I was sent this pic by Denis Murphy of Bantry Library, with a selection of books inspired by the desert island picks in the weekly Books are my Business feature I do in the
@irishexaminer This has made my day, week, month, year! Cherish your libraries and librarians ❤️

Literally and figuratively.

Calling all Cork music-lovers, this one is a beauty ❤️🎶

A v early contender for my book of the year. What a writer ❤️

This where we’re at now. Is this the future for humanities/English grads? Getting paid to train AI that will replace you, and ultimately kill every creative instinct we have. Dystopian and beyond depressing.

Watched Simon Armitage on his lovely Winter Walks programme on BBC Four earlier (I was lucky enough to interview him earlier this year). The end of the walk was at Robin Hood’s Bay and he recited the last lines of this poem by ee cummings. It really resonated so I went and looked up the rest of it ❤️

Heard enough about them when I was growing up so how did I not know the origin of the word novena 😬

It really was something special to perform to a full and very appreciative house at Dennehy’s Cross in Cork last night, as part of the Fleischmann Choir. Made me realise what was taken from us when Covid struck and how much music can lift our hearts and spirits ❤️

Inspired by hearing the brilliant Oliver Jeffers at Dingle Lit yesterday, I dug out some of our collection. This is still an absolute banger, as the kids say.

Delighted to be in the Kingdom for the Dingle Literary Festival. Great to see the Dingle Skellig hotel supporting the Irish Examiner. Plenty of reading in the weekend edition, including my interview with author Kate Summerscale and a lovely Books are my Business with @maireadhearne.bsky.social !

Been hard at work on this with the Fleischmann Choir for the past few months, one for any choral music fans in Cork next month 🎶

A writer I’ve never really explored for some reason. Looking forward to finding out if she’s as good as everyone says she is.

Snap!

‘Very lucky’ Thanks, WordleBot, not sure I’m liking the condescending tone