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Stocking fillers! (My stockings please.)
⭐️ 20% off our Poet’s Chair series ⭐️
Searching for the perfect gift for the poetry lover in your life? From now until 25 December, all of our Poet’s Chair series is available for a discount.
🎁 Happy gifting!
Searching for the perfect gift for the poetry lover in your life? From now until 25 December, all of our Poet’s Chair series is available for a discount.
🎁 Happy gifting!
December 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Stocking fillers! (My stockings please.)
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Wait, what? My son’s friend, traveling in China, is staying at a hotel chain called ‘James Joyce Coffetel’, and instead of a Gideon Bible, they leave a copy of Ulysses by the bedside.
December 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Wait, what? My son’s friend, traveling in China, is staying at a hotel chain called ‘James Joyce Coffetel’, and instead of a Gideon Bible, they leave a copy of Ulysses by the bedside.
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Children with additional educational needs will not need assessment to access classes or schools
Children with additional educational needs will not need assessment to access classes or schools
Minister for Children Norma Foley announces Government will replace existing process with new system
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December 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Children with additional educational needs will not need assessment to access classes or schools
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This Uncle Vanya – a quick-witted Risteárd Cooper – plays it cool in a house of freaks
This Uncle Vanya – a quick-witted Risteárd Cooper – plays it cool in a house of freaks
Review: Cathal Cleary directs Brian Friel’s Chekhov adaptation at Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin
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December 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This Uncle Vanya – a quick-witted Risteárd Cooper – plays it cool in a house of freaks
Santawiches.
Watch me eat Christmas sandwiches or read me describing eating Christmas sandwiches (if that’s your thing) www.irishtimes.com/food/2025/12...
Patrick Freyne’s quest for the best Christmas sandwich in Dublin: ‘I give it five Santas out of five’
Warning: please bear in mind that our food-critic-for-a-day has the taste buds of a junkyard dog and finds almost all food delicious
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December 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Santawiches.
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We think of ourselves as being in an ancient English-speaking culture, older than America's, yet four generations back our ancestors - many of us or of them - knew no English at all. Late 19th century.
We're only johnny-come-latelys to the finest, most ample and most supple language in history.
We're only johnny-come-latelys to the finest, most ample and most supple language in history.
December 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
We think of ourselves as being in an ancient English-speaking culture, older than America's, yet four generations back our ancestors - many of us or of them - knew no English at all. Late 19th century.
We're only johnny-come-latelys to the finest, most ample and most supple language in history.
We're only johnny-come-latelys to the finest, most ample and most supple language in history.
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Andrew Miller is our special announcement for Day Two of our #TwelveDaysOfChristmas. Andrew's novel The Land In Winter was shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize and he'll be joining us at WCLF in July. Follow us and join our newsletter for more news. @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Andrew Miller is our special announcement for Day Two of our #TwelveDaysOfChristmas. Andrew's novel The Land In Winter was shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize and he'll be joining us at WCLF in July. Follow us and join our newsletter for more news. @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
You’ll be visited by three spirits.
December 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
You’ll be visited by three spirits.
I have always used my own internal sympathetic alarm clock. It's never failed me yet.
December 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I have always used my own internal sympathetic alarm clock. It's never failed me yet.
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“Startlement is both reflective and prospective, with grief, wonder, and ridiculous joy in abundance—to be startled is to be awakened!”
Miracle of the Ordinary: Jide Badmus reviews Ada Limon’s Startlement (@milkweededitions.bsky.social).
➡️ buff.ly/0ysLZFy
Miracle of the Ordinary: Jide Badmus reviews Ada Limon’s Startlement (@milkweededitions.bsky.social).
➡️ buff.ly/0ysLZFy
December 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“Startlement is both reflective and prospective, with grief, wonder, and ridiculous joy in abundance—to be startled is to be awakened!”
Miracle of the Ordinary: Jide Badmus reviews Ada Limon’s Startlement (@milkweededitions.bsky.social).
➡️ buff.ly/0ysLZFy
Miracle of the Ordinary: Jide Badmus reviews Ada Limon’s Startlement (@milkweededitions.bsky.social).
