Bookaneer808
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Avid reader, bookseller, likes birds & puns.
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Creator of annual #ReadIrishWomenChallenge - runs every April
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📖 Isabelle Nagg & the Pot of Basil by Oliver Darkshire 🐈
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📖 Isabelle Nagg & the Pot of Basil by Oliver Darkshire 🐈
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· Apr 28
What a fab evening! It was phenomenal listening to Nadine O'Regan in conversation with Sinéad Gleeson, Liz Nugent, Elaine Feeney & Roisin O'Donnell as they spoke about their beginnings as authors, their writing process & inspiration with honesty, insight & humour.
We had an engaged audience too!
We had an engaged audience too!
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Be the reason your local independent bookstore stays in business.
November 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Be the reason your local independent bookstore stays in business.
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Here are the Irish MEPs who just sided with the far-right (fascists, racists, sexists, homophobes, climate deniers) from across the EU
They've voted to gut protections that would have made businesses check and report their supply chains for child labour, human rights abuse or nature destruction
They've voted to gut protections that would have made businesses check and report their supply chains for child labour, human rights abuse or nature destruction
November 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Here are the Irish MEPs who just sided with the far-right (fascists, racists, sexists, homophobes, climate deniers) from across the EU
They've voted to gut protections that would have made businesses check and report their supply chains for child labour, human rights abuse or nature destruction
They've voted to gut protections that would have made businesses check and report their supply chains for child labour, human rights abuse or nature destruction
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Mary Manning and her co-workers took dog's abuse from politicians, bosses and the press for 3 years for refusing to handle S. African goods. Today she asks why our govt and chums in big business want to trade with illegal settlements driving Palestinians from their homes
youtube.com/shorts/nvGSz...
youtube.com/shorts/nvGSz...
Irish Worker Inspired Anti-Apartheid Boycott
YouTube video by AJ+
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November 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Mary Manning and her co-workers took dog's abuse from politicians, bosses and the press for 3 years for refusing to handle S. African goods. Today she asks why our govt and chums in big business want to trade with illegal settlements driving Palestinians from their homes
youtube.com/shorts/nvGSz...
youtube.com/shorts/nvGSz...
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Any shares of this much appreciated! When my ex-publishers collapsed, taking over £20,000 of my earnings with them into the void, all my books suffered but none more than 1983. This is me trying to repair that. It’s about:
Childhood
Education
Aliens
Alpacas
The East Midlands
The old future we lost
Childhood
Education
Aliens
Alpacas
The East Midlands
The old future we lost
Hello! My CEO Roscoe and I are giving away TWO signed copies of my novel 1983 to two randomly selected people who repost this & pop a reply below. You also get a free postcard of this illustration of Roscoe by my mum.
It’s been called “Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut & Sue Townsend”…
It’s been called “Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut & Sue Townsend”…
November 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Any shares of this much appreciated! When my ex-publishers collapsed, taking over £20,000 of my earnings with them into the void, all my books suffered but none more than 1983. This is me trying to repair that. It’s about:
Childhood
Education
Aliens
Alpacas
The East Midlands
The old future we lost
Childhood
Education
Aliens
Alpacas
The East Midlands
The old future we lost
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Popping this in for context: www.thejournal.ie/new-book-lor...
New claims Mountbatten sexually abused children from notorious Belfast boys' home
A new book, ‘Kincora: Britain’s Shame’, alleges that MI5 and the British political establishment covered up abuse that took place at Kincora.
www.thejournal.ie
November 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Popping this in for context: www.thejournal.ie/new-book-lor...
October 24, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot
The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:40 AM
To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A cynical person might suggest that - just as with the recent huge ecocide on the river Blackwater - nobody will ever face consequences for this www.thejournal.ie/cork-tree-fe...
Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork
The Department of Agriculture has been formally alerted to the incident by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.
www.thejournal.ie
October 12, 2025 at 9:32 AM
A cynical person might suggest that - just as with the recent huge ecocide on the river Blackwater - nobody will ever face consequences for this www.thejournal.ie/cork-tree-fe...
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Israel's cheerleaders have opportunistically seized on a heinous antisemitic attack to silence opponents of genocide.
Our freedoms are being stolen - and we are headed to a very dark place.
