Paul O'Farrell
Happily retired old plumber and Local 393 union member 👷♂️
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- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellSticker for 1932 Detroit #MayDay parade. Printed 5 years before the @uaw.org formed and in the aftermath of the Ford Hunger March massacre, it speaks to the violence autoworkers endured to unionize their industry. From the Joe Brown Papers at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.
- View of the Grand Canyon and South Kaibab trail from last week. #grandcanyon #nationalpark #nationalparkservice #arizona #landscape #outdoors #travel #USA
- B-29 Superfortress "Doc" arriving at Palm Springs today. she will be at the Palm Springs Air Museum until May 4. #palmsprings #coachellavalley #palmspringsairmuseum #BoeingB-29 #Superfortress #WW2 #warbird #USA #USAF #aircraft
- Montezuma Castle National Monument in Arizona, only a short detour off of I-17. Stopped here on the way to Sedona. #montezumacastle #nationalmonument #arizona #yavapaicounty #nativeamerican #cliffdwelling #sinagua #campverde
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellTwice voted the best cheddar in the world, how is it that I still hadn’t heard of Mt Leinster? On discovering a Wicklow treasure. www.irishtimes.com/food/2025/04...
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellThis is organist Olena Kohut, killed today in Sumy by the Russian missile. Joseph Rheinberger, Visione, op. 156 no. 5 💔
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellMeet Anthony Schmidt, a 16-year-old with #autism who turns #miniature #cars into life-sized works of #art through his incredible #photography
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellGaulstown Dolmen, Co. Waterford. Perhaps 5000 years old, the capstone is 14ft long. Regardless of how they lifted that stone, it took engineering and it still stands today.
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellKnockeen Dolmen, Co. Waterford. Between 5000-6000 years old, it is roughly 3.5 metres (11.5ft) high.
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellLIVE: AOC is just started speaking at her largest rally yet in Los Angeles. Watch HERE: www.youtube.com/live/T2449Ua...
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellThe Bishop's Finger • Tipperary A standing stone known as the Bishop's Finger, overlooking the Suir Valley in County Tipperary. Archaeological excavations of similar standing stones in Ireland show that they tend to date to the Bronze Age. #Ireland #Prehistory #SpéirGhorm
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellWest Coast numbers are coming in, and estimates have now surpassed 5 million. People are still pouring into the streets—nearly 2% of the American population is rising up. America, we are so proud of you. You did it.
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellSpectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellWow! Updated estimates now put turnout at 2.3 million — and we’re still waiting on reports from coalition members in other areas, with some events yet to begin! If you’re free, come out and join us. Over 1,400 events are planned across the country.
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellSenator Booker: What kind of man is in the white house that makes fun of the disabled, who lies so much that the fact checkers lose count, that minimizes the pain and the suffering
- Reposted by Paul O'Farrell#Flaverification - Welcome over to the blue skies @hillaryclinton.bsky.social
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellSherkin Friary • West Cork This Franciscan Friary was founded in around 1460 by Fineen O'Driscoll on Sherkin Island, off the coast of Baltimore in West Cork. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #wildatlanticway
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellThese motherfuckers are going to kill children. I've been saying it for a year, but RFK Jr might as well be a serial murderer. Watch: they'll start vaccine *bans* within a year. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellIreland’s round towers are some of our most instantly recognisable reminders of our past. If you’ve ever visited the likes of the Rock of Cashel, Glendalough, Clonmacnoise – or even driven down the M8 motorway – you may have marvelled at these soaring structures.... #Ireland #SpéirGhorm
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellI would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.
- Reposted by Paul O'Farrellevery person involved in this needs to be in prison
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellAOC = Anti Oligarchs Club
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellSojourner Truth (1797-1883), abolitionist, women's rights advocate, who chose to be photographed with her knitting. As an enslaved person, she had knitted/spun endlessly and when free later in life, she taught knitting to former enslaved women aiding self-sufficiency #womensart
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellThe Ardagh Chalice • Limerick In September 1868, a man was digging potatoes alongside the bank of an old ringfort, close to the village of Ardagh. As he did so, he uncovered one of the greatest treasures of Ireland: The Ardagh Chalice. #SpéirGhorm #Ireland
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellI want you to understand this is happening in our name and we know most of these men committed no crimes. One is a professional soccer player who was tortured in Venezuela and was working through asylum in the U.S. ICE shipped him for his Real Madrid tattoo and a picture throwing rock & roll horns.
- View from Palm Hills trail this morning in South Palm Springs. #palmsprings #palmhills #oswitlandtrust #coachellavalley #california #SoCal #hiking #outdoors
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellBallynageeragh Dolmen • Waterford • This Neolithic portal tomb likely dates to between 3800–3200 BC. The tomb was excavated in 1939, and cremated human remains, charcoal, and worked flints were discovered within the area of the burial chamber. #Ireland #Archaeology 🏺 #SpéirGhorm
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellSt Patrick's Well • Tipperary In honour of #StPatricksDay, here is the lovely holy well named for the famous saint just outside our hometown of Clonmel in South Tipperary. According to tradition, the waters have curative properties for eye ailments and headaches. #SpéirGhorm #Ireland
- Reposted by Paul O'Farrell“There’s gonna be a big presence in DC, but it’s not just DC — I want to see this in rural areas, in suburban areas, in urban areas, in red states, purple states, blue states. It’s going to take all of us.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social We’re taking to the streets nationwide on April 5: handsoff2025.com
- One of my dads photos which I believe was taken in 1954 when members of the 69th New York infantry regiment visited Waterford. The original 69th New York militia were part of Waterford born Thomas Francis Meagher's Irish Brigade in the American civil war. #waterford #saintpatricksday #Irish #ireland
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellI gasped.
