from publishing houses, etc. I'm exasperated by this scam; it's hard enough making any living as an author, but to be teased by such opportunities is nasty. writerbeware.blog/2026/03/27/w...

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Watch Out For This Scam Impersonating Editors at Major Publishing Houses - Writer Beware

I’ve recently gotten a slew of reports of emails purporting to be from editors at Big 5 and other large publishers, in which the supposed editor expresses interest in the writer’s work and asks whethe...

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A #painting from the northwest of Ireland, "Benbulben and Benwiskin" I painted because of what a magnificent sight Benwiskin is, and the shapes of Sligo in general make me happy. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear

Landscape format in acrylics. A painting of horizontal features. Across the bottom is a strip of orange grass punctuated lightly with some dark blue and purple blades and some yellow flowers. It has a jagged top edge with some individual blades extending. Beyond it are 3 horizontal strips of water separated by narrow maroon strips of rocks. Each body of water gets a darker shade of blue the further away it is. A headland comes out from the right edge halfway across the picture, and it, like a headland on the far side of all the waters, is a series of horizontal colours of wine and greens, with the far one topped by graphical slivers of yellow and orange. Behind that is a sloping pale green hill on the left with fields of slightly different bright shades of green radiating down. Behind it is a sliver of a very dark blue hill. Then, dominating the picture is the monolith of Benbulben, a curved rectangle coming out from the right three-quarters of the way across the picture, with in the space to the left behind it the sharp peak of Benwiskin in pale blue rising up. The sky is a very pale turquoise. Signed bottom right in red on the orange grass, Liam Daly.

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Mrs Vicky Day @mrsvickyday.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The joy of an event poster that’s not #AIslop 😍

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A Dublin #painting "Liffey Clouds" is for people who like the capital city's River Liffey. Or clouds, I suppose. I didn't really paint it for anyone; I painted it because this is one of the many views of my home city I like - even if it's been changed since I painted this. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear

Portrait format in acrylics on mat board. View from centre of Ha'penny Bridge east along River Liffey. Top half all sky, white fluffy clouds, with touches of yellow, on blue sky - darker in the gaps at the top, where more sky is covered with cloud, paler and almost cloudless close to horizon. Water is rippling blues with white reflections, all in short horizontal strokes. Square tower office block of Liberty Hall on left with its alternating bands of dark blue windows and off-white concrete, topped with small pale green hat with zig-zag-brim. Closer is a tall wide glass and concrete building of O'Connell Bridge House on the right behind the 4-storey white and red-brick buildings of Aston Quay. Trees are across the street from those buildings, overlooking the river wall and dark shadow below. The flat almost white road bridge of O'Connell Bridge is in the centre with its three arches, two piers, and balustrade along the top. The small green dome of the Custom House behind it is partially hidden by the black metal lattice railway Loopline Bridge. The dark blue blocks of glass of the IFSC (International Financial Services Centre) is behind the Custom House. A flat-ish orange leisure boat is moored neared the foreground on the left down steps from boardwalk under full green foliage trees that line the north bank quays of Bachelor's Walk and Eden quay beyond it. Signed bottom left in dark blue, Liam Daly

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Mrs Vicky Day @mrsvickyday.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Looking forward to @kevinmacalan.bsky.social reading at Introductions Night 2! 🤩

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Another west of Ireland #painting "Kylemore Boats" came out of a day cycling in north Connemara where my bike and I were discussing how lucky we were. The sun was on its way down so before cycling on the length of the lake and on to Killary I resolved to paint this view later. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear

Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. View of a lake that covers the complete width of the bottom edge of the painting and stretches long away from viewer, with mountain slopes of green on its right side, light green close to viewer and darker green for a slope further away behind it in shadow. At the far end of the lake is a jagged paler grey-ish green line of mountains with a peak by the right edge and a noticeable drop to a high gap in the middle. At the bottom of the far end of the lake, by the water's edge, is a low strip of land of 3 layers of greens suggesting trees and sun on a low hill. In the left foreground are a clump of trees, thick with mostly very dark green foliage with touches of dark blue, but a large section is clear showing a load of fat twisting trunks and/or branches which I have painted in mixes of purples and reds and browns and greens, with orange on the right and upper sides where the sun hits, and blues on the shadow sides. Moored beside and under the trees are two small rowing boats, pale blue or maybe white in shadow. The water is short rippling strokes of greens and teals and blues, radiating out from where the trees and boats are in the left foreground until far away the water is darker, except right at the far end of the lake where there is a single broad very pale blue almost white strip. The sky is a painterly very pale blue with a couple of whisked in slight hints of white clouds. Signed bottom right in dark blue, Liam Daly

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Mrs Vicky Day @mrsvickyday.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pure class! Forget your genAI adverts.