New column 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Our freedoms are being stolen - and we are headed to a very dark place.
New column 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It starts with Palestine protests. But where will the crackdown on Britain’s democratic freedoms end? | Owen Jones
In making dissent a privilege, not a right, Labour is crafting a repressive toolkit. Imagine it in the hands of a Farage government, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
www.theguardian.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Israel's cheerleaders have opportunistically seized on a heinous antisemitic attack to silence opponents of genocide.
Our freedoms are being stolen - and we are headed to a very dark place.
New column 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Our freedoms are being stolen - and we are headed to a very dark place.
New column 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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If you’re not talking about infrastructure, you’re not talking about Ireland in 2025.
Between housing, water, power, transport - a vast amount of problems for our society and the economy and they deepen exponentially.
Between housing, water, power, transport - a vast amount of problems for our society and the economy and they deepen exponentially.
September 18, 2025 at 6:08 AM
If you’re not talking about infrastructure, you’re not talking about Ireland in 2025.
Between housing, water, power, transport - a vast amount of problems for our society and the economy and they deepen exponentially.
Between housing, water, power, transport - a vast amount of problems for our society and the economy and they deepen exponentially.
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I can add so many things - the Crystal Palace dinosaurs, Tooting lido (I’d choose it over Brockwell), the view from Streatham Common (Van Gogh loved it too), the Ikea towers of Croydon, Battersea Park & its zoo, John Soane’s museum, the Inns of Court, Bloomsbury, the Barbican, the wobbly bridge…
September 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I can add so many things - the Crystal Palace dinosaurs, Tooting lido (I’d choose it over Brockwell), the view from Streatham Common (Van Gogh loved it too), the Ikea towers of Croydon, Battersea Park & its zoo, John Soane’s museum, the Inns of Court, Bloomsbury, the Barbican, the wobbly bridge…
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Projections of U.S. President Donald Trump, Britain's Prince Andrew and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were put on display against the walls of Windsor Castle while Trump was in Britain for a state visit.
September 17, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Projections of U.S. President Donald Trump, Britain's Prince Andrew and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were put on display against the walls of Windsor Castle while Trump was in Britain for a state visit.
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For the people in the back, bigotry is not an opinion…
September 12, 2025 at 3:10 AM
For the people in the back, bigotry is not an opinion…
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Eurovision boycott …
September 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Eurovision boycott …
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Bus stop near the U.S. Embassy in London….straight to the point!
September 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Bus stop near the U.S. Embassy in London….straight to the point!
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When fascism is on the rise, to look away is to be complicit
September 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
When fascism is on the rise, to look away is to be complicit
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Well, there's a thing.
New research from Oxford University says that misleading media coverage is shaping UK public debate on immigration, human rights and the European Convention on Human Rights #ECHR👇
🔗 www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-09... via @bonavero.bsky.social
New research from Oxford University says that misleading media coverage is shaping UK public debate on immigration, human rights and the European Convention on Human Rights #ECHR👇
🔗 www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-09... via @bonavero.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Well, there's a thing.
New research from Oxford University says that misleading media coverage is shaping UK public debate on immigration, human rights and the European Convention on Human Rights #ECHR👇
🔗 www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-09... via @bonavero.bsky.social
New research from Oxford University says that misleading media coverage is shaping UK public debate on immigration, human rights and the European Convention on Human Rights #ECHR👇
🔗 www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-09... via @bonavero.bsky.social
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Why I withdrew my book from an LGBTQ+ literary prize | Jason Okundaye
Why I withdrew my book from an LGBTQ+ literary prize | Jason Okundaye
The Polari first book prize claims to promote trans rights and trans voices. But when I saw the longlist, I had to act, says Guardian writer Jason Okundaye
www.theguardian.com
August 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Why I withdrew my book from an LGBTQ+ literary prize | Jason Okundaye
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Oystercatchers. A wonderful automata by Penny Thomson.
August 16, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Oystercatchers. A wonderful automata by Penny Thomson.
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Imagine it's 1850 and you've just been flattened by an elite cavalry officer who just yells "SOWWY" as he thunders away.
![Screenshot of a tweet:
British cavalry in the 1850s consisted entirely of twinks who used UwU-speak...
