Cathy McGlynn
@cathymcglynn.bsky.social
Music therapist, Parkinsongs choir, Melodies Memory dementia choir. Devourer of books, recovering academic, PhD on James Joyce. Fierce feminist mama. 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸
This put a lump in my throat. Love your libraries.
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
This put a lump in my throat. Love your libraries.
Reposted by Cathy McGlynn
Hello our International Readers👋🏼 Do you have people in Ireland you'd like to send a book (or three) to but are hesitating because of the price of postage and/or a concern about the parcel getting caught in Customs? We can help! >> 1/3
(🎨Anna Shuttleworth whose cards we stock)
(🎨Anna Shuttleworth whose cards we stock)
November 4, 2023 at 4:21 PM
Hello our International Readers👋🏼 Do you have people in Ireland you'd like to send a book (or three) to but are hesitating because of the price of postage and/or a concern about the parcel getting caught in Customs? We can help! >> 1/3
(🎨Anna Shuttleworth whose cards we stock)
(🎨Anna Shuttleworth whose cards we stock)
Reposted by Cathy McGlynn
Michael D Higgins leaving office this evening to make way for his successor, Michael E Higgins
November 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Michael D Higgins leaving office this evening to make way for his successor, Michael E Higgins
Reposted by Cathy McGlynn
Just paid the aul' income tax for the year and consequently have about two beans left to rub together, so if you've been looking for a bit of Irish art now's a very good time to buy. It's this or train the crows to rob billionaires and I'm running out of cheese bribes
A cost-of-living crisis isn't the easiest time to sell art, but: www.ciaraioch.com is where you can support my work, with each archival-quality print on textured heavy paper being produced here in Ireland, shipping internationally in eco-friendly packaging, with free mini-treats in every order 🎁
November 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Just paid the aul' income tax for the year and consequently have about two beans left to rub together, so if you've been looking for a bit of Irish art now's a very good time to buy. It's this or train the crows to rob billionaires and I'm running out of cheese bribes
Finished The Towers of Trebizond, thanks to @stuckinabook.bsky.social recent Rose McCaulay rankings and I just loved it! A wonderfully clever parodic take on colonial travel writing. So many quotable laugh-out-loud passages. Can’t wait to read more of her work! #📚💙 #BookSky
November 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Finished The Towers of Trebizond, thanks to @stuckinabook.bsky.social recent Rose McCaulay rankings and I just loved it! A wonderfully clever parodic take on colonial travel writing. So many quotable laugh-out-loud passages. Can’t wait to read more of her work! #📚💙 #BookSky
Reposted by Cathy McGlynn
thebookshop.ie/james-joyce-...
Copies in stock now, ahead of release date next week! A VERY handsome edition of Joyce's The Dead, from @newislandbooks.bsky.social , and introduced by @nualaoconnor.bsky.social . Get one!
Copies in stock now, ahead of release date next week! A VERY handsome edition of Joyce's The Dead, from @newislandbooks.bsky.social , and introduced by @nualaoconnor.bsky.social . Get one!
November 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
thebookshop.ie/james-joyce-...
Copies in stock now, ahead of release date next week! A VERY handsome edition of Joyce's The Dead, from @newislandbooks.bsky.social , and introduced by @nualaoconnor.bsky.social . Get one!
Copies in stock now, ahead of release date next week! A VERY handsome edition of Joyce's The Dead, from @newislandbooks.bsky.social , and introduced by @nualaoconnor.bsky.social . Get one!
‘There’s no Ringo in the Brontës and that is why the Beatles are better than the Brontës’. This glorious episode of @backlisted.bsky.social is all a Beatles-Brontës fangirl could want in a niche books podcast (said no one ever before now)
Hallowe'en special up now. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, with guests Andrew Male and Laura Varnam in conversation with Una McCormack and Andy Miller. 🌬️🎃🧟 @andrewmale.bsky.social @drlauravarnam.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/0Zde...
open.spotify.com/episode/0Zde...
