Dr Shauna Gilligan
@shaunagilligan.bsky.social
Writer, Educator, Feminist, full of heart, cats, literacy for all. Awards incl Jack Harte Bursary 2025 and 2024 Brigid1500. Latest Pub: Co-editor of anthology of art & writing
https://www.kennys.ie/shop/fire-brigid-and-the-sacred-feminine-9781851323289
https://www.kennys.ie/shop/fire-brigid-and-the-sacred-feminine-9781851323289
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I want A.I. to do my admin and laundry while I write and illustrate books. I don't want A.I. to write and illustrate books while I do my admin and laundry.
November 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I want A.I. to do my admin and laundry while I write and illustrate books. I don't want A.I. to write and illustrate books while I do my admin and laundry.
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Okay whoever decided on that ridiculous story about suspected foxes cutting wires in Dublin needs to own up. They don't even have any proof and there's a whole piece with interviews etc.
RTE, the foxes in mayo take in washing when it's raining I'm happy to give an interview on it
RTE, the foxes in mayo take in washing when it's raining I'm happy to give an interview on it
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Okay whoever decided on that ridiculous story about suspected foxes cutting wires in Dublin needs to own up. They don't even have any proof and there's a whole piece with interviews etc.
RTE, the foxes in mayo take in washing when it's raining I'm happy to give an interview on it
RTE, the foxes in mayo take in washing when it's raining I'm happy to give an interview on it
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Fabulous resource on classic women’s literature, focusing mainly on women who wrote in the English language, as well as global authors who were translated extensively:
www.literaryladiesguide.com
www.literaryladiesguide.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Fabulous resource on classic women’s literature, focusing mainly on women who wrote in the English language, as well as global authors who were translated extensively:
www.literaryladiesguide.com
www.literaryladiesguide.com
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#DayoftheImprisonedWriter: Algerian poet #MohamedTadjadit — the voice of the Hirak movement — is in prison just for speaking truth to power. Join PEN International in demanding his immediate and unconditional release.
Take action today: www.pen-international.org/mohamed-tadj...
Take action today: www.pen-international.org/mohamed-tadj...
Mohamed Tadjadit Day of the Imprisoned Writer — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of E...
www.pen-international.org
November 20, 2025 at 10:44 AM
#DayoftheImprisonedWriter: Algerian poet #MohamedTadjadit — the voice of the Hirak movement — is in prison just for speaking truth to power. Join PEN International in demanding his immediate and unconditional release.
Take action today: www.pen-international.org/mohamed-tadj...
Take action today: www.pen-international.org/mohamed-tadj...
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Michael D Higgins to receive lifetime achievement award at An Post Book Awards
Michael D Higgins to receive lifetime achievement award at An Post Book Awards
Former president has published five poetry collections and several others of essays and speeches
www.irishtimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Michael D Higgins to receive lifetime achievement award at An Post Book Awards
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Three sharks are killed every second - Europe’s trade in shark meat is driving them toward extinction. Let’s ban shark products once and for all. Sign now! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-11...
Healthy oceans, safe future: stop the toxic shark trade
Three sharks are killed every second - Europe’s trade in shark meat is driving them toward extinction. Let’s ban shark products once and for all. Sign now!
action.wemove.eu
November 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Three sharks are killed every second - Europe’s trade in shark meat is driving them toward extinction. Let’s ban shark products once and for all. Sign now! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-11...
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The Irish Council for Civil Liberties has filed a complaint with the European Ombudsman against the European Commission, accusing it of using generative AI in public documents
www.rte.ie/news/busines...
www.rte.ie/news/busines...
ICCL files complaint on European Commission over ChatGPT
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties has filed a complaint with the European Ombudsman against the European Commission accusing it of using generative AI in public documents.
www.rte.ie
November 17, 2025 at 7:18 AM
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties has filed a complaint with the European Ombudsman against the European Commission, accusing it of using generative AI in public documents
www.rte.ie/news/busines...
www.rte.ie/news/busines...
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All writers know that the most important stage of writing is actually the re-write. Join me on 25 November, 6-8pm, @bluepencilagency to find out what that REALLY means, and just how much better you can make your writing when you know how to tackle this crucial stage:
Revising & Editing - November 25 - Blue Pencil Agency | Literary Consultancy
Craft Tutorials: Revising & Editing – a Zoom workshop with writing tutor Emma Darwin, November 25, 6:00 - 8:00 pm GMT.