[Photo of a book page] "The dash of British cavalry officers was never greater than at the opening of the Crimean campaign in the spring of 1854. These aristocratic horsemen were, in the idiom of the day, "plungers," "tremendous swells." They affected elegant boredom, yawned a great deal, spoke a jargon of their own, pronouncing "r" as "w," saying "vewwy," "howwid," and "sowwy," and interlarded sentences with loud and meaningless exclamations of "Haw, haw." Their sweeping whiskers, languid voices, tiny waists, laced in by corsets, and their large cigars were irresistible, frantically admired, and as frantically envied. Magnificently mounted, horses were their passion; they rode like the devil himself, and their confidence in their ability to defeat any enemy single-handed was com-plete. Cavalry officers were saying in London drawing-rooms that to take infantry on the campaign was superfluous; the infantry would merely be a drag on them, and had better be left at
home."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uqonrv6u7reqli3kksljamwr/bafkreifqd3kvkwqy6k2vuajha3vrughks5bfvl72vglbaywl7nnzyxwqp4@jpeg)
August 15, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Imagine it's 1850 and you've just been flattened by an elite cavalry officer who just yells "SOWWY" as he thunders away.
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Yee have done it again! Thank you so much to everyone who keeps donating to the campaign. It's been a whole week now, we're at the halfway mark.
www.ruthennis.com/irish-kidlit...
@sineadohart.bsky.social
www.ruthennis.com/irish-kidlit...
@sineadohart.bsky.social
August 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Yee have done it again! Thank you so much to everyone who keeps donating to the campaign. It's been a whole week now, we're at the halfway mark.
www.ruthennis.com/irish-kidlit...
@sineadohart.bsky.social
www.ruthennis.com/irish-kidlit...
@sineadohart.bsky.social
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Today we are launching the Irish KidLit for Palestine Fundraiser in support of Medical Aid for Palestinians (@medicalaidpal.bsky.social)
Running from 4th August to 17th August 2025.
You can check out the fundraiser at www.ruthennis.com/irish-kidlit-for-palestine
@sineadohart.bsky.social
Running from 4th August to 17th August 2025.
You can check out the fundraiser at www.ruthennis.com/irish-kidlit-for-palestine
@sineadohart.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Today we are launching the Irish KidLit for Palestine Fundraiser in support of Medical Aid for Palestinians (@medicalaidpal.bsky.social)
Running from 4th August to 17th August 2025.
You can check out the fundraiser at www.ruthennis.com/irish-kidlit-for-palestine
@sineadohart.bsky.social
Running from 4th August to 17th August 2025.
You can check out the fundraiser at www.ruthennis.com/irish-kidlit-for-palestine
@sineadohart.bsky.social
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Read my latest:
Gaza is starving
Palestinians seeking food are being killed by the IDF. It's time for the entire world to say enough.
www.thehandbasket.co
July 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Read my latest:
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Our latest selection of Recommended Irish Reads in partnership with Eason is now live!
Check out the selection here and let us know what you're going to read next below! ⬇️
childrensbooksireland.ie/news-events/...
Check out the selection here and let us know what you're going to read next below! ⬇️
childrensbooksireland.ie/news-events/...
July 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Our latest selection of Recommended Irish Reads in partnership with Eason is now live!
Check out the selection here and let us know what you're going to read next below! ⬇️
childrensbooksireland.ie/news-events/...
Check out the selection here and let us know what you're going to read next below! ⬇️
childrensbooksireland.ie/news-events/...
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Folks, we are excited to give you all a FANTASTIC chance to win a pair of tickets to the Special Preview Screening of Marvel Studios The Fantastic Four: First Steps!
The exclusive screening will be held the evening ofTuesday July 22nd at the Odeon Point Square!
Details of how to enter below!
The exclusive screening will be held the evening ofTuesday July 22nd at the Odeon Point Square!
Details of how to enter below!
July 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Folks, we are excited to give you all a FANTASTIC chance to win a pair of tickets to the Special Preview Screening of Marvel Studios The Fantastic Four: First Steps!
The exclusive screening will be held the evening ofTuesday July 22nd at the Odeon Point Square!
Details of how to enter below!
The exclusive screening will be held the evening ofTuesday July 22nd at the Odeon Point Square!
Details of how to enter below!