Róisín Ní Neachtain
@roisinnineachtain.com
Artist, poet, STUDENT (for at least another FIVE YEARS) 🇮🇪🏴🇪🇺💖🎨
I,bird (2025 - Broken Sleep Books)
Student publications: Infinite Monochrome (2024), Insomnia (2024) An image-river that star from the dead (2024)
Poetry/Nature/Literature studies & Art
I,bird (2025 - Broken Sleep Books)
Student publications: Infinite Monochrome (2024), Insomnia (2024) An image-river that star from the dead (2024)
Poetry/Nature/Literature studies & Art
Pinned
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For the people of Minnesota.
I awakened to the cry
that the people have the power
to redeem the work of fools
upon the meek the graces shower
it's decreed the people rule
I awakened to the cry
that the people have the power
to redeem the work of fools
upon the meek the graces shower
it's decreed the people rule
Patti Smith - People Have The Power (Official Audio)
YouTube video by pattismithVEVO
www.youtube.com
January 24, 2026 at 7:41 PM
For the people of Minnesota.
I awakened to the cry
that the people have the power
to redeem the work of fools
upon the meek the graces shower
it's decreed the people rule
I awakened to the cry
that the people have the power
to redeem the work of fools
upon the meek the graces shower
it's decreed the people rule
Only just watched episode 3 of the Night Manager.
OH MY GOD!
OH MY GOD!
January 24, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Only just watched episode 3 of the Night Manager.
OH MY GOD!
OH MY GOD!
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If you're in the UK, bluesky is quite varied in the morning. In the evening it is 100% the horror unfolding in the US
January 24, 2026 at 7:30 PM
If you're in the UK, bluesky is quite varied in the morning. In the evening it is 100% the horror unfolding in the US
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Happy Publication Day! 🎉 This little book is out in the world today. Parts of it are Open Access, thanks to a small publication grant from Taiwan's research council. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...
Happy reading! #IrishStudies #NewYorker
Happy reading! #IrishStudies #NewYorker
January 23, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Happy Publication Day! 🎉 This little book is out in the world today. Parts of it are Open Access, thanks to a small publication grant from Taiwan's research council. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...
Happy reading! #IrishStudies #NewYorker
Happy reading! #IrishStudies #NewYorker
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"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
-James Baldwin, from Notes on the House of Bondage (The Nation, 1980)
#everynightapoem #ofsorts
-James Baldwin, from Notes on the House of Bondage (The Nation, 1980)
#everynightapoem #ofsorts
January 24, 2026 at 1:26 AM
"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
-James Baldwin, from Notes on the House of Bondage (The Nation, 1980)
#everynightapoem #ofsorts
-James Baldwin, from Notes on the House of Bondage (The Nation, 1980)
#everynightapoem #ofsorts
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Joseph Cornell / Untitled (“Fountain of Youth”), ca. 1959
for @wildtwin.bsky.social
& @wordkunst.bsky.social
for @wildtwin.bsky.social
& @wordkunst.bsky.social
January 24, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Joseph Cornell / Untitled (“Fountain of Youth”), ca. 1959
for @wildtwin.bsky.social
& @wordkunst.bsky.social
for @wildtwin.bsky.social
& @wordkunst.bsky.social
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“There’s a point where despair is a light, a love.”
(Lispector, Too Much of Life)
(Lispector, Too Much of Life)
January 24, 2026 at 5:18 PM
“There’s a point where despair is a light, a love.”
(Lispector, Too Much of Life)
(Lispector, Too Much of Life)
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A koan poem by Jim Harrison intoning Rilke
Beware, o wanderer, the road is walking too
said Rilke one day to no one in particular
Beware, o wanderer, the road is walking too
said Rilke one day to no one in particular
January 24, 2026 at 5:19 PM
A koan poem by Jim Harrison intoning Rilke
Beware, o wanderer, the road is walking too
said Rilke one day to no one in particular
Beware, o wanderer, the road is walking too
said Rilke one day to no one in particular
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“…in spite of despair. No: with despair.”
(Duras, Writing)
(Duras, Writing)
January 24, 2026 at 5:20 PM
“…in spite of despair. No: with despair.”
(Duras, Writing)
(Duras, Writing)
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. — Frederick Douglass
January 24, 2026 at 5:14 PM
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. — Frederick Douglass
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‘A tragedy began.
A tragedy is beginning.
When will the tragedy begin?’
A tragedy is beginning.
When will the tragedy begin?’
January 24, 2026 at 5:05 PM
‘A tragedy began.
A tragedy is beginning.
When will the tragedy begin?’
A tragedy is beginning.
When will the tragedy begin?’
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Afternoon light looking north across Loch Eil
January 24, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Afternoon light looking north across Loch Eil
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It has been quite a week! We all need a timeline cleanse.
Have a great weekend, everyone!
