Mrs Vicky Day

Fabulous news - congratulations! 👏

They’re dreadful!

I’ve seen the BIA referred to as “UBI” all over the place which completely misunderstands what the scheme actually is. It’s better than nothing but is a missed opportunity 😔

Why thank you! ☺️

I was this many days old before I realised I shared a birthday with Jack Kerouac! 🥳

Landscape format in painterly acrylics on canvas. View along a small road on the right, grey-blue and light purple, with grass down its middle. It bends past 2 derelict buildings on the left with the gables facing the viewer just past a roadside bank of overgrown tall grasses and weeds of greens and yellows and browns. Near gable has flat stones, of greys and browns, like slate making up its gable and from its roof is growing an orange-cream brush. The other building is inset further back and its stones are mostly covered by a cream textured plaster attached to which we see a sliver of a red roof, and chimney with a dark red-ish plant growing alongside it. Sky is very dark grey of purple and blue except for bright horizon of pale horizontal clouds. Roadside poles lean slightly and are covered in ivy. Signed bottom left in dark blue, Liam Daly

A #painting to look at. "Clare Road" came out of a day I mostly spent cycling high above the Shannon estuary after crossing it from north Kerry. A road populated by wildflowers and not much else, until these houses. I like walls. I like red corrugated roofs. So I painted them. #art #SpeirGhorm

You’re the She-hulk of the poetry world! 💪

This gig is on tonight @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social in support of #Palestine, please pass it around your socials or even better, attend!

I feel like I’m in Karachi!

Image of a waterford printed in black on a white brick background. School Morning, Karachi by Fizzi Abbas Blue vans hum down the sleepy street, books in a row, dreams start to grow in tiny hearts that skip each beat.

Every #Wednesday we'll share a #waterford. Respond with your own (4 lines; 8, 4, 4, 8 syllables; ABBA rhyming scheme). These are slices of feel-good art so keep them positive!

#waterfordrhyme #poetrysky #poetry #irishhaiku #poetrycommunity #PoetsOnBluesky #skypoets #writingcommunity #spéirghorm

If you are curious about Ireland's beautiful placenames, you might enjoy this story on the origins of the name Tallaght. There are many more facinating stories about the placenames of Ireland in 'That Place We Call Home'. Now Available in bookshops & online. #seachtainnagaeilge

As the war goes on, Spring Journal by @fiddes.bsky.social tells the story from the ground. This is poetry as living witness, in real time. #war #warpoetry #Iran #iranwar #dubai #poetry #poem

A coastal Burren wall - built to stop cattle but to allow wind to pass through. You only rebuild walls, knocked by strong Atlantic storms, so many times before you start adapting.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Square format in bold painterly acrylics on canvas. Yellow and orange large leaves float over your head in the foreground against a background of tall straight black trunks and green foliage of evergreen trees with some blue sky peeping through on the right and in even smaller gaps in the top left corner. Above is a canopy of smaller yellow leaves with darker yellow leaves behind them and in between are some small twisted branches of almost black, whereas the large leaves in the foreground have no obvious branches connecting them so appear to float. The ground is a small glimpse of deep orange. Signed bottom left in light blue, Liam Daly

A #painting from a couple of years back. "Golden Leaves V" was started many years ago when I had a studio in an old cobbled stableyard, and a few acres of woods led down to the River Liffey so I would happily lose and find myself in them all the time. And who wouldn't? #art #SpeirGhorm

And dead authors opt out how exactly..?

Headshots of Molly Twomey and Iain Haley Pollock, behind text saying 'Just to Say'

Cannot wait to be in conversation with Iain Haley Pollock to discuss his latest outstanding poetry collection 'All the Possible Bodies' published by @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social for our next Just to Say at 7pm Irish time on April 1st ❤️

Email jacarpress@gmail.com for the free zoom link 🌻

I believe in you Molly! 💪

Landscape format is loosely painted acrylics on canvas panel. Horizon is one third way up from the bottom, with all of the foreground being lightly undulating bog in dark maroons and oranges. Past it is a strip of low green hills with a patchwork of fields separated by darker green hedgerows, and along the horizon is a long lilac mountain mass on the left half with a pale blue mass further away to its right. Top half is sunset sky of one large billowing green-grey cloud with white edges surrounded by pinks, oranges, lilacs, sky blues, and yellow into white near the mountains at the horizon. Signed bottom left in light blue, Liam Daly

Am ignoring the news to share an old #painting with you. "Donegal Cloud" came out of a time when I lived briefly in the northwest corner of Ireland and of an evening with my little dog would spend good times looking at the sky as the sky looked at us. #art #SpeirGhorm

Wonderful!