- Reposted by Paul O'Farrellwe're in legit first they came for territory and a lot of people have been failing at this test they cite all the time
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellIn this week's edition of our free Monument Monday newsletter, we take a trip to the quiet back roads of Boher in County Offaly, where we find one of the great treasures of medieval Ireland – St Manchán's Shrine.
- Joshua Tree National Park from a recent hike up to Eagle Cliff mine. This is a view looking roughly North east towards Twentynine Palms. #Joshuatreenationalpark #joshuatree #nationalparkservice #mojavedesert #twentyninepalms #landscape #outdoors #hiking #california
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellAnd to think we could have had a sane, serious government run by an intelligent person who would have acted in the best interests of Americans, and not Vladimir Putin.
- Reposted by Paul O'Farrell@algreen.house.gov let's get this hero a million followers today!
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellBeing a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
- Lots of snow on the mountains above Palm Springs this morning. #palmsprings #cathedralcity #coachellavalley #california #mountsanjacinto #socal #winter #weather #USA
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellWe are working on launching an ALT DOGE website. It will soon feature a team page listing all of Elon’s staffers, our own wall of receipts (tracking the money he’s taking from America), and a section to help Americans keep tabs on the false claims on Doge’s website—which now exceed 52%.
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellI’m not going to the Joint Address. I will be live posting and chatting with you all here instead. Then going on IG Live after.
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellThe state of our union. Entirely accurate and grim af.
- This is quite a kicker in Thomas Edsall’s latest op-ed. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellThis scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellMevagh Cross Early Christian cross beautifully weathered in the graveyard at Mevagh, Co Donegal, Ireland A cup-marked stone and church ruin lie close by #EarlyChristian #IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Megalithic #Infrared #B&W #Black&White #Monochrome #photography #Art #Donegal #HighCross
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellCALENDAR MONUMENTS– February 2025 Reginald’s Tower, Waterford City #CastlesOfIreland From our 2025 Calendar. Reginald's Tower, the most iconic surviving element of Waterford’s impressive medieval town defences. tinyurl.com/mvbak3zn #HeritageWellbeing #HeritageIreland2030 @opwireland.bsky.social
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellMy boy @seamus.bsky.social is the reason we need social media. From recreating ancient Egyptian bread to making his own chocolate from scratch, he’s amazing.
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellEl Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
- A snap from yesterday’s hike in Joshua Tree National Park. This is near the Desert Queen mine, one of my favorite spots in the park. #joshuatreenationalpark #joshuatree #mojave #desert #nationalparksservice #california #outdoors #landscape
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellCALIFORNIA: Rep. @JayObernolte (R) becomes the latest to hear from the people 🇺🇸 🔥 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGZ0d7B...
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellBRAVO to Maine Governor Janet Mills for slapping petty tyrant trump in the face with her calmly defiant "see you in court." THIS IS HOW IT'S DONE. 🔥🔥🔥
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellLisnadarragh Wedge Tomb • Monaghan Wedge tombs were the last of Ireland's megalithic tomb tradition, and date to around 2500–2000 BC. This is a period known as the 'Chalcolithic', a transitionary time between the stone age and the first metalworking in Ireland.
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellLook in the top right-hand corner! We have several copies of Paolo Sarpi's 'History of the Council of Trent' from 1619, but this one was owned by a certain Jonathan Swift who wrote his name on the title page.
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellThe Bishop's Palace Museum in Waterford, Ireland covers Waterford�s history and notable people from 1700 to 1970. It is part of the Waterford Museums and definitely worth visiting. #WaterfordMuseums #Waterford #Ireland backpackandsnorkel.c...
- An occasional visitor to our patio. I believe this is a male Ladder-backed Woodpecker but I am open to correction. #coachellavalley #socal #california #birds #woodpecker #wildlife #desert #palmsprings #cathedralcity
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellThis is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP. It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellFocus on Ireland's Built Heritage — Picturesque, dolls house-like gate lodge (c.1900) at Rathaspeck, County Wexford. #WexfordHeritage #IrishGateLodges #BuiltHeritage
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellMy take, essentially, is that we could be weeks or maybe even days away from the disintegration of the rule of federal law in this country. At some point this administration is going to stop obeying court orders. What then? Nothing good.
- Reposted by Paul O'Farrell🚨 #AltGov Alert 🚨 Please join me in welcoming @altusaid.bsky.social to the #AltGov family! They're fighting hard for USAid. Let's give them the support they need and deserve. Welcome aboard!
- Reposted by Paul O'FarrellDr. Patricia Bath invented laserphaco, a device and technique to remove cataracts. It performed all steps of cataract removal: making the incision, destroying the lens and vacuuming out the fractured pieces. Dr. Bath is the first Black woman physician to receive a medical patent. #BlackHistoryMonth
