@pnici.bsky.social
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Poem for The Perseids...
August 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Poem for The Perseids...
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Trying to make myself known to more of the people on this who once followed me on X. 😄
Reposts appreciated!
#arealmofwonder #cianmccarthy
Reposts appreciated!
#arealmofwonder #cianmccarthy
January 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Trying to make myself known to more of the people on this who once followed me on X. 😄
Reposts appreciated!
#arealmofwonder #cianmccarthy
Reposts appreciated!
#arealmofwonder #cianmccarthy
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13 July I’ll be in conversation with these two brilliant humans about the power of story, landscapes and languages of belonging, childhood, and much more. Can’t wait! Join us! @wcorklitfest.bsky.social @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social @cauverymadhavan.bsky.social www.westcorkmusic.ie/events/2025/...
Irish Writers Centre: An Island of Many Nations - West Cork Music
Come along to this Irish Writers Centre panel discussion with writers from various birthplaces and backgrounds.
www.westcorkmusic.ie
July 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
13 July I’ll be in conversation with these two brilliant humans about the power of story, landscapes and languages of belonging, childhood, and much more. Can’t wait! Join us! @wcorklitfest.bsky.social @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social @cauverymadhavan.bsky.social www.westcorkmusic.ie/events/2025/...
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Just some of the literary treats we have in store for you this week. We have 140 authors across 90+ events ❤️ "Graham Norton, Richard E Grant and Will Sliney are among some of the high profile writers travelling to West Cork for the Literary festival"
www.redfm.ie/cork/graham-...
www.redfm.ie/cork/graham-...
Graham Norton, Richard E Grant and Will Sliney to travel to West Cork | www.redfm.ie
Graham Norton, Richard E Grant and Will Sliney are among some of the high profile writers travell...
www.redfm.ie
July 12, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Just some of the literary treats we have in store for you this week. We have 140 authors across 90+ events ❤️ "Graham Norton, Richard E Grant and Will Sliney are among some of the high profile writers travelling to West Cork for the Literary festival"
www.redfm.ie/cork/graham-...
www.redfm.ie/cork/graham-...
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Word of the day is ‘swullocking’, from 19th-century East Anglian dialect: sultry, sweltering, and sudiferous (sweat-inducing).
July 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Word of the day is ‘swullocking’, from 19th-century East Anglian dialect: sultry, sweltering, and sudiferous (sweat-inducing).
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Ticket alert! We have a few spare tickets for Paul Delaney's event at 12pm today. Ages 4+. Free but ticketed event @irishkidsbooks.bsky.social
🎟️ www.westcorkmusic.ie/events/2025/paul-delaney/
🎟️ www.westcorkmusic.ie/events/2025/paul-delaney/
July 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Ticket alert! We have a few spare tickets for Paul Delaney's event at 12pm today. Ages 4+. Free but ticketed event @irishkidsbooks.bsky.social
🎟️ www.westcorkmusic.ie/events/2025/paul-delaney/
🎟️ www.westcorkmusic.ie/events/2025/paul-delaney/
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All too familiar: "Author Eimear McBride: ‘My pension plan is to die before I’m no longer able to earn’"
www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2...
www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2...
Author Eimear McBride: ‘My pension plan is to die before I’m no longer able to earn’
Me & My Money: McBride is in conversation with Cristín Leach at the Maritime Hotel in Bantry on July 16th as part of West Cork Literary Festival
www.irishtimes.com
July 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
All too familiar: "Author Eimear McBride: ‘My pension plan is to die before I’m no longer able to earn’"
www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2...
www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2...
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I love this, it's like watching a storm advancing slowly and apparently innocuously over warm seas, but knowing it's creating extra energy.
There's a section in this that reminds me of the sound anchored boat rigs make when the wind rises as a storm is about to break.
youtu.be/jL8cWRDyozc?...
There's a section in this that reminds me of the sound anchored boat rigs make when the wind rises as a storm is about to break.
youtu.be/jL8cWRDyozc?...
