Emma Walsh
@walshiewrites.bsky.social
Reading, writing, rambling & growing things by the sea in Dublin. Half Dub, half Nordie. Getting more pagan in my old age. PR pro. News nerd. LUFC fan for my sins. She/Her.
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Greta Thunberg, arriving back in Europe after her abduction by Israel in international waters, explains in 40 seconds why western governments are colluding in genocide:
June 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Greta Thunberg, arriving back in Europe after her abduction by Israel in international waters, explains in 40 seconds why western governments are colluding in genocide:
It is one of the saddest and most undersung legacies of The Troubles, but the necessary breakthroughs in trauma surgery have served the world.
Medicine learned from our history, law enforcement apparently did not.
Medicine learned from our history, law enforcement apparently did not.
I notice that bullets being used in #California against unarmed civilians are being described as 'non-lethal' Here is a list of 17 people who died from these injuries in Northern Ireland during The Troubles. 8 were children. cain.ulster.ac.uk/issues/viole...
CAIN: Issues: Violence - List of People Killed by 'Rubber' and 'Plastic' Bullets
cain.ulster.ac.uk
June 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
It is one of the saddest and most undersung legacies of The Troubles, but the necessary breakthroughs in trauma surgery have served the world.
Medicine learned from our history, law enforcement apparently did not.
Medicine learned from our history, law enforcement apparently did not.
It's been a Sunday well spent on the balcony. Seeds down. Saplings repotted. Sun soaked up. And halfway through this week's bookclub read.
March 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
It's been a Sunday well spent on the balcony. Seeds down. Saplings repotted. Sun soaked up. And halfway through this week's bookclub read.
We're more than used to hearing that muppet talk nonsense but hearing the cheers that follow it is the terrifying bit.
Hearing people laugh in response to the thinnest veiled threat of a hostile takeover of another territory. That's the bit.
Hearing people laugh in response to the thinnest veiled threat of a hostile takeover of another territory. That's the bit.
March 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
We're more than used to hearing that muppet talk nonsense but hearing the cheers that follow it is the terrifying bit.
Hearing people laugh in response to the thinnest veiled threat of a hostile takeover of another territory. That's the bit.
Hearing people laugh in response to the thinnest veiled threat of a hostile takeover of another territory. That's the bit.
Mícheál Lehane said on the Six One that the National Gallery scanner is "the size of a large drinks trolly" and frankly that's a dangerously revealing and unhelpful comparison for all involved.
February 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Mícheál Lehane said on the Six One that the National Gallery scanner is "the size of a large drinks trolly" and frankly that's a dangerously revealing and unhelpful comparison for all involved.
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Public libraries are amazing!
Did you know you can borrow a book from any library in the country and return it to any other library?
Did you know they have subscriptions to huge amounts of national and international media that you can access?
Did you know you can borrow a book from any library in the country and return it to any other library?
Did you know they have subscriptions to huge amounts of national and international media that you can access?
February 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Public libraries are amazing!
Did you know you can borrow a book from any library in the country and return it to any other library?
Did you know they have subscriptions to huge amounts of national and international media that you can access?
Did you know you can borrow a book from any library in the country and return it to any other library?
Did you know they have subscriptions to huge amounts of national and international media that you can access?
Sorry, did that man really use the words "you have to learn from history"??
February 5, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Sorry, did that man really use the words "you have to learn from history"??
Just before January slipped away on Friday night, I got my list of things for the year out into the world.
A petition for new year intentions to be made on 31st of January rather than the 1st.
open.substack.com/pub/emmawals...
A petition for new year intentions to be made on 31st of January rather than the 1st.
open.substack.com/pub/emmawals...
February 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Just before January slipped away on Friday night, I got my list of things for the year out into the world.
A petition for new year intentions to be made on 31st of January rather than the 1st.
open.substack.com/pub/emmawals...
A petition for new year intentions to be made on 31st of January rather than the 1st.
open.substack.com/pub/emmawals...
Reminded by Kathy Sheridan's great piece this morning that what men fear is that women will laugh at them. It is the epitaph they'll put on this chapter of US politics.
Unfortunately, the other half of that remark remains equally true.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Unfortunately, the other half of that remark remains equally true.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Kathy Sheridan: Tech bros welcome masculine energy back to workplace. It’s news to me it ever went away
There was overreach after the #MeToo movement but the backlash against women we’re seeing now is ferocious
www.irishtimes.com
January 29, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Reminded by Kathy Sheridan's great piece this morning that what men fear is that women will laugh at them. It is the epitaph they'll put on this chapter of US politics.
Unfortunately, the other half of that remark remains equally true.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Unfortunately, the other half of that remark remains equally true.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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Resistance can take many forms.
NEW: It appears people are signing up Trump's DEI snitch email to, well, everything. Bunch of NGOs said the address appeared on their distros. Other folks say they're sending it porn, the Bee Movie script, and tales of unqualified white employees
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-dei-...
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-dei-...
Trump’s DEI Snitch Email Is Being Targeted by Spammers
Various NGOs reported seeing the address added to their email lists. But they don’t think it’s Orwellian. They think it’s a prank.
www.thebulwark.com
January 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Resistance can take many forms.
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A great day for the various parishes
𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆! 🚨
Virgin Media Television has today announced a new four-year landmark broadcast agreement with the @leagueofireland.bsky.social.
