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The Irish Pages Press
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Biannual journal, edited in Belfast, publishing writing from Ireland and overseas. Publisher of The Irish Pages Press. Edited by Chris Agee and Kathleen Jamie.
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Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social · 18h
25th year of the Belfast Film Festival coming soon. What a ride it's been. Brava/o to all involved.
Very pleased to have two films in it, one a secret:
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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 17h
Today on BBC Radio4: 'Song of the Deer' reimagines the monumental C18th Gaelic poem, 'Moladh Beinn Dobhrain' - 'In Praise of Ben Dorain' - a celebrated Munro in the Scottish Highlands - featuring my husband Garry MacKenzie's translation! 🥳
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BBC Radio 4 - Multitrack, Song of the Deer
A mountain, a deer and a ghillie - a re-imagination of Gaelic poem, Moladh Beinn Dobhrain.
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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 17h
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Garry Mackenzie: Ben Dorain: a conversation with a mountain – The Irish Pages press
Ben Dorain: A Conversation with a Mountain draws on the work of an eighteenth-century Gaelic poem by Duncan Ba n MacIntyre, rendering it into English.
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The Irish Pages Press @irishpages.bsky.social · 1d
“He turned our disgrace into grace, our petty hatreds into epic generosity, our dull clichés into questioning eloquence, the leaden metal of brutal inevitability into the gold of pure possibility.”

~ Fintan O'Toole on Seamus Heaney
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The Irish Pages Press @irishpages.bsky.social · 3d
“The Nazi dehumanization of the Jews was a major factor in paving the way for the death camps. Israeli demonization of the Palestinians is a similarly dangerous dynamic that can be used to justify the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.”

~ Avi Shlaim
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Expresso @jornalexpresso.bsky.social · 4d
“Três Mundos” é um misto de memória pessoal e reflexão política levada a cabo pelo historiador Avi Shlaim
Livros: a terra estranha de Avi Shlaim, um judeu iraquiano forçado a emigrar para a Israel
“Três Mundos” é um misto de memória pessoal e reflexão política levada a cabo pelo historiador Avi Shlaim
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Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social · 5d
Am at the Portobello book festival today, talking - with others more eminent - about the great Scottish painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham and her epic series of galcier pictures.
1.30pm, library downstairs.
She's so inspiring
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The Irish Pages Press @irishpages.bsky.social · 6d
An honour to have first published this essay by poet Carolyn Forché, "Sharing the Darkness", which will be included in the 'Best American Essays of 2025' 📚

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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 7d
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Tradition suggests that certain of the Gaelic women poets were buried face down. bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/02/m...
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MeadowsweetKathleen Jamie Tradition suggests that certain of the Gaelic women poets were buried face down.So they buried her, and turned home,a drab psalmhanging about them like haar,not knowing th…
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The Irish Pages Press @irishpages.bsky.social · 7d
We applaud the efforts of the Gaza aid flotilla 🕊️

“The beginning of wisdom for the international community is to acknowledge that it has failed to discharge its moral & legal obligations towards the Palestinian people...”

~ Avi Shlaim
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 8d
Organisers of an aid flotilla heading for Gaza say that 14 boats were stopped by Israel and at least nine Irish citizens detained | Follow live
Gaza flotilla activists to be deported, Israel says
Follow live coverage of developments as Israel intercepts the latest flotilla heading towards Gaza.
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The Irish Pages Press @irishpages.bsky.social · 8d
“My survival still remains to me both a mystery and a miracle... When I came back from the camps and realized how many had not survived, I saw it had no logical explanation.”

~ Helen Lewis (1916-2009)
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Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social · 10d
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The Irish Pages Press @irishpages.bsky.social · 10d
“Writing is the somewhat uncomfortable process of bringing the inhabitants of one whole world, fully formed as they are, to another, with an honesty that removes me from the process…. My work is to create the conditions for the stories to flow”

~ Leslie Van Gelder
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Catalina Fernandes @catalinafernandes.bsky.social · 12d
"Palestinians live under occupation. They have the right to resist, including armed resistance."

Avi Shlaim slams Israel’s Gaza genocide, defends Palestinian resistance, and calls out occupation and Zionist policies as the root of ongoing violence.
Oxford Historian Avi Shlaim: Israel Committed Genocide, Palestinians Have Right to Resist - Quds News Network
Avi Shlaim slams Israel’s Gaza genocide, defends Palestinian resistance, and calls out occupation and Zionist policies as the root of ongoing violence.
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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 13d
Israeli Historian Avi Shlaim turned away from Zionism long ago.

A must-read interview with Avi Shlaim:
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The Irish Pages Press @irishpages.bsky.social · 13d
“Long / debased, the cresting Congo filled / my veins with euphony and joy...”

~ ‘The Revolutionary’ by Ciarán O'Rourke, based on the life and work of Andrée Blouin (1921-1986) 🌻

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Poem: The Revolutionary | Cassandra Voices
'When / Guinea first, and then the Parti Solidaire / demanded heartened soul, unstinting / dedication, day and night, I gave my all, / humming like a never-empty engine / of vivacity for Africa, my na...
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St.Ninian's School Library @stninianslib.bsky.social · 15d
Inspired by Kathleen Jamie and her collective poetry where she outsources lines to make new works. Pupils and staff have been asked for their favourite first lines of books - we will be using these on #NationalPoetryday- inspired by this year's theme of PLAY!
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 16d
"The world is ours too!"

Kathleen Jamie in Orion magazine, 2012.
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Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social · 15d
I loved Claudia Cardinale. She was dazzling, vivacious
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The Irish Pages Press @irishpages.bsky.social · 16d
“Israel and Palestine are not neighbours. Israel is built not next to Palestine but on top of it…. We are living in cages, and all around the cages is Israel.”

~ Mahmoud Darwish (2000; reprinted 2015)
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Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social · 16d
We ❤️ our poetry tech installations at the SPL and we're chuffed to announce The Poetry Jukebox is coming! To be installed outside SPL and launched with an event on 4 Dec featuring:

🔊 Kathleen Jamie
🔊 Peter Mackay
🔊 Angeline King
🔊 Stephen Dornan
🔊 Maria McManus

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Poetry Jukebox Launch: Fragments of Scotch Poetry
To mark the installation of the poetry jukebox we present four poets involved in the Linen Hall Library' Fragments of Scotch Poetry project
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 17d
"...historian Avi Shlaim, once a committed Zionist, reveals the personal_historical journey that led him to reject the ideology. From his childhood as an Arab Jew in Iraq to his response to the genocide in Gaza, Shlaim dismantles long-held myths about Israel’s creation."

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Breaking the Iron Wall: How Avi Shlaim Came to Reject Zionism
YouTube video by Palestine Deep Dive
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The Irish Pages Press @irishpages.bsky.social · 18d
“... whatever our past failure, listen. / The geese sing still. Just listen.”

~ @taylor-strickland.bsky.social (2024)
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The Irish Pages Press @irishpages.bsky.social · 19d
“Breaking the Iron Wall: How Avi Shlaim Came to Reject Zionism”

~ Avi Shlaim recently joined @palestinedeepdive.bsky.social for this vital, timely discussion 📚
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Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social · 20d
Heading to Sheffield. Delighted to be asked to speak at the Cinema For All 100 years celebration!
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