Leyfðu ljósinu
YouTube video by Hildur Guðnadóttir - Topic
youtu.be
July 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I love this, it's like watching a storm advancing slowly and apparently innocuously over warm seas, but knowing it's creating extra energy.
There's a section in this that reminds me of the sound anchored boat rigs make when the wind rises as a storm is about to break.
youtu.be/jL8cWRDyozc?...
There's a section in this that reminds me of the sound anchored boat rigs make when the wind rises as a storm is about to break.
youtu.be/jL8cWRDyozc?...
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‘Readers who had loved his first two books pestered Garner for a sequel. If “Boneland” (2012) was his response, as he claims, it shows that his animus against his own early work and its fans is still going strong.’
Adam Mars-Jones reads Alan Garner’s memoir: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Mars-Jones reads Alan Garner’s memoir: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Mars-Jones · Selective Luddism: On Alan Garner
Children’s books revisited in later life may disappoint, but they are immune to the embarrassment associated with...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
‘Readers who had loved his first two books pestered Garner for a sequel. If “Boneland” (2012) was his response, as he claims, it shows that his animus against his own early work and its fans is still going strong.’
Adam Mars-Jones reads Alan Garner’s memoir: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Mars-Jones reads Alan Garner’s memoir: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Fact
"Working class people around the world have no innate desire to go to war with each other. They have to be conned into it by the sociopaths who will profit from it." - John Lennon #quote
July 8, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Fact
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A marvellous matinée gathering! At a packed University Concert Hall #LimerickClassicalConcert, starring soprano Celine Byrne, cello Gerald Peregrine, violin Nicole Hudson & pianist David Munro. A garland of opera, operetta & popular song, recorded for future broadcast, #FullScore @rte.ie lyric fm.
March 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
A marvellous matinée gathering! At a packed University Concert Hall #LimerickClassicalConcert, starring soprano Celine Byrne, cello Gerald Peregrine, violin Nicole Hudson & pianist David Munro. A garland of opera, operetta & popular song, recorded for future broadcast, #FullScore @rte.ie lyric fm.
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Congratulations to: Aria Aber, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Kaliane Bradley, Jenni Daiches, Karen Jennings, Miranda July, Laila Lalami, Sanam Mahloudji, Roisín O'Donnell, Rosanna Pike, @regretteruane.bsky.social, Saraid de Silva, Lucy Steeds, Elizabeth Strout, Yael van der Wouden, and Nussaibah Younis
March 4, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Congratulations to: Aria Aber, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Kaliane Bradley, Jenni Daiches, Karen Jennings, Miranda July, Laila Lalami, Sanam Mahloudji, Roisín O'Donnell, Rosanna Pike, @regretteruane.bsky.social, Saraid de Silva, Lucy Steeds, Elizabeth Strout, Yael van der Wouden, and Nussaibah Younis
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The 2025 #WomensPrize for Fiction longlist. Which ones are you excited to read first?
March 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The 2025 #WomensPrize for Fiction longlist. Which ones are you excited to read first?
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This is such a good series, from @rte.ie Lyric FM. Today, the iridescent and clever starling, the 'sequinned little smartypants'.
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
Bird Songs with Seán Ronayne: The Starling
To celebrate the beginning of spring in the Gaelic calendar, ornithologist Seán Ronayne is across the schedule on RTÉ lyric fm with a new series to discuss the distinct bird songs, melodies and calls ...
www.rte.ie
February 7, 2025 at 9:48 AM
This is such a good series, from @rte.ie Lyric FM. Today, the iridescent and clever starling, the 'sequinned little smartypants'.
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
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Rose tea, served in Japan
February 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Rose tea, served in Japan
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Bumper year for Irish fiction coming up!!
