Carmel Mc Mahon
@carmelmcmahon.bsky.social
Writer. Irish. Free Palestine.
In Ordinary Time (Duckworth, 2023)
Essays & reviews: The Guardian, The Irish Times, Longreads, Humanities Review etc.
In Ordinary Time (Duckworth, 2023)
Essays & reviews: The Guardian, The Irish Times, Longreads, Humanities Review etc.
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Irish writers Naoise Dolan & Sarah Clancy are to join the Global Summit flotilla to break the siege on Gaza. We wish them all a safe and peaceful journey, with a positive outcome for the people of Gaza.
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Irish Writers Join Global Summit Flotilla for Gaza - Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann
Irish writer Naoise Dolan has announced that she will be boarding the Global Sumud Flotilla to break the siege on Gaza. Read more from Dan Sheehan on Lit Hub here. Poet Sarah Clancy has also announce...
irishpen.com
August 30, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Irish writers Naoise Dolan & Sarah Clancy are to join the Global Summit flotilla to break the siege on Gaza. We wish them all a safe and peaceful journey, with a positive outcome for the people of Gaza.
irishpen.com/2025/08/29/i...
irishpen.com/2025/08/29/i...
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In the 1960s Switzerland had some of Europe's filthiest waterbodies.
Now its cities boast near-pristine rivers & lakes: "We are united by a love of water".
Lessons to learn here, about building emotional connection to water as well as infrastructure investment.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Now its cities boast near-pristine rivers & lakes: "We are united by a love of water".
Lessons to learn here, about building emotional connection to water as well as infrastructure investment.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
From sewage and scum to swimming in ‘blue gold’: how Switzerland transformed its rivers
In the 1960s, the Swiss had some of the dirtiest water in Europe. Now, their cities boast pristine rivers and lakes – and other countries are looking to follow their lead
www.theguardian.com
March 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
In the 1960s Switzerland had some of Europe's filthiest waterbodies.
Now its cities boast near-pristine rivers & lakes: "We are united by a love of water".
Lessons to learn here, about building emotional connection to water as well as infrastructure investment.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Now its cities boast near-pristine rivers & lakes: "We are united by a love of water".
Lessons to learn here, about building emotional connection to water as well as infrastructure investment.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/re...
Remove the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism from the Programme for Government 2025
I've just signed this petition calling on the government to remove the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism from the Programme for Government. Will you sign too?
my.uplift.ie
March 23, 2025 at 8:56 AM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/re...
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I agree so much with this. The system has bet the house on the overwhelming market for HE being 18-22 year olds, and lacks a model for making a university education available to people at other stages of life. We'd need to change the system but we could radically change who gets to be a student.
One area universities have done a really poor job in is acknowledging that there are loads of fairly wealthy retirees who are interested in taking humanities classes (yes, I know there are funding cuts, but it’s also a very large market)
March 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I agree so much with this. The system has bet the house on the overwhelming market for HE being 18-22 year olds, and lacks a model for making a university education available to people at other stages of life. We'd need to change the system but we could radically change who gets to be a student.
“It’s a place where a hello can heal you”: how a Mayo village embraced an influx of international protection applicants.
My longread in todays @independent.ie
My longread in todays @independent.ie
March 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
“It’s a place where a hello can heal you”: how a Mayo village embraced an influx of international protection applicants.
My longread in todays @independent.ie
My longread in todays @independent.ie
Incredible portrait of Edna O’Brien. Blue Road opens in cinemas today.
January 31, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Incredible portrait of Edna O’Brien. Blue Road opens in cinemas today.
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This was an interesting interview, as ever, with Carlo Gebler about his mother, Edna O'Brien and our film together.
By Pavel Barter.
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
By Pavel Barter.
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
January 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This was an interesting interview, as ever, with Carlo Gebler about his mother, Edna O'Brien and our film together.
By Pavel Barter.
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
By Pavel Barter.
www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...
My review of Catherine Airey’s brilliant debut, CONFESSIONS is up on the Irish Independent website (in print next week).
January 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
My review of Catherine Airey’s brilliant debut, CONFESSIONS is up on the Irish Independent website (in print next week).
Some of the books I read and liked in 2024. A year of slim fictions and poetry, mostly.
January 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Some of the books I read and liked in 2024. A year of slim fictions and poetry, mostly.
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🎙️✨ On the latest episode of Between the Cover podcast, poet, novelist, and essayist Dionne Brand joins @davidnaimon.bsky.social to discuss her latest book of nonfiction Salvage: Readings from the Wreck.
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👂Listen! bit.ly/DionneBrandBTC
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👂Listen! bit.ly/DionneBrandBTC
November 26, 2024 at 11:01 PM
🎙️✨ On the latest episode of Between the Cover podcast, poet, novelist, and essayist Dionne Brand joins @davidnaimon.bsky.social to discuss her latest book of nonfiction Salvage: Readings from the Wreck.
@fsgbooks.bsky.social
👂Listen! bit.ly/DionneBrandBTC
@fsgbooks.bsky.social
👂Listen! bit.ly/DionneBrandBTC
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I talked to Rashid Khalidi for the new issue of the New York Review of Books
November 27, 2024 at 11:22 AM
I talked to Rashid Khalidi for the new issue of the New York Review of Books
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Aaron Boehmer on what young journalists can learn from Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Message.
