Linda Máire
@lindamaire.bsky.social
Documentary filmmaking / books / learning Irish / poetry / cinema / art / cats / music / gardening / border collies / politics / yoga / Punjana tea / corvids / the sea
“If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.” — Agnès Varda
“If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.” — Agnès Varda
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The wild old wicked gang: great Irish writers – in pictures
Edna O’Brien on her sofa, Joseph O’Connor in his garden, Seamus Heaney surrounded by books …
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Edna O’Brien on her sofa, Joseph O’Connor in his garden, Seamus Heaney surrounded by books …
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The wild old wicked gang: great Irish writers – in pictures
Edna O’Brien on her sofa, Joseph O’Connor in his garden, Seamus Heaney surrounded by books … British photographer Steve Pyke on capturing the greats of Irish literature
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November 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The wild old wicked gang: great Irish writers – in pictures
Edna O’Brien on her sofa, Joseph O’Connor in his garden, Seamus Heaney surrounded by books …
www.theguardian.com/books/galler...
Edna O’Brien on her sofa, Joseph O’Connor in his garden, Seamus Heaney surrounded by books …
www.theguardian.com/books/galler...
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We only rate dogs. This is a family of Suburban Gold Fairies. It's rare for them to travel together like this. Very magical but please only send dogs. Thank you... 13/10 for all (TT: hdbrosriley)
November 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
We only rate dogs. This is a family of Suburban Gold Fairies. It's rare for them to travel together like this. Very magical but please only send dogs. Thank you... 13/10 for all (TT: hdbrosriley)
“We have become careless of what matters.”
In 1945 we said ‘never again’, yet already we’ve forgotten | The Observer
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November 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
“We have become careless of what matters.”
The Children of Lir: Fionnuala, Aodh, Fiachra and Conn—and a visitor.
November 9, 2025 at 8:09 AM
The Children of Lir: Fionnuala, Aodh, Fiachra and Conn—and a visitor.
“My generation likes to think we’re above being influenced by what we see online: that we’re more tech-savvy than our parents, less TikTok-addled than our kids, and mature enough to separate it all from real life. …the evidence suggests we’re not nearly as capable of compartmentalising as we think.”
Meet gen X: middle-aged, enraged and radicalised by internet bile | Gaby Hinsliff
Who is driving the populist insurgency? It’s not grumpy pensioners or vulnerable teenagers – it’s my generation, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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November 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
“My generation likes to think we’re above being influenced by what we see online: that we’re more tech-savvy than our parents, less TikTok-addled than our kids, and mature enough to separate it all from real life. …the evidence suggests we’re not nearly as capable of compartmentalising as we think.”
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"One of the reasons he matters so much to so many people in our disenchanted world is that, as in that rapture on the Flaggy Shore, he keeps open our back channels to transcendence." Late to it, but a terrific line from a terrific piece by Fintan O'Toole. observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Seamus Heaney’s poems for a darkening age | The Observer
Collected in a landmark new edition, the late Irish writer’s work is attuned to wonder, replete with humanity and rooted in the tragedies of history
observer.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 10:53 AM
"One of the reasons he matters so much to so many people in our disenchanted world is that, as in that rapture on the Flaggy Shore, he keeps open our back channels to transcendence." Late to it, but a terrific line from a terrific piece by Fintan O'Toole. observer.co.uk/culture/book...
One of the greatest photographers of our time looks back on his body of work
‘It’s been a cesspit, really, my life’: war photographer Don McCullin on 19 of his greatest pictures
At 90, McCullin has spent seven decades recording conflict and tragedy – while escaping snipers, mortar fire and capture. He reflects on pain, pride and regret
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October 29, 2025 at 6:18 AM
One of the greatest photographers of our time looks back on his body of work
“If the internet were ever fully shut down, it is unclear if it could be started up again, says Murdoch. “No one has turned off the internet after it’s been turned on. No one is really sure how it could be turned on again.”
Could the internet go offline? Inside the fragile system holding the modern world together
Behind every meme and message is creaking, decades-old infrastructure. Internet experts can think of scenarios that could bring it all crashing down …
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October 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
“If the internet were ever fully shut down, it is unclear if it could be started up again, says Murdoch. “No one has turned off the internet after it’s been turned on. No one is really sure how it could be turned on again.”
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After Oscar by Merlin Holland review – Wilde’s grandson on the legacy of a scandal
After Oscar by Merlin Holland review – Wilde’s grandson on the legacy of a scandal
The playwright’s only living descendant traces the shadow cast by his trial – and his rehabilitation as a gay icon
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October 13, 2025 at 7:52 AM
After Oscar by Merlin Holland review – Wilde’s grandson on the legacy of a scandal
“Although I still struggle with rustiness and confidence in speaking and writing the language, “keeping” and not “losing” my Irish is probably the greatest gift I have given myself. Irish is a portal, a lyrical language intrinsically connected to the natural world.”
The Irish language is a joy not a burden: in what other tongue is a penis a wild carrot? | Una Mullally
Record numbers of pupils are seeking opt-outs from compulsory learning. This is misguided – Irish is a portal to a world of imagination, says journalist Una Mullally
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October 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
“Although I still struggle with rustiness and confidence in speaking and writing the language, “keeping” and not “losing” my Irish is probably the greatest gift I have given myself. Irish is a portal, a lyrical language intrinsically connected to the natural world.”
