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Bookaneer808
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Avid reader, bookseller, likes birds & puns. She/her Creator of annual #ReadIrishWomenChallenge - runs every April https://www.instagram.com/bookaneer808/profilecard/?igsh=NjMxM3A3dWxnNmJ0 CR 📖 The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman 🦊
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Bookaneer808 @bookaneer808.bsky.social · Apr 28
What a fab evening! It was phenomenal listening to Nadine O'Regan in conversation with Sinéad Gleeson, Liz Nugent, Elaine Feeney & Roisin O'Donnell as they spoke about their beginnings as authors, their writing process & inspiration with honesty, insight & humour.
We had an engaged audience too!
What a wonderful evening! It was phenomenal listening to such interesting women speak about their beginnings as authors, their writing process and inspiration...also, they were very funny. Thanks to Nadine O'Regan for her wonderful questions and to Sinéad Gleeson, Liz Nugent, Elaine Feeney & Roisin O'Donnell for responding with such insight, thoughtfulness and wit. Finally, thanks to @martshannon & @aisling3164 for givinv me permission to use their pictures for this post. Thanks to Nadine O'Regan for her wonderful questions and to Sinéad Gleeson, Liz Nugent, Elaine Feeney & Roisin O'Donnell for responding with such insight, thoughtfulness and wit. Thanks to Dubray for organising the event, to all the Pavilion staff for hosting it, and to everyone who attended for being an engaged crowd. Sinéad Gleeson & Elaine Feeney having a chat while book signing. Roisin O'Donnell and Liz Nugent smiling while signing stacks of books.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d
To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot
The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 3d
A cynical person might suggest that - just as with the recent huge ecocide on the river Blackwater - nobody will ever face consequences for this www.thejournal.ie/cork-tree-fe...
Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork
The Department of Agriculture has been formally alerted to the incident by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 8d
Israel's cheerleaders have opportunistically seized on a heinous antisemitic attack to silence opponents of genocide.

Our freedoms are being stolen - and we are headed to a very dark place.

New column 👇

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It starts with Palestine protests. But where will the crackdown on Britain’s democratic freedoms end? | Owen Jones
In making dissent a privilege, not a right, Labour is crafting a repressive toolkit. Imagine it in the hands of a Farage government, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 27d
If you’re not talking about infrastructure, you’re not talking about Ireland in 2025.

Between housing, water, power, transport - a vast amount of problems for our society and the economy and they deepen exponentially.
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Alison Gibbs @guineagibbs.bsky.social · 27d
I can add so many things - the Crystal Palace dinosaurs, Tooting lido (I’d choose it over Brockwell), the view from Streatham Common (Van Gogh loved it too), the Ikea towers of Croydon, Battersea Park & its zoo, John Soane’s museum, the Inns of Court, Bloomsbury, the Barbican, the wobbly bridge…
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Reuters @reuters.com · 28d
Projections of U.S. President Donald Trump, Britain's Prince Andrew and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were put on display against the walls of Windsor Castle while Trump was in Britain for a state visit.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Sep 12
For the people in the back, bigotry is not an opinion…
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Jozef Imrich @jozefimrich.bsky.social · Sep 11
Eurovision boycott …
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · Sep 10
Bus stop near the U.S. Embassy in London….straight to the point!
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Felicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social · Sep 7
When fascism is on the rise, to look away is to be complicit
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · Sep 7
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · Sep 4
Well, there's a thing.

New research from Oxford University says that misleading media coverage is shaping UK public debate on immigration, human rights and the European Convention on Human Rights #ECHR👇

