Denyse Woods
@denysewoods.bsky.social
Novelist. Of Sea and Sand (Hoopoe); Overnight to Innsbruck (Lilliput); If Not Now (Penguin) & others. Florida Keys & Hemingway Home Flash Fiction Award. Love cats, tea, trees. Hate plastic and all our other junk. Friend of Yemen.
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Alan Hollinghurst's 'Our Evenings' a "sweeping novel about the lives, loves, struggles and triumphs of a queer English Burmese actor" was featured in @nytimes.com Book Club. Alan joins us at WCLF Friday 11 July @picadorbooks.bsky.social
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Book Club: Let’s Talk About Alan Hollinghurst’s ‘Our Evenings’
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June 18, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Alan Hollinghurst's 'Our Evenings' a "sweeping novel about the lives, loves, struggles and triumphs of a queer English Burmese actor" was featured in @nytimes.com Book Club. Alan joins us at WCLF Friday 11 July @picadorbooks.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/b...
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Sarah Maria Griffin @griffski.bsky.social is coming to WCLF next month. She'll be chatting about her new novel Eat The Ones You Love alongside debut author @rosekeating.bsky.social & will launch Cork Co Council's Rainbow Library anthology
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book... @titanbooks.bsky.social
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Sarah Maria Griffin: ‘I will be trying to figure out what the internet means to me for the rest of my life’
The author on her new novel, Eat the Ones You Love; the importance of libraries; and her love of video games
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June 18, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Sarah Maria Griffin @griffski.bsky.social is coming to WCLF next month. She'll be chatting about her new novel Eat The Ones You Love alongside debut author @rosekeating.bsky.social & will launch Cork Co Council's Rainbow Library anthology
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book... @titanbooks.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book... @titanbooks.bsky.social
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The CO2 increase is accelerating. gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...
April 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The CO2 increase is accelerating. gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...
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I grew up in Catholic Ireland hearing endless stories of Stalin's Gulags, every library had a copy of Solzhenitsyn and its Koestler books about the horrors of Communism. The stuff coming out of the US right now, these innocent people being incarcerated in hell forever, needs to never be forgotten.
April 7, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I grew up in Catholic Ireland hearing endless stories of Stalin's Gulags, every library had a copy of Solzhenitsyn and its Koestler books about the horrors of Communism. The stuff coming out of the US right now, these innocent people being incarcerated in hell forever, needs to never be forgotten.
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Come along on Thursday 10th April for our fundraiser pub quiz The Teacher’s Club/Club na Múinteoirí.
Cost of entry is €10 per person, with teams of 4 maximum. Great prizes and raffle on the night!
Join us for a night of craic and a friendly battle of wits! #SolidarityIsAVerb #FreePalestine
Cost of entry is €10 per person, with teams of 4 maximum. Great prizes and raffle on the night!
Join us for a night of craic and a friendly battle of wits! #SolidarityIsAVerb #FreePalestine
April 7, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Come along on Thursday 10th April for our fundraiser pub quiz The Teacher’s Club/Club na Múinteoirí.
Cost of entry is €10 per person, with teams of 4 maximum. Great prizes and raffle on the night!
Join us for a night of craic and a friendly battle of wits! #SolidarityIsAVerb #FreePalestine
Cost of entry is €10 per person, with teams of 4 maximum. Great prizes and raffle on the night!
Join us for a night of craic and a friendly battle of wits! #SolidarityIsAVerb #FreePalestine
Birdwatchers have been treated to multiple sightings of African Hoopoes as around 80 of the colourful, migratory birds have arrived in Ireland in the past two weeks.
Birdwatchers thrilled as African Hoopoe seen in Ireland
Birdwatchers have been treated to multiple sightings of African Hoopoes as around 80 of the colourful, migratory birds have arrived in Ireland in the past two weeks.
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April 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Our critic Jen Szalai reviews the explosive new Facebook memoir by Sarah Wynn Williams: "Not only does she have the storytelling chops to unspool a gripping narrative; she also delivers the goods."
Book Review: ‘Careless People,’ by Sarah Wynn-Williams
“Careless People,” a memoir by a former Facebook executive, portrays feckless company leaders cozying up to authoritarian regimes.
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March 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Our critic Jen Szalai reviews the explosive new Facebook memoir by Sarah Wynn Williams: "Not only does she have the storytelling chops to unspool a gripping narrative; she also delivers the goods."
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Eavan Boland honoured. About time! Thanks, TCD.
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Trinity to mark renaming of library after Eavan Boland
Events are being held to mark the first time a building at Trinity College Dublin has been named after a woman in the university's 433-year history.
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March 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Eavan Boland honoured. About time! Thanks, TCD.
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I am having a warcoffee now.
Workouts are back.
I feel better.
Kyiv stands.
Kyiv stands
on the right side of history.
I hope you do, too.
Workouts are back.
I feel better.
Kyiv stands.
Kyiv stands
on the right side of history.
I hope you do, too.
March 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I am having a warcoffee now.
Workouts are back.
I feel better.
Kyiv stands.
Kyiv stands
on the right side of history.
I hope you do, too.
Workouts are back.
I feel better.
Kyiv stands.
Kyiv stands
on the right side of history.
I hope you do, too.
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Irish literature is taking over the world.
March 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Irish literature is taking over the world.
