@mcdiarmidlucy.bsky.social
NYC scholar/writer/professor from Louisville and Greenwich Village; I survive on tea, vanilla fudge, poetry, and the love of my friends; she / her. Hon MRIA.
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A wonderful interview and a great photo too.
November 8, 2025 at 10:47 PM
A wonderful interview and a great photo too.
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@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social's launch of
FILLY
@bansheepress.bsky.social last night @booksupstairs.bsky.social & introduced by @jesstraynor.bsky.social 💫
FILLY
@bansheepress.bsky.social last night @booksupstairs.bsky.social & introduced by @jesstraynor.bsky.social 💫
October 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social's launch of
FILLY
@bansheepress.bsky.social last night @booksupstairs.bsky.social & introduced by @jesstraynor.bsky.social 💫
FILLY
@bansheepress.bsky.social last night @booksupstairs.bsky.social & introduced by @jesstraynor.bsky.social 💫
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November 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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ICE is a domestic terrorist organization.
November 5, 2025 at 11:02 PM
ICE is a domestic terrorist organization.
This is the kind of mayor of NYC I've always wanted. #Mamdani #cats @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social @johnghoakes.bsky.social @janeclarke.bsky.social @dralicekelly.bsky.social @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social @annaoakes.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 1:02 AM
This is the kind of mayor of NYC I've always wanted. #Mamdani #cats @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social @johnghoakes.bsky.social @janeclarke.bsky.social @dralicekelly.bsky.social @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social @annaoakes.bsky.social
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"He presents [NYC] as a fundamentally good place...He makes it sound as if people are a part of something, and as if they have the ability to make that thing better. If anyone's searching for a winning way to talk about democracy, they could try to do the same." www.indignity.net/politics-is-local/
Politics is local
Indignity Vol. 5, No. 194
www.indignity.net
November 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
"He presents [NYC] as a fundamentally good place...He makes it sound as if people are a part of something, and as if they have the ability to make that thing better. If anyone's searching for a winning way to talk about democracy, they could try to do the same." www.indignity.net/politics-is-local/
Catherine Connolly and Zohran Mamdani: now isn't that grand?
November 5, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Catherine Connolly and Zohran Mamdani: now isn't that grand?
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🎉💪 A judge has ruled that ICE agents who are caught trying to arrest someone at or around a Chicago courthouse can now be arrested. This comes after several weeks of ICE agents grabbing people on their way in or out of the courthouse. #StrongerTogether #ResistanceIsNotFutile
November 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
🎉💪 A judge has ruled that ICE agents who are caught trying to arrest someone at or around a Chicago courthouse can now be arrested. This comes after several weeks of ICE agents grabbing people on their way in or out of the courthouse. #StrongerTogether #ResistanceIsNotFutile
Relief… and (to quote Gilbert and Sullivan) ‘modified rapture.’ Very pleased with the outcome of the NYC mayoral election.
Mamdani will be the first Muslim and South Asian to lead America's largest city after a win over Andrew Cuomo.
Zohran Mamdani elected as New York mayor in historic win
Mamdani will be the first Muslim and South Asian to lead America's largest city after a win over Andrew Cuomo.
bit.ly
November 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Relief… and (to quote Gilbert and Sullivan) ‘modified rapture.’ Very pleased with the outcome of the NYC mayoral election.
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Democratic mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani plans to freeze rent and make buses free by taxing the rich trib.al/MGpBxqr
New York is facing a tougher tax on the rich than the UK - and millionaires support it
Democratic mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani plans to freeze rent and make buses free by taxing the rich
trib.al
November 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Democratic mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani plans to freeze rent and make buses free by taxing the rich trib.al/MGpBxqr
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A perfect autumn day in the Republic of Greenwich Village
October 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
A perfect autumn day in the Republic of Greenwich Village
Wish I could been there for the launch of Filly...but I read it in May and loved it five months before the launch!
@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social's launch of
FILLY
@bansheepress.bsky.social last night @booksupstairs.bsky.social & introduced by @jesstraynor.bsky.social 💫
FILLY
@bansheepress.bsky.social last night @booksupstairs.bsky.social & introduced by @jesstraynor.bsky.social 💫
October 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Wish I could been there for the launch of Filly...but I read it in May and loved it five months before the launch!
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High (and well deserved) praise for Filly by @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social ✨️✨️✨️
@bansheepress.bsky.social
@bansheepress.bsky.social
'To grow up a queer girl in the Ireland of that time is to pass through a series of small annihilations. Taylor writes those annihilations with exceptional power.'
Ruby Eastwood on Filly, by Rosamund Taylor @jesstraynor.bsky.social
booksirelandmagazine.com/adolescence-...
Ruby Eastwood on Filly, by Rosamund Taylor @jesstraynor.bsky.social
booksirelandmagazine.com/adolescence-...
