Elizabeth Rose Dunne
@erdunne.bsky.social
Writing and scrabbling around early 19th-century 🇨🇦 + 🇮🇪. Interested in churches, kitchen gardens, language, rebellions. N'hésitez pas à dire bonjour.
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1824: Recievd a letter from Hessey & wrote one took a walk in the fields gatherd a bunch of wild flowers that lingerd in shelterd places as loath to dye - the ragwort still shines in its yellow clusters & the little heath-bell or harvest-bell quakes to the wind under the quick banks & warm furze...
October 21, 2025 at 5:30 AM
1824: Recievd a letter from Hessey & wrote one took a walk in the fields gatherd a bunch of wild flowers that lingerd in shelterd places as loath to dye - the ragwort still shines in its yellow clusters & the little heath-bell or harvest-bell quakes to the wind under the quick banks & warm furze...
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Pleased to say @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social have commissioned a new live online course from me for summer 2026 onward! Medieval Chivalry for 10 weeks! Chat with me weekly! lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/medi... Please share.
Medieval Chivalry
Chivalry was more than medieval knights in shining armour jousting for the love of fair ladies. This course explores how chivalric values profoundly shaped political, literary and artistic cultures fr...
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July 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Pleased to say @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social have commissioned a new live online course from me for summer 2026 onward! Medieval Chivalry for 10 weeks! Chat with me weekly! lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/medi... Please share.
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My story ‘Small Bad Things’ which came third in @themothmagazine.bsky.social short story prize is published in @irishtimes.com today 🎉 There is a small paywall - (£1 for first month) 👇
Small Bad Things by Shelley Hastings
Small Bad Things by Shelley Hastings
The Moth Short Story Prize 2025 judge Evie Wyld awarded this third prize
www.irishtimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 7:05 AM
My story ‘Small Bad Things’ which came third in @themothmagazine.bsky.social short story prize is published in @irishtimes.com today 🎉 There is a small paywall - (£1 for first month) 👇
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🚨NEW: The Israeli government banned journalists on their PR aid flight from filming Gaza from above.
They told journalists the air drops would be cancelled if they broadcast any footage of the destruction below.
A rogue state trying to hide its genocide. Israel won’t ever come back from all this.
They told journalists the air drops would be cancelled if they broadcast any footage of the destruction below.
A rogue state trying to hide its genocide. Israel won’t ever come back from all this.
July 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
🚨NEW: The Israeli government banned journalists on their PR aid flight from filming Gaza from above.
They told journalists the air drops would be cancelled if they broadcast any footage of the destruction below.
A rogue state trying to hide its genocide. Israel won’t ever come back from all this.
They told journalists the air drops would be cancelled if they broadcast any footage of the destruction below.
A rogue state trying to hide its genocide. Israel won’t ever come back from all this.
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Credit to the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen.
Defying the Israeli ban on filming Gaza from above, Bowen instead describes the carnage & genocide he can see:
“I can tell you that communities in the north of Gaza that I knew well…with tens of thousands of people…are flat. There’s nothing left of them.”
Defying the Israeli ban on filming Gaza from above, Bowen instead describes the carnage & genocide he can see:
“I can tell you that communities in the north of Gaza that I knew well…with tens of thousands of people…are flat. There’s nothing left of them.”
July 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Credit to the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen.
Defying the Israeli ban on filming Gaza from above, Bowen instead describes the carnage & genocide he can see:
“I can tell you that communities in the north of Gaza that I knew well…with tens of thousands of people…are flat. There’s nothing left of them.”
Defying the Israeli ban on filming Gaza from above, Bowen instead describes the carnage & genocide he can see:
“I can tell you that communities in the north of Gaza that I knew well…with tens of thousands of people…are flat. There’s nothing left of them.”
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This week Penguin publishes the paperback of my acclaimed memoir ‘Home Is Where We Start: Growing Up In the Fallout Of The Utopian Dream’: the story of my utopian commune childhood & a book about the many meanings of home.
Extracts were published in The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Extracts were published in The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
July 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This week Penguin publishes the paperback of my acclaimed memoir ‘Home Is Where We Start: Growing Up In the Fallout Of The Utopian Dream’: the story of my utopian commune childhood & a book about the many meanings of home.