🔗 www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-09... via @bonavero.bsky.social
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 15
Why I withdrew my book from an LGBTQ+ literary prize | Jason Okundaye
Why I withdrew my book from an LGBTQ+ literary prize | Jason Okundaye
The Polari first book prize claims to promote trans rights and trans voices. But when I saw the longlist, I had to act, says Guardian writer Jason Okundaye
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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · Aug 16
Oystercatchers. A wonderful automata by Penny Thomson.
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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · Aug 15
Imagine it's 1850 and you've just been flattened by an elite cavalry officer who just yells "SOWWY" as he thunders away.
Screenshot of a tweet: British cavalry in the 1850s consisted entirely of twinks who used UwU-speak... [Photo of a book page] "The dash of British cavalry officers was never greater than at the opening of the Crimean campaign in the spring of 1854. These aristocratic horsemen were, in the idiom of the day, "plungers," "tremendous swells." They affected elegant boredom, yawned a great deal, spoke a jargon of their own, pronouncing "r" as "w," saying "vewwy," "howwid," and "sowwy," and interlarded sentences with loud and meaningless exclamations of "Haw, haw." Their sweeping whiskers, languid voices, tiny waists, laced in by corsets, and their large cigars were irresistible, frantically admired, and as frantically envied. Magnificently mounted, horses were their passion; they rode like the devil himself, and their confidence in their ability to defeat any enemy single-handed was com-plete. Cavalry officers were saying in London drawing-rooms that to take infantry on the campaign was superfluous; the infantry would merely be a drag on them, and had better be left at home."
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Bookaneer808 @bookaneer808.bsky.social · Aug 15
He truly is, and is such a lovely man!
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Ruth Ennis @rurooie.bsky.social · Aug 10
Yee have done it again! Thank you so much to everyone who keeps donating to the campaign. It's been a whole week now, we're at the halfway mark.

www.ruthennis.com/irish-kidlit...

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Ruth Ennis @rurooie.bsky.social · Aug 4
Today we are launching the Irish KidLit for Palestine Fundraiser in support of Medical Aid for Palestinians (@medicalaidpal.bsky.social‬)

Running from 4th August to 17th August 2025.

You can check out the fundraiser at www.ruthennis.com/irish-kidlit-for-palestine

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Jul 22
Read my latest:
Gaza is starving
Palestinians seeking food are being killed by the IDF. It's time for the entire world to say enough.
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Children's Books Ireland @childrensbooksireland.ie · Jul 17
Our latest selection of Recommended Irish Reads in partnership with Eason is now live!

Check out the selection here and let us know what you're going to read next below! ⬇️
childrensbooksireland.ie/news-events/...
A graphic shows 15 colourful books covers. Draped over them in the top right corner is a series of flags in the Children's Books Ireland brand colours. In the bottom left corner is a sticker that says: Recommended by Children's Books Ireland
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Big Bang Comics @bigbangcomics.bsky.social · Jul 16
Folks, we are excited to give you all a FANTASTIC chance to win a pair of tickets to the Special Preview Screening of Marvel Studios The Fantastic Four: First Steps!

The exclusive screening will be held the evening ofTuesday July 22nd at the Odeon Point Square!

Details of how to enter below!
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · Jun 30
There’s an URGENT petition against the banning of Palestine Action - please sign! palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/NoProscription
PETITION: Defend the right to protest: no proscription of Palestine Action
palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk
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Westerns & the Old West @davidlambertart.bsky.social · Jun 29
Happy Birthday to the late, great Ray Harryhausen, born 105 years ago today
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Bookaneer808 @bookaneer808.bsky.social · Jun 29
What a wonderful Dublin Pride weekend! 🏳️‍🌈
On the march yesterday with Children's Books Ireland to help promote
#ReadWithPride with wonderful booky people, among them -
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#TransRightsAreHumanRights💙🩷🤍
A bunch of lovely booky peeps marching with Children's Books Ireland at Dublin Pride, taken by Marta from Gutter Books Three O'Brien Press authors during Dublin Pride, all featured on the OBP rainbow stack of queer kids books they published. L-R Jarlath Gregory, Amy Clarkin & Helen Corcoran Me on the Dublin Pride march with Children's Books Ireland I borrowed teal heart shades A group of dancers wearing spangly leotards and feathered headdress stand in a Georgian doorway at Dublin Pride. They were behind us for the whole march, so energetic & positive!
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Bookaneer808 @bookaneer808.bsky.social · Jun 27
Scarlet for his mother for having him
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · Jun 19
The government has been accused of “skipping independent scrutiny” after it's emerged that its charter flight to Nigeria earlier this month had no human rights monitor on board the flight.
Minister criticised after recent deportation flight took off without human rights monitor on board
The role of the independent observer is to monitor the use of force and restraints for deportees.
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