Polly K
@pollyka.bsky.social
🎶🎶Retired Principal and Primary school teacher. Enjoying being busy, doing the things I love.
A bit of volunteering, singing, reading, a mum, wife, sister, daughter.💟
A bit of volunteering, singing, reading, a mum, wife, sister, daughter.💟
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Plenty of Bronte chat with biographer Claire Harman (right) at Seamus Heaney HomePlace. Great readings including from Jane Eyre from actor Ruby Campbell (left).
April 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Plenty of Bronte chat with biographer Claire Harman (right) at Seamus Heaney HomePlace. Great readings including from Jane Eyre from actor Ruby Campbell (left).
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As you probably heard, Amazon is coming for Ireland. It’ll come for our small shops, it’ll come for our department stores, and it’ll come for our media, our journalism, and our democracy.
March 18, 2025 at 11:23 AM
As you probably heard, Amazon is coming for Ireland. It’ll come for our small shops, it’ll come for our department stores, and it’ll come for our media, our journalism, and our democracy.
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I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!
February 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!
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During her political awakening in the early 1970s, Bríd Rodgers wrote to John Hume asking what he was doing about widespread discrimination against Catholics in Lurgan, Co Armagh. The response was short and to the point: “Dear Bríd, what are YOU doing about it?”
www.irishnews.com/news/politic...
www.irishnews.com/news/politic...
Bríd Rodgers at 90: On her personal journey and political transformation
The Donegal-born former Stormont minister reflects on her political career and the transformation of Northern Ireland society
www.irishnews.com
February 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
During her political awakening in the early 1970s, Bríd Rodgers wrote to John Hume asking what he was doing about widespread discrimination against Catholics in Lurgan, Co Armagh. The response was short and to the point: “Dear Bríd, what are YOU doing about it?”
www.irishnews.com/news/politic...
www.irishnews.com/news/politic...
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Ahead of her 90th birthday, former SDLP deputy leader Bríd Rodgers chats to Suzanne Breen about her political career, death threats during the Troubles, sexism in her party, and why she believes Irish unity is inevitable
Bríd Rodgers: ‘I suppose we should be flattered that Sinn Fein is wearing our clothes, but I can’t forget how viciously we were attacked’
Some say Bríd Rodgers is the best leader the SDLP never had. For decades, she operated in the shadow of the party’s big beasts. Even now, when they are gone and she is still very much here, she doesn’...
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
February 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Ahead of her 90th birthday, former SDLP deputy leader Bríd Rodgers chats to Suzanne Breen about her political career, death threats during the Troubles, sexism in her party, and why she believes Irish unity is inevitable
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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
@britishbakeoff.bsky.social the 24 scones was an ideal Signature challenge for the final. Difficult to perfect.
November 26, 2024 at 11:01 PM
@britishbakeoff.bsky.social the 24 scones was an ideal Signature challenge for the final. Difficult to perfect.