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November 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
All writers know that the most important stage of writing is actually the re-write. Join me on 25 November, 6-8pm, @bluepencilagency to find out what that REALLY means, and just how much better you can make your writing when you know how to tackle this crucial stage:
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#journorequest - anyone in Ireland going out for dinner on Christmas day (or staying in a hotel and having dinner there) and would like to chat to me for a piece. DM if any thoughts. Shares appreciated. #Christmas2025 #Christmas #restaurant
November 15, 2025 at 10:16 AM
#journorequest - anyone in Ireland going out for dinner on Christmas day (or staying in a hotel and having dinner there) and would like to chat to me for a piece. DM if any thoughts. Shares appreciated. #Christmas2025 #Christmas #restaurant
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#DayoftheImprisonedWriter: 📣 Today we stand in solidarity with writers silenced for their words. Join us in amplifying their voices: #RoryBranker, #YalqunRozi , #MohamedTadjadit , and #MziaAmaglobeli.
Take action with us ⬇️
www.pen-international.org/our-campaign...
Take action with us ⬇️
www.pen-international.org/our-campaign...
Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2025 — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide
“Across the world, writers continue to pay a heavy price for speaking truth. Rory Branker, Yalqun Rozi, Mohamed Tadjadit, and Mzia Amaglobeli remind us that words can shake the powerful — and that cou...
www.pen-international.org
November 15, 2025 at 9:40 AM
#DayoftheImprisonedWriter: 📣 Today we stand in solidarity with writers silenced for their words. Join us in amplifying their voices: #RoryBranker, #YalqunRozi , #MohamedTadjadit , and #MziaAmaglobeli.
Take action with us ⬇️
www.pen-international.org/our-campaign...
Take action with us ⬇️
www.pen-international.org/our-campaign...
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ZOOM IN
14 November 2025, Dublin.
Huge Scary Waves earlier on on the the West Pier!!!!!
Never ever seen big waves like those!
#Dublin #Storm #WestPier #DunLaoghaire #Photography #Streetphotography
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14 November 2025, Dublin.
Huge Scary Waves earlier on on the the West Pier!!!!!
Never ever seen big waves like those!
#Dublin #Storm #WestPier #DunLaoghaire #Photography #Streetphotography
nerosunero.art/dublin-autum...
November 14, 2025 at 7:32 PM
ZOOM IN
14 November 2025, Dublin.
Huge Scary Waves earlier on on the the West Pier!!!!!
Never ever seen big waves like those!
#Dublin #Storm #WestPier #DunLaoghaire #Photography #Streetphotography
nerosunero.art/dublin-autum...
14 November 2025, Dublin.
Huge Scary Waves earlier on on the the West Pier!!!!!
Never ever seen big waves like those!
#Dublin #Storm #WestPier #DunLaoghaire #Photography #Streetphotography
nerosunero.art/dublin-autum...
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This year’s Booker winner David Szalay: ‘I really appreciate Roddy Doyle’s simple, practical advice’
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
This year’s Booker winner David Szalay: ‘I really appreciate Roddy Doyle’s simple, practical advice’
Booker Prize winner David Szalay, who abandoned Flesh several times in the early stages, stresses the importance of risk when writing a novel
www.irishtimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This year’s Booker winner David Szalay: ‘I really appreciate Roddy Doyle’s simple, practical advice’
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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While we are both delighted and relieved to see Boualem Sansal pardoned and able to reunite with his family, he should never have been deprived of his freedom in the first place. Algeria must do better in protecting writers’ freedom of expression. www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Algeria pardons French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal
Algeria’s president on Wednesday granted a humanitarian pardon to French-Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal following a German request for his release. The 81-year-old writer, whose year-long imprisonme...
www.france24.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:17 AM
While we are both delighted and relieved to see Boualem Sansal pardoned and able to reunite with his family, he should never have been deprived of his freedom in the first place. Algeria must do better in protecting writers’ freedom of expression. www.france24.com/en/live-news...
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OpenAI has infringed copyright law in Germany by using song lyrics to train its artificial intelligence models, a court in Munich ruled.
German music body wins copyright case against OpenAI
OpenAI has infringed copyright law in Germany by using song lyrics to train its artificial intelligence models, a court in Munich ruled.
www.rte.ie
November 11, 2025 at 11:37 AM
OpenAI has infringed copyright law in Germany by using song lyrics to train its artificial intelligence models, a court in Munich ruled.
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#Cuba: Writer José Gabriel Barrenechea Chávez has spent 1 year in prison for his words. Accused of “public disorder,” he faces up to 6 years. The Patmos Award 2025 honoured him and his late mother for their dedication to free expression. We call for his immediate release. @penamericas.bsky.social
#Cuba. José Gabriel Barrenechea Chávez cumplió un año en prisión el 8 de noviembre pasado. PEN Internacional reitera sus llamados a las autoridades cubanas y exige su liberación inmediata. Su detención y persecución evidencian los esfuerzos del gobierno por silenciar toda disidencia.
