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Duncan Jones (aka Merrion) (he/him) @duncanjonesmerrion.bsky.social · 23d

The link to the actual voting form is here: www.anpost.com/Irish-Booksh... (but sadly Oxfam books not on the list)

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Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 18h

It’s in the Guardian

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Paul Willson @pauljwillson.bsky.social · 18h

Across Buttermere

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𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕆'𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝 @jacqbetula.bsky.social · 1d

I felt a lump in my throat when it was announced that László Krasznahorkai had won this year's Nobel Prize in Literature. I love his books and have reviewed four of his novels for The Irish Times.
Many thanks to @martindoyle.bsky.social for allowing me to do so.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Herscht 07769 by László Krasznahorkai: A paean to depth and meaning amid violence and death

The novel’s protagonist, Florian Herscht, writes and rewrites a letter to Angela Merkel about what he believes to be an existential threat to the world

www.irishtimes.com

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Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 1d

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John Muir @johnmuir.bsky.social · 1d

Clair de lune obscurci dans le noir..

Black and white image of a dark, seascape at night under heavy clouds, illuminated by the moon.

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Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 1d

The Northern Ireland on LSD aspect of all this is quite something

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 2d

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 1d

’The two great auks now join a few other famous last survivors, sometimes known as endlings, that persist in museums as grim mementos of loss.’

‘Endlings’, what a word for the idea.

Science Magazine @science.org · 1d

DNA and historical sleuthing have traced the extinct bird’s remains to a museum in Ohio. https://scim.ag/4791YqA

Fate of the last female great auk is finally solved

DNA and historical sleuthing have traced the extinct bird’s remains to a museum in Ohio

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Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 1d

Ahoy @papayranger.bsky.social

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Dr. Mollie Carlyle @molliecarlyle.bsky.social · 1d

My new article is out in Nineteenth-Century Music Review! ‘Hearing London’s Sailortown in Shanty Repertoire’ explores how 19th-century sailors’ songs reflect the noisy, lively, often precarious world of London’s docklands. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#MaritimeHistory #Musicology #SeaShanties

Hearing London’s Sailortown in Shanty Repertoire | Nineteenth-Century Music Review | Cambridge Core

Hearing London’s Sailortown in Shanty Repertoire

www.cambridge.org

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Events for The Poems of Seamus Heaney begin on publication day tomorrow. See below for dates and locations 🎟️

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Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 2d

Bravo

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Ron Davies @rondavies.bsky.social · 2d

Freshly washed up seaweed on Killiney beach, Co. Dublin shows off autumnal shades of reds, greens and browns.

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Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 2d

Fab

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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 2d

The handwritten draft of Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” on a San Pellegrino napkin. @slowberlin.bsky.social

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 3d

Really pleased to see my & @benjaminredding.bsky.social article on the much beloved BBC Shipping Forecast is getting some traction - we loved writing it! Read it @uk.theconversation.com here:
theconversation.com/why-the-bbcs...

Why the BBC’s Shipping Forecast still entrances people after 100 years

Designed to ensure safe sailing for those on the sea, a dedicated shipping forecast was first broadcast by the BBC in 1925.

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Martine Brennan @saytheirnamesir.bsky.social · 4d

#Slavery was a family business. Uncovering a network of familial relationships between #Irishslaveholders in South Carolina. tinyurl.com/4t76e8ep #speirgorm

Irish slaveholders, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Pennsylvania 1670-1865 - Google My Maps

Database (incomplete) created by Martine Brennan, Ireland. Star icon: names of enslaved people attached. Green tags: known or reputed county of birth in Ireland. Blue tags: unknown place of birth in ...

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Winter Papers @winterpapers.bsky.social · 8d

Come say hello to WP 11 as part of @dublinbookfest.bsky.social Sat Nov 8, all welcome

dublinbookfest.bsky.social @dublinbookfest.bsky.social · 8d

A highlight of the Irish publishing calendar each year, join us as we launch @winterpapers.bsky.social Vol. 11 at our Festival Hub this November 🎟️ bit.ly/46TicTx