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20/08/2026

FACT! 👍🏻🌊🩱🎒🩴⛵️⛱️🌞

20/08/2026

As Brora Golf Club enters its 131st year, there are many reasons why the golf club has been so successful. The golf course design is recognised as being one of James Braid’s finest pieces of work. The green staff work tirelessly to preserve the original design, whilst presenting a course that is r...

20/08/2026

The Mountain taught me to stand still, believe deep, and keep going no matter what.

Experienced Mountain Leaders, local expertise, fully insured, dedicated to keeping you safe in the hills Mountain Adventures 👈😎 

20/08/2026

🍏🍎Richhill Apple Fayre 2026🍎🍏

Saturday 31st of October
10am-4pm

11/08/2026

Ask anyone who grew up on an Irish farm about the smell of a summer evening, and they will tell you about one thing above all. 🌾 Saving the hay.

Before the big machines took over, saving the hay was one of the great communal rituals of the Irish rural year, and it depended entirely on that rarest of things, a stretch of dry weather. The whole family, and often the neighbours too, would turn out into the meadow. The grass, cut and left to dry in the sun, had to be turned again and again with rakes and pitchforks, then gathered up and built into neat haycocks to protect it from the rain. It was hard, hot, itchy work, racing against the ever-threatening Irish clouds, but it was also a time of great togetherness. There would be laughter and slagging in the field, and best of all, the tea and sandwiches carried out to the meadow, eaten sitting on the fresh hay in the golden evening light.

It is one of the warmest memories of old rural Ireland. 💚 The whole family together in the meadow, the sweet smell of drying hay, the race against the weather, and the tea tasting better out in the field than anywhere else on earth.

01/07/2026

The Long Room of the Old Library at Trinity College Dublin is 65 meters long, lined on both sides with two galleries of shelves holding approximately 200,000 of the oldest books in the library's collection, topped with a barrel-vaulted ceiling added in the 1850s when the shelves were extended upward to hold the expanding collection. 📚 The busts of great scholars stand on pedestals between the shelves. The smell of old leather and paper is so thick it is almost tactile. It is one of the most beautiful rooms in the world, and it is in Dublin, and the Irish are entirely correct to be proud of it.

Trinity College was founded in 1592 by Elizabeth I, which is a complicated origin for an institution that became central to Irish intellectual life, because it was founded partly as a Protestant institution in a Catholic country and its relationship with that tension has evolved across the centuries. The Long Room holds the Book of Kells in an adjacent gallery, the Proclamation of 1916 is displayed there, the Brian Boru harp that is the symbol of Ireland stands in the case at the top of the room. The history of Irish learning and Irish identity accumulated in this building over 430 years.

The harp in the Long Room is the oldest surviving Irish harp, dating to the 14th or 15th century. 💚 It is older than Trinity by at least 150 years, which means the harp predates the institution that holds it, and came from the tradition that the institution was partly designed to suppress, and has outlasted every political arrangement that surrounded both of them. The Long Room contains that paradox along with the books and the busts and the particular amber light of an Irish autumn afternoon falling on 200,000 spines.



**FIRST COMMENT:** Trinity College Dublin is legally entitled to receive a copy of every book published in Ireland and the United Kingdom under the Legal Deposit system, a right it has held since 1801, which is why the library now holds approximately seven million books and has extensive underground storage. Have you walked the Long Room?

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