This #SheelaSaturday let's have some Sheela merch!

This vintage blue-green ceramic brooch was created by Arkland Studio, Dublin. Looks like she's based on the Kiltinane Sheela na Gig. She waves with one hand while the other is clearly engaged elsewhere 😍

#SheelaNaGig #Mastodaoine

PSA: #SheelaSunday has moved to #SheelaSaturday to avoid clashing with #StandingStoneSunday

Today we bring you a #SheelaNaGig in the poshest location in Ireland?
This Sheela lives in the basement of the Cashel Palace hotel, Co Tipperary. Illuminated with spotlights, befitting her faded brilliance 😍

Like magic eye pictures, the longer you look at a Sheela the more is revealed. Focus on her big ears, then follow the outline of her arms down to the groove of her vulva

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Guess where we found this tiny beauty 😍
#SheelaNaGig

https://inv.citw.lgbt/watch?v=FgoC15Lom-M

#music #musik #musica #musikken #musica

#PJHarvey #SheelaNaGig

#WeAreTheRadio #pouetradio #MAstoRadio #FediRadio

Spotted on City Quay, Dublin! Looks like she's lost her arms and three of her corners but she's looking pretty chill and her hands are still clutching open that gorgeous blue vulva 😍

#SheelanaGig created by Project Sheela
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How could we forget Cashel's replica Sheela-na-Gig? This beauty lives among the memorabilia in Cashel Folk Village, where "Sheela is seen through modern eyes as being ‘defiant’ rather than ‘deviant’." Oh yeah!
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#FakeSheelaFriday #SheelaNaGig

Check out our Wild Gees blog for regular Gee-related content and our irregular adventures seeking out Sheela na Gigs, undertold women's histories and mythologies around Ireland (and sometimes further afield)

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Out in Stepaside golf course there's a stern looking Sheela no Gee on a free-standing stone, like a grave marker. Not a real Sheela but an early christian cross. We think she's gorgeous anyway 😍

Thanks to @dh_age for keeping us right!
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#SheelaNaGig #FakeSheelaFriday

Another art project created beautiful ceramic Sheela na Gigs for #InternationalWomensDay but these Project Sheela ones are collectors items.

We were lucky to find this gorgeous one in the wild in Merrion Square gardens, commemorating Lady Jane Wilde, but it's gone now 😭
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#SheelaNaGig #FakeSheelaFriday

Stoneybatter is *the* place to go for fake Sheela na Gigs. Placed on sites of historic misogyny by a guerrilla art project, these Sheelas are tiny. There's a tucked away one on the wall of Grangegorman (near The Barbers pub) and a more brazen one on the gate of Arbour Hill. There was another one on Collins Barracks but it's disappeared 😕
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#SheelaNaGig #FakeSheelaFriday

It's Fake Sheela Friday! Dublin doesn't have many authentic Sheela na Gigs (apart from in the National Museum) but it's dripping with fake ones. A🧵

A fake Sheela sits on the tower of St Mary's Church in Crumlin, put there by a FÁS scheme in the early 90s apparently. We'd love to know why! We'd also like to see more FÁS courses putting Sheelas on buildings 😍

#SheelaNaGig #FakeSheelaFriday

Who's in the mood for a #SheelaNaGig this morning?
This beauty at Behy, Co Sligo is said to bestow fertility so women have rubbed her vulva for generations. You can see where the paint has been rubbed away. It's unusual for a Sheela to be painted but maybe hers is just remarkably well-preserved. Probably cos she lives in a shed guarded by a brown bull!
We visited this Sheela on one of our #WildGees trips
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Out at Malahide Castle again this morning (it’s going to part of the Saturday regime for a few weeks now so expect related toots). Anyhoo … think I spotted one of those “Sheela na gigs” when the rain brought up the red stone against the grey stone. It’s still pretty indecipherable. #SheelaNaGig #MalahideAbbey #MalahideCastle #Mastodaoine

#EmojiAccelerationism

#Irish edition, pt 1.

#Bosco
C'mon. I'm not asking for "with ice cream" and "at Dublin zoo" variants.

Yet.

#Schillachi
Self explanatory

#SheelaNaGig
Self explanatory. Y'know this one'll get use.

"megalithic tomb"
If you stand really far away gardeners can pretend it means "rockery".

"Aesthetically appealing stout"

"Glass/pint of stout in plastic cup, no head."

[note: previous 2 are not to be implemented as variants. They have no similarities]

Pleased to have a new poem in this year's *Stony Thursday Book*, based on the Martial Raysse painting *Made in Japan - La grande odalisque*
Big thanks to editor #annemarienichurreain
Looking forward to diving in to read the other poems 💚

#poetry #irishpoetry #ekphrasticpoetry #ekphrasis #martialraysse #Ingres #artafterart #sheelanagig #stonythursday #irishwriting #feministpoetry #dianathehunter #odalisque

#music #musik #musique #musica
#PJHarvey #SheelaNaGig

@dianajspencer Mine too! Doesn't hurt that you also get a #SheelanaGig and a holy well whose water 'is much esteemed by the peasantry for its supposed virtues'. Not a phrase you often hear in a house listing! 😁

This sheela na gig is positioned next to the Watergate Bridge in the medieval walled town of Fethard in County Tipperary. It's certainly a striking looking example.

Ireland has a large number of these enigmatic figures. There has been much debate about their meaning, and you can hear a good discussion with Orla-Peach Power and Gary Dempsey on this episode of #AmplifyArchaeology Podcast:

https://www.abartaheritage.ie/amplify-archaeology-podcast-episode-11-digital-heritage-and-sheela-na-gig-3d/

#SheelaNaGig #Ireland #IrishHistory #Archaeology #medieval #Mastadaoine #Tipperary

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=xkS_R7RDuMc

#music #musica #musique #musik
#PJHarvey #SheelaNaGig

RT @loraob
Ready and waiting for the #SheelaNaGig talk by former @Rathcroghan colleague Gary Dempsey of @DH_Age
#IrishHistory #DigitalHeritage