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
open.spotify.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:49 AM
‘There’s no Ringo in the Brontës and that is why the Beatles are better than the Brontës’. This glorious episode of @backlisted.bsky.social is all a Beatles-Brontës fangirl could want in a niche books podcast (said no one ever before now)
Reposted by Cathy McGlynn
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Great episode from @mookse.bsky.social and @bibliopaul.bsky.social on reading slumps and how to get out of them. Lovely to hear all the love for @iammilliam.bsky.social too - I recommend The Year of Reading Dangerously whenever I can!
We have a new episode today on reading slumps! What triggers them? How do we cope? @bibliopaul.bsky.social and I have some ideas: open.substack.com/pub/mookse/p...
Episode 117: Losing the Plot: On Reading Slumps and How We Find Our Way Back
We’ve all been there: the books are piled high, but nothing calls out.
open.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Great episode from @mookse.bsky.social and @bibliopaul.bsky.social on reading slumps and how to get out of them. Lovely to hear all the love for @iammilliam.bsky.social too - I recommend The Year of Reading Dangerously whenever I can!
Children of the 80s, enjoy!
Ever wondered where all the Cheers title photos are from? I did. And I've gathered everything I can find into this post. That was fun.
joelmorris.substack.com/p/where-nobo...
joelmorris.substack.com/p/where-nobo...
Where nobody knows your name...
Tracing the anonymous faces at the start of Cheers.
joelmorris.substack.com
October 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Children of the 80s, enjoy!
Brilliant to see this. I get so weary from the massive waste and cost to the environment that is caused by purchase of cheap Halloween costumes that are only worn once. Would be great to see this take off in other areas, kudos to @marthafanning.bsky.social
A fabulous initiative from Blackrock Councillor @marthafanning.bsky.social - next Saturday at Urban Junction (just up the road from us) 👻🎃🧙♀️
October 5, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Brilliant to see this. I get so weary from the massive waste and cost to the environment that is caused by purchase of cheap Halloween costumes that are only worn once. Would be great to see this take off in other areas, kudos to @marthafanning.bsky.social
Reposted by Cathy McGlynn
“The bogs, rivers, mountains, and shorelines are more than preservers of old myths, bones, and memories. They are energy banks and time sponges, and what is held within them seeks release.”
As were you Manchán. As were you.
Tá mo croí briste. Go dté tú slán, a chara.
As were you Manchán. As were you.
Tá mo croí briste. Go dté tú slán, a chara.
October 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
“The bogs, rivers, mountains, and shorelines are more than preservers of old myths, bones, and memories. They are energy banks and time sponges, and what is held within them seeks release.”
As were you Manchán. As were you.
Tá mo croí briste. Go dté tú slán, a chara.
As were you Manchán. As were you.
Tá mo croí briste. Go dté tú slán, a chara.
Reposted by Cathy McGlynn
Manchán’s sustainable lifestyle was more than idealism it was committed practice. His legacy asks: What sustainable act will you plant today?
In his memory, I’ll plant these native flowers this weekend.
I invite you to share one small biodiversity action you’ll take? #speirgorm
In his memory, I’ll plant these native flowers this weekend.
I invite you to share one small biodiversity action you’ll take? #speirgorm
October 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Manchán’s sustainable lifestyle was more than idealism it was committed practice. His legacy asks: What sustainable act will you plant today?
In his memory, I’ll plant these native flowers this weekend.
I invite you to share one small biodiversity action you’ll take? #speirgorm
In his memory, I’ll plant these native flowers this weekend.
I invite you to share one small biodiversity action you’ll take? #speirgorm
Was so looking forward to #HouseOfGuinness and I absolutely hated it. Interesting that the critical reviews widely vary and I’m wondering about the experience of watching this as an Irish vs non-Irish person. It felt stagey, clichèd and depicting Fenians as leprechauns was unforgivable.
September 27, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Was so looking forward to #HouseOfGuinness and I absolutely hated it. Interesting that the critical reviews widely vary and I’m wondering about the experience of watching this as an Irish vs non-Irish person. It felt stagey, clichèd and depicting Fenians as leprechauns was unforgivable.
