Arnold Thomas Fanning
@arnoldtfanning.bsky.social
Writer, Walker, Photographer, Record Collector. Essays & Stories in The Dublin Review, Banshee, The Stinging Fly, The Lonely Crowd & elsewhere. Author of Mind on Fire (Penguin Ireland, 2018).
https://about.me/arnoldthomasfanning
https://about.me/arnoldthomasfanning
I'm very excited to have a recent photograph selected for this exhibition, opening in Cork's LHQ Gallery Friday and running through to December 19th...
Cork County Council Presents Open Call Winter Exhibition
Cork County Council’s LHQ Gallery presents the now annual Open Call Winter Exhibition which will run throughout November and December 2025. 74 works from 68 Cork-based artists will be presented in Cor...
www.corkcoco.ie
November 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I'm very excited to have a recent photograph selected for this exhibition, opening in Cork's LHQ Gallery Friday and running through to December 19th...
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it's happening!
(if you're in the EU and you'd like to request an event, please get in touch.)
(+ me & @laurenelkin.bsky.social are looking for a Paris venue to talk about Amateurs! x Art Monsters - any leads very welcome :)
(if you're in the EU and you'd like to request an event, please get in touch.)
(+ me & @laurenelkin.bsky.social are looking for a Paris venue to talk about Amateurs! x Art Monsters - any leads very welcome :)
September 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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August 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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The FT has surely published this as clickbait, but John Self is a respected commentator, so I'm taking the bait. First of all, we've been having these 'let's be reasonable' conversations for five years. The attitude to LLMs in publishing today has evolved from those. 1/
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www.ft.com/content/7ce8...
Will AI put fiction writers out of work?
Authors Naomi Alderman, Curtis Sittenfeld and more on why artificial intelligence is stirring fears for the future of book publishing
www.ft.com
August 2, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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... #NowSpinning... Erik Satie Piano Works, Anne Queffélec, piano... sublime music... #ClassicalMusic #VinylLovers
July 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
... #NowSpinning... Erik Satie Piano Works, Anne Queffélec, piano... sublime music... #ClassicalMusic #VinylLovers
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Booker Prize longlist 2025: ‘alive with great characters and narrative surprises’, says chair of judges Roddy Doyle. Trinidad-Irish author Claire Adam and former winner Kiran Desai on most international list ever
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Booker Prize longlist 2025: ‘alive with great characters and narrative surprises’, says chair of judges Roddy Doyle
Trinidad-Irish author Claire Adam and former winner Kiran Desai on most international list ever
www.irishtimes.com
July 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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WeTransfer recently announced a change to its terms of services, which could be interpreted as allowing the right to use customer files for training AI models. Swift criticism from customers and industry, led them to revise the wording to make the language easier to understand. 🧵
July 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."
July 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Colin Eaton, ‘Rayon de Soleil’, papercut collage & mixed media, 42x32cm framed. Part of ‘Out of Lines’, a Bloomsday / Summer group show at Olivier Cornet Gallery.
www.oliviercornetgallery.com/out-of-lines...
We are open until 8pm tonight
@colineaton.bsky.social #oliviercornetgallery
www.oliviercornetgallery.com/out-of-lines...
We are open until 8pm tonight
@colineaton.bsky.social #oliviercornetgallery
July 17, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Colin Eaton, ‘Rayon de Soleil’, papercut collage & mixed media, 42x32cm framed. Part of ‘Out of Lines’, a Bloomsday / Summer group show at Olivier Cornet Gallery.
www.oliviercornetgallery.com/out-of-lines...
We are open until 8pm tonight
@colineaton.bsky.social #oliviercornetgallery
www.oliviercornetgallery.com/out-of-lines...
We are open until 8pm tonight
@colineaton.bsky.social #oliviercornetgallery
This week, committing to listening through this: Beethoven, The String Quartets, Hungarian String Quartet. #VinylLovers #VinylCommunity #ClassicalMusic #MusicSky
April 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This week, committing to listening through this: Beethoven, The String Quartets, Hungarian String Quartet. #VinylLovers #VinylCommunity #ClassicalMusic #MusicSky
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We're looking for pitches for four-part columns on any aspect of creative writing to fit broadly within the following categories: craft, creativity, performance, career. Please send pitches to maxine[@]mslexia.co.uk with PITCH in the subject line 💌
April 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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🧈 Bealtaine & Butter 🧈 This #PoetryDay, May 1st, join us at 10AM for a free tour @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social! 💛 After, we’ll gather at Maureen’s for tea/coffee & a writing session 🌻
✍️ DM / email [email protected] to register!
