upthe-culture

Account dedicated to Irish arts and Culture instagram: @upthe_culture Substack: Up The Culture

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Masahide Tomikoshi, Dublin, Ireland, 1971

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i love you ireland

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This image was captured last weekend at Malin Head, County Donegal, during Storm Éowyn.

Pic. Michael Mc Daid S Photography

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RÓISÍN PIERCE

‘O lovely one, girl that fell from a star.’ Collection 05

Photography by Mitchell O'Neil

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"Imbolc" By S.R. Harrell, 2025.

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St Brigid's Crosses from the National Museum of Ireland Country Life collection

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In honor of Imbolc, here is an art study I carried out by illustrating different variations of Brighid's Cross.

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Happy St. Brigid’s Day! Happy Imbolc!

This festival is the feast day for the patroness Saint of Ireland, although dates back to Pagan times, and marks the first day of Spring and the begining of the new farm year. Usual traditions of the festival include weaving St Brigid’s crosses from rushes, visiting holy wells and making a Brídeóga- a doll of Brigid. In local communities the Brídeóga would be carried by ‘Biddy Boys’ who wear masks of straw and parade the doll through the town, playing folk music and ask for a ‘penny for the Biddy.’ If there was no money in the household, a pin was stuck in the biddy instead.

Photos by Homer Sykes, taken in Killorgan, Co.Kerry, 1972. Via Café Royal Books.

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Dingle Bay, Ireland (1993) photog. Sam Abell

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People- Dorothea Lange, 1954. Taken on her trip for Life magazine for an essay on Irish country life, inspired by the book “The Irish Countryman,” by Conrad M. Arensberg. Via the Dorothea Lange Collection, the Oakland Museum of California. ©

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Andy McGonagle with a currach, Donegal. Taken by Dónal MacPolin, via UCD Digital Library and the National Folklore Collection.

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IRA posters

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Sinead O’Connor at the first X-case protest in Dublin in 1992, campaigning for abortion rights. Photo by Wally Cassidy

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Anonymous. A young woman playing a harp to a large crowd. Rock of Cashel, Ireland. C. 1910

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Kilmacree graveyard, Wexford, Ireland

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Pub In Dublin, Ireland, 1950s - by Hans Silvester (1938), German

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/ Harry Gruyaert, Ireland, 1983-84