Can’t recommend this training highly enough to anyone in Ireland working in the area of singing and health, especially those working with people with Parkinson’s disease. It’s been transformative for my Parkinsongs choir. @singtobeat.bsky.social
If you’re interested in learning about singing for people with Parkinson’s, we’d love you to join us for our training course next month in Dublin! The course takes place from 11am - 5pm on the 18th October. We hope to see you there!
September 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Can’t recommend this training highly enough to anyone in Ireland working in the area of singing and health, especially those working with people with Parkinson’s disease. It’s been transformative for my Parkinsongs choir. @singtobeat.bsky.social
Words to live by here from Barbara Pym’s Excellent Women on spaghetti’s threat to romance.
#SpinsterSeptember
#SpinsterSeptember
September 12, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Words to live by here from Barbara Pym’s Excellent Women on spaghetti’s threat to romance.
#SpinsterSeptember
#SpinsterSeptember
Reposted by Cathy McGlynn
Arte has a series of 12 min shorts on conflicts.
The one about Rosa Luxemburg vs. Friedrich Ebert is really worth it, to remind you on how centrist betrayal allowed fascism to rise.
www.arte.tv/en/videos/10...
The one about Rosa Luxemburg vs. Friedrich Ebert is really worth it, to remind you on how centrist betrayal allowed fascism to rise.
www.arte.tv/en/videos/10...
Duels of History - Rosa Luxembourg vs. Friedrich Ebert - Watch the full documentary | ARTE in English
Why does the figure of revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg continue to shine whilst Friedrich Ebert, Social Democrat and President of the Weimar Republic, remains a traitor to the German people?
www.arte.tv
August 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Arte has a series of 12 min shorts on conflicts.
The one about Rosa Luxemburg vs. Friedrich Ebert is really worth it, to remind you on how centrist betrayal allowed fascism to rise.
www.arte.tv/en/videos/10...
The one about Rosa Luxemburg vs. Friedrich Ebert is really worth it, to remind you on how centrist betrayal allowed fascism to rise.
www.arte.tv/en/videos/10...
Reposted by Cathy McGlynn
At least when they tried to nab Kneecap the supposed offence was “committed” in the UK. But Irish Sally Rooney can do whatever the fuck she wants with her Irish Euros in the independent Republic of Ireland, so what is he on about?
Keir Starmer's spokesman asked about author Sally Rooney's plans to donate her royalties to Palestine Action, says that supporting the group is a terrorist offence and "obviously the police will implement the law"
August 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
At least when they tried to nab Kneecap the supposed offence was “committed” in the UK. But Irish Sally Rooney can do whatever the fuck she wants with her Irish Euros in the independent Republic of Ireland, so what is he on about?
Building my collection of 1930s compliments - this again from Dorothy L Sayers:
‘She thinks I’m the world’s eighth wonder. Absolutely the lobster’s dress-shirt’.
(Side note: Murder Must Advertise focuses a bit on Bright Young Things shenanigans and I am in heaven)
#BookSky 💙📚
‘She thinks I’m the world’s eighth wonder. Absolutely the lobster’s dress-shirt’.
(Side note: Murder Must Advertise focuses a bit on Bright Young Things shenanigans and I am in heaven)
#BookSky 💙📚
July 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Building my collection of 1930s compliments - this again from Dorothy L Sayers:
‘She thinks I’m the world’s eighth wonder. Absolutely the lobster’s dress-shirt’.
(Side note: Murder Must Advertise focuses a bit on Bright Young Things shenanigans and I am in heaven)
#BookSky 💙📚
‘She thinks I’m the world’s eighth wonder. Absolutely the lobster’s dress-shirt’.
(Side note: Murder Must Advertise focuses a bit on Bright Young Things shenanigans and I am in heaven)
#BookSky 💙📚
Reposted by Cathy McGlynn
Are Private Eye jokes now... criminal?
PALESTINE Solidarity campaigner Jon Farley was arrested during a silent march in Leeds last weekend. What egregious act had prompted the police to act? He was, er, carrying a Private Eye joke piece as a placard!
