Michael Waldron

Read “Orbiting” by Allan Hepburn ahead of the publication of Elizabeth Bowen in Context, his exciting edited volume from @universitypress.cambridge.org Very honoured to be among the many brilliant contributors with a chapter on Visuality! cambridgeblog.org/2026/03/orbi...

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Farewell, Walter Koenig ✨ His portrayal of the ever boyish Pavel Chekov on #StarTrek spanned decades and made him a TV icon, but his menacing Alfred Bester on #Babylon5 showed his range as an actor. Suaimhneas síoraí dó, in éineacht le Judy agus Andrew.

The Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence (O.J.A.I.) was founded in 2015 by Chris Dreier and Gary Farrelly. ‘Operational Overview’, (2026) is a large-scale wall map produced in collaboration with Alexander Pfeiffenberger. Here, the Mid-West is cast as the centre of the world.

Plus ça change… RTÉ Archives: Campaign To Save The Marsh, 18 October 1973

Hat tip to @mikemoynihanex.bsky.social who has attempted to get answers from the local authority on their treatment of heritage items and protected buildings in Blackpool. #Cork www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Today we're embracing the autumnal vibes with this beautifully atmospheric work by Charles MacIver Grierson. 🍂 Potato Diggers in the West (1903) does a fantastic job of capturing the late autumn light, setting the painting's primary palette of earthy browns and greens against the intense orange

”Falsehood flies & truth comes limping after it.” Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist, Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral Dublin, author of A Tale of a Tub, Gulliver's Travels, died #OTD 1745; champion of liberty, whose Saeva Indignatio inspired Voltaire, Yeats, Joyce, Orwell. Trinity College Dublin

🍎 I’ve always loved this work by Daniel Maclise, the oil painting of which is in a private collection, but was exhibited @crawfordartgallery.bsky.social in 2008-09. (The engraving is likely by James Scott). It depicts Fr. “Mat” Horgan’s barn, which Maclise visited with Thomas Crofton Croker!

We're back with the second episode of our new series on The Lace Project! Join our documentation assistant, Evelyn Nuñez, and the #TraditionalLaceMakersofIreland as they walk us through how they are working to conserve the lace patterns in #CrawfordArtGallery's collection. youtu.be/Kpku7qrnbMk

I love spotting fingerprints on terracottas, the physical marks of the ancient artisan. A votive terracotta head like this one was mold-made, but the details were added by hand to individualize each piece. Zoom in to see all of the fingerprints on the brow and chin! 🏺 1/ 📸 me

Based on hitherto unknown writings on nature and the locality in Cork, and translated from the original French by Lara Marlowe - Love of the Land from Sophie Toscan du Plantier is published by @lilliputpress.bsky.social in Nov. Preorder here - thebookshop.ie/sophie-tosca...

Autumn splendour at Doneraile Court 🍂

Yesterday was the birthday of Irish sculptor #JohnHogan and we're celebrating with this beautiful work! 'Hibernia and Brian Boroimhe' (1855) is among the artist’s most political and imaginative works. The sculpture depicts Hibernia, female personification of Ireland, with a young boy, Brian Boru,

'London Characters: Covent Garden Porter' (commission for Underground Electric Railway Company Ltd, 1920) by Elijah Albert Cox (Art Institute Chicago)

For the final day of our canal themed week here's "Red Bridge" by Walter Steggles. The oil painting is a post-war re-working of the image derived from preparatory sketches of the scene from 1931. #WalterSteggles #EastLondonGroup

#TodayInQueerHistory Oct 16 (1854) Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was born #OTD. Oscar set the Victorian stage ablaze with his plays. His novels, like The Picture of Dorian Gray are still enjoyed today. He was arrested on charges of sodomy and gross indecency & spent 2 years in prison.

SEAN CONNERY on location in Jamaica shooting DR. NO (1962) with IAN FLEMING, NOEL COWARD and URSULA ANDRESS

Beauford Delaney, James Baldwin, c. 1945-50. A scintillating portrait of the acclaimed writer, vibrant with joyful color

‘One of Toor’s earliest green night-time scenes, The Bar on East 13th is also his first clearly homoerotic work – his ‘coming out through paint’ as he puts it.’ Encountering the work of Salman Toor was one of my highlights of the Venice Biennale in 2024. Dazzling, hypnotic.