The agreement will see VMTV become the sole and exclusive free to air broadcaster of the SSE Airtricity Men’s Premier Division.
#LOI
Virgin Media Television has today announced a new four-year landmark broadcast agreement with the @leagueofireland.bsky.social.
The agreement will see VMTV become the sole and exclusive free to air broadcaster of the SSE Airtricity Men’s Premier Division.
#LOI
January 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
A great day for the various parishes
Lovely hearing the uilleann pipes on Oliver Callan this morning. My granddad played them, though his lungs had put an end to it by the time I was around, and the sound of them always goes straight to a place in my heart.
January 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Lovely hearing the uilleann pipes on Oliver Callan this morning. My granddad played them, though his lungs had put an end to it by the time I was around, and the sound of them always goes straight to a place in my heart.
How is this weirdly quaint?
January 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM
How is this weirdly quaint?
No, you don't understand, I can change him.
He never asks you about yourself and says he's not looking for anything serious
January 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
No, you don't understand, I can change him.
If I was head of the BBC, I would insist that at least one episode of University Challenge per series has only double-barrelled surname contestants.
The world deserves the poetic joy of those announcements.
The world deserves the poetic joy of those announcements.
January 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
If I was head of the BBC, I would insist that at least one episode of University Challenge per series has only double-barrelled surname contestants.
The world deserves the poetic joy of those announcements.
The world deserves the poetic joy of those announcements.
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Happy Nollaig na mBan, here's a thread and some drawings of a few interesting ones.
A few years ago I made a series of mini drawings of interesting Irish women (available as a print here www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...) - this thread is a little information on the women featured, partly because it's useful, but mostly because I'm trying to be sustainable by recycling content.
January 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Happy Nollaig na mBan, here's a thread and some drawings of a few interesting ones.
A very sincere and grateful happy new year to whoever donated the never-worn-tags-on Sezane skirt to Oxfam Ringsend. My spring wardrobe thanks you profusely 🙏
January 3, 2025 at 5:58 PM
A very sincere and grateful happy new year to whoever donated the never-worn-tags-on Sezane skirt to Oxfam Ringsend. My spring wardrobe thanks you profusely 🙏
"The majority of the killers – or suspects – were known to the women."
At least 62 women killed on the island of Ireland since 2020.
www.thejournal.ie/investigates...
At least 62 women killed on the island of Ireland since 2020.
www.thejournal.ie/investigates...
Lost to Violence: The 37 women killed in Ireland in the last five years
The Journal Investigates shines a spotlight on the women lost to violence in Ireland since 2020.
www.thejournal.ie
January 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
"The majority of the killers – or suspects – were known to the women."
At least 62 women killed on the island of Ireland since 2020.
www.thejournal.ie/investigates...
At least 62 women killed on the island of Ireland since 2020.
www.thejournal.ie/investigates...
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Every January, the National Gallery 🇮🇪 shows our collection of Turner watercolours (from the Henry Vaughan bequest). But this year, they’ve swapped our Turners for ones from Edinburgh (also from the Vaughan bequest) and they’re on show now! Free admission. You should go!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Art swap brings new Turner paintings to Scotland
Thirty eight watercolours from Ireland will go on display in Edinburgh with a Scottish collection shown in Dublin.
www.bbc.com
January 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Every January, the National Gallery 🇮🇪 shows our collection of Turner watercolours (from the Henry Vaughan bequest). But this year, they’ve swapped our Turners for ones from Edinburgh (also from the Vaughan bequest) and they’re on show now! Free admission. You should go!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Now listen up. Words to live by in 2025 (and beyond). Be the light.
January 1, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Now listen up. Words to live by in 2025 (and beyond). Be the light.
Turns out relentless rain is a good motivator for me. How I don't write more often is a mystery but it got me back on the horse yesterday.
This was a "just get words down" exercise so obviously I got very sincere & ended up talking books.
Happy New Year!
emmawalsh.substack.com/p/getting-a-...
This was a "just get words down" exercise so obviously I got very sincere & ended up talking books.
Happy New Year!
emmawalsh.substack.com/p/getting-a-...
Getting a jump start on the resolutions...
Started pottering, got sincere, recommended some reads. Will do better, promise.
emmawalsh.substack.com
January 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Turns out relentless rain is a good motivator for me. How I don't write more often is a mystery but it got me back on the horse yesterday.
This was a "just get words down" exercise so obviously I got very sincere & ended up talking books.
Happy New Year!
emmawalsh.substack.com/p/getting-a-...
This was a "just get words down" exercise so obviously I got very sincere & ended up talking books.
Happy New Year!
emmawalsh.substack.com/p/getting-a-...
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To start your 2025 I suggest watching the amazing Irish artist CMAT singing Without You. Probably the best version I've ever heard. youtu.be/G0DTzK8eDdk
CMAT - Without You (Jools' Annual Hootenanny 2024)
YouTube video by BBC Music
youtu.be
January 1, 2025 at 2:21 AM
To start your 2025 I suggest watching the amazing Irish artist CMAT singing Without You. Probably the best version I've ever heard. youtu.be/G0DTzK8eDdk
Big year for big moons ahead.
December 31, 2024 at 12:13 PM
Big year for big moons ahead.