Antonia Hart

I love this idea!

Newell’s the Blouse House at 63 Grafton Street (now Dunne’s) and 76 Grafton Street (now Russell & Bromley) - from the official handbook to Dublin Civic Week 1927.

Absolutely love this.

Been trying to get an interview with this seal for weeks now.

Michael Collins, NAI.

The Green & The Black by Kit de Waal - Fiona's Secret - BBC Sounds Fiona must tell her daughter Molly the truth about her namesake.

I tripped across this delightful little series by @kitdewaal.bsky.social on BBC Sounds last night it's blooming marvellous. Do give it a whirl www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Cable your request stop

Now there’s an eye on the main chance.

Delighted at that - superb book.

Choppy sea, statue Roger Casement, dog climbing out of water.

Gloomy but gorgeous.

Imagine the scramble to get the good telegraphic handles - crime.dublin is a great one from 1908.

Dressage dog🐕

Aha 😂 well congratulations to them now and you retrospectively! That cake looks good.

Ah, congratulations! Lovely news.

Twin peaks.

Twigs of bay, sambucca, fern, rosemary.

Broken bits from the garden this morning.

Page from national school reader on the duties of female servants - cooking, cleaning, washing, bed-making, answering parlour, drawing-room and bedroom bells, polishing, washing-up and on and on and on.

As to the occupations of women being ‘mostly sedentary’, I bet the maid-of-all-worked described in the same book dreamt of that being true.

Page from national school reader showing the text quoted.

‘Females, from physical causes, frequently find walking painful’ - mystifying, from “Girls’ Reading Book”, published by Commrs of National Education, 1879.

Love it! Love Sally Jay. I read ED’s memoir recently too & now on her daughter’s memoir.

Black and white image of historical interior showing a panelled hallway with a small window on the right hand side and a ghostly figure draped in a white sheet standing on a short flight of stairs.

Jeanette Winterson on ghosts for #spookyseason in The Paris Review. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/10...

Breda Wall Ryan is one of our finest Irish poets - read her gorgeous new collection ‘These are My People’ (Doire Press) #poetry
Here is Breda’s title poem…

Oooooh!

Newspaper advertisement from 1890 with an endorsement for Salt Regal, for flatulence, giddiness, dyspepsia, and so on, from the Sister Superior (Convent of Our Lady of Mercy, Cahir).

'Nuns do not care to put forward their opinions', but it's good to know that in 1890 one convent was rid of giddiness and flatulence by the sculling of Salt Regal.

Labrador with unusually beautiful soft brown eyes.

I’m guessing my gorgeous, sweet-natured Juno makes the best possible first post.

Doppelgänger, Naomi Klein - very good but kind of exhausting.