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Sheila Killian
@sheilakillian.bsky.social
Author, writer, teacher, researcher, that kind of thing.
Words. You know yourself.
Limerick Ireland
www.sheilakillian.com
Though there are torturers
August 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Delighted to have a story included in this anthology of long-listed entries to the @wcorklitfest.bsky.social Short Story competition. Great evening, lovely to meet some old friends and really great reading too
July 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
here's the end of the #heatwave on the #WildAtlanticWay with thunderstorms incoming. #Achill #fluich #Áileann
July 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Really delighted to have a short piece being broadcast on @rteradio1.bsky.social tomorrow morning, on Rising Time, to suit all ye early birds, going out just as the sun gets up! #writing
It's about a morning five years ago in Rome, just as Covid was about to close Europe down
March 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Go well, Pat Ingoldsby, and thanks.
See you on the other side.
March 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Thanks to #Limerick Library for hosting the Writepace group of writers and readers yesterday as part of #IrelandReads - it was lovely to read as part of the group
February 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Delighted to be part of this #IrelandReads event in #Limerick next Saturday with such an interesting group of writers. Drop in to the library at lunchtime and check it out
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#Spéirgorm
February 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Wishing them well in their new jobs and all, but you'd almost think we'd adopted a Trumpian approach to diversity with the whiteness and maleness of this new cabinet
Picture credit to @news.rte.ie
January 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
A little midday thaw of the #sneachta in Limerick
January 9, 2025 at 12:48 PM
#Sneachta in #Limerick with a rusty heron
January 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
the full image doesn't come out here on spéir gorm, but click on it, cause it's a panorama and there was all the weather in the world on #Achill island today
December 13, 2024 at 8:05 PM
a few pics from Achill Island earlier in the week - this winter light is lovely
November 28, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Appreciation post for the ESB workers who've been working away in the cold, restoring power on #AchillIsland

And adding a gratuitous clip of the lovely #sneachta which is melting away now
November 22, 2024 at 8:04 PM
thick and fast, it came, the #sneachta on Achill overnight
November 21, 2024 at 2:00 PM
lots and lots of #sneachta falling on Achill tonight. Hope it's still there in the morning for some pictures

Right now, it looks like this:
November 20, 2024 at 11:23 PM
Just a little dusting of #sneachta on #AchillIsland
November 19, 2024 at 11:37 AM
This is the Christmas crib at the Lutheran Church in Bethlehem this year, with a powerful statement from the pastor here: www.tiktok.com/@muertesinpa...
"Jesus was born among the occupied."
December 7, 2023 at 1:41 PM
Going to Belfast for a conference, and have been reminded of the existence of yellow Tayto. is that what I'm after?
Would you recommend?
November 7, 2023 at 5:25 PM
Halfway through Pyre, by Perumal Murugan
October 30, 2023 at 2:08 PM
Now in Aldi too!
Happy day
October 21, 2023 at 4:02 PM
If you're interested in business sustainability, and around Limerick City on the 19th then do call in to O'Mahony's at 6pm for this #BookLaunch
October 5, 2023 at 10:29 AM
A wee spell in The Big House
#writing
October 4, 2023 at 1:11 PM
Shoutout to #Limerick #Storytellers, via Simon Thompson who is @clownnoir in the old place
September 27, 2023 at 4:39 PM
not exactly sci-fi, but if alternative history fits the bill, then To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara has a world in which gay marriage is more or less the default in the free states of the US
September 21, 2023 at 9:28 PM