Extracts were published in The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Extracts were published in The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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What is a townland? Here’s a breakdown of the land divisions you will come across in Irish genealogical records, and why you need to know them #genealogy #Irishgenealogy #familyhistory
What is a townland? A guide to the Irish land divisions used in genealogy records - Una Sinnott
A guide to townlands and other land divisions you will come across in Irish genealogical records, and why you need to know them.
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July 23, 2025 at 11:56 AM
What is a townland? Here’s a breakdown of the land divisions you will come across in Irish genealogical records, and why you need to know them #genealogy #Irishgenealogy #familyhistory
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GAZA TODAY.
"A one-and-a-half-year-old child in Gaza facing life-threatening malnutrition as the humanitarian situation worsens due to ongoing Israeli attacks and blockade."
#Israel #genocide #starvation
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
"A one-and-a-half-year-old child in Gaza facing life-threatening malnutrition as the humanitarian situation worsens due to ongoing Israeli attacks and blockade."
#Israel #genocide #starvation
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
July 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
GAZA TODAY.
"A one-and-a-half-year-old child in Gaza facing life-threatening malnutrition as the humanitarian situation worsens due to ongoing Israeli attacks and blockade."
#Israel #genocide #starvation
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
"A one-and-a-half-year-old child in Gaza facing life-threatening malnutrition as the humanitarian situation worsens due to ongoing Israeli attacks and blockade."
#Israel #genocide #starvation
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Salt Path headlines have dwindled - has there been any published analysis of sales figures which post-date the scandal? Presumably sales rocketed...
July 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Salt Path headlines have dwindled - has there been any published analysis of sales figures which post-date the scandal? Presumably sales rocketed...
Good to know 👇
"I'm going to talk about how a culture of pre-ordering can be part of a larger sense of active participation, or even citizenship, in the book world on the part of everybody who loves books. But first, I should walk you through how pre-ordering works." -- @charliejane.bsky.social #BookSky
Pre-Ordering Books Makes You More of a Citizen of Literature
Recently on Bluesky, I was shouting as usual about Lessons in Magic and Disaster, my novel that comes out in about a month. (It's about a young trans woman...
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July 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Good to know 👇
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De noche, los gatos son pardos, la comida sabe distinta, y el amor puede florecer a pesar de que no lo alimente la luz.
Hay que soñar con las luces apagadas, y amar con los ojos abiertos emilio-tejera.blogspot.com/2025/07/el-r...
El relato de julio: "Cita a ciegas"
Inspirado en una idea original de Helena Tejera El lugar no tenía nada de particular. Nada hacía pensar que era uno de...
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July 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
De noche, los gatos son pardos, la comida sabe distinta, y el amor puede florecer a pesar de que no lo alimente la luz.
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"Much #digitisation is being performed by private companies operated for profit. In the future, do we want the only copies of rare and important #books and #periodicals to be controlled by businesses rather than public #libraries that are free for all?"
theconversation.com/valuing-our-...
theconversation.com/valuing-our-...
Valuing our treasured print history in the era of the ‘bookless’ library
Today we eagerly embrace new technology for fear of being left behind. A toddler with an iPad in hand is a welcome sign of a child learning to succeed in a digital world. Remainders of the pre-digital...
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July 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
"Much #digitisation is being performed by private companies operated for profit. In the future, do we want the only copies of rare and important #books and #periodicals to be controlled by businesses rather than public #libraries that are free for all?"
theconversation.com/valuing-our-...
theconversation.com/valuing-our-...
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As Bookbanks new Ambassador I’d like to spread the word about this brilliant charity giving books with food at food banks.
Please share and support if you’re able :)
www.bookbanks.co.uk
Please share and support if you’re able :)
www.bookbanks.co.uk
July 20, 2025 at 5:24 AM
As Bookbanks new Ambassador I’d like to spread the word about this brilliant charity giving books with food at food banks.
Please share and support if you’re able :)
www.bookbanks.co.uk
Please share and support if you’re able :)
www.bookbanks.co.uk
Just finished "Ripeness", the latest by Sarah Moss. It's a novel about many things; the depictions of female friendship in late middle-age will stay with me in particular.