An Egyptian relief plaque with a face of an #owl 🦉.
The owl hieroglyph represents the sound m.
Late Period–Ptolemaic Period. From Egypt, 400–30 BC.
📷 Metropolitan Museum
Have a great weekend, everyone!
An Egyptian relief plaque with a face of an #owl 🦉.
The owl hieroglyph represents the sound m.
Late Period–Ptolemaic Period. From Egypt, 400–30 BC.
📷 Metropolitan Museum
January 24, 2026 at 9:05 AM
It has been quite a week! We all need a timeline cleanse.
Have a great weekend, everyone!
An Egyptian relief plaque with a face of an #owl 🦉.
The owl hieroglyph represents the sound m.
Late Period–Ptolemaic Period. From Egypt, 400–30 BC.
📷 Metropolitan Museum
Have a great weekend, everyone!
An Egyptian relief plaque with a face of an #owl 🦉.
The owl hieroglyph represents the sound m.
Late Period–Ptolemaic Period. From Egypt, 400–30 BC.
📷 Metropolitan Museum
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This may not be art’s last word, but art went that route, as did the bird: motifs and counterpoints that form an autodevelopment, in other words, a style.” (3/3)
(A Thousand Plateaus, tr. Brian Massumi)
(A Thousand Plateaus, tr. Brian Massumi)
January 24, 2026 at 4:56 PM
This may not be art’s last word, but art went that route, as did the bird: motifs and counterpoints that form an autodevelopment, in other words, a style.” (3/3)
(A Thousand Plateaus, tr. Brian Massumi)
(A Thousand Plateaus, tr. Brian Massumi)
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in ‘the plenitude of a music that is indeed filled with so many strains, each of which is a being.’ […] The discovery of the properly melodic landscape and the properly rhythmic character marks the moment of art when it ceases to be a silent painting on a signboard. (2/3)
January 24, 2026 at 4:55 PM
in ‘the plenitude of a music that is indeed filled with so many strains, each of which is a being.’ […] The discovery of the properly melodic landscape and the properly rhythmic character marks the moment of art when it ceases to be a silent painting on a signboard. (2/3)
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Deleuze on Wagnerian leitmotif and style:
“Proust was among the first to underscore this life of the Wagnerian motif. Instead of the motif being tied to a character who appears, the appearance of the motif itself constitutes a rhythmic character (1/3)
“Proust was among the first to underscore this life of the Wagnerian motif. Instead of the motif being tied to a character who appears, the appearance of the motif itself constitutes a rhythmic character (1/3)
January 24, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Deleuze on Wagnerian leitmotif and style:
“Proust was among the first to underscore this life of the Wagnerian motif. Instead of the motif being tied to a character who appears, the appearance of the motif itself constitutes a rhythmic character (1/3)
“Proust was among the first to underscore this life of the Wagnerian motif. Instead of the motif being tied to a character who appears, the appearance of the motif itself constitutes a rhythmic character (1/3)
Poirot and Miss Marple on Netflix now. THANK GOD.
January 24, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Poirot and Miss Marple on Netflix now. THANK GOD.
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You are caught between all that was and all that must be.
Haruki Murakami
Li Huayi
Haruki Murakami
Li Huayi
January 23, 2026 at 1:33 PM
You are caught between all that was and all that must be.
Haruki Murakami
Li Huayi
Haruki Murakami
Li Huayi
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The model book of calligraphy 1561-1596
Rare collaboration between scribe & influential Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel, died 1601; court painter to Emperor Rudolf II.
Getty Museum #WorldHandwritingDay #HandwritingDay
Rare collaboration between scribe & influential Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel, died 1601; court painter to Emperor Rudolf II.
Getty Museum #WorldHandwritingDay #HandwritingDay
January 23, 2026 at 5:42 PM
The model book of calligraphy 1561-1596
Rare collaboration between scribe & influential Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel, died 1601; court painter to Emperor Rudolf II.
Getty Museum #WorldHandwritingDay #HandwritingDay
Rare collaboration between scribe & influential Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel, died 1601; court painter to Emperor Rudolf II.
Getty Museum #WorldHandwritingDay #HandwritingDay
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“Instead of the monumental ‘Who Am I,’ Lu refracts identity to show how we are as much the small hopes we have for our children as the faded memories we have of a distant home. Or the rumors we try to outrun.” Easily one of the most pleasurable reads in quite a while.
Literary Burdens -
Instead of the monumental "Who Am I," Lu refracts identity to show how we are as much the small hopes we have for our children as the faded memories we have of a distant home. Or the rumors we try to ...
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January 23, 2026 at 8:14 PM
“Instead of the monumental ‘Who Am I,’ Lu refracts identity to show how we are as much the small hopes we have for our children as the faded memories we have of a distant home. Or the rumors we try to outrun.” Easily one of the most pleasurable reads in quite a while.