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Mrs Vicky Day @mrsvickyday.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pure class! But subtitles a must for me too 😆

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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary," ~ Pablo Picasso

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Mrs Vicky Day @mrsvickyday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I love how the horizontal bands of land and water gently lead your eyes towards the distant mountains 😍

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A west of Ireland #painting, "Connemara Waters" came out of an idyllic day cycling in south Connemara when I stopped for a while to look across the bogs to the mountains of north Connemara. And to watch a family of swans because how can you not? #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear #MountainMonday

Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. The bottom two-thirds of the scene below the horizon is a bog of grasses and vegetation of greens, oranges, yellows and blues. The bog is laced with horizontal strips of very pale lilac water, some with grey and dark rocks protruding from them. Along the horizon is a low distant ridge of a green hill punctuated with dots of pale houses and dark green trees, that starts to rise up towards the right edge. Behind it is a long low purple hill on the left half, and further behind across the whole painting are 4 large pyramidal mountains of different blues, stacked behind each other getting paler as they recede in the distance. The sky is a very pale smoky teal. The water pool along the full width of the bottom edge is an even paler lilac, almost white, but with lots of short little horizontal rippling strokes of pale aqua blue and purple. Signed bottom right in dark blue, right where the pale water changes to purple, Liam Daly.

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Mrs Vicky Day @mrsvickyday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not sure a love of pie is enough of a redeeming quality in this case. The fact that the UK media are calling him a “former politician” rather than “disgraced politician” says so much about how broken that country is

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Mrs Vicky Day @mrsvickyday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ah, GDPR - is there another piece of legislation that has been more mis-used and misunderstood?

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A Dublin #painting "The Long Hall" I painted because, it's one my favourite pubs, sitting inside it anyway but it's particularly impressive on the outside too. Now I just need to paint the rest of my favourite pubs in Dublin. I may be a while. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear

Portrait format in acrylics on canvas. Narrow 4-storey building, 2 window bays wide, with dark wine pub front at street level. Wine and white striped canopies are over the doors on either side of the large central window which is split in half vertically. Suggestions of figures can be seen through the main window. On the fascia in ornate font in red is: The Long Hall. Each of the 2 windows on all 3 upper stories has cream panels surrounding it which join the panels of the window above and are all decorated with maroon stripes and spots, and mini canopies above and a short striped sill underneath. The upper stories are a light red brick rendered in pink with a grey capstone along the top. The building adjoined to the left is an orange-rendered red brick period building with decorative blue brick stripe adjoining each upper story window, and a shop front of dark grey around a brown door. The building adjoined on the right is a modern pale grey block with larger windows and a dark glass door. Both buildings are also 4 storeys and a little higher than the pub. Sky is pale blue. Path is creamy yellow with maroon kerb slightly sloping down from right to left. Road surface is violet with white solid and dashed lines. Signed bottom right in very dark blue on the violet road, Liam Daly

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Mrs Vicky Day @mrsvickyday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Delighted to hear of a copy of “Duanaire - collected waterfords” out in the wild! 🤩

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Mrs Vicky Day @mrsvickyday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Congratulations Siobhan! Glad to hear your copy arrived safely. Enjoy the anthology - there are so many gems in there (more than 300 😉)

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Mrs Vicky Day @mrsvickyday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Terrible long distance photo on my phone” - definitely has legs as the title for a gallery exhibition 😉 I enjoyed the faded colour palette and soft-focusness of it

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Mrs Vicky Day @mrsvickyday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Should we file this in the same drawer as “trickle-down economics” theories..? #TriedAndFailed

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Mrs Vicky Day @mrsvickyday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fantastic news. Let’s hope it’s the first of many such schemes 🤞

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Mrs Vicky Day @mrsvickyday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Careful now, you’re playing right into the hands of the AI techbros with this sort of thing

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Another west of Ireland #painting. "Dooghill" came out of cycling in west Mayo one day after leaving the Greenway and Clew Bay, and going north of Mulranny towards Ballycroy. This was a view west over Ballacragher Bay that had me in shape heaven. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear

Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. Foreground of 4 small rough undulating lime green and yellow fields separated by uneven dry-stone walls that run at angles to the edges of the painting, before beyond them is a body of water, very pale blue almost white with touches of yellow, running the full width of the painting horizontally with 2 dark olive flat islets and on the far side is a horizontal strip of yellow land with pale blue low flat-ish hills behind on the left, while on the right is a higher pale purple-pink rounded hill. Further back in the distance in between is a flatish rounded pale blue mountain. Sky is pale cloudy lilac. Left foreground has dark green bushes, while on the right just past stone wall are low trees of dark blue and purple with holes through which we see the water. Signed bottom right in red, Liam Daly

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