…”they look like waves, or like letters written down, or you can see heart shapes," says Zelano. She wishes she could have carried more books home. "When we experience personal or environmental storms, we are able to understand what we need to save, that is, what is indispensable to us.
The 100-year-old books salvaged from Venice's floods
In 2019, Venice was hit by its second-worst flood in history. Today, books saved from the water tell a story of loss and resistance.
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September 27, 2025 at 10:09 AM
…”they look like waves, or like letters written down, or you can see heart shapes," says Zelano. She wishes she could have carried more books home. "When we experience personal or environmental storms, we are able to understand what we need to save, that is, what is indispensable to us.
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UNLOCKED | Tim Powers: Want to tackle national pride? Give Canadian women’s rugby a try
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September 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
UNLOCKED | Tim Powers: Want to tackle national pride? Give Canadian women’s rugby a try
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…”most of us are a living, breathing soup of memory and imagination—and that we may not be the best arbiters of which is which. So read this book as you would a novel.”
A remarkable memoir.
A remarkable memoir.
September 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
…”most of us are a living, breathing soup of memory and imagination—and that we may not be the best arbiters of which is which. So read this book as you would a novel.”
A remarkable memoir.
A remarkable memoir.
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‘She was one of the greatest literary voices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. A fearless wordsmith whose prose shimmered with truth, beauty and rebellion.’
A new two-part radio documentary on Clare FM explores the life and work of Edna O’Brien:
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A new two-part radio documentary on Clare FM explores the life and work of Edna O’Brien:
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Wordsmith - Episode 1
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September 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
‘She was one of the greatest literary voices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. A fearless wordsmith whose prose shimmered with truth, beauty and rebellion.’
A new two-part radio documentary on Clare FM explores the life and work of Edna O’Brien:
soundcloud.com/clarefm/word...
A new two-part radio documentary on Clare FM explores the life and work of Edna O’Brien:
soundcloud.com/clarefm/word...
“Loss is the tune of our age, hard to miss and hard to bear. Creatures, places and words disappear, day after day, year on year. But there has always been singing in the dark times—and wonder is needed now more than ever.”
The Lost Spells (2020)
Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris
The Lost Spells (2020)
Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris
September 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
“Loss is the tune of our age, hard to miss and hard to bear. Creatures, places and words disappear, day after day, year on year. But there has always been singing in the dark times—and wonder is needed now more than ever.”
The Lost Spells (2020)
Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris
The Lost Spells (2020)
Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris
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I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover
September 8, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover
“Politicians rarely do the right thing for the hell of it; they have to be pressed into progress…Do you think apartheid in South Africa would have ended when it did without global boycotts?”
Please don’t succumb to hopelessness over Palestine. Your voice can still make a difference | Arwa Mahdawi
As the war gets livestreamed to our phones, it is easy to be overwhelmed and feel helpless. But even small acts of activism add up, writes Arwa Mahdawi
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September 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
“Politicians rarely do the right thing for the hell of it; they have to be pressed into progress…Do you think apartheid in South Africa would have ended when it did without global boycotts?”
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Hooklanders call those days which sit on the borders of two seasons 'mara'. The time between summer and autumn is often called 'shadow-tree mara'. Folklore has it as the time when certain ancient ghosts wake in the fields and rage at the changes in the land. – #MattAdams #WOTD
August 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Hooklanders call those days which sit on the borders of two seasons 'mara'. The time between summer and autumn is often called 'shadow-tree mara'. Folklore has it as the time when certain ancient ghosts wake in the fields and rage at the changes in the land. – #MattAdams #WOTD
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Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves. www.wired.com/story/bluesk...
Scientists Are Flocking to Bluesky
Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves.
www.wired.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves. www.wired.com/story/bluesk...
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“When I first arrived in Belfast, I saw both Palestinian and Israeli flags, but in different neighborhoods—the Palestinian ones in Irish nationalist areas, and Israeli ones in Protestant loyalist areas.” @philipmetres.bsky.social on Northern Irish solidarity with Palestine.
The Paddystinians of Belfast: On the Palestinian Solidarity Movement in Northern Ireland
I couldn’t believe my eyes: not one, but bunches of Palestinian flags kept appearing, every time we turned onto another Belfast street—waving at me, beckoning, inviting me into their story. It was …
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August 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“When I first arrived in Belfast, I saw both Palestinian and Israeli flags, but in different neighborhoods—the Palestinian ones in Irish nationalist areas, and Israeli ones in Protestant loyalist areas.” @philipmetres.bsky.social on Northern Irish solidarity with Palestine.
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Words To Live By Number 264
August 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Words To Live By Number 264
The colour magenta—our phlox in full bloom.
August 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The colour magenta—our phlox in full bloom.
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Western journalists are failing to stand up for their colleagues in Gaza | Mohamad Bazzi
Western journalists are failing to stand up for their colleagues in Gaza | Mohamad Bazzi
This hypocrisy of western media has been laid bare by Israel’s targeting of journalists since the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack
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August 16, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Western journalists are failing to stand up for their colleagues in Gaza | Mohamad Bazzi
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“Canada will have to serve as a connector between the world’s democracies, in a line that stretches from Taiwan and South Korea, across North America, to Poland and Ukraine.”
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Opinion | ‘Profound and Abiding Rage’: Canada’s Answer to America’s Abandonment
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August 11, 2025 at 8:42 AM
“Canada will have to serve as a connector between the world’s democracies, in a line that stretches from Taiwan and South Korea, across North America, to Poland and Ukraine.”
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