Eleanor Hooker
@eleanorhooker.bsky.social
Poet & Writer | PhD Candidate, UL | RNLI Helm & Lifeboat Press Officer | Fellow of Linnean Society | Michael Hartnett Award | Markievicz Award | 3rd collection Of Ochre and Ash (DedalusPress) | Where Memory Lies(Bonnefant Press) www.eleanorhooker.com
Winifred McNulty’s beautiful new poetry book ‘Weather on the Peninsula’ (Wild Lane Press) is out in the world and is being launched at the Allingham Festival tomorrow.
Win is a gifted poet, it was a joy and a honour to edit her collection in advance of its publication. #poetry #BookLaunch
Win is a gifted poet, it was a joy and a honour to edit her collection in advance of its publication. #poetry #BookLaunch
November 7, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Winifred McNulty’s beautiful new poetry book ‘Weather on the Peninsula’ (Wild Lane Press) is out in the world and is being launched at the Allingham Festival tomorrow.
Win is a gifted poet, it was a joy and a honour to edit her collection in advance of its publication. #poetry #BookLaunch
Win is a gifted poet, it was a joy and a honour to edit her collection in advance of its publication. #poetry #BookLaunch
Fabulous launch of @eoindevereuxwriter.bsky.social new poetry book ‘Gardening Leave:New and Collected Poems’ (451 Editions) at O’Mahony’s in Limerick
Page to page poems in this superb collection vividly describe life in all its persistence and persuasion. #poetry
Page to page poems in this superb collection vividly describe life in all its persistence and persuasion. #poetry
November 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Fabulous launch of @eoindevereuxwriter.bsky.social new poetry book ‘Gardening Leave:New and Collected Poems’ (451 Editions) at O’Mahony’s in Limerick
Page to page poems in this superb collection vividly describe life in all its persistence and persuasion. #poetry
Page to page poems in this superb collection vividly describe life in all its persistence and persuasion. #poetry
October 30, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Caimin, The Eagle - sculpture at Mountshannon Harbour #SeaEagle #LoughDerg
October 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Caimin, The Eagle - sculpture at Mountshannon Harbour #SeaEagle #LoughDerg
Our Wedding Anniversary today 💕- first poem P ever read to me was ‘Midsumner’ by Thomas Kinsella - my love poem, written many years later, was with ‘Midsumner’ in mind. #LovePoems
September 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Our Wedding Anniversary today 💕- first poem P ever read to me was ‘Midsumner’ by Thomas Kinsella - my love poem, written many years later, was with ‘Midsumner’ in mind. #LovePoems
Wonderful to hear Catherine Connolly T.D. @catherinegalway.bsky.social speak at her Presidential campaign launch at ‘The Complex’ in Dublin on Monday evening. I have huge respect for this politician. #presidentialcampaign
September 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Wonderful to hear Catherine Connolly T.D. @catherinegalway.bsky.social speak at her Presidential campaign launch at ‘The Complex’ in Dublin on Monday evening. I have huge respect for this politician. #presidentialcampaign
Delighted that Garry Cotter, editor at the #NenaghGuardian gave my post event review at full page in today’s paper, thank you.
#ThomasMacDonagh #HedgeSchool #Cloughjordan
#ThomasMacDonagh #HedgeSchool #Cloughjordan
September 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Delighted that Garry Cotter, editor at the #NenaghGuardian gave my post event review at full page in today’s paper, thank you.
#ThomasMacDonagh #HedgeSchool #Cloughjordan
#ThomasMacDonagh #HedgeSchool #Cloughjordan
Huge thanks to @lloislanel.bsky.social @ailbhemcdaid.bsky.social Profs Eugene O’Brien & James Moran, Williams Rossa Cole, & North Tipp. Artists’ Collective whose talks and presentations ensured the tremendous success of the 3rd annual #ThomasMacDonaghHedgeSchool 2025
September 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Huge thanks to @lloislanel.bsky.social @ailbhemcdaid.bsky.social Profs Eugene O’Brien & James Moran, Williams Rossa Cole, & North Tipp. Artists’ Collective whose talks and presentations ensured the tremendous success of the 3rd annual #ThomasMacDonaghHedgeSchool 2025
Thrill to read alongside Jane Clarke, Mark Roper, Bernard O'Donohue & Grace Wilentz, w/ #music by Leslie Dowall & Hugh Buckley, Emma Roche, Ed Dwan Quartet and Hidden Highways, at the #CirclingTheSquare festival in #Thurles, Saturday 1 November. Thanks to Larry O'Doherty for the invitation #poetry
September 1, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Thrill to read alongside Jane Clarke, Mark Roper, Bernard O'Donohue & Grace Wilentz, w/ #music by Leslie Dowall & Hugh Buckley, Emma Roche, Ed Dwan Quartet and Hidden Highways, at the #CirclingTheSquare festival in #Thurles, Saturday 1 November. Thanks to Larry O'Doherty for the invitation #poetry
Today is World Drowning Prevention Day - the #RNLI is teaching the public how to Float To Live - the campaign has saved lives! #DrowningPrevention
July 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Today is World Drowning Prevention Day - the #RNLI is teaching the public how to Float To Live - the campaign has saved lives! #DrowningPrevention
An Gorta Mór: Doolough, Mayo, 1849
One evening after a conversation about this preventable tragedy,my brother sent me a load of info on it.