A sideways prize could go either way…

Too cute! 😍

Image of a waterford printed in black on a white brick background. New Arrival by Caoimhe Cooke Velvet skin and a baby grow chunky, toasty quiet mostly a smile as soft as a rainbow.

Every #Wednesday we'll share a #waterford. Respond with your own (4 lines; 8, 4, 4, 8 syllables; ABBA rhyming scheme). These are slices of feel-good art so keep them positive!

#waterfordrhyme #poetrysky #poetry #irishhaiku #poetrycommunity #PoetsOnBluesky #skypoets #writingcommunity #spéirghorm

Landscape format in acrylic on canvas. In a field of long yellow grass a large outbuilding with rusted corrugated roof occupies left half of painting with very dark shadow side facing viewer. It extends beyond the left edge of the painting. Wooden posts holding a wire fence run diagonally through foreground. Tall yellow-flowered weeds stand out against the dark shadow side of the outbuilding while bright grey gable end with small windows is in sun. Behind into the right half of the picture is a smaller outbuilding and in the top left corner above the corrugated roof is green foliage of a tree-top. At the far end of the field, visible by the right edge, is a hedgerow of very dark green with brighter uneven top. Beyond it are pale turquoise and purple hills in front of pale blue mountains, the furthest one with a distinctive conical peak reaching up to near the top of the painting. Sky is light blue with large white soft clouds. Signed bottom right in dark blue on the long yellow grass, Liam Daly

Time for a #painting. From a few years ago, "Mayo Shed" came out of an idyllic day in the west of Ireland where I cycled from County Galway north and around the back of Croagh Patrick. This was an outbuilding I enjoyed seeing before coming in Louisburgh as I headed towards Clew Bay. #art #SpeirGhorm

Landscape format in loosely painted acrylics on canvas. View from directly across River Liffey of a row of five and half 4-storey buildings, all bar the rightmost one are narrow (2 narrow-window bays wide) with dark shop fronts on ground floor, with fascias of dark green, black, white and dark blue. Voodoo is on one, just below a dark clock which contrasts with bright orange red-brick of the upper storeys it projects out from. All buildings bar the leftmost cream one have various shades of red brick upper stories. Second building from left has alternating blue bricks in the vertical bricks coming up from the arches above each window. Building on right edge is 3 window bays wide and has grey stone at street level. All buildings have a flat top front edge with grey cap stone and some having small triangular hat of roof peeping up behind to join the red brick chimneys. Sky is pure blue. Flag poles and lamp posts are pale grey. River wall is in greys with blue and white and dark details of random individual bricks, some solid, some outlined, and pointing. Lowest part of wall close to water is a dark greeny-blue of seaweed. River itself is dark teal. Signed bottom right in yellow, Liam Daly

Have yerselves a #painting. "Arran Quay" came out of, well, the same place all my paintings of Dublin's quays comes out of - namely my walks along the river as I indulge my love of squares and rectangles that are city streets. #art #scape #SpeirGhorm

Here’s your #weeklywaterford - well done to one of our newer members - Kathleen - who was one of the 10 winners in the #annualwaterfordcompetition2025

Love this!

Event poster for West Waterford Poetry meet-up - third Monday of every month at 7:30pm in Tudor House, St Mary Street, Dungarvan.

Next West Waterford Poets meet: Mon 16 Mar, 7:30pm. Prompt: "ape".

New members - of all abilities - always welcome!

#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #skypoets #writingcommunity #booksky #poetrysky #waterford #westwaterfordpoet #SpéirGhorm

Ah, what a joy - it’s #weeklywaterford time!

Oh how lovely!

The BBC took the same approach with their BAFTA broadcast