July 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Just finished "Ripeness", the latest by Sarah Moss. It's a novel about many things; the depictions of female friendship in late middle-age will stay with me in particular.
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Lapsed Irish speakers will relate to this: Andrew McNeillie citing Welsh poet Robert Minhinnock saying that his remaining Welsh language ability "was like wool caught in a strand of barbed wire with the sheep long gone over the mountain."
July 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Lapsed Irish speakers will relate to this: Andrew McNeillie citing Welsh poet Robert Minhinnock saying that his remaining Welsh language ability "was like wool caught in a strand of barbed wire with the sheep long gone over the mountain."
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Interesting to see the phrase "Glaschu mòr nan stìoball", "Great Glasgow of the steeples", in late-1820s texts by both Dr Norman MacLeod and Ailean Dall.
I guess that's what first struck the eyes of Gaels arriving in the city: all those rival denominations, racing each other to heaven...
I guess that's what first struck the eyes of Gaels arriving in the city: all those rival denominations, racing each other to heaven...
July 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Interesting to see the phrase "Glaschu mòr nan stìoball", "Great Glasgow of the steeples", in late-1820s texts by both Dr Norman MacLeod and Ailean Dall.
I guess that's what first struck the eyes of Gaels arriving in the city: all those rival denominations, racing each other to heaven...
I guess that's what first struck the eyes of Gaels arriving in the city: all those rival denominations, racing each other to heaven...
Mid-summer blackberry ripening in London.
July 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Mid-summer blackberry ripening in London.
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When we walk in green spaces our eyes scan the landscape-move side to side-an ancient behaviour our ancestors used to check for danger & food.This eye movement literally rewires our brains giving us more resilience to trauma & is the basis of EMDR therapy.Go for a walk among plants today if you can🌿
July 17, 2025 at 8:03 AM
When we walk in green spaces our eyes scan the landscape-move side to side-an ancient behaviour our ancestors used to check for danger & food.This eye movement literally rewires our brains giving us more resilience to trauma & is the basis of EMDR therapy.Go for a walk among plants today if you can🌿
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This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I...
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
From the OpenAI community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the OpenAI community
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July 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I...
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
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A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything
July 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything
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‘The Plath-Hughes mythology presents a problem if the first glimpse you had of Plath’s life was the one she lived while making her poems. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 life, those mornings, is never to be pitied.’
@tricialockwood.bsky.social on Sylvia Plath: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@tricialockwood.bsky.social on Sylvia Plath: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Patricia Lockwood · Arrayed in Shining Scales: Solving Sylvia Plath
I was under no illusion that The Collected Prose would solve the mystery, or lay to rest the lie, of how Plath was...
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July 14, 2025 at 8:35 AM
‘The Plath-Hughes mythology presents a problem if the first glimpse you had of Plath’s life was the one she lived while making her poems. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 life, those mornings, is never to be pitied.’
@tricialockwood.bsky.social on Sylvia Plath: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@tricialockwood.bsky.social on Sylvia Plath: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
July 12, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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'Telegraphy', a novel, will be out in the UK in January 2026 from CB Editions. That cover – that I love – is courtesy of Charles at the press.
If you would like to review the novel/talk about it/question it/ask me about all its earlier names, let me know.
If you would like to review the novel/talk about it/question it/ask me about all its earlier names, let me know.
July 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
'Telegraphy', a novel, will be out in the UK in January 2026 from CB Editions. That cover – that I love – is courtesy of Charles at the press.
If you would like to review the novel/talk about it/question it/ask me about all its earlier names, let me know.
If you would like to review the novel/talk about it/question it/ask me about all its earlier names, let me know.
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The Telegraph today carries a news story about someone paying £7.4 million for a handbag (Hello, Lady Bracknell!). And an opinion piece describing a wealth tax as a ‘moral abomination’. What a time to be alive.
July 11, 2025 at 8:23 AM
The Telegraph today carries a news story about someone paying £7.4 million for a handbag (Hello, Lady Bracknell!). And an opinion piece describing a wealth tax as a ‘moral abomination’. What a time to be alive.