New place seems alright 🙂

She says having started a new job… give me something to read on the bus!

Back in 2017, I wrote about how Kate Millett was rescued by a bunch of friends from an institution in Ennis; Margaretta D'Arcy, Sylvia Meehan, Nell McCafferty, Ivor Browne, Deirdre McCarten, Maere Rountree amongst them.

Millett wrote about this in her 1990 book The Loony-Bin Trip.

Michael Magee has often cited his main influence as Annie Ernaux, which is refreshing.

You do know that this phenomenon is mostly due to the colonial history, partition of the island and the fracturing of the left? For the very first time all left parties of the southern state united behind one single hard left candidate. This is historic and no socialist in Ireland is sneering.

Plus some far right will Vote for Gavin as a protest vote. Of course you should definitely just vote the way you want to vote.

High chance your no 2 may not be counted. Conversely turnout may be low and Connolly will need your number one (if you want her to.) if she does win, great emphasis still be put on low turnout, “lack of democracy”, so a clear pref for her expressed by number ones is important.

She was on a fact-finding mission to an autocratic country, then she came back and denounced those very war criminals. I find it hard to understand what the Irish Times is trying to assert - that Catherine Connolly supports the slaughter of Palestinians?

Aw Róisín you’re too good 🥹

Aw thank you! I’m looking forward to reading Amateurs myself 😀

Sam Furlong Tighe will be launching Shakeema’s excellent pamphlet.

Congratulations Martina, so well deserved. You will have a great time.

The ONLY pamphlet with poems about Findlaters pub, cló Gaelach sex dreams, floating penises, reports about pension inequality, Elon Musk office arguments, hippy ol Dublin fellas

Not to be a pain but would you mind sending me a link to the registration if you could? The website page seems to not be working for me!

I absolutely love this. Socialism should be as popular as the hurling!

I was blown away by your poems in Poetry Review - really looking forward to this.

Wow. Not surprised by him but extremely disappointing by the LRB.