Thanks to @poetryireland.bsky.social's Bright Ideas Bursary 💛
✍️ DM / email [email protected] to register!
Thanks to @poetryireland.bsky.social's Bright Ideas Bursary 💛
April 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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I'm sharing this petition again protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool, as it is near the magic 1000 signatories mark. Will you sign too? #dontzuckourbooks my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr...
Protest Meta's Theft of Irish Writing
I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too?
my.uplift.ie
April 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
I'm sharing this petition again protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool, as it is near the magic 1000 signatories mark. Will you sign too? #dontzuckourbooks my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr...
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What’s the best book on poetry metre/rhyme/close readings? Prosody and all the technical stuff.
#academicsky #poetrysky
#academicsky #poetrysky
April 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
What’s the best book on poetry metre/rhyme/close readings? Prosody and all the technical stuff.
#academicsky #poetrysky
#academicsky #poetrysky
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Remembering Andrei Tarkovsky on his birthday 🎂
📷 Gueorgui Pinkhassov, 1979
#filmsky
"Tarkovsky is the greatest of them all. He moves with such naturalness in the room of dreams.... He doesn't explain. What should he explain anyhow?"
- Ingmar Bergman
📷 Gueorgui Pinkhassov, 1979
#filmsky
"Tarkovsky is the greatest of them all. He moves with such naturalness in the room of dreams.... He doesn't explain. What should he explain anyhow?"
- Ingmar Bergman
April 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr...
Protest Meta's Theft of Irish Writing
I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too?
my.uplift.ie
April 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr...
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10 of the Best Psychedelic Songs That’ll Melt Your Mind zurl.co/623S9
10 of the Best Psychedelic Songs That’ll Melt Your Mind - That Eric Alper
Psychedelic music is a trip through swirling soundscapes, hypnotic rhythms, and lyrics that stretch the imagination. Whether fueled by acid-soaked creativity or just a desire to expand sonic possibilities, these songs broke barriers, altered minds, and still hit like a cosmic awakening today. Here are 10 of the best psychedelic songs—each one a portal to a […]
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March 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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The Partial Solar Eclipse, from the beginning to maximum!
March 29, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Next Thursday, 03 April, 5pm, is the deadline to apply for places in the Summer School from @stingingfly.bsky.social . I'll be running the ONLINE Creative Non-Fiction Workshop. Hope you can join me!
March 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Next Thursday, 03 April, 5pm, is the deadline to apply for places in the Summer School from @stingingfly.bsky.social . I'll be running the ONLINE Creative Non-Fiction Workshop. Hope you can join me!
Congratulations @sineadgleeson.bsky.social 🎊
The paperback of Hagstone is published today. Huge thanks to everyone who has supported the book in the last year, and to Ross for asking me to sign books at @foylesforbooks.bsky.social today. @cormackinsella.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Congratulations @sineadgleeson.bsky.social 🎊
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Patrick Holloway reads from his debut novel The Language of Remembering @booksupstairs
The last launch of the tour that took in Cork, Galway and Belfast
The last launch of the tour that took in Cork, Galway and Belfast
March 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Patrick Holloway reads from his debut novel The Language of Remembering @booksupstairs
The last launch of the tour that took in Cork, Galway and Belfast
The last launch of the tour that took in Cork, Galway and Belfast
Thursday classical mode... #NowSpinning Mozart 'Complete Works for String Quartet,' a 9-LP boxset from the Quartetto Italiano. Sublime music 🎶 #VinylLovers #VinylCommunity #RecordCollectors
March 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Thursday classical mode... #NowSpinning Mozart 'Complete Works for String Quartet,' a 9-LP boxset from the Quartetto Italiano. Sublime music 🎶 #VinylLovers #VinylCommunity #RecordCollectors
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Today is the day! 🕺🕺
It’s the last of the launches! Can’t wait to be with everyone in Dublin on Thursday at the amazing @booksupstairs.bsky.social where I’ll be introduced by one of best writers out there @maryodonnell.bsky.social! Hope to see you all there. @writing.ie @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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today on Bartók's birthday I have already dialed up a couple of Hungarian mixcloud playlists with Bartók stuff and right now in the space before driving my son to school I am jamming "Concerto for Orchestra" (Reiner & CSO). You too can live this triumphant life. Happy birthday Bela Bartók!
March 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
today on Bartók's birthday I have already dialed up a couple of Hungarian mixcloud playlists with Bartók stuff and right now in the space before driving my son to school I am jamming "Concerto for Orchestra" (Reiner & CSO). You too can live this triumphant life. Happy birthday Bela Bartók!