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Ann Marie @annmariedunne.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks Ann 😊

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Ann Marie @annmariedunne.bsky.social · 13d

Delighted to be one of the Stormers

Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 13d

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️

@annmariedunne.bsky.social lives in Kildare. She is pursuing a Masters in Poetry in Queens. Her poems are in Washing Windows V, Sidhe Press, The Apiary, The Ogham Stone & The Honest Ulsterman.

The Storms is supported by #fingalarts @dublincityoflit.bsky.social

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 13d

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V ⚡️

@annmariedunne.bsky.social lives in Kildare. She is pursuing a Masters in Poetry in Queens. Her poems are in Washing Windows V, Sidhe Press, The Apiary, The Ogham Stone & The Honest Ulsterman.

The Storms is supported by #fingalarts @dublincityoflit.bsky.social

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Ann Marie @annmariedunne.bsky.social · Aug 23

Hagstone, found on Dunmoran Strand #speirgorm #hagstone #magic #wildatlanticway

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Ann Marie @annmariedunne.bsky.social · Jul 4

Sorry to have missed the launch of our pamphlet showcasing our work in the Seamus Heaney Centre last night. #queensuniversity #irishpoetry #speirgorm

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Irish Writers Centre @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social · Jul 3

Opportunities for writers: July 2025 🖊️

Our monthly list of submission windows, competitions, bursaries, residencies and general literary opportunities has just gone live.

irishwriterscentre.ie/opportunitie...

Opportunities for Writers: July 2025 - Irish Writers Centre

Discover upcoming literary opportunities with summer 2025 deadlines.

irishwriterscentre.ie

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Ann Marie @annmariedunne.bsky.social · May 7

Pleasently surprised and delighted to be a recipient @poetryireland.bsky.social #irelandchairofpoetry #seamusheaneycentre

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Ann Marie @annmariedunne.bsky.social · May 3

Honoured to have a poem in Washing Windows V among such wonderful poets. A celebration of 50 years of @arlenhouse.bsky.social and Irish women's poetry #washingwindowsv #irishpoetry

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Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · Apr 26

The eBook is available on our website! All proceeds will be transferred to The Sameer Project, starting the end of this month, please share. #Poetry #CNF #Loss #KeepTelling
#ToLaySunIntoAForest

Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · Apr 22

#PublicationDay! #ToLaySunIntoAForest is out today. Please find out how to order this book here: sidhe-press.eu/books/to-lay... #Poems #Grief #CNF #Loss
All proceeds go to The Sameer Project, please share!

Cover of To Lay Sun Into A Forest- Poems About Grief by Sídhe Press. On the left there is a quote : The wide-ranging community of poets chart grief across a galaxyof stars, lands, and the oceans, through the shivering leaves oftrees, to the heartbeats of loved ones, their losses are encapsulatedin words that stay with us, long after we close the book.
Teresa Pilgrim,
academic, creative practitioner, activist, survivor
On the right, there is a swirl of a painting, red, yellow, orange, you can see the brushstrokes. On it is the title in a handwriting font.

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Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · Apr 22

#PublicationDay! #ToLaySunIntoAForest is out today. Please find out how to order this book here: sidhe-press.eu/books/to-lay... #Poems #Grief #CNF #Loss
All proceeds go to The Sameer Project, please share!

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Ann Marie @annmariedunne.bsky.social · Apr 22

Looking forward to reading this from @sidhepress.bsky.social. Thanks to Annick and Sue for including me.

E-book proceeds go to Gaza. www.sidhe-press.eu/ebook-shop/

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Ann Marie @annmariedunne.bsky.social · Mar 26

Finally got to read this beauty. Lucky to have a poem featured alongside such talented writers and artists.

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Ann Marie @annmariedunne.bsky.social · Mar 11

Congratulations 🎉🎉

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Feb 21

Newsletter, day 19:

THIS IS REALLY HARD (BUT WE ARE NOT QUITTING): REFLECTIONS ON KINDNESS AND RESOLUTENESS

If you're reading this, you got through the first month of the assault on everything, none of it a surprise except in how stupid and ruthless the sabotage was, but a lot of its shocking, also because ...

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · Feb 13

Launching! 🚀

Today I'm launching a new service for landowners in Ireland who want to rewild their land. I hope this will be the start of a network that will promote rewilding in this country - the time is right!

New social 🙋‍♂️
@rewildyourland.bsky.social

take a look 👇
www.rewildyourland.ie

HOME | Rewild!

Join a growing network of people in Ireland taking action in the face of the biodiversity emergency

www.rewildyourland.ie

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Feb 8

"The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy in the long term..." meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/the-nature-o...

The Nature of Our Power: A Conversation with political scientist Erica Chenoweth
By Rebecca Solnit • 8 Feb 2025
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"The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy in the long term than relying on institutional checks and balances alone." That's what political scientist Erica Chenoweth told me when I asked them if we could have a conversation (by email, below in full) about the current constitutional crisis/coup attempt and what we can do about it. Chenoweth is a hugely influential scholar of nonviolent social change, best known for their empirical research that not only documents what makes civil resistance work but demonstrates that it works, often extremely effectively. They direct the Nonviolent Action Lab, which studies how people have built movements and developed strategies to resist authoritarianism successfully and documents how nonviolence can be effective. There's no one I wanted to hear from more in this constitutional crisis, and I'm grateful I can share their insights with all of you.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Feb 2

I finally launched my own newsletter! I'm happy to be albeit write what I want when I want. And to put a lot of short in-the-moment essays that used to be on FB at this site instead. Please subscribe! meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/welcome-to-m...

Welcome to Meditations in an Emergency

We are very clearly in a lot of emergencies right now. They demand action. But action demands thought and thoughtfulness: who are we, what are our values, our goals, our allies, our possibilities, and...

meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io

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Ann Marie @annmariedunne.bsky.social · Nov 25

A good way to spend Monday morning #queensuniversity #seamusheaneycentre #poetryheaven

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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · Nov 15

“It does not have to be this way.”
The rallying cry & leitmotif of the great David Graeber, whose work & vibrancy we need now more than ever.
Here’s @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, beautifully, on DG’s anarchism, self-organisation, voluntary association & mutual aid.
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

‘It does not have to be this way’: the radical optimism of David Graeber

As a new collection of his writing is published, Rebecca Solnit remembers her friend, the late activist and anarchist who believed ordinary people had the power to change the world

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Ann Marie @annmariedunne.bsky.social · Nov 15

Delighted to have a poem in this alongside so much talent. Thanks to Niamh @boycie.bsky.social and Shauna @shaunagilligan.bsky.social for including me.

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