Eva
@evaduffy.bsky.social
UK-based Dubliner 🇮🇪
Bookworm
Head of communications- chartered CIPR communicator - former journalist
Bookworm
Head of communications- chartered CIPR communicator - former journalist
What I’ve been reading in 2025:
1. The Bees by Laline Paull
2. Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
3. The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
4. Goodlord by Ella Frears
5. Nightingale Point by Luan Goldie
6. Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
7. The Visitor by Maeve Brennan
1. The Bees by Laline Paull
2. Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
3. The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
4. Goodlord by Ella Frears
5. Nightingale Point by Luan Goldie
6. Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
7. The Visitor by Maeve Brennan
May 5, 2025 at 7:47 AM
What I’ve been reading in 2025:
1. The Bees by Laline Paull
2. Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
3. The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
4. Goodlord by Ella Frears
5. Nightingale Point by Luan Goldie
6. Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
7. The Visitor by Maeve Brennan
1. The Bees by Laline Paull
2. Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
3. The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
4. Goodlord by Ella Frears
5. Nightingale Point by Luan Goldie
6. Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
7. The Visitor by Maeve Brennan
Fantastic afternoon hearing from two of my favourite contemporary writers, Eimear McBride and Kevin Barry, at the Cambridge Literary Festival, lead expertly in conversation by @newstatesman.com’s Tom Gatti 📚
April 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Fantastic afternoon hearing from two of my favourite contemporary writers, Eimear McBride and Kevin Barry, at the Cambridge Literary Festival, lead expertly in conversation by @newstatesman.com’s Tom Gatti 📚
@ronanhession.bsky.social well done - New York Public Library’s book of the day!
March 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
@ronanhession.bsky.social well done - New York Public Library’s book of the day!
Reposted by Eva
Which animals have you spotted on our pondcam?
Our pondcam live stream focuses on one of the Hampstead Heath ponds. It is played for patients to ease the stresses of waiting to be seen in the oncology clinic at the Royal Free Hospital.
📺Watch live at the link in our bio!
#NHS #nature #Hampstead
Our pondcam live stream focuses on one of the Hampstead Heath ponds. It is played for patients to ease the stresses of waiting to be seen in the oncology clinic at the Royal Free Hospital.
📺Watch live at the link in our bio!
#NHS #nature #Hampstead
March 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Which animals have you spotted on our pondcam?
Our pondcam live stream focuses on one of the Hampstead Heath ponds. It is played for patients to ease the stresses of waiting to be seen in the oncology clinic at the Royal Free Hospital.
📺Watch live at the link in our bio!
#NHS #nature #Hampstead
Our pondcam live stream focuses on one of the Hampstead Heath ponds. It is played for patients to ease the stresses of waiting to be seen in the oncology clinic at the Royal Free Hospital.
📺Watch live at the link in our bio!
#NHS #nature #Hampstead
Virginia Woolf, Vanessa’s sister, did the same artistic magpie act: her novel Mrs Dalloway - stream of consciousness covering one day in one woman’s life - “inspired by” James Joyce’s Ulysses despite Woolf declaring it ”an illiterate, underbred book … the book of a self-taught working man…”
First exhibition of 2025 - Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour. Superbly-curated but Bell’s work felt hugely derivative - her style veering erratically between Rembrandt, Cézanne, Matisse, even a nod to Kandinsky - without mastering any.
Textbook class privilege.
📸 @davidbevan.bsky.social
Textbook class privilege.
📸 @davidbevan.bsky.social
January 6, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Virginia Woolf, Vanessa’s sister, did the same artistic magpie act: her novel Mrs Dalloway - stream of consciousness covering one day in one woman’s life - “inspired by” James Joyce’s Ulysses despite Woolf declaring it ”an illiterate, underbred book … the book of a self-taught working man…”
First exhibition of 2025 - Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour. Superbly-curated but Bell’s work felt hugely derivative - her style veering erratically between Rembrandt, Cézanne, Matisse, even a nod to Kandinsky - without mastering any.
Textbook class privilege.
📸 @davidbevan.bsky.social
Textbook class privilege.
📸 @davidbevan.bsky.social
January 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
First exhibition of 2025 - Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour. Superbly-curated but Bell’s work felt hugely derivative - her style veering erratically between Rembrandt, Cézanne, Matisse, even a nod to Kandinsky - without mastering any.
Textbook class privilege.
📸 @davidbevan.bsky.social
Textbook class privilege.
📸 @davidbevan.bsky.social
Loving the 25% increase on the cost of a bus trip into town.
Happy Back To Work Day to all who are participating - and a shout out to all the bus drivers explaining government price caps to disgruntled passengers.
Happy Back To Work Day to all who are participating - and a shout out to all the bus drivers explaining government price caps to disgruntled passengers.
January 2, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Loving the 25% increase on the cost of a bus trip into town.
Happy Back To Work Day to all who are participating - and a shout out to all the bus drivers explaining government price caps to disgruntled passengers.
Happy Back To Work Day to all who are participating - and a shout out to all the bus drivers explaining government price caps to disgruntled passengers.
Really love the NHS text message updates telling me where my donated blood has gone. Genius idea.
