Molly Twomey
@mollytwomey.bsky.social
Arts Council supported poet. ‘Raised Among Vultures’ & 'Chic to be Sad' published by The Gallery Press. Host of ‘Just to Say’ international poetry event. https://mollytwomey.com/ 💫
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Molly Twomey
@mollytwomey.bsky.social
· May 29
✨Cover Reveal✨
I have been obsessed with Niamh Swanton's work since I saw it in @crawfordartgallery.bsky.social 😍 .
What a joy to have her work on the cover of 'Chic to Be Sad' due in July with @thegallerypress.bsky.social 💛 💜 🩵
& what a gift to see it in Outset Gallery last week 🤌 !
I have been obsessed with Niamh Swanton's work since I saw it in @crawfordartgallery.bsky.social 😍 .
What a joy to have her work on the cover of 'Chic to Be Sad' due in July with @thegallerypress.bsky.social 💛 💜 🩵
& what a gift to see it in Outset Gallery last week 🤌 !
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Thank God we're not polarised today folks. I know floods are bad, but polarisation would be very uncomfortable. #spéirgorm
February 2, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Thank God we're not polarised today folks. I know floods are bad, but polarisation would be very uncomfortable. #spéirgorm
I wonder if people in salaried jobs who create applications for arts opportunities ever think about how much time the applicant has to put into the application and if the potential and competitive reward is worth that much energy. I'm just so tired of applications. I just want to make things. 🔥
January 28, 2026 at 4:08 PM
I wonder if people in salaried jobs who create applications for arts opportunities ever think about how much time the applicant has to put into the application and if the potential and competitive reward is worth that much energy. I'm just so tired of applications. I just want to make things. 🔥
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The more obvious it is he shouldn't go, the more condescending the insistence that he must.
Also, if the "cautious" option is meeting with a fascist leader who stands by while citizens are executed on the street, what does that say about your politics?
Also, if the "cautious" option is meeting with a fascist leader who stands by while citizens are executed on the street, what does that say about your politics?
January 27, 2026 at 3:18 PM
The more obvious it is he shouldn't go, the more condescending the insistence that he must.
Also, if the "cautious" option is meeting with a fascist leader who stands by while citizens are executed on the street, what does that say about your politics?
Also, if the "cautious" option is meeting with a fascist leader who stands by while citizens are executed on the street, what does that say about your politics?
Some people do not like me which is grand and I'm trying to train my brain to stop thinking 'why don't they like me' and instead think 'do I want to be someone they like?' because usually I don't 🤷♀️
January 26, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Some people do not like me which is grand and I'm trying to train my brain to stop thinking 'why don't they like me' and instead think 'do I want to be someone they like?' because usually I don't 🤷♀️
Imagine if in 20 years time it was unthinkable to not pay artists for their work, wouldn't that be great. 🫠
January 26, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Imagine if in 20 years time it was unthinkable to not pay artists for their work, wouldn't that be great. 🫠
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I know I don't shut up about this but, fellow Irish people, if you see a racist sticker when you're out and about, then tear it off.
It takes ten seconds.
Even if you only manage to tear away a part of it, it shows that your neighborhood doesn't stand with the small, hateful people that put them up
It takes ten seconds.
Even if you only manage to tear away a part of it, it shows that your neighborhood doesn't stand with the small, hateful people that put them up
January 26, 2026 at 1:14 PM
I know I don't shut up about this but, fellow Irish people, if you see a racist sticker when you're out and about, then tear it off.
It takes ten seconds.
Even if you only manage to tear away a part of it, it shows that your neighborhood doesn't stand with the small, hateful people that put them up
It takes ten seconds.
Even if you only manage to tear away a part of it, it shows that your neighborhood doesn't stand with the small, hateful people that put them up
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Sunt lacrimae rerum. Justin Quinn poem in today’s Irish Times.
January 24, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Sunt lacrimae rerum. Justin Quinn poem in today’s Irish Times.
Once as a kid I made an album of photos of me as a younger kid and if that isn't the most middle child behaviour 📸
January 22, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Once as a kid I made an album of photos of me as a younger kid and if that isn't the most middle child behaviour 📸
Officially at the age where I say something and teenagers laugh cause I don't realise I'm using the same language as a viral joke or something 💀💀💀💀
January 22, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Officially at the age where I say something and teenagers laugh cause I don't realise I'm using the same language as a viral joke or something 💀💀💀💀
I didn't know she was a registered dietician! Surely she is! Why else would she get this platform??????