This poem went through at least 30 iterations, and truthfully, I’m still not happy with it, perhaps the events of 1849 and yet too close… #OurFamineDead
One evening after a conversation about this preventable tragedy,my brother sent me a load of info on it.
This poem went through at least 30 iterations, and truthfully, I’m still not happy with it, perhaps the events of 1849 and yet too close… #OurFamineDead
July 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
An Gorta Mór: Doolough, Mayo, 1849
One evening after a conversation about this preventable tragedy,my brother sent me a load of info on it.
This poem went through at least 30 iterations, and truthfully, I’m still not happy with it, perhaps the events of 1849 and yet too close… #OurFamineDead
One evening after a conversation about this preventable tragedy,my brother sent me a load of info on it.
This poem went through at least 30 iterations, and truthfully, I’m still not happy with it, perhaps the events of 1849 and yet too close… #OurFamineDead
July 23, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Geese over Lough Derg last night.
‘There a skein of geese assumes
the rusty air of the potting-shed door, their rising path oblique’
from Watermarked: i.m. Seamus Heaney in A Tug of Blue (Dedalus Press) #poetry
‘There a skein of geese assumes
the rusty air of the potting-shed door, their rising path oblique’
from Watermarked: i.m. Seamus Heaney in A Tug of Blue (Dedalus Press) #poetry
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Geese over Lough Derg last night.
‘There a skein of geese assumes
the rusty air of the potting-shed door, their rising path oblique’
from Watermarked: i.m. Seamus Heaney in A Tug of Blue (Dedalus Press) #poetry
‘There a skein of geese assumes
the rusty air of the potting-shed door, their rising path oblique’
from Watermarked: i.m. Seamus Heaney in A Tug of Blue (Dedalus Press) #poetry
George Hooker lectures in film & drama at Trinity - earlier this month he collaborated on a production, providing technical support for a play entitled ‘Sweeney Agonistes: after TS Eliot’ #TSEliot #TrinityCollege #Dublin
July 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
George Hooker lectures in film & drama at Trinity - earlier this month he collaborated on a production, providing technical support for a play entitled ‘Sweeney Agonistes: after TS Eliot’ #TSEliot #TrinityCollege #Dublin
Tove Jansson’s #TheSummerBook is one of my all time favourite novels. The DVD film, arrived from Finland.
Beautifully directed by Charlie McDowell, he is faithful to Jansson’s writing, tho perhaps slight omissions make the film more melancholy. Glenn Close is profoundly magnificent as Grandmother
Beautifully directed by Charlie McDowell, he is faithful to Jansson’s writing, tho perhaps slight omissions make the film more melancholy. Glenn Close is profoundly magnificent as Grandmother
July 15, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Tove Jansson’s #TheSummerBook is one of my all time favourite novels. The DVD film, arrived from Finland.
Beautifully directed by Charlie McDowell, he is faithful to Jansson’s writing, tho perhaps slight omissions make the film more melancholy. Glenn Close is profoundly magnificent as Grandmother
Beautifully directed by Charlie McDowell, he is faithful to Jansson’s writing, tho perhaps slight omissions make the film more melancholy. Glenn Close is profoundly magnificent as Grandmother
To Carlow today to see the Dreamtime Ireland exhibition in which George Hooker & Rónán Ó Raghallaigh have an amazing installation on their collaborative work.
The exhibition and research project is curated by artist Sean Lynch at VISUAL and Carlow County Museum. #ArtExhibition
The exhibition and research project is curated by artist Sean Lynch at VISUAL and Carlow County Museum. #ArtExhibition
July 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
To Carlow today to see the Dreamtime Ireland exhibition in which George Hooker & Rónán Ó Raghallaigh have an amazing installation on their collaborative work.
The exhibition and research project is curated by artist Sean Lynch at VISUAL and Carlow County Museum. #ArtExhibition
The exhibition and research project is curated by artist Sean Lynch at VISUAL and Carlow County Museum. #ArtExhibition
Such a privilege to attend a general audience with Pope Leo XIV in St Peter’s Square, in Rome a fortnight ago.
There was such a feeling of hope and (despite the baking heat) joy too. #Rome
#VaticanCity
There was such a feeling of hope and (despite the baking heat) joy too. #Rome
#VaticanCity
June 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Such a privilege to attend a general audience with Pope Leo XIV in St Peter’s Square, in Rome a fortnight ago.
There was such a feeling of hope and (despite the baking heat) joy too. #Rome
#VaticanCity
There was such a feeling of hope and (despite the baking heat) joy too. #Rome
#VaticanCity
Delighted for Peter - given the ’Exceptional Services to Examinations Award, College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland (CAI)’ at the Conferring Ceremony at UCD yesterday. #Award #CollegeoOfAnaesthesiologistsIrelabd
June 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Delighted for Peter - given the ’Exceptional Services to Examinations Award, College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland (CAI)’ at the Conferring Ceremony at UCD yesterday. #Award #CollegeoOfAnaesthesiologistsIrelabd
Absolutely thrilled for Sandra Lefroy, whose book on her family connections to #JaneAusten & #WilliamWordsworth is being published by LimerickWritersCentre - the launch is 6:30pm, Thursday June 26 at the Killaloe Hotel & Spa, Killaloe.
June 19, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Absolutely thrilled for Sandra Lefroy, whose book on her family connections to #JaneAusten & #WilliamWordsworth is being published by LimerickWritersCentre - the launch is 6:30pm, Thursday June 26 at the Killaloe Hotel & Spa, Killaloe.