Airports have to play a part too. Two years ago, at 5.30 a.m. in Dublin Airport Departures I saw a guy downing a pint - with three more pints lined up beside him. He was travelling with young children. Perhaps a restriction on booze pre-flight - or breathalyzers? @ryanairofficial.bsky.social
Ryanair has filed a claim for more than €15,000 in damages against a passenger it said disrupted a flight from Dublin to Lanzarote last year.
Ryanair seeks €15k in damages from disruptive passenger
Ryanair has filed a claim for more than €15,000 in damages against a passenger it said disrupted a flight from Dublin to Lanzarote last year.
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January 8, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Airports have to play a part too. Two years ago, at 5.30 a.m. in Dublin Airport Departures I saw a guy downing a pint - with three more pints lined up beside him. He was travelling with young children. Perhaps a restriction on booze pre-flight - or breathalyzers? @ryanairofficial.bsky.social
Oh, how we laughed and joked about how he wanted Greenland during his first presidency. Not laughing now...
France has warned Donald Trump against threatening the "sovereign borders" of the European Union after the US president-elect refused to rule out military action to take control of Greenland, an autonomous territory of EU member Denmark.
France warns Trump after Greenland comments
France has warned Donald Trump against threatening the "sovereign borders" of the European Union after the US president-elect refused to rule out military action to take control of Greenland, an auton...
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January 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Oh, how we laughed and joked about how he wanted Greenland during his first presidency. Not laughing now...
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A Palestinian official said three people including two children were killed in an Israeli air strike on the occupied West Bank which the military said targeted militants
Israeli strike kills two children - Palestinian official
A Palestinian official said three people including two children were killed in an Israeli air strike on the occupied West Bank which the military said targeted militants.
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January 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
A Palestinian official said three people including two children were killed in an Israeli air strike on the occupied West Bank which the military said targeted militants
I should come out with my hands up and admit that I haven't posted on here for over a year, because, uhm, I forgot I'd signed up. #MustdoBetter
January 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I should come out with my hands up and admit that I haven't posted on here for over a year, because, uhm, I forgot I'd signed up. #MustdoBetter
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I spoke to the Irish parents of Hisham Arwatani, the Palestinian-Irish-American student who was paralysed last month in Vermont in an unprovoked gun attack his mother, Dún Laoghaire-born Elizabeth Price, believes was caused by hate speech in the US.
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December 9, 2023 at 10:49 AM
I spoke to the Irish parents of Hisham Arwatani, the Palestinian-Irish-American student who was paralysed last month in Vermont in an unprovoked gun attack his mother, Dún Laoghaire-born Elizabeth Price, believes was caused by hate speech in the US.
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
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Words To Live by Number 29
December 13, 2023 at 3:02 PM
Words To Live by Number 29
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“For many the truce is worse, because Palestinians get to die slowly and in silence.” Dr Refaat Alareer - RIP, my friend
Ceasefire? Yes. We need an immediate ceasefire right now in Gaza. But the blockade must be lifted. Refaat knew that being alive was not the same as living.
Ceasefire? Yes. We need an immediate ceasefire right now in Gaza. But the blockade must be lifted. Refaat knew that being alive was not the same as living.
December 8, 2023 at 9:30 AM
“For many the truce is worse, because Palestinians get to die slowly and in silence.” Dr Refaat Alareer - RIP, my friend
Ceasefire? Yes. We need an immediate ceasefire right now in Gaza. But the blockade must be lifted. Refaat knew that being alive was not the same as living.
Ceasefire? Yes. We need an immediate ceasefire right now in Gaza. But the blockade must be lifted. Refaat knew that being alive was not the same as living.
I need chocolate.
December 5, 2023 at 12:08 PM
I need chocolate.
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If you're wondering why COVID isn't being covered in the media more, I've just had an editor tell me that coverage of COVID is "not a good bet for us editorially." With thousands still dying, a good reminder why it's not being covered and why being a journalist is unsafe for folks like me.
December 5, 2023 at 10:15 AM
If you're wondering why COVID isn't being covered in the media more, I've just had an editor tell me that coverage of COVID is "not a good bet for us editorially." With thousands still dying, a good reminder why it's not being covered and why being a journalist is unsafe for folks like me.
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I wish every international commentator who rushed to judgment on the Dublin riots would read this essential perspective from @shamimmalekmian.bsky.social dublininquirer.com/2023/11/29/i...
In the aftermath of a violent attack in the city, Algerian Dubliners worry about a cloud of stigma -...
Mohamed Tienti says that the morning after it happened, he felt ashamed showing his face at work.
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December 4, 2023 at 9:18 AM
I wish every international commentator who rushed to judgment on the Dublin riots would read this essential perspective from @shamimmalekmian.bsky.social dublininquirer.com/2023/11/29/i...
Good on #MaryRobinson. Taking on those who refuse to give up #fossilfuels, less there might be a dint in their own personal humongous wealth.
You couldn't make this up if you tried...
The head of #COP28 dismisses fossil fuel science.
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The head of #COP28 dismisses fossil fuel science.
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Sultan heading Cop28 climate summit dismisses fossil fuel science in shocking rant at Mary Robinson
Former Irish President Mary Robinson was accused of being alarmist and making false accusations in a shocking rant by the sultan heading Cop28 after she asked him to take the lead in ending the use of...
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December 4, 2023 at 9:39 AM
Good on #MaryRobinson. Taking on those who refuse to give up #fossilfuels, less there might be a dint in their own personal humongous wealth.