November 11, 2025 at 12:05 PM
#Cuba: Writer José Gabriel Barrenechea Chávez has spent 1 year in prison for his words. Accused of “public disorder,” he faces up to 6 years. The Patmos Award 2025 honoured him and his late mother for their dedication to free expression. We call for his immediate release. @penamericas.bsky.social
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Thank you @shaunagilligan.bsky.social ! @mercierpress.bsky.social
Delighted to feature @maryodonnell.bsky.social on my #WritersChat we talk about her excellent short story collection "Walkingwith Ghosts" @mercierpress.bsky.social
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Writers Chat 81: Mary O’Donnell on “Walking Ghosts” (Mercier Press, 2025)
Mary, you are very welcome to my Writers Chat series. We’re here to discuss your short story collection Walking Ghosts, a collection which has been described by William Wall as “fascinating, and ut…
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November 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Thank you @shaunagilligan.bsky.social ! @mercierpress.bsky.social
Delighted to feature @maryodonnell.bsky.social on my #WritersChat we talk about her excellent short story collection "Walkingwith Ghosts" @mercierpress.bsky.social
shaunagilliganwriter.com/2025/11/11/w...
shaunagilliganwriter.com/2025/11/11/w...
Writers Chat 81: Mary O’Donnell on “Walking Ghosts” (Mercier Press, 2025)
Mary, you are very welcome to my Writers Chat series. We’re here to discuss your short story collection Walking Ghosts, a collection which has been described by William Wall as “fascinating, and ut…
shaunagilliganwriter.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Delighted to feature @maryodonnell.bsky.social on my #WritersChat we talk about her excellent short story collection "Walkingwith Ghosts" @mercierpress.bsky.social
shaunagilliganwriter.com/2025/11/11/w...
shaunagilliganwriter.com/2025/11/11/w...
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Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Steven Russell Black.
November 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Steven Russell Black.
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Hard to believe this wonderful vista will be destroyed by SDCC to make way for 300 car spaces for a €35M overscaled coffee shop at the Hellfire. change.org/p/save-the-h... #sundaythoughts #trees #nature
November 9, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Hard to believe this wonderful vista will be destroyed by SDCC to make way for 300 car spaces for a €35M overscaled coffee shop at the Hellfire. change.org/p/save-the-h... #sundaythoughts #trees #nature
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Truth
Mamdani got a humanities degree.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
November 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Truth
Looking forward to @irishpen.bsky.social event @dublinbookfest.bsky.social It will be incredible to hear İlhan Sami Çomak read his poetry in person.
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Day of the Imprisoned Writer - LAST TICKETS REMAINING - Dublin Book Festival
İlhan Sami Çomak is an award-winning and internationally regarded Kurdish poet who was imprisoned in Istanbul for 30 years, before finally being released in 2024. This year, to mark the Day of the Imp...
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November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Looking forward to @irishpen.bsky.social event @dublinbookfest.bsky.social It will be incredible to hear İlhan Sami Çomak read his poetry in person.
dublinbookfestival.com/event/day-of...
dublinbookfestival.com/event/day-of...
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No new episode tomorrow of the podcast as last weekend’s was such a bumper one, running at 2.5 hours, an audio companion to The Storms, Issue V
Tune in on most podcast platforms including Spotify (link below) and buy your copy at
eatthestorms.com/the-storm-sh...
open.spotify.com/episode/1uM1...
Tune in on most podcast platforms including Spotify (link below) and buy your copy at
eatthestorms.com/the-storm-sh...
open.spotify.com/episode/1uM1...
The Shop
Issue V of The Storms is now available to buy online. To order multiple items, email thestormssubmissions@yahoo.com for additional postage costs. The Storms Issue V – for the island of Irelan…
eatthestorms.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:53 AM
No new episode tomorrow of the podcast as last weekend’s was such a bumper one, running at 2.5 hours, an audio companion to The Storms, Issue V
Tune in on most podcast platforms including Spotify (link below) and buy your copy at
eatthestorms.com/the-storm-sh...
open.spotify.com/episode/1uM1...
Tune in on most podcast platforms including Spotify (link below) and buy your copy at
eatthestorms.com/the-storm-sh...
open.spotify.com/episode/1uM1...
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“The main thing is to write
for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust
that imagines its haven like your hands at night
dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast.
You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous.
Take off from here.”
― Seamus Heaney, Station Island
for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust
that imagines its haven like your hands at night
dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast.
You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous.
Take off from here.”
― Seamus Heaney, Station Island
November 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
“The main thing is to write
for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust
that imagines its haven like your hands at night
dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast.
You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous.
Take off from here.”
― Seamus Heaney, Station Island
for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust
that imagines its haven like your hands at night
dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast.
You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous.
Take off from here.”
― Seamus Heaney, Station Island