Fiction to look out for in 2025: From Eimear McBride to Ben Okri www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Fiction to look out for in 2025: From Eimear McBride to Ben Okri www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Fiction to look out for in 2025: From Eimear McBride to Ben Okri
Emma Donoghue, Joseph O’Connor and Colum McCann are just some of the big names with new books coming out in 2025. Here’s our pick of fiction for the year ahead
www.irishtimes.com
December 28, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Bumper year for Irish fiction coming up!!
Fiction to look out for in 2025: From Eimear McBride to Ben Okri www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Fiction to look out for in 2025: From Eimear McBride to Ben Okri www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Some books to look out for in 2025, alphabetically by author:
Wendy Erskine: The Benefactors
Susanna Crossman: The Orange Notebooks
Eimear McBride: The City Changes Its Face
Simon Okotie: The Future of the Novel
Alex Pheby: Waterblack
Julian Stannard: New and Selected Poems
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Wendy Erskine: The Benefactors
Susanna Crossman: The Orange Notebooks
Eimear McBride: The City Changes Its Face
Simon Okotie: The Future of the Novel
Alex Pheby: Waterblack
Julian Stannard: New and Selected Poems
and...
A Crumpled Swan | Sagging Meniscus Press
www.saggingmeniscus.com
January 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Some books to look out for in 2025, alphabetically by author:
Wendy Erskine: The Benefactors
Susanna Crossman: The Orange Notebooks
Eimear McBride: The City Changes Its Face
Simon Okotie: The Future of the Novel
Alex Pheby: Waterblack
Julian Stannard: New and Selected Poems
and...
Wendy Erskine: The Benefactors
Susanna Crossman: The Orange Notebooks
Eimear McBride: The City Changes Its Face
Simon Okotie: The Future of the Novel
Alex Pheby: Waterblack
Julian Stannard: New and Selected Poems
and...
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The City Changes Its Face by Eimear McBride review – brilliantly rule-breaking fiction
The City Changes Its Face by Eimear McBride review – brilliantly rule-breaking fiction
The couple from The Lesser Bohemians return in this innovative tale of two lovers and of London, in all its sadness and grunginess and grandeur
Eimear McBride does extraordinary things with language. The subject matter of her fiction, from A Girl Is a…
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The City Changes Its Face by Eimear McBride review – brilliantly rule-breaking fiction
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May you all feel love, in whatever form it comes to you.
"Ce qui soustient moy (R12) is an intense declaration of love, set in a lilting rhythm and plaintive melody."
Text and music written/composed by Guillaume de Machaut (c1300-1377)
#ValentinesDay
youtu.be/ZXxQfnwQYdg?...
"Ce qui soustient moy (R12) is an intense declaration of love, set in a lilting rhythm and plaintive melody."
Text and music written/composed by Guillaume de Machaut (c1300-1377)
#ValentinesDay
youtu.be/ZXxQfnwQYdg?...
Ce qui soustient moy
YouTube video by Dominique Vellard - Topic
youtu.be
February 14, 2025 at 9:07 AM
May you all feel love, in whatever form it comes to you.
"Ce qui soustient moy (R12) is an intense declaration of love, set in a lilting rhythm and plaintive melody."
Text and music written/composed by Guillaume de Machaut (c1300-1377)
#ValentinesDay
youtu.be/ZXxQfnwQYdg?...
"Ce qui soustient moy (R12) is an intense declaration of love, set in a lilting rhythm and plaintive melody."
Text and music written/composed by Guillaume de Machaut (c1300-1377)
#ValentinesDay
youtu.be/ZXxQfnwQYdg?...
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🌱Good Morning Gardeners🌱
First Primula Belarina appeared at the w/e👏 Enjoy your spring garden! ☘️😊☘️
First Primula Belarina appeared at the w/e👏 Enjoy your spring garden! ☘️😊☘️
January 21, 2025 at 9:24 AM
🌱Good Morning Gardeners🌱
First Primula Belarina appeared at the w/e👏 Enjoy your spring garden! ☘️😊☘️
First Primula Belarina appeared at the w/e👏 Enjoy your spring garden! ☘️😊☘️