What Young Journalists Can Learn From Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Message
In 2004, following George W. Bush’s re-election, Toni Morrison wrote that times of socio-political turmoil are the exact moments when artists must get to work, rejecting despair in favor of action …
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November 25, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Aaron Boehmer on what young journalists can learn from Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Message.
Brilliant documentary essay in which @blindboyboatclub
traces the history of Irish writing from the 5th century to the present day.
You can watch it for free on the RTE Player.
traces the history of Irish writing from the 5th century to the present day.
You can watch it for free on the RTE Player.
Tonight RTE1. An excerpt from my documentary which explores the role of early Christianity in the Irish writing tradition. I loved making this
November 22, 2024 at 3:15 PM
Brilliant documentary essay in which @blindboyboatclub
traces the history of Irish writing from the 5th century to the present day.
You can watch it for free on the RTE Player.
traces the history of Irish writing from the 5th century to the present day.
You can watch it for free on the RTE Player.
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"All flourishing is mutual." Robin Wall Kimmerer's THE SERVICEBERRY: ABUNDANCE AND RECIPROCITY IN THE NATURAL WORLD is out today. It's filled with so much wisdom, generosity, and love that we need right now.
November 20, 2024 at 9:14 PM
"All flourishing is mutual." Robin Wall Kimmerer's THE SERVICEBERRY: ABUNDANCE AND RECIPROCITY IN THE NATURAL WORLD is out today. It's filled with so much wisdom, generosity, and love that we need right now.
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Who wants me to review the new Sophie Calle book out in December? Get in touch.
November 21, 2024 at 3:38 AM
Who wants me to review the new Sophie Calle book out in December? Get in touch.
The Green Ages sounds like a book for me:
“The Franciscans, with their commitment to radical poverty, are one of the case studies chosen by Annette Kehnel in The Green Ages as an example of ‘medieval innovations in sustainability’.”
“The Franciscans, with their commitment to radical poverty, are one of the case studies chosen by Annette Kehnel in The Green Ages as an example of ‘medieval innovations in sustainability’.”
'Many of the case studies Kehnel puts forward are attractively described, and it is refreshing to see such a positive argument about what can be learned from premodern ways of living'
A great review of #TheGreenAges by Annette Kehnel in History Today 🌿
t.co/aWLYN8nItR
A great review of #TheGreenAges by Annette Kehnel in History Today 🌿
t.co/aWLYN8nItR
‘The Green Ages’ by Annette Kehnel review
www.historytoday.com
November 20, 2024 at 12:03 PM
The Green Ages sounds like a book for me:
“The Franciscans, with their commitment to radical poverty, are one of the case studies chosen by Annette Kehnel in The Green Ages as an example of ‘medieval innovations in sustainability’.”
“The Franciscans, with their commitment to radical poverty, are one of the case studies chosen by Annette Kehnel in The Green Ages as an example of ‘medieval innovations in sustainability’.”
Telepathic communications with Francis
November 20, 2024 at 9:44 AM
Telepathic communications with Francis
Thank you for this Irish Literary Community Starter Pack @aislingwalsh.bsky.social
After multiple suggestions and scouring BlueSky for the last few days, the Irish Literary Community Starter Pack still has a few spaces left as more people make their way over or if there is anyone I might have missed, skeet me!
go.bsky.app/M7713mj
go.bsky.app/M7713mj
November 19, 2024 at 8:11 PM
Thank you for this Irish Literary Community Starter Pack @aislingwalsh.bsky.social
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✨Little reminder that Aontu exists because Peadar Tóibín resigned from Sinn Fein because of its support for Repeal. They want to seriously curtail women’s access to abortion, and would overturn repeal if they could.✨
November 18, 2024 at 11:10 PM
✨Little reminder that Aontu exists because Peadar Tóibín resigned from Sinn Fein because of its support for Repeal. They want to seriously curtail women’s access to abortion, and would overturn repeal if they could.✨
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Please, if you are able, support Independent bookshops.
They are the literary & social hubs of our high streets and communities.
Without their continued support, we simply wouldn't be around to publish .
Thank you.
They are the literary & social hubs of our high streets and communities.
Without their continued support, we simply wouldn't be around to publish .
Thank you.
November 15, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Please, if you are able, support Independent bookshops.
They are the literary & social hubs of our high streets and communities.
Without their continued support, we simply wouldn't be around to publish .
Thank you.
They are the literary & social hubs of our high streets and communities.
Without their continued support, we simply wouldn't be around to publish .
Thank you.
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My word of the day (and personal recommendation) is ‘snerdling’ (18th century): nestling cosily beneath the covers and holding off the day a little longer.
Morning.
Morning.
November 16, 2024 at 9:05 AM
My word of the day (and personal recommendation) is ‘snerdling’ (18th century): nestling cosily beneath the covers and holding off the day a little longer.
Morning.
Morning.
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Looking forward to seeing you all at the show !
November 15, 2024 at 11:40 AM
Looking forward to seeing you all at the show !