(1/2)
PALESTINE Solidarity campaigner Jon Farley was arrested during a silent march in Leeds last weekend. What egregious act had prompted the police to act? He was, er, carrying a Private Eye joke piece as a placard!
(1/2)
July 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Are Private Eye jokes now... criminal?
PALESTINE Solidarity campaigner Jon Farley was arrested during a silent march in Leeds last weekend. What egregious act had prompted the police to act? He was, er, carrying a Private Eye joke piece as a placard!
(1/2)
PALESTINE Solidarity campaigner Jon Farley was arrested during a silent march in Leeds last weekend. What egregious act had prompted the police to act? He was, er, carrying a Private Eye joke piece as a placard!
(1/2)
Reposted by Cathy McGlynn
Alan Cumming on bathroom bills:
"Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."
"Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."
July 22, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Alan Cumming on bathroom bills:
"Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."
"Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."
Such a great episode from @mookse.bsky.social and @bibliopaul.bsky.social
on favourite last lines in novels. I was reminded of books I have loved and as always picked up some great new suggestions. Everything you want from a books podcast! #BookSky 📚💙
on favourite last lines in novels. I was reminded of books I have loved and as always picked up some great new suggestions. Everything you want from a books podcast! #BookSky 📚💙
We have a new episode up! In this one @bibliopaul.bsky.social and I take a look at endings. I hope you’ll let us know some of your favorite endings to books, and why they stood out to you! mookse.substack.com/p/episode-11...
Episode 110: The End: Last Lines That Stick the Landing
How do you wrap up a great book?
mookse.substack.com
July 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Such a great episode from @mookse.bsky.social and @bibliopaul.bsky.social
on favourite last lines in novels. I was reminded of books I have loved and as always picked up some great new suggestions. Everything you want from a books podcast! #BookSky 📚💙
on favourite last lines in novels. I was reminded of books I have loved and as always picked up some great new suggestions. Everything you want from a books podcast! #BookSky 📚💙
Do your thing to support independent bookshops #BookSky
Want some surprise books in the post? Need a new tea towel? Wondering what to send a bookish friend as a gift? Have a look at our lovely online shop - prices include P&P. All helps us and our cashflow hugely too! #BookSky
www.treehousebookshop.co.uk/shop
www.treehousebookshop.co.uk/shop
Shop
www.treehousebookshop.co.uk
July 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Do your thing to support independent bookshops #BookSky
Reposted by Cathy McGlynn
We’re gonna do a big run. 13 of us including @mothermarx.bsky.social will run the length of the Gaza Strip -40km- in relay from Ardagh to Listowel.
We’re raising funds for Palestinian kids and young people visiting Ireland this July.
If you’ve got it to spare…
whydonate.com/fundraising/...
We’re raising funds for Palestinian kids and young people visiting Ireland this July.
If you’ve got it to spare…
whydonate.com/fundraising/...
Fundraiser by El Reid-Buckley | Limerick Greenway Relay for GAA Palestine
El Reid-Buckley Needs Your Help |
whydonate.com
June 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
We’re gonna do a big run. 13 of us including @mothermarx.bsky.social will run the length of the Gaza Strip -40km- in relay from Ardagh to Listowel.
We’re raising funds for Palestinian kids and young people visiting Ireland this July.
If you’ve got it to spare…
whydonate.com/fundraising/...
We’re raising funds for Palestinian kids and young people visiting Ireland this July.
If you’ve got it to spare…
whydonate.com/fundraising/...
Reposted by Cathy McGlynn
Unless you’re a Palestinian queer in which case I’ll enthusiastically help genocide you while saying “Yaaas Queen”
I call on the Hungarian authorities to allow the Budapest Pride to go ahead.
Without fear of any criminal or administrative sanctions against the organisers or participants.
To the LGBTIQ+ community in Hungary and beyond:
I will always be your ally.
Without fear of any criminal or administrative sanctions against the organisers or participants.
To the LGBTIQ+ community in Hungary and beyond:
I will always be your ally.
June 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Unless you’re a Palestinian queer in which case I’ll enthusiastically help genocide you while saying “Yaaas Queen”