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avalard

I'm a freelance film historian, writer, broadcaster and visual artist from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Fond of the strange, unusual and obsolete.

Seldom found without a camera and a notebook.

I'm co-director of CinePunked, an organisation that uses film to educate and stimulate conversation through events and podcasts.

http://linktr.ee/avalard

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Los Angeles, California

The Many Plaques of Buster Keaton Studios

The silent film master's legacy commemorated in all the right and wrong places.

tralfamadore

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Poveglia Plague Island

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

Giant Hands of Venice’s Grand Canal

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

lewblank

Added by lewblank

San Servolo Insane Asylum Museum

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

The Flooded Crypt of San Zaccaria

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

Added by zackofalltrades

Charlie Chaplin's Vacation Statue

An Irish town has built a statue to a silent film actor simply thanks to the holidays he once spent there.

Added by wenmia

Proleek Dolmen

A mysterious Neolithic tomb is perched along the edge of a modern golf course.

Added by loodie

Addergoole Titanic Monument

This small Irish village suffered the greatest loss of life when the Titanic sank.

Added by Mylesnag

Wicklow, Ireland

Howard Mausoleum Pyramid

On the Irish coast, 18 members of the Howard family are eternally resting in an Egyptian pyramid.

Dylan

Wicklow, Ireland

Kilmacurragh House

Oliver Cromwell once seized the land under this house, which included the ruins of a medieval abbey that the owner used to build his stately home.

UrbexJunkie

Added by UrbexJunkie

Wicklow, Ireland

Seefin Passage Tomb

This 5,300-year-old tomb with mysterious carvings crowns an Irish mountain.

noeldonnellon

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Kinnitty Pyramid

This burial pyramid in central Ireland is thousands of miles and thousands of years away from its Egyptian inspiration.

Added by sheraciara

Doolin Cave

This controversial Irish show cave is home to a massive formation known as the Great Stalactite.

Added by mikekeyes

Kilkenny, Ireland

Old Red Iron Bridge

Once the longest bridge in Ireland, this rusting span sits abandoned and overrun by nature.

UrbexJunkie

Added by UrbexJunkie

Leixlip, Ireland

The Wonderful Barn

A corkscrew-shaped barn in Ireland.

Added by NathanRisinger

Mound of the Hostages

An ancient neolithic tomb that only sees the sun twice a year.

Shannon Ohaire

Added by Shannon Ohaire

Grangewilliam, Ireland

Conolly's Folly

Obelisks and stone pineapples in the Irish countryside.

Added by NathanRisinger

Galway, Ireland

Dun Aonghasa

An Iron Age fort on the edge of a seaside cliff offers a glimpse into an ancient, mystical world.

Added by linzy383

The Lost Town of Newtown Jerpoint (Jerpoint Park)

Local legend says the remains of Father Christmas lie within the medieval grounds.

listeningdaisy

Added by listeningdaisy

Rosscarbery, Ireland

Drombeg Stone Circle

One of the most popular megalithic sites in Ireland stands as a humbler version of Stonehenge.

Valerie

Added by Valerie

Skellig Michael

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

Added by humanist

Knocknakilla Stone Circle

Just another ancient, mysterious Irish stone circle.

Added by BikeGeek

Benbulben Barite Mine

The remains of this deep, dark mine have left behind a haunting rocky warren of tunnels.

UrbexJunkie

Added by UrbexJunkie

Cornwall, England

Mên-an-Tol (Circle Stone)

A circle stone within a stone circle.

rachaelcosta

Added by rachaelcosta