➡️ buff.ly/0ysLZFy
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More good news on the critical front: The New Yorker’s new theater critic will be the wonderful @emilynussbaum.bsky.social, who distinguished herself mightily as its TV critic for years and will surely do so again in this new post
December 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
More good news on the critical front: The New Yorker’s new theater critic will be the wonderful @emilynussbaum.bsky.social, who distinguished herself mightily as its TV critic for years and will surely do so again in this new post
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I'm looking forward to speaking at this symposium at the University of Cambridge in January on creative writing and the Middle Ages. Booking is now open. #MedievalSky
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Creative Medievalisms Now: Writing the Middle Ages Today and Tomorrow
A two-day symposium on creative writing, the creative-critical seam, and the Middle Ages
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December 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I'm looking forward to speaking at this symposium at the University of Cambridge in January on creative writing and the Middle Ages. Booking is now open. #MedievalSky
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-m...
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All the way from Rome, translated by Elvira Grassi.
Many thanks to Inna Bilonozhko
For spotting this in a bookshop in Rome
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International Moose!
For spotting this in a bookshop in Rome
FYI @ronanhession.bsky.social
International Moose!
December 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
All the way from Rome, translated by Elvira Grassi.
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Only top 20% of Irish earners can afford to rent an apartment, surveyors say
Only top 20% of Irish earners can afford to rent an apartment, surveyors say
Price of two-bed apartment ranges from €480,000 to €650,000, says Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland
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December 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Only top 20% of Irish earners can afford to rent an apartment, surveyors say
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HAPPENING SOON: I’m talking with @fotoole.bsky.social about the state of progressive politics under the Trump administration and how we both fight back against authoritarianism but also fight forward for true equality and justice.
Register here: www.nybooks.com/events/the-s...
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The State of the Left
Fintan O’Toole hosts Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal for a wide-ranging discussion on the state of progressive politics.
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December 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
HAPPENING SOON: I’m talking with @fotoole.bsky.social about the state of progressive politics under the Trump administration and how we both fight back against authoritarianism but also fight forward for true equality and justice.
Register here: www.nybooks.com/events/the-s...
Register here: www.nybooks.com/events/the-s...
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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling
~ James Joyce
Fred Stein
~ James Joyce
Fred Stein
December 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling
~ James Joyce
Fred Stein
~ James Joyce
Fred Stein
I came for the Marx Brothers, but I stayed for the nifty series of very long sentences, including the one in the footnotes with the Samuel Beckett reference.
Happy Cocoanuts centenary!
trivia, pursued
[a frustration possibly defrustrated]
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December 8, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I came for the Marx Brothers, but I stayed for the nifty series of very long sentences, including the one in the footnotes with the Samuel Beckett reference.
Stocking stuffer 👇
If you know someone who would fancy a book of short stories praised by Claire-Louise Bennett, Eimear McBride, Kevin Barry, Sam Lipsyte, Sinéad Gleeson and Max Porter, mine is available from Transit Books. www.transitbooks.org/books/darker
December 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Stocking stuffer 👇
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Daniel Day Lewis came out of Instagram retirement to show support for Paul Dano. King shit.
December 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Daniel Day Lewis came out of Instagram retirement to show support for Paul Dano. King shit.
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Winter's tricolour
December 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Winter's tricolour
Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann announces Sean Borodale as new Poet in Residence.
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Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann announces Sean Borodale as new Poet in Residence. | Poetry Ireland
Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann announces Sean Borodale as new Poet in Residence.
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December 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann announces Sean Borodale as new Poet in Residence.
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Golden Globes 2026: Hamnet stars Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal now seem certain to receive Oscar nods www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...
Golden Globes 2026: Hamnet stars Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal now seem certain to receive Oscar nods
Paul Thomas Anderson’s rambunctious One Battle After Another topped the charts with nine nominations
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December 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Golden Globes 2026: Hamnet stars Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal now seem certain to receive Oscar nods www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...
"Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace..."
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace..."
Hard to believe—45 years ago today since John Lennon was shot and killed outside The Dakota in New York City.
December 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
"Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace..."
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace..."
What a set of twins. Beautiful.
How do I have two, when one was enough? It's no wonder there isn't room for book purchases here.
December 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
What a set of twins. Beautiful.