#GiveBlood
#GiveBlood
January 1, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Really love the NHS text message updates telling me where my donated blood has gone. Genius idea.
#GiveBlood
#GiveBlood
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✨ "With Sincere Good Wishes" ✨
We love this beautiful #Christmas #card from the #HarryClarke and #MargaretClarke Papers, 1860-1991; catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls0....
We love this beautiful #Christmas #card from the #HarryClarke and #MargaretClarke Papers, 1860-1991; catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls0....
December 23, 2024 at 9:43 AM
✨ "With Sincere Good Wishes" ✨
We love this beautiful #Christmas #card from the #HarryClarke and #MargaretClarke Papers, 1860-1991; catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls0....
We love this beautiful #Christmas #card from the #HarryClarke and #MargaretClarke Papers, 1860-1991; catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls0....
December 23, 2024 at 1:50 PM
A work colleague, who drew my name in our team Secret Santa, heard me raving about the @britishlibrary.bsky.social
Irish Writers Weekend so he researched which writers took part to help his book buying for my present 📚
What wonderful choices!
Irish Writers Weekend so he researched which writers took part to help his book buying for my present 📚
What wonderful choices!
December 14, 2024 at 7:12 AM
A work colleague, who drew my name in our team Secret Santa, heard me raving about the @britishlibrary.bsky.social
Irish Writers Weekend so he researched which writers took part to help his book buying for my present 📚
What wonderful choices!
Irish Writers Weekend so he researched which writers took part to help his book buying for my present 📚
What wonderful choices!
Ah, you’d miss the subeditors all the same …
December 10, 2024 at 8:57 AM
Ah, you’d miss the subeditors all the same …
December 9, 2024 at 5:12 PM
A poignant coincidence to have been reading Caoilinn Hughes’ The Wild Laughter as UK politicians voted in favour of assisted dying.
Gorgeously written, as you’d expect from a poet-turned-writer, with deliciously dislikeable characters and laugh-out-loud dark humour.
Gorgeously written, as you’d expect from a poet-turned-writer, with deliciously dislikeable characters and laugh-out-loud dark humour.
December 8, 2024 at 9:47 AM
A poignant coincidence to have been reading Caoilinn Hughes’ The Wild Laughter as UK politicians voted in favour of assisted dying.
Gorgeously written, as you’d expect from a poet-turned-writer, with deliciously dislikeable characters and laugh-out-loud dark humour.
Gorgeously written, as you’d expect from a poet-turned-writer, with deliciously dislikeable characters and laugh-out-loud dark humour.
So, Small Things Like These - a Christmas film?
a man with his hand on his chin is wearing a watch and a ring
Alt: Actor Cillian Murphy stokes his chin pensively
media.tenor.com
December 1, 2024 at 2:55 PM
So, Small Things Like These - a Christmas film?
Oh.
Foe-cal
Not Fuh-cal.
Disappointing.
🇮🇪
Foe-cal
Not Fuh-cal.
Disappointing.
🇮🇪
November 28, 2024 at 7:51 AM
Oh.
Foe-cal
Not Fuh-cal.
Disappointing.
🇮🇪
Foe-cal
Not Fuh-cal.
Disappointing.
🇮🇪
What I’ve read in 2024 (so far):
1. Cuddy by Benjamin Myers
2. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
3. Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang
4. The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (trns by Ken Liu)
5. Prophet by Helen MacDonald and Sin Blaché
A thread …
1. Cuddy by Benjamin Myers
2. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
3. Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang
4. The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (trns by Ken Liu)
5. Prophet by Helen MacDonald and Sin Blaché
A thread …
November 24, 2024 at 12:34 PM
What I’ve read in 2024 (so far):
1. Cuddy by Benjamin Myers
2. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
3. Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang
4. The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (trns by Ken Liu)
5. Prophet by Helen MacDonald and Sin Blaché
A thread …
1. Cuddy by Benjamin Myers
2. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
3. Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang
4. The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (trns by Ken Liu)
5. Prophet by Helen MacDonald and Sin Blaché
A thread …
A wonderful day at @britishlibrary.bsky.social for its Irish Writers Weekend in the company of some of my favourite living writers, including Donal Ryan, Eimear McBride and Lisa McInerney. Discovered exciting new writers and poets to check out too.
November 23, 2024 at 9:13 PM
A wonderful day at @britishlibrary.bsky.social for its Irish Writers Weekend in the company of some of my favourite living writers, including Donal Ryan, Eimear McBride and Lisa McInerney. Discovered exciting new writers and poets to check out too.
Looks like Robyn is having so much fun of late, following up a superb summer collaboration with Jamie xx with this brat hilarity:
“I started so young
I didn’t even have email”
open.spotify.com/track/0VYJse...
“I started so young
I didn’t even have email”
open.spotify.com/track/0VYJse...
360 featuring robyn & yung lean
open.spotify.com
November 22, 2024 at 9:47 AM
Looks like Robyn is having so much fun of late, following up a superb summer collaboration with Jamie xx with this brat hilarity:
“I started so young
I didn’t even have email”
open.spotify.com/track/0VYJse...
“I started so young
I didn’t even have email”
open.spotify.com/track/0VYJse...