Ballymaloe founder Darina Allen has blasted the Hot School Meals programme as “not fit for purpose” during an appearance before TDs this morning.
But Allen received pushback from some who pointed to children getting reliable meals thanks to the policy.
www.thejournal.ie/hot-school-m...
But Allen received pushback from some who pointed to children getting reliable meals thanks to the policy.
www.thejournal.ie/hot-school-m...
Darina Allen tells TDs Hot School Meals are 'not fit for purpose' (not everyone agreed though)
The Oireachtas Education Committee discussed the food programme this morning.
www.thejournal.ie
January 22, 2026 at 2:16 PM
I didn't know she was a registered dietician! Surely she is! Why else would she get this platform??????
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Niamh Twomey's poem "Moon's Phases" was selected as Highly Commended by judge Mícheál McCann. Read more about Niamh below, and follow her on Instagram: niamhmariatwomey and on Facebook: niamh.twomey.94
January 22, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Niamh Twomey's poem "Moon's Phases" was selected as Highly Commended by judge Mícheál McCann. Read more about Niamh below, and follow her on Instagram: niamhmariatwomey and on Facebook: niamh.twomey.94
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Here's something most of you don't know:
You all know intersex people
I used to think I didn't know any too, but when (by accident or design or circumstance) you become the kind of person people feel comfortable talking to about these things, some of them will tell you. And your world gets bigger
You all know intersex people
I used to think I didn't know any too, but when (by accident or design or circumstance) you become the kind of person people feel comfortable talking to about these things, some of them will tell you. And your world gets bigger
January 21, 2026 at 10:42 AM
Here's something most of you don't know:
You all know intersex people
I used to think I didn't know any too, but when (by accident or design or circumstance) you become the kind of person people feel comfortable talking to about these things, some of them will tell you. And your world gets bigger
You all know intersex people
I used to think I didn't know any too, but when (by accident or design or circumstance) you become the kind of person people feel comfortable talking to about these things, some of them will tell you. And your world gets bigger
A huge honour to have the highly esteemed Medbh McGuckian as our featured poet kicking off our first Just to Say of 2026 on Wedneday, Feb 4th, at 7pm ❤️.
Email jacarpress@gmail.com for the free Zoom link & join us in conversation about her work 🥰.
Email jacarpress@gmail.com for the free Zoom link & join us in conversation about her work 🥰.
January 20, 2026 at 6:13 PM
A huge honour to have the highly esteemed Medbh McGuckian as our featured poet kicking off our first Just to Say of 2026 on Wedneday, Feb 4th, at 7pm ❤️.
Email jacarpress@gmail.com for the free Zoom link & join us in conversation about her work 🥰.
Email jacarpress@gmail.com for the free Zoom link & join us in conversation about her work 🥰.
I'm judging the Maria Edgeworth Festival's poetry competition this year 🥳 and I would love to read your work! The deadline is the 27th of February 🌸 mariaedgeworthcenter.com/.../maria-ed...
January 19, 2026 at 12:02 PM
I'm judging the Maria Edgeworth Festival's poetry competition this year 🥳 and I would love to read your work! The deadline is the 27th of February 🌸 mariaedgeworthcenter.com/.../maria-ed...
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Nearly there!
December 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Nearly there!
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If you read one thing today, it should be this
Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’
www.thetimes.com/article/01ba...
Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’
www.thetimes.com/article/01ba...
Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’
Witnesses tell of the brutality inflicted on those taking part in anti-regime protests
www.thetimes.com
January 18, 2026 at 10:04 AM
If you read one thing today, it should be this
Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’
www.thetimes.com/article/01ba...
Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’
www.thetimes.com/article/01ba...
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Libraries were a sanctuary from a violent home when I was a kid; they saved my life in so many different ways. My mother was very young, and had a hard life, but she always made time to take me to the library. This gorgous poem by Alvy Carragher reminds me of her so strongly.
