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Róisín Ní Neachtain

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Artist, poet, editor 🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💖🎨 https://www.roisinnineachtain.com/books I,bird - Broken Sleep Books 31/12/25 Poetry/Nature/Literature studies & Art

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 10d

This is excellent

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The Monad Unchained - DRB

The collapse of liberalism in the age of Trump and Netanyahu

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 12h

❤️

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Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social · 12h

To be nothing more than something the rain is falling on

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 12h

Am a pile of mushy sentimental goo at moment.

Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 1d

Literally also her dream course! but I also can’t stop thinking about how the time she had her children, she had lost both her parents &was living far away from all her family and had nobody to support her through her pregnancies and our childhoods.The loneliness,isolation must have been unbearable

Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 1d

I talk a lot about how older generations, especially women, never got a chance at university education and it’s something I think about really every now I am at college - I am studying a course in a dream place that my mother would have given her soul for!! I love sharing what I am learning with her

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 20h

This woman lying here like a white stone
Like water in the moon in a dead crater
Not a sound in the night not moss nor sand
Only the slow budding of my words
At the ear of water at the ear of flesh Unhurried running

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 12h

And this. Not on reading list. Just for me.

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Donald Clarke @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 12h

Me in conversation with the incomparable Diane Keaton from 2017. It really does feel as if the evening is drawing in.

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Diane Keaton: ‘Where would I be without Woody? I wouldn’t be here’

An Oscar-winning performance in Woody Allen’s ‘Annie Hall’ changed everything for Diane Keaton

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 12h

🔥🔥🔥

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 12h

Congrats!!!

Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 12h

Obsessed with this too

Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 12h

Discovering re college…. Also obsessed with all Seamus Deane

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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 12h

My heart is thirsty so I bought another Claire Keegan novel.

A blue and white copy of “Foster” by Claire Keegan with a pic of a farmhouse and fields on the front, on a wool blanket with red and yellow stripes.

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 12h

Finally getting new glasses in two/three weeks. Getting assessed for contacts and reading glasses at same time.

(Broke glasses a couple of months ago, living my best blurry life since, the MIDDLE-AGED JOY IS REAL)

Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 13h

There are so many odd makeup trends…. Brow lamination and contouring might the strangest though.

Instagram is filled with so many peculiar videos of extraordinary makeup techniques and young girls using anti-aging serums…

I didn’t even know what foundation and concealer were until I was 18.

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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 13h

More Jazz poems.
This one on Coltrane, by Philip Levine.

Soloing

My mother tells me she dreamed of John Coltrane, a young Trane
playing his music with such joy
and contained energy and rage
She could not hold back her tears.

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 13h

“Whatever else this word
might mean for us, let there be
a hind too, breathing in
and out, somewhere beyond speech
filling the world’s great wood
with an animal snuffle…”

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Stewart Sanderson

Three poems by Stewart Sanderson. Stewart is a poet from Glasgow, who has published and performed widely in the UK and internationally. He is the author of the pamphlets Fios (2015) and An Offering (2...

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 13h

I love Only Murders in the Building so much

Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 13h

Yes!!!

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TG4 @tg4.bsky.social · 14h

Diane 💔

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Andrei @theuntranslated.bsky.social · 14h

“Everywhere across this surface, stories are being told. It teems with stories, like a wimmelbild [teeming picture]. […] Schattenfroh is a wimmelbuch, a book teeming with images.”

This tradition is alive, both in painting and writing.

theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2025/10/11/i...

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 14h

Tomorrow from 3pm
on your preferred podcast platform,
it’s back!

Eat the Storms, the poetry podcast!

With guests @bethbpoet.bsky.social Chris Campbell, Giles Watson & @suefinch.bsky.social

Hosted and produced by Damien B, Donnelly

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 14h

Robert Redford. Diane Keaton. It is not ok.

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Molly Twomey @mollytwomey.bsky.social · 17h

'Let the worst I ever do to you be die.' A little Vona Groarke of a Saturday eve ☕

Aubade

You say that you heard piano chords rustling in the night;
that you woke once and saw me there, and again.
Then I was gone. The sea under your bed said something
like your name: you thought you'd drown.

This morning your fever slinks away
like a dog bested by the hubbub of city-fed
and workaday birdsong come into its own.
You call. You want some toast.

The trees are bone dry; sunlight hunkers behind them.
Your hair fronds when I lift your head
as if out of a sea pulling away. I offer you
the lidded cup. You take it and you drink.

Let the worst I ever do to you be die.
Turn your head sideways, dear, so I can watch you sleep.
Let the morning have us, and the afternoon.
I am here, blessed, capable of more.

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Sarah Primate @langurlover.bsky.social · 19h

This makes me so happy! 🐢

Green turtle bounces back from brink in conservation 'win'

Once endangered due to hunting, it is making a strong recovery thanks to global conservation efforts.

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 19h

I thought the song “actually romantic” was shockingly bad not least because it sounded like it was written by a very bitchy teenager not a 35 year old woman

Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 19h

My Taylor Swift update is that I can now confirm it is definitely not my thing and the only time in my life I might have listened to this and genuinely loved it was when I was very young. Maybe preteen.

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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 19h