Nicholas Allen
@dedalusdenaries.bsky.social
‘Somewhere, well out, beyond’
Late Heaney (Oxford University Press, January 26, https://bit.ly/40oRn76)
Archipelagos/ Coasts/ Oceans
Late Heaney (Oxford University Press, January 26, https://bit.ly/40oRn76)
Archipelagos/ Coasts/ Oceans
If you’re depressed about Irish rugby, I recommend listening to a Scottish rugby podcast
November 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
If you’re depressed about Irish rugby, I recommend listening to a Scottish rugby podcast
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
I grew up in a place where every space was marked by flags, colours and names, and while this is pathetic, it also makes me sad.
The far right flag-ification of England - as seen from the top deck of a bus near Bristol
November 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I grew up in a place where every space was marked by flags, colours and names, and while this is pathetic, it also makes me sad.
If you’re in the States and looking for an historical thriller with Irish rebels in 19th C San Francisco, the excellent @mylesdungan.bsky.social has published ‘The Red Branch’, available below.
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The Red Branch
Check out The Red Branch - <p>Your undercover operation is blown before you get to San Francisco. What next? If you're Orpen, you join the cops. Sort of. </p><p></p><p>It's the Fall of 1883. Irish rev...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you’re in the States and looking for an historical thriller with Irish rebels in 19th C San Francisco, the excellent @mylesdungan.bsky.social has published ‘The Red Branch’, available below.
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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Giving one of my books as a gift? I'd be absolutely thrilled to send you a (free) signed and customized bookplate. Here's how to get one: dghaskell.com/custom-bookp...
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Bookplates
For 2025: last day to request bookplates is December 1st. Thanks! Giving one of my books? I’d love to send you a signed bookplate (free). Here are the options: Bookplate options: Art Deco bor…
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November 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Giving one of my books as a gift? I'd be absolutely thrilled to send you a (free) signed and customized bookplate. Here's how to get one: dghaskell.com/custom-bookp...
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A beautiful winter sunset on Dublin’s River Liffey.
November 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
A beautiful winter sunset on Dublin’s River Liffey.
Slightly obsessed with this jetty
November 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Slightly obsessed with this jetty
For the frozen humanities people
I read a lot of very good new books this year, and if I had to pick one, it'd be Donald Niedekker's Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost wapo.st/48hti5c
Review | In this inventive novel, a long-dead poet narrates from beneath Arctic ice
Donald Niedekker’s “Strange and Perfect Account From the Permafrost” offers an ambitious view of human history and is full of sly jokes and imaginative surprises.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
For the frozen humanities people
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One for the #speirgorm community.
I wonder if any Irish historians on here can help me identify any of the people in this picture? Early 1900s probably in Dublin, it's Tom Clarke in the middle and I think I know who it is on the left of the image. Any of the others though?
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
One for the #speirgorm community.
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Looking forward to taking part in the BBC Radio 4 book club discussion of Leonard and Hungry Paul on 17th December in Glasgow.
If anyone would like to attend the recording, the details are in the link below.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...
If anyone would like to attend the recording, the details are in the link below.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...
BBC Radio 4 - Bookclub - Come to a Recording
Join the audience for an edition of Bookclub
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November 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Looking forward to taking part in the BBC Radio 4 book club discussion of Leonard and Hungry Paul on 17th December in Glasgow.
If anyone would like to attend the recording, the details are in the link below.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...
If anyone would like to attend the recording, the details are in the link below.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...
Still so many places you can imagine pirates
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Still so many places you can imagine pirates
I feel I put too much thought into my own books
November 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I feel I put too much thought into my own books
On the salt marsh
November 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
On the salt marsh
could be on another planet
November 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
could be on another planet
Waxing crescent
November 22, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Waxing crescent
And who could not then believe in sea gods and portals to the other world (thanks @dgplacenames.bsky.social for sharing)
November 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
And who could not then believe in sea gods and portals to the other world (thanks @dgplacenames.bsky.social for sharing)
My review of ‘Colin Davidson: Twelve Paintings – Conversations with Mark Carruthers’ from the weekend. A deep and beautiful book, and the paintings of Belfast are masterly.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Colin Davidson: Twelve Paintings - A rich study of one of Ireland’s great contemporary artists
Study of Colin Davidson’s art from the beginning to the present has many surprises
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November 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
My review of ‘Colin Davidson: Twelve Paintings – Conversations with Mark Carruthers’ from the weekend. A deep and beautiful book, and the paintings of Belfast are masterly.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
I saw the beaver on its evening swim
November 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I saw the beaver on its evening swim
The late afternoon sunlight is so low it lights the tops of the trees, the lack of rain and clear skies burnishing the high canopy in warm gold. We have had such a beautiful autumn, a kind of dream time when one season sleeps into another.
November 18, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The late afternoon sunlight is so low it lights the tops of the trees, the lack of rain and clear skies burnishing the high canopy in warm gold. We have had such a beautiful autumn, a kind of dream time when one season sleeps into another.
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