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#SheelaNaGig

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Going big for this week's and adding a content warning because this is not subtle!

Originally from Clonmel, she now lives in the National Museum in Dublin. Her fingers are dug into her gaping vulva but she doesn't look happy. She looks absolutely raging 🤣

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A fairly well-preserved sheela-na-gig on the medieval church in Killinaboy (Irish: Cill Iníne Baoith "Church of the daughter of Baoth")

On the gable wall there's a Lorraine cross – an unusual feature in Ireland – and behind the ruin is the stump of a round tower

An arched doorway in old church ruins. Above the entrance is a relief sculpture of a sheela-na-gig with a suggestion of facial features that may just be lichen patterns on the stone. Outside the entrance and within the building on the grassy ground are clustered grave slabs and tombstones, some weathered, some relatively new.
The stump of a round tower in the cemetery outside the old church ruins to the left. The tower is 3 or 4 metres tall and 4 or 5 metres across, rounded on top with grass growing on it. Tombstones surround it, and the sky is moodily overcast.
#SheelaNaGig#SheelaSaturday#Burren
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Today we bring you a 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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Stone slab with a faded carving of a Sheela na Gig. The facial features are faded but the prominent ears can still be seen, as can the arms and the groove of her vulva. At Cashel palace hotel, Co Tipperary
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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 😍

created by Project Sheela
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Ceramic Sheela na Gig with face, breasts and hands clutching a gaping, blue glass vulva. Damaged arms and corners of surrounding plaque. Created by Project Sheela, located at City Quay, Dublin.
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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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The Wild GeesAbout the Wild Gees | The Wild GeesThe wild gees are three women on a mission - to seek out and explore women's histories, prehistories and mythologies and share our adventures
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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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The Wild Gees with the fake Sheela na Gig on the gates of Arbour Hill, Dublin
A fake Sheela na Gig on the wall of Grangegorman, Dublin, placed there by a guerrilla art project
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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 😍

The tower of St Mary's Church in Crumlin with a fake Sheela na Gig
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Who's in the mood for a 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 trips
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The Sheela na Gig at Behy, Co Sligo is a stone carving of a female figure. She is painted brownish-red and an area around her vulva and belly is worn away due to generations of women rubbing it to obtain fertility.
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edition, pt 1.


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

Yet.


Self explanatory


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


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

Aesthetically appealing pint of

Pint of stout in plastic cup with no head

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

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