December 29, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Libraries were a sanctuary from a violent home when I was a kid; they saved my life in so many different ways. My mother was very young, and had a hard life, but she always made time to take me to the library. This gorgous poem by Alvy Carragher reminds me of her so strongly.
Sadly, maybe not sadly? The public library system has way more books I need for my academic studies then my academic one does. I think the public sphere is more interested in poetry than academia is. Our public library system is the best thing about us.
January 18, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Sadly, maybe not sadly? The public library system has way more books I need for my academic studies then my academic one does. I think the public sphere is more interested in poetry than academia is. Our public library system is the best thing about us.
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More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland.
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
January 17, 2026 at 5:36 PM
More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland.
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
Lovely to kinda know a writer on this list not because of events and the small world of writing but because he works at the dentist place I go to 🦷🪥
Another amazing crop of Irish debut fiction writers to look forward to. 2026 is going to be a bumper year for Irish fiction 💚📚
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Irish fiction debuts to look forward this year from Neil Tully, Ana Kinsella to Colin Morgan
‘I’m happy to say that rights have been optioned for TV’: A rich crop of fiction is set to emerge this year
www.irishtimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Lovely to kinda know a writer on this list not because of events and the small world of writing but because he works at the dentist place I go to 🦷🪥
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This is complete madness.
Ireland already has 90.
Far more per capita than other nations. We are outliers in just how many data centres we have.
And many more already have planning
We do not have enough electricity
We do not have enough water
This will come at the cost of housing connections
Ireland already has 90.
Far more per capita than other nations. We are outliers in just how many data centres we have.
And many more already have planning
We do not have enough electricity
We do not have enough water
This will come at the cost of housing connections
Minister for Enterprise Peter Burke will this morning bring a major plan to build more data centres across the country to Cabinet for sign off.
jrnl.ie/6924426t
jrnl.ie/6924426t
Cabinet to sign off on plan to build more data centres across country
Electricity demand from data centres has grown from 5% of national electricity demand in 2015 to 22% in 2024.
jrnl.ie
January 13, 2026 at 7:30 AM
This is complete madness.
Ireland already has 90.
Far more per capita than other nations. We are outliers in just how many data centres we have.
And many more already have planning
We do not have enough electricity
We do not have enough water
This will come at the cost of housing connections
Ireland already has 90.
Far more per capita than other nations. We are outliers in just how many data centres we have.
And many more already have planning
We do not have enough electricity
We do not have enough water
This will come at the cost of housing connections
Mike and his pals are playing D & D in the kitchen & I'm finishing a novel I love in bed with coffee and this is 100% us living our best lives as a couple xo
January 10, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Mike and his pals are playing D & D in the kitchen & I'm finishing a novel I love in bed with coffee and this is 100% us living our best lives as a couple xo
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How is it not the Government's position - as put forward by Billy Kelleher - that the European Commission hits the immediate pause button on Grok while it's waiting for all these reviews and assessments?
The power is there.
The power is there.
January 8, 2026 at 12:24 PM
How is it not the Government's position - as put forward by Billy Kelleher - that the European Commission hits the immediate pause button on Grok while it's waiting for all these reviews and assessments?
The power is there.
The power is there.
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My word. (Again.)
Media Minister Patrick O'Donovan: "At the end of the day, it's the choice of a person to make these images... technology is moving so fast... even if the law is changed there's no doubt about... the advances are far faster than law is able to respond..."
Media Minister Patrick O'Donovan: "At the end of the day, it's the choice of a person to make these images... technology is moving so fast... even if the law is changed there's no doubt about... the advances are far faster than law is able to respond..."
January 8, 2026 at 11:53 AM
My word. (Again.)
Media Minister Patrick O'Donovan: "At the end of the day, it's the choice of a person to make these images... technology is moving so fast... even if the law is changed there's no doubt about... the advances are far faster than law is able to respond..."
Media Minister Patrick O'Donovan: "At the end of the day, it's the choice of a person to make these images... technology is moving so fast... even if the law is changed there's no doubt about... the advances are far faster than law is able to respond..."
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I would have thought condemning an company producing child abuse material on an industrial scale for profit would be an easy one. But here were are.
January 8, 2026 at 4:21 PM
I would have thought condemning an company producing child abuse material on an industrial scale for profit would be an easy one. But here were are.