Adolescence as an open wound—Filly, by Rosamund Taylor - Books Ireland
The experiences it depicts are raw, humiliating, and incandescent.
booksirelandmagazine.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:38 AM
High (and well deserved) praise for Filly by @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social ✨️✨️✨️
@bansheepress.bsky.social
@bansheepress.bsky.social
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Happy publication day to FILLY by @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social 🐎
‘Filly is a testament to the savagery and exaltation of love’ Mary Morrissy
‘Raw and poetic, tender yet unflinching’ Louise Hegarty
‘I devoured Filly in a day’ Liz Berry
‘A perfectly formed sucker punch of a book’ Jan Carson
‘Filly is a testament to the savagery and exaltation of love’ Mary Morrissy
‘Raw and poetic, tender yet unflinching’ Louise Hegarty
‘I devoured Filly in a day’ Liz Berry
‘A perfectly formed sucker punch of a book’ Jan Carson
Now available to pre-order: FILLY, the stunning novel in verse by award-winning poet Rosamund Taylor. Out 9 October 2025 ✨
@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social
bansheepress.org/shop/p/filly...
@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social
bansheepress.org/shop/p/filly...
Filly by Rosamund Taylor — Banshee Press
248 pages Paperback 9 October 2025 ISBN: 978-1-7393979-8-2
bansheepress.org
October 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Happy publication day to FILLY by @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social 🐎
‘Filly is a testament to the savagery and exaltation of love’ Mary Morrissy
‘Raw and poetic, tender yet unflinching’ Louise Hegarty
‘I devoured Filly in a day’ Liz Berry
‘A perfectly formed sucker punch of a book’ Jan Carson
‘Filly is a testament to the savagery and exaltation of love’ Mary Morrissy
‘Raw and poetic, tender yet unflinching’ Louise Hegarty
‘I devoured Filly in a day’ Liz Berry
‘A perfectly formed sucker punch of a book’ Jan Carson
A perfect chiasmys!
Mamdani to Cuomo in the debate last night: ‘What I don’t have in experience I make up for in integrity; what you don’t have in integrity you could never make up for in experience.’
Mamdani to Cuomo in the debate last night: ‘What I don’t have in experience I make up for in integrity; what you don’t have in integrity you could never make up for in experience.’
October 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
A perfect chiasmys!
Mamdani to Cuomo in the debate last night: ‘What I don’t have in experience I make up for in integrity; what you don’t have in integrity you could never make up for in experience.’
Mamdani to Cuomo in the debate last night: ‘What I don’t have in experience I make up for in integrity; what you don’t have in integrity you could never make up for in experience.’
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“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892)
Born on this day: the master of charm himself.
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892)
Born on this day: the master of charm himself.
October 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892)
Born on this day: the master of charm himself.
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892)
Born on this day: the master of charm himself.
So do I.
2025. Female mountain gorillas stop reproducing long before the end of their lives phys.org/news/2025-10...
Female mountain gorillas stop reproducing long before the end of their lives, study finds
New research from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the University of Turku reveals that female mountain gorillas, like humans and a handful of other mammals, can live long pa...
phys.org
October 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
So do I.
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A magical event in Cork celebrating Arlen House at 50, honouring Catherine Rose, Ireland's first feminist publisher; plus launching the biggest anthology of Irish women poets ever published ‒ Washing Windows V ‒ with an amazing speech by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin + stunning readings from contributors.
October 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
A magical event in Cork celebrating Arlen House at 50, honouring Catherine Rose, Ireland's first feminist publisher; plus launching the biggest anthology of Irish women poets ever published ‒ Washing Windows V ‒ with an amazing speech by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin + stunning readings from contributors.
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Wow... this window stopped me in my tracks today! 😍 #maynooth #MaynoothCampus #speirgorm #spéirgorm #spéirghorm
October 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Wow... this window stopped me in my tracks today! 😍 #maynooth #MaynoothCampus #speirgorm #spéirgorm #spéirghorm
Anita Hill: one of my heroes. ❤️
October 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Anita Hill: one of my heroes. ❤️
Catherine Connelly once took a Kerry county shirt off Molly Malone. #smearthebajaysis
October 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Catherine Connelly once took a Kerry county shirt off Molly Malone. #smearthebajaysis
the Great Irish Splits:
the Parnell Split
the Volunteer Split
the Border
#smearthebejaysus and #smearthebejaysis
the Parnell Split
the Volunteer Split
the Border
#smearthebejaysus and #smearthebejaysis
October 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
the Great Irish Splits:
the Parnell Split
the Volunteer Split
the Border
#smearthebejaysus and #smearthebejaysis
the Parnell Split
the Volunteer Split
the Border
#smearthebejaysus and #smearthebejaysis