Gregory Peck with a copy of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prizewinning novel on the set of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962)

Portrait of Oscar Wilde

'Dorinda.' (1934) Gerald Brockhurst undertook a closed, intensive method to his drawing, the intense painter-to-sitter encounter in the studio of rigorous observation. It was a path taken by Lucian Freud, Auerbach, Kossoff and Euan Uglow. With thanks to the Philip Mould Gallery.

Seeing the original Pride flag, dyed, stitched and flown by Gilbert Bake et al was a magical moment. This piece of fabric is blazing beacon of hope for so many of us, our gayeaux tapestry, telling our stories and proclaiming our existence. It's in Cork Public Museum at the moment :)

Cork! You've been so wonderful! @michaelwaldron.bsky.social was such a fun interviewer and the team at Waterstones were fabulous. I can't wait to visit again when the Crawford Art Gallery reopens

John Hogan, Irish neoclassical sculptor recognised as one of the foremost artists of 19th-century Ireland for his marble religious figures & public monuments was born in #Waterford #Onthisday 1800 & spent his formative years in #Cork📸The Dead Christ South Parish Cork

Dazzle camouflage was created during WW1 to protect British ships from German artillery - it works by making it difficult to estimate range of speed and heading. Edward Wadsworth supervised the design of of the camouflage patterns. This is his 'Dazzle Ships in Drydock,' from 1919

In Herbert Badham's 'The Night Bus,' (1943) the interior lights highlight the different figures and their gestures, all still, fixed in the moment. A woman reads a magazine, a man smokes, the conductor chats to a passenger.

It’s time for a cheeky crossover! 🍑 Today is the anniversary of Antonio Canova (1757-1822), the leading Neoclassical sculptor of his generation. The origins of our collection can be traced back to a set of plaster casts of Classical sculpture and three of Canova’s own creations.

#TodayInQueerHistory Oct 12 (1998) After being beaten, tortured and left for dead near Laramie on October 6, Matthew Shepard died from his injuries. Matthew's tragic murder brought attention to how hate crime was dealt with in the US. Mathew is memorialised on the National LGBTQ Wall of Honour.

‘Not hear it?—yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long—long—long—many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it…’ 🕷️💀 We’re continuing our #SpookySeason theme with this haunting #HarryClarke illustration of a scene from ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’! 🦇

At a loose end this Tuesday evening!? Come to Waterstones (Cork) at 18:30 as I chat with @jackshoulder.bsky.social about Hotties in Art, the very tasty successor to @museumbums.bsky.social. Let’s fall head over heels together for some of art’s finest specimens! www.waterstones.com/events/hotti...

#HarryClarke’s original pen-and-ink illustration for Poe’s Ligeia has been in @crawfordartgallery.bsky.social’s collection since 1924. We also have The Pit and Pendulum, and watercolours for The Fall of the House of Usher, Marie Rogêt, and The Colloquy of Monos and Una 🖤

👻 It's officially #spookyseason! All month long, we're diving into the collection for works that are creepy, eerie, atmospheric and perhaps just the right amount of unsettling. First up: Patrick Graham's Clinical Pretence - Mental Obsession (1982). What do you see when you look at it? 👁️

Eva Marie Saint, star of North by Northwest and On the Waterfront, dies aged 102

It's #SpaceWeek in Ireland, so we're celebrating with this cosmic bit of crockery! #CrawfordArtGallery #SpaceWeek2026 CAG.0784 Spanish Plate or Tazza (with star and crescent moon motif), 18th century, tin-glazed earthenware, diameter 27 cm. Donated, Joseph Stafford Gibson, 1919 (Gibson Bequest).

Pedestrian crossing, London, 1935, by John H. Ahern.

90 years ago, the Jarrow Crusaders marched nearly 300 miles to London in protest at unemployment and poverty. Thomas Cantrell Dugdale’s 1936 painting captures their arrival from a Piccadilly interior (possibly the Ritz).

Gundakar, Prince of Dietrichstein b. 1623, d. 1690 By Jan Thomas, 1667 (Kunsthistorische Museum Wien) Beat that.

#OnThisDay is the feast of St. Francis, this is Broad Lane Church in 1946 which was replaced by St. Francis Church Liberty St mid 20th century #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike📸Photos of #Cork

A doodle (possibly drawn from life?) in a 17th-century book of Virgil's poetry

'Speed', Regent Street (1922) by Claude Flight (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Hand-coloured plum trees from a 16th century herbal #NationalTreeDay